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Re:I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard on Sunday February 22, 2026 @05:08PM (#47115270)
Australia is the skin cancer capital of the world, with 2 in 3 of us diagnosed by age 70. The most used complication on my Apple Watch is the UV index, beating out weather temp, battery etc.
Re:Show HN: Rails UI on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:51PM (#46713821)
Did a quick search and no-one has flagged a11y/colour/contrast but the animating effect for the brand colour often had a colour contrast around the 1.0 range.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:45PM (#46624976)
https://taitbrown.com -- I feel like it's "the mechanics car" or "the builders house". We're all too busy designing and building for other people, our own house looks like junk.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2025) on Sunday October 12, 2025 @07:32PM (#45563060)
Would love to see the Red Cross partner with someone like you here in Australia. Not affiliated, just a donor. We're not financially incentivised like other countries but there's a big culture here about celebrating the free milkshake and/or sausage roll you get after donating.
Re:Rcyl – a recycled plastic urban bike on Sunday October 12, 2025 @05:18PM (#45562004)
Their poor little servers aren't coping well with the attention. The worst is a 1,004kb image so it's not excessively large.
Not sure why you've been downvoted so heavily. That seems like a misuse of the downvote purpose.

But yes, I kind of agree with other commenters here in that maybe teaching absolute respect of a knife/table saw/power tool and its power to maim is a really important lesson that this sidesteps?

Re:How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:24PM (#43501182)
At least they cared. I found an enumeration attack on an Australian referral service where phone numbers were keys and it returned way too much personal information. Responsibly disclosed numerous times, LinkedIn contacted employees. Not even acknowledged and at last check, still open vulnerability.
Re:Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti on Sunday November 24, 2024 @11:15PM (#42233194)
If CNT (Carbon Nanotubes) are displaying similar risk factors to asbestos, what is the scale difference between these? I've never felt so compelled to eat something that could kill me.
Re:Hyperworlds – Web Replacement Projects on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @07:37AM (#40296821)
We take photos of our kids to track and timestamp anaphylaxis or other medical reasons. Incredibly important at the time, and then when dynamic wallpapers start mixing them in to the roster you desperately want to forget them.
Unfortunately the hit targets are stacked poorly. If I mouse in from the top right the number turns red, otherwise the text turns red.
Re:Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads? on Saturday May 04, 2024 @08:34PM (#40261441)
Ensure you have adequate cleanup procedures too. I heard from ex-employees of a major car reselling platform that CSAM was distributed by creating a draft car ad, never publishing it and the CSAM was now hosted and accessible via direct image URLs. The records were orphaned, not sure how they got the tip-off.
Re:Ask HN: Does it still matter to be in the Bay Area? on Sunday April 14, 2024 @08:41PM (#40035877)
Did it ever really matter?
Re:Designer News is dead on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:01AM (#39238157)
"Design Twitter" is the only reason I haven't deleted my account yet. Yes, Twitter is full of toxicity and can easily become an echo chamber -- but if you actively set out to create one it can be a unique positive. Bear with me.

I follow a range of designers and front enders from the early Dribbble days and basically haven't added many people since. Yes it might be "polite" to follow back friends and colleagues who follow you, but it disrupts the balance. I don't even follow my own parents back because it introduces a bunch of off-topic content.

Re:Designer News is dead on Saturday February 03, 2024 @01:55AM (#39238133)
There's a name I haven't heard in a while!

DN was fun for a very brief moment. But really, it died so long ago I think someone flat out forgot to tell it.

This is simply region prompting isn't it? Person A in left 50%, Person B in right 50%?
The Ripponlea Estate in Melbourne has previously hosted heritage apple sales. We grow a Devonshire Quarrenden now and my parents (with more land) took away a bunch of different varieties.
Re:TimeGuessr: Guess what year a photograph was taken on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:51PM (#37204057)
It took me 4 rounds to realise the time input was a slider, as you couldn't click to type. It needs some work.
Re:Growing food in hard clay on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:02AM (#31488898)
This is the lasagne method of no till gardening, which is also fantastic at smothering weeds. Ultimately this did nothing to break up the authors clay bed.
Re:Parcel v2 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:05AM (#28860701)
I was put onto the incredibly fast esbuild[1] by a colleague and have used it here and there for open source packages. I'd been keen to understand which release of Parcel v2 they benchmarked against as they claim 0.37s to 39.28s on their home page?

[1] https://esbuild.github.io/

That's all good, it's why I asked what you meant. I think we've done a fantastic job of flattening the curve here compared to places like the US/UK. As long as we can continue to be on the right side of an ICU tipping point we should continue to ride this out.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean but the Florida 50x metric not standing the test of time?

Even if you were to look at it on a national level, the US death rate per million is 2,142, the Australian death rate per million is... 56. That's a 38x rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_death_rates_...

Cries of "Tyranny!" and "Give me liberty or give me death" are imported concepts that don't resonate quite as well here in Australia. The pearl clutching "Save Australia" protests were good for a chuckle[1], but are also accompanied by people advocating we rise up and murder our police[2]? When Florida has 50x the per capita death rate than that of Australia, it's pretty clear that the US chose liberty AND death[3].

Lockdown is hard, police have overstepped here and there -- but my family is safe and healthy, and my parents are alive.

[1] https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/australians... [2] https://youtu.be/FUKqliBYIvM [3] https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/florida-s-per-capita-covi...

Re:Earthquake in Melbourne, Australia (9.15 AM 22nd Sep 21, AEST) on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:31PM (#28624948)
Fascinating replies from both of you, thanks.
Re:Earthquake in Melbourne, Australia (9.15 AM 22nd Sep 21, AEST) on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @07:54AM (#28615323)
From memory the opening of a military technology to the general public forbid using it to this level of accuracy? Maybe it was only sub metre accuracy?
That sounds like the steps I saw to get a free version of the original version of Little Snitch. Simply use Little Snitch to stop Little Snitch from phoning home.
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