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I'm currently pushing 13 seconds a page load (for just the HTML), clearly caught in a super-clever (albeit comically cowardly and childish) slowbanning. I've said absolutely nothin…

Why? Ignoring questions about the honesty or self-serving nature of the invisible-hand moderation, HN's rise came at the expense of a number of other sites, including reddit's /r/p…

Log out and you'll be surprised how speedy the site is. Log in...12 seconds to return 6KB of data, at least in my case. Have I been capriciously slowbanned to encourage me to lose …

Sites like HN can't escape Parkinson's law of triviality: Complex or mixed-conclusion content will naturally get drown out by easily "understood" (at least in the perception of the…

This goes against commonsense, why was this done? Almost certainly because they knew about their own enormous liability. They settled with a family for this issue in February of 20…

Not a single person said that it has no value. But the site does an arguably poor job communicating what it is about (to those who say "watch the video", understand that many peopl…

IMO Facebook should have never offered any free reach for businesses It has always confused me that Facebook has done so little to monetize businesses, many of whom now list their …

While their website is an anti-pattern, I do have to applaud one pattern that paint.net was early (if not first) to adopt: Asking you about updates when you exit the program rather…

Add that to Julie Zhuo (Designer @ Facebook) doing the same thing just a few hours ago and it makes for a very curious confluence, in both cases diminishing the immediate credibili…

Is this actually possible? You couldn't change the original transaction without the private key, nor can you spend the results of it until it is in an accepted block chain block, n…

If you don't serve the market, there are a lot of people who very quickly will. I have mixed feelings about this. While they may have mulled over this game for a year, it remains a…

The argument is that a better user experience was abandoned in favor of a worse user experience that generated more impressions per user. The argument is that an experience that Du…

This sounds contrived. Being the skeptical sort we should all be, there is no reason to believe the sources (if you believe they exist) regarding supposed cynical reasons they didn…

When Google originally started doing this it was essentially to open people's eyes to the capabilities of HTML. Lately, however, it has just been excessive. In this case it isn't e…

A rule that apparently was seldom written down given that it was highly illegal.

Job's simply asked that Google's recruitment department please stop. By emailing the CEO of Google. Jobs knew exactly what he was doing, and what the outcome would be. And boy, wha…

This is a growing anti-web trend -- the tendency of web properties to only self-link. I assume someone somewhere has actual metrics justifying this, but it's the antithesis of what…

Given the facts of this case thus far, you might be overdoing it with the outrage. Of course details of the lives of the pilots are being poured over given that every indication in…

I don't think anyone thinks the plane blew up. At some point it likely just ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean. The simplest possible solution with the facts that we have n…

>SVG is based on XML, I don't think I've ever seen XML and 'astonishingly concise' in the same sentence before, congratulations for being the first. The rudiments of the vector des…

Was the idea really validated? Is their business model "get on the front page of HN daily"? If not, absolutely nothing was validated.

SVG is astonishingly concise. Most renderers are remarkably efficiently. It is very gzippable. Your criticisms are based upon nothing.

Piece of unsolicited advice - Stop declaring everything a strawman or propaganda. It does not strengthen your argument. The situations we are talking about are actually more akin t…

But unions almost always concern themselves with such things. I may be attacking a "strawman" (ergo, how virtually every union on the planet operates), but humorously the salvation…

I'm not "repeating" anyone's propaganda. I've worked in union situations before. I understand the ramifications of unions. As someone who tends to do quite well in this field, unio…