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Off topic, but I was wondering what the green names signify since I started following HN. Can you please tell?

The article nicely points out that the decline of Volapük is connected to reform attempts that originated from within. It also mentions that Esperanto had similar issues and some p…

And on every page, it seems.

I'm an introvert from Turkey.

Excellent reasoning. I never thought of this but very plausible indeed.

As a response to those who asked questions here in the comments: When I finally overcame the shock, the very first thing I did was to ask her if she, or a guest, indeed searched fo…

March 2020, heydays of coronavirus paranoia. I came back home from somewhere, put my keys onto the dining table and went to the bathroom to clean up. My girlfriend, upon seeing the…

Fun article indeed but the data the author has collected, however, is sloppy. Being Turkish, I needed to verify "mantı" on the binary coded features table I and saw, to my dismay, …

This one almost exists: dexterious dex·te·ri·ous dizzy; full of excitement, energy, rage, etc "they met secretly and dexterious"

Mi sendis al vi inviton ludi en la aplikaĵo. Mia enluda nomo estas "egeto". Se vi akceptas mian peton mi provos helpi vin uzante la babilejon, kiu estas parto de la aplikaĵo.

Shameless plug: I wrote a scrabble-like html5 game for esperanto speakers named "7 Literoj". Android and web app available at https://7literoj.34bit.net/ Please comment if you play…

Interesting. I was able to watch it from somewhere not in the US before posting.

For those who don't live in the US, this entertaining video by John Oliver might give some context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO0iG_P0P6M

There was a period where I started seeing Webpack everywhere, being used by everyone, so I felt obliged to try it. I struggled with the concepts and configuration and eventually re…

Care to share the tech stack behind the game? Seems that you used a cross-platform technology to make it runable on several OSes.

If you take a statistics class, one of the very first things that are taught is to be careful not to infer a wrong cause-effect relation when presented with a "correlation". A typi…

Excellent work, and indeed it sounds pretty much neutral. One question though: I always thought Esperanto pronunciation and letters map quite one-to-one with Turkish, have you cons…

> I had so many “whoa!” and “wow!” and “this is amazing!” moments while checking it out that I didn't get out of my chair until almost midnight. I didn't even notice the house had …

Right. 0-days did not not cross my mind. Until now.

A few days ago, I also received the same message from a friend with a link to a fake youtube page, but unlike you, I actually clicked it despite intuitively knowing that it was mal…

I think this: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47638336