Telling people to stop using a Google product, because it's a Google product... from a Google blog platform, hilarious.

Maybe the hypothetical aliens also only represent their own nation?

No idea how you use laptops, but I've never needed more than 1TB on mine, let alone more than 256gb and I still have more than 50% free most of the time.

Perhaps it's time to declutter your digital life?

Definitely news worthy, pretty much like a 'first post!' post.

One of the most popular websites in the world (that over 1/7th of the worlds population use) going down is newsworthy.

No one is ever going to see this post, but... no, it isn't. All sites experience downtime occasionally. Unless it is for some interesting technical reason or it is extended beyond a couple of hours, there is nothing newsworthy about it whatsoever. There is certainly nothing that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity about it.

I personally follow the ISO 3103 standard when I'm brewing tea.

As a collector of knowledge of limited utility and a lover of various kinds of tea you have just made my day.

I'm totally going to start telling people I use the ISO 3103 standard for my tea preparation.

And here I was, thinking that the ISO Standard Cup of Tea from the Jargon File was just a joke.

I hope you're drinking black tea. ISO 3103 ruins most oolongs and just about all greens. :(

Great, now I'll have to check the volume of my cups.

Same here, I thought she picked the font on purpose for this article, but her entire site uses awful unreadable fonts, colours, etc.

Sounds like a quality magazine! are they going to be reprinting the same article hourly/weekly/etc?

http://i.imgur.com/sTK0vR0.png

I know re-submissions are a thorny subject for some people. TBH, we've only posted a few things on line so far, and I'm still getting a feel for what's best in terms of posting to HN, Reddit, etc. I am of course biased, but I think a good proportion of the readers of HN will be interested in our stuff, so I don't feel too bad about resubmitting a few times if it doesn't get picked up.