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turbocon··on CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American
Interesting I very often get captchas to find motorcycles, crosswalks, and red lights that are definitely not from the US.
turbocon··on Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
Not the commenttor, however I personally am a big fan of Cloudflare tunnels.
turbocon··on Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
Open the linked paper and scroll down, they have images of the path on a globe as well as the flat map view.
turbocon··on Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
Yes! I'm working on a feeder setup. But airplanes.live is actually moving away from the free model as of just a few days ago. They're asking for $25/month + a feed now.... Which seems like a lot, I'll still feed if they want it though.
turbocon··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
I'm younger than you and only loss a about 25 lbs. I've now gone to a maintenance dose and seen my energy recover substantially, I do still think (anecdotally) that when I got off for a week I got even more energy but it's hard to judge.
turbocon··on Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
This is really interesting, I'm making something similar as a gift for my wife ( I didn't know this product existed). It's much smaller but shows a map of planes and their live location in the air space near our home.

I have to say though, it's very weird you're hitting API rate limits. airplanes.live is a free no-authentication needed API that lets you poll it 1 time per second, and with each poll it returns flight information for ALL flights in up to (I think) a 250nm radius.

I doubt this commercial product could use that API but my point is that this data isn't that valuable. Additionally for the size of the thing the could just put and adsb receiver in it....

turbocon··on Ente – Opening Our Books
They poster goes into more details here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933905

But also, this is not a very constructive comment. They're pushing a new product that based on the upvotes this community is interested it.

turbocon··on A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]
O that's really interesting, I've been using a constructor knot for this use case, but that does require more string than this method. Really clever reversal of a midshipmens knot
turbocon··on A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]
I've spent waaay to much time thinking about this over the past few years and have really gotten into knots.

Personally I'd say you need to classify the type of knots you want to learn and pick one knot from each. The classics in my opinion are

1. End loop

2. Mid loop

3. Hitch (opposite of an end loop)

4. adjustable loop

5. Bend (rope to rope)

My suggestions in order are

# End Loop

1a. Bowline (snap variant) - This is a knot that's super easy to tie, remember, and untie. There are a bunch of variants to expand it's usefulness (double, water, slip, yosemite, etc)

1b. Zeppelin Loop - this is my personal favorite, it's a little tricky to tie but I've never seen it slip and it unties easily after it's all done.

# Mid Loop

2a. Alpine Butterfly - learn the butterfly method and this is an easy to tie knot that can be easily sized. It also doesn't bind so it unties easily and can be loaded in any direction (on of the only midline knots this is true for)

2b. Bowline on a Bight - Super satisfying knot to tie, a little wonky to learn just because of the structure but easy to tie once you get it.

# Hitch

3a. Tensionless Hitch - (this is probably the most overlooked 'knot' just look at a diagram you can learn it and never forget it after seeing the diagram once. It's the strongest knot there is if you have the rope for it. (I wouldn't really count this at one of your 5 but it's good to keep in mind)

3b. Buntline Hitch - dead simple and you can usually untie it after a heavy load 3c. Siberian Hitch - This is effectively a slipped noose but I use it all the time, it's my personal go to.

3c. Poachers knot - If you have a carabiner or know you're never going to need to untie this knot it's hard to beat

# Adjustable Loop / Friction Hitch

4a. Adjustable Grip Hitch - Easy to learn and holds better than the Midshipman's

4b. Midshipman - it's a little more complicated but this was Ashley's favorite because it can be tied under tension

# Bend

(Bends and fixed loops usually have the same structure so you might not need this one)

5a. Zeppelin Bend - seriously just learn this one, sixty nine method is the easiest for me. Knot is easy to tie, doesn't slip, and is easy to untie.

