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Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars
posted on Sun Dec 18 15:31:15 UTC 2022 by clouddrover | view on HN
The article discusses how electric cars experience some degree of range loss in cold weather, and how this range loss is temporary and there is no long term detriment to the battery.
Why fusion will never happen (2012)
posted on Sun Dec 18 16:28:12 UTC 2022 by CharlesW | view on HN
The article argues that fusion will never happen because it is not economically feasible.
Lionel Messi Is Impossible (2014)
posted on Sun Dec 18 15:07:43 UTC 2022 by wallflower | view on HN
The article discusses how, despite his many accomplishments, Messi has been criticized for not living up to Diego Maradona's legacy.
Show HN: I made an Ethernet transceiver from logic gates
posted on Sun Dec 18 07:00:52 UTC 2022 by ynoxinul | view on HN
The article is about a man who is making a transceiver which converts a 10BASE-T Ethernet signal to SPI and back, using an STM32 MCU to test it.
I’ve been battling cancer last 2 years only have a few days left
posted on Sun Dec 18 15:33:25 UTC 2022 by donsupreme | view on HN
The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com.
Waymo expands its rider-only territories
posted on Sun Dec 18 14:35:34 UTC 2022 by edward | view on HN
Waymo is a company that is opening a fully autonomous ride-hailing service between Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and Downtown Phoenix.
Launch HN: Slauth.io (YC S22) – IAM Policy Auto-Generation
posted on Sun Dec 18 15:39:04 UTC 2022 by DanielSlauth | view on HN
Vulnerability scanner written in Go that uses osv.dev data
posted on Fri Dec 16 16:10:24 UTC 2022 by GavCo | view on HN
OSV-Scanner provides an officially supported frontend to the OSV database that connects a project’s list of dependencies with the vulnerabilities that affect them.
How Logan Paul Scammed People Out of Millions
posted on Sun Dec 18 16:05:20 UTC 2022 by marban | view on HN
Richard Feynman on looking at the world from another point of view
posted on Sun Dec 18 15:51:45 UTC 2022 by shafyy | view on HN
In the article, Richard Feynman talks about the importance of original ideas and simplicity. He argues that nature is usually much simpler than our thoughts, and that we tend to overcomplicate things when trying to explain phenomena.
Let's Encrypt now supports ACME-CAA: closing the DV loophole
posted on Sun Dec 18 04:51:33 UTC 2022 by pabs3 | view on HN
The article discusses how the new ACME-CAA extension to DNS CAA records will help to close the Domain Validation loophole.
Zilog Z8000 Coprocessor for the IBM PC by Sweet Micro Systems [video]
posted on Sun Dec 18 14:55:33 UTC 2022 by zdw | view on HN
Corkscrew Optics Yield Direct Line to Electronics
posted on Fri Dec 16 22:49:14 UTC 2022 by mfiguiere | view on HN
The article discusses how optical logic gates can run 1 million times as fast as their electronic counterparts, and how this could advance the cause for ultrafast light-based computing.
EsPiFF: An ESP32 in the Raspberry Pi form factor
posted on Sun Dec 18 08:41:34 UTC 2022 by jicksaw | view on HN
The article is about the EsPiFF, which is an alternative to the Raspberry Pi that is focused on high-reliability.
GNU/Linux shell related internals
posted on Sun Dec 18 11:20:56 UTC 2022 by kiyanwang | view on HN
This article is about different aspects of the Linux kernel and how they interact with each other.
Skio (YC S20) is hiring – subscriptions for Shopify, easy ReCharge migrations
posted on Sun Dec 18 12:05:23 UTC 2022 by kennandavison | view on HN
The article discusses a new company that helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions and has raised $7.4 million in seed funding.
Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format
posted on Sun Dec 18 04:20:51 UTC 2022 by nalgeon | view on HN
The article discusses the author's opinion of the QOI image format, which has shifted from dismissive to impressed. The author likes the format because it is a trade-off between complexity, speed, and compression ratio, and has added support for it to their tool. However, the author criticizes the format for its use of big-endian fields and for its header size.
Show HN: I built a Hacker News userscript to make this site more legible
posted on Sun Dec 18 13:29:59 UTC 2022 by midenginedcoupe | view on HN
This article is about a Tampermonkey script that makes reading Hacker News more bearable by fixing some of the biggest annoyances that make it hard to use and read.
Spooky Enough Japanese yōkai figures
posted on Sat Dec 17 20:06:01 UTC 2022 by prismatic | view on HN
This article is about the Japan Supernatural show at the AGNSW, and how it spooky in more ways than one.
Show HN: A highly opinionated, fully functional Obsidian vault
posted on Sun Dec 18 02:13:30 UTC 2022 by _bramses | view on HN
The article is about a highly opinionated, unapologetic way to use Obsidian.
Ask HN: How do people find your blog?
posted on Sun Dec 18 15:26:05 UTC 2022 by bumblewax | view on HN
posted on Sat Dec 17 22:18:36 UTC 2022 by jjwiseman | view on HN
This article is a deep dive into the inner workings of the Github Copilot extension for VSCode, with the goal of understanding how it is able to provide suggestions for functions that are specific to the user's project.
Emacs: ffmpeg and macOS aliasing commands
posted on Sun Dec 18 14:58:21 UTC 2022 by xenodium | view on HN
The article is about how the author uses Emacs to save ffmpeg commands for later usage.
A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?
posted on Sun Dec 18 14:18:28 UTC 2022 by greenburger | view on HN
In 2004, Curtis N. Ofori was accused of raping another student at the University of Virginia. After an investigation, the university found him "not guilty."
Geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away
posted on Fri Dec 16 21:00:38 UTC 2022 by GavCo | view on HN
The article discusses how Canada geese can be a nuisance, but harassing them to leave an area may backfire.
posted on Fri Dec 16 15:37:19 UTC 2022 by BerislavLopac | view on HN
The short snorter in the Air Mobility Command Museum collection belonged to Tom Farrow, a B-17 crew member of the 384th Bomb Squadron who escaped the burning wreckage of his bomber before being taken as a prisoner of war in Germany during World War II.
You Shouldn't Use Public CAs for Internal Infrastructures
posted on Sun Dec 18 11:18:14 UTC 2022 by kiyanwang | view on HN
Using a private CA allows you to issue certificates for internal or private domains, without having to worry about the CA/Browser Forum’s Baseline Requirements. The article discusses why it is beneficial to run your own CA for internal use cases rather than using public web Certificate Authorities.
posted on Fri Dec 16 16:08:33 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN
The article tells the story of how the author got their start in the film industry, working on the special edition re-release of Star Wars.
S.F. police announce dozens of arrests in crackdown on retail theft
posted on Sun Dec 18 15:20:31 UTC 2022 by jseliger | view on HN
The San Francisco police department's retail theft-abatement operation has resulted in 60 arrests to date.
posted on Sun Dec 18 06:34:14 UTC 2022 by AlexeyBrin | view on HN