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This constant vilification of one of the great figures of tech history is tiresome. Yeah, maybe Steve Jobs was not a great person, but why should constantly overshadow his tremendo…

That’s whitewashing it. The War on Iraq was a crime, not a mistake.

> the immune system can’t forget a target This recent study has developed an “inverse vaccine” for multiple sclerosis that apparently can make the immune system forget stuff: https…

Leverpostej is the most disgusting thing in Danish cuisine. Just the smell of it heating up in the oven gives me nausea, while Danes start drooling in anticipation.

Putting the burden on invididuals for averting the climate crisis is a form victim-blaming. It’s long been clear that only concerted collective action will be effective in producin…

Yet here you are, alive and commenting on HN.

On the internet, nobody knows you’re an octopus.

If houses were no longer an investment but rather just poaces to live, the result might be that more and better housing would be constantly being built. This is one of the points o…

The day they killed Google Reader was the day they publicly renounced their “Don’t Be Evil” motto. From TFA: > the turning point was the assassination of Google Reader — for which …

Copenhagen is not super-dense, not even very dense. Berlin is even less dense than Copenhagen, yet both cities are very pleasurable for using the bike as your sole means of transpo…

How about SSH straight into screen ? Here's how to define a shell function for quickly attaching to an existing screen session after connecting via ssh (or creating a new one if no…

My favorite utility is a shell function for quickly attaching to an existing screen session after connecting via ssh (or creating a new one if none exists). It's pretty handy for t…

A little Java, a few patterns, by Matthias Felleisen. Delightful book.

I found this to be the most insightful comment in the whole thread.

Great post. It's shocking to discover that the lead developer of Zig only earns 1500$ a month, and still manages to donate 10% to the musl project: https://andrewkelley.me/post/why…

This is not a helpful comment. The Trumpian Republican party is here to stay, and it's very easy to imagine it being quite damaging to European interests and security once it's bac…

I just tried Nix yesterday for the first time in order to play with reactivated. Was surprised by how simple it was to get it running. Made me think that perhaps containers are not…

Templates are the ugliest part of Django. They are completely unaware of the target syntax, so very often the template itself cannot be validated as HTML, which makes it difficult …

I would definitely add reading to the list as well.

Read the article, that’s one of the first possible issues they address.

TL;DR: “we found highly consistent evidence that longer educational duration is associated with increased intelligence test scores. […] the results support the hypothesis that educ…

No need for copy-pasting, just doing "Command+L, Command+Return" will duplicate your current tab. Works on Chrome and Safari.

But it's a somewhat unnatural gesture to make. I often find I have to repeat it a couple of times until it works. Ditto for the five-finger pinch.