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e4e5on After Thursday's flight, Starship is the most revolutionary rocket ever built

Have you seen said video footage?

Autonomous rocket landing on an autonomous ship. It was pretty incredible

They're just as big in Europe. Especially with the tiktok generation.

Although the Airforce ones might be more popular overall, but Jordans are definitely a second.

Why when I press accept cookies it just reloads the website and shows me the same banner? Not even Facebook can get this to work?

e4e5on US solar installations expected to be a record 32 GW in 2023

I'd be curious how that compares to other countries?

e4e5on The Albanian town that TikTok emptied

You propose returning to communism because they had less freedom of movement and didn't have any choice tommovd somewhere in search of a better life?

e4e5on Earth’s hottest month: these charts show what happened in July; what comes next

Well yeah nobody is saying that nature is fucked.

It's just that we're living right now and not before the last ice age. Sucks for us.

e4e5on Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

I've been thinking of making my own frame bags. You got any pointers for me? Completely new to the hobby but it seems fun

e4e5on Google Maps has become an eyesore

Or that for some reason zooming in works differently in the search screen. Instead of zooming where I'm pinching it just always zooms in the middle.

e4e5on Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest

Yeah I get that. But removing underbrush (ignoring the impossibility of the scale of it) would make controlled burns again possible.

Currently there's so much that any controlled burn would get out of control and turn into a real one. At least that's how I understood it

e4e5on Bark beetles are eating through Germany’s Harz forest

Couldn't they remove some of the underbrush?

e4e5on Unpacking Google’s Web Environment Integrity specification

Why are we in debt to them? Google has become stinking rich from everything that they've done. That's payment enough.

e4e5on Chicago’s Railroad Problem

Moving freight for long distances is a lot more efficient than moving people for long distances.

e4e5on The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

I don't understand this argument. If everyone has become more productive, why would wages rise? Wouldn't we see that as inflation then? I think the rise of productivity is more seen in the growth of the GDP

e4e5on When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option

Thank you, I rooted my phone a few days ago and have been putting off fixing safety net.

But that worked and was absolutely painless.

e4e5on DMs from New York City

Without a paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/26/nyregion/nyc-...

e4e5on What Reddit Got Wrong

Doesn't Reddit own the data now? That's the unfortunate truth of these platforms. They offer your a platform and pay for hosting and you give them your attention and content.

e4e5on Travel across Germany with the 49 Euro ticket

Very cool tool, would love to see what kind the destinations are without reading. Like what is a lake or what is a big city.

Aber dennoch, sehr cool :)

e4e5on Switching from QWERTY to Colemak and Back

I switched to Colemak and couldn't be any happier now. Faster and more comfortable than ever

e4e5on I downloaded all 1.6M posts on Bluesky

Considering there's no explication on bluesky's website, i don't understand why this comment is downvoted

e4e5on Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket

There was already a 9€ ticket last year, while I wansnt in Germany at that time I didn't read a lot about overcrowding. With a more expensive ticket the effect will probably be even smaller today, though in the long run all trains will probably get more filled up.

e4e5on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

There was a post yesterday about counting traffic on a pi, you might want to check it out: https://nathanrooy.github.io/posts/2019-02-06/raspberry-pi-d...

e4e5on Check if your IKEA chair is compatible with your screen

I have the same problem, but don't care enough to buy a new chair. It isn't that annoying

e4e5on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

I know that you don't want when more competition for the flights, but that sounds very useful!

e4e5on Amazon will brick all Halo health trackers on August 1

> Amazon will fully refund purchase(s) made in the preceding 12 months of Amazon Halo View, Amazon Halo Band, Amazon Halo Rise, and Amazon Halo accessory bands. In addition, any unused prepaid Halo subscriptions fees will be refunded to your original payment method. If you have a paid subscription, as of today you will no longer be charged the monthly subscription fee. You do not need to take any additional steps.

At least they're doing the right thing and are paying for it

e4e5on Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets

It does. It even works on macos iirc

e4e5on Eww: ElKowars wacky widgets

Something notable about eww is that it's configured in a lisp language, as opposed to a more traditional XML and CSS: https://elkowar.github.io/eww/configuration.html

e4e5on De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)

I like Google travel a lot to find hotels and then I book directly. It's the best for cities because of how integrated with maps it is and since Google doesn't sell me anything, I don't have to be as weary of these dark patterns.

e4e5on Illustrations of Japan’s “unseen” workforce of trains that work at night (2019)

The artist of these illustrations also drew the images of toy boxes, that's where you might recognize the style from?

If you go on their website, you can see that most of the toys are machines: https://www.tamiya.com/english/e-home.htm

e4e5on Gource – Animate your Git history

Or for a single user and how they comment, e.g. on Reddit where the subreddits could be the directories

e4e5on Liberating the MacBook Air 2013 with Linux

My first Linux device was a 2013 MacBook Pro, a phenomenal device.