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hrldcpron Glacier Mice

Awesome, followed

hrldcpron Glacier Mice

Ah nice, thanks!

hrldcpron Glacier Mice

Dang this looks perfect, but sadly is giving a 502 error at the moment.

hrldcpron Glacier Mice

Awesome thanks!

I can't tell, did Glacier Mice make the cut? On a first pass, I don't see it.

hrldcpron Glacier Mice

Agreed. I would follow a bluesky/mastodon/rss thing that shares every time a Wikipedia article hits the front page.

hrldcpron St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core

Sounds like the Nuclear Regulatory Commission explicitly categorized it as a "non-emergency"

hrldcpron Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn

"Irreversible on human timescales" is a nice succinct wording; I think I usually end up discussing that concept in a less clear / more roundabout way.

hrldcpron Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies

> It'll only affect places where humans are

What?

hrldcpron Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense

Arguably people who voted for Trump are somewhat responsible, and include a lot of car drivers.

(Not to imply that many Democrat politicians aren't also owned by AIPAC and big business.)

hrldcpron Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

I think they're being sarcastic, saying that rewrites from scratch have rarely worked well (whether done by AI or humans).

hrldcpron Can You Find the Comet?

Why gaze up at the vast cosmos when we can stare down at a little screen

hrldcpron At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared

To be fair to CNN, this article is about an FBI investigation.

hrldcpron Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition

You're right that the caffeine isn't entirely removed, but it's supposedly more than 90% removed.

(I'm even seeing the number 97% mentioned a lot online.)

hrldcpron OpenAI Acquires TBPN

I would guess that the whole "manosphere" phenomenon helped cryptocurrencies and Trump, so probably can help OpenAI too?

hrldcpron Miscellanea: The War in Iran

The typo is fixed now.

hrldcpron The Physics and Economics of Moving 44 Tonnes at 56mph

Interesting, thanks!

One thing I'd update is that early in the article you say that for switching from diesel to lithium-ion, "It's 16 tonnes of payload that disappears".

But then later you take engine efficiency into account and say it's "about 6.4 tonnes of battery".

So the claim that it would ever reduce payload by 16 tonnes seems incorrect, and not everyone is going to read both parts.

hrldcpron Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

Oh thanks that altitude slider is very interesting. Makes me want to see a 3d visualization.

hrldcpron Xweather Live – Interactive global vector weather map

Can someone explain how wind can spiral in to a point? Where does the air "go"? Or does this create a higher pressure?

hrldcpron Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?

aside: interestingly it's spelled bellwether and comes from shepherds putting a bell on a wether (a sheep) — it's unrelated to weather

hrldcpron Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app

Tim Cook has been spending a lot of time sucking up to Donald Trump recently, so I think the U.S. federal government will only be assisting Apple

hrldcpron ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data

https://archive.is/20250921060001/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

hrldcpron The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable

> Maybe the world will be a more peaceful place if it doesn't get too hot?

I think you're saying this as a joke, but to me it seems extremely likely that climate change will lead to wars and conflict (if it hasn't already)

hrldcpron We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

*pore through

(not a judgment, just mentioning in case the distinction is interesting to anyone)

hrldcpron Calendar

yeah Firefox on Linux gave me bad margins too, whereas Chrome on Linux printed perfectly :'(

hrldcpron The tiniest yet real telescope I've built

clickable links in case it's helpful for anyone:

- Sunscan, by the STAROS team : a fully integrated open-source solar imaging kit : https://www.sunscan.net/fr

- Eric Royer's binocular 24" dobson : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/124758-bino600/

- The Slim400 by Laurent Bourrasseau : https://www.cloudynights.com/forums/topic/920950-the-slim400...

- Astrowl, an electronically enhanced astronomy kit : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/151807-projet-astrowl-de-visu...

- The smallest, an open-source 6" portable dobson : http://www.astrosurf.com/topic/176898-un-dobson-150-f5-facil...

- A dedicated astrophotography power supply : https://github.com/Antiath/Open-Power-Box-XXL

hrldcpron Pantone Color of the Year 2026: Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer

Baileys

hrldcpron Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?

That first paragraph also seemed a bit over-the-top to me, but keep in mind it's immediately followed by:

> That’s the argument, at least, of W. David Marx...

hrldcpron Reverse Twins

I wrote down this little numerical observation, which people here may or may not also find interesting

hrldcpron $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer

you'll probably enjoy this tiny screen embedded in a LEGO brick

https://youtu.be/6wBrOV2FJM8

hrldcpron Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short

In case anyone else missed the original paper (and discussion):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203562