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Until there is a clear successor, I don't think we can bury reddit.

No one mentions it so there you go: mataroa means "hope" in Maohi

If there is an afterlife possible in our universe, the information necessary for it must be compatible with its physics. But so far, down to particle physics, nothing seems compati…

SF Mono ( https://developer.apple.com/fonts/ )

The best thing back then (as a young adult with too much time) was how easy you could hack a lot of the online forums or servers. searching altavista for phpbb forums using a versi…

Most people don't know this truth, in particular here in France where the name Cousteau still holds its aura. I know because I watched and enjoyed the shows as a kid and most peopl…

Thank you for your dedication. You will not be forgotten

The idea behind individual solar energy is not consuming it real time but associating it with a storage solution to allow bigger throughput. You're not going to make toasts all day…

today I learn dogs see us as Simpsons characters

Well I still think it shouldn't come as a surprise. We've got many example of successful industries with such culture, why would video game work any different.

> I am simply surprised they manage to produce anything at all in such a culture, let alone a hit game. The same culture you can find in Holywood, where hundreds of successful movi…

The problem is when you have 0 chance of making it because other players outgear/outnumber you.

Read again, I said it IS interesting ... to anyone. You see the content drive the audience and then the audience drive the content. Too much broad interesting articles and it's not…

The difference is the audience. While I found this article interesting in itself, it's something that can be interesting to anyone, regardless of its background. While harmless at …

Well you just said it: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting" and not "Anything that anyone would find interesting".

While a cool and nicely illustrated article, I fail to see how it's relevant to HN.

"You don't get it: it's not a bug, this is art."

var skill; article = skill || 'troll'

if you want to wake up early eat very early dinners. Have a full breakfast to avoid sleeping during the day Those 2 facts seem conflicting to me. In one case food deprivation helps…

When they went out of beta/preview, the prices skyrocketed to absurdness and many people had to shutdown their app because of everything being coupled to their specific API and the…

When I go to princing and quota I get: > This Beta release of Cloud Source Repositories is free and can be used to store up to 500 MB of source files. No thanks! I still remember w…

Yes. In some countries, laws are strongly in favor of employee protection (for a good reason). That's the case here. One employer could severely abuse paying candidates for some qu…

Except you cannot do that in every country. You know, Labour right.