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So only they can give direct legal and medical advice, which is still illegal in most countries. It's not a promoted service yet, but everyone is using it to ask such questions.

Those images look exactly like what you get from every OCR tool out there if you use the XY information.

Rendering fails after first start and trying to resize the window on Mac. Hardly release quality.

Because PDF is a minefield and PDFtk does not solve all problems on all platforms. You'll learn that if you try to process millions of PDFs in the wild that may or may not comply w…

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Because we can ;-)

Old guy here: funny how manipulating bits is worth a HN post nowadays :-D

Unrelated: is VARCHAR(255) still a thing?

There also seems to be a scam industry forming to take advantage of those quick moves plus remote work. If one such scam employee makes it to the first salary, it already more than…

Awesome hardware and I will get one. But interesting that with the slight price increase there has been zero progress in performance per $ since 2 years. Shows how far ahead the M1…

Awesome, time to build!

You are asking the wrong questions. Care about your product and customers, not about founder beauty contests!

Surprise of 2022: you get to the top of HN by telling the world about HTTP Basic Auth ...I am getting old ;-)

If you can, choose a big black hole. The smaller ones spagettify you faster.

I think it was within the last 2 years when I searched for domains on Namecheap. They were shown as registered and I was offered to buy them for a premium price. When I searched on…

Also love those Chinese e-commerce websites that use automated translations based on location for every text on their website, even on product names...

Those are the simple things to worry about, it can even get more complicated in the real world. So complicated that writing our own parser was the only way to go. So what are some …

Ever, like ever ever? Or ever since we measured?

I wanted a little bit more from FS department, so I rolled my own: https://github.com/ungerik/go-fs

This is why Google developed Go. Python like productivity with C++ like performance...

Horrible read. Still don't know what the problem is.

You can't be that smart, if you don't figure out how to bridge the "communication range". Showing that IQ is a much too narrow measurement of puzzle solving ability, not related to…