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The 2nd comment ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1799442 ) was downvoted. I saw it after I posted it. It was brought back up by others upto 1 later. Tried as I might I just co…

Looks neat. Can you make it a translucent overlay bar instead of moving the whole page down? Moving the whole page can be annoying visually.

I'll show two of my encounters as a limited data point to illustrate that HN is not far from getting to the level of Progit. In one post about shebang (#) being used in Facebook an…

You have very good points (I think you meant unprofessional instead of non-professional). Amazing. There are downvotes on your comment. This just shows what kind of community this …

I have seen comments in HN similar to what you have experienced, comments from frequent posters as well. The unpleasant thing is that people expect to be hand-fed their daily dose …

I actually see quite a bit of the same mentality here. Anything deviated from the main stream of the latest fad will get downvoted. There's little appreciation of diverged opinions…

Does anyone have suggestion on good practices to make an Ajax page crawler friendly? Since the anchor url (#) are generated on the fly by Javascript, how does the crawler know what…

I've never had a chance to use dynamic programming in real life beyond school work. For "challenging" algorithm work in real life, I did topological sort for evaluating dependency …

I saw a post in Reddit doing frontpage snapshot yesterday http://redditsnapshot.sweyla.com/ and thought to myself, this is pretty cool; I should make one for HN. Today someone alre…

That would increase the load on the database. Why does that increase the load on the webservers?

I thought people on HN are more open to technology discussion. It seems people can't handle their bubble being pierced when presented with facts. It would be more interesting you h…

[Sunglasses On] Sounds like the .Net stack performs much better than the LAMP stack.

A corollary: hiring older developers would have a distinct competitive advantage.

To support more rows than 70000?

Yeah, I thought MORE is an adjective while the other three are names.

$500 to $1000 a month for food? The food must be very good.