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Re:Oru Kayak’s reckless and irresponsible advertising on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:29AM (#33908869)
Slightly off-topic: noticed something odd with Safari 16.1 (18614.2.9.1.12) running on macOS Ventura 13.0.1 (22A400) - The company's name "Oru" is not rendered in any Safari tabs or tooltip titles that are not the company's official website.

All of these titles have "Oru" prepended in their HTML source title tags and DuckDuckGo results, but disappeared in the Safari tabs and tooltip titles:

Oru kayak's reckless and irresponsible advertising - Paddlers' Place - Paddling.com: https://forums.paddling.com/t/oru-kayaks-reckless-and-irresp... https://i.imgur.com/K0XAa7Y.png

Oru kayak's reckless and irresponsible advertising | Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33892108 https://i.imgur.com/Ai53Akb.png

Oru Kayak Review - A Money Waster Or A Smooth Ride? | Killer Kayaks!: http://killerkayaks.com/oru-bay-kayak/ https://i.imgur.com/cc49ujA.png

Oru Lake Folding Kayak Review: Perfect For Urbanites And Beginners: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/2022/08... https://i.imgur.com/QCm0IXV.png

However, the words Oru Kayak are present on the company's official website:

Oru Kayak - Oru Kayak: https://www.orukayak.com https://i.imgur.com/fLs9Qc9.png

Was wondering if anyone else has this issue?

Re:Cheating at chess with a computer for my shoes on Monday September 05, 2022 @05:45PM (#32729861)
Though I'm not much of a poker player myself, I am friends with many professionals who have found success both online and offline, in games from pot-limit omaha to no-limit hold-em.

Cheating in online poker has been around for many years, with varying success by online gaming companies to implement anti-cheat measures in their software. With recent developments in AI, there is renewed discussion about cheating as the best AIs have no trouble beating anything from PLO to NLHE.

It was only a matter of time before this started to spread offline, and just a few weeks ago, I heard a story from a friend of a friend who caught a player using a device similar to this during a private game he was hosting. It's only a matter of time before these sorts of devices continue to spread, and I'm not sure how the world will respond.

It would be a huge deal to cheat at events like the World Chess Tournament, but the consequences of getting caught will likely stop at complete disgrace. Cheating at events like the World Series of Poker, with tens of millions of dollars on the line, or even worse, private events with potentially billions of dollars at stake, could lead to a hell of a lot worse.

Ask HN: Are there alternative Latin scripts designed for speed?

To clarify, I know of 3 general ways of writing the latin alphabet; script, cursive, and calligraphy, which are as varied as the people who write them. I know of teaching scripts such as Getty-Dubay italics and historically popular scripts such as Spencerian which enforce a more standard style. In general, all of these scripts primarily focus on maintaining a resemblance to the base alphabet,...

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You've said everything I could ever say about PiHKAL; it's a masterpiece. TiHKAL, published three years after the Shulgin's lab was raided by the DEA, is also a fantastic read.
Re:Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:25AM (#30672142)
let it roll!
Re:I find myself completing never seen movie's sentences on Thursday December 23, 2021 @05:37PM (#29667293)
Interesting.
Re:Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday? on Sunday November 21, 2021 @01:08PM (#29298286)
There are exceptions to every rule, and there are rules to every exception.
Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:18AM (#28116386)
Thank you, I started using this yesterday and it works great! Perfectly fits my requirements.

Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications?

I need a simple service to send push notifications programmatically to my own phone. I don't want to make an entire app, but I am okay with (and know it will likely involve) downloading one. I don't want to use email or SMS. I want something like PagerDuty, but for myself. I want to send an API request and have my phone alert me the next second. Is there such a service?

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Ask HN: How to reduce inertia in Hammock Driven Development

I've been a software engineer for almost a decade now, and I enjoy working in this field a lot. One of the most influential talks in my career has been Rich Hickey's talk on Hammock Driven Development [1]. It's helped me complete projects with such a simple approach that fits well with how my brain works. I'm a very pensive person and for the most part, everything from initial concept to system...

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Re:Go Forward Plan on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:14PM (#27226563)
TL;DR from the article:

"First of all, all of the Vaults are safe ... However, a hacker was indeed able to gain ~$45M from this incident"

You can track the exploiters's activity on Etherscan, presently, they have $11M in ETH at this address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xa0ACC61547f6bd066f7c9663C17A3...

Re:Happy New Year HN on Thursday December 31, 2020 @04:13PM (#25597187)
Happy New Year everyone!
There are as many ways to live, as many meanings to life, as many philosophies of the nature of things as there are beings in the universe. There's really nothing much to learn, because there are endless things to learn.

One of my favorite comments on Hacker News was posted a few days ago. To quote:

"On and on you will go, making sense of the world, forming notions of order, and being surprised in ways large and small by their failure, forever." — Albert Burneko on Wile E. Coyote: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/how-wile-e-coyote-explains...

In case this helps, my Android Auto went through an infuriating phase where it refused to connect, and my cars screen would continue to say exactly what yours said. For about two weeks I was incredibly frustrated, until I discovered that I just had to clean out my phones charging port with a toothpick and it immediately began working again. The dust and debris from repeated connection and disconnection had piled up and prevented certain data pins from connecting, but once removed, it worked like brand new. I now clean out my phone’s charging port every month and haven’t run into the issue again. I was relieved that the issue was this simple to fix, and hope yours is too.
Re:Best Smartphones That Still Have a Headphone Jack on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:47PM (#20990807)
In addition to the sibling comments, I use Join by joaoapps on my Android to approximate what you do with my Mac. I am able to push screenshots and photos to immediately download on my Mac, send SMS from my Mac, and automatically send my clipboard to/from my devices. It's a very powerful app that I couldn't live without and would meet a lot of your needs.

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