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Re:Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated on Friday May 08, 2026 @10:20AM (#48063643)
That was a Cliff-hanger!
Re:How We Built Bluey's World on Monday August 04, 2025 @09:33AM (#44785571)
The primary source cited in TFA was itself submitted to HN some months ago and garnered 100+ comments, for your reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816546
Re:Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized on Monday July 14, 2025 @08:49AM (#44559595)
It is quite clever. My own rule of thumb is "add half of the amount in miles, then 10% of the (original) amount in miles". What's interesting is that it happens to be just as precise as the method shown above (ie. 1.6 v 1.609 v 1.618 )
Re:My Scammer Girlfriend: Baiting a Romance Fraudster on Friday March 14, 2025 @07:39AM (#43361637)
Which one? HN? TFA? Any of the scammy subdomains mentioned therein?
Re:Apple responds after being forced to approve porn app on EU iPhones... on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:22AM (#42962563)
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960219 ? DIfferent sources, but same event
Re:What's new with Robinhood, our in-house load balancing service on Thursday October 31, 2024 @07:34AM (#42005742)
I think it's quite easy to confuse the two if one is diagonally reading the HN frontpage and sees a headline that begins with "What's new with Robinhood [...]".
Re:Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @04:44AM (#41706022)
Just want to add that 7726 works in the UK too.
Re:Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' Discovered in Icy Antarctic Depths on Monday April 08, 2024 @07:33AM (#39968635)
I loved that one. For some reason the bit that stuck with me the most was the inside joke they had about all penguins knowing Robert Clark, because they seemed to be calling his surname all the time.
Re:"Cheated" Contactless Passengers Fined [at London Stansted Express]... on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @05:21AM (#38693915)
It has become part of everyday life in the capital to use your card or phone to tap in to travel on the transport network. But ITV News has uncovered an operation that penalises people who do just that to travel to London Stansted Airport. Despite having contactless payment systems activated on the gates of the Stansted Express, thousands who don't have a physical ticket are being given large fines of up to a hundred pounds. The travel watchdog has questioned how Stansted can be the only airport in our region that doesn't allow ticketless travel. Passengers who didn't spot warning signs before their trip have described it as a money-making scheme.

Tell HN: OpenAI is offering Premium Subscriptions again

Posted by donpott on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @01:27AM
from the self-post dept.

Based on a n=1 sample anecdata: When they froze premium subscriptions, I joined their waitlist to be informed when they would offer them again, and yesterday I was presented with a message inviting me to subscribe to plus.Not sure if they've opened the floodgates or if they're doing a phased opening, but I have also not seen any articles covering this development, so leaving it out here for...

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Re:Thiel's Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:28AM (#38204142)
Discussion on HN 21 days ago with 75 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941807

Re:UK Postal Address Oddities on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:31AM (#37819744)
Gibraltar is not a country
Re:Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ con... on Saturday September 30, 2023 @07:41AM (#37714512)
Indeed, they were on the brink of extinction until the worldwide outlawing of DDT, and have had a huge boom since.
Re:Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seize... on Sunday September 24, 2023 @12:42PM (#37634680)
> sometimes claimed

Here, Wikipedia is faithfully recording that some people make that claim. It’s not saying that there’s a consensus or endorsing any claim or its contrary.

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