acadapter

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• Silver trades to $50 an ounce

  by acadapter on 10/9/2025, 2:24 PM with 84 comments

• Tell HN: Sweden has its first arrest against a man for "insult against official"

  by acadapter on 7/4/2025, 8:05 AM with 12 comments

• Germany to send out survey, mandatory for males, about willingness to fight

  by acadapter on 11/7/2024, 6:04 PM with 8 comments

• Ask HN: How will you try to observe/photograph the comet in October?

  by acadapter on 9/25/2024, 8:42 PM with 3 comments

• Show HN: A Swedish grocery chain, with "old internet" styled recipe presentation

  by acadapter on 8/23/2024, 3:37 PM with 1 comments

• A municipality installed a camera just outside a Swedish Redditor's balcony

  by acadapter on 7/24/2024, 7:12 PM with 6 comments

• Ask HN: How long before an eclipse is it wise/advisable to do your bookings?

  by acadapter on 4/9/2024, 12:03 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Is it sustainable to ban musicians/athletes for their countries' deeds?

  by acadapter on 1/29/2024, 8:33 PM with 1 comments

• Pliny the Elder's work habits, as described by Pliny the Younger

  by acadapter on 1/21/2024, 3:46 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: Is your country's subreddit nowadays dominated by pro-military people?

  by acadapter on 1/15/2024, 11:46 AM with 1 comments

• Xkcd: Free Speech (2014)

  by acadapter on 1/13/2024, 11:06 PM with 11 comments

• US to sell missiles to Kosovo for its 'territorial integrity'

  by acadapter on 1/12/2024, 12:17 PM with 0 comments

• Croatian towns with a traffic light that only turns red for driving students

  by acadapter on 12/7/2023, 11:34 AM with 3 comments

• Serbia grants citizenship to Steve Wozniak

  by acadapter on 12/6/2023, 12:58 PM with 109 comments

• Catalogue of Medieval Russian letters written in engraved birch-bark

  by acadapter on 11/10/2023, 7:36 PM with 4 comments

• Ask HN: What videos sites have potential to be the "YouTube of the early 2010s"?

  by acadapter on 11/9/2023, 1:03 PM with 0 comments

• A Roman ruler known from two coins and no other source

  by acadapter on 11/6/2023, 10:19 PM with 0 comments

• Latvia to start conscripting men for mandatory military service, starting 2024

  by acadapter on 10/29/2023, 9:18 AM with 102 comments

• Ask HN: Did all the Reddit-scrolling make you a better or worse person, and how?

  by acadapter on 10/16/2023, 1:28 PM with 1 comments

• by acadapter on 9/27/2023, 6:39 PM with comments

• Croatia demolished houses of libertarian project “Liberland”, seized property

  by acadapter on 9/24/2023, 8:08 AM with 319 comments

• Ask HN: Why is CRISPR against colorblindness taking so long to reach the market?

  by acadapter on 9/1/2023, 10:15 PM with 4 comments

• Conscription is resurging across Europe. Is that a good thing?

  by acadapter on 9/1/2023, 9:56 AM with 1 comments

• by acadapter on 8/30/2023, 3:51 PM with comments

• Ask HN: Why does the default MS spellchecker treat some language nuances as bad?

  by acadapter on 7/19/2023, 12:22 PM with 2 comments

• Vada, Jalpa, and Vitanda (ancient Indian categorization of debate styles)

  by acadapter on 6/5/2023, 8:46 PM with 0 comments

• by acadapter on 5/29/2023, 9:22 PM with comments

• Qurnah Disaster (1855)

  by acadapter on 5/19/2023, 7:29 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What political phenomena from 2010-2019 irritated you the most?

  by acadapter on 5/10/2023, 6:53 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: How do you differ from others in the conversation topics you choose?

  by acadapter on 5/10/2023, 1:23 PM with 3 comments

• Vergonha (France)

  by acadapter on 5/3/2023, 7:03 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What is, in your opinion, the bad side of upvote/downvote culture?

  by acadapter on 4/18/2023, 4:16 PM with 13 comments

• by acadapter on 4/18/2023, 7:28 AM with comments

• Ask HN: Will AI change humanity's perception of “dull” and “bland”?

  by acadapter on 4/4/2023, 3:44 PM with 0 comments

• Stilton cheese cannot legally come from Stilton since 1996

  by acadapter on 3/30/2023, 5:31 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Are there places more suitable than US, for IA, Wikimedia Commons, etc.?

  by acadapter on 3/24/2023, 8:20 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What's the easiest way to create a font from a scanned book's text?

  by acadapter on 3/11/2023, 8:55 AM with 4 comments

• Word-processor idiot (Japanese expression)

  by acadapter on 3/4/2023, 10:15 PM with 249 comments

• Fragmentology

  by acadapter on 3/1/2023, 5:49 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Is our fear of AI just a fear of unreasonable people using AI?

