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Re:Pg_later: Asynchronous Queries for Postgres on Friday August 18, 2023 @08:23AM (#37174669)
It's so good, it gave the elephant an extra leg.
Re:Reflex – Web apps in pure Python on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @12:34PM (#36973216)
> Reflex launched in December 2022 with the name Pynecone.
Re:I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:36PM (#33886665)
Have I spent too long reading AI output, or was this reply in fact generated using ChatGPT?
Re:GitHub code search beta signup on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @04:18PM (#33537990)
A couple of years ago you stopped indexing repos that hadn't had activity for a year [0]. Will such repos be indexed by the new code search?

[0]: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-12-17-changes-to-code-sea...

Re:Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:30AM (#31504261)
Reminds me of https://theatricalia.com - have you come across that site before?
Re:Mac keyboard shortcuts on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:21AM (#24080690)
MonitorControl achieves the same thing but using the existing keyboard keys: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl (recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23785291)
Re:Signing in to websites with SSH on Friday January 30, 2015 @07:51AM (#8971739)
If the web page was served over HTTPS and provided the SSH server's fingerprint for the user to verify, wouldn't that get around the MITM risk?
Re:The new archive.org on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @08:39AM (#8526822)
Is the old one available anywhere? ;)
Probably this: "It doesn't take much raw power to play Nintendo or SNES games on a modern PC; emulators could do it in the 1990s with a mere 25MHz of processing power. But emulating those old consoles accurately—well, that's another challenge entirely; accurate emulators may need up to 3GHz of power to faithfully recreate aging tech." - http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...
Re:LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @05:24PM (#6601825)
> It breaks the very concept of email security.

There's no such thing. Email breaks the concept of email security.

> Apple acknowledges Ibrahim Balic for discovering security flaw in dev center

This title is inaccurate - the linked pages credits 7dscan.com and SCANV for reporting the developer centre issue.

Ibrahim BALIC is credited with reporting an apparently unrelated issue in iAd Workbench.