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tagawa

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Daniel Davis. A geek in Japan with a ukulele.

Now at DuckDuckGo. Formerly W3C, Opera Software.

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ourmaninjapan.bsky.social

Blog: https://blog.daniemon.com

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ourmaninjapan; my proof: https://keybase.io/ourmaninjapan/sigs/R2wzSyy19fAvnwG81OcCEZ5PM6-dH6nn3FYYbxVkJqA ]

Submissions

Count Binface, Nigel Farage's space-warrior foe

economist.com
69 points·by tagawa·22 hours ago·28 comments

Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk

bbc.com
9 points·by tagawa·18 days ago·4 comments

I am the best lightsaber fighter in Europe

theguardian.com
7 points·by tagawa·2 months ago·1 comments

Don't feel like exercising? Maybe it's the wrong time of day for you

bbc.com
92 points·by tagawa·3 months ago·61 comments

Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood

bbc.com
1 points·by tagawa·4 months ago·0 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6: More System Card Shenanigans

ignorance.ai
1 points·by tagawa·5 months ago·0 comments

Menopause linked to Alzheimer's-like brain changes

bbc.com
3 points·by tagawa·6 months ago·0 comments

3D-Printed Watchmaking Tools

adventuresinamateurwatchfettling.com
4 points·by tagawa·6 months ago·0 comments

A 3D-printed watch-cleaning machine

adventuresinamateurwatchfettling.com
2 points·by tagawa·6 months ago·0 comments

Hundreds in Japan get car driving licences suspended for drink cycling

bbc.com
3 points·by tagawa·7 months ago·2 comments

Fen's Law of Programming

fenomas.com
2 points·by tagawa·7 months ago·0 comments

Cryptology firm cancels elections after losing encryption key

bbc.com
18 points·by tagawa·8 months ago·21 comments

My CSS Selector Strategy

stuffandnonsense.co.uk
4 points·by tagawa·8 months ago·0 comments

When warring troops stopped fighting and shared a picnic

bbc.com
3 points·by tagawa·8 months ago·0 comments

First Yen-Pegged Stablecoin Debuts

ebc.com
2 points·by tagawa·9 months ago·0 comments

Scientist wins peace prize for farmer-managed natural regeneration work

abc.net.au
2 points·by tagawa·10 months ago·0 comments

How many elephants?

howmanyelephants.co.uk
34 points·by tagawa·10 months ago·19 comments

comments

tagawa
·21 hours ago·discuss
I just submit things I find interesting and occasionally other people find it interesting too. Usually opposite to what I expected.
tagawa
·18 days ago·discuss
Direct link to the paper: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/06/16/bjsports-2025-...
tagawa
·19 days ago·discuss
Not OP but I believe it’s Fugu (7B). According to [0]: “Fugu itself is a trained coordinator LLM.”

[0] https://dev.classmethod.jp/en/articles/sakana-fugu-ga-first-...
tagawa
·27 days ago·discuss
A web app (PWA) for logging tinnitus episodes - Mimi Memo: https://mimimemo.com/

Developed for my personal use but publicly available and open source. I’m pretty happy with the current state so don’t expect a lot of updates and features, but hopefully others might find it helpful.
tagawa
·last month·discuss
Not quite.

- The 43% is peak drag reduction in the transition zone only, the bit between laminar and turbulent flow, not across all flight conditions.

- Aerodynamic drag is one part of fuel burn, not a 1:1 proxy. There's also engine efficiency, etc.

- This is skin friction drag on a wind tunnel model, not a full aircraft which has extra bits like windscreen wipers.

I still think it's exciting but I reckon fuel savings would amount to a few percent (aeronautical engineers, please correct me if I'm wrong).
tagawa
·2 months ago·discuss
Ménière Memo, a web app for logging and reviewing Ménière's Disease episodes:

https://menierememo.com/

Intended for an audience of one so still a bit rough around the edges, but the intended audience said “excellent” and is actually using it.

Mostly AI-built. Source code is here:

https://github.com/tagawa/Meniere-Memo/tree/gh-pages
tagawa
·2 months ago·discuss
> Data centers can inadvertently pollute water through chemical runoff from evaporative cooling systems, including biocides, corrosion inhibitors, and heavy metals that accumulate at scale when facilities discharge up to 5 million gallons daily.

Source: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/sustainability/4-strateg...
tagawa
·3 months ago·discuss
The knot codes are beautiful but the ones in the article all seem to be repeating patterns, so I wonder if you could take a 60° slice of each one and save space without losing information.
tagawa
·3 months ago·discuss
Command to delete the files mentioned in the article:

  find ~/Library/Application\ Support -name "com.anthropic.claude_browser_extension\*" -delete
tagawa
·5 months ago·discuss
Link for those interested: https://claude.com/plugins/superpowers
tagawa
·6 months ago·discuss
If you're in the north of England the Derby Computer Museum is nicely maintained and presented. Exhibits are pre-2000.

https://www.derbycomputermuseum.co.uk
tagawa
·7 months ago·discuss
Maybe a third reason:

“Last week, Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by the president, said it was getting into the energy business, announcing a merger with a fusion firm TAE Technologies.”

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd74lyr094vo
tagawa
·8 months ago·discuss
Ah, sorry. I'd only searched for cryptology and should've been more thorough.
tagawa
·9 months ago·discuss
I think they meant “nigh on irreparable“.
tagawa
·9 months ago·discuss
https://www.stereogum.com/1804981/radioheads-name-was-inspir...
tagawa
·10 months ago·discuss
Nicely put-together collection of tools - thanks for sharing.

Would be helpful if more input boxes could use relevant types (e.g. “number”, “url”, etc.) so the dedicated keyboard appears on mobile.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...
tagawa
·10 months ago·discuss
Original source: https://www.thekitchn.com/grandmas-arent-buying-boxed-cake-m...
tagawa
·10 months ago·discuss
From the OP's comment above:

"It's not the Deep [Re]Search or Agent Mode. I select 'GPT-5 Thinking' from the model picker and make sure its regular search tool is enabled."

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45162802
tagawa
·11 months ago·discuss
Not the OP but…

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/healthline-media-agrees-to...

"Healthline.com provided an opt-out mechanism, but it was misconfigured and Healthline failed to test it, resulting in data being shared with third parties even after consumers elected to opt out.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65772154

"The company agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after it was accused of failing to delete Alexa recordings at the request of parents.”

https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/405635/califo...

"According to the [California Privacy Protection] agency, Todd Snyder told website visitors they could opt out of data sharing, but didn't actually allow them to do so for 40 days in late 2023 because its opt-out mechanism was improperly configured."
tagawa
·7 years ago·discuss
Very cool. Can I ask what marketing you do? Seems like it would be popular once people know about it, but that first step to building awareness must be tough.