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wodow

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About wodow

You've got to pick a project or two.

Twitter: @cpwood ( https://twitter.com/cpwood )

Email: see http://wood.is/

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    > You can't just find one hook that works and reuse it forever... I would be interested in a study on how long popular accounts do use their one hook -- or set of hooks, or rotate …

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    See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Co... for how Stephenson considered the essay obsolete five years later.

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    Something I think is often missing in this evergreen debate: governments have banned encryption before, in amateur radio. See e.g. https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/72/encryp…

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    Does it work with Node/JS/TS front ends only, or can it work with other languages and web frameworks?

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    > 508 Resource Limit Is Reached HN hug workaround: https://web.archive.org/web/20250711042802/https://xmlsummer...

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    If you haven't read and/or prefer an app format, the "Sorcery!" series was made into a wonderful set of games by Inkle in 2013: https://www.inklestudios.com/sorcery/

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    Thanks for taking a look. Wikipedia pages are really just the core, and they're a good signal for "notability" given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability I am definit…

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    Thank you! I've heard of Slow Journalism, but not Delayed Gratification, which is really beautiful.

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    OP here. One thing I don't have a good answer for yet: this mostly uses Wikipedia as a source. How can I pay back to volunteer editors ("Wikipedians") if this is at all successful?…

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    Show HN: A News Service That Almost Never Emails You (By Design)

    Hi HN, I’ve been working on Notably News – a short-form news service that delivers micro updates by email. Instead of constant notifications or daily digests, you get just a few ke…

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    Are you able to say more on your startup story, through the exit?

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    By George, ItsMattyG is right! After editing a question (with the "stylus"/pen icon), the revision number counter that appears (e.g. "1 / 2") has arrows next to it that allow forwa…

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    > * The main thing that makes ChatGPTs ui useful to me is the ability to change any of my prompts in the conversation & it will then go back to that part of the converation and reg…

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    Their "Appendix: Memory Safe Languages" lists: C#, Go, Java, Python, Rust & Swift

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    Found at https://blog.paulhankin.net/fibonacci/

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    For a narrower but deeper treatment of violence (and war) alone, Pinker's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur... is well worth a read.