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jayknight··on Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country
Direct Link: https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/
jayknight··on Do you want the US to "win" AI?
>I want AI capabilities to remain diffuse and spread out...

The most widely used AI systems are controlled by a few billionaires. I'd like to see it become much more spread out.

jayknight··on Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead
And for folks that do want to bury the body, it can be done way cheaper than the funeral industrial complex would have you believe. Our church keeps a simple coffin on hand that the family can use at cost. And we have folks who will prepare the body and bring it to the church. The only part we don't usually do is dig the grave. Cemeteries usually include that in the cost of the plot.
jayknight··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
Next year they will introduce "hAIngouts" as an AI chat bot.
jayknight··on iNaturalist
It has options to hide or obscure the location, which I use whenever I'm anywhere near my house, but it should be a little better about prompting users to use that.
jayknight··on Show HN: Github.blog Down
Works for me.
jayknight··on Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine
Just run WSL inside of Windows.
jayknight··on Show HN: Detect any object in satellite imagery using a text prompt
Neat. I was recently wondering if there was a way to find houses in my area that had roof-top solar, just to get an idea of how common it was.
jayknight··on ‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)
I've heard it, but only in a tongue-in-cheek context, at least the way I've always interpreted it.
jayknight··on EDuke32 – Duke Nukem 3D (Open-Source)
> then step on them for the kill

I heard the sound effect of that when I read you're comment.

jayknight··on As HN: Why is no one using my free library?
Find an open-source project that has a react frontend and could use a tour, and create a PR for a nice tour using your library. Be transparent that you're the author of the library and you've done this work to showcase the capabilities of it.

I personally usually dislike that kind of tour and look for the skip button as soon as I can, so I'm not sure what sort of reception you'll see, so be prepared for it to be rejected. But then you can try again somewhere else (without getting spammy)

jayknight··on YouTube Is Down
I'm currently sitting next to my son who is watching a Mark Rober video on youtube.

But yeah, neither the web site or the app are loading anything right now. But I guess a stream in progress in unaffected.

jayknight··on X has under 30 engineers
https://xcancel.com/nikitabier/status/2021992577642508562
jayknight··on Microblogging from Your Terminal
>Authenticate with your SSH key. Your public key is your identity.

Can I add multiple keys somehow? Like if I want to connect from different machines, or rotate my key one day?

jayknight··on A list of fun destinations for telnet
We'll all just be fingering each other.
jayknight··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
Yeah, and this solution results in paper ballots. You get three different ways to count them.
jayknight··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
My state uses a system that I think is the best of most worlds. You check in at one table, they give you a "receipt" that you give to another table who trades that for a little card. The card isn't linked to you at all and it gives you access to a voting machine. You enter your choices into the machine, which prints out a paper ballot that you can review and verify before putting it into the box as you leave. So, your vote is recorded by the voting machine for quick tallying, but your vote is also recorded on paper that is human and machine readable for verifiable re-counts if needed.
jayknight··on Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking
Lawnchair has been good enough for me, get a recent development build, they don't release very often.
jayknight··on Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
See this MKBHD video for an idea of features in Chinese EVs.

https://youtu.be/Mb6H7trzMfI

jayknight··on [dead]
From the FAQ:

> How do I make a link in a text submission?

>You can't. This is to prevent people from submitting a link with their comments in a privileged position at the top of the page. If you want to submit a link with comments, just submit the link, then add a regular comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

jayknight··on [dead]
I don't submit much, but doesn't the text section of a link submission just get posted as the first comment?
jayknight··on HN should be dark mode by default
If there was a dark mode, it should use the `prefers-color-scheme` css media query[1] to detect user preferences.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

jayknight··on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public
Yeah, but it's too much like new reddit. Give me an old reddit rival!
jayknight··on Show HN: 30k IKEA items in flat text
A box that contained a fully assembled kitchen table would contain a lot more air. I think that comment just meant IKEA designs items that can be packaged into a minimal volume.
jayknight··on During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website
Firefox's Reader mode is pretty great. Doesn't reduce network traffic but makes almost any page more readable.
jayknight··on Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them
>that pattern actually forces you to think about errors and "design" them to give meaningful messages

Doesn't Rust's Result type(s) force you to do the same? Sure, you can pass them on with the ? operator, but it's still a choice you have to make.

jayknight··on People Who Drink Bottled Water Daily Get 90k More Microplastic Particles a Year
>She found that people ingest an average of 39,000 to 52,000 microplastic particles per year from food and drinking water, and those who use bottled water on a daily basis ingest nearly 90,000 more microplastic particles into their bodies.

So a 3-4x increase.

jayknight··on W6LG – Silent Key
I know there are a good number of amateur radio operators that hang out on HN, and most probably know who Jim Heath, W6LG was and how much he loved ham radio and wanted to share his depth of knowledge with others. Jim's son posted this video to his channel announcing that he passed away and is now "Silent Key".
jayknight··on Show HN: GitForms – Zero-cost contact forms using GitHub Issues as database
<form action="mailto:contact@example.com">...
jayknight··on GitHub Incident
This is the better link. I've seen some slowness today, but no errors, so the link to github that works isn't very useful.
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