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Re:Charles Darwin Ate One of Everything He Discovered
on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:51PM (#37297901)
They're Made out of Meat: https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
Re:West Point discovers time capsule from 1828
on Monday August 28, 2023 @11:04AM (#37295203)
Update: It's empty! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJRWKCtKqo&t=1540s
Re:West Point discovers time capsule from 1828
on Monday August 28, 2023 @01:37AM (#37290173)
Opening livestream link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNJRWKCtKqo
Re:Ask HN: How do I get started in philosophy
on Monday July 31, 2023 @02:14AM (#36939346)
How to study philosophy as an amateur[0] by Existential Comics is a good introductory guide.
Re:Ask HN: Best computer history book for curious teenager?
on Sunday July 16, 2023 @09:45AM (#36746919)
Some recommendations:
- Weaving the Web by Tim Berners-Lee: https://www.amazon.com/Weaving-Web-Original-Ultimate-Destiny...
- Founders at Work: https://www.amazon.com/Founders-Work-Stories-Startups-Early/...
Re:Firefox Address Bar Tips
on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:05AM (#36667515)
The latest Firefox mobile update added a dropdown to the address bar for switching search engines and searching through history/bookmarks/tabs easily.
Re:Employee claims she can't use Microsoft Windows for “Religious Reas...
on Friday March 24, 2023 @12:22PM (#35291368)
Re:How to read Hacker News threads with most recent comments first
on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:04AM (#35285579)
The article explains three ways to get new comments in a thread. One way is to go to Algolia (Search provider for HN) and type in the thread id in a specific format. This bookmarklet will open that page directly with all the options pre-selected instead of having to open a new tab, copy and type in the id in the search box, etc.
Re:How to read Hacker News threads with most recent comments first
on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:51PM (#35284453)
Here's a bookmarklet to take you directly to the algolia page from a thread:
javascript: (() => {
const id = window.location.href.match(/\d+$/g)[0];
window.open(`https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=story:${id}&sort=byDate&type=comment`)
})();
Re:Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:53AM (#34966443)
One Vimium feature that I use a lot is the "Vomnibar". As a heavy bookmarks user, it lets me easily search for any existing duplicates before bookmarking a page by just pressing 'b'. If I start the search with "/<Space>", it will show the full path to the bookmark folder too!
Re:Ask HN: Terminal Cheatsheets
on Friday January 27, 2023 @12:01PM (#34548411)
There are tons of these. I use this one: https://cheat.sh/
Re:Ask HN: Examples of great PWAs
on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:23AM (#34271309)
Lichess PWA works better than the official app on mobile: https://lichess.org
Re:Ask HN: Where do you currently get weather forecasting in a browser?
on Friday January 06, 2023 @12:16AM (#34271263)
Re:Ask HN: Are Generated Passphrases Safe?
on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @10:26AM (#34246610)
Yes, they should be fine as long as you are not reusing them. If you want more customization, I wrote a generator with more options like a custom separator and leetspeak: https://pwizard.netlify.app
Re:Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones
on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:19AM (#34197158)
Something similar (but simpler) I made for my personal use: https://rsapkf.org/tz
Re:Password Requirements: Myths and Madness
on Friday December 23, 2022 @12:04AM (#34102498)
Re:Getting Started with Tmux
on Sunday December 11, 2022 @10:50AM (#33944164)
Among many tricks and tips, I recommend mapping `|` and `-` to split panes:
bind-key | split-window -h
bind-key - split-window -v
Re:Ask HN: Is there a site that is just a text scratchpad?
on Saturday November 26, 2022 @07:45AM (#33752197)
I think you are looking for Awfice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24752546
Re:The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]
on Thursday September 22, 2022 @08:07AM (#32937718)
A while back, I made live versions of all the fictional sites mentioned on the show for fun: https://moss-archives.netlify.app. Feel free to send pull requests here: https://github.com/rsapkf/moss-archives
Re:How imaginary numbers were invented [video]
on Friday November 12, 2021 @09:07PM (#29206704)
There is also a great playlist by Welch Labs called "Imaginary Number are Real" that I really like: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiaHhY2iBX9g6KIvZ_703G3KJ...
Re:Write thin to write fast
on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:45AM (#29174037)
It's called Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: https://www.healthline.com/health/baader-meinhof-phenomenon
Re:Ask HN: Could VSCode be the new Emacs?
on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @04:25AM (#29159431)
This is from Rootless Root:
The Unix Koans of Master Foo - http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html
Re:Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)
on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:59AM (#29036314)
If anyone is interested in learning about conlangs, jan Misali has an interesting playlist[0] with reviews on various contructed languages including Toki Pona.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo&list=PLuYLhuXt4H...
Random Date of Birth
Re:James Randi Has Died
on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @11:44PM (#24854671)
RIP The Amazing Randi. Reading and watching Martin Gardner and James Randi has taught me so much. Gardner was already dead when I first heard of him and I've looked upto Randi ever since. From magic to religion and pseudoscience, I have always enjoyed their views. You will be missed.
Re:Firefox Picture-in-Picture
on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:50PM (#23776505)
PiP is such a useful feature. Even though I use a window manager, I like the fact that I can just take whatever video is playing out from my current tab and move it over to my programming workspace and follow a tutorial or something. No need to create a new window. When I'm done, I can put it right back to the original tab on the original workspace with a single click. Especially useful with floating mode enabled.
Re:Curl Wttr.in
on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:24AM (#23651187)
I see you are using regular formatting for code/shell commands on your comments. Not that that's a problem but just a note you can use one of HN's comments formatting tips[0] for this.
Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)
Re:Curl Wttr.in
on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:18AM (#23648926)
I use this all the time. I find this option pretty neat:
curl wttr.in/Moon
I use Termux[0] on my phone with curl installed. Pretty handy.
Also, check out rate.sx[1] from the same author:
curl rate.sx
More similar console services: https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
[0]: https://termux.com/