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Interesting idea. I feel like it could be productive to categorize operations by their result shape as well: - Row select: From N rows, produce 0-N rows. - Column select: From N co…

This is only "overcomplex" from a naive point of view. Radio buttons, as with all UI controls, have tremendous inherent complexity, which comes to light once requirements ask for s…

The real world is infinitely more standardized than virtual ones. Physical space itself enforces a set of laws that make any two objects "compatible", regardless of any established…

So, building on this, we can view Beat Saber not as a music game, but as a *dance* game that figured out a reliable, precise way to track player movements. It's interesting to note…

While I agree with the spirit of the post, I think that there are better and worse times to start something new, and in retrospect 2014 seems like it was one of those worse times. …

I wholeheartedly support this. But frameworks exist for one simple reason: HTML has never been powerful enough for the work people do. The last two decades of web UI framework deve…

Here's the data on a map, since for some reason the article didn't include one: https://felt.com/map/NYC-Rat-Observations-Oct-2023-via-Trans... (You can toggle the layers to switch…

Isn't it more likely to be the case that no one was willing to pay for the investigative journalism? You see this everywhere. The clickbait is a funding source for the real work. J…

The big underlying factor is that so many software prices are artificially low because they're subsidized by collecting and making money off of users' personal data. Unlike with ph…

For comparison, US median house prices are up by 42% over the same period [1]. Hospitality prices (especially for traditional hotels, which raised rates by about 10%), are actually…

Owning the world, and being slow and bureaucratic, are not mutually exclusive. In fact, I imagine they're highly correlated.

Rather than scrolling through the obligatory endless speculation in the comments, I encourage all of you reading this to open up the section entitled "Long time coming" at the end …

I think this gets to the core of it. It's just not economic anymore. My sense is that most of these family shops were started during the mid-20th century when the economy in develo…

Would be much more interesting to see absolute numbers compared instead. My conjecture is that Mason is the biggest YoY decrease (11 -> 18), followed by Abigail and Michael (both 1…

Previous submission in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501112 (167 comments)

Yep, and it can be argued that this kind of complexity spectrum is the foundation of connoisseurship itself, in any domain. The journey from amateur to expert is one of becoming bo…

Open source, historically speaking, is an implied social contract: I as the developer do something nice for the world. I therefore hope that you, as the user, will pay it forward. …

If we want progress, it's important to draw a distinction between the different effects of regulation. Some regulation enforces the status quo, by helping entrenched interests use …

Anyone remember the 1990s-2000s US-market civilian Hummer models, and how people at the time felt them to be absolutely massive? Well, the 2023 Chevy Suburban is a comparable size …