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American Express to buy Tripadvisor's restaurant booking platform TheFork
The Bracket – A Government Man
DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum
Getting price-gouged by private equity in the UK's happiest resort (2023)
Re:The Guide to Build a Profitable Flippa Clone App
on Monday August 19, 2024 @05:15AM (#41289301)
This profitable GPT generated text is a wonderful opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to waste the time of the reader.
Takeaway dot bet – Get a random takeaway from Deliveroo (UK)
Re:Removed: Document
on Thursday November 16, 2023 @07:53AM (#38288954)
Re:Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
on Friday September 22, 2023 @05:51AM (#37610003)
There's a dropdown at the top for the locale - you can select UK and you should get UK results.
Show HN: Deliveroo Takeaway Randomiser
Re:Uber Posts First Quarterly Net Profit of $394M
on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @08:36AM (#36955183)
Re:A URL shortener not shortening the URL but makes it look very dodgy
on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:33AM (#34611904)
> It is funny
You answered your question yourself!
Ask HN: Tool to generate a simple web form from SQL
I remember seeing a while ago a project posted here that could be used to generate a simple web form from a SQL query, or the definition of a query. It would be perfect for my friend who's looking to build the simplest possible database interface quickly for a client.Only problem: cannot for the life of me remember what it was called. I've tried searching Google and HN to no avail. Any similiar...
Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in office.
on Thursday October 20, 2022 @09:29AM (#33274412)
Announced a lot of unfunded tax cuts financed by borrowing - these have now been walked back on. The main issue was not really that she cut taxes, it's the unfunded borrowing to cover. Borrowing with the current high interest rates was always going to be risky and the market didn't have confidence that the cuts would lead to growth. This caused the value of the pound and of UK gov bonds (gilts) to plummet. Several large pension funds (which usually hold large numbers of gilts) were in danger of being margin called, which would cause them to have to sell gilts to cover the responsibility, which would drive down the price further, causing more sell offs. To prevent this the Bank of England (BoE) announced that they would be buying up to £65B of UK gilts - which calmed the markets and prevented a sell off (for now). But it has significantly worsened the economic outly for the country, buying your own bonds at a premium during a period of high inflation is a horrible position to be in.
The gov also declined to get the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) to check the impact of the plans. This is something the OBR does before every budget and it's very unusual that they didn't do this - even though it turns out they offered to before the budget was released. It didn't help that a lot of the taxes cut were targeted for high earners - It's hard to argue how cutting the top 45pc tax rate for earners over £150,000 and dropping a cap on bankers bonuses would help people in the short term (or dare. I say, the long), when the majority of people in the UK were struggling with the massively increased cost of living. It almost seemed as if the conservatives were trying to force through a list of long desired for tax cuts for the wealthy without the proper mandate (as Truss was only. elected by Conservative party members, rather than the general electorate) - and this made her gov monstrously unpopular.
Slowly waking up to the truth: Brexit has left us poorer, adrift and alone
'People, ideas, machines' II: catastrophic thinking on nuclear weapons
Unfortunately for the Star, that person was their fashion editor
Re:What would a “good” WebMD look like?
on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @10:31AM (#32650958)
You can search at the top for symptoms: https://imgur.com/a/y5RUk5x
I'd say if I were to suggest improvements the symptom search could definitely be better and more prominently placed. In the UK I personally (and I'd imagine most people) get to the NHS website directly from Google, which is better at finding more relevant pages.
Re:What would a “good” WebMD look like?
on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:54AM (#32650445)
A better question might be: Why is the private sector responsible for providing accurate health information? As this article shows, the incentives for people running medical websites and the people reading them are not aligned. I'd say the UK NHS website and symptoms/medications pages hit the nail on the head - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/. It has no advertising and provides short, easily readable and actionable information on the majority of conditions and the correct way to use and take many different sorts of medication.
And crucially - if the information present is not sufficient, clear and obvious UI elements that direct the next best steps to get the help you need, whether that be ringing the non emergency helpline or immediately going to A&E. (It's been commented on before, but the new UK government sites are very consistently structured and open source their design systems https://service-manual.nhs.uk/design-system)
Has Blizzard’s mobile gamble paid off?
View OpenStreetMap edits in real time
Re:Ask HN: What has melted your brain recently?
on Thursday June 16, 2022 @06:08AM (#31764267)
Re:This Image Does Not Exist
on Sunday May 22, 2022 @08:40AM (#31467504)
Yep I got 1/29 human created. Easier at that point to just guess robot every time which ruins the game
I had a passionate affair with a robot
Bitcoin, NFTs, SPACs, meme stocks – pandemic investment darlings are crashing
Re:
on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:01AM (#31314090)
Hilarious article. It's satire, right?
Re:India’s Heatwaves Are Testing the Limits of Human Survival
on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:17AM (#31258566)
India’s Heatwaves Are Testing the Limits of Human Survival
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:08AM (#30942632)
https://thejamespaterson.com
I got a bit obsessed with CSS animations and a video about beautiful VHS tapes.