Hacker News: nvalis

New comment by nvalis in "Some Unusual Trees"

nvalis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:56:58 +0000

Related and also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees

New comment by nvalis in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

nvalis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:41:14 +0000

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Gnoosic – Discover New Music

nvalis — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:30:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gnoosic.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491719

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nvalis in "Japanese Woodblock Print Search"

nvalis — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:52:15 +0000

I took a class at his workshop in Tokyo and highly recommend the experience. So much thought and detail goes into preparing the wood blocks and even into "just" printing them.

New comment by nvalis in "World Wide Lightning Location Network"

nvalis — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:36:17 +0000

There are hourly and daily maps [0]. But there is an alternative live map at https://map.blitzortung.org/

[0]: https://wwlln.net/#maps

New comment by nvalis in "A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up"

nvalis — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:43:42 +0000

If it's about intrusion detection of packaged goods lentils, beans or rice are very useful [0]. Cheap but great tamper detection.

[0]: https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html

New comment by nvalis in "No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation"

nvalis — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:15:56 +0000

These images are still created with the old model. The share link states "Made with the old version of image generation. New images coming soon." below the first image.

New comment by nvalis in "4o Image Generation"

nvalis — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:49:09 +0000

If anyone is interested in an example output for this exact initial prompt: https://x.com/0xmetaschool/status/1904804277341839847

New comment by nvalis in "Amateur Telescope Making Main Page"

nvalis — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:30:23 +0000

There is a very detailed video documentation [0] about telescope building techniques, featuring insights from John Dobson, the inventor of the Dobsonian telescope mentioned on the page.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snz7JJlSZvw

New comment by nvalis in "The best $4 ever spent"

nvalis — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 16:44:20 +0000

I would say this applies to more than just kids, this is the case for almost everyone.

New comment by nvalis in "AppleWatchAmmeter"

nvalis — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 08:01:06 +0000

That's because Phyphox is financially backed by multiple public bodys of the German governement, mostly the RWTH Aachen and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research as pointed out on the landing page [0].

[0] https://phyphox.org/

New comment by nvalis in "Nxylon: New super-black material made from wood"

nvalis — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:13:35 +0000

I recognized the right watch immediately to be this one [0]. But i guess they just replaced parts of the watchfaces with their material?

[0]: https://www.holzwerk-uhren.de/en/products/holzwerk-eifel

New comment by nvalis in "Google's shortened links will stop working next year"

nvalis — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 09:06:02 +0000

https://firebase.google.com/support/dynamic-links-faq

New comment by nvalis in "German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement"

nvalis — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 21:35:52 +0000

Here is the direct link to the exact bidding: https://www.evergabe-online.de/tenderdetails.html?3&id=69646...

New comment by nvalis in "Stellarium: Software which renders realistic skies in real time"

nvalis — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 22:32:05 +0000

There is, for example like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38982971

New comment by nvalis in "Rue de l'Avenir"

nvalis — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 22:25:51 +0000

I love the concept of moving walkways on large airports and always wondered why there are non with multiple speeds like this one. Is it a security aspect?

There is however an accelerating one at YYZ in Toronto [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#ThyssenKrupp_AC...

New comment by nvalis in "A search for technosignatures around nearby stars"

nvalis — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 15:22:25 +0000

My guess is that in this case the first 4 listed are main contributors (in whatever way: authors, funding, ...) , while the following are alphabetically sorted.

New comment by nvalis in "US inflation means families are spending $709 more per month than two years ago"

nvalis — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:35:34 +0000

It's more people see prices dropping hence their money increase in relative value so they save up more instead of spending it.

New comment by nvalis in "What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?"

nvalis — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 10:18:58 +0000

For me it generated a random title like "Translate to French", "Summarize in 4 words" or "Rewrite in short time." for the chat.

New comment by nvalis in "Reverse engineering the Philips Sonicare firmware"

nvalis — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 14:21:25 +0000

Following [0] a few days ago @atc1441 managed to reverse engineer the toothbrush firmware and find the algorithm for calculating the password found by [0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36128617