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by pvg 2y ago
Giant related thread last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43332658
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by pvg 2y ago
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43392521
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by pvg 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPO2nUYaoM
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by pvg 2y ago
There's nothing wrong with green accounts doing Show HNs, really.
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by pvg 2y ago
Show HN is not limited to open source projects.
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by pvg 2y ago
I mean, it trivially fits a number of them but a really big one is 'repetition'. Various political and other not-entirely-HN-on-topic stories end up on the front page and have threads but these are exceptions for particularly unus
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by pvg 2y ago
These don’t get flagged because they aren’t “technology related”
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by pvg 2y ago
Thread here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43369298
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by pvg 2y ago
If you haven't come across it - this thing is in pretty wide use https://www.swig.org/ so you'll probably get some confused people. Which is fine, since as the poet teaches us, sometimes words have two meanings bu
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by pvg 2y ago
You're selling XML short here, it had its own share of straight up RCEs too.
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by pvg 2y ago
You have a Show HN project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336892 on the front page right now so you may want to give this a few weeks' time so the hivemind caches have time to clear.
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by pvg 2y ago
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You can get a bunch of recent and more detailed mod commentary on how it works in practice here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43272671
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by pvg 2y ago
Tiny thread of the announcement last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384234
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by pvg 2y ago
Discussion on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373500
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by pvg 2y ago
No, I'm sorry, this is plainly wrong. This isn't a dialogue between you and dang where you're having some difference of subjective opinion. You aren't debating whether pineapple on pizza is good or not. HN has been aroun
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by pvg 2y ago
This is now blogspam of blogspam of a tweet, I wonder what the deepest level of blogspam is. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346501
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by pvg 2y ago
You have to convince other people that this is 'better' and it matters a lot that statistically nobody else believes it's better. It must have crossed your mind at some point that simply repeating 'my way is better'
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by pvg 2y ago
Ok but the limitations of this have also been explained many times and it's not like the way it works here is unique to HN, that's how almost all forums work. lobste.rs is an attempt to do things somewhat differently and it doesn&
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by pvg 2y ago
It means it's a big fat book well suited for browsing while on the can. It's a genre.
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by pvg 2y ago
Earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
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by pvg 2y ago
That's more-or-less the purpose of https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ or at least, it's significantly better at it than, say, wikipedia.
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by pvg 2y ago
Depends where you're starting from but from highschoolish maths you can probably sort this out in a few hours or days.
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by pvg 2y ago
Ongoing related thread on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352531
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by pvg 2y ago
Thread the other week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243109
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by pvg 2y ago
You can post openings in the monthly threads for this but they're otherwise offtopic on the rest of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring
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by pvg 2y ago
Ongoing discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43345503
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by pvg 2y ago
An oldie but goldie of the multi-brick/bathroom doorstop variety is Kline's Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Time .
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by pvg 2y ago
Related on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349214 (where it might be better to post this link)
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by pvg 2y ago
The homepage is wild too, not that I can read most of what it says https://mameson.com/
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by pvg 2y ago
Your posted link is a 404, maybe you have your repo permissions set to something nonpublic.

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