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on reflection, i would appreciate average slop more than the occasional heinous slop people say when they are opinionated..

Comics! I recently finished Wanted (which made for a shitty movie, but a decent comic) and Watchmen (I despair I hadn't gotten around to it sooner). Now I'm planning to read V for …

Title says it all. By web I means today's paywalled, ad-ridden and bloated websites (imho, of course) - how do you browse them, without any annoyances? On mobile, and on desktop. F…

If this article interested you then I'd highly recommend checking out TVTropes ( https://tvtropes.org/ ) (trope roughly means any convention of fiction), if you've not already!

https://archive.is/PzN0p

For this year, mine was Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. TL;DR - the book explains how humans are predictably irrational and how seeming cognitive ease in decisioning is …

Writing is one field that I think won't be able to achieve the 'human' touch anytime soon. Art? Sure, as we have already seen with DALL-E and the like. Music? Doubtful (look up Kan…

There's no need of putting this as a separate post - you can paste the same text in your profile, your Keybase and HN accounts will get linked perfectly fine.

Most ads on Spotify are not even intrusive - they are (in)famously bad for advertising Spotify's own premium service (try premium for free!). This is just ridiculous. If you're ann…

Tangential, but I've recently noticed that due to huge fragmentation in the streaming industry (Netflix, PrimeVideo, Hulu, Disney+ et al.), I'm only using two - Netflix and PrimeVi…

Was thinking on the same lines, thanks for the confirmation.

Noticed it just now - earlier thought it might be a sudden block, but IIDRN (https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/reddit.com.html) shows Reddit as being down for ~25 minutes.

Goodreads is the most flagrant violator of most, if not all, of these rules. Searching for a book, author or a user is a PITA, and has been that way for a long, long time. The best…

Personal anecdote, but it's nice to see the growing maturity of the Indian audience - no one in my circle of friends and family is complaining that big names such as Linkin Park, E…

For those not clicking on the link (like me), it's Andrew Wakefield - who published a blatantly false paper in The Lancet in 1998 [1], linking MMR vaccines to autism [2] - triggeri…

I've been an avid reader since I was seven years old - I stopped in college (almost completely), but it was during my internship and job that I started reading vociferously again. …

Contrary to popular opinion, I find that Andrew Ng's Intro to ML (on Coursera/Stanford) focuses too much on basic math and theory - which doesn't detract from the course's quality,…

Hi all, I've been grappling with social media addiction for a long, long time (I'm 22) - whether it be checking old chats on WhatsApp/Telegram/FB Messenger, infinite scrolling on R…

I use a OnePlus phone (don't know if HN users have heard of it), and OP users rarely use the fingerprint unlock. Although the user is definitely compromising on security, the speed…

Malwarebytes Anti Malware (MBAM). It is exceptional for a free tool. Windows Defender is too simplistic for my liking, with a very small filter list. That being said, I run ComboFi…

The stigma is real, because Tor is actually extremely slow (at least in India) for everyday use. Even when I want to visit sites that are blocked by Indian ISPs, and which do have …

Quora used to be good before 2012-13(?), what with its credit system and all. You had a fixed pool of points to ask questions. Potential people who wanted people to ask them questi…

r/bitcoin comes to mind whenever I think of the words "Bitcoin" and "cult" in the same sentence.

Google Plus has become the new Voat then, eh?