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Pikoon Nokia Design Archive (2025)

same. shame.

Pikoon Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

oh no, the vibes won't code themselves /s

Pikoon I Am So Tired

Good luck! I'm not sure the US is the best destination at the moment, have you looked into Europe?

Pikoon I Am So Tired

Hehe, the problem is that I work in the news business :) But yeah, definitely..

Pikoon Heroku Outage

Seems to be a salesforce issue: https://status.salesforce.com/generalmessages/10001540

Pikoon Heroku Outage

nope, can't log in (SSO) to access the support area, sent an email to support@heroku.com

Pikoon Heroku Outage

Same, can't log in and the support area needs a login... Not much fun to watch our pending queue grow and grow

Pikoon Show HN: Image2video.app – Transform Ghibli-style images into videos using AI

Not sure if you're trolling, but there's a huge debate over exactly this kind of thing... e.g. see https://www.vox.com/artificial-intelligence/408786/ai-art-st...

Pikoon Show HN: Image2video.app – Transform Ghibli-style images into videos using AI

No, thank you. I'd rather have real artists create real art :)

Pikoon Anduril Building Arsenal-1 Hyperscale Manufacturing Facility in Ohio

Great. More weapons and destruction.

Pikoon An NFC movie library for my kids

Oh man, I read "NFT movie library" and was super confused because these cards are very much fungible... But a very cool project!

Pikoon Show HN: I revamped JustWatch with a minimalist UI

What @seanvelasco wrote about the dropdown, but also Switzerland has 4 official languages (with German having the largest amount of speakers) but it's displayed as French. Maybe separate the country from the language? Would also be helpful for expats :)

Pikoon Launch HN: Thorntale (YC W24) – Presentation software that works with your data

To chime in: Firefox on MacOS in darkmode makes "Enable this content?" text unreadable (white text on white background)

Pikoon Google's hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over inaccurate images

I disagree. We aren't telling kids "With your parents' socio-economic background and skin color you cannot become whatever you want.", after all.

Pikoon Alan Wake 2 is an unexpected visual marvel even on older GPUs

I found these lists:

https://www.gamedevpensieve.com/graphics/3d/3d_frame-breakdo...

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2020/12/29/graphics-stud...

http://simonschreibt.de/game-art-tricks/

Not super current, but still a nice overview :)

Pikoon Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now

Out of curiosity, what do you need different profiles for? Kids/SO?

Pikoon Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

You can change it yourself in the settings

Pikoon Strike: A web-based, 1-bit paint tool

Does not work with Brave 1.8.86 (current) with Shields Up - JS errors for localstorage and precision. Works with Shields down. Would be nice to either still have it work but show a message maybe? Very nice otherwise!

Pikoon How to Easily Detect Objects with Deep Learning on Raspberry Pi

ETH Zürich :)

But yes, no disagreement here.

Pikoon Bringing Back Skeuomorphic Design

fuck.

There, I said it.

Pikoon Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

Should be fixed with https://github.com/monicahq/monica/pull/86 ;)

Pikoon Tales from the lunar module guidance computer (2004)

Damn... 27 myself and here I am, moving pixels around on web applications for customers that don't know what they want.

Pikoon Twitter Web has been down for over 20 mins. Are you affected?

Switzerland: Down as well.

Pikoon The computer virus is born, November 10, 1983

Inside the article there's a link to another article on the same page about the "Elk Cloner" Virus [1] with the title "1st computer virus is written, January 30, 1982". Which is only a little bit weird considering the linked article's title is "The computer virus is born, November 10, 1983".

[1]: http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/edn-moments/4406021/1st...

Pikoon Microsoft Invented Google Earth in the 90s, Then Blew It

It's been a while since I played the series, but what similarities exist there?

Pikoon Free cross-platform UI kit by Invision

Looks quite nice generally! Especially the line graph with the shadow is something I haven't seen before.

Sidenote: Would be cool if there were alternatives to the Photoshop and Sketch packages. On linux, both are not great to use.

Pikoon What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

> "Ghosts? Do you believe ghosts in 2015?", no really, what do we know about ghosts not existing, in 2015 that we don't know in 1900?

https://xkcd.com/1235/

Pikoon What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

Nice quote, but also wrong. The Swiss had tons of wars, both internally and externally [1] and provided many other countries' armies with their mercenaries [2]. Also, the cuckoo clock comes from Germany, specifically the Black Forest [3].

Full disclosure - I'm Swiss. As our history teacher put it: "The Swiss were always fighting, and if they weren't fighting each other they were hired by others and fought other Swiss mercenaries on the battlefield under different banners."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Switzer...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_mercenaries

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock

Pikoon Vivaldi – A new browser for our friends

511 points on HTML5Test [0] on Linux with Vivaldi. That's more than I get with Chromium (481) or Firefox (449). Vivaldi feels already quite nice but not finished (e.g. flickering of the preview images in vertical tabs when switching the tabs) and generally a tiny bit slower when changing tabs in comparison to chrome/chromium, my default browser at the moment.

Definitely keep it installed for now, probably won't use it daily.

[0] https://html5test.com/index.html