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Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

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post #5

From a french speaker perspective: the date was written like this: jeudi avril 6, 2023. This is the US date format, but with the day and month translated in French, while the rest of the page is fully in English.

Interesting. I think it's because I'm formatting the date to a Locale string. Will fix that soon, thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

#12
This is great!

Until you realize that it's a cheap rip-off of http://numbersapi.com/ without giving credit. Shame on you, ae.studio. If that's how you work, you failed with this ad and won't get me as your customer. Or employee.

(To clarify: I don't find it a problem that this page contains an ad for their studio. It's out of sight, which is nice. What I'm taking issue with is that they are not attributing where they are taking the data from.)

Edit: Ah, now the attribution was added in the lower-righthand corner. That's good, at least they are listening and fixing issues quickly. That this had to be pointed out first and publicly shamed still leaves a sour taste though.

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

#13
Ow cute, curiosity of the day!

"April 6th is the day in 1994 that the Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down."

There goes a bunch of happiness I had gathered today around me.

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

#14

There should probably be a "read more"-link pointing to relevant information for us people who have learned as much about baseball from Fallout 4 as from anything else.

Won't happen, because the service they are using (without crediting it) to get this "curiosity of the day" doesn't provide such a link. So they can't add such a link.

They could add a link to http://numbersapi.com/ though.

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

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post #12

This is great! Until you realize that it's a cheap rip-off of http://numbersapi.com/ without giving credit. Shame on you, ae.studio. If that's how you work, you failed with this ad and won't get me as your customer. Or employee. (To clarify: I don't find it a problem that this page contains an ad for their studio. It's out of sight, which is nice. What I'm taking issue with is that they are not attributing where they…

Yeah, we made it a simple and easy way to view that data :D

just added a reference to numbers api

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

#16

Ow cute, curiosity of the day! "April 6th is the day in 1994 that the Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down." There goes a bunch of happiness I had gathered today around me.

This is what hit me as well. To me, “a curiosity” is not just some fact about a historical event. And when many of the events are grim moments in history, the site quickly strays from the idea of curiosity and becomes just another random regurgitation of “on this day” content.

To the authors: I think it’s an interesting idea, but would benefit from the ability to select categories of interest.

I’m all about improving my knowledge of the world, and I’m willing to spend time doing that. But the acquisition of knowledge for the sake of it is a spending of time that I’ve started to ration intentionally due to the volume of information and noise in my life, and this site unfiltered seems a bit noisy.

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

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post #12

This is great! Until you realize that it's a cheap rip-off of http://numbersapi.com/ without giving credit. Shame on you, ae.studio. If that's how you work, you failed with this ad and won't get me as your customer. Or employee. (To clarify: I don't find it a problem that this page contains an ad for their studio. It's out of sight, which is nice. What I'm taking issue with is that they are not attributing where they…

I specifically love how it's not just a call to numbers.com, rather a call to /api/curiosity on the site, but passing in a url to numbersapi.com as an argument to the request. So... Not only the call to numbers.com was hidden from the networking tab from casual onlookers, but I think the server will just download arbitrary content if we ask it to... And I could certainly load a random lipsum.com/feed/html. Since there's no call to that domain in my networking tab I assume their server does it. I won't be the person to include a link to a 400gb file there, but someone will.

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

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post #12

This is great! Until you realize that it's a cheap rip-off of http://numbersapi.com/ without giving credit. Shame on you, ae.studio. If that's how you work, you failed with this ad and won't get me as your customer. Or employee. (To clarify: I don't find it a problem that this page contains an ad for their studio. It's out of sight, which is nice. What I'm taking issue with is that they are not attributing where they…

I specifically love how it's not just a call to numbers.com, rather a call to /api/curiosity on the site, but passing in a url to numbersapi.com as an argument to the request. So... Not only the call to numbers.com was hidden from the networking tab from casual onlookers, but I think the server will just download arbitrary content if we ask it to... And I could certainly load a random lipsum.com/feed/html. Since ther…

you are right, terrible idea to pass the URL as an argument. Will fix that in 5 min.

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

#19
post #12

This is great! Until you realize that it's a cheap rip-off of http://numbersapi.com/ without giving credit. Shame on you, ae.studio. If that's how you work, you failed with this ad and won't get me as your customer. Or employee. (To clarify: I don't find it a problem that this page contains an ad for their studio. It's out of sight, which is nice. What I'm taking issue with is that they are not attributing where they…

I specifically love how it's not just a call to numbers.com, rather a call to /api/curiosity on the site, but passing in a url to numbersapi.com as an argument to the request. So... Not only the call to numbers.com was hidden from the networking tab from casual onlookers, but I think the server will just download arbitrary content if we ask it to... And I could certainly load a random lipsum.com/feed/html. Since ther…

Thanks for pointing that out. Just fixed it.

Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day

#20
This is awesome! A few years ago, I used to be a frequent reader of Knappily, a free news application that divided each article using the 5W1H method. They used to write an "On This Day" article every day. Although their publishing frequency is less now, you can still find their old stuff by searching on Google for "on this day site:knappily.com".
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