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hed··on Beauty in DVD Menus
The late '90s had some fun ones, like the Austin Powers DVD that had secret menus and extra scenes (some extremely early on in the movie that went unused). That was a ton of fun and I wish more studios did it like that.
hed··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
Quoted for truth
hed··on Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
We have many kids and well, laundry is omnipresent. I would absolutely pay multiples of this to make the problem go away.
hed··on Alan Greenspan has died
He said it in 1996.
hed··on Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
Agreed on both.
hed··on Why are Flock employees watching our children?
The council meeting alluded to in the article happened a few days ago and is on YouTube[1]. Public comment starts around 23m, the commenters bring up some of the things in the article, and the council still moves to approve around 1h20m.

[1] - https://youtu.be/AqOYDNKBr3g?si=EFOTKlKIRK01mVvL

hed··on Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations
Exactly. And they don’t just rip down the old article but annotate it with a disclaimer that an earlier version said XXX
hed··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
I can only conclude it’s what they want at this point
hed··on How to effectively write quality code with AI
I think it's analogous to writing and refining an outline for a paper. If you keep going, you eventually end up at an outline where you can concatenate what are basically sentences together to form paragraphs. This is sort of where you are now, if you spec well you'll get decent results.
hed··on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
Exactly. It's a way to get games that aren't going to immediately ask for other games to be bought or make you watch ridiculous ads to keep playing.
hed··on Emoji evidence errors don’t undo a murder conviction
It's interesting because like the article says legal teams may have to get smarter about recreating all the context when evidence like this is used. Even if the emojis rendered the reference implementation of Unicode and what vendors actually represent can vary quite a bit by platform or OS version.
hed··on Vitamin D3 breakthrough halves risk of second heart attack
It's amazing to get tested and thinking you're heavy dosing and when tests come back it turns out you're barely in the green (low).
hed··on America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints
Sure, all probabilities go to 1 over a large enough time span. I don't think there's anything useful you can do with that information. Being early is the same as being wrong.
hed··on Myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease
I believe it depends on the state.
hed··on Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster
> Layoffs of some staff in Stillwater, Oklahoma followed in 2008.

How did Creative end up with offices there? Was there some kind of research going on at Oklahoma State University?

hed··on A computer upgrade shut down BART
You'd think trains would use a rolling release
hed··on Notion releases offline mode
What are you using to sync with TickTick?
hed··on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room
I loved coming home from curfew in HS and firing up the server browser to find a 24+ person as_oilrig. Such a fun time
hed··on Why Wisconsin's county highways are lettered, not numbered (2019)
https://www.modot.org/projects/routepproute30
hed··on The Saltgator: A Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine
Reminds me of the modified EZ-bake I had 30+ years ago [1]. I tried putting hooks in those to mixed success. One side was always flat though.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFiJAH63xo

hed··on A technical look at Iran's internet shutdowns
The Starlink gateway out is a good solution, but I sure wouldn't share it with friends/family over the ISP networks if at all possible.
hed··on Happy 20th Birthday, Django
I’ve used Django since 0.96 and keep coming back to it any time I need a web site that works. I’ve dabbled in other stuff but this one just clicks for me.

Here’s to another 20!

hed··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
And how many stations did that yield?
hed··on How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?
Direct To Consumer. Selling directly to their customers on Nike.com disintermediating Foot Locker or another distributor/retailer network.
hed··on The Golden Age of Japanese Pencils, 1952-1967
Fascinating article. Seeing the "uni" and wondering if that was in fact the beginning of what we know as uni-ball was neat.

And since the authors' shop is local to me I'm going to have to go see what they've got!

hed··on When your last name is Null, nothing works
The simple explanation is most of these are Excel VLOOKUPs gone wrong.
hed··on Microsoft gives Alt+Space shortcut over to Copilot
I always did Alt-Space, M to select Move. Of course, this was easier to know before they hid the underline cues by default so you'd know what hotkeys were what :)
hed··on Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format
I don't think of it as a hack any more than Sirius or XM making a "control plane" signal by just interleaving the what's on or channel map in with the music signal.
hed··on Show HN: App that asks 'why?' every time you unlock your phone
Does it do this on iOS? I just cancelled RT because it crashed on my work computer all the time but if the phone app weren’t useless that might be different.
hed··on Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties
I think these are cool and seeing the NetBoot + CoW setup for gaming is fun.

Thanks for sharing!

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