Why “cannot” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
The really funky part of the IE6 PNG fix was that the URL of the image in the expression was always relative to the current page URL, not the CSS file that the declaration was i…
by Cyykratahk · Sep 11, 2026
History has a lot to say about the ruling class ensuring the working class cannot organize, because that is exactly when the workers have leverage. workers that feel powerless a…
by rDr4g0n · Sep 11, 2026
geekbench results cannot be compared across platforms. Why not?
by aurareturn · Sep 11, 2026
In a society that puts an individual’s own self-interest before society’s collective interest… yeah, that’s the obvious consequence. This was so easy to predict it was actually…
by znpy · Sep 11, 2026
As mentioned: gaming, most of enterprise dev, graphics/gpu/cad, desktop, certain classes of embedded. Broadly speaking, outside of hacker/web/creative cultur…
by vouwfietsman · Sep 11, 2026
Workspace is the Google+ of SaaS. Nobody asked for it or likes using it. Full of undiscoverable, poorly designed features, a privacy nightmare, too much unrelated stuff bundled…
by WorldIQ · Sep 11, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "cannot" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "cannot" over time.
The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular. Read more on Wikipedia