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What new product can they offer? What new ideas do they have? Is there any sign of the originality that was on display 10 years ago?

The Internet is part of the real world. Whatever you dislike about the real world, you will probably eventually dislike about the Internet. And to save what you like about the Inte…

I agree about Kessler. Why would she write an essay about Yegge? Slow news day? Writers block? Who cares about Yegge's blog post? How did she even find it? Still, QZ has a big audi…

I currently work for a client who has decided to shift away from PHP and towards Python. They had a monolithic PHP app with perhaps 250,000 lines of code. Now we are developing a s…

Regarding Muslims in the USA, I worry about those in government who might revive this line of thinking: "The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is a disturbing and …

I loved jQuery when it first appeared, but it is from another era, for sure. The rise of the Single Page Application was one big strike against jQuery. Frameworks such as Angular 1…

"when a community and its moderators tend toward free-speech absolutist positions." But oddly, this doesn't describe HN, because another aspect of the moderation is in favor of bla…

From the Notes, this is a very sad story: "I am Muslim, born in Massachusetts. I love my faith. Muslims in the US are very scared. Both my mom and wife wear the hijab, so I'm alway…

There have been some fantastic conversations on Hacker News about type systems. I've learned a lot about the different arguments for dynamic typing, versus strict typing, versus gr…

I am surprised you were downvoted. The 4 points you make seem straightforward, and are accurate. The timeline for economic damage (from global warming) is fairly long. Even in the …

So why can't Google find it? If it is an article, an essay or a series of lectures , Google should find it.

It is strange that neither Google nor Amazon can find this book: https://www.google.com/search?q=Algorithms+Jeff+Erickson+sit...

I agree, and I do wish that science fiction writers still had the social prominence that they had back in the mid 20th century. Because I think humanity needs a group that thinks a…

The elaboration on this bit is good: --------------------- "[C]onsider two indistinguishable workers, you and your clone. By definition, you/clone have the same gender, ethnicity, …

No "we" don't. Not all of us. Many of us hold the Founding Fathers in deep contempt. There is now DNA evidence showing that Thomas Jefferson raped Sally Hemings. That means that al…

I'm not sure if "overwhelmingly mindless" is the right characterization. In my opinion, the most interesting story playing out among the Western nations is what is happening in Pol…

About this: "ideally they'll have been programming since before college" Lot's of people get into computer programming as a second career. Rich Hickey, who created the Clojure lang…

At the moment, this post has 4 upvotes and yet it is in the #7 place on the front page of Hacker News. How is that possible? 4 upvotes gets a post that high on the front page?

If the goal is to generate a lot of useless "just so" stories, then this is good advice: "Take any behavior seen in all humans, ie. not something that is due to local culture, and …

It is worrisome that the posts which are factually accurate are getting downvoted. This raises a question about economic literacy on Hacker News. Presumably the people downvoting t…

I can put this differently: if I had a CFO who confused gross revenue with net profit, then I would fire the CFO and hire someone better. We can easily list cool stuff that happene…