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gaoryrton Moon Rabbit

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival y'all!

gaoryrton Show HN: Think Fast. Type Faster

I’m curious to see the most frequently used words in the alphabet.

gaoryrton The difference between the CE mark and the China Export mark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking#%22China_Export%22_...

gaoryrton European military personnel arrive in Greenland as Trump says US needs island

Why don't they use land transport? After all, China and Russia share a long land border.

gaoryrton Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/816_Nuclear_Military_Plant

gaoryrton Meta Ray-Ban Display

Could the user tape over the LED light so others won't notice?

gaoryrton Wind turbine blade transportation challenges

I live in China, and the only building I know that has more than six floors but no elevator is in Chongqing, because it has another walk-in entry in the middle. The vertical distance between the entry and the destination is still fewer than six floors.

gaoryrton Turgot Map of Paris

Seems like this guy died right before he publish his masterpiece, what a pity.

gaoryrton Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall

there are some:

https://github.com/Warren2060/ChillBitmap

https://github.com/scott0107000/BoutiqueBitmap7x7

gaoryrton ReMarkable Paper Pro Move

Thank you for sharing this.

gaoryrton Kucha

Last year during the National Day holiday, I went on a road trip through southern Xinjiang. Kuqa (or Kucha) was one of my stops since it’s the starting point of the famous Duku Highway[0].

Before visiting the Kuqa Museum, I had no idea about the history of Buddhism and Islam in Xinjiang. The government also has a very “official” definition of that history, lol.

The landscapes were incredible, and I wrote a few blog posts about the trip (in Chinese)[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_National_Highway_217 [1]: https://gaoryrt.com/2024/journeytothewest/

gaoryrton UK's £800M slave labour China imports revealed – from bras to lawnmowers

user: uyghursaviour

created: 1 hour ago

karma: 0

gaoryrton Ask HN: Do You Believe in Aliens?

No. I think the appearance of life on Earth was the result of a long series of coincidences. If even a small part of that had been different, life wouldn’t have emerged.

I’ve come to believe in the Great Filter theory more and more in recent years.

gaoryrton Building ultra cheap energy storage for solar PV

Why go throught the extra solar -> electricity -> resistive heating -> soil instead of directly doing solar -> heating a metal rod -> soil?

Cutting out the conversion steps should be more efficient.

gaoryrton Lego Transformers Soundwave

Love it when a Lego set is more than just a display piece after building.

gaoryrton I used to know how to write in Japanese

In China, paper

gaoryrton China asks Israel to lift siege on Gaza, renews push for independent Palestinian

I believe people are more inclined to trust what they actually see, so I’d suggest you go there and see for yourself. For me Xinjiang is much safer than Gaza.

gaoryrton China asks Israel to lift siege on Gaza, renews push for independent Palestinian

I’ve traveled to Xinjiang three times in the past five years — a beautiful and mysterious region. The term “genocide” feels somewhat ridiculous to me.

gaoryrton DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)

If your parents aren't related, nor their parents, the 30th-generation(roughly 600–900 years depending on generation length) ancestor group size is 2^30, which is about 1.07 billion.

gaoryrton British man claims he's unable to watch porn as tattoos confuse age check system

Mostly agree, but oral is good.

gaoryrton What's the best gem you've found on Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32334552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778836

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30782994

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12111597

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39034160

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39665090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40711107

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124417

I got a collection for my boring Friday.