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As a French reader, I read this as "ApéroCraft" ("apéro" means "Pre-dinner drink" here)

It's a good thing to optimize workflows and sometimes it can help others. I miss the Firefox extension someone wrote a while ago (like ~2012), it was called HnMarkAllRead 1) it mar…

Ghost cut looks like a good idea to deal with an issue OP has : - I located where I want my text to go - but when I select and cut, it reflows and I need to locate the place again …

The clipboard is very weak in Excel. If I copy something, update a cell somewhere and then paste elsewhere, the clipboard vanishes and I need to copy all over again.

Paris (my city): you already noticed than bus and metros have different prices. You can transfer from metro to metro or metro to trains, it doesn't charge another trip if you have …

Lovely! (I saw a few examples in "tests") Next step : insert the Applesoft Basic assembly code and allow programming in Basic through SQL

We got an article today : "Apple App Store Is Flooded with AI Slop and Legitimate Developers Are Paying" (forbes) (557,000 new apps to Apple’s App Store; a 24% jump from 2024). Who…

Do you win more if you bet for the train you're on

Ad blockers will evolve, they will read LLM output and filter out ads and the reasoning leading to ads, unless the user's question was about asking for the best product to do somet…

Everytime I see such TVs, theres a "No signal" popup on it. Why?!

First time I managed to one-life it after paying for 10 lives, I was happy and pissed at the same time!

looks cool! I often lookup something on the PC and then want to send part of the result to friends... saves shortcut

1 : open the Facebook app. Nope... I'm using a link to my Facebook homepage saved on the home screen.

(looking at the "RX-80" box sitting next to my desk that contains student memories) This is a cool website, thanks for making this!

Ideascope: An AI-powered platform that generates personalized, innovative startup ideas by analyzing real-time trends and data from Hacker News and other tech communities Yep, I th…

I have a mouse shortcut that answers "Hi" so that I dont need to reach to my keyboard to answer. But if they keep on with "How are you?", they can go to hell, I'm not answering.

New fear unlocked : account frozen due to sudden peak of activity (which happens logically if you _use_ it). Cloud as backup #2, a hard drive as backup #1 and another hard drive in…

Looking forward to the Louis Rossmann video. It may be as long as the fishy one, there is so much to tell about how we're getting effed...

Bought a Technics M12 at a garage sale. When I plugged it in, it had an horrible hiss when playing, even with no tape in it. Solution was simple : put a blank tape then record, pla…

Yep... https://xkcd.com/2169/

Is it only for public posts, or also private ones ? I wouldn't post private information in a public area, but I happen to exchange adresses or account numbers in private messages, …

Yes I noticed. Thanks for the link, there's a great post from eitland (first answer : reporting a bug to get unassigned from A/B testing experiments), I will try today.

Good bye Ublock Origin... oh wait, pardon the typo. Good bye, Chrome.

Chrome? I switched to Firefox a few years ago, when Chrome would only play Youtube with 480p resolution. Too bad, the Youtube/tv interface was slick.