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Bots of some kind crossed my mind. I find it interesting there has been no announcements from dang about the change in behaviour - unless I've just missed them.

I went hunting for stats of topic trends on HN as the whole AI thing has gone bananas. Looking at the "ChatGPT" keyword chart [1] the volume is crazy and seems to line up time wise…

This was brought up by someone some months back [1] and was judged by dang to be a spike due to YC applicants. Assuming, the the data here [2] is accurate, what is the explanation …

Where in a startup/product's life cycle does it make the most sense jump into YC? Obviously there are a huge number of variables that make each case different but does anyone have …

My co-founder and I are looking to apply but it looks like I might have a baby due during the 3-months-in-SV stage and hence need to be close to base (Australia). Looks like I'll b…

Given 1 GB in printed pages is about 3.9 million (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+gigabyte+in+pages), how much would you store, what topics are most important (specifically …

The explore page offers a great snapshot. The search page is totally awesome too (seriously, it works really well) but only when you are looking for something in particular. It fee…

There is a lot of great stuff on Github but it's hard to know where to start looking. I'm wondering if HN had any recommendations for useful tool suites or other noteworthy project…

I'm not planning to launch my next app for a while but I'm really not wanting to go down the annoying path of SSL/TLS if my app doesn't go anywhere. Is this really the turning poin…

Interesting to see it released under GPL3(+). Looks like they want any distributed modifications going back to the community.

It's interesting too that despite the author's posting of an Analytics screen shot (of visitors I take it) there is no proof that the auto following itself has brought about the sp…

Is there a stash of interesting imports available anywhere?

Also curious to know the probable reasons for the failure.

Open sourcing Flash would definitely be in Adobe's best interests. The only possible thing holding them back is shoddy coding practices (using security-through-obscurity) which wou…

With about 7 domains to my name I find it hard to justify buying too many domains without following through by building something under them. How many domains names do HN frequente…