Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode)
Before anyone comments chrome extensions. These don’t work on chrome mobile or safari mobile which make up a sizeable number of users. Please, can we just have native dark mode? I made a pretty mediocre HN client just for this feature https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader I don’t feel like working on it anymore, let’s just have dark mode. […]
Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone
Date 2025-02-11 Radar drone ready to take off from snow. I have made several homebuilt radars and done some synthetic aperture imaging testing with them on the ground. I have wanted for a long time to put a radar ona drone and capture synthetic aperture images from air. When I last looked at this few […]
Why bother with privacy when I have nothing to hide? (2023)
The “why” behind Hannah on Privacy Your privacy matters. Let me try to convince you. It’s not going to happen with this post alone, but I am hopeful that in time, I can convince you that it’s worthwhile to at least try to protect some of your privacy online. It may feel like a lost […]
Her job is to remove homeless from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary
When Morrisette’s tent site got too messy or drew complaints, she’d let him know he had to move but gave him time to pack up his things, knowing he’d likely find another site nearby. Still, she couldn’t always protect him from sweeps by the environmental services crew. When that happened, she would sympathize with his […]
Does or did COBOL default to 1875-05-20 for corrupt or missing dates?
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Javier Milei Backtracks on $4.4B Memecoin After ‘Insiders’ Pocket $87M
Argentina’s president Javier Milei has backtracked on a tweet promoting a memecoin called Libra, which rose to a $4.4 billion market cap before plunging by more than 95%. In a now-deleted tweet, Milei initially wrote: “This is a private project dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy,” along with a Solana contract address […]
Physicists uncover evidence of two arrows of time emerging at the quantum level
The study, published in Scientific Reports, explored how a quantum system – the world of the sub-atomic – interacts with its environment, known as an ‘open quantum system’. Researchers investigated why we perceive time as moving in one direction, and whether this perception emerges from open quantum mechanics. To simplify the problem, the team made […]
Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting
Google’s executives gave details on Wednesday on how the tech giant will sunset its diversity initiatives and defended dropping its pledge against building artificial intelligence for weaponry and surveillance in an all-staff meeting. Melonie Parker, Google’s former head of diversity, said the company was doing away with its diversity and inclusion employee training programs and […]
Uchū · the color scheme for internet lovers
uchū demo · expanded palette the color scheme for internet loversby NetOperator Wibby Repo Simple Palette scroll oklch(95.57% 0.003 286.35) var(–uchu-gray-#) 1 2 oklch(92.04% 0.002 197.12) 3 oklch(88.28% 0.003 286.34) 4 oklch(84.68% 0.002 197.12) 5 oklch(80.73% 0.002 247.84) 6 oklch(75.03% 0.002 247.85) 7 oklch(69.01% 0.003 286.32) 8 oklch(63.12% 0.004 219.55) 9 oklch(56.82% 0.004 247.89) oklch(88.98% 0.052 […]
I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs
Written by nyanpasu64on December 29, 2024 I dual-boot my desktop between Windows and Linux. Over the past few years, Linux would often crash when I tried to sleep my computer with high RAM usage. Upon waking it would show a black screen with moving cursor, or enter a “vegetative” state with no image on-screen, only responding […]