Please put units in names — Windows needs a change in priorities — and Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages

Issue #713 — March 22, 2022

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Please put units in names ruudvanasseldonk.com \| points: 1174 \| comments: 556

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Windows needs a change in priorities den.dev \| points: 1100 \| comments: 779

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Sumerian dog jokes, or the difficulty of translating dead languages twitter.com \| points: 405 \| comments: 286

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Tell HN: Gnome on Wayland Is Amazing news.ycombinator.com \| points: 362 \| comments: 386

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CSS’s !important was added for one reason only twitter.com \| points: 308 \| comments: 208

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OneWeb will resume satellite launches with SpaceX as the launch provider oneweb.net \| points: 279 \| comments: 221

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Ask HN: Is Apple down? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 235 \| comments: 94

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Steam to Chrome OS support.google.com \| points: 232 \| comments: 121

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Plain Text Sports plaintextsports.com \| points: 231 \| comments: 87

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Plaintext Productivity plaintext-productivity.net \| points: 206 \| comments: 93

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Vanced Discontinuation telegra.ph \| points: 196 \| comments: 180

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What data do the Google Dialer and Messages apps on Android send to Google? [pdf] scss.tcd.ie \| points: 194 \| comments: 74

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Hooks Considered Harmful labs.factorialhr.com \| points: 193 \| comments: 143

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Overtone is live programmable music and visualization overtone.github.io \| points: 191 \| comments: 24

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Tell HN: Did you know you can negotiate price on many things? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 182 \| comments: 306

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Ask HN: Codebases with great, easy to read code? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 167 \| comments: 120

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3,599,040,600 € wired by Germany to Russia since the invasion of Ukraine stopgas.org \| points: 160 \| comments: 205

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CodeEdit: Building a free, open-source code editor for macOS github.com \| points: 159 \| comments: 81

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Lanai, the mystery CPU architecture in LLVM q3k.org \| points: 156 \| comments: 79

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Ask HN: I’d like to practice coding GUI from scratch. Any recommendations? news.ycombinator.com \| points: 148 \| comments: 85

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