Hacker News Reader

alwaysanonon De-Suckafying Apple’s Butterfly Keyboard

I felt the same way and ended up with a Surface Laptop 2. I am soo happy the overall feel especially the nice 3:2 screen and keyboard. The only thing I'd have changed was to also add a USBC port (it has a USB-A, MiniDP, headphone that works with Apple mics/headsets and a magnetic charging/dock connector). I never thought I'd go back to Windows but the new Macbooks drove me to try it and now Windows 10, especially with the WSL Ubuntu layer, sucks much less. They even put OpenSSH into windows proper now so no more putty even outside of the Linux layer.

alwaysanonon Amazon’s Cashierless Store Is Almost Ready for Prime Time

You need to have an app on your phone and scan a code from the app/phone to enter. My guess is that it is based on location tracking of the phone (via either Bluetooth or WiFi) rather than facial recognition.

alwaysanonon Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)

Plus all that wood paneling on the walls

alwaysanonon IO domain DNS failure

Two of their servers were sending out NXDOMAINs which are then cached by downstream forwarders. It seems they have turned those off now.