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Not too familiar with how Pocket works but this one is more focused on books rather than articles / text. It'll be able to recognize books based on highlighted text, then save the …

That's fair! Just wanted a faster way for myself as I'm quite lazy. The hope is that there will be more useful features to add that make it a better than Amazon shopping lists when…

After getting tired of manually making note of all the books I find online that seem interesting (from Twitter, HN, Reddit, etc.) I made a chrome extension to help me keep track of…

Started my self-taught programming journey about two weeks ago and thought this would be a fun/manageable/somewhat useful project. Appends years found in Wikipedia entries with how…

Understandable given where the company is. The unit economics don't work without autonomy. Maybe it works in its original rendition as an on-demand black cab service, but not as a …

One of the most convincing reasons I've heard for why certain social media sites succeed and fail have to do with how well they manage the balances between utility and status game …

Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson: I assume a HN classic. Good read nonetheless. Crazy imaginative. Prior experience with Stephenson is limited to Snowcrash, which I found to be quite …