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Just a tiny, trivial, aesthetic/grammar change: on http://captainobvio.us/auth/login you say "Login to Captain Obvious". I'd change that to "Log in …".

Looks like hashbangs mess up the counting; e.g. http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/ and http://graph.facebook.com/http://www.twitter.com/#!michaelcg...

I've started using Celsius in my everyday life. As an American, it's not the easiest thing to do, but I'm used to that from my use of the 24-hour clock and the metric system (even …

I use a CR-48 for email/Twitter/Facebook/HN/etc., and everything else when I'm not at home.

I spent two summers interning at a giant insurance company (no self-installed software was allowed anywhere on the network). In 2008, everyone in the entire company was forced to u…

Handling of special characters could use some improvement. For instance, "Hello" (no quotes) has her in her underwear, but with " /", she still has pants on. That said, this site i…

Apparently Plan S is to do all of them.

SDCH looks to be going after a similar problem, but it would cache the templates between browsing sessions rather than just among consecutive pageviews. I'm not sure how well it wo…

Another idea could be to include the separator character as part of the attribute (e.g. zone="profile:" or zonechar=":"). I'm not a huge fan of imposing mandatory URL structure, ei…

All pushState does, AFAIK, is add things to your browsing history; it alone doesn't affect the content you receive. It does, however, make it possible (for recent browsers with JS …

I've been playing around with this idea for a while, and given this week's context, I figured I might as well throw it out there. My main questions for HN are: (a) is this a good i…

What happens if I have more than one email address and my crush enters a different one than I did?

I like the http:/ typo. It really shows how unfamiliar the general public was with the internet just fifteen years ago.

I think he's suggesting a genetic algorithm... Google-style organisms, competing for fewest retried searches, most-different front-page results, etc., that over time merge and spli…

To me, this story was interesting to HN not because Google was commenting, but because Vint Cerf was. When he writes about Internet governance, I listen. The UN forms committees an…