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ListenBrainz is still experiencing massive server load from an increase in listen submissions related to the BTS fan exodus from last.fm and they are now being hit by another influ…

Dorfromantik is a very nice game that can be played as a solo or co-op game. It was released in multiple languages: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/370591/dorfromantik-the-... …

They have been “upgrading” old videos to shorts for more than a year. As far as I know it once started with videos with a runtime of at most 30 seconds. At some point that was incr…

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Nachtfotografie/posts/264063... Here is the original photo description in German. See also my other comment in this thread. But the tl;dr is that th…

My time to shine! I've spent yesterday morning to track the photo down and answer this question. The APOD description is lacking. Yes, this was an exaggerated stack of 153 four-sec…

I think the question was: Who gets the payout? The bet is: There will be a ceasefire. There was a ceasefire, but it was allegedly broken almost immediately after. So does that coun…

The names of the benchmark runners. https://doesjitgobrrr.com/about

To the community it was unhackable, until very recently. It's security measures held up so long that it appeared to be unshakable. There were no obvious flaws. In hindsight it was …

A couple of years ago the bot situation in casual Team Fortress 2 was so bad that it wasn't uncommon to land in a game where the majority of at least one of the teams was a group o…

In case the embedded SoundCloud player refuses to show up, here's a direct link: https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/first-recording-o...

Here's my more-or-less decade old “image to braille converter”: https://max-m.github.io/misc/braille/index.html The source code is unminified and unobfuscated. Another somewhat sim…

On my old phone (Nokia 8) the random header image takes a while to process and afterwards the content pops up. On my Pixel 8 it's basically instant. Both times tested in Firefox.

At this point I can't even tell reality from satire anymore.

"dang" is liked by HN! :D

Something similar happened to me once. I still don't know what exactly happened, but in Dropbox some files were deleted, I still had my local copy, but then Dropbox synced the file…

The Blog was hugged to death, but https://archive.is/1FrpD got through.

I really enjoy board game adaptation of Dorfromantik. Its a rather relaxing co-op game. There's also a "Duel" version of the game were two players (or teams) compete by playing wit…

Pages like TEZ or the "Awesome XYZ" list repositories that have become rather popular on Github are perfectly fine. Those are great hubs to get a grasp of what's available. Sometim…