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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't.
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
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by dang 4mo ago
The topic is research into brain-wave decoding. To take some specific piece of research going on in one corner of $BigCorp, and tar it with the brush of general sentiment about $BigCorp, is a classic example of generic tangent: where the to
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by dang 4mo ago
Before we started doing it this way, the threads would fill up with far more off-topic comments ("why is this 3 day old post on the frontpage?" and so on). That was a much bigger problem. Relativizing the timestamps to reflect the
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by dang 4mo ago
If you mean you aren't intending to post flamebait, of course I believe you, but your posts have certainly been flamebaity in the sense that we use the term here, which is mostly about the effects such posts tend to have ( https:/
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by dang 4mo ago
" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 4mo ago
[stub for offtopicness] p.s. come on you guys - this is not what HN is for. You may not owe $megacorp better but you owe this community better if you're participating here.
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by dang 4mo ago
" Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. " " Don't be snarky. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.h
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by dang 4mo ago
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Please don't create accounts to do that with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks! Yes, translated into your terms it sounds like the flippant ones I was referring to. Unpopular opinions are fine in principle - we definitely want to hear minority views on HN. But it's super common for people to pre-emptively
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks! We've switched to that from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-24/inside-th... above.
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by dang 4mo ago
> the peanut gallery here has nothing more substantial to add than to critique The comments in this thread are overwhelmingly positive by now. Watch out for the contrarian dynamic! ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all
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by dang 4mo ago
Sorry for being a downer!
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by dang 4mo ago
Would you be interested in posting that as a Show HN? If so, email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we'll be happy to help!
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by dang 4mo ago
I'm just guessing here (moderation is guesswork - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ), but it looks like your username is misleading to the point of being potentially trollish a
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks! OP link seems good so I've added it to the toptext in the other thread.
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? Counterexamples in Type Systems: programs that crash, segfault or explode (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36213704 - June 2023 (97 comments) Counterexamples in Type Systems - https:/
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by dang 4mo ago
(Submitted title was "Made a Rust DB run spatial queries on gaming GPU RT cores, beating an H100". We've changed it to the original now.)
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362206 - Sept 2025 (49 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please roll back the snark and flamebait in your comments? It has been upticking again for quite a while, to the point where notice I'm bracing myself when I see your username in threads. Since you've adjusted this in the
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by dang 4mo 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 4mo ago
You can't post like this here, no matter how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. You may not owe founders whose cofounders you feel are behaving badly better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41846796 - Oct 2024 (1 comment) How to Corrupt an SQLite Database File - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by dang 4mo ago
It's a cool project! but best to use the original title and original source - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . I've changed the title and URL to match https://github.com/LinuxM
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok! changed now.
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by dang 4mo ago
[stub for offtopicness]
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by dang 4mo ago
(The URL above was https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passpo... for a while but we've since changed it to the original source.)
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, changed above.
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by dang 4mo ago
I hear you! If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted here...not even close. You can alw
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok! Sorry for over-assuming - it's very much the common pattern but of course there are bound to be exceptions.

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