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The fake SINs from Shadowrun come to mind: https://shadowrun.fandom.com/wiki/System_Identification_Numb...
And some hijacking of the old DotA forums to advertise LoL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13439036
> They act like we’re going to war with them when we’re asking for parity and for their self reliance to increase.

Threatening to take over Greenland by force isn't considered "going to war" for you?

Re:Why I Think Valve's Retiring the Steam Deck LCD on Monday December 29, 2025 @05:38PM (#46426728)
That'll only support L3 DRM, so you'll only get horrible quality and are better off sailing the high seas.
Shoutout to https://localsend.org/ - it can even open a local webserver if needed.
Swiss-German accent doesn't seem to be on the list, so it guessed mostly Swedish.
Vikings are a very good archer civ, full tree and the free handcart is a top-tier eco-boost.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024) on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @04:47PM (#40578765)
family.cards | Senior Android Engineer | Berlin, Germany | hybrid (50% per month) | full-time | https://family.cards | 60k-85k + ESOP

We're a startup building a device which gives seniors access to the digital world, with a card-based interface. We're looking for help with our main product, which is based on Android. Everything's built on Kotlin, rabbitmq & multiplatform compose for the companion app. Bonus points for experience with: BLE, IR, HDMI CEC, NFC, Swift (for the companion app), ansible, German.

If you're interested, send me an email at [email protected]

Re:America's commute to work is getting longer and longer on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @08:45AM (#40573945)
Population density: - Germany: 239 people/km^2 - Switzerland: 563 people/km^2

Public funding per citizen per year: - Germany: ~200€ (2013, so 250€ with inflation) https://www.bmuv.de/fileadmin/Daten_BMU/Pools/Forschungsdate... - Switzerland: ~750€ (2024) https://switzerlandtimes.ch/swiss-public-transport-revenues-...

So you have a third of the money, and about half the population density.

Re:Web Environment Integrity API on Friday July 21, 2023 @02:09PM (#36817306)
tl;dr: DRM for websites
Or a malicious server trying to detect if you're using `curl | sh` https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
Re:Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:18PM (#36607284)
We're working on a device to allow seniors to access the digital world with a haptic interface. We support video calls / photo sharing / content / telemedicine / exercises to bridge the generational gap in digital services.

https://family.cards

Re:Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @04:56PM (#36606986)
I'd also be interested in picking your brain. If you happen to have time, send me an email.
Re:IodéOS Is Open Source on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @12:09PM (#33534603)
I installed iode onto my FP3, and I could relock the bootloader.
Re:Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:25AM (#26274072)
I formatted

  { foo = 3, bar = 4, baz = 5, verylongproperty = 6, dunnoneedsmoremore = 7, howmanytoforcealinebreak = 8 }
And it forces the comma at the beginning of the line, Haskell-style:

  { foo = 3
  , bar = 4
  , baz = 5
  , verylongproperty = 6
  , dunnoneedsmoremore = 7
  , howmanytoforcealinebreak = 8
  }
Re:Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:51AM (#26273860)
You can have trailing commas just fine: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-lang/pull/956

However, `dhall format` is _very_ opinionated, and will remove it.

Re:Intercal, YAML, and Other Horrible Programming Languages on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:44AM (#26273791)
It's great if the system is built directly on top of it, e.g. spago. Not so much if you're trying to type yaml. Dhall is very opinionated, so trying to use it like TypeScript to type an untyped structure is... interesting.

E.g. for Kubernetes: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes

Re:Debian project has plenty of money but not enough developers on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:44AM (#24441229)
> Federal Job Guarantee

Job Guarantee isn't as good of an idea as you'd expect: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/16/basic-income-not-basic...