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nacnud··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Cool! I have a question about lottery numbers..
nacnud··on Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
According to https://github.com/pgsty/silo it's pgsty/silo now:

> Renamed from pgsty/minio to pgsty/silo, default branch master → main, on 2026-08-06

nacnud··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Have you published any of these stories online? I'd love to read some!
nacnud··on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
It's so that you don't lose your dark adaptation. See: https://www.nps.gov/articles/dark-adaptation-of-the-human-ey...
nacnud··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
Obligatory reference to "Remain Indoors" sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE
nacnud··on 'Extraordinary Discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Site
I am hoping for a fossilized X-wing.
nacnud··on Patagonian Welsh
"Death Valley" is a recent gentle comedic crime detective series on the BBC (iPlayer), set in Wales and the characters frequently break into Welsh (with English subtitles). It's lovely to hear!
nacnud··on F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash
According to the ejection seat manufacturer [1] there is no minimum height or speed at which the ejection seat can be used, so as long as the aircraft is roughly level then the ejection should be survivable.

[1] https://martin-baker.com/ejection-seats/us16e/

nacnud··on Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning
Does the phone make a different kind of noise, so you'd potentially associate that with "get off the ladder quick"!?
nacnud··on LLM Inevitabilism
True - but if you erode that trust then your users may go elsewhere. If you keep the ads visually separated, there's a respected boundary & users may accept it.
nacnud··on Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?
Fan noise might be another consideration, given that some projects have to share a home with a family. Anyone know whether the N150 makes much noise?
nacnud··on Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
The map seems to be based on monitoring stations in the different locations, so yes - it's also possible that a station is offline for other reasons (maintenance, etc).
nacnud··on There are reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal
Reported here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791#43820127
nacnud··on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
There's a map of realtime load flow here: https://gridradar.net/en/wide-area-monitoring-system (currently shows Spain and Portugal as 'offline')
nacnud··on In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio
Ah, the retro equivalent of "curl -L <script-url> | bash" ... :)
nacnud··on Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation
A friend recommends SayHi, which does near-realtime speech-to-speech translation (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sayhi.app&...). Unfortunately it's not offline though.
nacnud··on Watch live as SpaceX crew carry out first-ever commercial spacewalk
A valid question, perhaps I should have linked to the Polaris Dawn website: https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/ Apologies!
nacnud··on How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen
As a British person, I find all the current OpenAI voices have overly strong (American) accents, which are way too perky/enthusiastic for my ears. It would be great if they could offer a more neutral accent, or even one British accent? (Example: Voice 5 from pi.ai is excellent, IMHO)
nacnud··on The Pop-11 Programming Language
Sussex? We used it in COGS and I think it was one of very few places teaching with it at the time.
nacnud··on Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device
IIRC, The Angelic (pub in Islington, London) used to play comedy shows from BBC Radio 4 on a loop. Makes customers smile, covers up noises - everybody's happy.
nacnud··on Music for Programming
You might enjoy DI FM [1] which I've found has an excellent range of faster and slower tempo music for programming.

[1] https://www.di.fm

nacnud··on Raspberry Pi 4 V3DV graphics driver achieves Vulkan 1.0 conformance
Good question, does this mean my family's holy grail of performant Minecraft on a Pi is coming closer?
nacnud··on New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person
Would this work over larger distances - e.g. remote sensing from space?
nacnud··on Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts
What are we going to do with all those dormant pipes? Could some clever startup use them to route physical packets of stuff? :)
nacnud··on Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
Given that any previous water in the atmosphere has mostly escaped over time, the dome seems like a better bet.
nacnud··on REST was never about CRUD
"use", not "usage". </joke>
nacnud··on Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
What about embedding into the walls themselves?
nacnud··on Last satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System launched
Only a guess, but at that time wasn't the GPS signal intentionally degraded for non-US-military use, with reduced accuracy? Perhaps they're talking about the more precise signal, which the US didn't let them use.
nacnud··on The Death of Microservice Madness in 2018
Microservices is a back-end service pattern. MVC (Model View Controller) is a front-end pattern to enforce separation between data, UI and interaction logic.
nacnud··on Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project
I built a spaceship for my kids: http://www.duncanjauncey.com/blog/archives/377 (please excuse the tabloid headline of the article)
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