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I don't close the door when I'm taking a crap because I have something to hide, I do it for privacy. And whether people are breaking the rules or not, the more someone knows about …

Some of my greatest joys in life have come from putting string replacement plugins on other people's browsers. I mostly just applied it to news sites. s/big/super massive/g s/cardi…

Without some way to generate revenue, people aren't going to publish recipes (for Google to scrape into their AI.) Maybe we could live without more recipes being fed into the machi…

I find many software developers are solution-oriented instead of problem-oriented. Because that's a common theme in my head it's what I see here, whether that's what was intended o…

I had a great experience using Kaitai in a previous job. We were decoding proprietary binary messages from Teltonika OBD GPS trackers. The online editor, https://ide.kaitai.io/ , i…

The All The Music project is something like that, but for melodies. They created all possible melodies of a 7 note diatonic scale and wrote them to disk as MIDI files, copyrighting…

SwearySkyscraper: A startup that develops novel and personalized swear words to help people better cope with pain, and integrates these swear words into a liquid damping system to …

Berlin's Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin) has a nice app for identifying plants and animals called Naturblick. It's available in English. https://www.museum…

"I have nothing to hide" really misses the point of what privacy is for. I don't close the door when I'm taking a crap because I have something to hide, I do it for privacy. Also, …

When working as the head of engineering at a start-up, I would get dragged into this process on the sales side. I would sit there cringing at all of the bonkers crap the Sales Engi…

> The standards of driving in Australia is terrible. I think this is common in many places where a significant portion of the population lives in low density areas (eg: American, A…

This makes me think of going to chain restaurants. Everything has been focus-grouped and optimized and feels exactly like an overfit proxy for an enjoyable meal. I feel like I'm in…

> a collection of half-finished documents that are always out of date I think of company wikis as a place where information goes to die. A useful feature, which I'm sure exists som…

I worked with a guy who introduced himself by saying "Hi, I'm firstName and I'm the world's best Java programmer." He would say that while shaking your hand and looking you in the …

That was my thought. Somewhere on the planet there's something that has a sexual explicit name and the take down is based on that.

> The Starbucks this piece occupies is no longer a community hub – its capacity to function as one has been filtered out by profit-seeking decisions To be fair, I think the reason …

> Face it, Zuck is an accidental billionaire who had the advantages of Harvard but is now completely out of his depth and lacks a crystalized vision as to where to go from here. It…

You can consider porting your landline number to a VOIP service (I use voip.ms) and after that it's nearly free. I bought a basic Linksys modem (SPA2102) so that we can still plug …

Thank you for putting a brief description of the product at the top of the post. There are often posts on HN for new versions of software that I haven't heard of. I click on them o…

I think having an extended application process is the point. It selects for people who are good at university, rather than people who were good at high school.

That's the best case scenario. Worst case is that they get nothing back and own nothing. (Based on the quick summary of the deal above; I don't know more than what's here.)

Speaking of the browser extension UX, for those who don't know, the keyboard shortcut for filling in your login details is ctrl-shift-L.

fd instead of find (fast, good defaults) https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

Maybe Asimov didn't think that the described scenario would be the state of the art for UX at the time, but that there would be other reasons for that UX. Maybe without some sophis…