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sigma5on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

cool! It would be nice to have a "watch a random video" button

sigma5on Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers

It's funny how those same billionaires who sell these devices, do not give their children devices until the age of 14.

PS to parents: give your child a toy or a book not a tablet ffs.

sigma5on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak. Sun Tzu

sigma5on God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

I remember trying to emulate this game on my i7 laptop a decade ago. It was running like 15 FPS.So for me this look like magic.

sigma5on China Planted 78 Billion New Trees—and Seriously Messed Up Its Water Cycle

a better title: "China Planted 78 Billion New Trees but at what cost"

sigma5on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

"but at what cost" ?

sigma5on ASML's hold over the future of chipmaking is weakening

https://archive.ph/K7SKS#selection-1469.0-1469.54

sigma5on Russia strikes Kyiv with drones and hypersonic missile, in photos

not a justification but to give the chronological context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Starobilsk_strike

sigma5on Laws of Software Engineering

I would add also Little's law for throughput calculation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

sigma5on I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed

it's a record of the famous Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish reading his poem "On This Land" (English translation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_jtTj26Q0).

sigma5on I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed

The audio you hear when you open the website is from the record of one of the greatest Arabic and Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish reading his poem "On This Land" (English translation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_jtTj26Q0).

sigma5on Investors bet on Cambricon to be China's next AI champion

[Former ASML head scientist Lin Nan drives China’s latest EUV breakthrough](https://archive.ph/FwTFP)

sigma5on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

Thanks for sharing. Are the revenue generated based on the ads on the website ? Are they generated per number of clicks on the ads ? How does it work with ad blockers ? Thanks

sigma5on NSA Codebreaker Challenge 2024

I got this error while trying to register. Does anyone know a simple way to bypass this ?

"Sorry, that email domain is not recognized. -- An email address from a recognized U.S. school or university is required. If your school's domain is not recognized, please request it to be allowed by clicking HERE"

sigma5on A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel

while watching the trailer, I had a deja vue from the bioshock 1 atmosphere which I recommend very much

sigma5on PSA: How to keep using adblockers on Chrome and Chromium

I switched to firefox one year ago. Works fine!

sigma5on ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes

My point of view is that censorship is still censorship no matter what it tries to hide. If today we accept to censor posts about war crimes, anything can be censored tomorrow. I don't think creating value for the americain tech industry can thrive under censorship.

sigma5on The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)

what's the other books that are on your 100 books list to read before one departs this planet ?

sigma5on Google paid $10M in bug bounty rewards last year

seeing these number makes me wonder if bounty hunting these days is more profitable that working on a side project

sigma5on Monodraw

how does it compare to excalidraw ?

sigma5on The KGB, the Computer and Me – The Cuckoo's Egg Story (1990) [video]

amazing story, thanks by the way it's the first time I see a tiktok link on hn :)

sigma5on Best Documentaries You've Ever Seen

I recommend those two also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_(film_series) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Killing

sigma5on Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

for those who missed it, the PR description is a poem https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/113465

sigma5on Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content

I wonder if this group also operates on HN. Two weeks ago I posted a ask HN post that was immediately removed. After seeing that, I concluded that I should drastically reduce my exposure to the media since I think It's just a tool to manipulate.