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I restored a beautiful 1946 Olivetti last year, having had nothing to do with typewriters beforehand. I just happened to see it on marketplace and pulled the trigger.

It needed a good clean, and some parts needed bent back into shape, but after that it worked like a dream. The mechanism for the tab stops is fantastic.

These are new electric power plants. The US is still ramping up oil and gas production, and is now producing more than ever before. No signs of transitioning away from fossil fuels for transport, industry, export.

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/chart-the-...

ICE just summarily executed a US citizen in the street with the full support of the administration.

It's the firehouse technique. The films of Adam Curtis touch on this, I'd recommend HyperNormalisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

>It’s also 100% vibe coded. I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause. ‘Course, I’ve never looked at Beads either, and it’s 225k lines of Go code that tens of thousands of people are using every day.

225k lines for a cli issue tracker? What the fuck?

Similar discussion on similar blog post from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688

This really is a fantastic piece of writing, one of the most entertaining I've read on HN

Since smartphones became too large to reliably use with one hand, I've been an avid nose user. It helps to naturally possess a pointed proboscis not unlike the one pictured.

I wonder if the clever interaction designers at Google had this in mind when they put a bunch of key gestures right at the top edge of the device?

I wonder why an empty set takes so much more memory than an empty dict

Another low tech example - those telephoto crowd shots that were popular during covid. The 'deception' happens before the light hits the sensor, but it's no less effective

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/13/pictu...

In one of his essays, Philip Pullman suggested reading Paradise Lost out loud which was a revelation for me. I never considered reading anything out loud for myself but it changes the nature of the experience entirely.

Tolkien recorded some passages of LoTR on a friend's tape recorder while it was still unpublished, I'd highly recommend checking them outz particularly the Ride of the Rohirrim.

I've noticed for a while these bizarre and sometimes inaccurate AI summaries of pages showing up in Google search results where matches to actual page content used to be. I assumed it was Google generating them, not the 3rd parties themselves. Why does Google even allow indexing on text that isn't really on the page?

Curly braces can be really hard to distinguish from parens because they appear in the same sort of place in e.g. JS, and IDEs and highlighters often render them in stupid low-contrast colours. I hate it aesethetically, but I get the usability need.

All of the Google Docs icons are really thoughtfully designed, with distinctive silhouettes. Instead of making 5 tiny illegible variations on inserting a row/column/etc, they just use the + symbol. Because the symbol is the same, your eye is then drawn to the differing text on the right.

Some of the Apple ones really are ridiculous, like the ones around window management and copy/pasting. Even blown up to fullscreen size, you wouldn't have a chance of guessing what they do. But at display size, they are just plain illegible. Having them there is just a visual distraction.

More concretely, a bunch of Scottish nationalist accounts were unearthed as Iranian by the recent X location switch-on

I think she's in the mines working on her Blender/Maya alternative, Half Edge.

https://half-edge.handmade.network/

What's with the entire dev board crammed in there? Is that... normal? What board is it?

That seems like the opposite of what the quoted Reddit post says:

>those with newer machines needed to either have the HEVC codec from the Microsoft Store removed entirely from [Microsoft Media Foundation] or have hardware acceleration disabled

From this it sounds like it's been disabled at a lower level, but Windows still expects it to be there and so fails to decode streams unless hwaccel is disabled

The source of this claim, which you helpfully did not provide, is Rupert Lowe, a far-right UK politician and shite-merchant who is so toxic he got kicked out of Reform. He does not give any indication as to where his number came from.

https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1987100209185181958

This reciprocal scheme only applies to certain countries: the EU/EAA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, etc.

I think when you are blaming things like headlight brightness on those bloody foreigners, it's time to do some self-reflection.

That doesn't mean the process is happening naturally as asserted. For instance, wild black wolves in the US got this trait from hybridization with domesticated dogs.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2903542/

SanDisks are very frequently fake, even in brick and mortar stores. Could it be you had a fake one?

The recent YouTube updates made me disabled my adblocker for a bit. Almost every ad I got was a scam. I reported one to YouTube, a deepfake investment scam. They actually got back to me and said they had removed the ad.

2 days later, I got the same ad again.

Lowtech magazine recently had an article about cooking with solar power:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-a-sol...

Where do you live? Here in the UK, a company called Klarna has managed to wriggle their way into almost every single online storefront and offers plans for sub-£5 purchases.

The most important feature of a launch site is having no populated areas downrange. Kilimanjaro would have Mombasa downrange.

I don't know of any launch sites significantly above sea-level, the marginal performance increase wouldn't be worth the logistical nightmare. It's easier to fly up a 747 than build a launch facility on top of a mountain.

I painstakingly type out MAC addresses etc. on a retro embossing-style label maker beacuse I prefer the aesthetic. I think that's the point to start making personality judgements!

It was Google that featured a bicycling pelican in a presentation a few months back:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#ai-...

So I think the benchmark can be considered dead as far as Gemini goes

Wonder if this is related to the (dreadful) redesign that's rolling out today?

This is not a good rebuttal since it still does not explain why terrorism gets 20,000 times more representation than accidents (which are mostly road traffic accidents).

She made a mistake by saying it, but she meant it for sure. "Saddam Hussein could have prevented any child from suffering simply by meeting his obligations."

I struggle to believe that cessation of food imports, medicines, medical equipment etc would have no impact on a country reliant on them, and can't see why these sanctions would be enacted in the first place if they were thought to have no effect.

I see no moral justification for using food as a weapon.