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Spam detection at Twitter is horrendous. Search results for many crypto and stock ticker symbols (or cashtags like $SOFI) are deluged with Discord links for shady trading groups en…

Some ls man pages state the following about the -1 option: "This is the default when the output is not directed to a terminal." I've never needed to use -1 when piping ls's output …

Re the title, "$" and "dollars" are redundant, and you might want to Google every day vs. everyday .

There's a newer Bloomberg article with a matching title that's different from the one linked to here. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-13/trump-dru...

"Divide the number 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 into 1" Isn't this poor wording? The author is dividing 1 by the large number above, not the othe…

Corporatese is nothing new on Mozilla's blogs, unfortunately. See this DF post from last year for another example: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/02/16/mozilla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

> made illegal by the UN The UN is not a government.

What is the purpose of this site?

Why is Kai Krause not credited? http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartograph...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7164630

It's another poorly-written blog post. "The use of centralized exchanges remain a frustrating point-of-failure" should be remains . "Chinese leaders have little issue exploiting as…

>exactly the same as HN One of the first noticeable aspects of the site is how much harsher on the eyes a pure white background is compared to the #f6f6ef used at HN.

This is incorrect and misleading right off the bat. Ctrl+Z does not "send process to background." You will almost always need to use the bg command for that after suspending the ru…

Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and pay close attention to the 4th paragraph from the bottom.

It seems to be impossible to get an uncluttered view of U.S. sports stories. When I clicked on Sports on the left, some U.S. stories did appear, but they were buried among UK-based…

Mac OS X as well as Solaris have been registered as SUS compliant, whereas Linux has not. http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

The stories at http://evening-edition.com/ are much more meaningful.

Why link to #p3? Let me read the post from the top without making me scroll up.

> Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win It was possible to do this before the changes rolled out. Shift-compose opened it (still does) in…

You have many options for improving your reading experience, among them: Evernote Clearly Readability's Read Now feature InstaRead viewtext.org (always extremely slow for me)

Agreed about the small things. I'll never understand why they decided to put the ctrl+F find dialog at the very bottom of the window. It trips me up almost every time I use Firefox…

There needs to be a way to close the YouTube player, not just hide it. I keep getting "video player is too small" errors after hiding the player so I can scroll down and select ano…

There is little correlation between onehappybird's happiness map and maps of suicide rates in the US.