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Good on you, but this doesn't prove anything imo. People are almost always positively biased toward attractive faces due to the halo effect. Biologically/psychologically this is a …

To everyone who throws around the argument that "only x% of people infected with COVID die", please consider that many survivors are still experiencing major relapses 4 months late…

It's a fallacy to think that the only outcome of COVID is binary (i.e. death or perfect recovery). Just browse r/covidpositive. There are so many "survivors" who say they still hav…

Jesus. That's gruesome. And trust that the initial comments on HN are about how to most efficiently kill someone, rather than any visceral reaction.

C'mon, let's be real... most devs are working on features/products that will never see the light of day. Or they're restyling the company's "contact us" form for the thousandth tim…

Amazing book. The funny thing is I never expected to see it applied to software engineering - but in this context it's very appropriate.

Yes. As a frontend developer, my default mode now is to almost always go straight to searching issues in the GitHub repo of an npm package I'm using. I only end up on SO when googl…

I really enjoyed Bryan's book. I'd always thought uni was ridiculously overpriced, but hearing it straight from the mouth of a professor really hammered the point home for me. I be…

Yeah, totally agree. Ironically COVID has made me realise how much I want to work in an office now, as I'm going slightly insane from the lack of social contact. Moving forward, th…

"Online education used to be like online dating: only something losers would do. But now it seems to moving towards the default way of doing business." As a self-taught developer a…

Can you please explain what you mean by every component re-rendering? Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I don't think that's correct (unless you made a really bad app). Other than that …

What's bothered me most is how if you collapse Gmail's sidebar, the "no Hangouts contacts" section in the bottom half doesn't resize or adapt. It probably doesn't hurt usability di…

Wow, thanks for sharing this. Also, to second your question: what the hell did happen to Windows search? I always just assumed I'd done something to break it (and honestly, could n…

From everything I've read about COVID-19 and flu-like infections, I'm also inclined to believe that warmer climates help slow COVID-19 outbreaks. It is (in my opinion) the most pla…

That capitalism, in its current state, is a broken system? As cliche as it sounds, there's no other way to describe it when you have frontline workers risking their life—and their …

So in other words: "who cares, the virus only kills old people who were probably useless to the economy anyway, so business as usual." I sure hope you don't have any elderly family…

For a forum of ostensibly intelligent people, it's amusing to see the rise in anti-china sentiment brought about by the coronavirus. Sure, China has a poor human rights record in m…

"Fact-Check Scarcity Principle: This article is called 100 Little Ideas but there are fewer than 100 ideas. 99% of readers won’t notice because they’re not checking, and most of th…

Except it seems the consensus is that it really does suck - both from the perspective of HackerNews and the people forced to use it

Completely agree. The author glosses over the fact that half of coding is just pattern recognition derived from seeing something written a certain way many, many, many times over. …

As someone who is heavily interested in the EdTech space (I've had the unfortunate luck of being a student for far too long and experienced how woefully inadequate the education sy…