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hyperific··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Get your Part 107 federal drone license and volunteer for your local fire department or search and rescue. When the FD responds to structure fires they sometimes have to go up on the roof to cut an air hole. This allows oxygen into the building which helps prevent backdrafts. A FLIR equipped drone can help direct the hole cutter around hotspots on the roof. If your local fire department has a drone, it might not have the staff to be able to use it on calls.
hyperific··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
See also https://idiallo.com/blog/dont-download-apps
hyperific··on DARPA’s new X-76
Maybe the Osprey's reputation is due not only to the accident rate but also to the fatality rate. A fatal accident in a standard F-16 (not the 2 seater), assuming no one outside the plane is killed, means 1 death. A fatal accident in a V-22 with the same assumptions would have a minimum of 2 deaths (pilot and copilot) at a soft maximum of 26 deaths (2 crew + 24 passengers, possibly more if overloaded).
hyperific··on Maybe there's a pattern here?
You might like "The Bomb" documentary from 2016. "[It] explores the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire and the perverse appeal they still exert."

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5596034/

https://www.thebombnow.com/

hyperific··on CT Scans of Health Wearables
Glad they're still doing these. I really enjoyed Scan of the Month and then they just stopped doing new scans after the Moka Pot.
hyperific··on Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
According to the article, the Flock cameras are still in place but are "offline".

Why does that not convince me?

hyperific··on Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer
GitHub Next comes to mind

https://githubnext.com/projects/repo-visualization/

hyperific··on Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city
Also check out prettymapp

https://prettymapp.streamlit.app/

hyperific··on Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?
There's a huge difference though between storing books, magazines and newspapers versus storing digital media.
hyperific··on Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?
This is of course assuming that Internet Archive will still exist in 100 years.
hyperific··on Never Use Pixelation to Hide Sensitive Text (2014)
Also related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34031568

hyperific··on Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once
If I recall correctly they got scooped up by Google and their team was merged into various Google teams. I was disappointed to hear of their fizzling as well. They were just starting to dive into serious movie production light field cameras when it happened. They had an incredible tech demo on their website showcasing its power. I can't seem to locate the original but there are bits of it in the linked video.

https://youtu.be/4qXE4sA-hLQ?si=QsEG2PtAmVjIfwDA

hyperific··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
I'm making a cat themed puzzle game for my wife using NiceGUI, MindAR and some cat shaped sticky notes. Each note has a name and a secret code. I've hidden 20 of these around the house. I set up a single page app in NiceGUI to display a grid of the lost cats. When you click one it'll display their name, a clue to its hiding spot and an optional hint. 5 of the puzzles use MindAR that will display AR image cards over different art pieces and book covers in our house. I have the NiceGUI page and MindAR set up on one of my Proxmox LXCs that I use for various Flask servers.
hyperific··on Pigeons rival humans ability to spot cancer (2015)
Primary source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
hyperific··on A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird
I love hummingbirds! In undergrad I spent a summer working on a research project that was trying to determine if hummingbirds have persistent gut microflora. The bird's metabolism is so fast that it's unclear whether any microbes have enough time to colonize. Every weekend I'd tag along with a group of veterinary post docs who were doing their own hummingbird study. They caught and safely handled the birds and I waited patiently nearby to collect their droppings basically straight from the cloaca. Once, when the vets were done getting their measurements, they put a bird in my hand to release. My hand could barely register that I was holding anything it was so light.
hyperific··on Tenacity – a multi-track audio editor/recorder
From the Development section > The upstream development repository is found on Codeberg. We maintain a GitHub mirror for accessibility and CI purposes, but pull requests are ignored.
hyperific··on Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation
If this proves to be effective (not just safe and well tolerated which is the scope of this study) it'd be interesting to see how this would be adopted by extreme athletes. Free divers who can go deeper, cyclists who can ride harder, sprinters who can run longer at full speed because they're retaining an oxygen-rich slurry in their bowels.
hyperific··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
RAM Disks. Basically extremely fast storage using RAM sticks slotted into a specially made board that fit in a PCIe slot. Not sure what happened to the project exactly but the website disappeared sometime in 2023.

The idea that you could read and write data at RAM speeds was really exciting to me. At work it's very common to see microscope image sets anywhere from 20 to 200 GB and file transfer rates can be a big bottleneck.

Archive capture circa 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230329173623/https://ddramdisk...

HN post from 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35195029

hyperific··on Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners
Alternatively the Unhook Firefox extension allows you to toggle distracting Youtube elements.
hyperific··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
This is quite silly and fun. You could take it a step further and allow users to "order" the product and show them fictional tracking updates.

"You package has arrived at the Tannhauser Gate Processing Facility"

hyperific··on Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN
It does seem like the "passion score" is a rule-of-thumb estimate at best. A lengthy post could just be someone rambling, and a short post could be from a timid dev sharing their project on HN for the first time.

I imagine you could get the post author's reputation score from the API and factor that in to the passion score, but reputation is really just another proxy.

hyperific··on TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data
I wondered the same until the section near the end of the article that mentions that the app creator's email address and password were left unsecured leaving his admin panel exposed.

Seems to me if this was deliberate that the creator would have gone to greater lengths to protect themselves.

hyperific··on Numerical Electromagnics Code (NEM)
*NEC
hyperific··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
Why not use pandoc to convert html to markdown and have the LLM condense from there?
hyperific··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
I just picked up a used thermal printer to try it out myself and I'm looking forward to the release of the code.

I did notice that on mobile the left edge of text on your website is cut off by about half a character.

Also I liked how reading the article was its own game loop with progress bar, level up notifications and items! I hope you use that on future posts!

hyperific··on A receipt printer cured my procrastination
What app are you using?
hyperific··on U.S. nuclear base hidden under Greenland's ice for decades
Here's a documentary on Camp Century https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569752
hyperific··on LibreLingo – FOSS Alternative to Duolingo
I'm surprised more people aren't talking about the recent announcement that Duolingo is replacing contractors with AI.

https://www.theverge.com/news/657594/duolingo-ai-first-repla...

hyperific··on Contryle, a Wordle-like game but with contries
Countryle countries
hyperific··on Ask HN: I lack imagination for electronics projects
I don't think you have anything to fix. Learning is its own reward. Keep doing what you've been doing and know that you're getting out of it exactly what you need.
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