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I think this is going to be an "agree to disagree" situation. Frankly, I think Activitypub is just fine as the basis for building Twitter alternatives. Most complaints I've read ab…

I disagree. I think most of the people in this thread are promoting Activitypub merely as a starting point. Sure, it could use some tweaks and improvements, but it's a good foundat…

>I m surprised every time i see people here asking for the evil that is censorship. I'm sadly not surprised. While HN does attract hobbyists like me interested in technology and ho…

I do apologize; you seem to have mistaken me as someone who actually cares about your weird axe-to-grind obsession on the subject. I'm sorry if this mistaken impression has come ac…

I don't think people are pushing ActivityPub as a silver bullet, so much as they're using it as "the currently-available and less-awful alternative to closed silos". If someone is …

This is specifically why SpaceX rarely patents anything. From a 2012 Wired article [0], Musk is on record as saying "We have essentially no patents in SpaceX. Our primary long-term…

They're called search warrants. They're not called find warrants.

I think it's because he hadn't learned a whole lot of bad pacing habits at that point, but had already developed a strong descriptive style. Snow Crash is an evolution of that. The…

Sounds like my reaction to Neal Stephenson. His phrasing is godly. His plotting is godawful.

>Somewhat related, but I have hard time watching older shows/movies where the plot only works because people do not a have cell phones. One of the funniest moments in the Buffy spi…

>In my opinion there’s simply too many dependencies to begin with. Some of the simplest things put into a GitHub repository to be “shared” with the world is great—as a gist file. S…

One of the things I'm most excited about related to Starship is its landed mass capability for science purposes. Imagine being able to build radio and optical telescopes in the Dae…

>and I'd be shocked if there's a viable company in either the Boring Company or hyperloop. One of the things to keep in mind about Musk's various projects is that every single one …

>Yes, I'm not sure what the future holds for HTML but I'm confident the ultimate goal of webassembly is to make the browser a secure place to run full native like apps. That sugges…

The word "health" occurs precisely once in this article, and only in the context of encouraging job mobility. Not health care for all to end the obscenity known as "medical debt". …

Desktop Chrome, yes. There's a darn good reason why my browser of choice on Android is Firefox, and that reason is spelled "ublock origin".

I think Microsoft's engineers would love to, and do wherever possible. But Windows' #1 selling point is backwards-compatibility. It's possible that there's types of security harden…

At the risk of sounding like someone who wants to spark a language fight (which I genuinely don't) this is why I love Go. The standard library is so good that I rarely need to brin…

I love everything related to css grids. Subgrids enabled by default is going to simplify my life greatly. Thanks, Mozilla!

I'm about as old-school anti-Microsoft as it gets (I had a 4-digit slashdot ID!) but even I have to admit that they've been pretty serious in offering olive branches to the broader…