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Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:18PM (#46398773)
Rome Before Rome by Philip Matyszak
I find it wonderful that a human from around 1000 generations ago created art on a now extinct animals tusk. In a way they're able to communicate with us in such a distant future. Makes me wonder what we're leaving behind.
Re:Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @10:23AM (#40144736)
For those who don't know, Gary Kildall was also a presenter in the PBS TV show "Computer Chronicles". [1]

I've been enjoying watching episodes of this show I found on YouTube. [2]

[1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Chronicles

[2] - https://m.youtube.com/@ComputerChroniclesYT

Re:Checkbox on Thursday December 28, 2023 @08:01AM (#38793061)
Re:Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:14PM (#37231449)
How has Skiff's email deliverability been?

I'm curious if your emails go to spam more frequently, being a smaller player in an established hegemony.

You have a generous free tier which may attract spammers. How do you deal with IP reputation?

I feel bad for the beetle in this experiment. It must have spent a lot of its energy reserve to emerge out of the frog, probably to have been swallowed again.
Re:Netlify accounts are being suspended with no recourse on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:06AM (#36876305)
Netlify allows users to register domains on their platform.

Wonder if suspended users have a way to transfer their domains to a different registrar.

It seems one should use a registrar whose primary business is selling domains, and host their content elsewhere.

Re:A Readable Techcrunch Feed on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:46AM (#35860503)
This is cool. I like text based news sites like http://text.npr.org

I feel it makes me more mindful while scrolling.

Is there a link to the code?

Re:Distractions Cause Bad Code on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @08:33AM (#35699587)
I agree. Ever since I started working remotely, I've seen an increase in the quality of work I produce. This is partly due to having a quiet environment at home. Also partly due to having more energy to put into work because of having no commute.

I do think people should disable unnecessary notifications and setup blocks of focus time on their calendars.

Re:Protohackers: Server Programming Challenge on Saturday September 10, 2022 @10:09AM (#32790796)
First I wrote the smoke test with Java, but it failed due to the timeout. Then I tired with Go and it passed.

I'd like to try the other questions with Java, but for that the timeout needs to be increased.

Anyone else tried with Java? How was your experience?

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