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As always you distract from the discussion. What I wrote is 100% true. Rate-limiting is a shady thing here on HackerNews. I am now documenting a last time what moderation tactics a…

As always you distract from the discussion. What I wrote is 100% true. Rate-limiting is a shady thing here on HackerNews. I am now documenting a last time what moderation tactics a…

> Com­pe­ti­tion · Bing can find it! Duck­Duck­Go can too! Both of them can find Brent’s Lon­don Calling piece, too. Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu = search engines Yahoo, DuckDuckGo,…

Exactly, emulator are good for archiving. It allows on to play decades old games. Even some museums use emulators. Yuzu Switch emulator is made by devs of a 3DS emulator Crita: htt…

Stop it, that's not fair, that news got hidden way too quickly two days ago. And then implying "dupe" is a common way to get rid of real news (that matter) but one doesn't like

It's unfortunately true. I know what you mean, but this same warning message shows up in both occasions. With "rate-limited" account it shows up after two posts and then one cannot…

Thanks for letting me know! It's hard to reply, I can only post 2-3 comments per day, as I always get this site error message: "You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." …

Has Microsoft took LinkedIn over or is LinkedIn still a separate entity? Anyway the quality of the sites gets worse with each site update. Sometimes one has to hit F5 several times…

That's the related list of completed tallest building: http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/buildings?list=tallest100-co... At the moment Shanghai (China) is the cities with most sky sc…

Please keep builds of Win32/Win64 plus source on your website, built by you. Every M$ exe nowadays contain some telemetry phone home stuff, extra annoying.

Yes, that era ended with Win7. Win8, Win8.1, Win10 ... not so much, hostile to the user, bad UI, sends data home, a train wreck, and the forced update, don't get me started. If the…

Win 7 is basically Vista Service Pack 1. Several minor things like the slow-as-hell copy-routine of Vista got reverted back to almost XP level-speed with Win7. Unfortunately the Ad…

In other languages developers can choose between tabs and spaces, delimiter vs no-delimiter, different styles. Python is rather opinionated and limited, probably the most draconian…

As someone wrote It took three days of downtime for MtGox to admit that bitcoins were missing. @krakenfx is on day 2. I'm hoping the same thing isn't happening at Kraken, but not c…

Related to joke DogeCoin: One of the US crypto exchanges "Kraken" went dodo. It has been offline for more than 30 hours without prior notice. Maybe another joke, or MtGox -.- https…

A 24h outage is unusual and every user should be worried by now. Why can't they just fall back to the old system? Apparently they made a major mistake or scam. MtGox, Kraken, Coinb…

Facebook is already a ghost town, it's too late to change direction. Unfortunately because of Zuck people got feed up of social network sites.

And the Intel low power "U" CPU only supports only two Cores (Skylake CPUs from 2016). An Intel i7 U CPU has only two cores and supports only 16GB DDR3. Plus the whole meltdown end…

The first IPO in YCombinator portfolio. Quite interesting they had to invest in 1450 companies first and now after 12 years the first IPO. As of 2017, Y Combinator had invested in …

The smiling face of VP Navin Shenoy next to each Intel Meltdown press release is highly inappropriate! (in the HN news article linked above https://newsroom.intel.com/news/intel-se…

TechCrunch reported a two hour power outage. Funny as always the official press release, it acknowledged just a few minutes. "Today at approximately 11:15 AM, the Central Hall and …

Skype Win32 GUI is written in Delphi, remember Skype is old, used to be P2P, and got bought. Firefox 57 still uses XUL for the GUI, only XUL-addons got deactivated. The long term v…

> Are you suggesting that we recall the great bulk of modern CPU's? Like, literally gut everyone's computers (not OP) but YES! INTL had to recall their Pentium 1 too, but did so af…

Yes, we need a many-core CPU. Then every program can run on a core. And we can use MPI, CILK, etc to run parallel programs. Each CPU could run its own small operating system, or us…

Both OnLive and Gaikai were absorved by Sony to form PlayStation Now, a cloud stream gaming services. One would need a very low latency internet connection and the cloud hosted nea…