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web.archive.org 5mo ago

Berkshire Hathaway's website today resembles its 1997 design

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github.com 5mo ago

Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

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twitter.com 6mo ago

Vibe Engineering: What I've Learned Working with AI Coding Agents

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www.reuters.com 6mo ago

Trump says Venezuela's Maduro captured after strikes

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www.youtube.com 6mo ago

I made auto-aim for mini golf [video]

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www.kickscondor.com 2y ago

Satya Nadella Reads/Games Hacker News (2018)

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en.wikipedia.org 2y ago

The Pizza Meter

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twitter.com 2y ago

A data claiming that LK99 has zero resistance

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bugzilla.redhat.com 3y ago

Sudo: Heap-based overflow with small passwords

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: iOS e-mail App with customizable “From” field?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What are relevant books as of C++20?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Why Is GitHub Pages Not Supporting IPv6?

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: How do acquisitions work at FAANG?

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c9k.de 10y ago

How chat links and history work in Steam

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github.com 10y ago

Show HN: Easy access to next/previous first-level comments in large threads

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www.nsa.gov 10y ago

National (JavaScript) Security Agency

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github.com 10y ago

Acme_tiny_auto automates Let's Encrypt handling for more hosts in simple steps

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Thanks!

1: True, although it also limits the addressable memory and the typical 4GB limit seems less these days. I’m thinking of large apps like Figma running in the browser.

2: Will existing 32-bit WASM binaries break on WASM64 engines or does the binary have a flag for compatibility?

Why is a relatively new technology like WASM being limited to 32-bit pointers? Why repeat the same mistake again?

Web is 32-bit. Your 64-bit structs will break. This was the root cause of most of my bugs. WASM is 32-bit address space, pointers are 4 bytes not 8.

I just called the shop to replace the perfectly fine e-Call battery in my soon four year old Hyundai car. 250€ to change a battery that has a ten year lifespan. I am not allowed to replace it on my own as it would invalidate the five year long guarantee provided by the manufacturer (not the one by law). Why is this stuff not considered as well?

Also curious whether the "specialized devices" exemptions are AND requirements. Even if those are AND, wouldn’t smartphone manufacturers try to satisfy all three of them?

Remote-friendly means US-remote-friendly? Or worldwide?

Also, the listing says [0]. Does this mean I can't work as a non-US-citizen / I need a security clearance of some sort?

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This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Just tested it. I can't save the new account in the Mail settings when I leave the incoming credentials blank :-/ It works when I add the real IMAP account though. And the Mail app seems to be clever enough to not duplicate everything in the combined Inbox view. Thanks, at least that's a tradeoff.

The opening of the modal is being pushed to Browser history. This confuses me as I don't expect modals to be in the history.

Is this caused the way it is achieved with CSS only or is this actually wanted?

I still don't get it. Every page I try to contextify (wat) is looking like pasted in a 1999 WYSIWYG editor. How do you all get the correct styling etc with you? I'm using Firefox with uBlock and Disconnect.

Example page: https://www.golem.de/ticker/ - I tried to copy some listed links but they just look like standard Times New Roman after contextification: https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAAPxhEA

Anyway, nice idea. I have ever used screenshots so far.

Great design & feature set.

Feedback: the navigation bar at the top is quite unusable from an UE point of view. The positions of the icons (and therefore the hovering position) change as the mouse hovers them. It is quite annoying.

Also, in the FAQ: "How can this be a free service? Magic" This sounds to me as: "stfu, don't ask, you are not clever enough to understand" or "there is some dirty way to get money from you, better don't ask".

Does someone has also issues with heavy-loaded JavaScript pages, e. g. using React or Angular? It's a pain to use/scroll on those sites. The most awful website I know using it is Facebook. It is so damn laggy, even with uBlock and Disconnect enabled. When I start having more than one Facebook tab open (together with WhatsApp Web) I sometimes grow the will to switch to Chrome. I could resist yet because I don't like Google's approach for restrictive extension web store.

Lucky you. Even informatics students go further:

1. Type google.com into the address bar. They don't know that modern browsers can directly redirect search input to your favorite search engine. 2. Type the domain (including extension) to the google search input. 3. Click on the first link.

I honestly fear the future.