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By removing ellipsis in submission title, the sentiment feels more like "not another meditation" instead of the intent "oh no!: a meditation"


98.css has this with the details html element


I see Conway's Law at work here. The marketing department must have its own IT department separate from the IT that maintains the core website and business functions. It's impossible for them to get on the same web domain (much less build something in the phone apps). Instead, they built their own disparate site and experience.


It gets worse. These German "Sparkassen" are small to at most medium sized credit unions. They are organised in a larger umbrella organisation that takes care of some of the services like IT, but the individual banks can pick and choose what and how much they want to handle themselves.

Some of them are larger and pretty well organised, but there are also a lot of small ones that just don't have the people and expertise for things like proper IT security practices. But customers trust them, because they position themselves as these local neighbourhood banks, even though most of them are pretty incompetent and will rip you off with high fees on accounts and shitty, underperforming investment products.


I had a similar thought, but I suspect that this campaign is run by the umbrella organization


It could be factored in, but many restaurants near me add a fee for credit card use, usually 2% but I've seen as high as 3.5%.

The credit card rewards usually still make sense, but sometimes I pay cash even if I might lose 0.5% on it.


Maybe more helpful would be base 256 so it renders in ascii.


Doesn't look as cool.


Only the second to last paragraph was necessary.


Derivatives approach is great and works if you're matching on some pattern like \w+, but could it work with "or" characters like (abc|def) or patterns like [a-z]+\d+


I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think it's fair that you (a moderator) should be allowed to pin comments to the top. There may be dozens of helpful links sharing or clarifying context in the discussion. The community can use the upvote feature to sort comments.

Exceptions might be made in cases of misinformation or abuse.


Don't be sorry - that's a great point!

I guess for me the "pin the comment" thing is a workaround for a limitation in the software that we haven't had a chance to fix it—that is, there should be a way in the standard HN UI to associate multiple links with a story (including the archive links that many users post into the threads). Whatever mechanism we build for that, it will certainly be community-driven in the sense that users will be the ones submitting alternative links, and perhaps voting on their relevance somehow. This is related to karma too, of course.

That doesn't resolve your objection, which I think is legit. But I wanted to share why I do that.

There are other forms of pinned comment too, such as the "if you're going to comment in this thread, please make sure you're follwing the site guidelines" admonishment that I sometimes put into threads on inflammatory topics.


One of my personal conventions on stories with many duplicate submissions is to try to list those sources within the first / main discussion.

Recent example: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41248551>

(I haven't hit on a standard notation for this though I've noted "other submissions" in some cases.)

Karma, schwarama.


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Optimistically. If you're interested shoot me an email jmaxwell at double dot finance


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