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throwawaybutwhy

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    Comment #47114724

    Does your employer know about your promotion of inauthentic content on a social network site not controlled by your employer?

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    Comment #46457965

    Why are you rolling out your own crypto? Timing attacks, unvalidated inputs and no bounds checking. > I am not a cryptographer. ... However I am fairly confident that this is at le…

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    Comment #46457908

    What is the name of the genre of name-dropping in two or three passages and leaving the reader guessing why oh why he read this blissful snippet of wisdom? At the very least, have …

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    Comment #45958581

    Upvoting for visibility. Yet, why am I not surprised? In the immortal words of Claude Rains (modified): them are the usual suspects.

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    Comment #45868757

    A literally deadly book with arsenic-laced pages. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_Book_Project

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    Comment #45392026

    Reddit (and quite possibly, a few other fora) has banned online communities that unite enthusiasts of 3D printing weapon parts.

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    Comment #44883768

    TL;DR Stack Overflow poisons its data dump. Grifters gonna grift, it seems.

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    Comment #44856552

    Προσδοκῶ ἀνάστασιν νεκρῶν. Καὶ ζωὴν τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος. Ἀμήν 'nuff said.

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    Comment #44856458

    When things like these get posted to HN, there is a plot twist... Always a plot twist.

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    Comment #44853437

    How to optimize applications on NVIDIA GPUs

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    Comment #43595043

    Not a fan or foe of protectionism per se yet getting books printed literally across the ocean and then shipped back on fossil fuel-guzzling container ships isn't my definition of a…

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    Comment #42224085

    Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5961205 (2013, 244 comments)

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    Comment #42045986

    No need to click. The song is called Subways Of Your Mind by FEX from Kiel, who won a talent contest in Bremen in September 1984.

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    Comment #42036847

    https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2468-2667%2824... - use the source, Luke.

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    Comment #40262822

    Number 2 user at Stack Overflow (by reputation) admits massive-scale GPT fraud and apologizes.

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    Comment #38946950

    Hilariously ambiguous, bordering on outright devilry. Also, a bulls*t generator licenses content from a propaganda machine.

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    Comment #38883460

    I heard about points of view similar to yours, but I don't share them.