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The-Old-Hacker
·12 days ago·discuss
"Great people are sometimes oddly-shaped"

Great people are racehorses, not donkeys. And racehorses tend be skittish. But they win races for you.
The-Old-Hacker
·12 days ago·discuss
We used to do this in the software documentation team I worked with for 9 years: we would discuss something verbally, then the person who'd called the discussion would summarise the conclusions in an email to team members. They could then edit the summary as needed. It really helped further down the line as a communal memory device.
The-Old-Hacker
·18 days ago·discuss
Rosa Brooks, the author of the piece, is American.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks
The-Old-Hacker
·23 days ago·discuss
Secret Santa!
The-Old-Hacker
·last month·discuss
Source headline: Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy
The-Old-Hacker
·last month·discuss
https://archive.ph/85isU
The-Old-Hacker
·last month·discuss
A wonderful rabbit hole for anyone fascinated by number properties. Focusses almost entirely on positive real numbers.
The-Old-Hacker
·3 months ago·discuss
https://archive.ph/loQZu
The-Old-Hacker
·3 months ago·discuss
Very good. Worth it just for the custom CSS ability, to be honest, although the option to mute users comes a close second.

"The friendly release notes" presumably refers to this page:

https://github.com/insin/comments-owl-for-hacker-news/releas...
The-Old-Hacker
·3 months ago·discuss
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/08/british-c...
The-Old-Hacker
·3 months ago·discuss
A phrase involving horses and stable doors comes to mind.
The-Old-Hacker
·3 months ago·discuss
https://archive.ph/RJHvW
The-Old-Hacker
·4 months ago·discuss
https://archive.ph/a3pRV
The-Old-Hacker
·4 months ago·discuss
https://archive.ph/VdzLq
The-Old-Hacker
·4 months ago·discuss
https://archive.ph/ZKi5G
The-Old-Hacker
·4 months ago·discuss
https://archive.ph/3WE7U
The-Old-Hacker
·6 months ago·discuss
Very useful. Easy to install and use and nicely designed.
The-Old-Hacker
·6 months ago·discuss
Uitstekend!
The-Old-Hacker
·6 months ago·discuss
Ironically, the Celtic tribe referred to were the Ancient Britons.
The-Old-Hacker
·6 months ago·discuss
Related recent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301629