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Can you please review the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and stick to them when posting? You broke several of them here.

"Don't be snarky."

"Omit internet tropes." (the stopped-reading-at bit)

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

Edit: it looks like your account has been posting quite a few flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments generally. Could you please not do that? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

Yes, I think it just takes time for more substantive comments to show up.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Exact steps from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html to US Fed assets are left as an exercise to the reader?

Ok, we've moved the (on-topic) comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913145, which was the first submission of that video, and re-upped it.

Re "re-upped it": see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

/giphy nobody cares SpongeBob meme

Can you please not do this here? There's nothing wrong with it, we're just trying for something else on this site.

"Don't be snarky. [...] Omit internet tropes. [...etc...]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Plenty of HN readers feel this way and it's a good point, but it has also become an entirely cliché response which pops up like mushrooms anytime "distillation" appears. That means it's against the site guidelines, which ask:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't mean to pick on you personally! It's just that reflexive responses always tend to show up first in a thread, when what we really want are reflective responses [1]. Similarly, there's a strong tendency for threads to turn into generic discussions, whereas what we really want are specific ones [2].

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

They're usually pretty good (as is Anthropic) about not generating their own writing. I wonder what was different here.

I run a tech company and I have no idea what a passkey is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

I thought I was the only one!

"Don't be snarky."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956248.

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956248.

We'll put that link in the toptext as well. Thanks!

Ok, we've taken $500k out of the title above.

You submitted the right link but our software changed it to the canonical url on the page. I've fixed it above now.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

No worries - it can be confusing at times!

(If I'm reading it correctly then "=/=>" means "does not imply", i.e. you and jrflo are agreeing.)

Sorry, it just took me a long time to write what I wanted, plus I'm on a flight with slow wi-fi. It's there now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982399.

No worries—I appreciate the exchange!

This problem has been around a long time. Like many other HN users, years ago in primary school I became a problem for my teachers because the curriculum was too easy for me.

The school dealt with it by sitting me in front of a big box of color-coded dossiers called the SRA Reading Laboratory [1, 2] and telling me "read these at your own pace". The boxes looked just like this: https://sites.google.com/view/objects-of-school-days-past/sr... and may well have been kicking around since the 1960s.

The trouble was that "at your own pace" was code for leaving me alone in front of a box. I don't recall the reading being either interesting or hard, but it solved the problem for my teachers, since I wasn't the type to act out in class. The real lessons I got out of it were lessons in isolation and drudgery.

Looking back, I badly needed contact with an adult who could teach me things. That didn't happen—not then, and not much in later school years either. Was it the schools' fault? They simply didn't have the resources to give me the human instruction I needed.

Surely all agree that children need human contact, empathy, connection, meaningful teaching. But it doesn't help children if we hold to those principles without facing how resource-constrained this problem is. If we do that, then many children end up with nothing, or next to nothing, as happened to me long ago.

Years later, when I read a little history, older novels, and the like, I learned how the nobility had educated their children: not just with dedicated personal tutors but different ones for different subjects. That's what one would do if one could afford entirely human, entirely interactive instruction, and of course it was only available to the 0.0001%. When I read those passages I felt envy and shame at not having what I would (to this day) call a real education, and those feelings have never entirely gone away.

My point with this anecdote is: I don't think I would have been worse off if they had sat me in front of a computer instead of a box of boring readings produced by education researchers. And if the computer had had software that could adapt to me and my interests, so much the better. At least I would have learned things, even though I still would have suffered from lack of human connection that, at that age, I was unaware how much I needed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_Research_Associates

[2] https://hackeducation.com/2015/03/19/sra

very confusing. I feel that I often see folks going way harder than anything I've said today and there's no moderation hand-slaps visible.

You're quite right and of course it's confusing. But it has a simple, unsatisfying explanation: we can't read everything that gets posted here, let alone moderate it all. There's far too much for us to read even 10% of what gets posted here.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Btw, I'm going to try an experiment and respond to your GP comment with a non-moderation reply, just because I find the topic interesting, and also in the hope of communicating what I said above: the thoughtful component of the conversation is fine. (No obligation to reply of course.)

Personal attacks aren't ok whether you meant what you wrote or not.

I get that you feel strongly about this - probably most of us share these feelings in some form; I know I do. We just need to talk about the topic thoughtfully and respectfully, and not assume that someone with different views doesn't care about kids (for example) or doesn't share the same concerns.

Let's put it this way: I appreciate the thoughtful component of your comments - we just need you to cool off on the attacking component.

Personal attacks aren't allowed here.

As I just mentioned at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981624, we need you to stick to HN's rules if you want to keep commenting on the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your GP comment was borderline against the site guidelines, since you basically went straight to shallow dismissal, flamebait, and generic ideological battle. I didn't respond with a moderation comment because I understand this topic brings up strong feelings and there's a lot to say on all sides.

Your reply here, though, is flat-out against the site guidelines and it's not ok to post like that to HN, least of all in someone's launch thread (whether it's a YC startup or not).

No more of this please. You're welcome to make your substantive points thoughtfully, but if you'd first review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the intended spirit of this site more to heart, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: your previous comment was a personal attack as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981467. Please stop this.

(Submitted title was "Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers" but we've since changed the URL - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48975572)

Ok, we've switched to that link from https://fortune.com/2026/07/19/data-center-eminent-domain-pu... above. Thanks!

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966120, which was posted a bit earlier.

Changed from https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-2-lts/ above. Thanks!

We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. (I'm not talking about this comment - I'm just replying to your most recent one.)

If you want to post on HN, we need you to review and follow the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You've already broken them badly and often, including with many personal attacks. That's not allowed here.

Your post was created later - you can tell this from the item IDs. I think the other post was about 53 minutes earlier.

Most probably we re-upped the other thread after doing the merge and that caused the timestamp on it to get relativized in a way that is, admittedly, confusing. More on that here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945241.

One user posted a screenshot: https://prnt.sc/UqjcYD3RSQrS

Edit: I was just about to credit the user when my internet dropped. The source was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945606 - thanks mirzap!