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HN tends to downplay every sort of achievement until it cures cancer,government inefficiencies, and works on all devices including screen-readers and morse code
by colmvp 10y ago
HN tends to downplay every sort of achievement until it cures cancer,government inefficiencies, and works on all devices including screen-readers and morse code machines.
- chimeracoder 10y ago> HN tends to downplay every sort of achievement until it cures cancer Oh, don't sell HN short. If a cure for cancer topped the frontpage, one of the top two comments would be someone remarking that "it's not really that novel, because chemotherapy has been around for ages."
- always_good 10y ago"Heh, I had this idea when I was eight years old. Color me surprised when I saw it at the top of HN this morning. ;)"
- sctb 10y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597102 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12597102 and marked it off-topic.