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I was thinking of making a library of importable quizzes but a library of questions is way more flexible, great idea! Thank you :)
That's a great idea of where quaestio could be of use, I did not think about that. Usually conferences have public wifi so it would fit perfectly. Thanks for the feedback!

Show HN: Quaesito: a self-hosted app for quiz nights with friends

https://github.com/ggirelli/quaesito

Hi, I built Quaesito, a self-hosted quiz-night app for playing with friends. I thought it might be useful to others, so I wanted to share it here: https://github.com/ggirelli/quaesitoIt runs on your laptop, which you can cast or screen-share on to a TV. Friends then connect and answer from their phones, as long as everyone is on the same local network. It support Windows, macOS, and Linux,...

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Recently had a guest for a few days and they were surprised by how few dim lights I would have on at any time, and turn off immediately as soon as I did not need them, walking around in the dark at night. Always thought it was normal keeping the house dim/dark when its dark outside but apparently it's not.
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:21AM (#49518601)
I've been using it sporadically over the past 10+ years and have not noticed any major changes, at least for my limited use.
Re:Back to Kagi on Thursday July 23, 2026 @09:24AM (#49021201)
Any thoughts on Uruky? Just found it by searching for a Europe-based Kagi alternative. https://uruky.com
Do you have any references to the Spain thing?
Had expired in April. This is a tentative of bringing it back up even though it expired after a number of previous extensions.
Not "access to ALL of your data". Also, as confusing as it might be, it is in the nature of EU (at least IMHO) to not have a clear position over multiple legislatures.
Re:Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:40PM (#48823430)
So, I blinked and forgot to check for updates on this and they voted a few hours ago to reinstate this... https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unex...
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:57AM (#48814127)
More like genome editing.
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @01:56AM (#48814118)
At a quick glance, they all seem to have published their source code and they do run locally.
For most games sold on physical media I was under the strong impression that selling/trading the physical media would automatically transfer the license, as the licensee was the owner of the physical media.

Basically one would by a CD-ROM containing a licensed copy of a game, and would then be the owner of the CD-ROM but only a licensee for the game. Selling/trading the CD-ROM would transfer the licensee status to the new CD-ROM owner.

Re:Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs on Thursday February 05, 2026 @01:44AM (#46896491)
I guess it would work like the PSVR2 solution, just not implemented at game rendering level but at system streaming level.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @01:57PM (#46637368)
Personal (micro)blog/Digital garden: https://ggirelli.info
Re:If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books? on Thursday December 11, 2025 @07:25AM (#46230532)
I did it and yes! I've been reading more books, exploring the indies/smallweb, and spending more time with friends IRL. I highly recommend it! And I agree that the mainstream internet and social media are possibly driving a shortening if it attention span, but books are a perfect example of how to counteract this. After I quit/drastically reduced social media exposure and started reading books again, I initially found it tough. Slowly though I adjusted to the old media.
Re:12 Days of Shell on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:05AM (#46191745)
I think that's part of the fun :)
Re:12 Days of Shell on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:04AM (#46191733)
Or cat night-before-christmas.txt | grep laugh
Re:Patterns for Defensive Programming in Rust on Friday December 05, 2025 @02:01PM (#46165714)
Loved the article, such a nice read. I am still slowly ramping up my proficiency in Rust and this gave me a lot of things to think through. I particularly enjoyed the temporary mutability pattern, very cool and didn't think about it before!
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? on Sunday November 30, 2025 @03:38AM (#46094943)
Thank you! I just added it :)
Re:Decoding the Chaos of Breakup on Sunday November 30, 2025 @02:20AM (#46094567)
A new principle underlying the physics of fragmentation explains why fragment sizes follow a specific, universal distribution.
Re:Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? on Monday November 24, 2025 @04:42PM (#46039721)
Out of curiosity, I see my website not being well indexed and I wondered whether it is because I include ``` User-agent: * Disallow: / ``` in my robots.txt. What should one add to allow Marginalia to crawl their website?
Re:Internet Archive Down on Thursday November 20, 2025 @04:29PM (#45998009)
Re:I hate screenshots of text on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @03:01AM (#45885090)
Why spend electricity and time to read the text in a screenshot, and then more time making sure there are no mistakes. When the sender could have just copied the original text?

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