  by acadapter on 2/16/2023, 2:33 PM with 7 comments

• Ask HN: Why aren't there any “ ” and “?” variants with comma underneath?

  by acadapter on 1/31/2023, 7:36 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Do you archive stuff on Internet Archive, Commons, etc.?

  by acadapter on 1/27/2023, 11:23 AM with 0 comments

• Potential naked-eye comet around end of January 2023

  by acadapter on 1/11/2023, 10:01 AM with 0 comments

• Meteorite hunters win legal battle against Swedish landowner

  by acadapter on 12/20/2022, 1:52 PM with 0 comments

• by acadapter on 12/5/2022, 1:51 PM with comments

• Swedish amateur archivist “Rosa Mannen” shut down from YouTube again

  by acadapter on 11/7/2022, 3:17 PM with 63 comments

• New car-free zones in Belgrade, before/after

  by acadapter on 10/16/2022, 7:24 AM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Should grapefruit juice have warning labels for medicine interactions?

  by acadapter on 8/28/2022, 5:46 PM with 121 comments

• Ask HN: How will trust evolve, in a world with high quality deepfakes?

  by acadapter on 8/26/2022, 2:42 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: Do you think Hacker News should begin with “subreddits”?

  by acadapter on 8/25/2022, 7:05 PM with 48 comments

• Does your country's media show the recent advances in AI image generation?

  by acadapter on 8/16/2022, 2:54 PM with 0 comments

• Swedish public service radio SR has trademarked “summer” and “summer host”

  by acadapter on 7/29/2022, 4:00 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What do you rather talk about, “fair/unfair” or “cool/uncool”?

  by acadapter on 7/5/2022, 1:46 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why does the MS spellchecker flag some everyday expressions as bad?

  by acadapter on 7/5/2022, 11:03 AM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: How should we design anti-shrinkflation laws?

  by acadapter on 6/18/2022, 7:24 PM with 50 comments

• Ask HN: Should schools teach the game-theory behind “corporate bullshit”?

  by acadapter on 6/9/2022, 6:39 PM with 0 comments

• Deuterium alcohol shown to cause milder hangover

  by acadapter on 6/7/2022, 5:08 PM with 0 comments

• The question comma and the exclamation comma (1992)

  by acadapter on 6/2/2022, 1:04 PM with 0 comments

• Ukraine’s Draft Dodgers Face Guilt, Shame and Reproach

  by acadapter on 4/10/2022, 7:27 PM with 1 comments

• Ask HN: What symbols would you like to add to the standard keyboard?

  by acadapter on 3/30/2022, 7:35 PM with 23 comments

• BBC: 'Shame on you': How President Zelensky uses speeches to get what he needs

  by acadapter on 3/24/2022, 12:23 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Why was it hard to criticize Freedom Fries hysteria while it lasted?

  by acadapter on 3/21/2022, 3:49 PM with 80 comments

• Interesting clip with a Russian student in Sweden locked out of her bank account

  by acadapter on 3/9/2022, 3:10 PM with 3 comments

• A casual non-scientific test of 10 violins, 5 of them worth millions of dollars

  by acadapter on 3/5/2022, 9:47 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: What do you think of the expression “military aged male”?

  by acadapter on 2/26/2022, 7:19 PM with 2 comments

• Ask HN: How much would you pay to fix one of your “bad” mutations?

  by acadapter on 2/18/2022, 12:28 PM with 3 comments

• Ask HN: Why should I trust password managers?

  by acadapter on 2/17/2022, 4:27 PM with 286 comments

• Ask HN: Should we accept the “floppy disk icon” as the default save symbol?

  by acadapter on 2/16/2022, 8:49 AM with 40 comments

• Ask HN: Does the world need a “passport equality” movement?

  by acadapter on 2/7/2022, 11:26 AM with 90 comments

• Ask HN: Why does text jump around during images load? Is it a bug or a feature?

  by acadapter on 1/31/2022, 5:47 PM with 0 comments

• Sweden's #2 party wants to remove presumption of innocence for gang members

  by acadapter on 1/12/2022, 5:21 PM with 0 comments

• CRISPR Let These Patients with Vision Loss See Color Again (2021)

  by acadapter on 1/9/2022, 12:31 PM with 0 comments

• Ask HN: Will we ever see “the great simplification” of the Web 2.0/3.0 internet?

  by acadapter on 12/20/2021, 9:14 PM with 1 comments

• Why are users force-fed with stuff like the “hovering emoji toolbar” in Teams?

  by acadapter on 12/9/2021, 10:08 AM with 9 comments

• Why do we still color-code info in ways that are incompatible with ~8% of men?

  by acadapter on 9/5/2021, 7:33 PM with 15 comments