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Re:Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art on Saturday October 03, 2026 @09:28PM (#49949689)
Frog in a Blender. All time.
Re:Playa Phone on Monday August 31, 2026 @03:36PM (#49513975)
In Australia, Telstra is required to keep the payphone network up and running. You can make free outgoing calls to landlines and mobile phones. And I just read that you can call inbound as well (which I did not know). Now the fun begins.
Re:How does IKEA come up with names for its products? on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:58AM (#49357907)
Clue to their DB setup?
Re:Meet Calc on Saturday August 30, 2025 @05:22AM (#45073219)
Ever wonder much the meeting is costing? The clock is ticking. Head hours around the room. Wonder no more.

Introducing Meet Calc.

"Can everyone see my screen?", "You're on mute.", "Sorry, I was on mute.", "Let's circle back on that.", "I'll send a follow-up email.", "We're running over.", "Quick question...", "Let's take this offline.", "Can you repeat that?", "Sorry, you cut out.", "I have a hard stop at...", "Let's park that for now.", "Who's taking notes?", "Can we get five minutes back?", "I think we lost Esk.", "Before we wrap up...", "Action items?"

Select the number of participants, drop in the individual hourly rates, and hit Start meeting. Then start sweating.

You're welcome.

Re:Show HN: Correct Horse Battery Staple on Thursday August 07, 2025 @05:14PM (#44830448)
OP here. It's not about the content: it's weird art.

Show HN: Correct Horse Battery Staple

https://chbs.kripy.com/

I had this idea in my head for a while. When 1Password updated their UI it got tricky to generate passwords (they've since fixed it) so I wrote my own password generator. It hooks into the macOS dictionary which has over 250k words and pulls out four random words. The correct horse battery staple script then pulls a random style, for the image, from a text file and sends me the output. I am...

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