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Same Surface, Different Weight

https://www.robpanico.com/articles/display/?entry_short=same-surface-different-weight
1•retrocog•15s ago•0 comments

The Rise of Spec Driven Development

https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/06/the-rise-of-spec-driven-development.html
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

The first good Raspberry Pi Laptop

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2•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Seas to Rise Around the World – But Not in Greenland

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/greenland-sea-levels-fall
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Will Future Generations Think We're Gross?

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/will-future-generations-think-were
1•crescit_eundo•7m ago•0 comments

State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•11m ago•0 comments

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Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

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Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
2•vinhnx•13m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

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3•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

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How I grow my X presence?

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https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
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Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

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3•pseudolus•41m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

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2•surprisetalk•58m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

California’s Alo Slebir unofficially broke the big wave surfing world record

https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/alo-slebir-mavericks-big-wave-surf-record-21041864.php
59•danielmorozoff•4mo ago

Comments

ungreased0675•4mo ago
Photography of the surfers seems to be an important aspect of the scene. It’d be interesting to read a story about that.
yostrovs•4mo ago
The underground rock formation that generates the Mavericks waves is actually pretty small. Photographers, rescue jetskis, and onlookers on small boats can be on very calm water, while surfers they're watching are riding a 100 ft wave just a few meters away.
throwup238•4mo ago
It’s how the size of the waves is calculated. They talk about it in the first season of the 100 Foot Waves TV show mentioned in the article. Video from several angles is analyzed using the surfer or another known object for scale.

It’s not easy to measure ocean waves unless you have a jetski riding right on the crest or a LIDAR system on shore which is expensive.

bix6•4mo ago
In water photography is especially wild. Check out Leroy Bellet: https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/the-story-behind-leroy-b...

He rides BEHIND surfers in the barrel. Absolutely nuts.

rognjen•4mo ago
This site needs to be banned from HN. It's borderline spam employing every trick in the book to maximise your pageview.

Clickbait title, interstitial ads, floating vid, back jacking, newsletter, notification...

When I open the page it's only a third that's content -- and that's only the clickbait title.

What garbage...

xp84•4mo ago
While I agree that it's a trash site and an embarrassment to its roots as The Chronicle's website, anyone like yourself who notices how bad it is would do well to take it as a reminder that your adblocker is missing or not working. It appeared as though it were a normal site to me with ublock origin.
imoverclocked•4mo ago
Maybe we can just block the actual origin of the ads; No need for excess plugins.
pitched•4mo ago
If the origin of ads is hosting fees, I agree. The internet would a lot more fun if everyone’s side projects persisted forever by default.
apsurd•4mo ago
I'm going to read this article because the image is cool and I love California.

But I had to comment on how obnoxious this website is with my NextDNS mistakingly disabled. What have we done to the Internet! 3 popups to sign up for paid, newsletter and web alerts. scroll down to see auto playing videos, ridiculous full-banner ads.

wow

jmclnx•4mo ago
FWIW, I use noscript and had no issues. Granted there were some blank spots which I guess where ads.
apsurd•4mo ago
Yep, I've found blocking at at the dns level more convenient since I'd otherwise have to install script blockers per web-browser. I'm very happy with nextdns

I wanted to add that every time I use the internet without a blocker, it's so depressing to realize this is how a lot of people, mostly older, experience the Internet. Very sad as someone in the industry.

chrisweekly•4mo ago
Reader mode works wonders for me.
apsurd•4mo ago
ooh you're right, reader mode is great for this article. thanks

It doesn't always work though, I assume the major publishers are employing some counter-measures. Also generally javascript heavy websites.

c420•4mo ago
Clicking a link within the page in reader mode and then clicking back to reload it almost always works for the stubborn sites IME
coldpie•4mo ago
More tips to make the Internet suck less here: https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/08/01/tips-for-making-th...
mikestew•4mo ago
Though The Chronicle is pretty bad, it is generally what I see when I surf without a Pi-Hole (or choose your fave ad-blocking tool). And, yeah, I honestly don’t know why people put up with it. I offered to put a Pi-Hole on my parent’s network. Mom wrote code for 30 years, she can handle the minimal intervention needed. Nope, they turned me down, they’re fine with things the way they are. First thing they did with that new TV was connect it to the Internet, too. For some folks, the slightest inconvenience is apparently enough to sit and look at ads all day.

