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proton too

its weirdly endearing in the age of LLMs to see a word like company misspelled in a blog post

I mean, the person is looking for a cleaner in their area. If all of the cleaning businesses in the area slash their marketing budget to 0, the author is not going to fail to find …

fantastic username

The article goes on to say the exact opposite of the headline. Bluesky users are celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk, it's simply not the majority of them

Not much yellow on the web

Couldn't agree more on many of these points. There is so much 'whatever' everywhere on the web that I legitimately don't understand people being interested in the platforms that su…

so I guess you just don't read ebooks?

wow - I've quickly found 2 songs that are better than anything I've discovered in weeks

There's also a ton of multi sale per person in overwatch. Especially before role queue existed, it was easier to just spend 10 bucks on a new account to learn a hero than to suffer…

Agreed. It's so painless to use and yet the adoption is so bad

my favorite stout is 400 calories for 12oz

There's a lot of people downplaying the importance of genuine online comments but the reality is that (outside of the bubbles lives in by many HN users) millions upon millions of p…

there is a very large collection of old catalogs on archive.org for people interested in looking at old print advertisements

12ft.io seemed to stop being useful almost immediately after gaining any amount of popularity

Trees good, study finds

the post office scans the exterior, not the contents. That is a significant difference.

Are these types of restaurants actually going away or are crappy chains just going under because better alternatives are a dime a dozen?

The inability to get a TV/stream box without some kind of ads cooked in infuriates me to no end, and it just feels like it's getting worse

LCP markets itself as an open standard, but has made multiple platforms unusable for me as a kobo user. Aggressively seeking out content like this and trying to bully away fixes fo…

I spent a good chunk of time at a small company trying to mitigate spam, it always felt like an uphill battle that google just did significantly better than I could. I'm not one to…

"Only about 10% of players ever gain more than 100 points, and only about 1% of players gain more than 200 rating points given years." This seems like a wild claim. On chess.com I'…

same here! If I could go back, I would've learned colemak for the keyboard shortcut reasons people have outlined in other comments, but I don't have it in me to learn another layou…

yup. weekly trivia nights at the pub did it for us. most of us are drinkers, but for those that aren't there's still dinner, a fun activity and good company

is there energy loss with transferring power 2300 miles? how significant?