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It would be quite interesting to see how these “tire contact” motors will perform once it starts raining or your tires get really dirty. I think there is a reason, why crank or hub…

Kind of semi related: What do you buy if you want to do tape backups at home?

We switched from Google Maps to OpenMapTiles for the same reason. Running OpenMapTiles via Docker was pretty easy. We bought a license for the Tiles (Europe) and it was a one time …

I found "Standard Notes" a few days ago, could be of interest for people who're looking for apps like this: https://standardnotes.org

First, pretty cool idea! I have to try it, but it looks good at the first glance. I think you should add a bigger "Download" button to your download documentation (i.e. here: http:…

It works great! I used the Pinboard API to download my bookmarks and used readability to crawl the original text from the source url.

I basically do the same. I work 4 days a week and I feel that I'm not really less productive. The fact that I have one day per week off, gives me a reason to procrastinate less and…

Hoooly diiiiveeerr! \m/

By that i mean, that our decisions today, will effect everything that follows. If we educate people that privacy is a privilege, they might not do things (sharing personal informat…

So what you're saying is, just because our governments collect everything, everybody else should be allowed to do it too, or stop worrying? The fight for privacy is not for us, it'…

I have hope that this will change. Because more and more people live a fake life on social media. Some people go crazy and share everything, but more and more people share less[^1]…

That's the thing with personal pictures online. Most people can't imagine what is going to happen in the future. People on Hacker News well understand this issue, but ask your non-…

But it's running inside a VM, so if you install it natively, it should be a lot smoother.

I'm wondering, is it possible to play games (from Steam / GOG et al) on ReactOS?

Thanks!

I'm going a little off-topic here, but i just found out about Nylas. What i don't understand is the Cloud integration. If i use Nylas with my IMAP account, does Nylas upload any da…

In comparison to most GUI apps on Linux, this looks pretty good. It might not be perfect, but if i had to choose between no linux port, and a good-enough linux port, i'll choose th…

I'm working on an Ruby on Rails based open source reader, if your interested checkout https://github.com/aleks/HappyFeed

More or less off topic, but what is the best way to play DOOM on a modern Mac or PC? I have the CD of The Ultimate DOOM. The same could be asked for Quake 1 & 2 :)

You do realize that other countries have space programs too?

It's clear that Microsoft is not targeting the same audience as Oculus and HTC. 3000 USD for a developer edition is a bold statement. I guess hololens will "fail". A few big compan…