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.
Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
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#12Until 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.
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#13"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
#14There 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.
They could add a link to http://numbersapi.com/ though.
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#15This 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…
just added a reference to numbers api
Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
#16Ow 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.
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
#17This 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…
Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
#18This 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…
Re: Show HN: Curiosity of the Day
#19This 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…