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I really hope people were paying attention to how this has played out, politically. The FCC under Trump (and of course Pai) tried to go full corporate tyranny, essentially. While t…

I would go even further and say that a stationary bike behaves quite differently than a moving bicycle. There’s side to side/rocking motion, slippage at the wheels, geometry in tur…

I’m old enough to remember when Daft Punk was arguably best known for having a really bizarre and fantastic semi-furry video for “Da Funk”, directed by Spike Jonze.

I don’t even know where to start.

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Tools like this always make me faintly uncomfortable. The idea is nice, but as a systems guy I would liken it to a mechanic’s toolbox that tries to predict what tool you want and p…

Without commenting on what OP meant I would say memes definitely used to be more quirky and funny and lighthearted in general. Heck, originally calling them memes was because they …

It has always mattered how rich the richest people in the world are, for good reason. Now knowing or understanding that isn’t some unique or fresh perspective.

I know it's a luxury that I'm in a position to do this, but anyway: in general I won't continue interviewing with a company that expects me to put in significant effort into just p…

This isn’t a helpful or constructive comment. It would be better suited for a Twitter slap fight thread.

It’s been a disappointing trend that SRE execs have adopted magical ML thinking, believing they’re just a few short years away from ditching all those annoying engineers and replac…

So I have some experience with this. I decided to add BLE beacons to my vehicles and bicycles, and an RPI to listen for the pings and retransmit them over mqtt. The idea was I coul…

I'm sorry but the claim is YouTube just randomly deletes channels with no notification? And they do it in order to suppress... Whatever this was? That seems remarkably unlikely. Th…

It was the entire (original) business model of "Epinions".

Counter-argument: A positively staggering amount of decisionmaking at a company consists of "look at what other, successful companies are doing and mimic them". It's cargo cult man…

I guess in 2021, HNers think the NY Post is a legitimate media outlet straining for objectivity, rather than the tabloid rag that they are. And I guess we'll all have a highly part…

One of the things I find fascinating about lasers is their history is an excellent instructional tool for how science copes with things it doesn't understand. When lasers were inve…

Why is pooh—poohing the premise of an article without offering anything other than cynicism in vogue on HN these days? The post makes pretty clear what “the problem with this is”: …

Why in heavens name is a WSJ opinion piece getting any traction on HN? Why would anyone with half a brain believe anything in such a piece? It’s some of the worst partisan garbage …

This is a nightmare in so many respects. I can’t believe my ability to run software on my own machine requires successful network calls. I spent two hours today thinking my hardwar…

Why is this company so obsessed with disallowing “consumer” purchases of their products? What’s the purpose or benefit?

I tried to explain this to my wife once. Easy to say I should take a break or not be so hard on myself but if I screw up neither of us have food or a home. There is no other option…

As someone who joined and then departed the management track fairly recently, there’s another aspect here that’s not mentioned, but contributed to my finding other work: as what I’…

I was interviewing for a position and when they got to asking me in the initial phone screen various diversity questions I politely told them I didn’t think the company would be fo…

This is absolutely bog-standard anti-union propaganda. This could have been written in the 1960s.