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cezary··on Show HN: ReddTok – a Reddit and TikTok mashup
Glad it worked! Best guess is it may have been a CORS issue.
cezary··on Show HN: ReddTok – Reddit and TikTok
You shouldn't need to configure anything, what browser are you using? I added some error handling to get more visibility, what happens if you navigate to a subreddit like https://reddtok.vercel.app/r/oddlysatisfying ?
cezary··on ReddTok – Reddit and TikTkok
Hey HN! I made this before the recent TikTok ban, to browse Reddit videos with the same interface. It runs completely client-side, using the public Reddit API.

No AI other than auto-complete.

You can see the source on GitHub: https://www.github.com/cezary/reddtok

cezary··on Show HN: I made a TikTok for short-form videos on Reddit
Thanks for checking it out. Hadn't used Mix before, I can see the similarities. The app is a lot simpler than what they've done; I wanted a stream of new videos and a way to consume them quickly on a website. Any social interaction like commenting or upvoting are handled on Reddit.

With my usage, I don't want to log in to another site and I like that I could browse by user or multiple subs: https://ayayay.app/r/AnimalsBeingDerps+animalsdoingstuff+aww...

cezary··on Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland
Poles have existed for a millennia, the first Polish state started in 966 AD as the Kingdom of Poland with the adoption of Western Christianity by the first Polish king. Maybe the idea of a nation hadn't been formed yet, but Poland had. The Polish word for Germany is "Niemec" or land of mutes, because they were unintelligible.

Why would anyone make that argument? Claiming Poznań as German reeks of irredentism. Germanic != German. Do germans still claim the cities of other Germanic countries and former lands like Austria, Czechia, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and the Baltics as German?

cezary··on Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland
Poznań has been Polish for a millennia, it was a part of Germany from 1793 to 1919.

It was majority Polish during that period, with Germans making up at most 40% of the population, or ~65000, when it became a part of Poland again.

cezary··on A classic Silicon Valley tactic – losing money to crush rivals – under scrutiny
Google Maps started charging developers once it was the dominant digital map, the fees killed MapFrappe: http://mapfrappe.com/
cezary··on Use Hooks – A Collection of Reusable React Hooks
There's nothing preventing you from using hooks in a cra app, just update your react and react-dom to the @next version.
cezary··on Los Angeles Drivers on the 405 Ask: Was $1.6B Worth It?
> "Richard Close, 73, who has lived in Sherman Oaks for 43 years, said his daily commute to Santa Monica has become easier, and with the construction crews gone, he has come to appreciate the new 405. He said he leaves his office after 7 at night, to miss the worst of rush hour, and it takes about 75 minutes to go 15 miles, which he said saved him 15 minutes a night on his old commute."

So he went from going an average of 10 miles/hr to 12.5 miles/hr. Never mind the ever-increasing population of the area and this little boost in commute time is just going to evaporate as more people congest the highway. Ideally they'd take away a lane on each side and build a new Metro rail line. It might not alleviate traffic much, but it would give people an alternative to driving.

cezary··on Ask HN: What is your favorite Google chrome extension?
uBlock Origin, TabAttack and The Great Suspender.

Another is one I wrote and use to read articles without seeing paywalls. It got pulled off the chrome web store as it started to pick up users, but you can still install and run it in developer mode: https://github.com/cezary/bypass

cezary··on iPhone 7
This is how I see it. There's no mention of Airpods using bluetooth, I'm betting that W1 chip is using a proprietary wireless protocol that keeps other manufacturers from easily/cheaply creating wireless headphones or using these wireless headphones on other devices.
cezary··on Show HN: Live Dangerously – 1-for-1 anonymous photo sharing via SMS
Most cell phone carriers automatically scrub exif data from photos sent by sms.
cezary··on How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley
Before the start of this season, they created a job listing for the CEO position at Pied Piper http://archive.is/5W6Yz
cezary··on Tech Shares Fail to Join the Party
If you're using Chrome you could try this extension, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bypass/ekfnpmbmfml.... It automatically sets the referer header and clears cookies on paywalled sites like wsj and ft.
cezary··on OpenGrid – Chicago Releases User-Friendly Open Data Tool
I'd love to try this out, but Chrome has disabled geolocation for any non-HTTPS sites: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-se...
cezary··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
Yea, my goal was to make something closer to the original reddit.tv ui. Also, in addition to youtube and vimeo, rddt.tv supports playback for content from soundcloud, instagram, vine, vidme, sendvid, streamable, dailymotion and a few others.
cezary··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
Thanks, glad you like it!

That seems to be the general case, a lot of people never knew about it. I used it just as much as the homepage and it was a great way to just sit back and absorb content.

cezary··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
Awesome, thanks for the feedback!

The subreddit list definitely needs some attention. The aim was to bucket them into categories, so I either need to flesh that out or sort them.

Skipping media that doesn't load is doable. Some content won't play or advance automatically because a lack of an api to control the api (gifs, Liveleak, Basecamp, iTunes, spotify) but I didn't automatically filter them out because a lot of it is good content. Probably a good option to add to a settings page.

cezary··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL
Rddt.tv - http://rddt.tv

Reddit.tv was an app to watch videos posted to reddit but shut down back in January. Haven't been able to find a replacement that I liked, so I built my own. Made the videos full-screen by default and added extra stuff like support for Soundcloud embeds (so you could listen to music subreddits), a directory of video-posting subreddits, multireddits, keyboard shortcuts.

cezary··on Building a business, not just an app
<hname>@gmail.com
cezary··on Do you have 30k CHF pocket money?
Looks like we need a new word to identify male if "him" no longer works.
cezary··on You Don't Need JQuery
Another great resource when trimming down jquery use is http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
cezary··on Show HN: Play music by typing
Nice! I noticed pressing alt+key will hold the note, but you might want to change that to shift+key since 'w','q','t' and 'n' won't work (I got a little carried away).
cezary··on Put an end to people mispronouncing your name
Another -ski here. Sometimes there's room for varying pronunciations of the same name. I grew up pronouncing my last name the way my non-English speaking parents thought it should be pronounced in English. It wasn't until college that I realized there was an easier way to pronounce it.
cezary··on Plug – Native OS X client for Hype Machine
Really nice work, I use their website every day and I might just switch over to this.
cezary··on The URL shortener situation is out of control
curl -I -L <url> will follow redirects

There's also this service that expands shortened urls: http://longurl.org/

cezary··on The worlds most remote base exit is still untouched
I don't know why he claims it's untouched, Red Bull sent a team out to base jump from Ulvetanna back in 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70GIbZbBsDg
cezary··on Luma (YC W12) acquired by Facebook and integrated into Instagram video
It's a shame I hadn't heard of it until they pulled it out of the app store, are there any similar apps out there?
cezary··on Unicode Character 'Slice of Pizza'
After installing the symbola font, I still see the square. Chrome on OSX doesn't support emoji. Try viewing it in safari.

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/41228/why-do-emoji-...

cezary··on Aaron Swartz commits suicide
'I thought of suicide.'

I winced when I got to that. It's sad to think this isn't the first time he's had these thoughts and how long he must have had them. Rest in peace.

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