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Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @10:07AM (#20274293)
I pulled a prank at the office with my RPi.

I built a very simple circuit to listen to 5V pin of HDMI and I hid RPi and the circuit under the desk of a colleague after work and turned off video output of RPi. Colleague's laptop -HDMI> RPi -HDMI> external display. when the colleague comes to work and turn on the laptop, my RPi turned on its video output and external display showed the website I made for the occasion.

Ask HN: Does your employer provide you mobile devices?

The question is mostly for mobile application developers, but every IT people can answer as well.I worked at two different companies and know many other iOS/Android developers who are provided mobile devices by their employers even if they can use emulators/simulators to work.Now, I moved to France and I am told that here it is kind of normal not to provide mobile devices to application...

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Welcome to Hacker News Dear Abby thread!
in general, i really don't like still being a product although i'm paying for subscription.
The tech heroes of our age are becoming some kind of politicians, this is very sad.
Re:Nothing Focuses The Mind Like The Ultimate Deadline: Death on Thursday January 02, 2014 @09:26AM (#6999674)
Worst product idea ever.
Re:Geneva drive on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @12:29PM (#6928957)
That's what I call pure genius.

Ask HN: Why you love HN?

Internet is like invaded by cats, funny/ridiculous videos, meant-to-be-funny stuff; however HN is one of the sacred places which praises curiosity and effort. This is not only about tech, the only prerequisite is stimulating curiosity for a subject to get posted on HN. I can find lots of things to read from great variety of subjects here. When I lose my hope on mankind while wasting time on...

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Re:Announcing App.net Broadcast on Thursday November 21, 2013 @05:11PM (#6777900)
App.net still don't get me. Or anyone else.