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Re:An Update on Heroku on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:01PM (#46919370)
Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @05:14PM (#46396899)
Completed books:

Project Hail Marry by Andy Weir

Dungeon Crawler Carl (Books 1-7) by Matt Dinniman

I'm currently reading:

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams

For the last 10(ish) years I've been using Greenshot [1]. I haven't found any issues with it but it is only available on Windows and Mac.

[1] https://getgreenshot.org/

Re:What Happens in the Brain to Cause Depression? on Sunday May 26, 2024 @05:34PM (#40485587)
I've been reading Brain Energy by Dr. Chris Palmer that makes a compelling argument that all mental illnesses are metabolic disorders of the brain

https://brainenergy.com/

Re:The Curse of Monkey Island on Friday April 19, 2024 @05:46PM (#40092276)
Never heard of exoscummvm but https://www.scummvm.org/ is the original site. I spent a lot of time playing Monkey Island the ds version of scummvm.
Re:Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer" on Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:34PM (#37971111)
Oops, you are right
Re:Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer" on Saturday October 21, 2023 @07:34AM (#37965954)
select distinct customer_id, max(order_id) over (partition by customer_id order by created_date desc) FROM orders

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!15/51df39/2

Re:Ask HN: EU Bank with Good API? on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:14PM (#34551212)
You could try Modern Treasury and outsource the API requirements.

https://www.moderntreasury.com/products/payments

Re:Software horror show: SAP Concur on Saturday January 07, 2023 @05:47AM (#34286953)
Depends on the industry,Oracle Netsuite is similar to SAP. A lot of construction/professional services use Deltek Vantagepoint. Also Mircosoft Dynamics comes to mind.
Nick Johnson's blog about damn cool algorithms

http://blog.notdot.net/tag/damn-cool-algorithms

Re:Project Naptha on Monday July 11, 2022 @06:30AM (#32054350)
That's Apse – A Personal Search Engine https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27965979
Re:DownThemAll (2019) on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @04:01PM (#29099569)
Thank you! You made my dial-up connection usable.
Re:When Amazon Switched from Sun to Linux on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:25PM (#25695551)
Re:Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020? on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:29AM (#25557445)
100% agree with SpaceX, mine 2nd would be Pinduoduo and how revenue and cash held can be completely different and how advanced China is many areas (like logistics) compared to the west. https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/pinduoduo

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