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sonar_un··on Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
That’s precisely why I skipped M1 altogether. The M2 gains are great and we will have more mature software. The second M2 Pro drops, it’s an instant buy.
sonar_un··on 9-Euro-Ticket
I was there last winter and the free transport was just incredible. Especially for a tourist. On top of all of the busses and trams being super new and clean, it was a dream.
sonar_un··on How fast SSDs slow to a crawl: thermal throttling (2021)
I have experienced this with using m.2 SSDs in an external enclosure. I found they all throttled until I bought one that had a fan. Never throttled again.
sonar_un··on Ask HN: Any weird tips for weight loss?
You will be spending so many calories just by getting up and going to the bathroom.
sonar_un··on All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)
Are you sure you are using the h264_videotoolbox options? I mean, you might be, but that, for me, seems to be the problem. Ffmpeg is quite fast if you can invoke the hardware encoders.
sonar_un··on I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
Short videos get killed by the YouTube algorithm since it’s difficult to show ads.
sonar_un··on The Last Days of Tokyo’s Nakagin Capsule Tower
To me, this building is made famous by Transport Tycoon, and I am so sad to see the end.
sonar_un··on Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
You can create a screenshots folder and default all of the screenshots straight into it. That’s been a lifesaver for me.
sonar_un··on Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects
My backyard in Louisiana has zero, zilch, nada. However; when I lived in NYC, I would see them all of the time on riverside.
sonar_un··on Shirt Without Stripes
I have also found that search results are getting frustratingly worse. Often even when I put in explicit search terms and quotes, and filter out words that I don't want, Google will return results that don't adhere to what I am looking for or just return no results at all. I remember when I would search for something and find much more relevant information. Now the first 5 or 6 search results are ad-sponsored and aren't relevant, but I have to go to the 3rd or 4th page to find something that matches. I also often have to search for things that were posted in the last year or less because the older postings are increasingly irrelevant.
sonar_un··on Foursquare Merges with Factual
I hope swarm doesn't go away, though I still lament them splitting the apps in two.
sonar_un··on Foursquare Merges with Factual
I use Swarm a lot and it has been invaluable for me to remember places that I have been to. I use it all of the time to remember what places are worth returning to and to tell my friends who are looking for recommendations in certain cities.
sonar_un··on Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming
Opera cast is generally pretty great, but it is pretty manual and they do miss a lot of things going on. There are now lots of classical streaming only services like Primephonic, Idagio, and others that take care of the metadata problem.
sonar_un··on Some celebrities are ditching Twitter for Community
I am not sure I understand. The whole point of social media is that you don’t have to talk to people one-on-one and waste time. I literally have no clue what “community” is trying to solve. There is no way that people with a large community will have any meaningful interaction with their followers.
sonar_un··on Show HN: I built a website to better compare USB-C hubs found on Amazon
I would like to see a filter for UHS-II SD cards as well. I think Sony is the only brand making a hub with one included at the moment.
sonar_un··on How to start a blog using Hugo
I have been using Hexo for quite some time and it's very easy to use and setup. It's the node alternative to Hugo which uses Go.
sonar_un··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
Sorry but multi account containers aren’t even close to the same thing as having separate profiles. This is one of those things for me that keeps me coming back to chrome.
sonar_un··on The food industry’s new favorite protein source: peas
Well, tahini is just blended sesame seeds and miso paste is just fermented soybeans and rice. Hardly what I would call processed in a modern sense.
sonar_un··on Twilio Super SIM
Seconded.
sonar_un··on Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes
Fun anecdote here. Just last month my wife and I were in Barcelona and we needed to go to Madrid. She had her company buy a plane ticket and I took the train. We left at the exact same time and I took 100% public transportation and she had a car service on both ends and a plane ticket.

I made it to our destination across the town from the Madrid central 45 minutes before she did.

sonar_un··on RSS Is Better Than Twitter
I use a modified Scrape ‘N Feed to scrape the sites I need without RSS. With this I can go another level deeper and scrape the entire article and return that back to the feed instead of just getting the snippet.

https://www.crummy.com/software/ScrapeNFeed/

sonar_un··on As Costs Skyrocket, More U.S. Cities Stop Recycling
Remember also that in Switzerland you pay for your trash bags. A bag that you have to throw away costs €1-2. Recycling is essentially free.
sonar_un··on Millitext – A subpixel text encoding font
I tried using my native resolution on my MBP Retina and then taking a photo and zooming in. Nope. I could only decipher the ;-)
sonar_un··on Next-generation of GPS satellites are headed to space
How many satellites will be needed to be operational? What’s chips are comparable with the new bands? I know that there is currently only one phone with the Motorola chip, the Huawei P20 Pro.

How long until the satellite launches will it be operational after the tests? I couldn’t seem to find any of this information anywhere. Just basic press releases.

sonar_un··on First release of dav1d, the AV1 decoder
I still consume nearly all of my content in 720p. The bandwidth requirements usually outstrip my need for fidelity. This is especially true when traveling when I don’t have access to my own broadband. It’s easy to get stuck in a place with slow internet services.
sonar_un··on RefactoringUI Book
Yeah. This was an instant but for me. Knowing his past materials and insight. Any designer would see this as a strong investment. I can use this in future projects and keep this as a reference. Glad it was released.
sonar_un··on Firefox 64 Released
Another vote for NewsBlur here too. I’ve been a paying member since Google Reader left us. It’s been absolutely fantastic.
sonar_un··on Firefox 64 Released
I still haven’t switched from chrome because of the superior multi-user switching and the ability to have different proxies on different user accounts.
sonar_un··on NYC subway and bus services have entered 'death spiral', experts say
The MTA's union has kept unneeded workers employed. One of the main issues is having two people per train employed when almost every other transit system in the world uses only one person per train.

On top of this, but actively lobbying against having driverless trains and other cost-saving technologies leaves NYC with the most expensive and antiquated system in the world

sonar_un··on “12 years ago today, I finished writing Hacker News”
I just want comment collapsing on mobile, or a way to quickly scroll to the next branch of comments.
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