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by bin_bash 1593 days ago
I'm really disappointed by all the comments here. OP showed a clever way he gets his garage door to open when he gets home from a run. It's an interesting look into home automation from scratch and exactly the kind of content I come to HN for.

This isn't posted in NY Times. He's not advocating everyone should go out and do this because of how much better it's made his life. He's not even claiming that it's necessarily better than putting a keypad on his garage. He just hacked together something cool and we should applaud people trying these kinds of things.
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jperras 1593 days ago
Sounds like you're new around here :)

Sadly this is the modus operandi for most HN comments these days; it's easier to nitpick details about something fun/interesting that a person did than it is to actually _do_ something fun/interesting & have the guts to (gasp!) post about it online for all to see.

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mftb 1593 days ago
You also might want to just give it a little time. When I viewed this post 3 hours after you, the four following comments began, "Super cool project...", "First: cool project...", "I setup something similar...", "This is awesome...". I assume your comment probably helped, but that also over time regular comment moderation did its part.

As for the original article, I'm a runner so it was of interest. My living situation is nothing like OPs tho, so probably not for me.

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