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by dang 7d ago
That's certainly an important factor but there are at least 2 others: (1) the quality of the link (some articles are better than others, and/or sometimes there is a canonical source for the story); and (2) randomness - we're
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by dang 7d ago
(I'm afraid this response may be irritating!) That's a good thing, because this is not a good story for HN. It's a riler-upper which attracts attention not because of intellectual curiosity (the desired function of this site)
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by dang 7d ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 7d ago
Recent and related: RSA-260 Factorized - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546284 - Sept 2026 (77 comments) Normally we'd downweight a follow-up [1] but this is a good article and arguably adds SNI [2] in its ow
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by dang 7d 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 7d ago
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited text to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079 . O
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by dang 7d ago
We've banned this account since it has sunk to the level of posting nothing but flamebait and unsubstantive comments, and has ignored our request to stop. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator
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by dang 8d ago
Discussed at the time: Into the Depths of C: Elaborating the De Facto Standards [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11805377 - May 2016 (39 comments)
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by dang 8d ago
This was not a borderline call! The GP comment is not in keeping with the kind of discussion we're hoping for, especially not at the top of a thread—which unfortunately is where cheap negative comments often end up. The problem isn&#x2
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by dang 8d ago
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, and particularly not unsubstantive + negative ones, which kill the kind of discussion we're hoping to have here (i.e. curious and thoughtful). If you wouldn't mind reviewing ht
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by dang 8d ago
There have been quite a few submissions on this topic. The biggest one is: 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49592375 - Sept 2026 (971 comments so far) (Normally we&#x27
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by dang 9d ago
Comments moved thither. Thanks!
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by dang 9d ago
> Made by the creator of ptable.com, a popular interactive periodic table website around since 1997. Discussed a few times over the years! Interactive Periodic Table - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27650576 - Ju
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by dang 9d ago
Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. We're trying for something different here. (and particularly not unsubstantive+indignant ones, which are the worst for the kind of discussion we're trying for)
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by dang 9d ago
We actually downweight lists on HN, for reasons explained a few times over the years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by dang 9d ago
Thanks! We'll put that link in the toptext as well.
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by dang 9d ago
We'll put that link in the toptext as well. Thanks!
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by dang 9d ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552299 .
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by dang 9d ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552299 , which was posted a bit earlier
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by dang 9d 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 9d ago
Thanks! we'll add that to the toptext as well.
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by dang 9d 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 9d ago
Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576611 - Sept 2026 (42 comments)
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by dang 9d 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 9d 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 9d 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 10d 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 11d 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 12d ago
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49546284 .
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by dang 12d 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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