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Looks like the site's struggling to keep up with the traffic. A couple mirror links: https://web.archive.org/web/20260505052217/https://www.thatp... https://archive.ph/sM7O5 (missi…

It’s my first time playing any Civ game ever. I’m currently at the top of the scoreboard for reasons entirely unbeknownst to me. My advice for anyone else considering playing their…

Not sure if the link was changed by the mods or something, but just a heads up that your quote's from the iFixit article [1], not the EFF one [2] [1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/11…

Somebody pushed it up here: https://github.com/amix/photoshop But that might be violating the Computer History Museum's license: https://github.com/amix/photoshop/blob/2baca147594d…

Originally posted as a comment in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166268 Links at the bottom for those of you who'd prefer to skip my long-winded story. I use a…

This post prompted me to fix a problem I’ve had for literal years. Forgive the tangent, but I’m so happy that I needed to share. I imagine I’m not the only one who’s run into this …

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The original document being commented isn't available anymore. Luckily, the Internet Archive has a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20000517232106/http://webreferen... Digging aro…

Double clicking selects a word, and triple-clicking selects the whole line. If I double- or triple-click-and-hold, I can drag the mouse to expand the selection word-wise or line-wi…

Were your kids pronouncing island like "iz-land" or "eye-land"? Just asking because other people in the thread seem to be focusing on the "H" sound rather than the fact that "Islan…

For anyone who's curious, here's a video of the Easter egg in action, along with a some more interesting backstory on Jacques Servin, the programmer in question: https://www.youtub…

The parent commenter is talking about the "currently online" indicator, which can't be disabled. From a (strangely worded) WhatsApp doc: > Please note you can't hide your online. h…

Totally agreed that it's invasive. Same for the "typing" indicator, which also can't be disabled. If I'm writing something longer than a sentence or two, I usually just compose it …

I disagree — those issues are totally for the company to solve. Or at least, the company should be prepared to meet employees halfway. If a North American company is going to insis…

I like function components too, but I've seen some interesting arguments against using them: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/7-reasons-to-outlaw-reacts-f... And I wish I had a refe…

I think GitHub's great, and I'm mostly okay with having to rely on it heavily at my day job, but I dislike how code reviews + PRs are necessarily tied to branches. What are the cha…

This is awesome! I particularly like being able to spin up a local instance of GraphiQL against any endpoint (with auth headers and everything). I tried it with GitHub's GraphQL AP…

Agreed, that's obnoxious. I bypassed it with Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

Strange, I'm getting a 404. If anyone else is having the same problem, here's Google's cached version: https://goo.gl/BmbnJ2

Ah, and they just published some of the resulting drawings: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/mauerzeichnen-auswertung/

Berliner Morgenpost published a cool little interactive thing last week where you draw where you think the wall used to be and it tells you how close you were: https://interaktiv.m…

This is one of my all-time favorite things on the internet. I was so inspired by it that I did a sort of half-formed "installation art" piece using it for a college class back in 2…

Yep, fair point — I should have probably called them "restrictions" instead of using "ban" and "outlawed".

In addition to the other suggestions, it might be worth contacting your representative to voice your support of legislation to repeal the existing statewide ban. For instance, this…

They did in Chattanooga, but not before trying to sue the city four times: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpk77/chattanoog... A couple shorter articles on the same top…