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BBC News mentions (5)

• Many people don't pay full price, Most don't want to pay at all for news

  Some people continue to pay full price. (Thank you.) And the rest of the world leaches the content. If there was a means to subscribed I would. https://bbc.com/news. - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Why is mainstream media coverage of France so limited?

  It's everywhere I get the news. If you want a deep dive, just go to France24.com or LeMonde.fr/en or even bbc.com/news. Source: over 1 year ago

• Biden calls 'emergency' meeting after missile hits Poland

  Aight so the general idea here is it's not absolutely certain that Russia shot it and they're definitely denying it. Poland's trying to keep calm to avoid having to invoke article 4 and are leaning on the side of "accident" at the moment. This is almost certainly going to be fine, but if you want to stay up to date on it go to the BBC for decently unbiased reporting. Source: over 1 year ago

• Trader blames Brexit for soaring price of fish – but BBC edits it out

  It's similar to the memory hole effect with online news sites. If you initially release an article with inaccurate or misrepresented headline and contents, then change it later on without any record of the change (something the BBC has repeatedly done on bbc.com/news) you get a difference in perception of a news event based on when someone saw/read the coverage. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Boris Johnson calls for calm after a fiery fourth night of violence in Northern Ireland

  True. I visit news.sky.com and bbc.com/news front page daily and I only found about it yesterday. Source: about 3 years ago

Hacker News mentions (505)

• What I Discovered About Making Great Widgets: Insights From 100+ Real Users

  For this study, I selected Reddit and Hacker News, platforms where many tech enthusiasts gather. I posted my inquiry in major Android and iPhone subreddits and waited for responses. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• Jank's new persistent string is fast

  Sure, but in a language without the zero terminator the empty string doesn't need an allocation. With a zero terminator, only SSO allows us to avoid that. There are a lot of empty strings. [On a typical modern 64-bit computer] An empty Rust std::String is 24 bytes, exactly the same as the Clang libc++ std::string as somewhat smaller than an MSVC or GCC std::string Most strings are "pretty small" but... - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh

  William: My current role primarily shapes my strategy. I learn a lot from the engineers and users of Linkerd, who are at the forefront of these technologies. I also keep myself updated by reading discussions on Reddit platforms like r/kubernetes and r/Linkerd. Occasionally, I contribute to or follow discussions on Hacker News. Overall, my primary source of knowledge comes from the experts I work with daily, giving... - Source: dev.to / 21 days ago

• Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

  A simpler, cross-platform, solution is to use headless Chrome to save pages as PDFs. Example I just tried and worked for me: > chrome.exe --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=page.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com I know you can specify cookies, existing sessions and existing profiles in case authentication is required. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• GPT-4o

  Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536): The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago