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I’m having trouble understanding what you’re saying. You’d think we’d be better off even with the higher attention, were it to exist, because the level of attention going into maki…

Very cool. I remember seeing a similar tool called Yewno that Stanford had access to that had a semantic web of topics linked by a graph, and wanting to find or make an open source…

I hate OS-level ads the same if not more than any other HN reader, but that's like saying we shouldn't be glancing out of the window for half a second because it would scale up to …

Merry Christmas, everyone! I’m fairly new to this site, but it’s been eye-opening as a student to learn from professionals and other tech enthusiasts. Hope everyone on HN has had a…

I had the thought a day or so ago that a system could be created to tie images to their respective cameras with a private key stored inside of a chip that self-destructs when you a…

Searx ( https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances ) is exactly what you described.

> You aren’t special and no-one really cares. Come on now. If someone uses the same username in multiple places, and another site has a user with the same name, it’s easy to assume…

It seems like we are in a dark age in terms of web applets, which depending on your point of view could be great or horrible. With Chrome dropping support for Flash in January, and…

It seems that a lot of problems regarding email involve a lack of transferability between providers, and I don’t think that having a government-run mail provider would adequately s…

Your analogy doesn’t work, because the general consensus is that there is no better alternative to taxation. It is a necessary evil - unlike Stallman, who, regardless of personal o…

Is it fair to say that because there will always be more specialized skills to be learned, that none should be learned? Everyone may not need to know how to repair their car, but t…

Not exactly. Developers ultimately have judgement over which projects they contribute to, and if they feel that more harm is coming out of their work than good, then they have ever…