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Spell checking should be a default feature in IDEs. I've seen teammates struggle to find the source of a bug, only to find a spelling error in a variable or configuration setting. …

As of writing, 2^82,589,933 − 1 is the largest known prime, but do we know all of the primes lower than it? If not, what is the largest known prime in sequence, without gaps?

I remember an old demo that would play a loop of the chorus of I Say a Little Prayer through the PC speaker. It was hard to believe that the speaker could be pushed to such limits.…

"a disgruntled populace just wants it all to go away." The same thing happened in Brazil. Back to back Olympics and World Cup, billions spent on single-purpose, once-used infrastru…

Portuguese, especially Brazilian Portuguese, retained this nasalization.

#1 is the usual definition of perfect pitch, and is the most useful. I have heard #2 and #3 referred to as "pitch memory". There is also a rare #0, which is the ability to identify…

The only one on the list that can be called an HTML API is drag and drop. All the others are Web APIs. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

Another possibility is that companies try to guess your email address. I recently got an email thanking me for buying a lawnmower that I never bought. The buyer's mailing address w…

I'm surprised this is the only mention of Hack in this thread so far.

On mobile, tapping the picture opens it in isolation, allowing you to zoom in on it.

Flow looks and works almost exactly like IFTTT.

Because ’a’

I don’t exactly agree with the initial comment, but an accessibility audit would find a few blunders (like mint green text on a white background, which is very difficult to read)

> The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate—and its creators don't know how it works This is why Stephen Hawking was very vocal against machine learning. Everything we know to…

Not really a preprocessor per se, but look into JSS. Since it’s just JavaScript, you could use the object syntax you asked about.

Same problem on the in-app browser in Boreal (the iOS Hacker News reader I'm using).