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redweeron Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)

nice! I've been looking in to how people are doing OCR in 2024. Is TextSniper scriptable?

redweeron Hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future

I ate some food made with mealworm powder this weekend - it blew my mind. Some real good chefs cooked it up, they did blueberry donuts made with 20% mealworm powder. They also did tacos, where the tortillas were 20% mealworm powder, and the rest was just really good veggies/beans/sauce. They had fried ones with crickets you could sprinkle on top.

redweeron Tesla plunges 250 feet off a California cliff, all 4 occupants survive

my grandmother tells a story that my late grandfather rolled his car down devil's slide in the 60s. He landed up right on the beach. She's known to extend the truth, so who's to say if it actually happened.

redweeron Kill-sticky, a bookmarklet to remove sticky elements and restore scrolling

replace `position: sticky` with `position: relative`

redweeron Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

you could render a mp4 or webm video, it wouldn't be as fancy but would just work

redweeron The enduring mystery of ‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s all-purpose noun (2016)

there's a skateboard mag out of Philly called Skate Jawn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skate_Jawn

redweeron Kaketsugi – A technique for repairing holes or tears in fabric (2021) [video]

https://scienceandkindness.net/ is out of St. Paul, MN. I believe you can send them your clothing. I follow them on instagram because I think they do some really cool repairs.

redweeron Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time since Fukushima

the solar panels and wires and plastic that hook these systems up to the grid/end-user require a lot of producing/extracting/manufacturing

redweeron Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes

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redweeron Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums (2020)

thanks for that insight

redweeron The data are clear: The boys are not all right

what kind of work do you do in Japan?

redweeron Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (2015)

they heard it on a podcast

redweeron Association of e-cigarette use with quitting smoking

thanks for sharing, I can relate a bit. I was a bike courier in San Francisco off and on for a few summers and it was a very fun/hard job. It was mostly legal docs going back and forth between the courthouses and the financial district. This was several years back. Anyways, I aspire to be riding my bike when I'm 82!

redweeron It feels like America is running out of everything

You mention "most", but that is not an easy qualifier to back up. More likely, it is "some".

redweeron LÖVR – An open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences

is there any relation with LÖVE? https://love2d.org/

I don't see anything called out about this on the website. LÖVE is a great 2d game framework written in Lua