5b. Sheet Bend - this knot... is fine but you already know it if you learned the bowline above as it's the same structure

Bonus Section

1. Trucker/Truckee - probably one of the most useful knots around, learn the method that uses a slip knot for the mid loop and it'll make even easier

2. Canadian Jam Knot - Useful for bundling things, it's a knot I find myself using a lot

3. Voodoo Hitch - You can use it in place of a ratchet strap if you have a couple of carabiners

4. Icicle Hitch - Ever wanted to tie a rope to a butter metal pole and keep it from slipping? This is the knot, it cinches and grips things with so much friction you can tie a rope to about anything vaguely cylindrical

turbocon··on Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness
Meclizine OTC is non-drowsy and works really well for my wife.
turbocon··on Show HN: Antenna – RSS reader with a built-in MCP server
Very interesting timing, I was just today asking my Nanoclaw instance to reorganize the feeds in the FreshRSS instance. I have to say though it did it perfectly, I just had to give it an api key, so I am missing the benefit here? Sorry I know that's a typically HN think to say but I mean that I'd like to know if there's a selling point that I'm missing.
turbocon··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
Just wanted to comment to say that I think this is a wonderful product idea with a noble mission. It clearly has flaws and you guys are clearly working on it and that's okay. I really like the approach of getting people to pause and think about what they're posting to promote a more thoughtful experience

Seriously. Best of luck to you

turbocon··on I made my favorite AI tool
You might want to resubmit with the link I'm the url field I'm the submission so that people can click the link. You also put the url to the GitHub page twice so it's a little tricky to copy
turbocon··on Gitas – A tool for Git account switching
You can manage multiple ssh keys via your ssh config too. But this does seem to make things easier, I always end up fighting with this when I need to do it once every 3 years
turbocon··on Animated Knots
Interesting, I actually learning the Shoelace Bow (surgeons)[1] from this site a couple years ago and it's my go to now for any shoelaces that don't lock tight or that I really need to stay tied (think running or backpacking)

[1] https://www.animatedknots.com/shoelace-bow-knot-surgeons

turbocon··on OpenAI Frontier
OpenClawd for the business is here. Wow that was fast.
turbocon··on Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes
This looks really awesome for Postgres

For general B Tree index resources this has been my got to site for years https://use-the-index-luke.com/

turbocon··on SETI@home is in hiberation
Any other worthwhile projects to donate cpu time to? I see Folding@Home is still going.

Update: looks like there is a Wikipedia list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volunteer_computing_pr...

Would still be nice to know for the applicable ones if any success have come out of these or if they're just fun toys

turbocon··on Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher
Much less popular but I switched to Kvaesitso from Nova about a month ago and it's been amazing and it's open source. Much more opinionated than Nova but it matched how I used Nova so I really enjoy it.

[1] https://kvaesitso.mm20.de/

turbocon··on Video Game Websites in the early 00s
I really thought this was going to those sites that's had a collection of mini games, like shockwave.com used to be.... Man I played so much donut boy
turbocon··on UniFi 5G
Link? Cheapest I can find is $40/month
turbocon··on Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop
I want to know if this is any different than all of the AMD AI Max PCs with 128gb of unified memory? The spec sheet say "128 GB LPDDR5x", so how is this better?

https://nvdam.widen.net/s/tlzm8smqjx/workstation-datasheet-d...

turbocon··on 2025 Q3 Sardines
....what? Why?

I mean it's interesting and I'm probably going to buy the sardines but why is this here?

turbocon··on Revamping an Old TV as a Gift (2019)
this what you're looking for? https://antiqueradio.org/art/Sony8-301WTelevisionManual.pdf

Chatgpt (especially deep research) is pretty good about digging up stuff like this

turbocon··on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
Have you tried this model finetuned for a similar purpose by roblox https://www.josefprusa.com/articles/open-hardware-in-3d-prin...
turbocon··on Python lib generates its code on-the-fly based on usage
Wow, what a nightmare of a non-deterministic bug introducing library.

Super fun idea though, I love the concept. But I’m getting the chills imagining the havoc this could cause

turbocon··on What I've learned from jj
Honestly if you haven't ever used got bisect I'd say you're missing out on a very powerful tool. To be able to, without any knowledge of the code base, isolate down to the exact commit that introduced a big is incredibly powerful
turbocon··on 15,000 lines of verified cryptography now in Python
Everyone has there own preferences, but I'd look into uv if I were you. It allows you to specify the python version, and for scripts you can even specify the python version as part of the shebang
turbocon··on Canadian math prodigy allegedly stole $65M in crypto
Oooo entirely agree, I do suspect he'd come down on the "law is law" side however it's not clear to me a law was actually broken.
turbocon··on Show HN: I made a free tool that analyzes SEC filings and posts detailed reports
Seriously fantastic tool, I'm going to use the hell out of this, I appreciate you creating this so much! Let me know if there's a way to donate.
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