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I suspect there must be a secret majority of capitalist-apologists lurking on Hacker News because every time I open a thread, the top comment is defending one of these corporations…

I'm not certain we need to make this accessible to "the next billion". We like to dress up these actions in virtue but the truth is we hook people up because it's a business. Faceb…

I also love my Synology DS-218+. I'm hosting my own Spotify (Airsonic [1]); music tagged to perfection with Beets [2]), an IRC bouncer because Matrix is still not ready, my own Net…

Their webpage says Iridium is built on top of Chromium.

This was the Buddha's own thinking when he established his order of monks. Sadly, it has not weathered the last couple thousand years in such grace, as many East Asian Buddhist mon…

Has anyone called dang's attention to this? Hacker News should be in support of a free and open web, not a gated one. Allowing such links is implicit approval.

This is deeply upsetting to me because I have continually pushed Firefox to friends and family as the only alternative to Google's strongarm dominance of our virtual lives. I have …

Why didn’t anyone ask the residents if they wanted a megacorporation to move into their neighborhoods? Amazon insisted on absolute secrecy moving forward and elected officials went…

But does Light Table now without its original founders have any steam behind it? A glance at its GitHub tells me no.

A team spent years raising funds and developing first Light Table, then Eve, only to walk away with apologies. Why does this make me frustrated? Does the team owe those who pitched…

Why Chrome first? This makes me sad.

I just wrapped up post-production on my first short film, "Mead" and was looking for a resource like this!

I agree! Check out https://delta.chat . I use it every day for emailing. Subject lines are the ellipsized first words of your body and every message is a new email.

I don't know why the article didn't mention the most prominent technical features of Pop!_OS that propels it beyond being a mere copycat. * HiDPI Daemon: They wrote this themselves…

Or you could just use DOOM Emacs. Starts up in 1 second, gorgeous and built around evil.

Born in Denmark to a Danish father and American mother. When you're born on foreign soil to an American parent that parent declares your birth to the United States and you receive …

I can confirm this isn't true. Danish/US dual-national right here. Denmark is fully aware of my US citizenship.

Delta Chat, which is free and open source (available in Android’s F-Droid repos) does conversational email better than anyone. Most of my emails are responded to because I don’t se…

There are so many WSJ links posted recently and all of them are behind a pay wall. Shouldn’t Hacker News links be shared in the spirit of open information?

How do I interact with Mattermost in Emacs?

I alternate throughout the day. You will need to if you are just starting out. Both postures encourage the lengthening of independent muscle groups. In this previous comment [1] I …

It’s a P50! No kidding, I’ve struggled with the same my whole life. Got into Olympic lifting, saw chiropractors, osteopaths: moving to sit on the floor was the only thing that save…

I’ve made this comment before but I’ll do it again because I honestly feel like the way Westerners approach this problem is deeply wrong. Look to the East my brethren! Get a kneeli…