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A chicken?

I love that Newsblur correctly removed the SCRIPT tag and everything following it. The Company's name is "> in my feed. Respect!

1080P resolution (per eye) for a virtual 100" display? I can't work on a 1080P laptop now without swapping and resizing windows constantly. It would be frustrating to have all that…

Finding and eliminating duplicates is a very common software problem that is rarely solved in a reusable, user-friendly way that preserves history while eliminating redundant data.…

I'm meticulous about tagging and backing up MP3s for different mixes in car stereos and other devices. One problem is that I have so many MP3s and different copies I don't know whi…

I personally will use Bookmarklets rather than Userscripts to fulfill the same purpose. Bookmarklets work even in locked-down browsers including Edge (bookmarks bar, not favorites …

From Tim Ferris' 'The 4-hour Body', an even more important tool for toning and weight loss is to stay cold. Olympic swimmers consume more calories than the average athlete even tho…

Clicked because I thought at first this was a retro computing post about a Commodore cassette tape drive. Thanks for the intro to this useful tool.

I've been using the free year printable calendar at Sciral.com for about a decade now (one of the last few things I print) but my time ran out and now there is another domain owner…

John Oliver had an expose of all the things I already knew about how corrupt Ticketmaster is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Y7uqqEFnY

I've got mixed feedback on this. I had a house fire a few years back where all my paper literature was soaked, and stayed in water for days to weeks. Books, and especially my comic…

That used to be called a 'seagull manager' - one who flies in, sh*ts on everything and flies away.

This works on HN and most other sites: javascript:(function() { var tag = document.createElement('style'); tag.type = 'text/css'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChi…

Maybe it's the fact that we all realize our mortality, and the benefit that it has on a species. Nature has built into us a few limiters to over-flourishing, like it has for many o…

I used to work at a company that had dozens of SQL tables for similar data - if there was a selection box in their app there was a table to represent it. I had a very productive me…

Edward Tufte was an inspiration for me.

A modern version of Vern Buerg's List.com. I used that tool in DOS days and almost always had it running.

When I'm complimented by a client verbally, I politely give them my manager's email address and ask them to forward that information on. I find that I've gotten a number of complim…

Asked before, years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604454

Also Lolo for NES was similar.

I also use OneNote at work for capturing anything worth remembering in a meeting, and screen grabs from a webex. It captures the text in images and indexes it for searching later, …

I have T-Mobile and auto-pay with a credit card that has had 6 fraudulent transactions in the past week. Might not be related.

My only interface to Twitter is through Newsblur and https://twitrss.me

Voraciously eliminating unnecessary whitespace, especially vertical whitespace, was a trick I learned early. Most monitors are wide, not tall. When you can see a whole function wit…