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The URL is the state but clearly there is an actual app here

That's fine, just make the versions on the website readable for people who aren't in a darkroom.

I get that red-on-black color scheme is a nod to the red lighting of a dark room, but the contrast is so low I can hardly read the example screenshots.

I understand that “acoustic” is generally the term now but it’s too cutesy and doesn’t make any sense. The difference between e-bikes and normal bikes have nothing to do with how they sound — if anything, a traditional bike is quieter.

I always thought “analog” made more sense and it’s commonly used in other areas.

(Okay, technically you could make an e-bike with completely analog electronics, but I highly doubt anyone does commercially)

There’s even “pushbike” if you want to go way back, though admittedly it sounds rather archaic.

“Acoustic” just sounds like a Portlandia joke.

I misread the title and thought it said he /founded/ Kalshi, which would have been a hell of a story. The actual title says "discovered", but I guess that doesn't quite fit for HN.

This is a great result and a very nice visualization. One thing I’d suggest is making it clearer upfront that this requires a computer with multiple WiFi adapters; it’s not mentioned until more than halfway through the article.

For context, the trip taken by the poster is the longest possible rail journey within Europe:

> In August 2026 a new cross border passenger rail connection opened between Tornio in Finland and Haparanda in Sweden. This then allows an uninterrupted rail journey from Kemijärvi in Finnish Lapland to Lagos in Portugal, the two places furthest apart in the EU that can be connected by train. I, Jon Worth, the person who worked this out, aim to be the first person to complete the whole trip, and set the first record time for this journey.

Nice, this previous one works on mobile

It’s not just drawing inferences, though; it’s saying you can determine exactly what’s happening in the box. But the pigeonhole principle would suggest there’s far more possible states in the 3-dimension volume than can be unique expressed on the 2-dimensional surface. That’s the part that defies common sense.

Great article, sadly it seems that the footnotes are no longer working

A reminder, never link directly to jwz from hacker news.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260830071400/https://www.jwz.o...

No, it stands for Respect for the Customer

Dang, I did not know about this part of New Zealand's history, what an incredible and sad story:

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

Featuring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman!

I was thinking about that article as well, were you not able to pull any more detail out the images?

Surprised this didn’t mention heraldry, which has what’s basically a DSL for coats-of-arms:

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

This is based off a NASA article, which has an expanded version with more details here:

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_R...

The app is called DStretch, it's available for iOS and Android

https://dstretch.com/Apps/index.html

The borders on the pieces obscure the edge details that you need to help match the pieces up. Often there were pieces with letters that looked like they were needed another piece to complete them but actually they were whole but the border covered the edges.

It would also be nice if I could position pieces freely outside of the board so I could test out potential matches.

In the end, it became easier to just keep trying to place pieces on the board until they stuck together automatically.

Note this definitely has a big spoiler if you haven’t seen the end of season 1!

I don’t understand what the timers labeled “still yours” mean in the sample images. Is that just a user label or some sort of special category for eg uncategorized time?

I also don’t understand what the different colored parts of the ring represent.

This is viable option if you are generally okay with the way the world around you works - if you live in a safe place with a good economy and a fair, well-functioning government. Unfortunately this is not the situation for a lot of people.

Okay, now I really want to ride a steam-powered monorail

And Jóhann Jóhannsson (RIP)

The full backstory of this clip is a great read:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-oral-history-of-tim-curry...

CO2 sensors are not all created equal. The price of a good one is a large chunk of the cost of the device.

And yet it didn’t accept JORTS :/

Incredible, by far the most comprehensive review of techniques for beautifying and branding QR codes.

What I would love to see as a companion to this is some sort of rigors benchmark for scanning that attempts to quantify how much real-world scanability is lost. There must be some decoding benchmarks out there that simulate common types of distortion, damage and degradation. What did the original designed of the QR code use to evaluate their work?

Screenshots of Vette! at MobyGames:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/799/vette/screenshots/dos/

I don't think that's quite correct; every CS program I've seen involves writing code, quite a lot of it. What they don't teach is /software engineering/: working large codebases, maintaining code, dealing with legacy code, long-term collaboration, working with product managed and designers, etc. That's stuff that you mostly end up having to pickup in the real world outside school.