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Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:04PM (#45930602)
The ? has "Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown formatting."
you might check out Copenhagen Megagames[1] which is the other name I've seen for this type of stuff

[1] https://www.cphmegagames.dk/

Re:Why Japan Has Blue Traffic Lights Instead of Green on Monday October 23, 2023 @11:49AM (#37987408)
I don't know if its a urban legend or not, but I always heard that this was the upstream cause this plugin [1] in jenkins being a day one install on teams I was on

[1] https://plugins.jenkins.io/greenballs/

Re:Ask HN: DarkSky Alternatives? on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:32PM (#34295743)
https://merrysky.net/ is the closest I've found yet to the Dark Sky mobile web ux
If you want a breadth of industry publications physically delivered, I greatly recommend the Trade Journal Cooperative https://www.tradejournalcooperative.com/
Re:Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:23PM (#25736011)
Also good in this genre is Jon Bois' Accidental Upload Film Review [0]

[0] https://www.sbnation.com/2015/7/17/8990773/accidental-upload...

Re:Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:01PM (#25214774)
Headline predictions:

-2024 Stewart Butterfield announces new MMORPG, "Cology"

-2025 Butterfield reluctantly shutters Cology after failing to attract playerbase

-2026 Butterfield announces public release of collaborative VR design tool first built for Cology, "Devival"

-2027 Devival passes 3 million DAUs

-2028 Devival announces IPO

-2029 Devival sold to Adobe for $35b

-2032 Stewart Butterfield announces new MMORPG, "Breviariam"

Re:The life and death of email read tracking on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @03:54PM (#24632187)
If it only takes "a minimal amount of creativity ... to come up with scenarios where people can misuse read tracking" why did they build the feature in the first place?
The Antimemetics Division series on SCP is great http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub
Re:What happened to Mint? on Thursday January 23, 2020 @03:01PM (#22131244)
One of my longest standing mint mysteries is how I alone was A/B tested into them trying to bum pizza off me: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CSg_ZxLU8AAF96d?format=png&name=...

I haven't been able to find any other confirmation that this was a thing outside the one time I saw it.

Re:Robinhood Checking Moved Fast and Broke on Monday December 17, 2018 @03:02PM (#18701683)
He's doing an AMA right this minute, if you're interested: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/a72gc8/im_matt_levine...
Re:Burger Robot Startup Opens First Restaurant on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:47AM (#17371665)
The bowling equipment manufacturer AMF was here in 1964 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmXLqImT1wE
Re:A Model Railway Journey on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:55PM (#12729646)
Re:FAA Poised to Take on Role as Traffic Cop for Space on Monday September 19, 2016 @06:44PM (#12535394)
Anyone interested in this should check out the International Institute of Space Law's Moot Court http://www.iislweb.org/lachsmoot/index.html
Anyone interested in the UAW/FAX story might also like to read about George Soros and his efforts to aid samizat production in the eastern bloc by providing xerox machines

https://www.academia.edu/633578/Xerox_Project_Photocopy_Mach...

Re:20 lines of code that beat A/B testing (2012) on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @05:44PM (#11442402)
One of the best talks I've ever seen was Aaron Swartz talking about how Victory Kit used multi-armed bandits to optimize political action: https://github.com/victorykit/whiplash
Tomnod has been trying this since I think right after the plane went missing: http://www.tomnod.com/campaign/mh370_indian_ocean
Re:GameTrailers Is Closing Down After 13 Years on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:57AM (#11063615)
Brandon Jones! I always loved this blooper reel of his: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bei_xzstrtU
You might also check out the past few years of NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month):

https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014 https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo

Re:GitHub Enterprise 2.0 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:07AM (#8590500)
This isn't the thing they've been teasing though, right?

https://twitter.com/github/status/531914601248882689

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