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Not to brag or anything… but I solved today’s game (306) in one guess. Because I have spent a lot of time watching and re-watching this show, immediately recounting the moment in the episode and its entire storyline!! Thank goodness you implemented full text search for the episode synopses! since I would never, ever have remembered the episode title in a trillion years. This game is a lot of fun :) thank you!!
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:54PM (#49986476)
Just tried it on BigCock Heavy 5.5 Max and it gave me a pat on the back.
Re:Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @07:48PM (#49529901)
It will not take superior models or LLM processes to do skeuomorphism again. It was always possible to do skeuomorphic design, it just took hard work and a focussed design effort. Just as it’s now easier than ever to do any sort of UI/UX design now with LLMs, the missing link is the work, the effort. When you want to create a skeuomorphic design, don’t defer the hardest parts to the LLM, you should investigate for yourself the intentionality and thoughtfulness of each element you create. That’s what made the skeuomorphic design of yore so attractive, it was thoughtfully designed, down to the details.
Secondhand smoke is real and can kill
Re:LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:15PM (#48885410)
I just valued my buddy at 1.2 Trillion
Re:I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine on Monday May 04, 2026 @01:36AM (#48005013)
Very good work. I will try and build my own from your instructions when I can afford to. Thank you so much for making this open.
Re:The Gay Jailbreak Technique on Saturday May 02, 2026 @05:23AM (#47984817)
No actually we are just regular women. You might like to get a coffee with me some time and I can change your mind on this matter. If you don’t like coffee, I don’t know if I can help you.
Re:The Gay Jailbreak Technique on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:41PM (#47982144)
This is actually a feature utilised by transgender lesbians such as myself to maintain our competitive advantage over cisgendered engineers. Accrual of “woke points” gives higher LLM throughput and higher quality outputs even on less-capable models.
Re:Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024) on Monday March 23, 2026 @03:39AM (#47486444)
Yes. We do this in Australia, around the bars and pubs getting a root with only a cigarette lighter is a classic move.
The documentation link on your demo page is 404ing
Re:Traefik's 10-Year Journey from Zero to Standard on Saturday September 27, 2025 @02:26AM (#45393590)
Used Traefik a couple times in my homelab, would’ve been circa 2017/2018. Worked great when it worked, otherwise it tended toward breaking ungracefully and confusingly. Tried it again for a short time in 2022, rock solid, no complaints. I’m glad to see the project’s maturity has kept up! Congratulations on ten years!
Re:Work Offline with Fastmail on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @11:00PM (#45034995)
Similar boat. I think the FM iOS client is fine. It’s not a native app, it’s a bit sluggish occasionally, the interface has improved over the past 5 years but it’s still not up to the same scratch as Gmail or Apple Mail. I use FMail2 for macOS. It works fine too. Not polished, no, but it works fine.
Re:Work Offline with Fastmail on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @02:14PM (#45030214)
The FM iOS interface is just not polished enough. Compare Gmail or Apple Mail on iOS.
Re:Genie 3: A new frontier for world models on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @06:05PM (#44805021)
Everyone is in agreement, this is impressive stuff. Mind blowing, even. But have the good people at Google decided why exactly we need to build the torment nexus?
Oh that’s because the good people of HN have decreed a butlerian jihad
Re:Bayeux Tapestry Will Return to the U.K. In 950 Years on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:20AM (#44548522)
It’s funny to consider the parallels between the tapestry’s return and the campaigns for repatriation of the British Museum’s many stolen artefacts
Re:Htmx Is a Erlang on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @03:54PM (#38618363)
The jab at pg referenced in the tweet screenshot’s caption was quite funny
Here in AUS, essentially every single optometrist requires digital imaging. Oh, and it’s subsidised by the government.You don’t pay a single cent for a prescription. Bonus: If you have private optical health insurance it will likely cover two pairs of prescription glasses per year. Not too bad a deal if you ask me!
Re:Nue: A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative on Friday September 15, 2023 @07:09AM (#37521250)
I will be using this for my next project. Thank you.
Re:Show HN: Open-source obsidian.md sync server on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:54PM (#37255602)
Interesting. In regards to your first point, do you have justification to back your claim? I’d be interested in reading more, or perhaps seeing an example?
Re:A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us on Thursday August 17, 2023 @07:30AM (#37160027)
Oracle
The abolition of private property ought to do it
Re:Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux on Monday July 31, 2023 @08:25PM (#36950763)
He coined the phrase which the word is descended from, infamously, on a video livestream
I followed this tutorial in 2019, and can report that the cameras are still in operation today.
Re:Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008 on Friday March 24, 2023 @09:09PM (#35297994)
What is a conspiracy here: The idea of an invisible hand which is beyond anyone’s control, or the analysis of historical information which shows a pattern? I choose to believe the data, not the fairytale you are proposing.
Re:Doomgeneric: Make Porting Doom Easier on Monday January 23, 2023 @06:46PM (#34496813)
Wouldn’t be too hard to check out the existing implementations already using doomgeneric and write them for your own requirements!!
I’m a resident of Melbourne, in the state of Victoria, which had the longest pandemic lockdown in the world AFAIK. It certainly was at the time the lockdown ended, at least.

Victoria recently had an election wherein the government which was responsible for implementing the lockdown was re-elected. Notably, the state government’s pandemic response was dictated by facts, indeed the chief health officer responsible for informing politicians and implementing policy was a medical practitioner and undeniably an expert in public health matters.

During lockdown and even still, there continue to be protests against the government for their pandemic response, despite the re-election being a clear sign that the will of the people is that they want a government led by (or at least informed by) experts who know what they’re doing.

It’s important to note that there are examples within the Victorian government which show the opposite, though. They have aided logging of old-growth forests, despite saying they won’t allow it to continue. They’ve repeatedly and demonstrably used tax dollars to fund infrastructure projects in electorates where the ruling party has a slim majority (so-called marginal seats).

My point is the Victorian government is far from perfect. It’s been a year since the last lockdown ended, yet the lockdown is still the thing people discuss when it comes to policy. It’s the most invasive action a state government has taken, affecting so many people. It’s what people remember. And it mattered at the polling booth last month, when people voted the government back in. They even saw an increase in the seats they hold, from last election.

When I walked into the local Apple store circa 2019 I was greeted with a “welcome to Apple” notification from the Apple store app. It’s the only example I’ve seen of iBeacons being used that I personally know of.
Re:The Perils of an .xyz Domain on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:44PM (#28560656)
There's a little-known .au TLD just for this purpose- .id.au, and I've found it's still quite easy to snag a ${name}.id.au (No ABN required, AFAIK).

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