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by dang 3mo ago
Recent and related: LibreCAD in the Browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755075 - July 2026 (17 comments)
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by dang 3mo ago
No, but if they have a change of heart and genuinely want to use HN as intended, they're welcome to let us know. I've added that in an edit now.
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by dang 3mo ago
It's not a sign about that project in any way. I had never heard of it and have no opinion about it one way or the other. It's just a sign that single-agenda accounts aren't allowed here—no more, no less. That's why I sa
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by dang 3mo ago
The most recent 60 (!) comments plus every submission of the last 6 months were all about the same thing. That's extreme. The posts didn't all mention that specific project, but there was only one topic and they were extremely rep
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by dang 3mo ago
It's really bad. I found myself identifying with everything Jonathan wrote in the OP - so much so that I thought of asking to compare notes on mitigation measures.
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by dang 3mo ago
Related. Others? Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33516422 - Nov 2022 (87 comments) Lisp as the Maxwell’s Equations of Software (2012) - https://news.y
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by dang 3mo ago
I took the "first" bit out of the title above - thanks!
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by dang 3mo ago
One article mentioned in the OP was discussed here: Disrupting the largest residential proxy network - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46802748 - Jan 2026 (221 comments)
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by dang 3mo ago
Related ongoing thread: Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019 - July 2026 (18 comments)
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by dang 3mo ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https:/&#x2F
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by dang 3mo ago
Ugh, that is bad, and I'm sorry I didn't see it at the top of the thread yesterday. Really, the deeper problem is the upvotes that cause such posts to rise to the top of a thread and stick there, drowning out curious conversation
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by dang 3mo ago
You broke the HN guidelines badly with this, first because of the name-calling and personal attack, and second because it is a shallow dismissal in exactly the sense we ask people not to post here: " Please don't post shallow dism
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by dang 3mo ago
Recent and related: We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838772 - July 2026 (92 comments)
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by dang 3mo ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
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by dang 3mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 3mo ago
I've banned this account because we don't allow single-purpose accounts on HN, and your account has been doing that for quite some time now. We ban such accounts regardless of what the single purpose happens to be. Pre-existing ag
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by dang 3mo ago
Parenting and being parented are, of all topics, probably the emotionally strongest and most personal that show up on HN [1]. When someone shares their experience in those areas, it's especially important to respond respectfully. The b
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by dang 3mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48839355 , which was on the frontpage a day or two later.
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by dang 3mo ago
Thanks! I've added that link to the toptext.
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by dang 3mo ago
Can you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and especially https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html and stick to the rules? You broke them with this. We're particularly tryin
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by dang 3mo ago
Whoa - you can't attack other users like that here, regardless of how strongly you feel about a topic like AI. It's against the site guidelines ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ), and especially ag
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by dang 3mo ago
I certainly appreciate your care for this site, and am grateful for your having defended me as you describe. That's all good! It just doesn't change the moderation point in this particular case.
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by dang 3mo ago
This crosses into personal attack and that is not allowed here. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be gra
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by dang 3mo ago
" Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " " Don't be snarky. " " Please don't sneer, including
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by dang 3mo ago
You've posted 4 shallow, indignant dismissals in this thread. That's excessive, so please don't. I realize you have reason to feel strongly about this, as do many others. That's certainly fine. But once is enough to make
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by dang 3mo ago
" Don't be snarky. " " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " Also, please don't use quotation mark
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by dang 3mo ago
I appreciate the reply! and yes, that's a much better way to express the point. (Btw this is an interesting phenomenon - I call it the rebound effect: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&am
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by dang 3mo ago
Quite the opposite - I've been trying for years to help users with minority views get a fair hearing on this site. The reason they get flagged is because they tend to break the site guidelines, often very badly. I can understand the re
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by dang 3mo ago
Yes that's on the list! > Making it easier to "favourite" a comment would also help here (currently it is an unnecessary 2-click process). Probably also a good idea.
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by dang 3mo ago
booleans as values of course. arguably redundant since GP did say symbolic communication, but Lisp had T before Algol 60 came out

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