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Re:Half-Life 2: Javascript on Thursday June 05, 2025 @02:41AM (#44188960)
Work in progress and a copy of old repo right?
Re:Shrinking a Postgres Table on Friday November 29, 2024 @08:32AM (#42273736)
When I was reading the article I thought - was somebody watching me last night? Because I went through exactly the same thing. And came to the same conclusion, easier and faster to create a temporary new table than deleting directly with a sub-query.
Re:Valve is testing ARM64 support for popular games on Monday September 23, 2024 @02:27AM (#41622879)
Yeah, no native Vulkan on macOS. MoltenVK[0] is a workaround. Decent for some projects.

[0] https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK

Re:What Happened to the Japanese PC Platforms? on Sunday September 22, 2024 @06:38AM (#41616117)
Got a Dynabook too. It's a tank.
Re:Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support on Thursday September 19, 2024 @10:31AM (#41592312)
It's interesting how kids can adapt so naturally. We've got so many preconceived ideas about difficulties.

When I was young there was a deaf kid in our school. We just figured out communication as needed. Kids don't overthink things like adults do. The environment matters, but sometimes we should just let kids figure it out.

Re:Is Tor still safe to use? on Thursday September 19, 2024 @07:01AM (#41590553)
But not all traffic goes to onion sites.
Re:Is Tor still safe to use? on Thursday September 19, 2024 @07:00AM (#41590551)
There was a recent HN topic where person running exit nodes run into quite a lot of issues because of it.
Re:The Fall of StackOverflow: A Data-Driven Analysis on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @05:11AM (#41377555)
It’s also possible that the target audience has changed significantly since its inception. The early adopters and moderators were true enthusiasts.