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Any recommendation on how I could improve my submission? Sorry for giving the impression that this was a spam but without any possibility to contact the user @ryes, I figured this was the only way to get any answers. swurl was awesome btw.
Readit Newsfanick commented on Swurl.com by Ryes – Stopped Working? picclick.com/... · Posted by u/fanick
Hi, don't know where to cry about this but I was using this swurl.com (its author should be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryes) as my daily search engine replacement. And just today I've found out it stopped working. Was it abandoned or was it sold or what has happened? It was so cool. Now I have to go back to google.
fanick commented on A DIY near-IR spectrometer caoyuan.scripts.mit.edu/i... · Posted by u/johnmaguire
Similar project with single photo diode enclosed in sort of a pinhole camera:
https://hackaday.com/2016/05/18/using-missile-tech-to-see-li...
Exactly, the 99 stands for 1999, so potentially this material has existed for over 20 years and we could have started testing and replication on a much wider scale a decade ago. What benefit have we gained by disseminating this research so slowly?
maybe they were waiting for some patents to expire?
fanick commented on LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor forums.spacebattles.com/t... · Posted by u/fofoz
So, Russian anime cat girl seems to have cooked a sample and demonstrated some of the claimed properties, although she's explicit that it shouldn't be considered a "replication".
fanick commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver
My townhome complex had one of those call boxes at the front gate. When Doordash/FedEx/the cleaners/the in-laws/etc arrived they would have to call me from the call box and I'd have to answer it and listen to garbled audio to figure out who it was and press 9 to open the gate. It was kind of a pain, so I made a Twilio app to answer calls from the call box.
I set up custom entry codes that I could hand out to anyone. Everyone got their own code, and it would text me whenever someone used a code so I'd instantly know who was coming. The text conversation was my timestamped access log. I also put time constraints on some codes so e.g. Doordash couldn't open the gate in the middle of the night, or I could set up a temporary access code for a party, and I rotated codes too, with text notifications if an outdated code was used.
I thought about making a paid app out of it, but it just didn't seem worthwhile. I didn't expect that many people would want to pay for it. For a while I was excited about a YC startup called Doorport that was going to make a hardware device that you'd install inside those dumb call boxes and make them smart with all sorts of cool features, better than my Twilio hack. But I think they pivoted to a much less interesting pure software thing and then got acquihired.
My related story: we have door phone system in our apartment house and I wanted to get a notification whenever our flat got buzzed. I hacked the phone in our flat - attached a circuit directly to the wires leading to the coil of the buzzer and through arduino to the pc. Then I stitched together some code utilizing firebase to send notifications. Worked like a charm until google began to require credit cards for the free stuff.
fanick commented on The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned ericlippert.com/2022/11/3... · Posted by u/chubot
So you have any symptoms of TIAs?
I had symptom of one every 6 months or so since high school. Got exposed to some chemicals and it went to a couple per week.
Blood thinners keep it under control.
I got hospitalized once with the suspicion of having TIA but it turned out to be migraine with aura. I had those since I was a kid but never so intense (part of vision going poof!). I identified that the trigger is intensive smells (like vinegar for example).
fanick commented on The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned ericlippert.com/2022/11/3... · Posted by u/chubot
fanick commented on ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service 3lib.net/... · Posted by u/lucia-wermer
Well damn, I guess I’ve gotta figure out how to get 30+TB of storage. Does anybody have any suggestions for doing that as cheaply as possible?
With obvious limitations you could use backblaze. Back of the napkin calculation this will cost you only $150 per month in storage fees.