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Re:UK to Ban Disposable Vapes on Monday January 29, 2024 @04:07PM (#39182605)
> Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suggested adult smokers trying to quit would still have access to alternatives like vapes under the proposals

How does this work? So I have to talk to a doctor to get my Bubblegum Ice disposable?

Re:Ask HN: Why is Techmeme so successful? on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @01:10PM (#39107173)
Any aggregator will be successful since people don't want to manually search for news & trends. The real trick is aggregating the aggregators. That's still a hard problem.
I find DuckDuckGo's[0] (DDG) images feature to be a brilliant replacement for Google Images/Lens. Google Images doesn't let you view the actual resource anymore and disabled that feature years ago. DDG's image feature is crucial since it doesn't bring you to the site itself, it just points to the raw URL of where the asset resides and you can easily download it, without hunting the graphics down on the site itself, although DDG does offer a link to the page where the image was found. The important bit is pressing the 'View File' button.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/

Re:There has never been a better time to game on Linux on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:52PM (#38973863)
There has never been a better time to /game/ Linux
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone write HTML anymore? on Thursday January 04, 2024 @03:35PM (#38871909)
JS is an embellishment. Think of an electric stairs, it still works even with no power. I do all my sites like this. It must work without JS, because some users disable JS for privacy or accessibility reasons, and I care about those users.
Sumi News[0] is a good non-biased sweep of current events, aswell as Wikipedia's current events page[1]

[0] https://sumi.news/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Re:Ask HN: Can you see this post? on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @12:20PM (#38773687)
Even without Tor, HN temporarily and randomly shadowbans your first post. It stops a bunch of newbs being able to spam /newest
Re:My Hacker News morning ritual on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:54PM (#38755185)
Same here. I even read HN before I read my local news sites in the morning, pre-coffee. Typically I hunt for game-changing news that affects our entire industry, or some tooling which I can leverage. Everything else is just noise.
Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with too many interests? on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:52PM (#38755164)
I throw mud at the wall and see what sticks. Then discard what I'm not naturally good at. Waste of time & energy fixing weaknesses. Play to your strengths.
Re:Ask HN: What are your tech predictions for 2024? on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:50PM (#38755152)
More on-device AI. Shift from off-prem compute to on-prem. Open source LLMs run locally, no more black boxes.
Re:Ask HN: What are your tech predictions for 2024? on Sunday December 24, 2023 @12:49PM (#38755138)
Asked for my phone number when signing up. Now all my beloved queries are tied to meatspace.
Re:Spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are surprisingly rare on Sunday November 26, 2023 @11:10AM (#38422649)
How do we know it's spiral shaped though? I probably sound like a flat-earther, but the way we prove the Milky Way is spiral shaped is by traveling outside it and observing its structure and shape (good luck with that).

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