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That's true, but submissions are only killed in that way if they receive a ‘fatal’ number of flags. However, flags lower the rank of a story even at non-fatal levels. What antirez …

In a way the most remarkable thing about this is that it isn't even at the top of the HN homepage. Even if this is a step up from what we've seen before, we're no longer astonished…

Thanks! It looks like the viewer app somehow mangled the link I was reading into a link to the whole issue. If a mod sees this, it would be great to use this link instead. It's unf…

The original title was this: > Graph substitution of two octahedra inside an icosahedron connected at p=1: disconnected at p=0 ( concept similar to two tetrahedra inside a cube). C…

The edit history of the “nonsense sequence” makes for painful reading. https://oeis.org/history?seq=A133451&start=0&n=30

Most of the comments here seem to be from people who haven’t even read the abstract, let alone the paper. The main result, mentioned in the abstract, is the opposite of what I woul…

> Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts.

> Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude prompts.

There's an archive link above that bypasses the paywall

From the article: “The team will publish the exact position of the island once the naming process is complete”

I haven’t read much of Gertrude Stein, but I often think of her brilliantly eccentric essay on punctuation[0], and especially her musings on the nature of the semicolon, whose crux…