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joefarish··on Uranium Glass
I thought this might have been an article on turning nuclear waste into glass (vitrification). Might be of interest to some people especially given current questions/challenges regarding reclassifying nuclear as "renewable":

https://mo-sci.com/vitrification-nuclear-waste-management/

joefarish··on Ask HN: Share your side project
I think this is a great idea. A few thoughts on the site:

1. Initially I was entering the hashtags with the # included e.g "#formula1" and I couldn't understand why it wasn't working. Perhaps you could just automatically remove/ignore the # symbol if someone types it in?

2. It would be great if you could provide links to some pre-canned searches for recent events. For example: a recent F1 race (f1calendar.com) , football game (https://footballcal.com/) or popular TV show.

2.a) Related to the above it would be great to be able to link directly to a particular hashtag & time period e.g https://www.hashtagreplay.com/?t=1627822800&h=f1

3. Would you be able to add the ability to "pause" or "rewind" a hashtag? Sometimes I'll be watching a show (normally live sport) and the TV feed or stream will be on a slight delay. I'd love to be able to pause the twitter feed so that I can get the two in sync.

4. Perhaps a "premium" feature could be the ability to replay tweets from a twitter list/collection. For example, replay the tweets from Formula 1 journalists during a race.

joefarish··on Ask HN: What stat/data changed the way you live?
“A modest amount of sleep loss (restricting the time allowed for sleep to 4 hours for one night) reduced natural killer (NK) cell activity to an average of 72%, compared with NK cell activity in participants who had a full night's sleep” [1]

In other words even one night of sleep deprivation significantly impairs your immune system. See also, “Sleep is your superpower” https://ed.ted.com/lessons/BVciktYZ

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/work-hour-training-for-nurses/long...

joefarish··on Europe’s Super League scores an own goal
In terms of TV money, there is a big revenue disparity:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/mw8jqp/tv_money_dis...

joefarish··on Ask HN: Does anyone knows where to get product management free courses?
You might find PM Starter Pack useful https://pmstarterpack.com/?ref=producthunt
joefarish··on Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
This looks super useful - nice job!
joefarish··on Show HN: Convier.me – A Calendar Service for Developers
3 attendee max/request seems low for $9/month per user.
joefarish··on Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff on the internet using Google search?
Agreed, once I started unsubscribing from the low-effort default subreddits (pictures, funny etc) and start finding more niche subreddits I enjoyed the Reddit experience a lot more.

There are also some really cool sites out there that provide recommendations on related subreddits such as https://anvaka.github.io/sayit/?query=python

joefarish··on Ask HN: Should I move to London and open an business (as a founder from EU)?
How are you funding your company? Any specific reason why you have chosen London rather than some other part of the UK?
joefarish··on Ask HN: What are you using headless Chrome for?
I imagine you don't want to share too much info about this, but I'd be interested in any more detail you are willing to share.
joefarish··on Ask HN: What is the current state of Google Stadia?
Performance wise I've been very happy with Stadia so far. I also think once FIFA and Madden are released there will be a significant uptick in player numbers.
joefarish··on Ask HN: Can I get some opinions on best alternatives to Digital Ocean?
https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing Discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21725853
joefarish··on Ask HN: Germans and Spaniards – Why the dramatic difference in death rates?
Spain probably has more cases but is doing less testing.
joefarish··on Show HN: The CMS for Twitter. Schedule and manage your Twitter content
I see you have support for threads - unlike Buffer! :-)
joefarish··on Ask HN: Is the disappearance of RSS feeds affecting your happiness too?
Have you heard of https://www.kill-the-newsletter.com/ ?

Discussion of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949154

joefarish··on Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support
What is the name of the tool?
joefarish··on Show HN: Notably – no-login markdown notes app
Have you thought about adding a read only link that just shows the rendered Markdown (but doesn't reveal the identifier for the editable markdown)?
joefarish··on Paul Graham provides answer to spam emails (2002)
I use the word "unsubscribe" to filter out a lot of emails. There are occasional false positives but after combining the above filter with a whitelist of senders it has proven to be very effective.
joefarish··on Ask HN: Six months after the Bloomberg “spy chip” story?
Someone else asked about this recently: Ask HN: What's the latest on that “Big Hack” story by Bloomberg? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19526348
joefarish··on Ask HN: From which date on do you have to add (2018) to the title?
Anecdotally, most posts on HN refer to content created in the last ~ 2 weeks.

I would expect to start seeing people add (2018) once we hit February.

joefarish··on Ask HN: Keyboard for Coding?
I'd recommend taking a look at http://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalkeyboards
joefarish··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
I don't see how you can blame a user for repeated kernel panic issues.
joefarish··on Visualizing Changes to Rail Services
Agreed, just tried it and it's super useful. Most useful UK train site since http://traintimes.org.uk was created!
joefarish··on Ask HN: Which search engine do you use, and why?
I had exactly the same problem when I tried to move to DDG. The 'Basic' theme looks quite similar to Google's search results. After trying DDG with this theme I was able to make the switch stick.
joefarish··on Ask HN: What is the best technology privacy guide?
https://spreadprivacy.com/ from DuckDuckGo is quite good
joefarish··on Ask HN: Any compilation of practical tech guides for the less tech-savvy?
The Duck Duck Go privacy blog has some good practical posts from time to time - https://spreadprivacy.com/
joefarish··on Google is shutting down its goo.gl URL shortening service
"While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination." https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-goog...
joefarish··on Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app as of 3/29/18
If it's a basic CRUD app Rails would be a great option (Rails is good for a lot more than that of course!).
joefarish··on The Shipping Container Is a Blessing to All Humanity
There is also a good BBC documentary, "The Box that chnaged Britain" about the social and economic impact of the shipping container on Britain.
joefarish··on Ask HN: What password manager do you recommend for non-technical people?
I'm a big fan of https://www.enpass.io and it also has two-factor authentication support :-)
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