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Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:42AM (#50339528)
And what's with that bs cookie banner? If the only cookies are functional/essential, they don't need to show a cookie banner. If it's for analytics, then I should be able to reject it. Otherwise, it's just a dick-over.
Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:17AM (#50177152)
OP might be referring to using React together with a UI library that comes with elements like <Grid>, instead of using just React + CSS grid.
Re:Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:20PM (#50058650)
Oh, wow. I'm no pro, but I must've spent at least a hundred hours playing surf maps, and too me it feels exactly like the original. Really impressive.

Minus points for Fullscreen not working in Firefox.

Re:F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:31AM (#49840883)
What? It only stays enabled for exactly 1 hour after the 24 hour timer? I was under the impression that it would stay enabled permanently after waiting the 24 hours once.
Re:Cursor Camp on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:28PM (#47954123)
No, I don't think so.
Re:Cursor Camp on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:10PM (#47953876)
I can't get the 17th shell :(
Looks like a reasonable cookie banner to me: Deny (all), Custom selection and Accept all.

It even works perfectly with Consent-O-Matic extension.

Do you want a citation for an opinion?
Re:The iFixit App Is Here on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @02:31AM (#46215114)
And a vehicle for selling FixBot - the AI repair expert.
Re:Show HN: AI Toy I worked on is in stores, media code OSS on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @01:52AM (#45576701)
Moral implications of LLM aside, this is an always-online, subscription-based toy that will eventually turn into a brick (unless the parent is an HN-er). I find it really sad that this kind of toy is sold in stores.
Re:I'm Not a Robot Game on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:08AM (#45321201)
Re:I'm Not a Robot Game on Sunday September 21, 2025 @05:04AM (#45321189)
Yeah, I wish it accepted hjkl.

Tell HN: Discord is apparently rolling out age verification for EU/EEA residents

I just got prompted this morning to verify my age on Discord after updating the Discord client. I'm not a UK citizen.It looks like they're rolling this out for EU/EEA residents based on comments from this Reddit thread [0].They also mention this in the support article about age verification [1]: "Important: Age verification is currently part of an ongoing experiment across various regions."[0]...

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Re:The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:53PM (#44965704)
I haven't set up a custom ringtone in years since I don't receive that many calls nowadays, but I having been setting up the "Hey!" notification sound from the Google Nexus phone on all my newer, non-Google phones that followed it.
Re:Show HN: I wrote a modern Command Line Handbook on Friday May 30, 2025 @02:00AM (#44133339)
Page 12 of the example pdf ends with "On Linux, the PATH looks something like this:", but then there's no PATH example shown.
I haven't thought about trying to earn from OSS myself, but I'm curious to see how Jimmy Bogard - who recently announced this intention - is going to handle it.

- https://www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-and-mediatr-going-com...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43558316

I use the Continue extension in both IntelliJ and VSCode and it's great. Although, I'm just connecting it to my own providers and not using your hub. So I'm more of a free-loader of the extension than a Continue customer. Anyway, thank you!

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