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This is brilliant work! I hope that Apple doesn't hit you with a takedown order.

This is the best thing I've seen on HN in a long, long time.

Isn't "securing lasting freedoms for all" a hyperbolic title for this issue?

Happy New Year's

This looks like a very promising resource.

I paid 100EUR for VIP.

According to sokra, this ought to be the final rc. From the release notes: "This is probably the last RC. We released it as final test. If no critial bugs are discovered, we releas…

"The English and Their History" by Robert Tombs. This isn't simply another "here's what happened" history book. Rather, it focuses not simply on what happened and why it happened, …

Dear Facebook, Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

IME, breathless superlatives such as "all x should be y" are almost never true. That said, the author did go to great lengths to support his argument.

This brilliant. And great fun.

Regarding this discovery, I would argue that debates about the quality of the KJV translation are beside the point. This is a tremendous historical discovery, especially for histor…

I know a woman in her mid-60s who has been programming since the late 1960s. She's much more than an "experienced dev": she is a sage, a teacher, and a grand-master of the art of c…