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Since you’re a skeptic, I’d love to hear your thoughts on my reply to xtracto!

Shameless plug for my side project: XpanXn.com The central value proposition is its reimagined UI, making threaded replies more visible and more interactive by separating conversat…

Thanks for the feedback -- definitely agree on the demo! Based on some feedback from one of the Show HNs, I'm planning to make some fake little chat bot, so users have something to…

I think the differentiator is two-fold. 1. Threads aren't secondary. There's no secondary window, and threads don't get lost in the amalgamation of main window messages. All thread…

I shipped an MVP of an instant messaging app that re-imagines the dynamics of chat. Your conversation is no longer limited to the vertical direction. It can expand in the horizonta…

As someone who’s one week into a four-week gap between knowing there will be layoffs and knowing who exactly will be laid off, I completely agree. There’s some comfort in knowing t…

Hey everyone, my name is Peter and I developed XpanXn ("Expansion") after wondering if instant messaging could better mimic real-life conversations if it were designed more like a …

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Hey everyone, my name is Peter and I developed XpanXn ("Expansion") after wondering if instant messaging could better mimic real-life conversations if it were designed more like a …

I've been working on a chat web app for the past few months. Its defining feature is that it reimagines the way in which conversations flow, allowing them to be really nonlinear. I…

Sounds similar to some work I’ve been doing, so thanks for unknowingly validating my design! At my employer, I’m spearheading a wholesale reimplementation of outdated process autom…

I've encountered this being used as a crutch for poor employee performance on a software project focused on replacing a legacy application. An employee with little programming expe…

The author isn’t worried about the takeoff speed in that quote; he’s thinking about the increased duration of the flight as stiff winter headwinds (at cruising altitude) decrease t…

What is a better approach? I have Python that directly connects to an Oracle database, and the Oracle blog tutorial[0] for using their Python package always uses a cursor. [0] http…

Great quote -- surprised I've never seen it before! In my limited experience, it's a mixed bag. Good: you get special treatment/opportunities because of a unique skill set and incr…

> Gravity alone is unlikely to be able to accelerate a plane like that in such a short time Yeah, a quick (and very elementary) back-of-the-envelope energy calculation shows that g…

Agreed, but it also had a groundspeed of 360 kts. Combined speed is then 463 kts. It's not impossible, but getting to that speed from 295 kts at a relatively steady 5000 feet...I d…

One of my other comments on this thread includes a link to data that suggests that the aircraft's ADS-B transmitter was working until the end. The vertical speed transmitted by the…

The granular data from FlightRadar24 paints an especially grim picture: a descent of 30,000 feet per minute (fpm) at about 400 feet above the ground. That seems like it might be er…

There was a good thread here about that, too! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890618