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Hello HN, we are three researchers (Felix, Jonathan, Johannes) and over the past years, we've been doing research on polarization and misinformation. This is our prototype for a pl…

There are many great solutions for managing system-level config files which have been discussed here many times (just search for dotfiles in the HN search). Do you have any good so…

Great read! My exposure to Taiwan so far is very limited (9 hour visit to Taipei when I was a teenager ~15 years ago), but I remember it leaving a profound impression on me. I thin…

All good questions! We are discussing them regularly. We take an adversarial approach to the protocol and constantly try to come up with ways it might be gamed. We want to design i…

Hey, member of the team here Thanks for the feedback! We'll be launching something soon, if you're interested, you can keep up-to-date here: https://social-protocols.org/social-net…

If you're interested in investigating timing effects: We collected a dataset last year where we took a snapshot of the newest 1500 stories on HN every minute for several months whi…

We played around with customization options like that (URL parameters etc.), but ultimately decided against it. The reasoning behind it was that a lack of personalization might be …

Interesting! I think neuropsychological hazard according to this typology sounds fitting. Reminds me a little bit of the scenario of what would happen if you knew the exact date an…

As you mention, the services can already be provided at a fraction of the cost. I think the key problem is the trust/reputation that established publishers provide. There is massiv…

Completely agree! I had the same thought when looking into elementary cellular automata, they seem so inoccuous, but there are still so many open questions. There is even a prize f…