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Step out of your North American bubble and you will see that the oil states and the USA are widely condemned for their acceleration of climate change. An impartial moderator would …

At this point the YCombinator foundation should disclose what percentage of its funding comes from the mining lobby. Twice in a day the dang chatbot has hijacked threads to support…

There is no intellectual curiosity in climate change denial. Don't editorialise.

No, you are completely out of line. The coal industry needs to be shut down. The IPCC first convened three decades ago and yet batshit crazy denialist fuckers in Queensland are sti…

parrot VM: initially a joke until someone twigged that a dynamic-lang runtime to compete with .Net & JRE wasn't so absurd.

Well at least it finally has a trackpad, after years of insisting that no one would ever want to manipulate the UI with a mouse pointer. un-prevention, of sorts.

It's commonly used for malaria. A related '-quine' is the active ingredient of Gin and Tonic.

The (poorly worded) background suggests no previous research has been done concerning this compound w.r.t. corona.

UK (and Ireland) are outside Schengen. Even if they don't restrict it to British passport holders travelling to the USA, it's still arguably easier to screen for the virus through …

> the/e/ name will be abandonned for something else quite soon. Good to know; a word that's more easily duckduckgoable may help with branding.

Indeed, there was a [0] story yesterday - an initiative Vodafone are supporting to compute a cure for cancer while your phone is charging. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

The article mentions a mismatch of 4KB (Linux) vs 16KB (iOS) page sizes. Further reading: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... https://developer.apple.co…

At least here in Australia, corner shops doing repairs are a dying breed - there's no money in it once you factor in rent and electricity and wages. An online search replacing a po…

What part of "it ain't finished yet" would most users not understand? It's a Preview release for a reason. Mozilla aren't exactly pulling a KDE 4 here.

Yes, to see what the fuss was about with respect to donating those coins to creators. I didn't view sufficient ads to be rewarded with any crypto in the timeframe (monthly?) and no…

Windows 10 (Edge), Chrome OS and Android all now bundle Chromium, while it's packaged in desktop Linux. That really leaves only macos. VSCode, say, as a slimmer download sans web r…

After reading an article here on HN, I gave Brave a crack for a week but returned to my regular browser. The thrill of dopamine hits from earning a BAT oken for viewing a brave-ble…

It has potential as a mouse-based launcher. I use Taskbar from f-droid, which activates by touching a screen corner and draws a retractable taskbar over the current application.

A detailed introduction to setting up a RPi as a network device using the usb gadget interface. It's good to have options if you already own an iPad. c.f. tablets supporting Crosti…

Replicant has an evaluation page incorporating this info with a handy table. https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Pinepho...

Yes, I did. 'Light-hearted fun' perhaps but it strikes me as in very poor taste as someone whose parents lived through the 1940s. Okay, you went there - to its logical conclusion i…