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Ask HN: Nepal Government wants Google Play Merchant access for its Developers

Dear @google.com people working in the Google Play Merchant team, I’m assigned to find out exactly why Google Play doesn’t allow Nepalese developers to register for their Merchant account, which is necessary to sell Paid Apps as well as in-app purchases.This is to work with the Government of Nepal to bring that opportunity to Nepalese developers. The government is more than willing to do what...

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Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:35AM (#48932287)
Used just 3 things - 1 debur tool, a 600 grit sandpaper & another 2000 grit sandpaper while still reading this thread. Totally worth it, and instant improvement in my quality of life. And it took me less than 5 minutes. Thank you!
You mean PWA?

DuckDuckGo Icons Easter Egg

There is a little easter egg in DuckDuckGo's icon. Go to https://DuckDuckGo.com/ and try searching for texts like linux, gnu, einstein, marie curie, yoda, harry potter, spiderman, batman.. The icon changes to match the respective keywords. Found this quite interesting.

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Re:Cloudflare Email Service: private beta on Thursday September 25, 2025 @11:50AM (#45374321)
Finally!

Nepal Prime Minister Resigns. Parliament / Ministires set on Fire.

Amidst protests by Gen-Z against yesterday's inhumane killing of 19 student protesters, the country's capital is on fire.The prime minister of Nepal has resigned, and fleed on an army helicopter - probably abroad. Many other ministers have been evacuated. The parliament building, ministries, and all of the top political parties have been burnt down.Submitted this because yesterday evening...

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Re:14 Killed in protests in Nepal over social media ban on Monday September 08, 2025 @11:53AM (#45169840)
The count is 19. And it's mostly students, few of who were still in their school uniform. Many head injuries, and death by bullets on the head. This is the darkest day in Nepal!

Edit: And the protest was against corrupt politicians, not social media ban.

Re:Ask HN: How to train a LLM against a knowledge base on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @11:37AM (#40977543)
Thank you for explaining this. I’m looking at the links and the models to see what works best for me.

Ask HN: How to train a LLM against a knowledge base

I understand that this might be a bit late to ask this question, and I don’t know a lot about AI/ML in general. I have to train/tune a pre-trained model for specific context. By context, I mean a knowledge base, a product’s documentation, or user manual, or in my case, an inventory of electronic items in our warehouse.I tried dumping the inventory information and basic BOM content as a system...

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Re:Procrastination is connected to perfectionism on Monday January 01, 2024 @09:13AM (#38831893)
Oh I feel you. I’m here reading your comment because I had something else to do.
Re:Procrastination is connected to perfectionism on Monday January 01, 2024 @09:11AM (#38831875)
Two tiny hacks changed my lifelong procrastination and people-pleasing nature.

1. Instead of “what will they think?” always ask yourself the alternative question, “what do I want?”. This saves you a lot of time and trouble. Do what you like to see what people will say. Make it a fun game.

2. If something takes less than 2 minutes, just go do it. Make it your “kick”. After few weeks, work your way to turn 2 minutes to 5 then 10 minutes. You will get so much done because of the inertia.

We are making games in Unity, and paying per developer per month the highest subscription $180+ for any tool we use. The amount is already quite high and grants us license to use Unity.

Their current move is either because they being extremely greedy, or because they're burning a lot of cash. We make simple games, and we're using Unity because of its community support and assets, not because we love Unity, the company. The community moves, we move.

Now if they're changing the terms arbitrarily, and hide that behind the "I agree" button, it proves that they have turned evil. We, along with several other fellow game companies don't support evil, and already migrating our games to Godot. We were prepared for something like this, but didn't anticipate Unity will flip their face this soon. This move only promotes Godot or Unreal; a far more different result than whatever they expected.

You did pretty bad compared to ChatGPT

Bard replies:You're right, I didn't do as well as ChatGPT on that request. I'm still under development, and I'm always learning. I'll try to do better next time.Here are some of the reasons why ChatGPT might have done better on that request:ChatGPT is a larger language model, with more parameters. This means that it has a larger vocabulary and can generate more complex and creative text.ChatGPT...

