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by dang 2mo ago
It's telling of the fact that we don't see most, or even 10%, of what gets posted here. There's far too much to read. If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that
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by dang 2mo ago
I'm not concerned with "groupies", but with the quality standard on HN, which the GP post was obviously below.
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Please follow the site guidelines. They ask you not to post like this here, regardless of who or what you dislike. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 2mo ago
> What do universities have to do with startup founders? Gross. Please don't post unsubstantive comments or shallow dismissals to Hacker News. We're hoping for curious conversation here, not bilious. https://news.y
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by dang 2mo ago
He did say that. That's what "from scratch" means, along with actually going ahead and building one.
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by dang 2mo ago
Related: Moon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42443229 - Dec 2024 (250 comments)
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by dang 2mo ago
Recent and related: Never Be Angry at Work - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49396811 - Aug 2026 (14 comments)
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by dang 2mo ago
> You got emotional and Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. Your comment would be fine without that bit https://news.ycombinator.com/newsgui
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by dang 2mo ago
> Where the fuck are you getting these numbers from? Hey, can you please not break the site guidelines like this, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. h
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by dang 2mo ago
We're glad to have you back in any case! A gumbyless HN is a sadder HN.
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by dang 2mo ago
This community is filled with people who were obsessed with microcomputers or (depending on which generation) websites during their teenage years. HN was created by and is managed by people of this type. No doubt we're a minority, and
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The guidelines are there not to ban, but to nudge.
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When the two are different, we prefer the authored year over the published year, since the purpose of putting years in titles is to cue the reader that (1) this is historical material as opposed to current-internet-firehose, and (2) the con
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by dang 2mo ago
Whoops! I must have gotten distracted.
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[stub for offtopicness]
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by dang 2mo ago
Thanks! Link added to toptext.
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Thanks! Year added above.
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Sorry to say we fixed it now.
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It's on the list...
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[stub for offtopicness]
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by dang 2mo ago
> Oh, you sweet summer child. It's perhaps lesser known than other HN guidelines, but "Omit internet tropes" is in there: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 2mo ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded: Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218707 - Aug 2026 (21 comments) Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf] - ht
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by dang 2mo 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 2mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49374729 .
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by dang 2mo ago
(I moved this comment here from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46197161 as part of re-upping this post a la https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 - I hope that's ok!)
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by dang 2mo ago
Can you please stay within the site guidelines when commenting on HN? Your last several comments have been breaking them in various ways. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by dang 2mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49397074 .
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by dang 2mo ago
No worries! It's a fuzzy game.
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We don't keep track of that (too many things to keep track of) and I can't remember anything*. Sorry! * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by dang 2mo ago
Your thoughts are quite cool! but I thought featuring the project itself would make more sense for a frontpage thread, so I'm going to merge the comments (such as they are) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4939

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