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flobosg··on Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
Same here. I think no site brings me less joy than LinkedIn. I find broetry particularly tiring to read.
flobosg··on Why Are Viral Capsids Icosahedral?
The header illustration brought to my mind, for some reason, the tomato bushy stunt virus depiction by the late Irving Geis: https://pdb101.rcsb.org/sci-art/geis-archive/gallery/geis-05...
flobosg··on "That Shape Had None" – A Horror of Substrate Independence (Short Fiction)
Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46999224
flobosg··on Show HN: Modern Reimplementation of the Speck Molecule Renderer
Nice! I’ve been meaning to do something similar with David Goodsell’s Illustrate (https://github.com/ccsb-scripps/Illustrate) but sadly haven’t progressed much.
flobosg··on Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%
Then you meant audiovisual content.
flobosg··on The full history of Windows widgets, from 1997 to today
Seems to be part of an ongoing series: https://xakpc.dev/windows-widgets/
flobosg··on Self Sanitizing Door Handle
(2019)
flobosg··on Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)
> Nokia, despite its late entry with MeeGo’s Harmattan UI, found the squircle unclaimed and ran with it beautifully.

―https://interuserface.net/2011/06/own-a-shape/

flobosg··on Desperately Seeking Squircles (2018)
Same with the rendered math formulas, they could get a bit more love. Great post nevertheless!
flobosg··on Things I've quit doing at my desk
(2012)
flobosg··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
The country remains polarized, so the answers might surprise you.
flobosg··on Funes.world
I wonder if the name is inspired by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious
flobosg··on My app just won best iOS Japanese learning tool of 2025 award (blog)
The app seems to be Manabi Reader, by the way: https://skerritt.blog/best-japanese-learning-tools-2025-awar...
flobosg··on Scientists edited genes in a living person and saved his life
> Don't you have to modify every cell (or affected type of cell) with a new copy of the DNA?

It depends on the specific disorder that’s being treated. For some of them, targeting a fraction of the affected cells is enough to get the desired effect.

flobosg··on Pfizer ended up passing on my GLP-1 work back in the early '90s (2024)
https://archive.ph/2024.09.09-143955/https://www.statnews.co...

(2024)

flobosg··on A Century of Noether's Theorem
(2019)
flobosg··on The best things and stuff of 2025
Then it’s time to show them some dungeon synth! https://youtu.be/M9HLrbRCq2U
flobosg··on The best things and stuff of 2025
Found it here: https://shopfivenine.com/products/rubber-stamp-week
flobosg··on NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks
Earlier this week I met a friend who teaches undergraduate courses at a Chilean university. They told me that some of their students don’t know the meaning of “counterclockwise”.
flobosg··on The best things and stuff of 2025
I’m intrigued by that Japanese calendar stamp. Does anyone know where to get it?
flobosg··on The Fisher-Yates shuffle is backward
(2020)
flobosg··on The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle
Discussed here a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883788
flobosg··on AI generated font using Nano Banana
> Worlds first Ai generated font

For a brief moment I thought the title was referring to Adobe Illustrator.

flobosg··on How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)
Related: “A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports” – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43520122
flobosg··on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
Discussion from last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45994854
flobosg··on Principles of Vasocomputation
(2023)
flobosg··on Ray Marching Soft Shadows in 2D (2020)
Probably not that related, but the article reminded me of a shadow casting implementation on the PICO-8: https://medium.com/hackernoon/lighting-by-hand-4-into-the-sh...
flobosg··on A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
Which is exactly what I said.
flobosg··on A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
> They're still eating stuff from their host

They aren’t. Apart from DNA replication, transcription, and translation, their genome lacks elements encoding for even the most simple metabolic pathways.

flobosg··on A cell so minimal that it challenges definitions of life
A nitpick: Although similar in some aspects, archaea are not bacteria; they are classified under their own phylogenetic domain.
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