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Re:Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:17PM (#50354874)
I thought it was pretty clear?

> Back in 2013, three friends who loved Apple and design couldn’t find a notes app they liked, so they built their own. That side project became Bear.

BTP say [0] that "the images and biometric data of those who don’t cause an alert are automatically and immediately deleted." - if that's true, they shouldn't be able to tell that it's the same faces being scanned multiple times so it has to be 500k total scans rather than, say, 500k unique faces across 2 million scans

[0] https://www.btp.police.uk/police-forces/british-transport-po...

Re:Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:00PM (#49881027)
This looks really promising. Very snappy.

I might be missing it but there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Illustrator's direct selection tool, for moving individual anchor points? There's the anchor point tool for adjusting the curve of an anchor point, but I can't move the anchor points themselves. I expected to find it under the pen tool menu.

Re:Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:55PM (#49880966)
I think they mean the Filter > Render > Clouds feature in Photoshop rather than local vs cloud
Re:Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:02AM (#49416093)
Not unless you happen to own 0.9.2.e164.arpa, 6.4.2.e164.arpa, and 7.4.2.e164.arpa: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387570
Re:I accidentally logged phone calls to military bases on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:43AM (#49389820)
Where else would they be calling on Diego Garcia apart from the military base?
Re:Stolen Buttons on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:21AM (#49048329)
They're usually done with SVGs or CSS pseudoelements (a clip-path polygon or borders and rotation) rather than Unicode arrows
Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:42AM (#49036445)
Re:Show HN: Turn any recipe into 2-player mode on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:40AM (#49036408)
If my experience of playing Overcooked is anything to go by this may well result in bloodshed
Re:Don't hijack my mouse pointer on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:52AM (#48108331)
Google's design blog has a particularly egregious version of this: https://design.google/

The mouse blob morphs into the background of any buttons you hover over, which is technically impressive but annoying in practice

He posts on his Instagram to verify authenticity: https://www.instagram.com/p/DXwf7pis6KT
Anyone else getting the optical illusion of the fans spinning in your peripheral vision while reading the top paragraphs?
Context: last year LaLiga (top-level Spanish football league) obtained a court order compelling Spanish ISPs to block certain IPs during football matches, as those IPs have been associated with illegal streams of live matches. Many of those IPs are shared Cloudflare IPs, with the result being many legitimate sites become unavailable in Spain during LaLiga matches

https://cybernews.com/news/spain-laliga-streaming-piracy-cam...

Companies House statement here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-on-companies-house...

(Companies House maintain the official register of companies in the UK)

Re:Zendesk Email Spam on Thursday February 05, 2026 @04:46AM (#46897797)
I'm seeing the same pattern, with the addition of diddy@ and epstein@, curiuosly
Please don't post sign-up pages for things that don't exist yet to Show HN, they're off topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Re:Ask HN: QR code generator that doesn't require sign up on Friday January 09, 2026 @03:59AM (#46551579)
Thank you for sharing! I made this one. Had the same problem as the OP, the Google results are full of junk, so I made it just so I had something reliable to use.
Re:Map of All the Buildings in the World on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:34AM (#46217534)
You have uBlock Origin or another ad blocker installed, their cookie banner disables scrolling but your ad blocker is blocking the cookie banner (same thing happened to me)
Re:New Pebble Device on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @10:29AM (#46205974)
> Here’s the best part: the battery lasts for years

I wonder how many years?

> The battery lasts for up to years of average use.

...how many?

> a battery that lasts for years

How many years does the battery last?

> That’s up to 2 years of usage.

Ah.

I guess "2" is the absolute minimum that you could describe as "years".

It's a shame because it does look like an interesting proposition. It might be more compelling if it was "send your ring back to us for recycling - and we'll send you a new one". I doubt the economics would work at this price point though.

Re:How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019) on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @07:11AM (#46120465)
I have an 'Ambient Radio' channel on https://ambiph.one, my soundscape generator: https://ambiph.one/?m=1-Ambient+Radio-bf100

There are some great less-well-known artists on there - if you tap the album art it'll link you to their Bandcamp if they have one

Re:Rebecca Heineman has died on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @11:46AM (#45968698)
Well the argument certainly wasn't "nobody dies of cancer in places with universal healthcare"
Re:Rebecca Heineman has died on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:23AM (#45965480)
Something doesn't have to be perfect to be better
Re:Implementing a Foil Sticker Effect on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:00AM (#45100619)
Are there any software-oriented licenses in the same spirit as CC BY-NC? I'm aware that it likely wouldn't be a true Open Source license if you completely prohibit commercial use, but I've looked for a license like that in the past and didn't have any luck
Re:What a Hacker Stole from Me on Sunday July 06, 2025 @12:11PM (#44481948)
He mentions in an earlier blog post [0] that the audio files are behind Cloudflare already so if Cloudflare did its job so I think the actual bandwidth impact on the origin server should have been pretty limited. Hopefully he'd turned on the option to ignore the query string to avoid the cache being bypassed.

I run a similar audio-heavy site [1] that's reached the front page of HN, also behind Cloudflare - the traffic spiking to terabytes a day is a bit of a shock at first but if everything's configured properly CF works well

[0] https://mynoise.net/blog.php#landed

[1] https://ambiph.one

Really neat! If you're interested in adding clouds to your basemap I built a service [0] which generates free, almost-live cloudmaps (with alpha channel or precomposited onto a Blue Marble image) as part of my own ISS tracker project

[0] https://github.com/matteason/live-cloud-maps

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