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Show HN: Chrome extension adds fake post titles to the HN frontpage(github.com)
2 points by DouweM 13y ago|0 comments
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by DouweM 13y ago
And here it is: https://github.com/DouweM/AlgoNews
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by DouweM 13y ago
"NSA Boss Asks Congress For Blanket Immunity For Companies That Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden"
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by DouweM 13y ago
I would love a Chrome extension that would randomly inject these into the actual Hacker News front page, and which would then keep a tally of how often I clicked the link and fell for it.
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by DouweM 13y ago
The "Law for Registration of Addresses and Buildings" ("wet basisregistraties adressen en gebouwen") was accepted by the Senate ("Eerste Kamer") on 22 January 2008, and went into effect on 1 July 2009. The data
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by DouweM 13y ago
And my colleague's house is from 1605 rather than 1005. It's not quite Y2K, but it's interesting that the last two digits seem to have survived whatever error occured.
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by DouweM 13y ago
Quoting Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam : > Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age,
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by DouweM 13y ago
Yeah, none of those are probably accurate. My colleague owns a house in the area you linked to that was built in or around 1605, but it's listed as 1005 as well. Fortunately, the site links to this page where you can report incorrect d
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by DouweM 13y ago
This is incredibly cool; looks like my house and office were built in 1978 and 1850 respectively!
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Plotagon – Make a movie by just writing a story(plotagon.com)
88 points by DouweM 13y ago|36 comments
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by DouweM 13y ago
I'm not familiar with Google Finance, but the author states "This part of the code is responsible for querying an external domain for a newsfeed to be displayed on the plot as an overlay.". I'm guessing they just happene
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by DouweM 13y ago
They're not the only ones: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4697 And their living room where they're currently watching TV: http://cryptogasm.com/webcams/webcam.php?id=4692 Damn, this is creepy.
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by DouweM 14y ago
Correct, no juries in the Netherlands.
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by DouweM 14y ago
Chrome uses OS X's CoreText for rendering the tab titles, but uses its own text rendering engine for the site body. CoreText is the one that crashes on that unicode.
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by DouweM 14y ago
Very, very cool idea. The app works really well, but it feels a bit rough around the edges. I just spent about half an hour chatting with one of the cofounders though, J, and he seems very eager to improve the app, so I have all the faith i
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Dutch government introduces disclosure guidelines for white hat hackers (theverge.com)
2 points by DouweM 14y ago|0 comments
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by DouweM 14y ago
They had already implemented it, but were using a way of keeping the app running in the background that's reserved for apps that play music or track your GPS location. Apple rejected the app because Sparrow was neither.