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It's a little simplistic, sure, but I mean how much nuance do you expect me to fit into a HN comment? What I left out is Windows Mobile, which was Microsoft's attempt to extend the…

Just fixed the /painstaking/painstakingLY/ typo in this sentence. Thanks for quoting it here.

No. It’s broader than that. The market forces are the entire realm of what’s possible, now and in the future. When Windows seemed entrenched forever, the platforms that eventually …

Same. The GPT5 “Robot” persona does what no custom “be terse”, “no fluff”, etc. custom prompt ever could. It actually makes ChatGPT terse and to-the-point and eliminates (or at lea…

I’ll bet this will fix HN’s transparency issues.

No, but it did seemingly peak a decade or so ago and stay there.

“I have strong opinions about something I proudly admit I’ve never read” is quite the take.

This is fantastic, and I'm embarrassed I didn't think to do this year-by-year analysis myself. But then how do you square up the tepid response here to https://daringfireball.net/2…

My first retort would be: do you read HN because you think it surfaces articles that are trending in the world at large?

I don't get it. You think my "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino" piece was not suppressed here on HN?

My thesis is that HN would like you to think their moderation is highly transparent, and it's very clear that the core HN audience believes that to be true, but that in fact it is …

> Apple is know for stopping shipping pre-release hardware to people that are honest in their review and that might call out questionable choice. I've been doing this for a long ti…

How then do you explain DF ranking #3 from 2007-2021, but dropping to #78 from 2021-2025? Are you saying my writing was significantly more interesting and useful for the first 14 y…

How is it hypocritical to hold the view that some places are intended to be open forums for comments from anyone, and others are not? Also, by not hosting my own comments, all publ…

How then do you explain DF being HN's #3 personal blog from 2007-2021, but #72 from 2021-2025? Do you recall HN announcing a major algorithm change?

What exactly do you think my "tactics" were/are? I've only ever submitted one article of my own to Hacker News. This one.

But the only post on the recent submissions list that is actually marked "[flagged] is this one. If it's because enough high-karma users are clicking "flag", wouldn't they all show…

Correct.

> Case in point: just the other day, he equated the EU's rulings about Apple's ecosystem to the dystopian short story Harrison Bergeron. Rah, rah, Goliath! Sis boom bah! That was a…

So you think I was consistently at #3 “as much and as well” from 2007-2021, and declined to #72 “as much and as well” quality in the last 4 years?

How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025?

Me too.

How then do you explain DF being #3 from 2007-2021 and #72 from 2021-2025? It’s clearly not blacklisted, but clearly is shitlisted, no?

No.