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amandle··on HTTPS: //Www.npmjs.com/ Is Down
it is again: https://status.npmjs.org/
amandle··on Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players
Reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke: "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall."
amandle··on Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac
It's electron based.
amandle··on We Will Fight Until The End
> only one -- poison -- is an example of an actual product you can buy (nobody's selling home drowning kits)

They're also not selling magnet ingestion kits

amandle··on Humble Indie Bundle 5: pay what you want for video games
you can directly edit the dollar amount in the field to the right of the slider, and it will bubble-up to the total.
amandle··on Planes overhead
It says under the table "locations based on projections of delayed data" I would guess that they look at where a flight plan is going from and to and interpolate in between.
amandle··on How to build an 8x8x8 LED cube
Thinkgeek sells a 4x4x4 version for $80: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/techies/d71d/
amandle··on Video: Notion Ink Adam, iPad alternative
Swiveling cameras are not a new idea, Sony picture books had one at least ten years ago: http://www.transmetazone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=381&#...
amandle··on Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts
Chrome comes with the element inspector built in which replicates a lot of the functionality of Firebug.
amandle··on Ask HN: What sub-$400 2nd monitor should I get for coding?
I recommend the Asus VW266H 25.5" 1920x1200 and about 300 dollars. Plenty of space for code.
amandle··on Google Living Stories
At the moment it's pretty simple matching based on a few rules, but machine learning is in development. In the case of google, it appears they are using human editors.
amandle··on Ask HN: Is there RSS/newsreader software that groups related stories together?
I have been building a site which does this for news, with plans to allow arbitrary feeds.

http://www.newsdive.net

amandle··on Google Living Stories
This is somewhat similar to a site I have been working on. http://www.newsdive.net I am doing filtering based on story content, but this seems to be based on tags and categories more.
amandle··on Ask HN: What APIs do you wish existed?
A lot of people really enjoy keeping track of sports stats. Maybe some sort of a wiki would work well for this purpose?
amandle··on What I Wish Someone Had Told Me (about starting a company)
then they just won't believe you.
amandle··on Experiment HN: Idea Day Results
Order a pizza delivery while at the store, and you get to ride along!