The one GitHub repository of original work I publish right now is kept in Archived at rest; I unarchive it to push commits and then rearchive it, every time. It has been perfectly quiet and my anxiety associated with working on it has dropped to zero. Highly recommended.

Feels like that here in the U.S., too.

Sounds like a job for chattr +i, though who knows what will happen someday if a macOS installer script tries to modify it.

(X as in Twitter, for those this clarification saves a click.)

The U.S. has always idolized charismatic grifters. Tech revolutionized charisma, by showing that interpersonal charisma isn’t the correct filter: asociability, or perhaps the more familiar amorality, is. The ability of someone to extract and upstream value without engaging in ethics is correctly labeled as more important than being warm and friendly.

Nope:

> Timing just worked out this way. New month, ideal timing for testing a new rule.

Or so one says. (Not necessarily saying that it was a bad decision.)

What evidence of malice supports your claims here?

(Evidence-free conspiracy theories are generally unwelcome at HN.)

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

If only, just this once, it were true. Sigh.

If you email comment links to the mods that you believe are AI-assisted, they’ll review and act on that. Footer contact link. It’s not hopeless.

Don’t miss the unmute icon in the lower right (at least on my browser).

But once you unmute, there is no way back...

Once you unmute, your browser should display a speaker icon for that tab, which you can use to mute the tab again.