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March 5, 2016 (10y ago)
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  1. A “rock” was sold for $1.3M. Here’s the catch: it's not even real (coinmarketcap.com)
    1 points 0
  2. The Croissant Diet (paleocanteen.co.uk)
    1 points 0
  3. Ask HN: Are there any good, privacy-respecting health/activity trackers?

    Now that we're in January and many of us will be thinking of our health, I wondered if Hacker News readers have some recommendations for health/fitness tracking hardware like heart rate monitors, step counters, etc.,…

    4 points 0
  4. Ask HN: How to teach Python and good programming practices to Matlab hackers?

    I've volunteered to give an introduction to Python programming to some fellow physicists who normally use MATLAB. Rather than treat them like complete beginners, I'm trying to think of ways to pitch the material in…

    2 points 2
  5. Ask HN: Why use geolocation instead of browser language settings?

    When I'm in Germany, I frequently find websites that display English in the UK that display text (especially cookie pop-ups) in German even though my browser and system language settings tell the website to use English.…

    8 points 3
  6. Ask HN: Default h5 and h6 fonts are smaller than normal text in HTML/CSS – why?

    Maybe HN can help solve this little mystery. The default font sizes in HTML have, since at least 1998 [1], been .83em and .67em for h5 and h6, respectively, making them smaller than normal text by default (1em). This…

    7 points 2
  7. First gravitational wave yesterday to be automatically circulated to astronomers (gracedb.ligo.org)
    2 points 0
  8. Investigating the noise residuals around the gravitational wave event GW150914 (arxiv.org)
    1 points 0
  9. Procedural House Production (80.lv)
    2 points 0
  10. Ask HN: What constitutes acceptance of a site's cookie policy?

    I recently found myself (by accident) browsing a Daily Mail article on mobile. The screen was 30% taken up by a top banner requesting that I install the Daily Mail app, and the GDPR cookie permission request took up the…

    1 points 0
  11. WikiTribune now lets you edit live news articles (wikitribune.com)
    2 points 1
  12. The 100 most nutritious foods (bbc.com)
    3 points 0
  13. Crowdfunding an experiment on whether low carb ketogenic diets inhibit cancers (experiment.com)
    1 points 0
  14. Solve control challenges with JavaScript (janismac.github.io)
    1 points 2