whyleyc

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Outbid – A Million Dollar Homepage for 2026?(outbid.lol)
8 points by whyleyc 28d ago|8 comments
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by whyleyc 1mo ago
https://archive.is/WoHuY
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by whyleyc 6mo ago
This is a really important article but just got flagged (why?) so I'm reposting it. Original submission is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325280
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by whyleyc 6mo ago
https://archive.is/TEwfi
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by whyleyc 6mo ago
When I worked at IBM in ‘98 Lotus Notes was the default email client for all employees - we referred to it internally as “Bloatus Goats” such was the disdain we had for it.
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GitHub Feb 9th outage: Incident Report(githubstatus.com)
5 points by whyleyc 7mo ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 7mo ago
Don't bother, I tried with a disposable email address and they make you subscribe to a mailing list before sending you the download link. When you do eventually get it, it's a 3 page puff marketing PDF. I converted it to TXT and p
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by whyleyc 8mo ago
It’s ok - The Winchester is within walking distance.
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by whyleyc 9mo ago
I live in the UK now, have done for 40+ years and there are (still) automated car washes everywhere.
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by whyleyc 10mo ago
Have you considered https://tiller.com/ ? They can pull feeds in and refresh automatically but have a big privacy play so that only you get to see your finances (and display and manage it in Excel or Google Sheets).
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by whyleyc 1y ago
I'd recommend using Outline - it's a one click setup that lets you provision your own VPN on a cloud provider (or your own hardware). Since you get to pick where the hardware is located and it is just you (or you and a small group
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Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue(searchengineland.com)
10 points by whyleyc 2y ago|2 comments
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by whyleyc 2y ago
The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.
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Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles(bbc.co.uk)
67 points by whyleyc 2y ago|87 comments
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by whyleyc 2y ago
https://archive.ph/AKASQ
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British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing after yacht sinks off Sicily(bbc.com)
3 points by whyleyc 2y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 2y ago
Actually multi-focal contact lenses are a thing. I was surprised to hear this too, since I wondered how they could work in practice - there’s a handy explainer here if you are interested: https://www.warbyparker.com/learn&#x
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Critical incident over London hospitals' cyber-attack(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by whyleyc 2y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 2y ago
It's worse than that - an attacker on the same local network as the target machine can tie up the legitimate DHCP server by reserving all available addresses and then start advertising themselves as an alternate DHCP server (to inject
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Woman found with £2B in Bitcoin convicted of money laundering(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by whyleyc 2y ago|4 comments
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by whyleyc 3y ago
Clicky: 2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433 2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152 2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095 2020 → https:/&#
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by whyleyc 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231122121846/https://www.washi...
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by whyleyc 3y ago
https://archive.ph/wqONd
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by whyleyc 3y ago
The original post did not come off as condescending to me, but instead just highlighted how BigCorp cloud marketing departments have an incentive to sell developers on “infrastructure is tough, just pay us”. (I say this as a consumer of AWS
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by whyleyc 3y ago
Currently OCR support is limited to PDF > TXT conversion but we're hoping to add support for other output formats at some point. Feel free to shoot me an email at chris [at] zamzar [dot] com if you'd like to chat further.
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by whyleyc 3y ago
If you just need to convert the files have you thought about using Zamzar ( https://dev.zamzar.com/ )? We have a file conversion API that supports DOC/DOCX/ODT/PDF/TEX to Markdown conversion in one line of
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Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too(web.archive.org)
1 points by whyleyc 4y ago|0 comments
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Sam Bankman-Fried Has a Savior Complex–and Maybe You Should Too(web.archive.org)
14 points by whyleyc 4y ago|4 comments
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by whyleyc 4y ago
To avoid the hostile pop-over on the linked page: https://archive.ph/MhJGP
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Hans Niemann sues accusers Magnus Carlsen and Chess.com for libel(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by whyleyc 4y ago|2 comments

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