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Sure and Mozilla is arguably the cautionary tale here. They also started as a non-profit taking donations. AOL seeded them with $2M, Red Hat and Sun pitched in too. Within a year t…

I don't want to dampen the positive vibes around this project in any way, in fact I'm very glad such projects exists. But it just struck me that my immediate associations with the …

> However, we notice – based on the social comments and international media coverage - that for many guests this period is 'the most wonderful time of the year'. Cringe. I suspect …

> The socks were jokingly presented by Apple CEO Steve Jobs as a "revolutionary new product"

I‘m following this scheme for years now and frankly never found a site that only accepts selected providers.

Same experience, but a different perception. I’ve always found it to be a great conversation starter when I did this with my business domain. Of course, it’s mainly about spam cont…

I’m curious what tools that may be.

It’s Gemini for what it’s worth

When I let Claude Code hammer away in the background while I work on something else, it regularly drifts into the weeds. By the time I notice, it may have spent many minutes pushin…

Hi HN, This question was triggered by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44196417. I’ve noticed that this topic comes up a lot in discussions lately. Most of the proje…

I’m sorry, but could someone please elaborate on the significance of this post?

Yes, I remember. It still shows me how I overestimated the maintenance work distributors do / can do. My unreflected expectation was that in the past 40 years test were developed t…

> The replacement will affect more than a hundred utilities that are part of Coreutils … > Last week, the issue of the package uutils coreutils 0.0.30 successfully passed 507 tests…

Also suspended is not removed. I assume there is some kind of divide and conquer going on.

If there'd just be an alternative to claude code...

I've been waiting so long for this. Finally, we can have Epics that are not a pain in the ass!

Not sure about the technique wiby uses to filter garbage, but I could imagine a search index that contains only HTML4 pages could be quite resourceful.

I’d really love to find this dictionary of filthy terms that exists on Apple device for the sake of cleaning passwords. Is it compiled in the code or encrypted? I can’t imagine it’…

The "Comparison" section of the Product Ownership also seems rather ridiculous, where NextCloud is just a questionable "fork" while ownCloud glouriously carries the torch of produc…

After all, reading is mostly thinking with someone else’s brain.

You'd get by just fine. It's not uncommon to speak three languages fluently in CH (given it has 4 official languages), and usually English is in the mix. I lived there for a couple…

I'm not sure where this fax myth originates. I've been living in Germany for most of my life, and I'm no longer in my thirties. During this time, I have sent a total of zero faxes.…