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GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: Do you Consider Life to be Futile
Life sucks, and then you die.
GrahamsNumber··on Ask PG: What are you most excited to see in 2014?
Some rich guy
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: Name ideas for a new project?
doesntmatterjustfuckingpicksomething.io
GrahamsNumber··on Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis
What kind/brand of modafinil? The indian-online-pharmacy deal doesn't seem too trustworthy to me
GrahamsNumber··on My website is being stolen in real time and I don't know what to do
You seem to have a particular set of skills
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: Where do you register your domains?
You're still hellbanned
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: Where do you register your domains?
necenzurat you've been hellbanned for quite a while
GrahamsNumber··on We need less Rails, Node.js, etc. and more systems research
Do us a favor, and stop telling us what to do and do it yourself.
GrahamsNumber··on Today is The Day We Fight Back
This does not mean they care more than someone posting angry anti-nsa comments on reddit. It ain't gonna change a thing
GrahamsNumber··on Widespread sex differences in gene expression in the human brain (2013)
Stong independent womyn don't read no man's study
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: I am an intern
Are they paying? Then stay until you find another job. Otherwise, just leave now.
GrahamsNumber··on Today is The Day We Fight Back
You want to fight back? Turn off Google services, MSFT services, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo, DDG, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. for a day, that'll raise awareness like never before. But all these companies don't really care, do they? A day's worth of profit is more important.
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: How to pronounce “doge”?
Dohj
GrahamsNumber··on Recruiting: There is no such thing as a developer shortage
> If you gave me a pile of resumes, and told me I had to hire one of the developers in the pile, the first thing I would do is schedule a party and invite all the developers on that list.

Because programmers are very social creatures that would jump on the opportunity to go to a party thrown by some random recruiter. Especially the ones that already work 8-10 hours a day. But you're not looking for programmers, you're looking for brogrammers, aren't you? Carry on then.

GrahamsNumber··on Where can I get a data dump of all HN comments?
10/10 would scrape
GrahamsNumber··on [dead]
You might want to re-work your post to include more details. Most people don't care about "killing" letting agents either.
GrahamsNumber··on Saying goodbye to Octopart-powered HNSearch
Better, but you need to stop ranking by points and switch to a relevance metric. There are two main issues right now: A lost of the posts are really old, and the results are plain bad. Here's some results I get when I search for "Go" again:

1. Reddit to go dark on Jan 18 to protest SOPA 2. Go Daddy No Longer Supports SOPA 3. Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM 4. Right click and save as needs to go away

and so on. You could for example, instead of just maching a single keyword, look at the post contents and comments, and see if that keyword appears multiple times. A discussion about Golang is bound to have more entries of "Go" than "Go Daddy no longer supports SOPA".

GrahamsNumber··on Saying goodbye to Octopart-powered HNSearch
I'm sorry to say, but at least right now the new search is absolutely dreadful. Try searching for "Go".
GrahamsNumber··on What is really happening in Ukraine
'Murica
GrahamsNumber··on This is What it's Like to Be a Woman at a Bitcoin Meetup
Umm... no.
GrahamsNumber··on Renaming Tool
RubyMine does this for Ruby as well, if you're not against not using emacs/vim/needle&hand
GrahamsNumber··on Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better
More like RapTard
GrahamsNumber··on Show HN: Coinwell - the easiest way to mine litecoins
Oh fuck off!
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: I'm a 16 y/o developer who just got a Glass invite - what should I do?
It depends what you want to do with it, honestly. It's definitely "cool", but I'm not sure about its prospects outside a niche market. I personally wouldn't have spent $1500 on it (and still wouldn't, after playing with it), but my employer got it for me.
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: I'm a 16 y/o developer who just got a Glass invite - what should I do?
Pretty much anyone that signs up gets an invite these days, but if someone's interested, I do have a few invites to send out.

EDIT: Whoops sorry guys apparently they expired a few days ago, but if you sign up on their website, you should get an invite in a week or two.

GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: Any Hackers Love Sports?
Some "hackers" love sports, the pope is catholic and water is wet.
GrahamsNumber··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)
I find you guys requiring a transcript with the intern application distasteful tbh.
GrahamsNumber··on Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work?
I am sure about that, as someone who's taking prescribed doses.
GrahamsNumber··on Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work?
Quitting amphetamines after a long time of use would definitely make your brain go blank for a while.
GrahamsNumber··on Who actually votes stuff onto the front page of Hacker News?
I just check the front page, the first ask page, and the first new page. Usually doesn't take more than 30 seconds if there's nothing good on it.
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