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whitehat2k9

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    Comment #15812879

    Maybe it wouldn't be if people stopped coding everything in node.js.

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    Comment #15437547

    You could, particularly on *nix machines, but the idea was to provide a more lightweight cross-platform solution that would specifically work on Windows.

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    Comment #14224223

    Looks like the good old-fashioned Facebook confessions pages will be around for quite a while longer...

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    Comment #14119094

    Is this why there's a black bar at the top of HN now?

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    Comment #13899631

    Same here, RT2 was one of my favorite games as a kid. I would love to see a modern remaster or, better yet, a new Railroad Tycoon game that preserves the simulation aspects of its …

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    Ask HN: Will the new W3C EME DRM standard make pirates' jobs easier?

    The W3C is expected to ratify the EME (Encrypted Media Extensions) standard for DRM'ed video on the web. This will essentially provide content creators with a uniform, standardized…

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    Comment #13010418

    What are the performance implications of this? Isn't cross-instruction set emulation typically associated with substantial performance hits?

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    Comment #12757922

    "Not surprisingly, the results of the optimization are clearly pornographic." Just about spit out my food.

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    Comment #12367791

    It's like nature's equivalent to Ubisoft's episodic release schedule of Hitman.

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    Comment #11641754

    Well, that looks rather unpleasant.

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    Comment #11427126

    Meh, it's probably still less overengineered than the actual TSA app.

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    Comment #11425902

    Prompting users to enter payment information over unsecured HTTP...smart.

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    Comment #11409725

    And of course I get downvoted for being perfectly right. The rampant, rabid Apple fanboyism on HN is utterly disgusting.