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What this needs is a daily puzzle and an easy way to share it in text format, a la Worlde or Domino Fit...


You can find a shareable link to the puzzle by clicking the gear icon.


> on another note, it seems silly to have both firefox and safari. perhaps there is some unificaiton strategy that we can get these two to pursue. combined, they certainly have enough marketshare to drive webmasters.

Was 2005 really such a different time with respect to monopolies that someone like Brin would actually think it's "silly" for more than one browser to have significant market share? Wasn't Microsoft punished also for bundling IE with Windows?


The context here is that IE has absolutely dominated the browser market for years in 2005.

So I read it as “Given we’re trying to have an alternative to IE, it’s silly for us to further fracture the ecosystem, rather than collaborate on a viable contender.”

Wikipedia shows november 2005 browser share as 88% IE, firefox at 8%, and netscape+other at 2%. (not sure why this doesn’t add up to 100%)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers


I suppose we have to assume that it wasn't Brin's idea to launch the Chrome browser 3 years later.


There's been a recent article [1] about a very similar students' project at Darmstadt University. Interesting to see that the post referenced here precedes this by about five years.

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/Car-hacking-real-cars-turned-in...


Peppers and eggplant as well, according to the article.


Round it up to most summer vegetables.


Does it have a standard tripod mount? Also, maybe for a later iteration, if you could make a case that enables compatibility with GoPro accesories would be plus.

Otherwise, I'm very impressed, it requires a lot of dedication and different abilities to makes something like that!


It unfortunately doesn't have a mount. (A friend has been hounding me for months about that...)

I've been using adhesive pads to mount it to things. The Gorilla "mounting tape squares" are strong and don't leave any residue.


'The Gorilla "mounting tape squares" are strong and don't leave any residue.'

Which is also an engineering marvel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-F2QQuZZGk


> In 2021 the "Doge" meme sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $4m (£3.2m).

> Kabosu is also the face of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin, which was originally created as a "joke" currency and is the sleeve sponsor of Watford Football Club.

Absurd times we live in, comedic and dramatic at the same time.


That "joke" currency currently has a market cap of $23 billion and a trading volume of $2.6B over the last 24 hours.

>Absurd times we live in, comedic and dramatic at the same time.

So yes, totally agreed.


> is the sleeve sponsor of Watford Football Club.

is this true? it is not listed on the club's website[0], maybe it was a one-time-only kind of deal? I do recall a couple of those for nascar (dogecar looked great too), the whole dogecoin community was great back then, but this seems big-ish.

[0] https://www.watfordfc.com/club/partners




(2019)


If what they call 'consistency' is just the total number of stories posted, it's not really surprising to see a strong correlation with total karma points, is it? The more stories posted, the more karma gathered. Anything else would be a real head scratcher.

You could say, there might be people who keep posting stories even though the don't get upvoted, but that would be kind of irrational. If the community doesn't seem to be interested in what they post, they will stop doing so sooner or later.


> You could say, there might be people who keep posting stories even though the don't get upvoted, but that would be kind of irrational. If the community doesn't seem to be interested in what they post, they will stop doing so sooner or later.

Probably many people stop sharing in this case indeed. But for those who don't, I guess the idea is: eventually, if you keep sharing, you can collect upvotes here and there, and eventually the karma will go up


Olaf Scholz is the head of the government, Germany's head of state is its president, currently Frank-Walter Steinmeier.


Sometimes I wonder about the things that make it to HN's front page...


A moose once bit my sister.


A moose once came to our front door and stuck his head in, on my birthday to boot. Never had that happen! He was super chill, too. But when he started pushing in, me and my dad had to lean on the door. But I doubt we’d have been able to stop him had he really tried.


Well, she shouldn’t have been karving her initials on the møøse with a toothbrush!


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