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0bit··on Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
You could ask the author "wardfarnsworth at gmail.com". I have been in touch with him before about his chess website https://www.chesstactics.org based on his book "Predator at the Chess board". He was quite responsive.
0bit··on Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it
Here's a companion website with similar features: https://latinlanguage.org/ for an upcoming book: https://www.amazon.com/Latin-Tamer-Mastering-Language-Rome/d...
0bit··on Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust
Counter-example: https://deephn.org/?q=embeddings Contrast with https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It is fast but, nowhere close to accurate or useful for this specific example. Could not find a way to force the plural form. Neither quotes nor plus worked.

0bit··on What is Chess? What to think and for how long
Under https://lichess.org/training on the left side pane there is a "Puzzle Themes" link (takes you to https://lichess.org/training/themes).
0bit··on Show HN: I am building a Safari Web Extension to switch tabs efficiently
I currently use the "Tabs Switcher" menu bar app which works quite well: https://alexdenk.eu/mywork/tabsswitcher.html

Have you looked at this app for inspiration? I'm not affiliated, just a happy customer.

0bit··on Graphviz 7
There is an offline version: https://www.diagrams.net (they had to change their name from draw.io recently). There is a download button right on the main page.
0bit··on Ask HN: What are the best iPad apps to learn coding for 7 y.o?
MIT Scratch seems to work well: https://scratch.mit.edu Works well on an iPad, even better on the desktop
0bit··on YaCy – your own search engine
I would recommend using Apache Tika to extract the text from the PDFs and using Solr (or Elasticsearch) to index and search them.
0bit··on Facebook testing notification to users about Apple privacy changes
Go to Settings, scroll down to find the app, and select it. Then you get the "Allow <app> to access" and a list of entitlements, one of which is "Photos". Select "Photos" and you get three options "Selected Photos" (which is what you likely have), "All Photos", and "None". Push "None" and you should never see that dialog again.
0bit··on Broken
I've seen it happen when the machine has both an ethernet and wi-fi connection.
0bit··on Ask HN: How to help non-technical designers work with CSS?
“CSS In Depth” from Manning[0] is an excellent resource to learn how to go from unstyled pages to properly styled ones.

[0]: https://www.manning.com/books/css-in-depth

0bit··on Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
"The Long Chase", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192254

That discussion has links to books with similar stories. Enjoy.

0bit··on Awk for multimedia
I've used Atomic Parsley[1] and MP4Box[2] successfully for various MOV and MP4 related muxing and metadata handling before.

[1] http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net [2] https://gpac.wp.imt.fr/mp4box/

0bit··on Show HN: I made a site to catalogue 10,000 CC0-licensed stock photos
something like: http://freecode.com/projects/mactorii should work
0bit··on The Same User Interface Mistakes Over and Over
There is the multi-part ISO-9241 that covers the ergonomics of human-computer interaction. It even provides a definition of usability.
0bit··on Ask HN: What is your photo backup strategy (on Mac)?
My photos are very important to me, so i do several backups: 1) The iPhoto Library is rsync'd to an external HDD 2) The iPhoto Library is rsync'd to a local FreeNAS box 3) Arq backup to S3 http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ 4) Crashplan backup to 3 locations: an external drive, a local server (not the FreeNAS box), as well as Crashplan central.

Terabytes are cheap, memories are not.

0bit··on Vegeta: HTTP load testing tool written in Go
If you want something more configurable / heavyweight checkout Tsung: http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/

Perhaps could serve as inspiration for future work :)

0bit··on I feel like Gmail went from being Photoshop to Draw Something
if you are on a Mac you can use QuickCursor and edit your mail in vi :) it works in any application that uses a standard Cocoa text box. http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/quickcursor
0bit··on OS X 10.9: A downward spiral or a new hope?
Which is why it is better to explain the benefits, not the features.
0bit··on What Amazon's ebook strategy really means
Just like they did with Audible. And according to this[1] article on BoingBoing, they promised to do away with DRM, but have still not done it in FOUR years! Link[1]: http://boingboing.net/2008/01/31/amazon-buys-audible.html

edit: they = Amazon

0bit··on Ask HN: How do I failover the load balancer
have you seen Eddie:

http://eddie.sourceforge.net/what.html