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I live in Brighton and the vast majority of people I know use http://www.just-eat.co.uk/ which is basically an online wrapper for ordering takeaways. It covers loads of the local p…

If there was no internet we could finally fufill peoples' fantasies of an international meshnet!

This is a really good read! I'm a first year CS student and I'm interested in going into research later on. Thanks for writing this.

When I scroll the page, it lags slightly. I'm using a reasonably fast computer on Linux and this kind of thing doesn't happen all that much. I can only assume it's because of all t…

Stop stop stop... ∞

This is seriously awesome. I don't have a 3D printer or any real facilities for making electronics, but I can't wait to see what kinds of things people make. :)

He's poking fun at the Y2K, Y2K38 problems. :)

They're still on invite-only. I remember them having some problems, but I think it's also taking a long time because their idea is so damned ambitious...

Just out of curiosity, which part of the Midwest do you live in?

Which city did you arrive at?

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-31747_7-20109567-243/logitech-f... You were saying? And it's only $130!

You're over your Google API quota. Also, we can see the error traceback - is that supposed to happen? Anyway, this is really good that you're trying awesome stuff like this and you…

Maybe agreements like ACTA aren't just the result of copyright lobbying, but also groupthink?

Oh wow, this is brilliant. I had heard of rainy mood before, but I'm so grateful you've found an mp3 of it. This is going to be on my mp3 player all the time now.

I think it depends. There are NHS dentists and private dentists. I think the private ones' main advantage is that they have shorter waiting lists.

This is awesome! Thanks for providing this service - there are loads of nice pictures on Facebook that I've been meaning to make a backup of for ages, now there's a tool that lets …

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/100-die-6-sites-create-bucket-l... It seems like websites already that allow you to create and share bucket lists. Using the HN algorithm is good, but …

No alliteration here! Just rhyming.

1. Honestly, I don't think this article is about presenting an audacious new method of bookselling. It's just a clever-if-it-wasn't-so-obvious way of selling his new book. Which is…

Happy Holidays to you too, OP! :D I got a quad-core Athlon II CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM, a new motherboard and a DVD drive for Christmas, so I'm naturally feeling pretty happy about that. …

They already pay the licencing fees to the respective music labels, so if SOPA gets passed they'll be one of the few legal music streaming sites remaining. If SOPA is used to full …

1280x1024 17" monitor. I'd prefer something larger, at least 1080p resolution. I've tried using multiple monitors before, though. Doesn't do much for me, but then I mainly used the…

I was about 9, I made some webpages all about the holidays I had been on. They had frames. :) I also made an interactive map of Majorca, and you could click on the regions and wind…

I guess this illustrates one of the downsides of Google Android being free software: when just about any manufacturer can create a sub-standard phone that runs the operating system…