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I'm curious how the hacker news algorithm works that something with (to me, currently) 9 upvotes and 1 comment can hit number 1 on the site and be hugged to death.

This is like saying more lawyers should be writing software. Lawyers have extensive education and experience in the law and so work with..the law.

It's telling that your comment is currently 2nd ranked. It comes across generous "there are bright math kids everywhere" but really boils down to "don't talk about how they're blac…

Oh HN is going to love this. > A somewhat more subtle form of negation, is refinement of measurement. One man says that a tank weights ninety tons. And for that particular discussi…

Wow I definitely thought it was named after the facehugger from Alien.

Because a trailer has a bathroom and a kitchen and these are sheds?

Sheds. These are sheds. at 25 grand a piece some private contractor is going to make a killing.

I received this email and figured hey, having an account for 15 years is finally paying off. But they just stuck me on a waitlist. I didn't even have a microsoft account when I tri…

> But maybe they are preparing a bombshell or something This is what I don't understand. Didn't they fire an employee for coming out and telling the world they had an AGI? Where is…

And zero acknowledgment that Credit Default Swaps were pioneered by Blythe Masters AT JP Morgan and used relentlessly to move risk off of balance sheets in a house of cards that le…

If someone created a twitter bot right now that was able to pull old hard libertarian tweets from these people and post them as replies that would be...entertaining. Hypocrite-bot?…

What is even the crime here? "This person requested a torrent link" "This person posted a torrent link". What do they expect to charge these people with, even if they could track t…

Great game. I have played a similar game to death on android called Flow Free. I binge the new packs as they come out. The first game/set of puzzles was free and I have purchased a…

> Is that something that people generally worry about? I’m pretty sure none of the rentals I’ve lived in over the past decade had the locks changed between tenants. That would be h…

You might enjoy the book then. The tools that were built in the NSA and its contractors that are now in the hands of our enemies, combined with the shocking lack of security throug…

I just recently read This is How They Tell Me the World Ends by Nicole Perlroth which was an extremely interesting and concerning book, explaining the escalating capabilities of ch…

A bit of a woo-woo aside but I've been trying to practice more gratitude thinking in my daily life and the grocery store is an easy place to be reminded of how good we have it.

I knew that post was a mistake as soon as I saw it.

Wow that's pretty rude.

Hiding the news behind paywalls means only people with money get to be well informed. Is this not "hacker" news? Seems like a lot of well-paid people forgot where they came from. I…

What a neat little tool that is. Bookmarked.