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Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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I've been trawling subreddits to get a ground-level view of common narratives that we hold on to but have never thought to collect data on. For instance, there's a common and oft-repeated notion that food delivery apps are screwing over drivers, not just restaurants. So I've been reading the Couriersofreddit sub to get the story from the horses' mouths: https://www.reddit.com/r/couriersofreddit/ It turns you can make…

This is the most hacker-news comment ever.

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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post #15

I suggest using an RSS reader so you never have to consider a feed item more than once in your life.

Indeed. As a long time paying user of NewsBlur (not otherwise affiliated) I highly recommend it.

Can be self hosted, but I’m too lazy; price is acceptable and Sam Clay just makes this laziness feel justified :)

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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Not browsing per se but I've been reading https://datadass.dev/ and reading source code of various storage engines and their documentation. SQLite and Postgres have a very good documentation with implementation details. The plan is to write my own storage engine. I'm creating a spec for my own implementation for now. This has been keeping me busy while I'm not doing my regular work.

typo in the link: https://www.databass.dev/

Re: Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing?

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If everyone's online activity and browsing patterns were made public it would destroy the profitability of Facebook, Google, and other companies conducting web surveillance as a means to generate revenue.

It would also obviate the need to ask a question like this. We could just search through user histories and discover new things that way.

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