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by dang 29d ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552299 , which was posted a bit earlier
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by dang 29d ago
Related. Others? Catching crumbs from the table by Ted Chiang (2000) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559422 - March 2026 (1 comment) Catching crumbs from the table (2000) - https://news.ycombin
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by dang 29d ago
Thanks! we'll add that to the toptext as well.
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by dang 29d 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 29d ago
Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576611 - Sept 2026 (42 comments)
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by dang 29d ago
Related. Others? New urinal designs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668957 - April 2025 (126 comments) Splash-free urinals: Design through physics and differential equations - https://news.ycombinato
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by dang 29d ago
Discussed a few times: Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41421018 - Sept 2024 (38 comments) Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker (2003) - https://news.ycombinat
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by dang 29d ago
We'll merge into that first thread since it has the original source. I'll put the link to the OP in the toptext there as well.
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by dang 1mo ago
Could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html . You needn't use your real name, o
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by dang 1mo ago
Hey! If you know more than others (which I'm guessing you do), that's great - but in that case can you please share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn? If you only post a putdown, it just makes the thread mean and
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by dang 1mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546284 .
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by dang 1mo ago
Related ongoing thread: Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506 - Sept 2026 (177 comments) Discussion of Kevin's post in the top subthread: https://news.ycomb
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by dang 1mo ago
HN "policy" is to encourage curious conversation. Same as it ever was.
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by dang 1mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 1mo ago
Related ongoing thread: Nobody is saying why OpenAI and Anthropic had outages - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567594 - Sept 2026 (120 comments)
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by dang 1mo ago
Thanks! I've added that link to the toptext. I'd really like to make it the top link (and relegate https://www.anthropic.com/research/formalizing-fermats-last-... to the toptext) since HN has been tracking th
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by dang 1mo ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621 - Sept 2026 (290 comments)
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by dang 1mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49563355 , which has the original source and is currently on the frontpage. We've put the Reuters link in the toptext there as well. (Sorry negura! One of these yea
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by dang 1mo ago
We don't monitor @dang. We only monitor emails. Someone emailed me in this case.
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by dang 1mo ago
We ban your accounts because you regularly create accounts to break the HN guidelines. That's obviously not ok and it has nothing to do with whom you're replying to.
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by dang 1mo ago
I'm afraid there are multiple simonstalkers. He holds up rather well under it all
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by dang 1mo ago
Sure. We have this for countries, like "example.co.uk", so I made "name" be a country and it...just works (maybe). You only get a first name and a last name and a .name though. You can't be robert.louis.stevenson.na
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by dang 1mo ago
Can you please transmute your frustration into thoughtful, interesting comments, rather than venting it into putdowns of others? Since you're posting here, you're as much "the hackernews community" as the rest of us. The
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by dang 1mo ago
That is the internet being internet. But adding a putdown on top just gets us further stuck in failure mode. It would be better to contribute something substantive about Steinem. Obviously there is much to discuss there.
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by dang 1mo ago
Not really, but occasionally the accounts are so similar that we can tell they're related. Which ones are you thinking of? If you don't want to specify usernames here, emailing hn@ycombinator.com would be appreciated.
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by dang 1mo ago
That's a form of personal attack. Please don't do that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 1mo ago
Yes, and that is unfortunately the worst of the fuzzy areas. We get a lot of emails from non-native English speakers asking why their posts are getting killed. This is what I usually say these days: We understand that our non-native Englis
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by dang 1mo ago
Oh I wasn't objecting to the disclaimer! I appreciate that you included it, since most people posting generated text don't say so. The main thing is that you should post a version of your question that's hand-written. If you
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by dang 1mo ago
I take your points on "high wing" and "puddle jumper", especially the latter since I didn't know the term. But "yet another" is still a dismissive swipe! I appreciate the reply.
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by dang 1mo ago
I hear your frustration and it, er, prompted me to write some thoughts about the situation. The community is trending strongly against wanting to read generated writing. It's unclear how it will shake out in the long run, but for the n

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