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e5anon macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password

It can't be a coincidence that this was the last major release before Steve Jobs died.

e5anon How Many Years of Life Does That House Cost?

'post-scarcity economy'

Hahahaha. Ha.

There's going to be plenty of scarcity to go around for the rest of our lives. And unless you're already in the top 1%, or unless you believe full-on socialism will ever catch on in a country run by and for the benefit of capitalists and corporatists, you can personally expect to see a lot more of it once everything worth doing has been automated.

e5anon Single-Molecule Transistors at Room Temperature

The electron microscope seems to be an integral part of this thing's functioning, and is made up of a lot more than one molecule.

e5anon UK survey of 14-24-year-olds indicates social networks harm mental health

> an entirely new way of thinking about selling your product or service

> here's my wonderful life with this product, don't you want it (the life) to be yours?

What, seriously...? That concept definitely- at least- pre-dates the invention of search engines. I could probably dig up a relevant 90-year old essay by Edward Bernays if I cared to take the time.

e5anon Bonobo – A data processing toolkit for Python 3.5+

Came here to post just that. It's called 'Bonobo', there's a picture of a gorilla, and the page keeps saying 'monkey'- as petty as it sounds, you're probably losing potential users to zoological nerdrage.

e5anon Ask HN: How to actually “talk to your customers”?

First read I was thinking- 'well, maybe that's what you were, but don't be so hard on yourself...' realized you must have omitted the word 'developing'.

As a former indie iOS dev, ( ie. a tool for Apple Computer Inc. ), my honest feedback is- if I was ever making enough on the App Store to afford a $15 monthly subscription, I wouldn't need the help; for the most part indie iOS developers don't make jack so our #1 consideration for any product is going to be "Is it free...?"

Of course if you already figured that out; but saw that people were thinking "Why the hell am I not making any money on the App Store, maybe I need; like; SEO?" and are likely to give it a try- even if they don't like it, even if it doesn't work, you still got $15 out of that customer which is 10x what they're making on each customer who downloads their $1.99 app; so- good on you.

e5anon A curated list of Terminal frameworks, plugins and resources

No mention of fizsh?

e5anon Dwitter – A social network for short JavaScript demos

While you're manually deleting things... there are currently way too many that are just exact reposts of the default swaying black bars. Probably accidents rather than people being deliberately lame, but low-hanging fruit for any kind of automatic cleanup.