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Wait, so I have to ask for every single person's permissions to use this data? uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Do you mean it's not updated? You gotta sort by update_time column. Looks sorted, but you gotta sort it with a query like: SELECT * FROM hackernews_history ORDER BY update_time DES…

Thank you for providing this, you are a hero!!! I'm gonna try to do cool stuff with it!

Has anyone tried to make some sort of algorithm to find cool stuff on HN or sort by upvotes etc? I know it's cool and intended that such things don't exist, but has anyone tried?

Indeed you did! That made me look into this: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=1826-05-24

I think atom is no longer being developed, so it must not be a that popular topic. is that what you meant?

Cool! I want to suggest something, Imagine I want to got to a specific date where some topic was hot, I can read it from your website and then go to that date. But it would be bett…

Thanks, I'll correct it! Here the exams aren't practical until the very end.

The point about careers was really something I didn't think about, thank you for pointing that out! Science looks fun too. thank you for your help. I still have to think about the …

I wrote this once, power went out. I write it shorter this time. 1. JS, Python, PHP, C#, C++, Rust, Java. The ones after PHP, I only have worked with for a short time, like a hello…

Yo, I provide some backstory on my coding journey, you can skip this to the very end. I just wanna know what to do from now on. Now I don't expect to find the fully complete answer…

Hmm. by kashida do you mean something like 'ایـــــــــــــن'? I don't think you mean this, because I don't know how would you do it in CSS. Looks more like a problem to be solved …

I looked at Arabizi and the numbers are really annoying for formal text etc. Finglish is better in my opinion, however it causes problems like being able to read the same text in t…

Yeah, but the difficulty isn't in rendering the fonts, it's for the font creator. So once the font is ready with all the combinations it rendering and using a Nastaliq font doesn't…

If you think Arabic horrible because it has connected letters, so is cursive. But I like both cursive and Arabic. You can easily distinguish separate words as the words' letters ar…

Not only writing and printing is hard, so is selection and moving your cursor. Because in most tools, the right and left arrow keys don't mean right and left in Arabic, Persian etc…

That's a great idea. And for deep nets you can do the same with probabilities. Thanks!

I think approving the comment is also doing something, so if we won't allow it to do that too it will be useless. But I think you mean we shouldn't allow AI to do potentially harmf…

Reading comments one by one and checking if they are in a way breaking the rules, is a boring and time taking (not individually, but because there will be lots of comments) task. W…