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Fantastic work by the compiler/author, and lovely work by all those developers and designers through the years. Great contribution to HN

Awesome article. This being HN there must be a quibble right?: Missed opportunity to entitle it "Elevator Action"

You cannot possibly be a full-time academic and your last name be "Papernot"!

I was going to say this too. And since we're at it: does anyone know how many launch pads the Chinese private space companies have, combined?

Not long ago I was looking at my favorite games of decades past. Unreal Tournament figured very prominently, made of course by Epic. So I wondered: why did they stop making Unreal …

Update: Microsoft has taken the page down. But posterity being what it is... https://archive.is/D9vEN

Loved the anecdote, very nicely CRAFTED

I resolutely approve of this comment. Bravo.

This is key

We are close to landing our first customer - an enterprise-level one at that! We're Geneva Business Messaging, a tool to centralize, persist, and if necessary escalate critical int…

Got a little something to say here because my startup is all about this. Worked at 2 $100b market cap enterprises and saw a lot of friction specifically in B2B. For internal collab…

I found your comment very moving. Thank you for sharing that remarkable portrait of your father

I've always wondered about those grimy palm reading or fortune telling shops you'll find across major streets in Manhattan or New York. How are they making rent, even during the re…

What if superintelligence isn't even a thing? I was watching an interview with a Chinese-American specialist the other day (I'm sure it's been shared here on HN at some point) and …

Seconded

Great comment - it reminded me of Seveneves

This stuff is hard. Today was the first time my little startup started sending out little videos of demo features to the group of about 20+ people (all friends/family/close colleag…

My team and I are building a web app that enables any business to chat with any other business in any language. Details: It's B2B only - can't register with a free email provider, …

My company is building something in the messaging/comms space, but focused on B2B rather than internal team chat like Slack/Teams. Seeing all the dislike for those two makes me won…

A tool to address friction in B2B interactions (mostly between large companies) I've seen in my career. Main innovations are in comms and contract management. Leaning in on some ha…

Very valuable, thanks for posting. The author understandably leaves out the dollar figures (even approximations) for what that exist looked like, but the tone suggests it's above d…

Thank you (and the whole team of course) for creating something so amazing

Fantastic, inspiring post. Congratulations x 200!

The story is great on its own, but that ending was absolutely magnificent

Don't mean to sound aggressive, but no professional organization worth its salt does systematic password sharing of any kind. Password sharing is almost always a security violation…