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by dang 4mo ago
Please don't do this here.
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by dang 4mo ago
This may be a case where your intent didn't match the effect of the post on the reader, i.e. you meant something other than how it came across. That's common, of course.
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by dang 4mo ago
Related: Data Compression Explained (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631931 - June 2024 (1 comment) Data Compression Explained - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931493 - June 2013 (
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by dang 4mo ago
I have to disagree. If you fire so highly pejorative a word as "bigotry" at another commenter, that's crossing into personal attack, and you can't undo it with qualifiers like "almost" and "borders on&quot
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by dang 4mo ago
In the case of book reviews (and film reviews, I guess) we often change the title to that of the book/film being reviewed. We started doing this years ago after realizing that book review titles often do pirouettes on top of the book b
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by dang 4mo ago
Added above. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo 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 4mo ago
My view is not that these things are objective—they're subject to interpretation and different people interpret differently. It's not like temperature or length where one has a thermometer or a measuring tape to determine the va
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by dang 4mo ago
Agreed, the lede should be unburied! I've made that the top link and will put the submitted link in the toptext. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601162 , which is currently on the frontpage.
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by dang 4mo ago
Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack. As the rest of the thread shows, there was a simple misunderstanding here. (Submitted title was "We generated ethnic music from every single country on earth&qu
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by dang 4mo ago
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by dang 4mo ago
Articles should be submitted with a link and a title. Text posts are for cases where the author is the submitter and the content is addressed to the community (usually a question: https://news.ycombinator.com/ask ).
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by dang 4mo ago
[stub for offtopicness] [title fixed now]
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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
Please don't do this here.
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by dang 4mo ago
Related (I think). Have there been others? U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560847 - June 2026 (271 comments) U.S. to dismantl
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by dang 4mo ago
It does seem more of a borderline case to me when I reread it, too.
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by dang 4mo ago
It's not a question of painful - I'm happy to "admit" what's true, as best I can, and not what's not true. Let's see if we can sort that out a bit in the present case. HN is certainly curated - I've b
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by dang 4mo ago
Yes, in the sense that if there's nothing interesting to say about a quote then there's no reason to copy it into the thread.
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by dang 4mo ago
" Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 4mo ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments, flamebait, and snark? 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:&#x
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by dang 4mo ago
GP is a serial troll whom we've banned hundreds of times, so the answer to your question is almost certainly nothing.
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578913 .
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by dang 4mo ago
Related. Others? The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631381 - April 2025 (280 comments)
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by dang 4mo ago
Related: On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17821534 - Aug 2018 (1 comment) On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech war on rats - https:&#x2F
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 4mo ago
Ok, but that doesn't make the GP a good Hacker News comment. It simply repeats a cliché, and a good HN comment should be more substantive than that.
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by dang 4mo ago
Bit of a hard one as the limit is 80 chars. Is he actually a physicist, as the article says? If so, I don't see that the title is misleading. I suppose it could say "French physicist loses philosophy doctorate after plagiarism inv

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