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slater

5,874 karmajoined il y a 18 ans
slater.at.hn

San Francisco-based old web dev dude.

* https://hnminus.com

* e-mail is "m" then that "at" symbol, after which it's a .com with the domain name "laserboom" (all other domain names were taken)

Submissions

New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded "Abundance Movement"

prospect.org
8 points·by slater·il y a 27 jours·1 comments

The world we live in was born of a 3,000-year old catastrophe [video]

youtube.com
3 points·by slater·il y a 4 mois·0 comments

ECJ says EU states must change gender of citizens even if nat'l laws forbid it

brusselssignal.eu
12 points·by slater·il y a 4 mois·4 comments

Astronomical Ceiling of Senenmut's Tomb

en.wikipedia.org
3 points·by slater·il y a 5 mois·0 comments

'Several dozen' dead after blast at ski town of Crans-Montana

theguardian.com
8 points·by slater·il y a 6 mois·0 comments

Food becoming more calorific but less nutritious due to rising CO2

theguardian.com
9 points·by slater·il y a 7 mois·0 comments

Gavle Goat 2025 live stream [video]

youtube.com
3 points·by slater·il y a 7 mois·1 comments

[untitled]

1 points·by slater·il y a 9 mois·0 comments

List of Lost Objects

en.wikipedia.org
3 points·by slater·il y a 9 mois·0 comments

Cox–Zucker Machine

en.wikipedia.org
3 points·by slater·il y a 10 mois·0 comments

The General Uses Warp

en.wikipedia.org
2 points·by slater·il y a 10 mois·0 comments

comments

slater
·il y a 6 heures·discuss
wrong link...?
slater
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
are you ok...?
slater
·il y a 3 jours·discuss
65 and older: +16.2%

Surely not the reason we're in the current mess, nosirree, why would anyone even think that??
slater
·il y a 4 jours·discuss
Ah OK, the wording is a bit strange: "one window per page, no tab strip"
slater
·il y a 4 jours·discuss
TIL:

In Egypt, the feddan is the only non-metric unit which remained in use following the adoption of the metric system. A feddan is divided into 24 kirat (Arabic: قيراط, qīrāt), with one kirat equalling 175 square metres.
slater
·il y a 4 jours·discuss
No tabs? :(
slater
·il y a 5 jours·discuss
The "showcases" link on the homepage 404s (in the main area; the link at the very top works)
slater
·il y a 7 jours·discuss
Corrosion, would be my guess.
slater
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
i keep coming back to this... what's the difference between the countries listed vs. Sweden singled out further down? Recency and context?

And we're led to believe that Sweden has been under sustained attacks pretty much annually, except for the years between 1994 and 2002...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grenade_attacks_in_Swe...
slater
·il y a 9 jours·discuss
"He has claimed to be the second coming of Jesus Christ, to be able to resurrect the dead, teleport, cure AIDS and cancer at any stage, diagnose and solve problems of electronic devices remotely, to be clairvoyant and to be able to change reality"

so, a grifting jackass...?
slater
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
> Sweden is the only country I'm aware of that has a Wikipedia page specifically about this incredibly niche local phenomenon

Scroll to the bottom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Grenade_attacks_by_co...
slater
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
> I don't understand how $180k was enough in San Francisco at any time in the last 15 years

Inflation. $180k in 2010 USD is just shy of $300k in 2026 USD.
slater
·il y a 11 jours·discuss
wtf?
slater
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
Probably experiencing the HN hug
slater
·il y a 12 jours·discuss
> I did not realize that "glass the entire country" means to use nuclear weapons.

what the...? where did you think the term comes from? o.0
slater
·il y a 13 jours·discuss
> why is "glass the entire country" not an option?

> I never advocated attacking civilians.
slater
·il y a 13 jours·discuss
It actually is. Very much so.
slater
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
I see some site assets are being loaded via HTTP/2, others via HTTP/3, could that be it? Shouldn't be, but at this point, who knows
slater
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
Which part of the CSS is broken? Looks fine to me...?

https://i.ibb.co/CKhJ73P7/Screenshot-2026-06-25-at-21-11-14....

Firefox, macOS
slater
·il y a 15 jours·discuss
wow so cool, totally rad!!1~