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mmettler··on Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
Once this is functional and of there is even a small community, I’d visit!

+1 for tags / categories.

mmettler··on Launch HN: Fogbender (YC W22) – B2B support software designed for customer teams
Andrei and team are awesome. We were customers of a Fogbender ancestor (a chat app that became SameRoom) and are excited to be customers for Fogbender!

For a growing customer success org, being able to generate tickets from these chats is super useful.

mmettler··on Sci-Hub statistics and database
Alexandra should get the Nobel prize.
mmettler··on SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel
If you like this, you’re gonna love Tailscale https://tailscale.com/
mmettler··on Wine bricks saved the U.S. wine industry during Prohibition (2015)
This reminds me of how q-tip manufacturers forbid you from using q-tips to clean your ears.
mmettler··on Last-resort cancer therapy holds back disease for more than a decade
ELI5: will this work on other types of cancers? For example, breast cancer, non small-cell lung cancers, etc.?
mmettler··on NextDNS: The new firewall for the modern Internet
Not affiliated in any way, I just think the company and product are great.
mmettler··on Adblocking people and non-adblocking people experience a different web
Vaguely related: I’ve been using NextDNS for a while now, and it’s wonderful. I subscribed to a paid plan just to support the company. Recommended, if you haven’t already checked them out.
mmettler··on Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
Is it sending primes?
mmettler··on Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years (2020)
Woah! It was listed as “sold out” on the Unbound website only hours ago. Thanks!
mmettler··on Cain's Jawbone: Puzzle solved for just third time in almost 100 years (2020)
Anyone know a place to buy a copy of the puzzle, either from Unbound or elsewhere?
mmettler··on Spinthariscopes
Also, you can buy little tritium glow sticks on Amazon. Highly recommended. Our kids love them.
mmettler··on Spinthariscopes
Instructables guide to building one:

https://www.instructables.com/Pocket-Size-Spinthariscope/

mmettler··on A guide to electrify everything in your home
A really good resource is the water heater chapter in the Rewiring America guide linked above. Another good resource (for the US): https://www.yellowtin.com/yt-faq-hpwh/

There are a lot of heat pumps on the market that can produce hotter water. For example, a popular Rheem model heats to 145 F / 62 C:

https://images.thdstatic.com/catalog/pdfImages/73/73236cfd-1...

mmettler··on The UX on this small child is terrible
I would like to submit some feedback on the teething process.
mmettler··on Ask HN: What password managers can you recommend?
1Password is consistently fantastic.

I hear you about problems with a server/subscription-based model, but a) it's the least of all evils, and b) I've come to enjoy financially supporting them (i.e. my subscription means they can keep making great software, which is definitely valuable to me).

mmettler··on Christmas is the busy season for ham sniffers
I can’t decide if I’m happy or sad that this wasn’t about ham radio.
mmettler··on A California climate program lets companies keep polluting
https://archive.is/T4DX0
mmettler··on If Portland can hit 116 degrees, so can San Francisco. We're not ready
Who’s working on new heat pump tech other than Gradient?
mmettler··on HashiCorp Boundary
Another company to watch here is Tailscale, which is Wireguard-based:

https://tailscale.com/

(disclosure: small Tailscale investor)

mmettler··on A biotechnology dream: nitrogen-fixing cereal crops
There are already some startups working on this, including Pivot Bio (nitrogen-fixing for corn using microbiomes in the soil): https://www.pivotbio.com/
mmettler··on The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners
I love nearly all of these. If they were novels, I would likely read them.
mmettler··on Ask HN: Best tech product or technology of 2013?
Coin: https://onlycoin.com

One credit card to rule them all.

mmettler··on DOMA is unconstitutional
Link to the opinion: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-307_g2bh.pdf
mmettler··on Dept. of Homeland Security freezes accounts between Dwolla and Mt. Gox
Link to source (an email to Chris Coyne): https://twitter.com/malgorithms/status/334395559366520832
mmettler··on Give HN: domain names
UPDATE - all the domains have been taken! They went pretty quickly, sorry about that. Thanks for inquiring.
mmettler··on Give HN: domain names
done.
mmettler··on Give HN: domain names
you've got outcastventures.com. feel free to start the transfer process!
mmettler··on Give HN: domain names
done.
mmettler··on Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund
Manu invested in card.io and is absolutely fantastic. He is extremely tactical, constantly pushed us to focus on the numbers that matter, and most importantly, provided gobs of awesome counsel. He should be your first call if you're looking to raise money.
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