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Worthwhile reading on Easter Eggs "Why No Easter Eggs" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/larryosterman... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20no%20Easter%20Eggs ... an…

Does anyone know if Hacker News comments are being used as training data? I wonder this about Gmail, Skype, Voice Conversations on Xbox Live, etc. Mostly too afraid to ask because …

Even more sad when a Tech journal doesn't have an RSS feed, but posts to Facebook and Twitter instead. For example https://www.thenewatlantis.com/

I still miss Yahoo Pipes.

Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to chec…

Drag-along rights, with a waiver of appraisal rights?

On the question of "is it hated", Stackoverflow publishes a survey every year on interesting questions like this. It doesn't get a lot of attention here for whatever reason. https:…

My guess is because: - lots of people don't like Javascript - lots of people don't like V8 - the guy who made Node.js (Ryan Dahl) doesn't like it either - programmers think anythin…

That one day that new api or programming language you're just learning will be considered not only obsolete but dangerous.

This seems very likely extrapolating from current trends.

There's S.M.A.R.T. and a lot of freeware that can read it and tell you how much has been written to the disk. If only it were built into operating systems, with a graph, then you c…

The irony of a topic like this is that the algorithm will put the least contrarian opinions on top. Right now the most conventional/pedestrian opinion you could possibly imagine is…

If you leave off the "to light years" conversion, you'll see that the units don't match up. A light year is a measure of distance (m). The result of this equation is 3.86×10^99 s^4…

A contrarian might ask "How many bugs were there in the HTML5 APIs that replaced it?" Probably fewer considering HTML5 is an open/modern code base? Some high profile ones in Audio …

Eventually, a grumpy old man* will show up and mention teletype and time-sharing. Someone else will incorrect him saying cloud computing is different. I'd love to hear Peter Norvig…

There is also the related "Matthew effect" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect#Sociology_of_sc...

Breakrooms also have a dark side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton_(astronomy) https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/may/05/microwave-ov...

Also available at: http://larrysummers.com/2018/10/09/36229/ https://web.archive.org/web/20210820121158/https://www.ft.co...

They should include C-SPAN coverage. https://www.c-span.org/video/?165916-101 https://www.c-span.org/video/?165959-2 The second link is a particularly disheartening time capsule of…