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13,223karma·911submissions·April 6, 2011
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>Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. https://news.ycombinator…
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Previously: Privately-Owned Rail Cars - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460052 - Nov 2022 (244 comments) Ride in your privately-owned rail car to see North America - https…
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The upcoming major update to iOS 26 makes this something users can easily do with an MP3 or M4A audio file under 30 seconds long. https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/17/io…
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Previously: The Value of Hitting the HN Front Page - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44584461 - July 2025 (6 comments)…
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>It's implicit that the submitter of an article thinks it's worth reading. It's not implicit that other HN users think it's worth reading. This is what tptacek was noting in the…
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I agree that the moderation is more focused on the commenters' behavior toward each other, but I disagree about the guidelines being focused there. Many of the guidelines are written so they are …
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>The entire point of my proposal is simply that a summary of the article, longer than the article title but still relatively brief, can frequently be a better guide than the article title alone as …
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>To be honest, as an author whose articles have been submitted to HN a number of times, I have a hard time believing that HN actually cares about being "fair" to the article author. To th…
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(2016)
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The request was for examples of comments, not article submissions.
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Show HN: A directory of startups that did things that don't scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41490865 - Sept 2024 (12 comments) Ask HN: What are some hacks of real…
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https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/bluesky-rolls-out-massive-... …
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>Others might give some additional value for exceptional seasons. This sounds like it would be a form of double counting. I'd be more inclined toward something like WAR/162 games (or what…
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There's a good, short 2012 Economist piece on how Fuji recognized its underlying strengths (chemistry company) better than Kodak, and made that part of their strategy since they recognized digita…
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So now you're indicating WAR does combine peak and career. That wasn't clear from your earlier comment. Likewise, it's not clear from this comment how you think the framework isn't…
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I'm not certain why folks are talking about cars they've restored to working order, the kind that get taken out on weekends when the weather is just so, as if that's the same class of v…
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This edit was added after my initial reply: >...but ultimately there is no universal way to come up with one definitive ranking, so we will debate it forever. WAR is a universal way to come up wi…
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Better is not what's being measured. The measure is contributions to wins. Boggs, being a good/great player contributed more by virtue of having played well for more games. Think of it i…
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>You probably want some metric that combines career totals and peak production. How does WAR miss this goal? It credits year-to-year player contributions and gives more credit for better seasonal p…
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For those interested in details, there's more information at one of the author's sites than this article which links a paywalled paper. https://eckeraadjustment.web.illinois.edu…
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