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sand500on Show HN: Read the Tape – Wordle for daytrading, five blind S&P 500 charts a day

Needs a way to copy and paste text to share with friends. I feel like this is what made wordle viral

sand500on Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

I wish library of things had tape writers and readers. Magnetic tape storage is quite cost effective for data backups and archiving.

sand500on The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer

Might have been a key differentiator for Stadia.

Other comments are worrying about the streaming and latency but local split screen could also be another use case here.

sand500on Can I run AI locally?

How does it have details for M4 ultra?

sand500on Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

> Let your would-be-rescuers know your position and status

Stupid question, do search and rescue services even have equipment that can tune into HAM frequencies, are they even listening on those frequencies, and do they regularly train on communicating with the HAM community?

I'm sure there are more established ways of radioing for help in the maritime world(Aviation has the guard frequency)

sand500on ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030

Or this Asianometry video which came out even sooner.

https://youtu.be/MXnrzS3aGeM

sand500on Valve is running Apple's playbook in reverse

Not just usable, better performant than Windows too.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-s...

sand500on Steam Controller

When was it thrown out? It seems the ruling against Valve was upheld

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/court-upholds-jurys-decision-i...

sand500on Aerocart cargo gliders

Instead, can we implement autonomous formation flying? Each aircraft can still have its own engines and control, but can make a V shape allowing the following planes to run more efficiently.

sand500on A macOS terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad

It's a disclaimer that they have no idea what they code does.

sand500on Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas

I agree it's stupid. Relevant video on this:

https://youtu.be/-DAfmFdLIjo?si=wg8inSg84VvXFFLx

sand500on Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout

How do beavers increase total water flow? I can see them causing more water to be held upstream.

sand500on Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras

Is this going to finally replace all the Xbox Kinects everyone uses?

sand500on Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops

I find this kind of thing a good case for LLMs as they can dumb down the technical jargon:

From Gemini:

```

Imagine you're trying to record someone talking in a noisy room using your MacBook's built-in microphones. This software acts like a super-smart filter:

* It knows where the microphones are: Apple laptops have multiple tiny microphones.

* It listens to all of them at once: It takes the input from all the microphones.

* It figures out where the person talking is: It analyzes the sound to find the direction of the voice.

* It focuses on that voice: It boosts the sound coming from that direction.

* It quiets down the other noises: It reduces the sound from other directions, like background chatter.

So, instead of getting a muddy recording with lots of noise, you get a clearer recording of the person you want to hear. Basically, it makes your MacBook's microphones sound much better in noisy environments. And it's designed to work within audio programs that use a specific plugin format called LV2.

```

sand500on Gemini Robotics

Physical intelligence has a robot that can fold clothes

https://youtu.be/YyXCMhnb_lU?si=zJsQn2m8Fu5ccV6n

sand500on How X-Plane Works

I don't think vanilla KSP aerodynamics simulate airflow at all. You could have wings clipping and they would still pretend to be generating lift. The F.A.R. mods adds much more realistic aerodynamics.

sand500on I put a toaster in the dishwasher (2012)

Your GFCI outlet may not always trigger:

https://youtu.be/SHGo-52wCDc?si=AzZ71UIpPYVjj31X

sand500on Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

Does that mean the RISC-V cores are super low powered?

sand500on Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale now

For a mass produced product, why waste die space on RISC-V cores that can only be used instead of the Cortex cores? Why not just use that die space for more ram or another ARM core? Doesn't it make sense to sell a variant that is entirely RISC-V?

sand500on LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear

Maybe the screens only emit polarized light which can easily be filtered out?

sand500on French company ramps up production to meet demand for its military drone radar

Could train birds of prey to actively hunt down and rip apart drones.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/the-milit...

sand500on How to Play Renju

For anyone looking to play online, the site has links to a few places and apps

https://www.renju.net/playrenju/

sand500on A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments

> disable rendering and keep compute pretty minimal.

So that's what was going on in the Matrix when the humans were staring at all that green text.

sand500on Amtrak adds more service throughout the US Northeast Corridor to meet demand

The key part for me:

> Momentum has already begun with FY23 4th Quarter NEC ridership achieving 8% above pre-pandemic levels

sand500on Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes

The Garmin autoland can automatically activate, determine which airport to land at communicate on ATC frequency to say it is going to land at X airport.

sand500on Samsung won't sell you a phone if you live in East Fairview, North Dakota

Reminds me of the air force discovering that no pilot was average. And that was only looking at 10 dimensions.

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/when-u-s-air-force-disc...

sand500on Both pilots of an A320 fell asleep in the cockpit for 28 minutes

Some planes can land themselves now:

https://discover.garmin.com/en-US/autonomi/#autoland

sand500on Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission

Cornell is ivy league.

sand500on What made Earth a giant snowball 700M years ago? Scientists have an answer

Probably only over thousands or millions of years?

sand500on Canned air is unexpectedly supersonic [video]

This was interesting so I looked it up

>For a given ideal gas the molecular composition is fixed, and thus the speed of sound depends only on its temperature. At a constant temperature, the gas pressure has no effect on the speed of sound, since the density will increase, and since pressure and density (also proportional to pressure) have equal but opposite effects on the speed of sound, and the two contributions cancel out exactly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound#Dependence_on...