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Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America

https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-america/
24•mooreds•4d ago

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taeric•1h ago
A map that also shows the difference between winter and summer for day length would be great. It is down right quaint hearing people bitch about the hour of change that DST does compared to the near 6 hours that nature has already taken. (Note, this doesn't require contextualizing to across the ocean.)

Similarly, for storms and such, knowing just how different the east coast of the US is compared to many of the places that people came from is amusing. What I thought of as normal rain is evidently comparable to the gods wanting to kill you. Always amusing when people ask, "doesn't it rain a lot in Seattle" for me. I don't know that I would have called what we get rain.

christophilus•1h ago
I really missed the good, intense thunderstorms of the US southeast when I lived in Seattle. Seattle gets a good misting from time to time, but I almost never bothered with rain gear or an umbrella while living there.
taeric•52m ago
Exactly. It really makes the discussions around how loud fireworks are kind of hard to listen to. It isn't that they are wrong. More that it was a regular thing for storms to shake the house. Our dogs were terrified of "what the F is happening out there." On the regular.
AlotOfReading•18m ago
I mind DST because I have to consider clock changes, not because I care how many hours of sunlight are in the period between 6h and 18h. Even the extreme of Arctic winter is annoying only because 4h looking similar to 16h messes with your awareness of time until you adopt a structured schedule.
taeric•11m ago
And that was largely a fair point back before we had everything managed by computers. Nowadays, I'd wager the vast majority of folks didn't realize their phone's changed overnight. My kids certainly didn't realize it.

Not that I don't think we couldn't have a better system. But nobody likes my idea of "base it on the month with 6 going up 10 minutes and 6 going down." Well... I think some folks like the idea, but nobody (including me) thinks that is where we are headed.

cyberax•1h ago
A beautiful illustration of why solar power is a no-brainer for California or Arizona, but is a doubtful proposition for Germany.
tzs•17m ago
Solar power is not a doubtful proposition for Germany [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany

epicureanideal•1h ago
It would also be interesting to see a version corrected for the warmer temperatures due to Atlantic currents. Although that might cause some sort of near-Atlantic or near-Mediterranean "skew" in the map rather than the whole map dropping or raising by some amount, but maybe adjusting the whole map could be a reasonable first approximation.

Google will allow users to sideload Android apps without verification

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html
638•erohead•6h ago•254 comments

Steam Machine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine
1707•davikr•13h ago•834 comments

Steam Frame

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe
1235•Philpax•13h ago•476 comments

Android 16 QPR1 is being pushed to the Android Open Source Project

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/115533432439509433
63•uneven9434•3h ago•14 comments

The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/business/last-penny-minted
639•andrewl•14h ago•808 comments

Human Fovea Detector

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM
114•AbuAssar•6h ago•24 comments

Mergiraf: Syntax-Aware Merging for Git

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1042355/434ad706cc594276/
48•Velocifyer•1w ago•8 comments

Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon

https://bitwarden.com/blog/how-cryptocurrency-became-law-enforcements-secret-weapon/
83•LopRabbit•3h ago•39 comments

Project Euler

https://projecteuler.net
400•swatson741•13h ago•98 comments

Comparing the Latitude of Europe and America

https://vividmaps.com/comparing-latitude-of-europe-and-america/
24•mooreds•4d ago•8 comments

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/collectwise/jobs/tv3ufcc-forward-deployed-engineer
1•OBrien_1107•2h ago

Marble: A Multimodal World Model

https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/marble-world-model
172•meetpateltech•8h ago•41 comments

GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-1/
292•tedsanders•11h ago•310 comments

Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper that uses 1 GB RAM when idle

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/12/meta-just-killed-native-whatsapp-on-windows-11-now-it-op...
100•DearAll•3h ago•25 comments

Large integer precision error in Bash command output rendering

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/11506
24•rrwright•3h ago•26 comments

Robert Moses's unfinished business should be Mamdani's priority

https://www.eatingpolicy.com/p/robert-mosess-unfinished-business
10•rmason•2h ago•1 comments

Transpiler, a Meaningless Word (2023)

https://people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/transpiler/
9•jumploops•6d ago•3 comments

Learn Prolog Now

https://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=top
262•rramadass•16h ago•182 comments

On USB HID, Keyboard LEDs, and device emulation (2024)

https://epsilon537.github.io/boxlambda/usb-hid/
15•transpute•3h ago•1 comments

Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

https://openai.com/index/fighting-nyt-user-privacy-invasion
325•meetpateltech•16h ago•298 comments

Valve is about to win the console generation

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/valve-is-about-to-win-the-console-generation/
174•moonleay•7h ago•153 comments

Helm 4.0

https://github.com/helm/helm/releases/tag/v4.0.0
61•todsacerdoti•14h ago•67 comments

GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/glp-1-drugs-linked-to-dramatically-lower-death-rates-in-colon-cancer...
114•gmays•11h ago•106 comments

Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012
936•bertman•20h ago•552 comments

Strap Rail

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/strap-rail
3•surprisetalk•3d ago•0 comments

Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/11/apple-introduces-digital-id-a-new-way-to-create-and-presen...
87•meetpateltech•14h ago•121 comments

Launch HN: JSX Tool (YC F25) – A Browser Dev-Panel IDE for React

95•jsunderland323•13h ago•72 comments

Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/20755
192•firexcy•9h ago•159 comments

How Tube Amplifiers Work

https://robrobinette.com/How_Amps_Work.htm
95•gokhan•12h ago•51 comments

A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System

https://warsus.github.io/lions-/
16•o4c•4h ago•2 comments