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_Microft··on CNC Stone Carving
This might have influenced too many people?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime

_Microft··on Tesla Semi catches fire on I-880
The accident in which the vehicle left the road happened in 2024.
_Microft··on Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
Related, if you are curious: this is what BioNTech is currently working on.

https://www.biontech.com/int/en/home/pipeline-and-products/p...

_Microft··on We should be more ambitious with the software we build
This is a reply to the dead comment of buriram:

> If anything, it should make me more optimistic, not less. If you have an idea, you can turn it into product within 30 minutes, no matter how complicated it is.

There is no product in that anymore because someone else could copy your product in the same time.

_Microft··on It's Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk
I just looked up Comment Owl and it’s way more capable. Thanks for suggesting that!

So far I was content to be able to add tooltips with short notes to users but this one might be it from now on.

_Microft··on It's Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk
“HN friends” is a nice way of adding some information.
_Microft··on In Hilbert space, all things are quantumly possible
I just read the article and can not make any sense of your comment. It does not relate to anything of the actual article content (but only superficially to the title itself).
_Microft··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
Because cost of production and the price being charged are two different things.
_Microft··on Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust
As the author seems to be around: have you considered surface roughness of the sample as problem to transparency?

Add some water between the grid pattern and the chicken and also some on top of it - or even conduct the experiment under water and the results should be better. You might also freeze the meat before cutting to achieve much smoother surfaces in the first place?

_Microft··on Ask HN: Why is Ask HN only showing me 14 posts?
You can use „by:“ in the search query to limit search to posts or comments of a user.
_Microft··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
That’s also a thing, e.g. in the Mediterranean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KM3NeT

_Microft··on Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen
He receives the prize for conceiving the IceCube neutrino detector, a cubic-kilometer-sized detecter in the Antarctics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory

Mechanism is via conversion of neutrinos into charged particles which are then detected via Cherenkov radiation which is produced when a charged particle moves with speeds larger then the speed of light in the medium. (That is only possible because it is less than the speed of light in vacuum which cannot be exceeded.)

This was also discussed recently if you are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655286

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherenkov_radiation

_Microft··on McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
Especially for your blood vessels, liver, pancreas, …
_Microft··on 3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing
I had submitted that a while ago but unfortunately it didn’t catch on. Maybe you try again?

The result is very impressive and I suggest to also check out how some of the details (actuators, angle sensors) are implemented.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602119

_Microft··on The Secret Life of Circuits
Maybe it should look like someone in a Western movie blowing smoke from a pistol?
_Microft··on The Secret Life of Circuits
This made me have a look and I do like it a lot.

The wide margins remind me of university coursebooks.

_Microft··on A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run
Microwaves do have much larger wavelengths than visible light.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_spectrum

_Microft··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
Cherenkov light
_Microft··on The Color of White Light
“ultraviolet”, not infrared. IR to visible light would be upconversion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon_upconversion

_Microft··on Brain turns listening inward during REM sleep, EEG recordings suggest
Perfectly viewable in Firefox, Edge and Safari. The problem must be on your side.

The link to the study is at the bottom of the article. It is Open Access as well.

_Microft··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
_Microft··on You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention
Side note, before you ask: yes, bra-ket notation is called like that because of the brackets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra-ket_notation

_Microft··on Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members
“Die Zeit” (literally The Time) is a German newspaper, in case you were confused by the title.
_Microft··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
“The books will stop working”, discussed 7 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20297331

_Microft··on Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
Because they can.
_Microft··on How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools
Maybe you like this:

https://physicsopenlab.org/2020/10/10/a-simple-11-2-ghz-radi...

The HN discussion (2020) about this can be found there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26078761

_Microft··on The Slowest SR-71 Blackbird Fly-By (2017)
This one could be considered a classic but you might be one of today's lucky 10000 :)
_Microft··on Virtual flying experience changes neural responses to seeing wings
Here are some articles on this:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/virtual-wings-brain-chan...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-learned-to-fly-with-v...

_Microft··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
Is it not rather useful in this particular case? You will see the reported capabilities whenever you plug in a cable. Or do people rather want to diagnose and label their cables just once?
_Microft··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
What is your idea of "creative"/"creativity" then?
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