This is beautiful.
Readit Newsellisv commented on Show HN: Apple Health MCP Server github.com/neiltron/apple... · Posted by u/_neil
I’m on mobile and can’t try it out first hand right now but looks great.
Does it include health records (eg from Epic)?
ellisv commented on Many lung cancers are now in nonsmokers nytimes.com/2025/07/22/we... · Posted by u/alexcos
Every time you look up something related to Radon, it's always cited as "the second leading cause of lung cancer after smoking"
I wonder if that's really true.
Radon is a big deal where I live. Most homes have a radon mitigation system which is a 20-watt fan that goes over your sump pump hole, and runs continuously to a vent on the roof.
An estimated 38% of homes in my county have elevated radon levels.
We tested for radon when we bought our house and found the levels to be very high.
Fortunately the builders had installed a passive mitigation system so all we had to do was install a fan.
The graph on that page is suspect. Why does the Y axis start at 320? Why does the X axis start at 1960?
MLO was founded in 1956 and began continuous CO2 measurement in 1958.
To the NY Times: please don't say they died by suicide. The passive voice makes it sound like some act of God, something regrettable but unavoidable that just somehow happened. It's important not to sugarcoat what happened: the postmasters killed themselves because the British state was imprisoning them for crimes they didn't commit, based on evidence from a buggy financial accounting system. Don't blur the details of what happened by making it sound like a natural disaster.
Horizon is the case that should replace Therac-25 as a study in what can go wrong if software developers screw up. Therac-25 injured/killed six people, Horizon has ruined hundreds of lives and ended dozens. And the horrifying thing is, Horizon wasn't something anyone would have previously identified as safety-critical software. It was just an ordinary point-of-sale and accounting system. The suicides weren't directly caused by the software, but from an out of control justice and social system in which people blindly believed in public institutions that were actually engaged in a massive deep state cover-up.
It is reasonable to blame the suicides on the legal and political system that allowed the Post Office to act in that way, and which put such low quality people in charge. Perhaps also on the software engineer who testified repeatedly under oath that the system worked fine, even as the bug tracker filled up with cases where it didn't. But this is HN, so from a software engineering perspective what can be learned?
Some glitches were of their time and wouldn't occur these days, e.g. malfunctions in resistive touch screens that caused random clicks on POS screens to occur overnight. But most were bugs due to loss of transactionality or lack of proper auditing controls. Think message replays lacking proper idempotency, things like that. Transactions were logged that never really occurred, and when the cash was counted some appeared to be missing, so the Post Office accused the postmasters of stealing from the business. They hadn't done so, but this took place over decades, and decades ago people had more faith in institutions than they do now. And these post offices were often in small villages where the post office was the center of the community, so the false allegations against postmasters were devastating to their social and business lives.
Put simply - check your transactions! And make sure developers can't rewrite databases in prod.
I don't think the NY Times reads HN comments.
Suicide is a verb and result by itself. Would the author also say “he died by murder”?
They are simplify avoiding using the word "committed" using a well accepted alternative because of the connotation with criminal behavior.
But no they would say "died by homicide" not "died by murder".
ellisv commented on Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model 9to5mac.com/2025/07/04/ap... · Posted by u/ksec
I often write out of order so it’s interesting to me that we have a model that can do so as well.
ellisv commented on Puerto Rico's Solar Microgrids Beat Blackout spectrum.ieee.org/puerto-... · Posted by u/ohjeez
There is a ton of DIY solar info online, but it is very much regionally dependent. Both for permits and system design.
Here in Florida, I can get high output from an average panel, but there are a lot of permit issues (and rightly so, a poorly installed panel can become a severe hazard in a hurricane).
Where I lived in Michigan, there weren't many permitting or zoning issues, but I'd need 3-4x the number of panels to get usable output in the winter time.
Most truly small scale solar systems don't provide enough output/value to be worth the effort, unless you're living a very low-power lifestyle.
Also in Michigan.
I primarily want to generate enough solar to run my AC in the summer because that’s the dominant electricity consuming appliance in our house (except for the EV).
At least with DTE you receive credits for your production, which you can use within 12 months. So generating an excess in the summer to offset the winter is a viable strategy.
I'd be interested in a hacker cruise.
A boat with 100 hackers on board is in the middle of the ocean when the nav system gains self-awareness and decides not to return to land.
The boat is equipped with satellite communication devices, but passenger internet access is off.
Only 40 days of rations.
Will they be able to hack their way back to shore before they run out of red bull? Or will they turn to a life of piracy instead?
They typically have much less than 40 days of rations…
I know it used to be possible to get these same images -- but with the actual radar imagery separated from the base map, didn't have time to find those, but I'd guess they're still around somewhere.
Edit: a bunch of different radar-imagery only layers from each station over a longer time period: https://mrms.ncep.noaa.gov/RIDGEII/L3/