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First off: don't feel too bad. The behaviour you describe is super-common and I think probably the norm, rather than the exception. Most people don't have to battle with it though,…

I really like how he put, at the bottom: > This minimalist site was bought, written, and launched in under an hour! That simple sentence accomplishes so much. 1. It acknowledges th…

Having seen several of Adam Curtis' documentaries, it was impossible not to read this whole piece in his voice, which I found had a tremendous influence on the reading tempo. Nowad…

"he will appear and disappear intermittently" How frustrating a taunt to those in the NSA who would rather make him disappear permanently .

If I follow correctly, you believe that non-polluting energy would loosen constraints on production and the acceleration of growth this would cause would have a net negative enviro…

It took me a little while to even get what this is . I understand the public votes on "the biggest problem" and then whoever "solves it" (or, I assume, makes significant progress o…

I think that's pretty much spot on. What I would like to see is coordination between the two by delaying the release of the comic and/or Tycho submitting his piece sooner so they'r…

I was amazed to see this on the front page, assuming it was a link to today's comic, which would possibly have been the first time I witnessed a non-xkcd submitted to HN. That woul…

Needless to say, it's a little unfair of me to so casually and easily remark "the page out of context seems faintly scam-like" without pinpointing exactly why , and offering "ideas…

"tsaou...tour pants...???... tsao u to ur pants??? ... ts a out our pan ts... TSA out our pants! Got it!" PS. In submitting this - your Web page (!!) - I was hoping to get some fee…

"...the agency can charge for the time it takes to search for records and for duplication of those records" In the spirit of absurdist satirical works such as Brazil locally releva…

I too am sick of seeing medium.com links on here. However, I stress seeing medium.com links. I really like how HN puts the domain after a link, and having so many and so varied art…

When the 'Hong Kong Baffled by Snowden's Hideout' WSJ article was posted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853397 ), one paragraph that leaped out at me and also got some att…

Shamelessly stolen from kottke.org ( http://kottke.org/13/06/physicists-on-money ), who also links to this one: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jbourj/money1.htm . But, as a vehicle…