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verstandhandelon Show HN: The Alphabetical Clock

Reminds me of Lord Vetinari's Clock:

The clock in Lord Vetinari’s anteroom didn’t tick right. Sometimes the tick was just a fraction late, sometimes the tock was early. Occasionally, one or the other didn’t happen at all. This wasn’t really noticeable until you’d been in there for five minutes, by which time small but significant parts of the brain were going crazy.

– Going Postal by Terry Pratchett, page 321

verstandhandelon American aviation is near collapse?

no paywall: https://archive.ph/20260323153943/https://www.theatlantic.co...

verstandhandelon Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer (2023)

The topic seemed familiar to me ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35311300 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45010658

(+ few others with less than 1 comment)

verstandhandelon My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

I fight and fought the saw robot :-D

verstandhandelon IrfanView

or just the batch mode ... very helpful and fast.

verstandhandelon What Was ISDN?

The 10m long cable runs across the hallway from the living room to the children's room. What a time to be alive :D Blocking the phone connection for 1 hour to download the 10MB demo of a game.

verstandhandelon T-Mobile: Ads/Updates to Streaming Benefits on Netflix and Hulu

"You currently have Netflix ON US included in your plan. Netflix recently updated their subscription tiers, you’ll now receive Netflix Standard with ads, providing more features and benefits to you. This benefit will continue to be ON US ($0). There is nothing you need to do. This change will take effect between January 25 and February 1.

For more details on your Netflix benefit, to make adjustments, or explore additional streaming options, check out your Benefits Hub at My T-Mobile or the T-Mobile App."

verstandhandelon IMF says central bank digital currencies can replace cash

We are currently at the point where there are very few people whose bank accounts are canceled because a system has detected something unusual. The bank is legally obliged to investigate this, so they close the accounts and absolutely nobody seems to know the exact reason. And now let's make this completely digital. What could possibly happen?!

verstandhandelon Noteful – a fun, free app to learn to read music and basic music theory

https://www.noteful.net

The page... Not everyone uses Twitter and want to guess the name of the page...

verstandhandelon Rt.com Appears to Be Down

https://twitter.com/YourAnonOne/status/1496976346995638272

... in progress ... ;)

verstandhandelon Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

Maybe minecraft :/

verstandhandelon Revisionparty banned by twitch during streaming

revisionparty demoparty banned by twitch during streaming - maybe because of stupid nipple content ... now online with help of c3voc :-)

verstandhandelon Ololo Says Goodbye

ololo says goodbye! The ololo search engine has been discontinued.

verstandhandelon Reasons to think that, in terms of influence if not wealth, Facebook has peaked

I like the irony :D

"Eight reasons Facebook has peaked"

"please follow me on Twitter or Facebook"