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I mean, in this context I agree. But most people doing math in high school or university are graded on their working of a problem, with the final result usually equating to a small…

The quality of comments on HN has really started to degrade.

Can we leave these painfully overused sarcastic comments to reddit please? This adds nothing to the discussion. I've been seeing these types of comments more frequently on HN. What…

OP obviously meant people should wear a cardigan or jumper to keep themselves warm if they're not already. I swear at least 70% the comments on HN are just lazy straw man arguments…

So don't use Safari then? Seems like a pretty simple solution.

A masters is typically one year full time, two years part time.

Do you have adblockers or did you turn them off for this experiment? I would assume most people on HN have adblockers and other browser ad ons to prevent the malicious tracking tha…

This is one thing that really pisses me off about hacker news. The excessive use of abbreviations only hinders communication, it doesn't improve it.

Sorry, but the suggestion that marijuanna use leads to narcissistic personality disorder is absurd.

Purely the first season. Unfortunately, the show has gone down the drain and focuses more on action than interesting philosophical discussions.

Alternatively, typing '?share' at the end of the URL works too. Quora is awful these days though so I rarely use it anyway.

Not to be a dick, but it's "losing", not "loosing". This is the most incorrectly spelt word on the Internet and it makes me irrationally irate. If English is not your native langua…

I've been reading hacker news for years and I can't recall any piece of technology that seems to attract such vitriol and disdain from the community here. Certain bitcoin criticism…

Signal is a non-profit organisation. The way they are structured means they literally have no incentive to try and profit off their user base, no matter the size. I'm not saying it…

I'm currently doing a BSc in Physics too. However, when I've graduated I don't think I would ever call myself a physicist like yourself unless I actually went on to do research in …