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You are literally just lying? There is approximately nothing in this repo: https://github.com/txtsd/kind

Too many posts on HN now are just nasty liars like this OP looking to bullshit others.

Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again on Saturday March 07, 2026 @08:36AM (#47287521)
Is HN dead? Why are people commenting on a vapid post by a brand new account, which reads like an ad, and they're not questioning anything..?
Re:The coming war on Car Ownership on Sunday January 25, 2026 @06:56AM (#46753298)
This has absolutely nothing to do with the article. The entire point was the political rat race to obtain the first mover advantage to eventually monopolize local markets, backed by government hindrance to competition.

We've seen this happen time and time again. Just look at what OpenAI tried to do with their AI safety bullshit. They're the "only ones" that can distribute AI safely lest it destroy us all. No ulterior motives there whatsoever.

Yes! I can still go back and re-watch SpongeBob episodes despite the being 30, and I still laugh. Just at different things now :')
Re:The Electric Fence Stopped Working Years Ago on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:25PM (#44916928)
Beautiful article. I've started reaching out to friends from university or even secondary school that I lost contact with. Sometimes it works out and we eventually meet up, but other times it just fizzles out. I've only ever regretted not reaching out to people. It's scary to do every time but I want to keep at it. Perhaps I'm too sentimental but I genuinely miss some people, and from what I've experienced, sometimes they missed me too.

One of my fondest memories from only a few years ago was when a friend that I was reasonably close with but hadn't seen in a long while messaged me on birthday. Probably didn't mean much to her but it still means a lot to me to this day. I should text her.

Re:Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update on Saturday July 12, 2025 @03:56PM (#44544660)
I tried paying for YouTube premium then they fucked around by not giving me all the features I paid for when I was visiting another country. There's no winning with these people.
I don't know how to edit posts on here, but they found her thankfully. Take care everyone.
Please just fuck off with this

She has a psychotic mental condition

A commenter put the missing persons notice below
That's her yes. Thank you.

Help PLEASE – Can Google track RCS messages for a missing person?

Hi, my girlfriend is missing (Stratford, ON, Canada). I, her family and the police are looking for her. She had been missing for two hours now. I can see that she is reading her messages through RCS. She has a Pixel 6a. Is there any way to track her? I can put whoever can help in touch with the police. She is very suicidal and already attempted twice.Please help. We are desperate to find her....

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Re:Losing my Meta account because of release delays on Friday May 09, 2025 @07:15AM (#43935565)
You're lucky we have the luxury of such opinions like yours. With the way the world is going towards extreme financial inequality, and with the US becoming more hostile to other nations, I suspect that opinion will become harder and harder to justify for many people.
Re:Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @02:03PM (#43848761)
This shit was one of the reasons I stopped paying for YouTube premium and went back to aggressively blocking all ads. You try to give them money and they spit in your face regardless.
Re:Has the Decline of Knowledge Work Begun? on Thursday March 27, 2025 @03:29AM (#43491196)
I am quite literally sleeping in a hospital while I read that. Horrifying.
Re:I'm the Canadian who was detained by ICE for two weeks on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @09:01AM (#43411329)
Wow this sort of scenario is my nightmare. I'm an immigrant in Canada and even though I've been able to go to the US for years, I really have no interest in going, partially due to fear of something like this happening to me.

I could easily drive to the US in less than two hours, but no thanks.

Re:Designing Electronics That Work on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @08:23AM (#43410928)
Well, the author did specifically say that the reason it's no longer free is because others have worked on the book and want to get paid. That being said, this is literally just an ad, especially because they did not keep the old version free.
Re:YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:48PM (#43269831)
I started paying for YT Premium a few months ago, despite hating the Google ecosystem. Figured I'd attempt to support the creators I watch. Then I flew to Trinidad over Christmas, and YouTube had the gall to tell me Premium features aren't supported in my location. Back to pirating and adblocking every fucking thing for me after that one
Yo this is sick
I'll check this out, thank you!

Ask HN: Parser for the vdata format used in the Source 2 engine?

Hi, I'm a self-taught junior programmer and I've never written a parser. I was wondering if anyone knew of a parser for the vdata format (example below) used in the Source 2 engine? I want to get character data for this game to make an app, but I've not found any parsers for this weird data format, so I figured I'd have to write one myself before I even got started on my app. Also, any advice...

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Good info, I will check out this spec. Thank you
I will check these out, thank you

Does anyone know of a good book to understand colour theory/colour spaces/etc.?

I've been learning more and more about colour at both my job and just in my free time, but I don't really have a good grasp on all of these concepts. Does anyone have a good comprehensive book that covers all these topics? I don't necessarily need all the math behind things like gamma conversion, although perhaps that'd be beneficial as well.Any input welcome, thanks in advance :)

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Re:Permutation City on Friday February 09, 2024 @11:30AM (#39316556)
Great book. I've read it through twice already! I always recommend it when talking about Sci Fi
Not in Canada. My Post Graduate Work Visa allowed me to work wherever. Or not work at all. The US has so many variations of slavery-lite it is genuinely disturbing.
> Belief in the privacy offered by these types of services amounts to a mental illness.

Do you seriously think this line made sense?

You can definitely search back more than a month. However the search is genuinely atrocious. I've been using tutanota for a few years now but every time I need to search my emails I think about switching to something else. It is just not acceptable for the service to need to slowly iterate through emails, downloading them one by one the first time you decide to go back that far, just to find something important.
Re:Videos of Godotcon 2023 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:45AM (#38178162)
Hurray I love getting Godot news. Lots of conference content for me to listen to over the next few days :)
Re:A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time on Monday November 06, 2023 @06:29AM (#38161187)
You say that, but as another anecdote, I'm fit and lift weights, and I don't eat junk food. I wish my sleep were better but that's not for lack of trying.

LoganDark's comment about some people with ADHD being absolutely unable to will themselves to do certain things describes me so well it's scary. It's something I've struggled with for years, and has affected me at work lately.

I've always known I'm not lazy or stupid, and in the last few years I discovered programming and taught myself software development. I fixate on things strongly yet I struggle to do mental work if it just so happens that I find it uninteresting or pointless. It's fucking me up. My therapist even pointed out a few weeks ago that it's a strong sign of ADHD, but I hate the thought of having that... I guess now I really should seriously explore this. I only know that I started feeling like my dev job is pointless even though it's a great job, and my coworkers are fantastic. It's more deep than just pointless but now I can barely will myself do anything related to work...

The brain really is fucked ha

Re:Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers on Sunday November 05, 2023 @05:05PM (#38156113)
IIRC I needed to use Microsoft Edge, and some codec from the Windows Store. Then I HAD to use HDMI (all my monitors are display port). There was something else too probably

Point is, if I can't just use my Firefox browser on Linux to get high quality content for money that I will happily pay, I'll just go get it for free.

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