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This overall sounds like it makes sense and brings their billing into line with other providers. But it's super confusingly written and presented. Why is this an essay with CAPITAL LETTERS to try…
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Interesting that 100 years later I think > has resisted the combined attacks of these enemies wonderfully well applies to the 'dumb pleasure seeking' he warns about in this article too. S…
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Thanks GPT
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This has been a repeated headline for a while, but it's still clickbait IMO. The jackets will not 'be illegal'. Rather so-called forever chemicals are being regulated. The article it li…
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Would love if HN had a section like 'show hn' specifically for long-form, lone-hacker, impressive stuff like this. Not sure exactly what the metrics would be that qualify an article to belon…
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We do the opposite of this - we write in markdown but sometimes need to get feedback in Google Docs. Pandoc doesn't convert to google docs so well, but it does to docx, so our pipeline is markdow…
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We did some tutorials and a book[0] on using KaboomJS. One of them is a "3D" game but probably not in the sense you mean. They probably need updating as Kaboom had a few updates, but I was s…
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Test `nc 192.168.2.100`
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https://archive.ph/TnOUv > She added that “everyone currently employed will have the opportunity to continue their role with Apple in Austin.”…
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Because the dns records were changed. Same as if you don't pay for your domain, someone else buys it and points records to new IP and generates a new certificate.
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Is there a good longform article about the impact that solar will have by providing free or even negatively priced energy? Eg road transport becomes nearly free? What impact does this have on other pa…
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also a great format for 1:1s, meetings, updates, annual events, etc etc (doesn't have to be 8 days, 1h is already very good. I haven't done 8 days, but after 2-3 days I felt like I was ready…
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Sad that this isn't default and is said with some condescension. If you read Bullshit Jobs he goes into some history of how recent the idea of a "professional CEO" (someone who doesn&#x…
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Slightly OT as it's about API not web app, but I think related to the fact that they switch out models without informing people pretty often, and I think do a fair amount of A/B testing -- s…
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What's the closest thing to EFF for these kinds of things in Europe? I always feel like there's a huge difference in quality of reporting where EFF produces some of the best content I'v…
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> The people in my feed—most of whom I’m not following Every now and again Twitter switches me to the "For you" tab. I always immediately notice because there are like 5 BuzzFeed-esque tw…
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I hope that stories like this make people realise the rights that they have given up and start campaigning and voting to get them back again. Terrorism laws are so obviously hugely disproportionate to…
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Nitter link at [0] [0] https://nitter.net/tylertringas/status/1716592486460629132 …
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"37Signals" , i.e. basecamp, Hey, etc. I know HN strips out numbers automatically to remove clickbait articles like "37 signals you need to watch for when buying a SaaS" or whateve…
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[2013] I think
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I've definitely found ` https://pypi.org/project/bs4/ ` useful - in Python if you want to use BeautifulSoup (a common package for parsing and manipulating HTML), you impo…
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yes, the most-quoted 'breakthrough' was figuring out analogies like this https://www.technologyreview.com/2015/09/17/166211/king-man-... …
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hey I have wanted to write a post like this for ages but of course I never got around to it, and now I can just link people to this one instead! My only suggestions are: - Coining (? at least I think …
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> The small country of Norway is taking on the tech giant. Will David be able to bring down Goliath? Kind of interesting that here the *country* is david while the *business* is goliath..
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Tech startups often invest a big portion of their marketing budget in creating useful technical content that people actually want to read. I found [0] yesterday which I think describes the "why i…
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Is this an accounting trick to look profitable or is it normal and reasonable? > Effective January 2023, Intel increased the estimated useful life of certain production machinery and equipment from…
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Yes, this set off all my 'gpt warning bells'. Anyone know the latest on automatic gpt detectors? Feels like it should be easy but last I checked they had a lot of false positives.