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Respectfully disagree. We are what we strive to be. Hacker News was, once upon a time, almost purely respectful even in the face of stark criticism or blatant dismissals. That, sad…

Happiness arises from either self-sacrifice for humanity, or through social connections (typically family). Rarely does one have the good fortune to find happiness through both mea…

Seconded, HPD in my experience have been extraordinarily professional and helpful. 10 year resident of O`ahu.

Nice outrigger paddling reference

Just leaving out a . at the end of a sentence can make quite a difference.

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Massive group video chat => WebRTC, phoenix/elixir :)

As someone that used to post to HN under an old handle many years ago, and as someone who has been lurking for even longer than that, I must humbly say that the attitude of the com…

The author goes on to describe DNS spoofing in the following paragraph. Perhaps this was used for the live.com attack. He even says, "Within 20 minutes he’s obtained the login deta…

Checking slashdot, they appear to have filters in their comments for things like 'insightful' and 'imformative'. Thinking more along the lines of being able to rate things like the…

Ooo, this inspires a good idea: a multi-dimensional voting based forum. You can up and downvote based on things like veracity, tact, agree/disagree with position, etc.

Looks like algos picked up on log scale trendline break (Oct 25th-27th or so) from long term consolidation, thus the acceleration in the past 30 days. Buyers pile in. Price goes up…