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Re:A Note from LWN on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:30AM (#49546972)
"A Note from LWN"
Re:Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget on Saturday August 15, 2026 @09:58AM (#49310613)
RevK's recent stratum 1 server hardware [0] is worth a look. As are the notes [1] that someone wrote up after using it in the UK NTP pool for a couple of weeks.

[0] https://www.revk.uk/2026/07/time-for-something-new.html

[1] https://codeberg.org/RevK/ESP32-GPSNTP/src/branch/main/RevK%...

The torus.c file start with this include directive.

  #include <_time.h>
I'm not sure what that header file is, but commenting it out allowed for a clean compile for me
Re:Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using Htmx on Thursday August 06, 2026 @03:24PM (#49201138)
And for me in Chrome.
Re:Show HN: 18 Words on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:16AM (#48856739)
> I'm pretty sure it didn't used to continue after getting one wrong.

You're right, it changed a few months ago. I find it more enjoyable now that you can continue to the end.

Re:Show HN: 18 Words on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:34AM (#48847635)
https://wordnerd.co/23words/ is similar (but 23 words instead of 18).

Possibly the biggest difference is that 23 Words continues with the next word if you fail to get a word within 30 seconds. When you have attempted all 23 words it will present you with results like this.

    You found 21/23 words
    
    Top 7% of players today.
Re:I made a terminal pager on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:52AM (#47795179)
It's one codepoint, U+FDFD, with the name "Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem".

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FDFD

Re:How can I keep from singing? on Thursday April 16, 2026 @11:46AM (#47795057)
I love singing, but I'm not very good at it. About 6 months ago I started attending a local Tuneless Choir[1]. It's just what I needed, and great fun.

[1] https://www.tunelesschoir.com/

I posted about this last week [1], but it didn't get any traction. Although I used a link to the release page rather than the blog announcement, so maybe that was why.

ho hum

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138688

Re:Release v2.0.0 · Charmbracelet/Bubbletea on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @10:56AM (#47138689)
I noticed that Bubble Tea v2 [0] has been released. It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x. The companion libraries lipgloss[1] and bubbles[2] have also had v2 releases.

[0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases/tag/v2.0... [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss/releases/tag/v2.0.... [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Re:ChromaDB Explorer on Thursday January 15, 2026 @10:52AM (#46634332)
Looking at https://github.com/stepandel/chroma-explorer/blob/master/pac... it looks like it's using Electron.
Re:Strange.website on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @07:01AM (#46511277)
As soon as I saw the scrolling "made by henry (from online)." at the bottom I thought "marquee" tag. Sure enough when I inspected the DOM it does use one.
Re:12 Days of Shell on Monday December 08, 2025 @10:56AM (#46193784)
> Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11.

Just the lines from the files are wanted, not the files names. It took me a little while to cotton on to that.

Semi-spoiler follows.

So you need to use the appropriate flag with grep to suppress the file names.

Re:Go's Sweet 16 on Saturday November 15, 2025 @05:46AM (#45936537)
Inserting elements in to a slice can be done quite easily since the introduction of the slices package to the standard library.

https://pkg.go.dev/slices#Insert

Re:I Want You to Understand Chicago on Saturday November 08, 2025 @03:27PM (#45859673)
I'm in the UK too. So I read the article courtesy of archive.is.

https://archive.is/X33oQ

Re:Why hasn't there been a new major sports league? on Saturday November 08, 2025 @12:17PM (#45858266)
Darts might not be considered a sport, but the British Darts Organisation [1] and the Professional Darts Corporation [2] co-existed (somewhat acrimoniously) for nearly 30 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Darts_Organisation (BDO)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Darts_Corporation (PDC)

Re:Kohler launches smart toilet camera on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:06PM (#45647099)
> and a fingerprint sensor to identify who’s using the toilet

So it sounds like you would only need one camera for multiple people using the same toilet.

So if I'm understanding it correctly, it applies an xor operation on the pairs of cells. For example, click column A then column B. For each of the pairs of cells in the two columns, it performs B = A xor B.
Re:Trumpcard (Official US Government Website) on Sunday September 21, 2025 @06:52AM (#45321650)
As the animation loops it uses the same set of images over again. But as they all have a Cache-Control header with a value of "public, max-age=0, must-revalidate" the browser makes another request for every one of the images, every loop of the animation. It results in transfer of something of the order of 0.6MB/sec, with no end.
Re:Yearly Organiser on Saturday August 02, 2025 @07:08AM (#44766610)
The page's html and css are reasonably small, 3.3kB and 1.5kB. There are three fonts, totalling about 51kB. So altogether about 56kB.

But then somewhat spoiling the page's nice light weight is a 576kB favicon.

I suspect that it is related to the M&S and Co-op attacks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykgrv374eo
Re:Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:41AM (#44247528)
I do https://wordnerd.co/secretword/ most days. It has a similar interface to alphaguess, and I prefer both of them to midword's interface.
Re:Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @09:36AM (#44247491)
It appears to highlight the letters that your guesses have narrowed it down to. For example if you had narrowed it down to after 'sudden' and before 'super', it would highlight 'su'.

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