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For those like me confused how opensource.net is related to opensource.org from their about link: > OpenSource.net launched in response to the halt of Opensource.com operations by …

From the HN guidelines: > Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other …

It isn't mysterious. It just doesn't match the vibes of HN. I don't come on HN to see silly jokes. And as you can see by the number of flags this post has received to kill it, it l…

Still it is not clear why a silly joke needs to be on the front page of HN!

> Iceland was a very poor country for most people other than a few well off in the fishing industry. Very insightful. I had no clue this was the case. Is there any published list s…

Tell us more about your project! Did you start it from scratch? Or did you use another opensource app as starting point and developed it further for yourself? What language is your…

Thanks for clearing up my confusion! That comment makes total sense now and not as baffling as it first looked.

> What if you have never cooked at home but all the time in a commercial kitchen? That's the reality for most of us here so it is a bit difficult to relate to this article. Really?…

But the OP is talking about creating a new blog (a website that has a collection of blog posts).

> As noted in another comment, some of this can be attributed to manufacturing being done elsewhere This is an excellent point. Are there reports similar to TFA that accounts for t…

> The current Remembrance Agent uses the Savant information retrieval system developed in-house by the Jan Nelson and Bradley Rhodes. The Remembrance Agent runs through emacs, a po…

The post about The Borsuk-Ulam Explorer made me ask this question. If someone had not posted that link I'd have never discovered that cool link. But thanks to HN now I know it exis…

> Who made this? > Colin Cotter (Imperial College, London) and Julius Ross (University of Illinois at Chicago, supported by NSF-DMS 1749447). You can provide feedback, or access th…

Is it a common practice to commit dependencies into the project repo? If so what type of projects do that?

> still don’t have contents insurance (a hangover from poverty, I just wasn’t in the habit of insuring things and now keep putting it off, because paperwork terrifies me) The autho…

Anyone has got a similar list for single file software tools that are not libs? Something end users can use directly?

Are there examples nice open source software or tools that are written as single file? These could be big or small projects but it needs to fit in a single file of source code. Lik…

Are there some small open source projects you really love? Take some time to thank the maintainers today. If they have a discussion forum where they welcome feedback, go thank them…

Is there a service that actually gives MP3 downloads? Call me old fashioned but I'll happily pay for a service that actually gives me MP3 files that I can download and keep offline…

> In many years of coding C++, very rarely I experienced a stack overflow or segmentation fault. It is literally not an issue in every codebase I have worked with. Is this true for…

A few things I've found notoriously difficult to do in C++: 1. Add two signed 64-bit integers without overflowing on either side (negative or positive) and without using 128-bit in…