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I agree. Though the article mentions work from people like Einstein, Copernicus, Darwin, etc. A far cry from the kind of work Y Combinator funds. It gives the post a comedic air to…

When Paul Graham uses a phrase like "great work" I can't help but only consider it as being synonymous to "work that generates a big return for the investor" in his context of Y Co…

I've fat fingered the "hide" button quite often when I was trying to hit the comments button. That's the main thing that I find slightly annoying about the default HN layout

I don't quite understand the mentioning of node at the start of the article as a cause of this. You can write a monolith in node just as well as you can write a web of microservice…

What's the reason for the max length in the input? 400 characters is very short to answer the prompt "Please start by introducing what you are doing and what are any other industri…

SQL servers with JSON support that is ;D

I don't really want Git to change so much. What I do want however is for other tools to take over features from Git. Pretty much every app that I use in my daily life would be enha…

Here's a weird take: because the landing page is so vague the user doesn't know whether the app is useful or not so the user will sign up just to take a look at the app to figure o…

Here's someone who did some research and found the exact opposite to be true for example https://www.viget.com/articles/a-bone-to-pick-with-skeleton-...

This article is very frustrating, it's full of assumptions that are stated as facts. > Most of all, it makes people perceive your site to be faster than it actually is. Remember th…

Specifically being able to create a deep link to a passage is a very powerful capability indeed. The friction required to look up a paper and navigate to the specific passage for a…

Looks great! Some things I really like: * The "seamless" mode for all the views that removes action buttons. Feels kind of like an "exploration view". * New cards created on the ho…

One thing that strikes me about most academic knowledge tools is that they seem to focus on parsing the current set of academic literature and producing supposedly interesting insi…

I think in most of the mentioned note taking methods (zettelkasten, digital gardening) spaced repetition is kind of frowned upon in a way. It is seen as a necessity because of the …

The key question when reading any article/book/whatever is the following: "if anything, what is actually important enough to remember from this article?", or in the case of PKBs: "…

Decentralization is a scale. Complete decentralization is undesirable, you just want to give small groups the ability to be autonomous (however big they want to become).

We need grants based on the outcome of the project, not based on what technology is used to achieve it.

yes I have a touchscreen computer

Then you stand for nothing at all. You can stand for decentralization of financial systems at which point blockchain might become an enabling technology. But you are arbitrarily li…

Dear developers, stop defining yourself with the technology you work with. Instead define yourself based on what you believe in and stand for.

Ah I'm using firefox; I suppose it's unintentional then.

You actually can't select text on the nytimes website? Instead they add a functionality where double clicking changes the font size. Looks like a bored designer is at work here...

The solution is simple. You need a cryptocurrency where the primitives are simple and predictable. Basically the same reason we don't use eval() on user input. This might very well…

There is no such thing as "bottoms up" in mathematics, I think a relatively broad examination of mathematics might be useful so that you can discover what is relevant to the subjec…