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Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time on Sunday January 04, 2026 @01:35AM (#46485547)
Why?
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:02AM (#43565337)
This article seems to be saying that religions are tribal by nature because it's made up of humans, and humans are tribal by nature -- ok fair enough. But the subtext I'm getting is that people in religions are less self-aware of it than the author or the people they admire.

People being more interested in comfortable beliefs rather than true beliefs has always been a concern throughout Biblical history. But that doesn't mean it never went unchallenged.

For instance, regardless of what you think of the Bible, it's interesting that Isaiah has the following to say to Judah (emphasis mine) because it shows an ever-present problem with human nature.

    For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord;
    *who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions”*
And before someone responds with a de jure objection to say that "the instruction of the Lord" is not looking for truth, I just want to make it clear that that is out of the scope of my point. My point is that, de facto, in the context, a religious text is agreeing that it is bad to "tribe-up and truth-out."

Lastly, on a personal note, as a human Christian, I think I have the same biases to groupthink as any other person because I am human. But because Christianity has a reputation, I have found that throughout my life, I've had to work harder to really test (not validate) my beliefs because I am constantly being challenged and, ironically, often ended up more informed about both my beliefs and my interlocutors' beliefs.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @10:56PM (#43530393)
I am developing a dataset and research tool for Algebraic Structures.

https://j-stubbs.gitlab.io/algebraic_structures/

It's all very POC right now but the idea is to eventually add many improvements including documenting the Python API.

Show HN: Algebraic Structure Toolkit and Dataset

https://j-stubbs.gitlab.io/algebraic_structures/

Half code library and dataset; half reference resource and teaching tool.I have been working on this project for a few months to encode and visualise Abstract Algebra structures. The broad goal is that it will encourage more accessible ways of researching and cataloguing Abstract Algebra without sacrificing rigour.

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Ask HN: Startup founder to full-time employee

I will soon be starting a full-time job after having run a startup for the last decade.The first thing I am trying to plan for is I don't want the rigidity of office life to be a shock and cause burnout. I know going from being my own boss to having a boss will be hard but I am looking for hacks to manage it.Secondly, I am going to have a lot less free time. How would you cut down/manage your...

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Re:418 I'm a Teapot on Monday October 28, 2024 @08:44AM (#41970532)
Honestly doesn't sound like a problem at all in the greater scheme of things.
Re:How I Experience Web Today on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @05:06AM (#41846554)
Did you see both screenshots or are you referring to a 2nd link I should click?
Re:How I Experience Web Today on Monday October 14, 2024 @11:50PM (#41844766)
https://imgur.com/a/NwhwnsZ

This is all I see.

I take it that my ad blocking plugins and security settings are working then.

Re:Families Are Going into Debt for Disney Vacations on Thursday August 29, 2024 @01:17AM (#41387591)
Gated articles are really ruining this side for me.
Re:Show HN: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on Thursday August 29, 2024 @12:49AM (#41387433)
When I was in the 5th grade, I learnt useful things like the metric system.
Re:Aramaic original New Testament theory on Thursday April 25, 2024 @04:11PM (#40162398)
Peter Williams has some well presented evidence on how the NT (or at least relevant parts) had to originally be in Greek. Namely how things like the alliteration in the beatitudes could not have ended up like they did going from Aramaic to Greek by coincidence.
It seems like there are a lot more paywall-type posts around here these days. It may just be my opinion but I started using Hacker News because the atmosphere felt less stifling than "traditional" outlets and sites. I wonder how they will keep up their underground persona if most of the posts end up pointing to regular news sites anyway.
Re:Strangest Sorting Algorithms on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @02:44AM (#30510906)
Yes. Because this isn't the response you were hoping for. It could go wrong so it did.
Re:Accidentally Turing-Complete on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:34AM (#30229788)
Do you have a reference explaining why two exactly?
Would this reduce the resource overhead on Windows?

I originally switched to i3wm because it was kind to my resources and I stayed because I discovered the joys of tiling windows.

Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:25AM (#15456711)
I don't have excessive time for social media so to silence my friends' nagging, I automated posting to twitter. My phone records the songs I listen to each day and posts them via a gist. My handle is @joshjstubbs, if you're curious.
I would imagine that in most cases it offsets poverty and starvation rather than escape from it.
Some people over-compress, though, until the point where the data becomes corrupt and the antivirus (our social attention span) quarantines it as a mild threat.