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Re:A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:07AM (#49371393)
Amazing mnemonics, thank you for sharing. Do you practice this as a mental exercise, or do you actually need to know the day of the week for a specific date that often?
Re:A faster way to calculate the day-of-the-week on Thursday August 20, 2026 @02:56AM (#49371322)
“All of that is math you can easily do in your head in seconds.”

It takes me way too long and I still have to use my fingers nowadays

Re:"Solving a largely imaginary user goal" on Friday August 14, 2026 @02:00PM (#49302369)
I always switch to a light theme when the sun is shining on my screen
Re:Grok 4.6 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @10:14AM (#49286309)
You hit the nail on the head, and it matters.
Re:LLM Honeypot on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:45AM (#49107805)
That <div class="marquee-box"> with `animation: scroll-left 18s linear infinite;` is just plain disrespect to the still working <marquee> element.
It’s too bad Apple made the option to install a website as a webapp so hard to find. It’s now hidden in ‘Share’ > ‘View more’ > ‘Add to home screen’

This has nothing to do with ‘sharing’ something

Half a year ago, I captured a photograph of a long train of satellites. However, when I navigate to that location using this tool, I don’t see any satellite train present at that specific timestamp.

I wonder if there are other satellites not included in this dataset, or if I should search way further from the location on the map

Re:I'm Tired of Talking to AI on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:22AM (#48292526)
You can send them this: https://noslopgrenade.com
Re:I hate soldering existentially on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:55AM (#48105083)
I got into soldering as a child, but never learned how to do it properly. Years later I found this comic-book-style guide somewhere online, which made it quite easy to do without messing it up: https://mightyohm.com/files/soldercomic/FullSolderComic_EN.p...
Re:Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym on Monday May 04, 2026 @03:11PM (#48013497)
Even written these jokes made me smile, you’re a natural!
Where is level 2?
Re:Tailscale's new macOS home on Friday April 03, 2026 @03:13AM (#47624032)
You can use `delete` instead of `write`:

defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing

Regarding banning platforms I’d say just ban the attention driven business model online by forbidding all social media platforms from serving ads entirely.
Re:Bugs Apple Loves on Friday January 23, 2026 @06:31AM (#46731248)
Just typing on iOS randomly inserts the wrong characters: https://youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo

I thought it was just me until someone mentioned this on HN

Re:Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:49AM (#46730114)
Same here, I've found too many bugs in Proton's email client and instead of fixing them they just release new products. FastMail support has been great, I think the developers themselves reply (some of the?) emails, going into technical details and being actually helpful.
Re:Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML on Sunday December 28, 2025 @12:53AM (#46408812)
I’ve tried replacing my modal components with the <dialog> element, but had to reverse everything due to this issue: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9936

In short: you can’t have an interactive popover (e.g. a toast notification) on top of a dialog modal.

I’d love to use the new native elements but we’re sadly not quite there yet.

One CSS tip: make sure the input fields have a minimum font-size of 16px. That way iOS won’t zoom-in the page when focussing one.
Re:Backing Up Spotify on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:04PM (#46340522)
Re:Steam Frame on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:08AM (#45914476)
Opening it in private tabs should help, at least on iOS.
Perhaps https://zorin.com/os/ might be a nice distro for your customers. It has 2 UI options: one that is close to macOS and one that looks more like Windows.
Re:Apple M5 chip on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:48AM (#45602163)
I’ve been having the same idea for a while. I think it would be a great way to let them prioritize the stability a bit more by publicly displaying how shamefully the UI behaves.

Interested in collaborating on this? Perhaps a simple open-source static blog built with Astro?

Re:Kagi News on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:50PM (#45428729)
I used to love Proton, but they focus too much on feature development instead of stability and fixing long-standing bugs. E.g. zooming has been broken for years in ProtonMail on iOS. Some emails won’t even render at all :(
Re:Apple Photos App Corrupts Images on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @12:02PM (#45277503)
I remember years ago I lost some random videos on iCloud (synced via the Photos app). The filenames were there but they couldn't be opened anymore and seemed corrupt. Since then I never trusted iCloud anymore and switched to Syncthing (which back then also messed up some of my data if I recall correctly) and then Nextcloud.
Love it! Thanks for sharing
Re:Show HN: 1 Million Rows on Monday August 11, 2025 @11:47AM (#44865554)
Having the column widths jump around while scrolling and the absent page search doesn’t seem like ‘rock-solid reliability’ to me.

It seems this is just a minimum implementation of a ‘virtual list’.

on MacOS you can use Fn+Up and Fn+Down
Re:How to Think About Time in Programming on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:30AM (#44374176)
One thing I found out when programming a timeline lately was that year zero doesn’t exist. It just goes from -1 to 1. Which looks very weird if you want to display intervals of e.g. 500 years: -1001, -501, -1, 500, 1000, etc
Re:Claude 4 on Friday May 23, 2025 @03:57AM (#44070846)
Didn’t they make an exception for open-source projects? https://opensource.org/blog/the-european-regulators-listened...
Re:Human on Thursday May 15, 2025 @03:54AM (#43992819)
Out of curiosity-what brought you to this perspective on life? This view of the universe dreaming itself into existence, was it shaped more by philosophy, spirituality, a specific tradition like Buddhism, or just personal exploration?
Very nice! On iOS it does not seem to register fast consecutive taps correctly, if that’s fixed I would actually like to play this more often

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