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Ask HN: Where have the comments gone?

Posted by krmtl on Monday December 08, 2014 @04:41AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I wanted to send this [1] discussion to a friend but saw that it has only 3 comments. I know that it had many before. Also, HN Search [2] says it has 229 comments. How can this happen?[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8693932[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=comments+gone#!/story/forever/0/Google%20can%20now%20tell%20you%20are%20not%20a%20robot%20with%20just%20one%20click!

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Re:NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space on Thursday November 27, 2014 @10:42AM (#8667628)
Here is a related article that discusses removing the Van Allen belts:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/hacking-the-...

Re:High-DPI displays and Linux on Friday November 21, 2014 @07:07AM (#8640888)
Firefox on Linux currently doesn't support a mixture of HiDPI and non-HiDPI monitors, it has a single DPI setting. I think it will be supported when this [1] bug is resolved.

Shameless plug: I have written an addon to workaround this [2].

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975919

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autohidpi/

Re:The human-driven driverless car on Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:07AM (#8498166)
What to do when the connection to the remote driver is broken?
Re:Show HN: Maim – A simple screenshot utility for Linux on Thursday October 16, 2014 @03:40AM (#8463821)
imagemagick:

  $ import ss.png
Re:Ask HN: Any good audio podcasts? on Thursday September 11, 2014 @09:54AM (#8302544)
Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/
Re:Zimg – A lightweight and high-performance image storage and process... on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:08AM (#8289170)
Related: Facebook's Haystack: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=76191543919
Re:Xiki: The Command Revolution on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:10PM (#7869632)
Is it supports SSH and curses applications (e.g. vim)? I didn't see it in the videos.
Re:Xiki: The Command Revolution on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:01PM (#7869585)
I get excited each time I see an attempt to improve the shell, e.g. Mosh [1] and TermKit [2]. I believe that there is room for improvement. But I also think that the UI itself might be in its best form because it is as simple as: type the command, hit enter, get the result. And also equally important, its very efficient.

I don't see that it can replace Bash but it can be useful in some cases. I really liked the Git functionalities.

[1] http://mosh.mit.edu/ [2] https://github.com/unconed/TermKit

Re:V initiative – Building tomorrow’s secure digital democracy on Monday June 09, 2014 @02:58AM (#7867337)
I was thinking about digital democracy for some time but the open source model loses credibility when you use a centralized approach. I think making it decentralized with a cryptographically sound method is the key. Bitcoin is everywhere. I hope this project gains traction.
Re:Dijkstra on Dutch TV (2000) on Sunday May 25, 2014 @06:15AM (#7795997)
Using a pen instead of a word processor may adapt our mind to "getting it right the first time". We might need word processors that limits editing?