I'm pretty sure that the code that decides whether or not to display a [dead] post doesn't consider whether the user had upvoted the post before it became [dead] ...

Seem pertinent to atleast get an affidavit from the ex-employee detailing what he as done, agree to hold on to the hardware as evidence, put liability on the ...

Feb 22, 2019 · Any idea how the algorithm works that it's generating these results? 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784. 2: https://news.

5 days ago · I set up a little PHP script* that took a YouTube URL and ran `youtube-dl -g f bestaudio` to give you the URL of an audio-only stream. (Directly ...

In the case of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39095738, it just set off the flamewar detector, a,k.a. the overheated discussion detector. We sometimes ...

3 days ago · At one point Windows had prototype UTF8 support as the ANSI codepage. Does anyone know where this went, or if it will be supported? The docs [1] ...

We've released a new version of the HackerNews search tool available from the bottom of this page. CHANGELOG: Backend - Rewrote the indexing process and web ...

Ranking and selection systems -- fitness functions -- are very very hard to get right. I did a lot of work with genetic algorithms and evolutionary ...