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Exactly. I can live with everything but that left aligned repository layout.

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I am quite curious about the demographics of HN. My guess is most of us here are 30+. Since this is the top story right now, this will give us a vague idea about the demographics. …

Why does USA not have a system like UPI ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface )? It simpler, easier and cheaper (mostly free).

I have started re-learning college level Physics and am thoroughly enjoying Feynman's Lecture on Physics. Are there similar books available for Mathematics (& Chemistry) - books th…

> IMO the 2015 MacBook Pro is the best Mac out there, mainly because of its beautiful retina display, perfect weight, and most importantly, a good keyboard. Yep. 2015 Macbook Pro i…

I tried looking for config options but couldn't find any. I am just a version behind. Will resume auto updates when they fix this annoying behaviour.

Chrome 69 on Mac puts Close/Minimise/Maximise buttons in an additional bar when in fullscreen mode. It's super irritating to see an additional bar when you move mouse to top of scr…

I built a kind of similar stuff as a side project in 2011 - [redacted]. It allowed you to leave notes for a URL which your friends / followers can see when they visit that URL. In …

In India, pre-pay call rates are like 1.5 cents per minute and 2-3 USD for 1 GB of data. Data gets cheaper with volume. Nearly all of texting happens via WhatsApp. My and most of m…

kind of like payday loans?

WhatsApp is successful because it is just a simple messaging app and is free of any bloat that converts it to a platform.

I wish Facebook fades into oblivion like Myspace.

>Flipkart has foreign investment via VCs for quite some time. Because of this they had to separate Flipkart.com and their frontend operations (WS Retail). The VC money is now inves…

And, most of those gems have been written after Rails became prominent (somewhere around 2006/7). Denominator should be 6 or 7.