Hacker News: nixy

Bending Spoons acquires Vimeo for $1.38B

nixy — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:25:22 +0000

Article URL: https://investors.vimeo.com/news-releases/news-release-details/vimeo-enters-definitive-agreement-be-acquired-bending-spoons-138

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197302

Points: 66

# Comments: 42

Church being moved 5 km in Kiruna, Sweden (live stream)

nixy — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 06:34:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9G/den-stora-kyrkflytten/forsta-dagen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44948849

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by nixy in "Iceland Spar"

nixy — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:47:47 +0000

I assume this is partly interesting/funny because in the UK, both "Iceland" and "Spar" are grocery store chains :)

Johan Hultin

nixy — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 04:26:55 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Hultin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30144481

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nixy in "Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan"

nixy — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 12:14:57 +0000

I went to Apple Music already back when Spotify decided to give Rogan their platform and the millions of dollars. Can't say I regret it.

New comment by nixy in "Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand"

nixy — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 06:37:12 +0000

But Google is now Alphabet, so should be MAANA

New comment by nixy in "Apple Maps vs. Google Maps"

nixy — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 15:20:55 +0000

But a map app is so much more than street maps and navigation. I have tried to switch to Apple Maps, and it works great for navigation or getting an overview of the streets. But I cannot use Apple Maps to explore!

With Google maps, I just fire it up and search “sights” to find places near that are worth a visit. “Public beaches” to find where I can go for a swim. If I try the same with Apple Maps, more often than not I get sent to a place in Myanmar or similar which happens to be tagged as “public beach”.

Also when I search for a business on Google maps, I get photos and reviews. With Apple Maps I am happy if I get a link to a website.

New comment by nixy in "How Hard is your Email to Say? (2020)"

nixy — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 12:29:15 +0000

I diagree. The c / z in American pronunciation can cause confusion in verbal communication here. "at ey bee [see] dot ex why [see]"

New comment by nixy in "FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web"

nixy — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 07:28:10 +0000

To be honest, it is more a F-U to your competitors' customers than to your own. I don't get why Apple creating a feature for their own ecosystem has to be made available to other ecosystems as well. It's not like Face Time is the only video calling solution out there.

Epic Games sues AR company Nreal for sounding too much like ‘Unreal’

nixy — Mon, 17 May 2021 15:53:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/17/22440131/epic-nreal-ar-glasses-unreal-engine-trademark-lawsuit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27184872

Points: 25

# Comments: 29

New comment by nixy in "Hydrofoiling"

nixy — Tue, 11 May 2021 11:02:26 +0000

I think the OP is referring to ground effect above the water surface, as employed by for example eraknoplans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan)

New comment by nixy in "Hydrofoiling"

nixy — Tue, 11 May 2021 09:56:18 +0000

Candela will also provide boats for a trial with the Stockholm Public Transport system, which currently employs quite a few traditional boats for transport around the city.

https://www.mynewsdesk.com/candela-speedboat-ab/pressrelease...

https://candelaspeedboat.com/public-transport/

New comment by nixy in "The Sweden Solar System"

nixy — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:45:43 +0000

You should definitely be able to convince her this is a road trip to take! On the way you will pass the lovely Virgin coast archipelago as well as be able to visit the UNESCO world heritage sites Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland and the High Coast. Go for the road trip!

New comment by nixy in "India accounts for 11 per cent of global death in road accidents: World Bank"

nixy — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 13:14:03 +0000

... but only 1% of the world's vehicles

New comment by nixy in "New variety of apple discovered by Wiltshire runner"

nixy — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:51:31 +0000

The capital "A" in the submission headline confused me, but it is a variety of the fruit, not the company, that has been discovered :)

New comment by nixy in "I overslept because iOS 14 disabled my alarm"

nixy — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:38:06 +0000

I had the exact same problem as a 12 year old kid, only I was in assembly where Auschwitz survivor Emerich Roth was telling us about his hardships. He stopped with annoyed patience and waited for me to silence the alarm before continuing. I don't think I've ever felt so bad.

New comment by nixy in "Show HN: Unscreen – Automatically remove video backgrounds with ML"

nixy — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 15:47:47 +0000

This has been submitted multiple times as a “Show HN” but as it is a paid service, I guess this is a marketing strategy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=unscreen.com

Sweden to present findings on Olof Palme assassination

nixy — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 08:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/08/case-of-sweden-murdered-pm-1986-olof-palme-south-africa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23454656

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nixy in "Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach"

nixy — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 08:13:38 +0000

So what happens as soon as people want to start visiting NZ? Seems like you will forever have to be scared of corona entering your country again, it must be a huge blow long-term to the tourism sector? Not trying to be snarky, genuinely trying to understad the plan.

New comment by nixy in "If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (2014)"

nixy — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:28:20 +0000

The world's largest scale model of the solar system is in Sweden and stretches along most of the country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System