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Nice! I don't really care if we end up on daylight savings or not, just stop this time change madness finally please!
Re:SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @07:01PM (#50267104)
They should sink the US as artificial reef.
Re:New iMac with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:11AM (#50259673)
The title text animation is really cute, props to whoever made this!
Wow this is surprisingly useful to explore local data, thanks for building!!

I wonder: why are you calculating PageRank, are the wiki article views not enough?

If I play around with the importance slider, PageRank seems to have much less difference between articles, highlighting just a few articles per city in large text.

Yes particularly in SF so many of the historical buildings seem to be gone :(

Because of earthquakes maybe?

Omg I love this so much mate! Incredible how much more relevant nearby articles feel than the default to which you have no personal connection. I also think local news are much better/useful for the same reason.

I'm working on something similar! Open World, an app that turns collecting nearby Wikipedia places into a game! [1]

It started with you having to go to the place IRL to unlock the article/story, mostly so you find cool spots out on a walk. But slowly I discovered that most people go on walks somewhat rarely, so now it also includes a virtual Fast-Travel system using Apple Maps LookAround :)

Oh, also a 3D map of the different neighbourhoods of a city to unlock one a time, plus narrative Quests to complete with the secrets you found, ...

Local History is fun!!

[1] https://openworldapp.xyz

Re:Discover vibe-coded alternatives to popular software on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:06PM (#50058420)
Ok. But. Why?
Re:Line Scan Photos from MUNI Heritage Weekend in San Francisco on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:03AM (#49801490)
Woww so cool, thanks for sharing!
> I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

Was this written by the state department?

The overall statement is very disappointing in my opinion, doesn’t nearly go far enough.

How can you think that a “department of war” does anything remotely good? And only object to domestic AI surveillance?

Re:Heathrow scraps 100ml liquid container limit on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:34AM (#46777623)
Take an empty, open water bottle through security and then fill it up at the free water fountains!
Borders are an imaginary concept made-up by nation-states, which only serves the people in power.

Or how are people fleeing from prosecution, looking for a better life, or just feeling like living somewhere else exactly hurting you? It's really a human right to move to another place, without reason required.

If you're thinking about jobs, skilled workers immigrating will compete with you much more than less-privileged people. And "we cannot pay for them" is BS made up the system as well. It is possible to pay for social security for everyone, but not if all profits go to shareholders of course.

Also interested in a sample site where the request successfully resolves ;)
Re:The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @08:27AM (#45979282)
The interesting part about Cities 2 is that the simulation is much more in-depth: pops have a real job where they commute to (versus taking any available one in the first game), they don't just teleport around, companies have to import&export resources and make profit based on that, etc.

Also the graphics/lighting seems much improved with a more realistic art style.

Both things which you cannot really retrofit into Cities 1.

Re:Claude.ai Is Down on Friday October 31, 2025 @06:02AM (#45770224)
Use another AI tool :D
Re:Claude.ai Is Down on Friday October 31, 2025 @06:01AM (#45770217)
Related question: why does Claude Code need a new auth token very few days?? It's so annoying.
Re:A stateful browser agent using self-healing DOM maps on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:13AM (#45605601)
Nope. Their entire website shows up with a white screen for me in the latest Chrome.

There's this error in the console: Failed to load module script: Expected a JavaScript-or-Wasm module script but the server responded with a MIME type of "text/html". Strict MIME type checking is enforced for module scripts per HTML spec.

Please read through the legal definition of a genocide, and then tell me that that's not what's happening right now:

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-c...

> Are you suggesting that vercels CEO is to be compared with Adolf Hitler

No, Netanyahu.

Who Vercel's CEO recently posted for a selfie with on X, wishing "greatness for Israel" without mentioning the genocide being committed by that person right now.

Re: on Friday October 03, 2025 @03:58AM (#45460264)
It would be a valid argument if you provide evidence for it, such as other commenters here have done. Whereas you just rejected my claim without any argumentation.

I have provided a source for the numbers cited in the original comment. Where those numbers are explained.

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:41PM (#45456460)
This is not how discussions work on Hacker News, and it's also very impolite.

We care about facts, and evidence for arguments here.

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:36PM (#45456433)
I got them from the article which I linked in my comment.
Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:28PM (#45456364)
From the Wikipedia article you linked:

> Bernard Avishai states that the Gaza withdrawal was designed to obviate rather than facilitate peace negotiations [...]

> Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's senior adviser, Dov Weissglass, explained the meaning of Sharon's statement further: The significance of the disengagement plan is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state [...]

> Shimon Peres, then Vice Prime Minister, stated in an interview that: "We are disengaging from Gaza because of demography"

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:13PM (#45456247)
> Israel tries to avoid killing civilians

Did you read the article this discussion is about?

How could one cause a famine accidentally, without intent to murder civilians?

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:11PM (#45456224)
This is not how international law is supposed to work.

Nothing justifies a genocide.

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @06:05PM (#45456175)
Could you please link a source for that piece of information?
Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:55PM (#45456079)
Where did you get that information from? :)
Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:54PM (#45456067)
Because the linked article clearly states why the official numbers are not accurate in the authors opinions.

Also "These numbers are just false" is not a valid argument.

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:51PM (#45456046)
I was referencing numbers from the article which I linked, which clearly states the reasons for why those researchers don't believe official numbers.

The page you linked seems to only include deaths where the name of the person is known. Who is left in Gaza to count or report the dead?

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:50PM (#45456031)
Who is left in Gaza to count or report all the dead? The people who die of famine?

Official numbers have increased by less than 20.000 in the last year of genocide. Isn't that curious?

Re: on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:44PM (#45455973)
Mhh, what if we let enough food into Gaza so that everyone can survive?

Why would Hamas have any reason to steal food then?

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