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You spell out your question like a human being, to treat the other human being with respect.

Be less concerned with internet points.

This might be the dumbest comment I've ever seen on HN, and that's saying something.

I suppose you thought that chess only got interesting when Deep Blue was put up against Gary Kasparov?

The article basically debunks itself with the correction at the end, but tries to hang on by claiming "Look! It has seeds!" However, I don't see one mention of "artistic license" a…

Fantastic!

Who is reading content while scrolling? That's like buying a $10,000 stabilization unit to be able to read a book while jogging.

It was at this point I realized the entire premise of the article was a very long-winded way of saying "I like using high DPI monitors when I code". And then tossing in a bunch of …

Put another way: Hey , I just bought a new laptop. Which IDE should I install on it first?

How is this #2 on HN with only 6 points, being 6 minutes old?

You've accepted your lapse, but you don't seem to accept any further responsibility to stop this from happening in the future. Instead, you're putting this responsibility on countl…

I think this is a perfect example of why people find math hard. Not because there's something inherently difficult, but because we have teachers like this one in charge of open and…

Why did they build the entire pinball machine themselves? The portion that "plays itself" is a camera attached to some very basic computer vision techniques that boil down to: When…

I don't see how your anecdote differentiates between these two scenarios: 1. Human leaves, cat gets separation anxiety due to feeling less emotionally secure 2. Human leaves, cat g…

Because billionaires with large egos exist in the wild.

It is an unpowered flight, not a graceful fall.

I don't think it's unreasonable to be surprised that a teenager (at least, an American teenager) isn't aware of such a thing. They've managed to get through school without once bei…

Which piece of it is amazing?

This is fantastic. I've had a very similar idea kicking around in my head for a very long time. These days it seems impossible to make sense of all the predictions from so-called e…

She developed a prototype based on a hunch and a whim. Great work, no doubt, but engineering isn't based on intuition and some experience. Real engineering has a goal or specificat…

I'm glad someone else sees this the way I do. What the blog writer did was tinker with something. They didn't engineer it. I was a mechanical engineer prior to switching to softwar…

This is absolutely true. I've noticed most "unsuccessful" people go around with a view of "successful" people that they got lucky, never had to endure hardship, had something hande…

I've been asking myself that question more and more. It seems HN has been slowly becoming a Reddit-lite. There are significantly more low-quality "thanks! this is great!" comments …