built with node.js

Or go. Or haskell.

Poor Ruby.

DHH would probably ping-pong some code on this!

by a 12 year old.

Bought the next day by Yahoo! for 34 billion

who dreams in code and speaks with a Lisp.

But who actually just licensed the code from someone else.

in pure CSS.

yes, because teaching the children living there that white people are rich and you can never be white is worse than being accosted by rich people from another land who at least look something like them

keep sharing and enjoying content

except young people like myself use this website every week and know that it's a good idea

It's really tough for older people to see the value in the service they provide, especially those that missed the 'rap game'. I admit that the funding they are getting is kind of crazy, but they do offer a platform and userbase that is very widespread and potentially important with artist tie-ins.

The email is a bit much, though, targeting great engineers - I get that they are going for talented young engineers that can get the 'vision'... a.k.a. why you comin' at me like that, muh' fuckas should know I'm straight business when you talking business, get on the level

Serious question.

Why? For what exactly? How do you put up with that UI?

Note: I'm not much of a rap fan, but rapgenius has more than rap on it.

>Why? For what exactly?

It's interesting to see what other people think some of your favorite songs mean and you can look at music in different ways. The same reason I'll talk about good albums with friends.

> How do you put up with that UI?

I can read the content and while I'd appreciate a better design I'm not an elitist.

I use a user script to make it's nicer, but the annotations are handy as, and I try and use it for everything now.

if the training was correct, this could be a really strong psychological aid in many cases... but could be toxic or emotionally draining in others

Yes, it would need to be carefully applied.

I would hate to be an athlete who's trained their entire life for this event, only to have it so tainted by russia's appalling actions. As a fan, I'm still looking for an appropriate reaction

this hardly belongs on the front page of hn.

it's cyclical, in 5 years flat will be passe

ask Mandelbrot