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This was the subject of a really nice NYTimes "Letter of Recommendation" recently https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/magazine/letter-of-recomm...

Hey - would love to be added :) id is n0nick. Thanks!!

Woah. When I last (tried to) start reading Ulysees, almost a year ago, I thought about this: An online "book club", allowing users to join in reading classics and participate in di…

> The one unconventional suggestion is the idea of a correspondence between the characters of the source text and the HTML text. Did you get a chance to check out fellow HN homepag…

This seems to correlate to a Hebrew expression "buying a cat in a sack", meaning taking something without confirming its quality. Indeed, same legend is presented as the source for…

Took me a couple minutes to find a link to a demo site: http://gitbucket.herokuapp.com/ EDIT: credentials are root/root

I'm guessing programming language of the project.

^ This. Exactly! Thanks for articulating the thought process I'm having almost every day right before lunch time.

Someone whose stock property ("paper") can be valued as > $1M, i.e. If they sell their TWTR stocks now they will be 'actual' cash millionaires.

+1 for reslate :) I use it combined with a hyper key mapping (similar to OP) and enjoy it very much. my config file: https://github.com/n0nick/dotfiles/blob/master/slate/slate.j...…

> Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn were all among the 10 biggest IPO’s ever Twitter's IPO? Not quite yet...

Still alive: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/

The sea of useless social buttons and links made it impossible for me to read this on a phone. I hate it when blogs do that. https://www.dropbox.com/s/cmz5rd0l8lu1g36/2013-09-25%20…

Not totally unintentional, since it was created by a website dedicated to app discovery... But yeah, I discovered some new interesting apps myself :)

> You read code when you're programming. The only difference is the mix of characters you'll see near each other. General readability matters -- when is it OK for a regular font to…

Pretty cool! Reminds me of the UI on medium.com (selecting text on view mode allows sharing and commenting, and on edit mode pops up a floating format toolbar).

I really like your idea, but what about content being changed/updated, instead of deleted? For some use cases it would make sense to show the cache (when the original quote is no l…

"I don't know what I could do with the money. I'd just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have." This is a brilliant quote, evidence for Zuck's …

Off the top of my head, this move also means that most, or at least some, of the Opera developers who worked on its rendering engines, will now be contributing to WebKit and V8. Th…

It's a quote from the server's homepage http://ftp.arl.army.mil/

Sweet! :) I love your responsiveness here on HN, pretty impressive.

That's awesome, now put a link to a license that legally defines how can one use them, to avoid legal confusions. May I suggest CC http://creativecommons.org/ ? :)

Very cute idea. I might be missing something here, but - where's the license to the photos? These would obviously be useful for commercial purposes, but I have to see some usage li…