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Re:Clipboard Normalizer
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:56AM (#49923395)
It might not for GPLv3: it tries to sidestep it by explicitly voiding any clauses placing additional restrictions, but Pandoc is using GPLv2
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9500/is-apple...
Re:I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:13AM (#49206939)
And two linux ports:
Re:Kagi Magic
on Saturday June 13, 2026 @03:17AM (#48514370)
For context - I assume this comment is referring to Kagi still paying Yandex to use their index.
I've collected some links here last time this was discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057759
Re:Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency
on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:56AM (#48503550)
If openrouter is to be trusted, the cheapest offers that are not from Deepseek itself are:
- twice as expensive on the output (1.52 vs 0.87)
- six times as expensive on the input (0.33 vs 0.05)
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro?sort=price#pr...
Re:Haskell Foundation 2026 Update
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @03:48AM (#48219235)
He posted about him leaving Facebook on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7302785...
He also reflected on his time and Haskell usage at Facebook here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEWBHP0PvRw&list=PLQpeDZt0_x...
Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive
on Thursday April 09, 2026 @06:02AM (#47701497)
Not that it answers your question, but the move happened in 2020 to "hire more easily, act more swiftly, and pursue ideas that were previously not possible".
Re:Nova Launcher Added Facebook and Google Ads Tracking
on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:27AM (#46690713)
Pop-ups [1] in Niagara launcher do this. However, it comes with other unconventional UI decisions which might or might not be to your liking.
Re:Show HN: DoNotNotify – log and intelligently block notifications on...
on Monday January 05, 2026 @01:02PM (#46502262)
It took me a moment to find, but Alertly claims to do something similar while being open-source. Last commit was made two years ago though.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.example.notificationalerter
Re:Kagi Hub Belgrade
on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @09:36AM (#46057759)
Just in case you need sources: Kagi is using [1] Yandex and paying them as of June 2025. This is a long-standing position, which was also voiced [2] in November 2024.
Regarding Yandex. The founder sold [3] the assets (seemingly including the index and Yandex trademark) to VK (Mail.ru) in 2022. VK are known supporters of the war [4]. The founder subsequently renamed [5] his original company to Nebius Group and pivoted towards compute for AI.
[1]: Kagi Community AMA by the founder. Timestamped link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbmMUGSFldQ
[2] Kagi forums, a response by the founder. https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex#2020s
[4] https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/26/22951307/us-sanctions-rus...
Re:Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support
on Thursday November 20, 2025 @01:13AM (#45989505)
Take a look at Open-Xchange, it's not developed by Thunderbird folks but otherwise fits the bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange
mailbox.org is based on it.
Re:Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie
on Friday August 29, 2025 @11:29AM (#45065401)
I was browsing through the issues of extrepo and found deb-get, seems pretty useful too:
> deb-get makes it easy to install and update .debs published in 3rd party apt repositories or made available via direct download on websites or GitHub release pages.
https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get/
In particular, the list of software is a bit longer than extrepo (e.g. includes zoom):
https://github.com/wimpysworld/deb-get/blob/main/01-main/REA...
Re:Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @09:36AM (#44951363)
Keep in mind that using Beeper for Instagram breaks their ToS and often gets your account suspended or banned. This happens with both cloud and local bridges.
https://www.reddit.com/r/beeper/search/?q=instagram+suspende...
Re:Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look
on Monday June 16, 2025 @03:33AM (#44287373)
Isn't this something we already know from the mass–energy equivalence? In the same way that a nuclear reaction that produces heat must cost the object mass (and therefore gravitational pull)
Re:Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
on Sunday April 20, 2025 @04:50AM (#43742497)
There's a similar game, but for guessing both the year and the location
Discussed on HN a couple of years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37203511
edit: found another game like OP in the linked thread https://www.chronophoto.app/game.html
Re:Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee
on Sunday April 13, 2025 @07:42AM (#43672053)
There's also a great documentary on Stanislaw Lem. It's in Polish, but with English subtitles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw
Lem himself talks about the movie a bit there too, around 24th minute.Let's just say he wasn't fond of Tarkowsky's religiousness and the impact it had on the movie.
Timestamped link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wQq4aKldaw&t=1434
My impression was similar — the movie seems to be a free retelling and doesn't reflect the book well.