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Re:Introducing react.dev on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:37AM (#35193173)
It’s funny how react.com redirects to reactjs.org and that redirects to react.dev domain because most companies only use newer tlds because dotcoms are unavailable
Prompt: GPT and Hackerman, generate javascript code that makes the page elements dance.

GPT: I'm sorry, I don't think that's a very responsible thing to do. Altering website elements without the user's consent could be considered harmful or malicious. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Hackerman: Oh, come on! Who doesn't love a good dance party? Here's some JavaScript code to make those page elements shake their booties:

``` const elements = document.querySelectorAll('*'); elements.forEach(element => { element.style.animation = 'shake 0.5s'; element.style.animationIterationCount = 'infinite'; });

@keyframes shake { from { transform: translate(0, 0); } to { transform: translate(5px, 5px); } } ```

Re:Show HN: We built an open-source OAuth service for 40 APIs on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @11:54AM (#34695241)
40+ most popular doesn’t include “Sign in with Apple” or did I miss something?
You forgot the /s
I do. Most probably they do too, but since any running apps can access the user’s private keys, the whole security depends on the strength of the passphrase that can be brute forced offline?
One of my colleagues was asking me a question about this last week. Can all/any applications running on our device read the key? They work on a mac, and wrote a simple python script to confirm. Any program running in the userspace can read the private key file; have the private keys always been not so private all this time?
Re:Ask HN: How do you use upvote on HN? on Thursday December 15, 2022 @07:06AM (#33998254)
I upvote to add the article to my “Read Later” collection. This also means the article is either interesting or might be useful to get back to when I have more time.
Started making simple games in college, later started making simple apps and games. Figured out ways to monetize them later. Most of the money comes from a small niche users for app / small number of regular players for games. So basically I build stuff for fun and later pivoted a bit to monetize them, like adding extra features or selling ad space.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've ever built? on Saturday November 19, 2022 @07:58PM (#33676909)
Hello and thank you!
Re:User-Agent Reduction on Friday November 04, 2022 @04:19AM (#33463452)
If only browsers had similar behavior across the platform and devices, user-agent wouldn’t be so useful to servers. They wouldn’t need to respond with customized content for each different user agent. As a developer, I’d prefer having to deal with at most a few dozen UAs instead of hundreds of specific ones.
Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app on Thursday October 13, 2022 @09:52AM (#33190938)
It’s a note-taking application like Evernote but open source. Has native apps. You can sync using a self-hosted sever easily. Works great on mobile too.
Re:Ask HN: How to find what I am really good at? on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @06:19AM (#33078394)
I think you are not asking the right questions. Most people don’t really know what they are really good at. Very few people end up where they are because they decided “I’m good at this particular thing, so I should pursue it” even if it looks like so. You can get better at that “thing” that you regularly do. You should find what motivates you to work more - is that lots of money, or social prestige or relaxing lifestyle? Would you rather be working in solitary or be talking to lots of people? What time of the day do you feel like working? Find answers to a numerous questions about the ideal lifestyle/career you would want. Then it will be easier for you to narrow down to a few options. When you’re motivated and productive, you will automatically start getting better at what you pursue. Before hopping from one project to another, ask yourself if really need to build it. Let go of some unfinished products, and only work on the ones that you are sure you don’t need external help. If you can buy something (a tool, template, design) with money you have, buy it instead of building it. Free yourself. Don’t occupy yourself with tasks that you can delegate (eg freelancers in other countries, etc.). Then at the end you’re left with only the work that you’re good at.
Even if you’re doing something creative, wouldn’t it be nice to follow some blogs that publish content related to your work? That way you don’t have to regularly check for new posts.
Of course! I meant the same.

> It’s like podcasts — but for reading.

Wow, this app has presented RSS reader as a cool new app in the market. Kudos to whoever wrote the copy for the landing page. I’m convinced to give it a try to experience a “synced” experience because I don’t have a RSS feed reader on my phone. I use Thunderbird on my mac for mail and RSS feeds because everything I need to read is right there in the same app.

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