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- Gelephu Mindfulness City (en.wikipedia.org)
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Hi all. Help me with a unicorn hunt: a crush-resistant laptop case that's not fugly! A Peli [0] is certainly robust but it's hardly a beauty, although it's cuter than some of the alternatives [1]. Requirements other…
- DuckDuckGo launches AI Chat beta (duckduckgo.com)
- Which Programming Languages Use the Least Electricity? [2018] (thenewstack.io)
- I Am Sitting in a Room (1969) (en.wikipedia.org)
- Room-temperature superconductor 'breakthrough' met with scepticism (institutions.newscientist.com)
- Not my king: do we have the right to protest the monarchy at a time of mourning? (theconversation.com)
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Is anyone successfully operating a business without email? Please describe pros, cons, how you got there, etc. Rant: I'm sick of email. It's become the "universal inbox". We never predicted just how awful that would be.…
- Fisher Price Music Box Teardown (twitter.com)
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The HN conversations around unikernels suggest that they're not ready for production yet [0] but feel free to set that record straight. In the meantime, a handful of organisations/individuals seem to be working on…
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There's been a fair bit of HN chat about media servers recently. This coincides with my decision to cobble together a "ubiquitous" media solution for personal use. It making me define exactly what I'm hoping to achieve.…
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Genuine question. Why do we often trawl high-streets and online vendors for clothing that is badly cut, of unreliable size and quality, and made by sweat-shop labour? Are any clothing industry disruptors aiming to…
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Many PaaS/SaaS startups rely on upstream services that are accessed via APIs. Unfortunately, the provider may break the API, resulting in a temporary or permanent loss of some or all of the startup's revenue. Example:…
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Apropos of the current discussion about dropping Google advertising [1], I'd appreciate HN's thoughts on how a very particular product was targeted at me yesterday: a semi-obscure muscial instrument (which I won't name,…
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Problems with passwords are well known: difficult to remember; users often duplicate them; often weak; stolen files of password hashes can be brute forced; etc. Recent HN discussions suggest that the days of the…
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Providers of web forums and similar: how do you "guarantee" your members are who they say they are? How can a forum provide a trusted environment where all members can reasonably trust the identity of all other members?…
- FriendsReunited is closing down (medium.com)
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Who are some good elastic container hosting providers for LXC, in your experience? What makes them so good? Who should be avoided, and why? I'm not looking to provoke an "X is better than Y" debate. I'd like to hear…