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EU Parliament temporarily defies Chat Control(heise.de)
6 points by donpott 3mo ago|0 comments
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Spanish government 'quietly bans use of Palantir' in critical state systems(lbc.co.uk)
94 points by donpott 3mo ago|24 comments
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by donpott 4mo ago
That was a Cliff-hanger!
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House of Lords Votes to Ban UK Children from Using Internet VPNs(ispreview.co.uk)
98 points by donpott 8mo ago|137 comments
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ChatGPT is getting ads. Sam Altman once called them a 'last resort.'(businessinsider.com)
73 points by donpott 8mo ago|41 comments
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DeepSeek-v3.2 Release(api-docs.deepseek.com)
5 points by donpott 10mo ago|1 comments
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Great Ball Contraption (GBC) at Japan Brickfest 2025 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by donpott 10mo ago|0 comments
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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC(bbc.co.uk)
411 points by donpott 1y ago|430 comments
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by donpott 1y ago
The primary source cited in TFA was itself submitted to HN some months ago and garnered 100+ comments, for your reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816546
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by donpott 1y ago
It is quite clever. My own rule of thumb is "add half of the amount in miles, then 10% of the (original) amount in miles". What's interesting is that it happens to be just as precise as the method shown above (ie. 1.6 v 1.609
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List of Latin Phrases(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by donpott 1y ago|0 comments
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Small electric cars were said to be the future – but SUVs now rule the road(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by donpott 2y ago|1 comments
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by donpott 2y ago
Which one? HN? TFA? Any of the scammy subdomains mentioned therein?
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A Plan for Reparations Became a Debt Trap for Marijuana Retailers(nytimes.com)
2 points by donpott 2y ago|0 comments
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by donpott 2y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960219 ? DIfferent sources, but same event
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by donpott 2y ago
I think it's quite easy to confuse the two if one is diagonally reading the HN frontpage and sees a headline that begins with "What's new with Robinhood [...]".
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Westminster Quarters(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by donpott 2y ago|0 comments
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by donpott 2y ago
Just want to add that 7726 works in the UK too.
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by donpott 2y ago
I loved that one. For some reason the bit that stuck with me the most was the inside joke they had about all penguins knowing Robert Clark, because they seemed to be calling his surname all the time.
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How Did a Ship Destroy Baltimore's Key Bridge? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by donpott 2y ago|0 comments
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"Cheated" Contactless Passengers Fined [at London Stansted Express] [video](youtube.com)
5 points by donpott 3y ago|2 comments
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by donpott 3y ago
It has become part of everyday life in the capital to use your card or phone to tap in to travel on the transport network. But ITV News has uncovered an operation that penalises people who do just that to travel to London Stansted Airport.
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Tell HN: OpenAI is offering Premium Subscriptions again
8 points by donpott 3y ago|2 comments
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Michael Gove prohibits planning authority from blocking MSG Sphere Stratford(dezeen.com)
1 points by donpott 3y ago|0 comments
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by donpott 3y ago
Discussion on HN 21 days ago with 75 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941807
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I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video](youtube.com)
696 points by donpott 3y ago|322 comments
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by donpott 3y ago
Gibraltar is not a country
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Coffeegeek is leaving Twitter / X(coffeegeek.com)
24 points by donpott 3y ago|11 comments
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by donpott 3y ago
Indeed, they were on the brink of extinction until the worldwide outlawing of DDT, and have had a huge boom since.
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by donpott 3y ago
> sometimes claimed Here, Wikipedia is faithfully recording that some people make that claim. It’s not saying that there’s a consensus or endorsing any claim or its contrary.

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