I'm somewhat unsure about the significance of this stars, it seems too much like a PR checklist.

I think that's what the EFF's going for.

i disagree because slavery in "ancient times" came in all shapes and sizes.

Yeah. From a usability point of view, I think it's important to hijack some shortcuts, but only those who are not commonly used for such as the one mentioned in the article. I would also argue that this behaviour of blogger is not what users expect, hence it is not a bad behaviour. Wasn't there a pair of shortcuts commomly used for this purpose, Ctrl-K / Ctrl-J if i'm not mistaken?

The actual bad smell of infected people was believed to be unhealthy, so afaik most plague masks were built to provide a "good" smell through herbs or incent, but it seems plausible that some of them helped nonetheless.

http://demo.famo.us/tweetus/ doesn't work on my Android native browser

Any Danish care to comment?

Ugh yes, and someone just posted an ad for a travel agency to HN. I hope they're proud or at least in some sort of referral program. ;)

It's a commercial for a travel agency, Spies

That seems a weird claim to make. What is problematic about freedom of speech in Europe?

Thank you, riginal site does not even load on my Android.

Hyphen concatenation is also allowed in German, and widely used.