That’s funny, I remember the only way to block ads on my Android phone back many years ago was to root it. I was thrilled how easy it was to block ads on the iPhone when I switched.

Reverse for me. I daily drive an Android and a iPhone. Using AdGuard on both for devices for device level ad blocking. The quality of getting ads blocked on android is super high while it's medium to low on ios when using chrome.

Is there a public API for this?

other than https://github.com/HackerNews/API ?

I don't think comment karma is publicly available through the site or API, but average comment karma could be calculated based on total karma of user minus sum of post karma divided by number of comments.

You can get karma via the points field, at least for older content:

Example: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=bar&tags=comment

> The virtualized nature of cloud hosting makes benchmarking over a period of time vital to getting the full picture.

It's so nice to see a benchmark of VPSs that takes this into account.

Seems kind of pointless if there's going to be a single data point from all providers. That doesn't account for noisy neighbours and other issues.

Isn't everything client-side on the web inherently open-source?

An old statistics professor recommended I read The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. The book's voice has some ego and it's unnecessarily verbose at times, but it changed the way I think about modeling, forecasting, and day-to-day assumptions.

Their “April Fools” jokes made me realize the devs think my phone was just a toy and not a tool. Not that they owe me anything. Made me switch immediately to iOS.

I agree. Contemplating the switch myself - iPhone SE is pretty cheap nowadays.

Don’t hate the player or the game; hate the scrubs on the sideline.

I used to be irritated by middle-click paste as well. That stopped when I had someone explain it to me as follows:

> It’s just another clipboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the keyboard. One clipboard is interfaced via the mouse.

Perhaps that’s common knowledge, but that understanding made me instantly fall in love with middle-click paste.

In most terminal emulators, Ctrl-C deviates from normal behavior in favor of sending SIGINT. However, some terminal emulators (e.g. the one in elementary OS) makes the simple decision that if text is highlighted, copy it. Otherwise, send SIGINT. That closes all loose ends for me.

I feel a pull, so my reaction is to retreat rather than jump. Paradoxically, the desire to jump results in placing myself at a safer distance.