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based on the description i'm assuming this is the easter egg. `At 1:03 the camera holds on the western ocean. There's a cave down there with a Borland in it (Zanderphagus scarii). I inject a bunch of fish in to coax him out. The wiki says he only comes out when there are enough fish. What isn't written there, is that it's also only at night but the game doesn't tell the player when that happens except for a toolbar image in the original game.`
Re:Oura says it gets government demands for user data on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:28PM (#48248990)
with things like amazon's sidewalk you might not have any choice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk
Re:Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage on Saturday May 02, 2026 @10:02PM (#47992598)
I think the implication was that people stand around places where waymo goes often and just hold doors open for arriving waymo's to be "helpful". When the passenger leaves they just leave the door open for their doordash friends who are nearby
yup that looks like the one. i had an interest at the time but i'm glad i got out of that after reading your story. :)

thanks for the details it was a pretty interesting read.

was this a couple decades ago or so? i remember reading a blog about someone who implanted a magnet in the tip of one of their fingers and then put a chip in the skin between the thumb and forefinger.
Re:List Animals Until Failure on Saturday January 31, 2026 @11:50PM (#46843712)
drop bear => Already said Koala. but if you type it before you say koala the answer drops from the top of the page. so many great easter eggs. got 92 in the end
Re:Show HN: The HN Arcade on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @07:46PM (#46804098)
This is amazing. Many years ago I started a similar project that but with a more traditional word search style. This one is much better as I couldn't get the interface the way I wanted. Congrats!
Re:Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot? on Monday November 24, 2025 @01:45PM (#46037537)
I see they have a subscription and it requires an app. Does the app require an account and all that jazz or can I just use it without giving away anything?
District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia according to wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMV
Re:The staff ate it later on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:43PM (#45110561)
I read a long time ago that Fran Drescher of The Nanny fame was huge in replacing those audiences with extras instead of random people.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/how-fran-...

Re:Microsoft: Recommitting to our why, what, and how on Thursday July 24, 2025 @07:05PM (#44677396)
`I want to express my sincere gratitude to those who have left.`

they didn't leave. they were shown the door.

Re:Ask HN: Why do text posts have such low contrast? on Tuesday April 01, 2025 @08:19PM (#43552605)
I didn't know you could do that with ublock. Thanks!
It was Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve. Was an ok book. (Better than the film)
Re:Don't Fire Your Illustrator on Monday August 21, 2023 @03:28PM (#37214194)
Serious question: Are actors, writers, etc not considered "Independent Contractors" in the US?
Isn't this what amazon's Whispernet is for? Always on low power bluetooth listeners embedded in echos and other amazon devices. If the TV supports it and you don't have an echo it can use your neighbor's echo/internet to send telemetry data.

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