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by tomhow 7mo ago
Thanks for the discussion and (partially) understanding :) The use of terms like “moral bankruptcy” is exactly what the guidelines ask us to avoid, indeed explicitly so with the phrase “Assume good faith”. Part of the challenge of participa
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by tomhow 7mo ago
I don’t know or care whether it’s “objectively true”. That style of commenting, i.e., “calling out the author” is not what HN is for, regardless of the truthfulness of the comment. You’ve been around long enough to know that. HN is for curi
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by tomhow 7mo ago
That comment would be a guidelines breach on HN, whether or not it was in reply to the project creator. It gives off just the kind of negativity that HN has always aimed to avoid. Even if we don't always succeed in avoiding it, the gui
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by tomhow 7mo ago
The comment is a generic vent about the project’s codebase and development approach, not an effort to engage in curious conversation about this vulnerability. Also, I consider it to be in breach of the guidelines about fulmination, swipes&#
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by tomhow 7mo ago
This is not an acceptable comment on HN. It breaks several guidelines: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topi
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't sneer on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
We've banned this account for posting several egregious comments in the past few days. (This one isn't the worst; I'm just commenting here because it's the most recent.) This account holder has a history over several yea
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Thanks, we've updated the URL to that (from https://twitter.com/oliviscusAI/status/2038563166431346865 ). Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the la
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Thanks! Macroexpanded... Linux Running in a PDF - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42959775 - Feb 2025 (104 comments)
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by tomhow 7mo ago
It breaks several guidelines: Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Please don't
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by tomhow 7mo ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629849 and marked it off-topic.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629849 and marked it off-topic.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
You can't comment like this on Hacker News. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for better than this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this comment from https://news.yc
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by tomhow 7mo ago
How do they get comments without being on the front page? :) A post just needs to get a handful of organic upvotes soon after submission, to get near the top of the front page. And submissions can easily stay on the front page for hours wit
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Previously: Maze Algorithms (1997) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10101728 - Aug 2015 (10 comments)
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603657 .
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit
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by tomhow 7mo ago
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563489 and marked it off topic. Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. When disagreeing, please
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 7mo ago
We're considering how to improve the way Show HNs are evaluated and presented. Lately we've had to think deeply about exactly what has changed about Show HNs in the era of AI-generated code, and one way of thinking about it is tha
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please omit internet tropes on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id= and marked it off topic.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by tomhow 7mo ago
gnabgib? Anyway, the dupe detector is only in effect for 8 hours after a URL is submitted. If it gets no front page time, then a repost is allowed, to give the URL another chance of making it onto the front page. If the software didn't
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by tomhow 7mo ago
The HN rule is that a repost of a past submission is a dupe if it last had significant attention and discussion in the preceding 12 months. The exception is that if it is a major upgrade, such that it is effectively a new/different pro
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540388 .
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47540388 .
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by tomhow 7mo ago
It's just always been the convention to use that wording on HN, I guess for similar reasons to what you said of your own preference.
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by tomhow 7mo ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535708 .

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