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Re:GMails custom domain "send as" discontinues January 2027 on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:46AM (#49566295)
Sodas are no longer free. *

Seem Google don't feel the need to market to hackers and early adopters anoymore..

* https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...

Re:BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising on Saturday August 01, 2026 @05:58AM (#49132866)
U
If someone attach a bomb to you car that detonate when you start the motor; they didn't fool you into killing yourself.
You must not have kids
Re:The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @06:12AM (#46374556)
Some fans ported Balatro to the VBA if you want a comparison of what is possible.

But the buffer for a full HD screen fill most of the memory of a typical 486 computer I think

Re:Ann, the Small Annotation Server on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @03:10AM (#44038644)
I'm kind of confused, I'm interested by the idea but there doesn't seems to be a link to source code, or download, or some kind of live server? Is it just a concept?

edit: Just saw the url path is called "design-pitch-ann"

Re:Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? on Monday February 24, 2025 @05:20AM (#43157894)
Should it really be up to the Website designer to decide?

On Firefox I have the "Send Link to Device" context action that allow me to open a link on my Phone or Desktop.

it's probably being downvoted because it's empty virtue signaling that doesn't provide anything to the discourse
He is suspected of doing it, it is not proven yet and he is pleading non guilty
Re:Douglas Crockford Is Not Your Dad on Monday December 09, 2024 @04:50AM (#42364571)
You cut the rest of his comment

> Suppose you are using JSON to keep configuration files, which you would like to annotate. Go ahead and insert all the comments you like. Then pipe it through JSMin before handing it to your JSON parser.

Doesn't seems he is that against the idea

Re:Portable EPUBs on Friday January 26, 2024 @03:16AM (#39140041)
It is working for me on my Firefox on Android.

One of the nice benefits I can already experience in his document it the working TOC sidebar which allow navigation in the document. (Compared to classical HTML not PDF)

Re:Show HN: Just F-Ing Ping on Friday January 12, 2024 @06:40PM (#38975673)
Awesome I always wanted something like this and didn't make the connection it would be that obvious to do. Thanks! You are going to make my life nicer
Re:New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers on Friday December 15, 2023 @07:41PM (#38660651)
Isn't that pull notification instead of push?
I played Zelda BOTW, installed the sound system for our home cinema, prepared the room for our future twins, spent time with my wife, made a pear chocolate cake together, had a friend over. It might not be very interesting to you but it was a pretty good weekend for me.
Re:Workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis on Sunday September 24, 2023 @05:30PM (#37637390)
People were definitely not fine with it but whenever they tried to do something about it the owner class sent the army and massacred them

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

they didn't even restore the history of the old terms of service repo...
Re:Show HN: I resurrected one of the top dead Show HNs on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:11AM (#37174081)
for thoses of us that don't remember that particular Show HN it's not very clear what this does. Maybe a video or a screenshot?

https://c2-dhz.pages.dev/ seems to be the demo site but it crash for me as soon as I start scrolling

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Seems like site got /. copy at https://archive.is/IiBZo

one of their linked youtube video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnt37hu1bRw

Re:AI and the Automation of Work on Monday July 03, 2023 @06:02AM (#36570870)
you would need the old Thinkpad with hot swappable batteries, I would say it's a shame they stopping doing them but I don't actually think many people used them in practice.

Also now you can do pretty much that with a separate powerbank charging your laptop via usb C. it's more cumbersome but with a more universal interface and more versatile.

Re:SQLite Release 3.42.0 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @10:48AM (#35962641)
all that and still no datetime support which is the most annoying thing missing in JSON imho
Re:Show HN: Collection of Math and Puzzle Games created by a 14yo on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:37PM (#34717345)
I just play the whole Red Remover and I found it very fun. I like the realization, the face that the boxes make, the music.

just found out there is even a level maker !

Re:Ask HN: Where Are All the Parties? on Friday January 20, 2023 @10:59AM (#34454847)
> People getting high together or partying is not going to make the next generation processor or programming language or improve battery technology.

neither is coding yet another crud website and yet that's what 90% of us are doing in their job

`has()` for form validation really looked interesting but then I saw on their first example in your link that it is not supported in Firefox https://caniuse.com/css-has
What if we plug the motherboard in the GPU instead
I find it pretty cool.

Some feedback: I tried to convert m/s in km/h and it wouldn't works, finally found how to do it, you need to specify `hour` in full letters

I assumed it was something like an etherpad that you could edit collaboratively but apparently not

Re:GitHub actions failing because of cache issue on Monday June 13, 2022 @05:21AM (#31722992)
Seen several people report that GitHub actions are failing because the caching service return 503. Github status still report that everything is normal
Re:What Everyone Knows on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:22PM (#31716901)
> Everyone knows how many letters in the alphabet

I would expect everyone to know that they is more than one alphabet and that they each don't have the same number of letter ...

Re:Kitchens in the World, by Income per Month on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @09:20AM (#31410135)
I'm not sure I understand the link between how full the fridge is and how well it can maintain the temperature of the milk?

In Europe, the milk is pasteurized at a higher temperature so it can keep for much longer

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