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You already knew лудис from люде :)

Yeah that one caught me off guard too. Any idea why? The only reason I can think of is that it's very easy to confuse with `substring`.

I've used it for a personal project blog and I'm really happy with it. I wouldn't call myself a heavy user though.

The underlying engine just got open sourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18432327

Awesome, that's really good to hear! Happy user here - I was recently on the lookout for a simple hosted blogging platform for a personal project, and write.as fit the bill perfect…

Is that after they left beta? I noticed quite a few outages, but that was while they still had the big beta disclaimer on things. I've not had any trouble since.

I once played a Mulatu Astatke album on a friend's Spotify account during a social gathering at his house, and he complained his discover weekly playlist was mostly African music f…

I have to agree. This sort of hatred kind of made sense 150 years ago when it was part of a liberation struggle, but it's just plain racism at the moment. People should be better t…

That's a leftover thing back from Ottoman Empire times. There is not a lot of love for Turkish people in Bulgaria. So the situation isn't great but it's been not great for a long t…

It feels weird to say there's no conflict in Eurogames. Power Grid is pretty relentless and brutal - there's no violent aspect to it, but you can mess your opponents pretty badly, …

Small World kind of sort of does that. The game simulates the rise and fall of civilisations, and a key part of the game is knowing when to call it quits with your current civiliza…

I'm working for a small ( Stuff we've got: - weekly all hands meetings where people talk about what makes them excited - lots of non-work-related chat rooms - 2-3 meetup opportunit…

I recently stumbled upon a webcomic called Drugs and Wires. It may have more comedy than you'd expect from the subject matter, but it builds an excellent dystopian world.

I've read various William Gibson books and generally enjoyed them, but I find his dense writing style exhausting sometimes. I think a comic written by him could work pretty well.

It's one of my favourite horror novels. It's really good fun if you're into that kind of thing.

I read an article form of Kurt Vonnegut's original talk. My favourite part was the happiness/misery graph of The Metamorphosis: http://austinkleon.com/wp-content/uploads/2005/vonne…

When I was a kid in Bulgaria (and probably now) you could go to one of those small streetside shops in the winter. Along with cheap tea or coffee, you'd be able to get a cupful of …

I save them in `/tmp` and I don't need to worry about them ever again.

A friend of mine set up IFTTT so his phone would play a "ka-tching" sound every time someone paid for a premium account for his startup. The novelty never seemed to wear off.

Not if you try something like PlayOnLinux. I've managed to run quite a few golden oldies that way.

I thought it was going to be about not ignoring messages about Wikipedia's funding drives.

But if you're plugging in input like that, couldn't the malicious user just pass in something like && sudo rm -rf / anyway? Which would render the whole point of the article moot.

Relevant thing that was posted on HN last year: http://www.vassalengine.org/ I haven't had a chance to try it out but it looks great. Apparently it allows you to build board game m…

That, or math rock song titles.

I live in the UK, and whenever I travel back to Bulgaria, I get told off for saying "sorry" and "thank you" all the time. In Bulgarian, the word for "thank you" is "благодаря" ("bl…