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rakicon Hubble Captures Vivid Auroras in Jupiter's Atmosphere (2016)

This is a well known photoshopped image by NASA.

The aurora was added to the following photo, taken on April 21, 2014: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap140517.html

rakicon "Inside Macintosh" in electronic format

You can find original Inside Macintosh PDFs on Apple’s website if you know where to look.

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma... https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma...

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rakicon Strange domain names that developers bought

The Yes & No monogram in our studio’s identity is also the URL – ꑮ.com. We repurposed a Unicode A46EYI glyph (Yi Syllable XYP).

https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com)

(For instance, all versions of Safari display the symbol in the address bar.)

rakicon How to Get Promoted

Here’s a scanned version of Parkinson’s Law (PDF, 11.3 MB):

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1TSkisvzAUTTZXOhUAh2CATBeZp9_...

rakicon Buying a single character domain – and 3 character FQDN – for £15

How about $12, like https://xn--bj8a.com or ꑮ.com (which currently resolves in Safari on macOS and iOS only).

rakicon Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image

Edit: I’m a dummy.

rakicon Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image

Thanks for the link, but I tried it previously and it doesn’t download nowhere near the full resolution.

rakicon Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper in a new gigapixel image

Can anyone recommend a working script that downloads and stitches the highest resolution image available from here:

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-last-supper-attr...

rakicon The Whimsical Website Club

When you drag a finger (or a clicked mouse cursor) on https://xn--bj8a.com/404/ page, there is a burst of logos (144 per second) coming underneath.

rakicon Ask HN: Examples of great ‘productized consulting’ landing pages?

Yes & No Design Studio:

https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com)

For example, a form for ordering app design and development service:

https://xn--bj8a.com/app/ (ꑮ.com/app/)

rakicon Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

The whitelist for Safari on macOS is kept in a text file entitled IDNScriptWhiteList.txt, located at /System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/Current/Resources

ꑮ is from Yi script, which is obviously whitelisted.

rakicon Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

You might be interested in this — an example where the company logo is the domain name, and vice versa:

https://xn--bj8a.com (ꑮ.com)

(Safari on macOS and iOS displays the symbol in the address bar.)

rakicon Yes and No design studio

Even when you swipe the page to the right?

rakicon 42 Hours of Buckminster Fuller might be just the vision we need

Here’s the next best thing:

https://youtu.be/N3QzD8QC4ko?t=14921

I recommend you watch the whole segment.

rakicon Ask HN: What is the best “dumb” phone?

Punkt MP01 https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp01-mobile-phone/

Punkt MP02 https://www.punkt.ch/en/products/mp02-4g-mobile-phone/

Light Phone https://www.thelightphone.com

Light Phone 2 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2

Nokia 3310 https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/nokia-3310

rakicon Programming Fonts – Test Drive

http://app.programmingfonts.org/#plex-mono

rakicon Programming Fonts – Test Drive

https://twitter.com/boletrone/status/1087225897244151810

rakicon Apple Adds VP8 Support for WebRTC to Safari Technology Preview Release 68

Also: support for dark mode via prefers-color-scheme CSS property, and <input type=color>.

rakicon The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/572/078/d6d...

rakicon Keyboard Service Program for MacBook and MacBook Pro

A classic Friday news dump.

rakicon Adventures in Deleting Tweets

If any Mac or iOS developer wants to help create a native app that automates this tedious procedure, I’ll be happy to design it.

rakicon Leaked screenshots of Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14

The source video hosted on the Apple servers:

http://apptrailers.itunes.apple.com/apple-assets-us-std-0000...

rakicon Why you should never use Upwork

Hey Marcell,

I really like the idea. Do you code simple iOS apps in Swift?

rakicon Ask HN: Which VPN would you recommend?

If you need it only for web browsing, than I highly recommend the free VPN that’s now integrated in developer release of Opera. https://www.opera.com/computer/beta

On iOS, all traffic goes through it. http://www.opera.com/apps/vpn