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Cool to see this, it's a cool in-between step for not having additional wraparound screens or a VR headset. I used to run a similar software[1] for when I was really into playing F…

> Does anyone know how the name Ladybird came about? It's the colloquial name of an insect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coccinellidae

I'm somewhat confused to why Google needed to open source the original Pebble source code for this project to exist? Was it not possible to already create a comparible e-ink screen…

Not using this to look for recommendations, but more of a survey of what HN users like to use. I made an ask post like this in 2019 and I'm sort of curious to how things have chang…

I don't think switching to the open source alternative is a viable option for many, mainly because a lot of them just don't work as well. This article lists a large amount of pitfa…

Staffpad and Audacity are both software under the ownership (?) of Muse Group. Staffpad is recent acquisition which is why they are now able to share technology like this: https://…

I'm really not sure how you can argue that "AI is great at explaining code snippets" while also acknowledging that it will just give you flat out wrong answers some times. Either i…

I sincerly hope that they remove this feature and apologise for its integration in the first place. I don't think a reference website should include any sort of feature that can ha…

I don't mean to be rude but your response really sounds like it could be turned into a dril Tweet. "advertising may be immoral, but it also helps pays for the content you watch, so…

This is something that's really similar to what I want. Ideally I would like a standalone device to display TOTP codes, but the only devices I've found only have a support for a si…

League of Legends

League of Legends originally. It's a popular copypasta that gets used in esports discussions whenever an EU team beats an NA team harshly. "NA" as term in esports just refers to te…

It feels like of bleak to discourage childish computer tinkering on a website named "Hacker News". Not entirely sure what this says about the direction of this website.

Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have been campaigning to address child sexual exploitation for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(organization) I would guess they are simp…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-family_zoning It's the first sentence in the History section

No that is not how the GDPR works. It would be illegal specifically if you _collected and stored_ the IP address information from the phone home requests to process in some form la…

> I still don't understand the purported difference between "sounds smart" and "is smart". This really does encapsulate the average Hackernews commenter

I think your point (1) doesn't really match with what the rails devs expect. 37Signals have both their Basecamp and Hey.com products which act very much like a single page app but …

This may be a poor analogy: Imagine, during a war, a missile that has been set to target a city. The casualties will be many, and random, and innocent, but this is wartime and horr…

I think this is less about the casualties of war itself, but the effects of when trying to move on after the war. If people die due to landmines many years after a ceasefire are th…

For context, the Bluetits seems to be an association of people who enjoy outdoor swimming in colder waters: https://thebluetits.co/pages/about Not sure exactly what this implies ot…

If you're interested, here's a really comprehensive video on how USB keyboards work which may answer your question: https://youtu.be/wdgULBpRoXk

Are you conflating respect (treating someone with human decency) with respect (treating someone as an authority)?