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I've drank my first coffee of the day and immediately suffered an intense desire to nap. Coffee just isn't a very intense tool for the job.

With bluetooth headphones I've moved to doing everything I can while exercising. Even sitting down to read a book feels like precious time that could be spent combating a sedentary…

User plugins are a cool feature that let users do all sorts of things you couldn't forsee as the app developer nor want to encumber the UI with every possible feature. But it feels…

No, an extension that has good reason to inject a script into every webpage can, with the same permissions, exfiltrate user data under a new owner. Almost all extensions thus users…

People think it boosts the signal of their post to make their agreement seem exceptional. Simple as. It's such an internet comment meme that it probably even works. Just tack it on…

This is like pointing out how easy it is to rob a house or someone on the street. All you need to do is break a window (made of glass!) Or approach them alone at night with a gruff…

Usually it just means recurring revenue in general with relatively little work involved.

Disagree. Paying per byte is a critical part of making people realize they are part of botnets and to create the only incentives that have a shot at working naturally like pressure…

Well, another problem is that if you reuse email addresses, then a social engineering attacker has an easy starting place across all services.

Yes, but that's kind of the whole point, no?

Nobody said "replace."

So, if nobody votes the way I do, I should be happy that I got to vote even though I will never get the thing I want. I don't see why that's better than having that plus other opti…

Having more than one option is worth infinitely more to me than just one option I can vote on. It's not like the US dollar is going away. You present a simple example of false dich…

Well, there's also no real payoff. Hosting your own blog is just a major HN circlejerk. Who cares? There are 100 other things I'd rather focus on in the day than die on the hill of…

Reading these types of comments on HN, you'd think HN doesn't use Recaptcha for login/register. ;) Easy to hate on Recaptcha while reaping the rewards of participating in a communi…

I think it's weird to compare server application development to client development which is an entirely different beast. Client development on any platform is more complicated than…