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781.
by dang 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649435
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by dang 4mo ago
(this is at the merged thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648727 - and there's an additional gift link in the top text for people hitting the wall)
783.
by dang 4mo ago
Ok, since that submission has the original source, we'll merge the comments thither and re-up it.
784.
by dang 4mo ago
Can you please not break the site guidelines like this? They include: " Don't be snarky. " " Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something
785.
by dang 4mo ago
" Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks! Comments moved thither.
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by dang 4mo ago
If it were just the one comment I wouldn't have said anything; the issue is the pattern (note the word "repeatedly").
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by dang 4mo ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we've had to ask you many times not to. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If yo
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by dang 4mo ago
Oh good! Added above.
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by dang 4mo ago
Hmm - of course I went looking for the past HN discussion and it seems there wasn't one - that's a bummer: Show HN: Open-source version control for game developers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36485377
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by dang 4mo ago
We've put that in the toptext of the merged thread. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, done.
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by dang 4mo ago
Discussed at the time (of the article): Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44601045 - July 2025 (265 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
Show HNs are places to discuss people's work respectfully and curiously, so attacks like this are particularly harmful here. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html . You can make your substantive points wit
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by dang 4mo ago
This is a good link but the discussion overlaps so much with the general launch thread that I think we need to merge them. I'll put this link in the toptext there. Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by dang 4mo ago
Related ongoing thread: Steam Machine game testing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48632989 - June 2026 (19 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
From last year: Steam Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903404 - Nov 2025 (1514 comments) For balance: I don’t need a Steam Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45943992 - Nov 2
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Ah thanks - I forgot to change the top link. In this case I think https://oak.space/oak/oak is probably more enticing to the community because they get to see what it actually looks like - so I've used that URL in
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by dang 4mo ago
We've banned this account for crossing into personal attack. That's not allowed here. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the r
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by dang 4mo ago
Since many commenters had a variant of this response, I've turned the post into a Show HN above (more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633408 ). (The submitted title was "Git is forever. I'm building
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by dang 4mo ago
Since this project hasn't appeared on HN before and is obviously of interest to people, I've taken the liberty of turning your post into a Show HN (which is the convention for sharing your work on Hacker News - https://
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by dang 4mo ago
Thank you for such a fine response - I really appreciate it.
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by dang 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8123327
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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't do this here.
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by dang 4mo ago
I agree with you about the bits I know anything about, and the rest sounds likely. It just makes a significant difference when the context is a Show HN and the critical comment is at the top. If it is comment (say) #13 in a varied conversat
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by dang 4mo ago
Yikes, I just learned from looking there that misclick favorites are a thing. Hastily un-favorited some nasty stuff. It would be fun to build up a list of real favorites - just the sort of thing there never seems to be time for...
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, all done. Thanks.
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by dang 4mo ago
Nothing in the OP implies that kids shouldn't learn other things as well. I'm sure you meant your post in a good way, but this probably falls into the category of shallow dismissal ( https://news.ycombinator.com/new
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by dang 4mo ago
Could you please email us at hn@ycombinator.com? I want to put this in the second-chance pool (explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 ) but there are a couple things that need taking care of.

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