Idk what’s wrong with me but I’ve never run into any of these!

I've often run into these unintentionally messing up my UIs!

Ads feel good when they’re for something we’re actively in need of. But they usually aren’t, and they are also often scammy or scummy. I bet we’d feel a lot different about ads if these things changed.

DVDs are significantly more fragile

Which can be a useful lesson sometimes (as the article mentions teaching that lesson with accidentally destroyed floppies). With burning one's own DVDs you potentially balance that fragility with easy replacement (just burn another copy).

I haven’t tried it in many a year but I’m fairly certain that if you have the installer, you can downgrade to any version that runs on your computer.

Dawn of the year of the Linux desktop!

This is less about religion directly and more about sharing a cool app imo.

Also, tbf, there are regular posts on the HN front page that I would consider "political". (Though I'm not bothered by them.)

The fact is that many doctors do suck. Nearly all of my family members have terrible doctor stories, one even won a huge malpractice law suit. We can’t hide the real problems because we’re afraid of anti-vaxxers.

The shift wouldn't have been so turbulent if npm had simply updated their CLI in tandem. I still can't use 2FA to publish because their CLI simply cannot handle it.

CLI publishing with TOTP 2FA worked fine until they broke it.

On the contrary, Opus 4.5 is the best agent I’ve ever used for making cohesive changes across many files in a large, existing codebase. It maintains our patterns and looks like all the other code. Sometimes it hiccups for sure.