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my point exactly.

Fair enough, and I agree with that. but look at the behavior of the community right now. The highest voted comment on this post is basically a "screw you dude" and all of my respon…

Can the downvoters please explain why you are voting me down?

Glad you asked: * more news about Startups, less news about things tangentially related to startups * less churn on the homepage * a community made exclusively of people actually b…

And actually, for all intents and purposes, HN is a service being provided to me, whereby I sit and expect it to present me with interesting stories. How is it any different for yo…

Please do not make this a personal attack on me, one member of the community. I argue that submitting nothing is better than submitting garbage links. Additionally, I am not bringi…

Dear readers who are deluding yourselves into believing Hacker News is the last bastion of social news hope, It is not. HN has become another cesspool of useless ego-boosting linkb…

It's going to be really hard to say no to free beers, count me in!

Careful though - All the time spent researching / cooking / perfecting this food may eat into your ramen profitability. I recently took up cooking and if you get serious, it gets e…

Of course they should NOT remove it! Like facebook, myspace, and real life, follower counts provide a huge service. The number of followers is a really strong objective measure of …

The condescending and closed-minded tone detract from the author's obvious point (startup GOOD, job bad). A more serious consideration of both sides would have proved more useful. …

Can you offer a better one?

When collecting email addresses, how many characters do you guys usually allow for? Most google results say "320 characters" is the limit, but I've never met someone with such a pr…

Disclaimer: I work 7 feet away from agotterer. I convinced him to try VIM a few months ago. He tried it for a week but didn't find it productive so switched back to zend. I blame m…

"Welcome to a preview of the new Muxtape, a minimalist platform for bands to promote their music and listeners to create mixes. We’ve invited 12 of our favorite artists to help tes…

This is great, but if you use OS X and need a more powerful solution, I would recommend http://www.malcolmhardie.com/sqleditor/ . I keep the DB schema of my current project open at…

Agreed. Specifically, moving the controls from the right hand side to the left hand side was jarring.

Robert Anton Wilson disliked the verb: I suppose Joyce made Bloom such a tangled genetic and cultural mixture to expose the absurdities of anti-semitism; but I also suspect that he…

That graph is nearly identical to the distribution of youtube videos with X number of views: http://christopherhan.tumblr.com/post/61871360/how-many-vide... (not my blog, it belong…

Except under very specific conditions, this is NOT TRUE. Do not fill your ice cube trays with hot water thinking it will freeze faster.

You're killin' me Paul

Facebook Connect has been a rushed mess. As a developer for one of the launch partners, I have been frustrated with constant instability, lack of / incoherent documentation, fuzzy …

I disagree - this is a great example of promoting your product on the cheap.

I like how I can easily listen to an actual friend's music instead of clicking through random muxtapes hoping to find someone with similar taste. Great idea / execution.

A friend and I have started working on a solution that allows customizable, simple, hosted (or embeddable) forums. Consider Tumblr's approach to blogging as applied to forums for t…