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25,050karma·12,302submissions·September 8, 2017
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There shouldn't be quotes around the title.. and this was posted by Jeff yesterday (238pts, 79 comments)[0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30294144 …
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Past discussion has been prolific... 3 years ago, 528pts, 297 comments[0], a year ago, 51pts, 72 comments[1] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694207 [1]: https://…
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It doesn't by default (perhaps it depends on which version you first installed) but it is available under File -> Settings -> Options: Clear Clipboard which can e set to never/10s/…
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There's some room in the missing ~295 million IPs
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I didn't say it was? I just used cities (major population centers) to determine what coverage was like (bad) and how much of the country had access (almost none).
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Not sure if you're speaking generically, or about this specific post, but; TLA+[0] is not an acronym but a language name. TLA, however, is an acronym of "Temporal Logic of Actions" […
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It only just showed up for CA (in 2021) and mostly only along the border (eg Victoria). Granted a lot of population is lower.. but current ETAs (from the starlink "Order" page) for the 5 bi…
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It looks like Julia may have renamed the title? The H1 and html.title are both "A tiny DNS resolver in Go". Little less baited with the new title. The slug contains the old title, not sugge…
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Almost nothing you've got here is accurate. - Halo was announced in 1999, originally planned as an RTS for Windows + Mac, not for the launch of Mac gaming (not Mac only, although prior titles wer…
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3392pts and 1129comments is "little traction"?? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29845208 …
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Several versions of this post already: Joni Mitchell Joining Neil Young in Protest over Spotify (apnews), 11pts, 8 comments[0], 8 hours ago Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young's Spotify protest over a…
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https://archive.fo/ySBCY
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This is a great article that suffers from a bad title (for HN, in my opinion). The tl;dr in TFA sums it up nicely: If your game has banding, it is often very easy to get rid of simply by adding…
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There are no photos (article seems to include only renders), and no easy way to get a sense of scale. But if this is really designed for children: What about ingress and egress? Using the one measure…
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Dupe of "I built a system that takes pictures of all the airplanes that fly over my house" (although it's an imperfect link) 276pts, 73 comments [0]: https://news.ycombinator…
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Feels like the website-about page: http://skybot.cam/about is a much better link than a tweet.. loaded with details. For example: - Most planes are passing at over 30,000' …
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Maybe "Show HN: A browser extension to help make better food choices"? It wasn't clear to me you were only showing a new browser extension, not the whole concept. Well for example your…
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Given you've labeled this submission Show HN, I imagine this is your site and you have your reasons - but wouldn't a link to https://www.siftfoodlabels.com/ be more useful t…
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50 years ago Return of the Jedi was still 11 years in the future? [0] Star wars was still 5 years away, Blade Runner 10. Colour TV on all networks was 7 years away [1] But hey, a house cost $28K, a…
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The article title is "G Suite legacy free edition", and is about a service which hasn't been available for 10 years being finally sunset, last day of access 30-April. Wouldn't &qu…
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This is a couple of months old now, posted a few times.. not much discussion: [0] 8pts/1 comment [1] 15pts/1 comment [2] 5pts/0 comments [0]: https://news.ycombina…
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“The first time I opened the box, I swiftly concluded that it was way out of my league, and the only way I’d even have a shot at it was if I were for some bizarre reason trapped in my own home for mon…
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Third time's the charm, eh zarfzarf? (2021-12-24, 1pt 0 comments [0], 2021-12-26, 3pts, 0 comments [1]) Always with a different title (should probably match the H1 and slug: "Neodigm55 UX …
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This website hasn't been updated since April 2007. It's a blog/blogging platform named "Creating Passionate Users" not about creating them. The most visible[0] entry (April …
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"Archaeologists appropriate badger's priceless coin collection". Many of the coins, in the pictured pre-cleaned state are hard to distinguish from rocks, but there's some great sa…
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I personally prefer the abstract to jumping straight into a full paper, especially since it's quite rich (not one of those two line entries like some arXiv paper abstracts). After reading the ab…
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They aren't actually the same article, this one (by Andrew) refers to the other (by Gary) and quotes the title.. it's a response article. Because of the HN policy it's hard to tell tha…
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They aren't actually the same article, this one (by Andrew) refers to the other (by Gary) and quotes the title.. it's a response article. Because of the HN policy it's hard to tell tha…
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Strange title, especially the cherry picked companies (by Reuters, not OP). Full list from the article: Alphabet/Google Amazon Apple DHS DoD IBM Meta/Facebook Microsoft …
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