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9wocon Equal Earth – A World in Proportion

I asked Astra to create a web app to illustrate the difference between Mercator and Equal Earth projection. This is the result.

Background: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/09/1168284

9wocon Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'

beware of using this. any operations that returns non-zero exit status will cause immediately exit

9wocon CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)

1. outlaw ticket reselling 2. only allow tickets refund to the original seller

9wocon MCP Is Mostly Bullshit

https://archive.ph/nRsg3

9wocon Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement

Yea, I wrote about this Copilot confusion here: https://tongwing.woon.sg/blog/copilot-which-one/

9wocon Train Your Own O1 Preview Model Within $450

True. The previous discussion on this is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42681417

9wocon Imapsync

This is a hidden gem: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/LICENSE

9wocon NuExtract 1.5 – Multilingual, Infinite context, still small, better than GPT-4o

This MIT-licensed model is 500 times smaller than GPT-4o and claims to outperform it in some benchmarks. Seems useful for tasks requiring extraction of data to JSON.

9wocon llIlI.lI: a URL shortener using only I/l to encode domains

This gave me a laugh. These are 3 different webpages:

    llIIlIIIlIllIIIIIIlIIIlIllIlIIII.llIlI.lI
    lIllIllllIIllIllIIllllllIIIIIlII.llIlI.lI
    lIlllIIIIlIIlIlIIllllIlIlIlIIlII.llIlI.lI

9wocon Something peculiar in my 2yo's bedroom led me to a revelation about our universe

You can also paste the X link into https://threadreaderapp.com/. The link for this is https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1750952860131729544.html

9wocon Cloudflare is experiencing elevated 5xx responses

Wordpress has a plan just for that. https://wordpress.com/100-year/ For a one time payment of: US$38,000.

9wocon Manna – Table of Contents – Marshallbrain.com

A thought-provoking short story by Marshall Brain - founder of HowStuffWorks.com - explores the impact of widespread automation on the job market and presents two contrasting - basically distopian and utopian - visions of humanity's future in a post-robotic world. Just discovered this in another HN comment and thought it's worth its own post.

9wocon The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash

I did a ELI5 writeup on this. Hope someone finds it useful: https://tongwing.woon.sg/blog/image-which-displays-its-own-m...

9wocon The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash

Someone did a GIF version before: https://github.com/Rogdham/gif-md5-hashquine

9wocon Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest

Oh it seems like they changed their pricing model after acquisition by Sinch. I'm still under the old plan which gives free tier.

9wocon Self-hosted email is the hardest it's ever been, but also the easiest

I'm self-hosting and I'm using mailgun to solve the delivery issues. Free-tier of up to 1K messages per month is good enough for a personal domain.

9wocon Ask HN: How to disable right-click blocking in the browser

Using Firefox, Shift-Right click shows the context menu. After that you can do your usual inspect etc.

9wocon Using a catch-all domain is a mistake

i use <companyname>-sub@mydomain.ext. makes it clear what it's supposed to be for.

9wocon A Face Search Engine Anyone Can Use Is Alarmingly Accurate

https://archive.ph/ErGuT

9wocon GitHub story in 3D – GitHub Skyline

Take your GitHub contributions and turn them into 3D. eg. https://skyline.github.com/ai/2021

9wocon Ask HN: Support SaaS

osTicket? Open-source and both self-hosted and cloud versions available.

9wocon Show HN: Just a Calendar: Simple Calendar to look at, no login, super light

Another one here: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/

9wocon Big sabotage: Famous NPM package deletes files to protest Ukraine war

Reminds you of another npm author going rouge: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-...

9wocon I'm sorry

This is the best explanation of what's happening.