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p_plnoon Photo calorie app Cal AI was built by two teenagers

Teemagers not knowing about the limitations of the technology they don't understand. Please don't give them a platform and send them back to school, otherwise we're doomed. This app will harm people.

p_plnoon Lego Is Actually the World’s Biggest Tire Manufacturer

What a stupidly misleading headline. That put jalopnik.com on my blacklist forever. Why is this on HN?

p_plnoon An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (2020)

University education in a nutshell.

We need to burn it down, better sooner than later.

p_plnoon Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20k car parts

With what GUI? It needs to be usable for people considering Excel is a challenge. Honest question.

p_plnoon Formula 1 chief appalled to find team using Excel to manage 20k car parts

I'm not saying I work for a company that does, I'm just asking for a friend.

Can you recommend any actual, better alternatives?

p_plnoon My $500M Mars rover mistake

I'm really at a loss of words. There is only one lesson from this incident: nobody is supposed to touch a 500M piece of equipment after 12 hours of work. Period. The author is not getting it, and nobody in the comments. The world is run by idiots and it shows.