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Ask HN: DMs on HN

Hacker News - 7 hours 58 min ago

HN prevents replying to posts / comments that are "too old".

This means if I have a question for a user based on a comment they wrote 2 months ago, there's no way for me to get their attention unless they have a post / comment that is not "too old".

If they don't have anything like that, I'm out of luck. If they do, I'm still breaking forum etiquette by responding to their new post / comment with something unrelated.

Has there has been discussion previously on whether DMing other HN users is a feature that the community wants?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275985

Points: 1

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I understand why Google ships such poor software

Hacker News - 8 hours 27 sec ago

But I don't understand why it creates it.

For example its Gmail Android app. When message send fails, the message remains in Outbasket - fine - but the app presents no button to retry. OK, so perhaps the designer just forgot.

But the message display To: value is overwritten with a word in red e.g. Uploading, presumably intended as an explanation for the fail. This prevents the user determining the recipient.

So what's behind this? Did some designer really beleive overwriting the recipient name with error info was a good idea?

And this is no simple layout issue. Opening the message shows the same. And attempting to workaround using forward or reply fails - because both are broken, yielding simply a blank message.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275973

Points: 1

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Solving LinkedIn Queens with APL

Hacker News - 8 hours 13 min ago

Article URL: https://pitr.ca/2025-06-14-queens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275900

Points: 1

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Ask HN: Do you ever wish you could code from your phone?

Hacker News - 8 hours 31 min ago

How often are you away from your computer but want to handle a quick dev task - fix a bug, review a PR, or address a build failure?

Is "being tied to a laptop for all dev work" actually a problem worth solving, or do developers prefer keeping mobile and coding separate?

What scenarios have you encountered where mobile dev capabilities would be genuinely useful?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275796

Points: 2

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Very Simple LLM

Hacker News - 8 hours 34 min ago

Article URL: https://verysimplellm.aitida.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44275785

Points: 1

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