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xrayarxon I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

tl;dr

Ready to ditch the productivity app hamster wheel? Do this:

    Create a file called todo.txt
    Write down what you need to do tomorrow
    Do those things
    Add notes as you work
    Start a new date section when needed

xrayarxon Century-old stone “tsunami stones” dot Japan's coastline (2015)

FTA cites this article in the NYT, archive link:

https://archive.is/20161221102801/http://www.nytimes.com/201...

xrayarxon Tesla board awards $29B of shares to Elon Musk

https://archive.ph/J3hnt

xrayarxon NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant

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

Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and won the Royal Medal and Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014, and is a 2006 MacArthur Fellow. Tao has been the author or co-author of over three hundred research papers, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest living mathematicians.

xrayarxon How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41090304

xrayarxon How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)

Quote:

A technical investigation into information uncovered in a class action lawsuit that Facebook had intercepted encrypted traffic from user's devices running the Onavo Protect app in order to gain competitive insights.

xrayarxon How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2024)

TFA is from 2024, so the title is wrong

xrayarxon China's massive ADAS test: 36 cars, 15 hazard scenarios, 216 crashes

I‘m not from the industry, seems to be a pretty solid test. Contains 90min video of the tests on YouTube, so autotranslate is possible. Car manufacturers include Mercedes, VW, Tesla and Toyota, the rest are Chinese and unknown to me.

xrayarxon The surprising geography of American left-handedness (2015)

Quote from the article

One of the best available data sets on left-handedness comes from a scratch-and-sniff survey of olfactory ability mailed out to millions of National Geographic subscribers in the 1980s.

Go ahead and read that sentence again — it doesn't get any less weird the second time around.

xrayarxon Google "Gecrawlt – zurzeit nicht indexiert": Umfassende Analyse füR IT-Foren

This is unfortunately in german. The site linked is a computer forum for professionals.

The topic seems to be changes to google algorithms for forum sites.

There is a long list of sources in English at the end.

Maybe some seo experts can explain further what is going on with the latest algo changes?

xrayarxon Elon Musk's Starlink internet works great if hardly anyone uses it

Archive Link https://archive.ph/P3Ncn

xrayarxon Why StackExchange isn't in the cloud (2011)

Comments from 2011

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248911

xrayarxon Why StackExchange isn't in the cloud (2011)

Old post, now they are. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612736

xrayarxon Linux Format Magazine Ends with Issue 329

Oh no! Well Thank you for 25 years!

xrayarxon Elizabeth Holmes's partner raises millions for blood-testing startup

Here is the nyt article

https://archive.is/20250511164818/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

Here is the patent

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/05/10/business/Haem...

Both are mentioned but not linked in the article above.

Are there some knowledgeable people who would like to comment on the patent?

xrayarxon Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]

60 slides from a bash workshop?

xrayarxon London's Heathrow Airport announces complete shutdown due to power outage

That’s what I was wondering. Strange, that they didn’t plan to run the whole airport. Compared to construction costs and costs of disruption…

xrayarxon Cybersecurity platform Crowdstrike down worldwide, users logged out of systems

Can confirm, several systems/companies in my area affected

xrayarxon Effective Performance Engineering at Twitter Scale

Links to a 50min Video of a qcon talk by a former twitter engineer. The video is from 2022/23, I could not find a timestamp

xrayarxon FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet in midair

https://archive.ph/BF2Pu

xrayarxon FAA is investigating a new incident involving a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet in midair

A Boeing 737 Max 8 jet experienced a rare but potentially serious problem recently known as a Dutch roll before landing safely.

xrayarxon Ask HN: Link to Guide on How to Build Spreadsheet Software from Ground Up?

https://av.tib.eu/media/20123

This is a talk from EuroPython 2015 on how to build a spreadsheet in python. I don’t know, if this is, what you are looking for?

xrayarxon Understanding the Power of Awk

https://archive.ph/GwRCP

xrayarxon Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

Well according to your system, I posted this 13 hours ago, he posted it 10 hours ago. So I can’t quite follow how he posted it first?

xrayarxon The Anvil Text Editor – Inspired by Acme

Btw the url i entered was https://anvil-editor.net/, not rendermotion

xrayarxon Traffic jams, AirTags and GPS darts are ways NY, NJ are trying to stop car theft

I would like to point out, that the gothamist link leads to a „ The page you're looking for doesn't appear to exist.“ error on the gothamist website.

xrayarxon Apple developed a chip for the Apple car that is similar to four M2 Ultra

https://archive.is/YOkR0#selection-767.5-788.0

xrayarxon Ask HN: Is (n)vim worth the trouble?

I have been using ed for decades now, because it is the standard.

xrayarxon Google and The Online Slang Dictionary (2020)

If this is true, it is truly horrible: know someone at google and just sink the competition in one fell swoop. Although one has to say that serving via http certainly is not helping.

xrayarxon Hawaii wildfire offered insights into wireless alert system relies on cellphones

About the shortcomings of the Wireless Emergency Alerts system, apparently cable connections to cellular towers are not buried in Hawaii and some burned and so the alert did not get through everywhere.