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i'm not on board
a name change will be required shortly, previous "zuck" themed products have been threatened for same
Re:Ask HN: Cloudflare is down. How does this affect you? on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @06:49AM (#45963952)
it's a slippery slope alright
Re:A Postmortem of a Startup on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @09:22AM (#43705193)
there's neoseed.io that sends out emails weekly with "ideas you can replicate"
what happened on Bouvet Island? will we ever know?
Re:A Vending Machine, on the Internet on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:10AM (#43137691)
if someone relies on an upgrade for 8 years, $2 is not enough!
Re:When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works on Thursday February 20, 2025 @05:58PM (#43121549)
there's also Adam Croot, who liked to register the handle "undefined" where possible

Bring me the head of Adam Croot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1501799

ooh Ron Grainer also did the delightfully creepy theme tune to Tales of the Unexpected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js7T-VTL91k

Re:Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:06PM (#42345564)
cool! you might like https://www.phatmedia.co.uk/

some cutting edge stuff for the time, as well as some awful design!

Re:Square Zero: hide silly messages in decorative borders on Friday December 06, 2024 @05:57AM (#42338561)
tell us more?
Re:Stephen King to shut down his 3 radio stations in Maine on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:30PM (#42310961)
give Do You Radio a try, former NTS guys went out on their own, all available on mixcloud so you can flick through bits you don't like

https://doyou.world/

Re:Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org? on Sunday December 01, 2024 @06:39PM (#42291616)
> to clarify, i have nothing to do with this site, i used it once, years back and there was a free tier or at least a free/crippled version at that time

posters, enhance your calm

- bagpuss, fat furry cat puss

Re:Ask HN: How to Resurrect a Site from Archive.org? on Saturday November 30, 2024 @06:25PM (#42284817)
Archivarix is the most fully formed easiest way to do this, free https://archivarix.com/
see also landslide.com - a domain that should never have been reused imo
one other thing i would suggest is to set up a catch-all email for the domain and see what gets sent to it, sometimes you can access accounts associated with the domain, socials etc
it also does it if you google "connare"
Re:Comic Sans Got the Last Laugh on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @04:12AM (#41912255)
Google "connare" for more info!
Re:Cursorcasts: Learn how to code with AI using Cursor on Thursday September 05, 2024 @01:00PM (#41458491)
why would i use this when youtube exists?
Young British Artist Michael Landy did this exact thing in 2001, cataloguing and destroying 7227 possessions.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jan/27/like-wi...

Re:"Architectural" Site Map Layout (1996) on Monday February 12, 2024 @06:21PM (#39351956)
Just point your cursor to a room you'd like to enter and "click, you're there"
Re:What Happens in the Brain While Daydreaming? on Friday December 15, 2023 @11:13AM (#38655550)
there are some people who can return to the same place in a daydream, this person says she had daydreamed (daydreamt?) 79 years of an imaginary world

https://theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/28/i-just-go-into-m...

tried to post the original headline but it was too long, using Octal
Re:Why are these ancient "Conrac" CRT monitors so expensive? on Thursday December 14, 2023 @02:37PM (#38646162)
great response thank you! imagine the number of these that were just thrown out of old offices over the years!

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