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I first thought the article was a joke when I saw its length. Their sympathy for Melvin Capital despite said “fund” seeking to make money by sinking American companies into the gro…

Brilliant, great work by Ferreira. While working out a scalable solution, this would be a great addition to preexisting sewage infrastructure in the US!

If you're using Ruby on Rails, perhaps consider the "Ahoy Matey" AKA "Ahoy" free and open source gem created by Instacart [1]. I've used it in my personal projects and have never h…

According to their history of Terms of Service changes, it appears that they made changes to the language surrounding information collected while "private browsing" between Septemb…

I beleive this thread would be even more popular with the last line in the article as its title on HN: "Why don't we want people to be good at things?" This is what we need to be a…

While I understand it is a business like many others, it'd be genuinely nice if GrubHub would stop airing their "restaurants are our family"/"support local restaurants" advertiseme…

Thank you!

As a currently remote, housebound software engineer in the U.S., I’ve grown increasingly restless amidst the current COVID-19 panic and I would like to help in any way I can. My da…

I’d love to implement a similar command line program for logging various on-computer activities. Thank you for sharing!

Perspectives like this and others are one of the many reasons I greatly enjoy HN. I didn’t even consider the situation in this way, yet is makes much more sense than what I constru…

I have this same impression, but I also use Mint to organize my finances. I'm a big fan of how I can categorize expenditures and export them as CSV's or charts, which I can then se…

Yup, just open Preview for an image (possibly other documents as well e.g., PDF), go into “markup” mode, and begin to draw with the pen or pencil. Preview will try to “perfect” you…

...insider trading? If there’s not an investigation into these “executives” already underway, there should be.

To your defense, you're sharing a truth that is often difficult for many technical founders to hear/read. Many either over-estimate their non-technical skills or don't care to thin…

I bought a touch-bar MBP sight-unseen when they were announced, being the early adopter and fanboy that I was at the time. That unit was spec'd to be about $4,500 USD but ultimatel…

"Bigger, better, and more broken than ever before." (Disclosure: My 2017 MBP has been repaired 8x and replaced 1x. My iPhone repaired 1x and replaced 1x.)

As the title says, I submitted a "bug" in Invision to BugCrowd that I thought was pretty important to fix. It "leaked" part of the user's billing info along with a bunch of other d…

I am a fan of Fred's work/blog but I'm not sure how this is a "how to" AKA a guide, rather than a regurgitation of someone else's guide, meant only for well-financed companies. For…

10 business days after opt-out, I am still receiving calls and emails. The CAN SPAM act states that a business must remove you from their call/email list within 10 business days fo…

I wonder if lockup agreements will ever be made illegal. I doubt it, since they’re primarily there to ensure the original investors get an ROI, but they sure seem to be an overall …

We need to promote the use of messaging apps which default to SSL. It shows a user-focused product and perhaps a healthy company.

If you’re talking about decrypting messages encrypted created and read via SSL (what they imply is the case), it’s not possible unless you have the private key, versus the widely a…