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Re: Ask HN: If the CPU redesigned today, with no legacy incentives what can change?

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Post by Leftium » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

__ryan__ wrote: post #20

Leftium wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's just an HN Replies email thing. I've seen "* * *" in actual HN comment threads, too. And I've seen it in 100% of your replies to me, when I've never seen it for other replies. So I wonder if it's related to how you use HN

This is definitely solely an HN Replies thing.

This is the first time I've seen it in my HN Replies, but I have seen "* * *" before on https://news.ycombinator.com/. I even saw another comment asking about this type of comment.

Re: Ask HN: If the CPU redesigned today, with no legacy incentives what can change?

#22

Post by __ryan__ » Mon, Mar 06, 2023, 10:03 PM UTC

Leftium wrote: post #21

__ryan__ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is definitely solely an HN Replies thing.

This is the first time I've seen it in my HN Replies, but I have seen "* * *" before on https://news.ycombinator.com/ . I even saw another comment asking about this type of comment.

Do you have any HN-related extensions installed?

Edit: I truly did not believe you, but it appears to maybe be the “delay” feature [0]. Users with a delay set might show the asterisks until the delay passes.

My apologies.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024

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