Re:Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals
on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:38PM (#43417045)
Can you say the same thing about iCloud, AppStore?
Re:Home Manager: Dotfiles Management
on Sunday December 22, 2024 @04:42AM (#42485353)
It should have the same constraints as nix itself — i.e. easiest on linux, slightly more complicated on macos.
Bug isolation is probably the best next step for you. Is it during nix installation? Is it a particular package that thows an error?
There's some community at #hm:rycee.net, perhaps they can help you debug it live.
Re:Synapse Pro, a new enterprise Matrix server from Element
on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @05:18AM (#42375480)
Promising efficiency, "new functionality written in Rust".
But also:
> Available under a commercial license, Synapse Pro will alhelp fund and accelerate the continued open source development of Synapse for the benefit of all of Matrix.
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/113627636666252355
> Synapse Pro is for nation-scale deployments, not community use.
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/113628266288510356
Not sure how to feel about it just yet.
Re:Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022)
on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:27AM (#42219358)
Depending on the domain, a language workbench might be a good fit.
Re:Inspecting North Korea's Digital Map App: Licensing and API Insights
on Saturday November 02, 2024 @08:57PM (#42030427)
There is some information here and in references, but it's sparse on how he entered the university.
Re:Emails I Received, the Collection
on Monday January 15, 2024 @06:13AM (#38999540)
Certainly, the problem is bigger than just computers. I was trying to say that if you don't understand how computers work your chances of getting confused are higher since they are ubiquitous and often the interactions with them are so poorly designed that it's easy to get confused.
Re:Emails I Received, the Collection
on Sunday January 14, 2024 @05:33PM (#38995122)
Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of sorts?
Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun — a lot of them are from people who seem like they need urgent help and obviously aren't getting it.
His "summary" is "somehow they help me remember that the world we live in is super complicated" and while true, it was more of testament how confused a lot of people are, how lost. And how privileged people who understand computers are, being able to avoid this confusion.
Re:Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage Client for Android
on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:53AM (#38532475)
Besides being allegedly hard to shut down without breaking iPhones, there's also this statement given to Ars Technica:
> Migicovsky had a few different answers. The broadest one, regarding the tech behind the app, is that reverse-engineering for interoperability is legal—a fair use exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's restrictions against circumventing encryption or other protections. The app also goes out of its way to avoid trademarks like iMessage, referring instead to "blue bubbles" and the like, and the rest might be considered nominative fair use.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/beeper-mini-on-andro...
Re:EU confirms six (mostly US) tech giants are subject to Digital Mark...
on Friday September 15, 2023 @01:42PM (#37526610)
Seemingly no iMessage, unfortunately.
I guess Apple won that argument. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37401632
edit: the article actually mentions iMessage explicitly:
> And the newspaper reported the Commission was still deliberating over the inclusion of Bing and iMessage.
> In the event, the EU looks to be taking a cautious approach to this early pushback — since, as noted above, both Bing and iMessage are not on the initial list of 22 core platform services. Instead, the Commission has agreed to take a closer look at Apple and Microsoft’s arguments that these services should be excluded.
Re:Medical Wordlist (EN/FR/UK)
on Saturday April 22, 2023 @08:25AM (#35665894)
In this case it's not a country code but a language code (ISO 639-1).
And Ukrainian language code is in fact UK.
So dear author, you can revert your last commit ;-)
Re:60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro ...
on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:30PM (#32870919)
Suggesing _russian_ newspapers non-ironically to read news is like suggesting someone to read Daily Mail for latests political developments.
Wherever you read your news at the very least make sure there's no russian trace there.
Russian imperial midset is a huge bias in the current situation and the forementioned meduza isn't any different in this regard.
Re:Typography in 8 bits: System fonts
on Saturday October 03, 2020 @03:46PM (#24674217)
Late to the party, but any idea what "inverse letter mode" in Rationale for Atari 400/800 is?
https://damieng.com/blog/2011/02/20/typography-in-8-bits-sys...
Re:Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers
on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:15AM (#15541259)
Not moving, but copying. Here's the source:
https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/29/help-us-keep-the-archive...
Re:Pirate Bay may finally be sunk after EU copyright ruling
on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:44AM (#14558384)
https://web.archive.org/web/20170614180327/https://arstechni...
also, the story is still present on their UK website
https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/06/pirate-bay-cop...