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You said > Nothing about blockchains, DLTs, crypto, at its core is a scam to me Which I took as an implication that you didn’t see Tether as a deeply troubling or a scam

How have you done a deep dive on Tether and not seen it as deeply troubling?

The most interesting part to me is that you can enable and track paypal donations between third-parties with just the e-mail. I thought you needed to go through their APIs.

I love Kierkegaard and I agree that it can be really hard to figure out what he is trying to say. I wouldn't have gotten nearly as much from his writing if it wasn't for supplement…

You're right, TIL is "today I learned". I was inspired by a previous HN post where someone made a repo of short memos about things they had learned https://github.com/jbranchaud/ti…

Roham Gharegozlou of Axiom Zen, perhaps.

How do you call the most recently defined macro? I just have Q bound to @q, but if I could make it more general that would be awesome.

Could you describe what you mean by interdependent actions? As in, chains of actions?

Cool design, the y-meter reminds me a lot of the hubwheel we have at hubski[1]. In that vein you could remove the up arrow on the left side of the feed and differentiate on the y-m…

The APIs of companies like Twitter and Facebook seem to have a history of complaints from developers as they constantly change to the detriment of devs and the benefit of the compa…

What do you mean by 'avoid Bing'?

If you just want to explore some of the content without following any users or tags you can use the links in the nav bar, in particular the badges[1], tags[2], and community[3] lin…

Hubski is based off of news.arc and the arc server doesn't make clean URLs easy, at least not that I've seen yet.

We have following and blocking of users and domains over at hubski (originally an hn clone) and it works pretty well. In particular being able to completely block someone from your…

You can add a torrent to the client without seeding it; I tested this myself [1]. I could see the author preparing the torrents ahead of time before uploading the torrent files and…

From the talk page[1] it looks like it wasn't random anonymous strangers but an established editor who's taken offence to her having, "the gall to complain about her articles" [1] …

Was the "Why?" link not there when you went to the site?

Reddit has a history of apologizing for witch hunts. What's going to stop this from happening again? Nothing. They just hope that, "Boston will also be where reddit learns to be se…

Might I ask, what's your next planned game/genre?

Did you miss the part where they didn't? Here is a comparison of Layer Vault, Flat UI, and The Noun Project which preceded LV and Flat UI: http://imgur.com/IH1osAD

They did: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2013-03-06-LayerV...

As a current student and a hopeful contestant I think that what you guys have done with this competition is pretty cool. It has me interested in seeing what I can do with HTML5 bes…

I think there's mostly a lot of knee-jerk contrarianism, especially in the HN community. You can see the worst of that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3466925 and http://…