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Re:Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:58PM (#45818859)
> He is freezing rents only for select controlled units
45% of apartments in NYC
Re:Equinox.space
on Monday April 22, 2024 @04:42PM (#40120041)
Please add a "reverse y-axis" option for mouselook!
Re:Household Size and the Housing Stock
on Saturday April 20, 2024 @01:51PM (#40099230)
A land value tax would be a more efficient way to fairly distribute the benefits of land.
Re:In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing? Nobel Prize winner grows ...
on Monday March 18, 2024 @07:30AM (#39742614)
Meanwhile, there are plenty of disciplines in which practitioners would never seriously consider posing this question.
Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of legacy status ...
on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @05:56PM (#36794038)
I wonder whether this applies to actual donors.
Re:Tesla recalls 362,758 vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cau...
on Thursday February 16, 2023 @03:08PM (#34825123)
They should rename it KSD.
Re:A public school in Florida built America’s greatest math team
on Monday July 18, 2022 @06:18AM (#32136505)
“It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.”
It’s too bad this is no longer in fashion with the educational establishment.
Re:Master’s Degree in Computer Science
on Friday May 06, 2022 @03:18AM (#31282297)
"I don’t have time or energy to study for and take the GRE right now."
Good luck with compilers...
Re:Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?
on Sunday November 28, 2021 @08:19PM (#29375211)
100% yes for Chrome in iPadOS. It seems like it wants to register some type of selection event rather than a tap.
Re:John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset
on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:19PM (#28964433)
This assumption strikes me as ageist.
Re:Do not leave XPS laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when pl...
on Saturday September 25, 2021 @11:09AM (#28653740)
Do not taunt the happy fun laptop.
Re:The Two Classes of Software Engineer
on Friday March 05, 2021 @10:47AM (#26358120)
One could just as easily say that the two classes of software engineer are those who care about business problems and those who don’t.
Re:Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it
on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:40PM (#26175399)
If Facebook made it this hard to cancel, there would be a New York Times article about it.
Re:AirPods Max
on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:24PM (#25354176)
AintPods
Re:Bring back the ease of 80s and 90s personal computing
on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:58AM (#25237249)
Before the advent of Windows XP, keeping your PC fast and reliable meant reinstalling Windows at least annually.
Re:Regulators Have Doubts About Facebook Cryptocurrency, and So Do Its...
on Thursday June 27, 2019 @07:30AM (#20293470)
It’s the New York Times. You don’t even need to read their Facebook-related stories to know what they will say.
Re:Tech Companies Manipulate Our Personal Data
on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:18PM (#18949233)
Yet more anti-tech hysteria from the New York Times.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best MOOCs you've taken?
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:32PM (#16751117)
I concur on the MIT edX Probability course. I spent at least 15 hours a week on the exercises but it was well worth it.
Re:The scale of tech winners
on Saturday October 14, 2017 @09:55PM (#15475447)
You mean the gentrification brought on by restrictive municipal zoning laws?
Re:What is it like to understand advanced mathematics?
on Sunday August 14, 2016 @08:18PM (#12287929)
Similar to your third example: "Without loss of generality, [ our argument can proceed with the following assumption... ]
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone implemented a zero-maintenance system?
on Sunday July 19, 2015 @02:39PM (#9912310)
This seems analogous to a perpetual-motion machine.
Re:Ask HN: How do you curate and keep up with general news?
on Sunday March 01, 2015 @09:54AM (#9127195)
I recommend checking out NPR One if you haven't already: http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/
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