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There's a MASSIVE impact crater on the far side of the moon which we never see. Imagine if it was inverted. It would look like a MASSIVE eyeball staring at us during our evolution.…

> I really don't see how this is going to end well, there could be perfectly innocent photos on someone's phone of their own children doing perfectly normal things that kids do. Li…

It's super sad that the history of Senet is mostly unknown. The texture we have of Chess history for example is part of the allure. That the rules have changed, we know how they ch…

The problem is that 95% of users are awesome but 5% are VERY aggressive and angry. The amount of people that personally attack you and accuse you of horrible things should be zero.…

Do we / did we even have the tech co be able to build this in a lab? I don't think we do. It MIGHT have been possible but Occam's Razor says it's more plausible it evolved naturall…

Noe that when deployed properly, we MIGHT not need 85% if we have secondary protocols to inhibit the growth of covid. For example, requiring all airline passengers or anyone leavin…

About a year ago I was trying to figure out how important dark mode was for our app so I created a poll on Twitter and linked to it here on HN. https://getpolarized.io/2019/11/19/D…

When I first installed Growl I remember literally thinking "wow, this is really cool!" ... Being a tech geek means my nostalgia memories are 'weird' by normal standards. Super happ…

We went full dark mode when we released the 2.0 version of our app which has PDF and EPUB support: https://getpolarized.io/2020/10/05/Polar-2-0-Release.html the issue we had was th…

This isn't official btw. I didn't even know about this! I suspect this is a 1.x build. Make sure it's 2.0 :-P This is the interesting thing about Open Source is you get interesting…

Thanks... broken link. I'll fix it now. The link is: https://getpolarized.io/download/

Yes... if you delete documents it those won't count against your quota. We've also tried to make it pretty cheap so if you have a huge repo it won't be super expensive. It also won…

I also wanted to point out that Polar is Open Source. https://github.com/burtonator/polar-bookshelf If you'd like to look at the code. We have a unique build environment so DM me o…

Totally agree.. We want to have a Safari and Firefox one and are working on having that resolved quickly. The code actually is written to be portable as a 'web extension' as both S…

If few equals two then companies like Apple have some explaining to do as to why their hardware can't be serviced.

Hey Hacker News! About two years ago we launched Polar on HN [1] and now we’re back to announce Polar 2.0! https://getpolarized.io/ Polar is a tool used by software engineers, stud…

I think no-code is taking going a bit too far but definitely less code is becoming a major opportunity for innovation.

What I think is hilarious is how many takedown notices they've received! https://github.com/github/dmca

Here's a good analogy for non-programers. You're building a new car company. You see all the existing cars, the roads, and the garages. So you measure the width of the car and the …

Let me know what you think about Polar: https://getpolarized.io/ We launched about a year ago and are REALLY close to a 2.0 release.

Does/can it integrate with CI? This is what I need now. While I want full integration testing I'd like to have stories/unit tests for UI components too.

Wow.. I hate it... the quality of IntelliJ has really fallen. I've been using it for like 5 years now and I'm constantly fighting it There are literally 20-40 serious bugs that imp…

The issue with Hey being blocked by Apple has made me want to build a central list of issues that are problematic and anti-competitive and place a harsh burden on independent devel…

My mid-2015 mac (last REAL MacBook IMO) won't install it at all. It says it's installing, I reboot, it does some stuff, then I come back and the update isn't applied. Quality stuff…