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Re:The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
on Sunday March 08, 2026 @12:39AM (#47294773)
There is a link to the North America file, where all those referenced stories can be found.
Re:Subway Stories
on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:21PM (#42688572)
Such a popular trick that it got a song written about it
Re:BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due
on Monday June 12, 2023 @09:25PM (#36303917)
Say what you want about BBEdit no longer being useful in the modern era, but whenever I have to work with a multi-megabyte file that my IDE chokes on, BBEdit can open it no problem.
Re:Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31
on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:42AM (#32820709)
nope, it has a REST API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi
I know people who are already using it in random python scripts and whatnot, e.g. https://sixcolors.com/post/2022/06/adding-apple-weatherkit-d...
Re:Mille Bornes
on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:23PM (#32729001)
COUP FOURRÉ!
Re:I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped
on Sunday September 04, 2022 @12:16AM (#32709772)
He was sentenced to 13 months in prison, followed by 3 years of probation, plus forfeiting $500k of proceeds
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-operator-illegal-boote...
Re:We’ll Miss You, MetroCard Machine
on Friday September 02, 2022 @11:12PM (#32698279)
MetroCard was also created and run by Cubic, nothing new here.
Re:News from WWDC22: WebKit Features in Safari 16 Beta
on Monday June 06, 2022 @07:19PM (#31647749)
They did have it in Safari, and they took it out. There was a webkit bug open since 2015 asking them to put it back in, finally closed earlier this year.
Re:Edge Lane Roads a.k.a. Advisory Bike Lanes
on Saturday May 14, 2022 @11:53AM (#31379187)
Road Guy Rob did a video recently about a failed edge lane road experiment. Seems like a good idea to me as long as car traffic isn't too heavy.
Re:Formula E Gen3: The world’s most efficient race car
on Saturday April 30, 2022 @03:48PM (#31218703)
most emission from ICE racing (at least in the high level series where they do a lot of traveling) is from the planes and ships that transport the team members and equipment, and I imagine that's the same for Formula E
Re:Show HN: YouTube Decade – The most-viewed videos posted 10 years ago
on Monday August 26, 2019 @11:52AM (#20800823)
Similarly, https://favrd.it has been posting the top tweets of 2009 (as compiled by Favrd, RIP)
Re:Vignette: add photos to your contacts by searching public social me...
on Saturday May 25, 2019 @11:10PM (#20012857)
The facebook link problem is fixed in today's 2019.4 update
Re:USB Type-C to Become More Secure with Authentication Standard
on Wednesday January 02, 2019 @06:03PM (#18811207)
> the displays is upside down on one of my devices!
wait I don't get it. It's USB-C, just flip it over?
Re:Some Amazon employees bought NYC condos before news of HQ2 location...
on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:38PM (#18504420)
JC resident who commutes to Manhattan here:
> Most people aren't willing to switch trains to get to work.
Not true in NYC. Plenty of people change subways once or even twice to commute. Changing PATH to subway is no different except you have to pay twice.
> you could probably take the ferry directly from downtown JC to LIC.
Currently there are no ferries that run this route directly. NY Waterway runs the Hudson River ferries, which the MTA (subcontracted out) runs the East River ferries. You could do this commute by ferry if you changed ferries at Wall St/Pier 11, but that point you might as well take the train.
Re:Any positive number can be written as a sum of three palindromes
on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @11:40AM (#18016187)
And according to the Numberphile video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKhacWQ2fCs) there is a prior paper showing it for bases 2, 3, and 4
Re:Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons
on Thursday September 13, 2018 @11:37PM (#17984514)
27:00?
Re:CEO Says Launching Satellites Without FCC Permission Was a ‘Mistake’
on Monday September 10, 2018 @12:15PM (#17952815)
According to the article, the FCC "regulates all satellite launches by American companies, whether they occur on U.S. soil or elsewhere."
Re:Show HN: BetterSlack – A Chrome extension to make Slack better
on Monday August 27, 2018 @12:28PM (#17852416)
Slack's messaging backend is Java (at least it was in 2014): https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/426469205005705217
Re:14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor
on Monday August 13, 2018 @06:12PM (#17753992)
Goodspaceguy seems way cooler than New Jersey's perennial candidate Jeff Boss: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Boss
Re:I discovered a browser bug
on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:53AM (#17365684)
Did you report the Safari bug to Apple or to WebKit.org? I've had good luck getting responses and fixes from the webkit guys
Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
on Monday June 18, 2018 @12:22PM (#17339451)
If only there were some way to Syndicate website updates to a centralized reader in a Really Simple way...
Re:The rise and fall of Sugru
on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @10:07AM (#17293352)
Blu-Tack doesn't harden, it stays sticky. It's used to attach posters to the wall and stuff like that. I wouldn't want to use it on the edge of a MacBook, it would just gather dust and grime, and would easily fall off.
Re:Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random ...
on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:35PM (#17147483)
> As it is I hate how I can't talk ABOUT "ok google" around my phone... because it always goes off.
On several tech podcasts I listen to (http://atp.fm, https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/) they use fillers like "Yo, dingus!" to talk about alexa/hey siri/ok google
Re:Show HN: Whiteboardfree – Developer Jobs at Companies That Don't Wh...
on Friday May 18, 2018 @11:20AM (#17102169)
> closest without going over
That's The Price Is Right, not Wheel of Fortune ;-)
Re:Myst creators launch Kickstarter to bring every game in the series ...
on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @11:43AM (#16802200)
GOG has been selling current games in addition to the "good old games" for a long time now
Re:Google Memory Loss
on Monday January 15, 2018 @06:01PM (#16154240)
That result is just the blog's page for November 2008, not the article page itself. So while that page _does_ have the article text on it, it is not the article itself.
Re:Acoustic Denial of Service Attacks on HDDs
on Friday December 22, 2017 @03:03PM (#15990470)
That's a reposted video, the original is from Bryan Cantrill (formerly of Sun, now CTO of Joyent): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4
Re:How Driscoll’s Reinvented the Strawberry
on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:37AM (#15028341)
Previous article from Bloomberg in 2015 about Driscoll's: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-29/how-drisc...
Re:Ask HN: Is it a waste of time to code internal tools?
on Saturday May 06, 2017 @07:29PM (#14282888)
> sometimes in-house tools become the future of a company.
e.g. Slack started as an internal messaging tool at a game development company
Re:Uber CEO Plays with Fire
on Sunday April 23, 2017 @02:19PM (#14179510)
They don't wrap on desktop either