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Re:Pfeilstorch on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:58PM (#44926034)
That‘s one of the biggest health myths around. Cold weather does NOT weaken your immune system AT ALL (except if you‘re actually hypothermic, which is very different from just feeling uncomfortable). It’s the CONDITIONS that RESULT from cold weather that actually cause those infections to ramp up in winter (think more people staying inside in enclosed spaces).
https://www.prad.de/ is a very reputable resource for display reviews (and to some extend, tvs and beamers)
Re:Show HN: I made a Gravatar-like service for favicons on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @02:41PM (#28371874)
Lots of use cases for this! I've used https://clearbit.com/blog/logo/ in the past.

Results are somewhat different, e.g. compare https://icon.horse/icon/wikipedia.org to https://logo.clearbit.com/wikipedia.org

Re:Using Google Analytics without GDPR consent on Friday December 04, 2020 @11:27AM (#25304164)
IP-addresses (with date/time of access) are considered personal data as stated by the ECJ in the case C‑582/14 from 2016 http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=184...
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use RSS? on Monday December 30, 2019 @12:57PM (#21915283)
Yeah, using NetNewsWire. The original author bought it back somewhat recently and afaik it's a complete rewrite now and open source, go ahead and check it out https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/