Which reminds me that I need to pull a RPi off the shelf and provision another Pi-Hole for the camper now that there’s a Starlink attached. I’m not paying by the byte to have ads delivered.

hinkley•4mo ago
I still believe there must be space in the universe for an ethical ad network that makes you less money but anyone caught fucking with your readership gets banned. There’s a bunch of sites that would appreciate a little supplemental revenue but just don’t use ads at all because it’s so scummy.

It just has to be better than selling your nonprofit’s contact list to other nonprofits.

jedberg•4mo ago
When we first built the reddit ads system, this is exactly what we went for. We ran it ourselves, you could only upload a single static image.

Turns out you really can't make a lot of money that way. Especially now. If you don't offer re-targeting and bespoke ads, no one wants to pay you money for ads.

hinkley•4mo ago
I suspect you would specifically have to target non profits and b corps with your marketing.

But even then the perpetual problem in business is that what people are willing to tell you they want isn’t what they want or need, and they will shift the goalposts on you after they sign up. Cognitive dissonance will become deafening.

Years ago we used to talk regularly about firing customers. My read was that was always about ridding yourselves of the ones who pushed you into becoming someone you couldn’t stand to look at in the mirror. Eventually some of your customers will want the same cyberstalking features they see advertised by another vendor and they will forget why they can’t have it. They’ll sign up with someone who lies to them better than you do.

hdgvhicv•4mo ago
The question is in anyone actually reading it with those adverts?
apsurd•4mo ago
That's why I was compelled to post. We forget that this is how the Internet is for large portions of the population. It's bananas.

My dad still uses yahoo for all of his news. I've realized it's not uncommon to hear people use Yahoo as the front page of the internet still in 2025. I get it. Also, it's depressing. (left for the reader to see why. just go to yahoo with blockers off).

randallsquared•4mo ago
Brave browser worked well, and I didn't see any of those, or the blank spaces another commenter was complaining about with their blocker.
jmclnx•4mo ago
>riding (surfing) a world-record-shattering 108-foot-tall wave.

That is rather wild.

xp84•4mo ago
Imagine being ten stories up on a freakin' wave. People like this guy are just incredible.
IncreasePosts•4mo ago
I wonder if people who do things like this and free soloing "just" have some unique wiring in their brain where they don't care about instantaneously dying because of some small mistake they make. Or, is it just a matter of continually ratcheting up the difficulty - "I did a 1 foot wave, why not a 2 foot wave, why not a 3 foot wave, etc"?
rurban•4mo ago
They are just suicidal.

I did surf big waves, but certainly not Nazare nor Mavs. That's just too dangerous.

heckelson•4mo ago
I know very little about surfing, can I ask why it is so dangerous?
rurban•4mo ago
The biggest danger is being shredded.

Why is such a wave so big? Because the coast is extremely shallow suddenly. Normally 1m-50cm, but when a big wave comes, all the water in front of the wave is sucked into it back, which makes it about 10-20cm deep. And it is sucked back really fast, because it is not deep. So if you miss such a wave and fall down, you end up there in the impact zone, which is also the shredding zone. There are either rocks or coral reefs, both extremely unhealthy when being shredded along, even if you still have your board. Normally not. And then you are sucked back into the next wave impact zone with high speed, which is un-nicer, because then you are not just shredded along, but also hit big from above into the ground. Where you usually break some arm or leg, or just hit your head into the rock and then drown. The few people who survive this do have professional help by the jet skiers, who try to catch you before the next impact. Your only chance is to get your board from the leach as soon as you get up, and paddle as fast as possible to the side, across the stream to survive the next impact.

