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helb

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    Comment #46855139

    Looks like it doesn't upload the file, just calculates its hashes client-side, and passes them to some subtitle search API. POST https://suub.onrender.com/api/subtitles/search { "h…

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    Comment #46835668

    You can usually read the original timestamp in the page source, the relative ones are often put in by client-side JS: Jan. 30, 2026, 11:28 a.m. ET 2m ago

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    Comment #46638017

    I have no idea what the parent commenter means, but the painted style is common here too (on web, paper, physical signs, …). For example: https://vcdn.bergfex.at/images/resized/b0/…

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    Comment #44519521

    Looks great! However i'm a bit concerned about these "AI-Powered Analytics", looks like it would leak user-submitted data to Groq.com?

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    Comment #43018593

    I get zalgo-like glitches (overlaying notes) when resizing the viewport width in Firefox. Looks kinda cool though: https://i.vgy.me/JQsqZO.png

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    Comment #41954869

    I have these in my google calendar. Kinda forgot they were japanese and they don't line up with our (european) weather perfectly, but i still enjoy seeing them there. Found them on…

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    Comment #41377057

    Looks like it was some proposal for an UNASUR flag, but they chose the blue one: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_South_Amer... https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wik…

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    Comment #40945325

    Ah, i kinda expected the UI ( https://i.vgy.me/beZtWa.png ) to show the actual PDF page number, never noticed the "i" thing. Thanks.

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    Comment #40945111

    Looks like the pages are zero indexed? That sample link with page=70 got me to page 69 (in both Firefox and Chrome on Linux)

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    Comment #40765583

    Related: "Why GNU su does not support the `wheel' group (2002)", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37175754 , 143 comments

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    Comment #38095957

    https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/welcome.html#what-is-a-...

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    Comment #37854801

    Browsers can simulate that without a proxy too: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/networ... Chrome can also throttle the CPU power: https://www.wikihow.com/Thro…

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    Comment #37787668

    Did that with an old Thinkpad (X32 iirc) years ago. I use Gentoo and some packages (like gcc) could only be compiled during winter months or in a fridge. Also sucessfully rescued s…

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    Comment #36903375

    Yeah exactly… I guess there might be some waviness/height/length ratio where the extra length and the absence of posts evens out.

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    Comment #36903358

    Just a little bugreport – in Firefox, the "insert image" invisible file input covers buttons to the right: https://i.vgy.me/q1sYHX.gif Setting its width to 100% (of the parent butt…

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    Comment #36898910

    they don't use less wood than a straight fence though :)

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    Comment #36769692

    Site seems dead, archived link: https://archive.is/yl7z2

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    Comment #36757267

    I live in a tiny village with a shit ton of space for anything, but would prefer this over a power hungry server anyway… At least until i fill part of the barn roof with solar pane…

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    Comment #36710014

    not a player, but there was (is?) xvideo extension: https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/man/man3/Xv.3.html i remember it as an mplayer output option mplayer -vo xv [file]

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    Comment #35713128

    The EU has this tool for viewing solar radiation data and estimating energy yields based on location & angle: https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html The interface isn'…

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    Comment #35712639

    I'm afraid we killed it… I see just a gray base map and the browser is getting a "504 Gateway timeout" from the API: This Serverless Function has timed out. Your connection is work…

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    Comment #35074492

    Looks like it's been up since late 2006 [1]? Wow. "Pimp Your Profile Pics for MySpace!" It's quite refreshing to see the edits are done server-side and page reloads after a POST re…

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    Comment #34811721

    My schema breaks it somehow, the POST request to openapi.prod.scanner.cloud.escape.tech/fast returns a 502 after ~20s: https://i.vgy.me/D14u3k.png

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