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Comment · 9 hours ago
Because I'd rather upvote this a thousand times than see another "I vibe coded HackerF, a repository of HackerNews posts that start with the letter F"
Comment · 2 days ago
We need an (official) third party, like an escrow. You report to them, they manage the talking with the company, they tell the judge you did nothing wrong because you reported to them, THEY use tables and shit to decide that such and such attack vector is worth this percentage of the company's revenue, this team would have received a hefty sum
Comment · 3 days ago
Do you intend to post at least ONE comment in this thread that isn't sarcastic and deeply useless, or is your mind really set on being a troll here?
Comment · 18 days ago
Congratulations, your IP isn't considered smelly. Let me just change my IP entirely. Oh wait, that's tedious as fuck.
Comment · 25 days ago
Thank you brave throwaway account for spreading lies, but while Crehan did pass away in December 2016 while serving his sentence, he was not murdered by "radical Muslims", nor was he killed by anyone. A police investigation and an independent coroner's inquest found no suspicious circumstances or foul play. The inquest concluded that he died alone in his cell from a drug overdose involving methadone.

Also, he was not sent to a "high-security prison full of radical Muslims", he was serving his time at HMP Bristol, which is a standard Category B local adult prison that houses mainstream inmates from the surrounding local courts.

Comment · 1 month ago
> How is anyone (as in not us, the tech nerds) supposed to reason about this?

People have more than enough brain power to reason about this. "There are several distributions, I recommend this one" is not exactly rocket science.

We really need to stop treating people like they have an IQ of 30 and only 5 minutes of free time per day, or we'll never defeat Google et al that purposefully maintain us in this belief.

Comment · 1 month ago
Making mixtapes for others is an act of love that must never disappear
Comment · 1 month ago
There's no "sticking together" with a country that legally elected DJT, sorry.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm a French speaker, not an English speaker.

Which might actually make me less likely to make certain mistakes, precisely because I'm not influenced by pronunciation, only by grammar (I actually have to think about the words I use)

Comment · 2 months ago
Same. Twint (basically the Swiss Venmo) insists that my phone is not compatible with it.

But using Aurora I can install it just fine and it works flawlessly.

Comment · 2 months ago
"as many have noted", I suppose.

I'm always baffled at how many people write "of" instead of "have", they don't even sound the same

Comment · 2 months ago
Funny tidbit: "missile" used to be an adjective, "a missile weapon" = "a weapon than can be sent/thrown".

Same with cereals, "cereal" was an adjective that meant "relative to the goddess Ceres" then "relative to bread/wheat". "Cereal plants" -> cereals.

It's called "nominalization (or substantivization) by ellipsis".

Comment · 2 months ago
Funny because "fixing an orphan" is hard in real life (assuming they've lost both their parents, you have to find them a foster home) but easy in typesetting (just add an empty line before), whereas "fixing a widow" is easy in real life (just remarry) but hard in typesetting.
Comment · 2 months ago
God please no
Comment · 2 months ago
Read the HN guidelines again

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