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It feels like HN still upholds the early promise of the internet (along with Wikipedia and very small number of other websites). But what will the next 15 year bring about?

Greed killed the golden goose and this article points this out in a simple and convincing way. > The best way to fix the system is to prioritize websites that are there to share kn…

I think the article makes a very important point about under-resourced developer teams but misses an opportunity to point out that most other teams within organizations and busines…

> That problem is that sheet music is terrible. Something that people with casual exposure to musical notation probably don't know is that before the standard 5-staff notation beca…

"Google's results are clearly getting worse". Can somebody quantify this in some objective way? As in: I have this concrete metric (that anybody can inspect / replicate) and I saw …

I get a sense that the julia community is more anxious about adoption than, e.g. python or R communities. Its probably natural given it is a relative newcomer in the broader "data …

The dawn of "digitally augmented relationship management"? - Dave, I noticed you haven't spoken to X in a while. Do you want me to sent them a short generic message to keep the rel…

Ideally you'd want some distilled and organized subset of "good" (informative) discussions, comments etc to persisted as a separate hierarchy that is subject focused and not timeli…

For a long time advertising was the art of creating "wants". For a century it worked "like a charm". We are now living in a world that (at least in so called developed world) is ov…

it sooths my soul that next to the cryptobros and data oligarchs there is a small community that chips away at making the world a better place - one command line tool at a time

if the hardware landscape settles for a while (in terms of the capabilities of devices and networks - which is not a crazy precondition given Moore's law has run its course) then i…

If it was just a "scam" it would be easier to resolve this. Alas it is a complex and evolving mix of all sorts of factors: * new software architectures based on cryptography and ad…

The largest collection of talks that never walked

Both BeeWare and Kivy are great projects adressing a space that could surely produce some very interesting applications. Offering seamless integration of the versatile python stack…

R is frequently compared with python and julia which are general purpose programming languages but it is not really a proper comparison. Once you approach R as a domain specific la…

In a strange way the adoption of JS SPA's has made the "thinking-not-required" backend frameworks like Rails and Django less "opinionated" and thus requiring more thinking. I don't…

this seems to be the main new data point that is now evident for all to see I mean it is sort of obvious to anybody not captured and with basic morals but such is the allure of gre…

It may really be time to re-examine the text-only proposition (gemini style). There is this fear of missing out on visual content but I suspect this too could be handled.

As people commented already, meta / facebook will be a enormous cash cow for quite some time. This raises the interesting question of whether it could actually reinvent itself in s…

Imagine this dismall planet dotted with decrepit nuclear plants, even as the societies that are supposed to keep them safe collapse either of their own accord, or due to interminab…

SSG's feel like the first step towards something. Unless the website has really simple structure it likely that you will get stuck i) with sub-optimal content management (e.g using…

In the near future there will be an illicit underground market for dumb devices that don't "dial home". Anybody seen to buy such devices will be ostracized as somebody having "some…

> Mr. Market extrapolated a one-time demand surge into the indefinite future Mr. Market is apparently a total idiot and can't distinguish infinity from unity. Somehow all these Zer…

Yep. Noticed that recently in some searches and it was definitely a "wtf" moment. The links seem to be to compromised wordpress sites but that's just a guess. Did not stay long to …

There is an implicit assumption of substitutability of land use in this conversion that is interesting whether it holds or not: People are not exactly asked to live in a parking lo…