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I tried to submit a less click bait title but the content is less hyperbolic > A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in …

Recent article on him in the London Review of Books, exploring his rightward turn as he grew older: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n05/tony-wood/why-did-he...

Relevant given a lot of the discussion here: Why some DVLA services don't work at night https://dafyddvaughan.uk/blog/2025/why-some-dvla-digital-ser... (they were frontends to old …

Similar (official): - lite.cnn.com - text.npr.org Unofficial: - 68k.news - skinnyguardian.xyz ... I'm sure there are plenty more!

From the FAQs on GitHub [1] > What about PMTiles? > I would have loved to use PMTiles; they are a brilliant idea! > Unfortunately, making range requests in 80 GB files just doesn't…

Not s important if it's markdown or wysiwyg in the interface (although an intelligent mix like the obsidian editor would be nice) The main thing is to have markdown as the output f…

Anyone know of a collaborative markdown editor? Like a Google Doc but where everyone can write in markdown?

Related - a previous HN thread about Sweden Sans [1] that links to: * Finlandica font for Finland [2] * Public Sans for USA public sector [3] * Mariane and Spectral for France [4] …

I expect this was too comply with guidance on reporting on suicide [1] > Avoid reporting methods of suicide > Don’t refer to a specific site or location as popular or known for sui…

I love that the guy who invented it had his ashes put into one when he was cremated https://qz.com/618734/italys-coffee-pot-king-was-buried-in-t...

I expect it's more to do with how poorly insulated most UK homes are

David Mitchell's book Cloud Atlas might fit I think. There was a film made of it in 2012. The children's book Charlie Cook's Favourite Book has the same premise. You might also fin…

Graham Greene's The Quiet American has a similar feel. About an American spy in Vietnam. Edit: Also, Mick Heron's Slow Horses series, based on a group of outcaste MI5 spies in Lond…

Awesome Tapes from Africa [0]is a well known one. There's also a tape archive of Somali music that resulted in this CD compilation [1] although I forget the name of the actual arch…