HN reflects what their users (or people trying to influence them) post most. A few years ago it was flooded with crypto, a few years later it will be flooded with something else.
Actually, it always actively suppressed content owners found repetitive or annoying. Openly so, the moderator would even state it is being done. It is simply part of moderation.
And then there is flagging where certain content grts flagged much faster then other.
something that makes this website different from the others, is it lets you filter by _any_ combination of topics, and allows you to edit them live and in real time.
this website reduces the priority of content, rather than filter it entirely, so some articles with high score will still appear, but lower down than they otherwise would.
This is configurable though, so you can make it whatever you want.
Thank you for that precision "without continued propulsion", because when talking about rockets, physics teachers always talk about escape velocity, as if it was an absolutely necessary condition to escape earth's gravity.
But can't you escape gravity slower, just by going higher and higher at lower speed? Like a plane? (ie not vertically, but at an angle)
If you don't accelerate, my understanding is that you will slow down. In other words, it takes more and more energy to escape orbit. Eventually, if you don't accelerate, your speed drops to zero and you "fall back down". Escape velocity is about how much energy you put into your motion, not the velocity as such.
That seems wrong. If you have a way to maintain enough propulsion for long enough you can escape the gravity well at any arbitrarily low speed. You "just" need to maintain that speed long enough for the escape velocity from the gravity well to go below it as it diminishes with distance from the mass.
My interest in HN has decreased since it feels every other news is about AI
However I'll use the other links provided here, as it takes 10s to display
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