Recent submissions

Comment · 10 days ago
When is the blackwall going live?
Comment · 24 days ago
Backend developers are already conditioned to use Linux VMs when developing in Mac OS.
Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 4 years ago
And with iMessage you need to have an Apple account, at least for carriers you have choices.
Comment · 4 years ago
He got an exemption the Victoria state rules, this is the same as you getting a paper from Florida saying you can travel freely there and trying to enter the US based on that paper.
Comment · 4 years ago
It would depend if Tiktok Editor is legally considered a derivative application or not. If it is, then it's in breach of GPLv2.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
It's like UTC but worse. If people need to learn something new, it's better to teach the basics of ISO 8601 to everyone.
Comment · 5 years ago
Can you imagine if retail stores where made in a way that 3% of customers couldn't use them?
Comment · 6 years ago
"The Services are offered from the United States of America and, regardless of your place of residence or access location, your use of them is governed by the laws of the United State of America. Right Dao makes no representations that the Sites are appropriate for use in other locations or are legal in all jurisdictions. Those who access the Sites from other locations do so at their own risk and consent to the transfer and processing of their data in the United States of America and any other jurisdiction throughout the world."

That's half the reason I don't use Google right there and they pretend to follow European laws. So, yeah, right, no thanks.

Comment · 6 years ago
There's no such thing as your Windows PC, at least for home users. There are only Microsoft's Windows PCs and they are very open about it.
Comment · 6 years ago
> It’s particularly popular in the web communities, which hopefully should make it easy to link user credential data from the web and from local systems more closely together.

Was this written by a CSI or NCIS screenwriter?

Comment · 6 years ago
Maybe after people stop using the user agent for stupid reasons it can be made useful again. User agents should be stuff like "Firefox 71.0" or "Chrome 79.0.3945", not "Mozilla but really AppleWebKit disguised as KHTML, but no really I'm Chrome but maybe I'm Safari"
Comment · 6 years ago
That goes without saying, content providers are shooting themselves in the foot with an atomic shotgun with the current fragmentation and lots of content is not legally available anywhere.
Comment · 7 years ago
I've used Here WeGo in several European countries and it didn't fail me yet. I would use OpenStreetMaps but I couldn't find any OSM app with public transport included as an option.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton