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by dang 4mo ago
Normally I'd say not to bother, but since your GP post got some interesting replies, I think it's a good idea so I've re-opened it for editing. If you do that, let me know and I'll unflag the post and collapse the modera
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by dang 4mo ago
I wouldn't underestimate the value of introductory submissions! Every topic is familiar to some users, no topic is familiar to all users, and let's not forget that newcomers, who still have everything to learn, are particularly we
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by dang 4mo ago
Is it classics day or something? (Fine with us!) Related: (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (In Python)) (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39665939 - March 2024 (91 comments) (How to Write a (Lisp) Interpret
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? Beyond All Reason – open-source RTS game built on top of the Recoil RTS Engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42826983 - Jan 2025 (4 comments) Beyond All Reason – An Open Source RTS Game - http
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by dang 4mo ago
The OP is aware of good abstractions and is describing a procedure for finding them, or for increasing one's chances of finding them.
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by dang 4mo ago
I dislike duplicate code as much as anyone, but agree with the OP that bad abstractions can be worse. They add confusion and complexity which compounds over time, since people are forced to build on top of them in ways that (by definition)
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? The Wrong Abstraction (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35927149 - May 2023 (69 comments) The Wrong Abstraction (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27095503 - May
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by dang 4mo ago
Please omit swipes, not to mention slurs, from your comments here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . " Edit out swipes. " " When disagreeing, please reply to th
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by dang 4mo ago
Edit: Welcome to Hacker News btw! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48618488 looks like a great project and I put it in the second-chance pool (explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309 )
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by dang 4mo ago
A past thread about one of the papers linked to in the OP: Negativity drives online news consumption - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35197587 - March 2023 (355 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
Negativity bias is a well-attested phenomenon, no? and one can derive the rest of the argument from that.
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by dang 4mo ago
I don't think this is accurate. The key sentence is "don’t use AI to write things for you that you present as your own work". This leaves many other ways to use AI. I've put that sentence in the title above because (per
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by dang 4mo ago
You're right of course, but a comment like this is a bit on the mean side, so probably best avoided. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretatio
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments belatedly moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894 - April 2026 (621 comments) --- Other recent threads, if anyone would like a thousand more IPv6 comments: The world
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by dang 4mo ago
Discussed at the time: The Case Against Geometric Algebra - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39576214 - March 2024 (15 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
(Submitted URL was https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1ubm53n/official_... - we changed that to what looks like the original source, but put the Reddit link in the toptext for context.)
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by dang 4mo ago
Discussed at the time: Developers don't understand CORS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20404578 - July 2019 (355 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
That definition is close to what I mean! But I think you'll find that in online vernacular, to "call $person out for $thing" has the association of publicly shaming $person for some $thing that the caller-outer believes they
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by dang 4mo ago
Anything that gratifies intellectual curiosity is on topic for HN! - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html That doesn't mean it has to gratify your curiosity or mine - no single article can do that for every
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by dang 4mo ago
Calling out, as I understand it, is a tactic of online shaming. We try not to shame anyone, although it does still happen unintentionally.
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by dang 4mo ago
> Speaking of shoes Can you please avoid generic tangents? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . "Shoes" is about as generic as one could get in a single hop from the
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by dang 4mo ago
The phrase "call out" is already an indication that HN is not being used as intended ( https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... ). You can make your substantive points without any
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by dang 4mo ago
OP is a good submission but please don't post summaries in the comments (it's not the convention here), and especially please especially don't post generated text - it's not allowed in HN threads - see https:/&#x2F
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by dang 4mo ago
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines with snarky, shallow, and aggressive comments across many threads. We can't allow that here because it destroys what the site is supposed to be for. If you don&
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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't post snarky or aggressive comments, and especially not in Show HN threads. You broke both the site guidelines and the Show HN guidelines badly here. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/
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by dang 4mo ago
Can you please edit out swipes from your HN comments, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are? This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . Your comment would be fine wit
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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, we've put that in the title above. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Thanks, we've changed to that from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-20/ubisoft-c... above.

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