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After using multiple Nvidia and ATI cards on many machines over the years, my anecdote is that ATI drivers crash far more frequently than Nvidia drivers.

Interesting that this article seems to be getting flagged pretty heavily and quickly moved from #1 to #23. http://hnrankings.info/6476120/ Reminds me of this http://www.indiatimes.…

Sure you can. http://bannedfromhn.neocities.org/

Interesting, this looks like proof that truth is stranger than fiction. After reading a lot of WW II thrillers, this seems surreal.

In some parts of the world, BBM is the place where all your friends are. And people tend to use the service where all their friends are or risk being left out. I guess many HN user…

It's something like being a devil's advocate, plus being a fan. Spreading mistruths actually hurts things. When people say things like "Windows 8 won't boot without secure boot ena…

No, and never did. I am actually working on NetBeans/PHP/Drupal(gah!) on the other monitor, though I am primarily a C# guy. And even I did work for MS, how does that invalidate any…

Sorry to reply to myself but I seem to have found a source for the below. >I find it really hard to believe that quarter of all computer sales are Chromebooks. Does anyone have a s…

>"has seen Chromebooks race to a quarter of all computer sales and one fifth of all new PC school deployments." Are there any hard numbers on Chromebook sales apart from nebuluous …

Also this: >It’s a little known fact that top contributors to EE got VIP treatment. They were flown to different locations around the world, wined & dined, and got lots of cool swa…

If their crime was only that they ranked highly because of the text in the questions and sold access to answers, I would be okay with that, but EE decided to let Google index the _…

Apple stimulates brain's religious responses, claims BBC http://crave.cnet.co.uk/gadgets/apple-stimulates-brains-reli... I guess this isn't true just for Apple, but for other major…

From http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee... . >In at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a sou…

I think the announcement was a setup, but not the person who asked the question. It was pretty obvious that someone was going to ask that question, you could bet on it. The person …

Wasn't the Moto X supposed to be super configurable like this? It got me excited from the rumors and the hype. At the end it turned out to be just some colors that can be picked. h…

There's also this fee among a lot of other fees while applying: In 2007, the US Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (ETA), reported on two programs, the Hig…

Except that with physical titles it's pretty inconvenient to pass around disks all the time, so there's a natural limit to sharing. With the new kind of sharing, you could share yo…

It isn't just the colors, the shape and the plastic back look quite similar to the Lumia 620. https://www.google.com/search?q=lumia+620&tbm=isch&tbo=u

Wasn't there a company that did a similar sentiment analysis on Twitter and wanted to trade the stock exchanges on that information? I wonder what happened to that.