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Re:The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:05AM (#50178903)
Though I agree with you that using metric system is better, here's what's important is the ratio, so the unit is not really relevant.
Re:Source code of the Estonian online voting system on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:23PM (#50134772)
If I understood correctly they make updates elsewhere, then update this repository only when elections happen, thus making the repository in the exact state it was used for that election.
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:03PM (#50132843)
You should watch more NotJustBikes videos.
Or as a lemon pie crust it's awesome as well!
I use that often as a filling for snickerdoodles, it's quite good.
Re:More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:08AM (#49751046)
Food maybe?
Re:More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older on Friday September 18, 2026 @03:07AM (#49751038)
Also women tends to live longer, thus even if the records were for example 5 years wrong, there would still be more 95 years old women than men.
Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:49PM (#49470258)
> But yea these guys are definitely going to be the frontier of EU AI.

Yeah probably more like the frontier of early retirement.

Re:Claude Cookbook on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:00AM (#49032955)
I thought it would be a litteral cookbook on how to make plausible/feasible recipes with LLMs (we're not here yet sadly).
Yeah same, I'm kinda sad now it's only packaging.
Re:Jmail: Gmail except it's Epstein Files on Sunday December 21, 2025 @04:19AM (#46343418)
I mean technically if we didn't have Roman aqueducts, would we have Gmail today?
Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:34AM (#46327696)
If you click on the comments in the honest version, it'll redirect you to the real version.
Re:Coursera to combine with Udemy on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @12:23PM (#46302526)
On Coursera I really liked the Roman Architecture course from Yale: https://www.coursera.org/learn/roman-architecture

The instructor is really passionnate about what she's talking about, which really makes the subject more interesting than I thought it would be.

I mean there could be a middle ground between no shiny features at all and iOS.
Re:Review of Anti-Aging Drugs on Sunday August 17, 2025 @05:43PM (#44935182)
> don’t smoke, keep your weight down, move often, sleep properly, keep blood pressure and cholesterol in check, and go easy on the booze.

And UVs, don't forget UVs.

I'm not sure the list has been provided by uBlock, looking at their repo[0] I understand that the list is available for uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist, but not made by them.

[0] https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Re:Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:09PM (#44391396)
Maybe they were depicting RNA? (probably not)
Re:Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello on Monday June 02, 2025 @09:14AM (#44158514)
Shouldn't this be a "Show HN:" post?
> is powered by immigrants paid much less than other citizens

I mean, that's how Deliveroo and other delivery services (Uber eats and equivalents) works (at least here in Europe).

Re:Go European: Discover European products and services on Monday March 10, 2025 @09:27AM (#43320367)
Also see this project for web services alternatives: https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
Re:Go European: Discover European products and services on Monday March 10, 2025 @06:55AM (#43319036)
Also see this project for web services alternatives: https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
Re:Bluesky now has 30 million users on Monday February 03, 2025 @01:57PM (#42921500)
Username checks out.
Re:GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:25PM (#41990065)
I thought the same indeed.
Re:The oldest known recording of a human voice [video] on Saturday July 20, 2024 @12:41PM (#41017725)
It's "Au clair de la lune" FYI.
Re:Ganjifa on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @04:14AM (#40571934)
If you haven't seen it, there's Chihayafuru [0] which is an anime with the japanese card game, karuta (which comes from the portuguese "carta" for "card").

[0] https://myanimelist.net/anime/10800/Chihayafuru

Re:Meta outage on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:34PM (#39609420)
He's quoting the daily active users, not the number of accounts.
> where Getafix is Assurancetourix

Panoramix*

Merinos ftw though.
Re:Check If Email Exists on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:09AM (#27711018)
> I have seen websites which are on the tld with no sub domain.

Do you have any example of that?

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