It's not interesting at all, pure danger. Like running across a highway without looking.

mrgoldenbrown•4mo ago
I think it's easy enough to acclimate to the activity. If you are doing something "normal" like driving 75mph on the highway and make a small mistake, like wrenching the steering wheel to the left , you could easily die or kill someone else. But we hand out licenses like they are candy. Woodworkers using a table saw all day are one small mistake away from permanent maiming , and most don't even bother to spend the extra few hundred dollars to mitigate that risk by upgrading to a SawStop. Most people, I think, are good at telling themselves they are better/smarter/more skilled than the people who get hurt.
bix6•4mo ago
Surfing is the best! Big ups Alo shaka
dsalzman•4mo ago
There's a series called 100 ft wave on HBO. Great overview of the big wave community.
throwaheyy•4mo ago
Also recommend the documentary Riding Giants.
strbean•4mo ago
It's so surprising that we don't use a precise method of gauging wave height for these records. AFAIK they still estimate the surfers height while riding, and then count those heights up the side of the wave in a photograph.

I'd imagine we would have a method closer to surveying techniques by now.

metalman•4mo ago
there is a new, exotic method for measuring gigantic waves, that uses atmospheric disturbances to gps signals and gravity waves that ocean waves generate. SWOT

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/swot/us-french-swot-satellite-...

xp84•4mo ago
The article appears a few days old since it was before they had the awards. Apparently they had the Big Wave 2025 awards two days ago, and declared that his wave was "only" 76 feet, but he did win the award for Biggest Wave for this year.

Source: (also the awards show is embedded here as a video)

https://www.coastsidenews.com/review/news/santa-cruz-surfer-...

exhilaration•4mo ago
I know nothing about surfing but I picked up Barbarian Days on Audible https://www.audible.com/pd/Barbarian-Days-Audiobook/B00YMMTO... and I was captivated. After I finished it I started looking for surf schools within driving distance of my home, still looking for something on the (New) Jersey Shore or Long Island. Anyone have any suggestions?
bix6•4mo ago
Not my zone but I saw a few on yelp when I ran a search! Go soon before it gets colder :)
abe94•4mo ago
https://skudinsurf.com/ may have something for you. They also do beginner sessions in a mall - https://skudinsurfamericandream.com/
roflyear•4mo ago
great book!

just took lessons recently with Matt from Lucky Dog Surf School. super chill dude, lots of fun.

1024core•4mo ago
Isn't there a place in Portugal (Nazareth?) which has even more massive waves than Mavericks?
mindracer•4mo ago
Nazare, there’s a show called 100 foot wave that follows a couple of surfers who ride there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazaré,_Portugal

1024core•4mo ago
Thanks, yeah, I misremembered the name. But are Mavericks' waves bigger than Nazare? From the photos I've seen, Nazare's waves are truly massive!
bix6•4mo ago
Nazare definitely maxes higher then Mavs
sailingparrot•4mo ago
They are typically bigger at Nazare, but it all depends on the swell. Its not impossible for Mavericks to receive a swell that could create waves bigger than whatever Nazare has received in the last 20 years, but it's less likely.

However Mavericks is definitely the "nicer" and gnarlier wave of the two imho, Nazare is massive but has no shape, so they just surf the shoulder for 5 seconds and kick out. Mavericks has much nicer lines.

tiagod•4mo ago
It's Nazaré (Which is Nazareth in Portuguese.)
SpicyUme•4mo ago
I wonder if he would describe himself as a construction worker, or maybe he would say he's a surfer who does construction to make a living? Sometimes you can see a struggle to define a person independent of their jobs, why does it matter here?

I see the headline here changed, it used to be: [Calif. construction worker unofficially broke a fabled world record]