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I'd prefer a way to add tags so I can exclude them from the feed. I'm simply not interested in reading about Ruby, Erlang or any of these obscure languages that have little relevan…

It's down. "Error establishing a database connection This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can't contact the da…

The first comment on this article sums it up perfectly: "When your business strategy requires litigation and legislation to survive, it is already dead."

Indeed. Services like RPX ( http://rpxnow.com/ ) are good ways of presenting the ability to log in with user accounts from OpenID providers. It's mostly relegated to plumbing, alth…

The only trouble I've run into with web.py is its extremely poor documentation.

Is it me, or does nobody seem to quite understand why Adblock Plus is such a good solution for blocking ads? Let me list a few. Automatic updates - a requirement for me. Ads are re…

There's an option to render it all in MathML if you're logged in.

I don't really think there's anything wrong with it to be honest.

The main problem with Knol is that none of these experts are working to create one definitive article on a single subject, which is what Wikipedia is doing. It's all very well havi…

And the word is "crackers". Hence the title of this site.

Looks like the konami code is the latest fad all the cool sites pick up. I mean, what's wrong with good old xyzzy?

This is the internet. Stupidity finds its way into anything you care to mention, no matter how hard you try and fight it.

In fact, a few grammatical oddities aside, the automatic translation is quite readable. I was quite surprised, not least because it's been a while since I had to use one. Germany s…

I consider both parties to be at fault. Malone for exploiting ABP for his own means, and Palant and Ares2 for overreacting so ridiculously. The fact both extensions are the most po…

There is. http://pirate-party.us/

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here. I'm sure this was their plan back in the 90's.

I really thought that said 'Microsoft Founder's Dead' for a minute.

I find Sumatra PDF to be far better, it's even lighter than Foxit and installation is optional. http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html

Looks more like someone forgot to renew the domain.

And the relevance of a random category on some news aggregator is of relevance to a site like HN is... what?

The moral of this story really is: prettify your URLs, and make sure they aren't excessively long. Nobody likes typing in http://server3.example.com/show/content/view?pid=2847573&#…

I hate the media companies so much, I thought it was an article about copyright infringement until I actually read it.

No. You'd have to pay me to use it, and even then I'd still have reservations about it.

Those are some pretty damn good passwords, too. Just goes to show a good password doesn't mean everything.