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Norway Eyes Partial Ban of Smart Glasses 19 by pseudolus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Nightwatch – a Mac menu-bar app that tells you when tonight is clear 8 by delphidolphin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Here in the north of England clear nights are at a premium, and it's never guaranteed that you'll be able to see anything but cloud. That's why I developed Nightwatch, so that I could be notified when one of those precious few nights where I could see into the heavens was available. Finding out whether tonight was worth setting up meant reading forecast charts every evening, usually to learn that it was not. Nightwatch does that reading for me. It sits in the Mac's menu bar and refreshes the forecast every 30 minutes. An hour before sunset it sends one notification, and only if there is an unbroken run of clear sky in astronomical darkness long enough to image in. Otherwise it says nothing: no news means "clouds". I hope this is useful for other hobbyist stargazers too! When I was a child I wanted desperately to be an astronaut or a ...

Second Chances 6 by samclemens | 2 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/LzbePsa

'Neanderthals Among Us' review 17 by pepys | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Building a RAG Pipeline for Semantic Code Search 9 by saikatsg | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The characters of plastics (2024) 3 by thelastgallon | 0 comments on Hacker News.