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Not surprised at all to see how unpopular this sentiment is on HN. For some reason HN seems to love one dimensional stereotypes for every job that isn't theirs. Actually that's wro…

Was on my way to suggest this game to avoid, which is also available for free on desktop.

I suspect the latter.

Good catch. I haven't found a proper source other than a quotation from some HN comment, so I'm not sure if it actually is POSIX valid or not, just that many people seem to think i…

> Seems similar to the JVM situation Oracle was relying on behaviour that was POSIX valid so I don't see how it is "incorrect code".

Since the paid tiers have paid for the free tier for at least 9 years, I'd imagine that it shall remain available for at least a few more years.

> the old is well too old What's wrong with the old Reddit UI?

I haven't read the article yet but I think that means that UDP was used less than TCP and so routers/operating systems didn't optimize for it as much as they did for TCP. Hope this…

On a related note, is it a good idea to sell access to the same API your app is using under the hood? Why or why not?

Really? I used the website on Chrome on my Samsung Galaxy M12 (a fairly average smartphone) and the experience was fine.

If the user experiences stuttering while decoding a video, they won't learn to enable special permissions for the website but instead switch to a different browser that hasn't yet …

As of 9th March 2024, Microsoft is the most valuable company in the world, followed by Apple and Nvidia (which might take Apple's position soon).

People who want others to ask them their pronouns before referring to them, what is your reason for doing so?

Is the book worth reading, for an average lurker of HN?

In a lot of developing countries, Facebook is often the only app that a significant part of the population uses. And that includes young adults as well.

For some reason I couldn't browse the home page but I could still access my messages (website).

I think this depends a lot on where you currently live. Maybe if you live in a very closely knit and/or isolated area, other people might welcome you with open arms. But if you try…

Ah, I hadn't considered that a smaller size could be seen as a symptom of an inferior/incomplete feature set when compared with competitors.

I think the 2nd person in the article you read was Scott Bell, who stopped working on HN around 2019 [1]. Still, dang isn't the only moderator here [2], just the only one who posts…

I used to use it a lot in the past and I think it was mostly the convenience factor for me personally. I didn't want to learn another piece of software and I thought that WinRar di…

> Big size impress management I thought this was relevant mostly for line of code or similar metrics used to evaluate the size of projects (build sizes not being one of them). Or a…

Ah, sorry. If one day you decide to write under your real name, please do email me the names of your books. If you feel like it, of course.

Less than 20. Most mirror the chapters of manga I like, and some are blogs I regularly find interesting.

If you don't mind sharing, could you link to a few of your books? No pressure of course.

A cynic might call that the purpose of this forum.