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New comment by hiichbindermax in "Escaping the trap of US tech dependence"

hiichbindermax — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:08:36 +0000

You can also watch it at CCC directly: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification...

New comment by hiichbindermax in "How Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain"

hiichbindermax — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:51:46 +0000

Have you checked the Internet Archive?

https://archive.org/details/der_zauberberg_hsp/

New comment by hiichbindermax in "Show HN: Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases"

hiichbindermax — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:40:41 +0000

That's not the same package. You should try sqlit-tui

New comment by hiichbindermax in "Advanced Python Features"

hiichbindermax — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 10:30:12 +0000

Nitpick about 9.3 Short Circuit Evaluation: both things evaluate differently if you have empty strings. The if-else clause treats empty strings as valid while the or operator will treat them equivalent with None.

New comment by hiichbindermax in "Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle"

hiichbindermax — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:05:15 +0000

I love this kind of puzzle! How long does it take you to make one?

New comment by hiichbindermax in "How to Make a CPU – A Simple Picture Based Explanation"

hiichbindermax — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 08:01:05 +0000

And https://nandgame.com/

New comment by hiichbindermax in "EurKEY: The European Keyboard Layout – For Europeans, Coders and Translators"

hiichbindermax — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:03:10 +0000

You can get these with the composition keys. Shift+AltGr = ˇ and then hit the letter to compose them

New comment by hiichbindermax in "NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android"

hiichbindermax — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 08:30:32 +0000

I use the version from the github page. They are updated much faster. So when I realized something broke there is usually already a fixed version up on github.

New comment by hiichbindermax in "Open source applications for macOS"

hiichbindermax — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 06:15:43 +0000

You could try out Rectangle [1]. Other alternatives would be magnet (paid) or veeer (free).

[1]: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

New comment by hiichbindermax in "Solved by 1440p HiDPI: MacBook Pro 16“ is hot and noisy with an external monitor"

hiichbindermax — Sat, 22 May 2021 10:14:49 +0000

Delete your cookies for medium. Then you should be able to read it. Or don't allow cookies for medium in the first place.

New comment by hiichbindermax in "The Memex Method"

hiichbindermax — Sun, 16 May 2021 11:17:32 +0000

Delete your cookies for medium. Or even better, don't allow the website to set any and you should be able to read most content there. Otherwise a private session could also help?