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Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by diablerouge »

kamranjon wrote: post #64

I read half way through this free book by Sven Yrvind called “WITH FOUR SQUARE METERS OF SAIL AND ONE OAR” which is sort of a manifesto about building small boats and living simply. He’s a super interesting guy, I don’t even know how to sail and I was pretty glued to it. Not sure why I decided to latch on and go deep on the subject but you can find it here if you’re interested: https://www.yrvind.com/wp-content/uploa…

Yrvind is such a legend - he has had me on a micro-cruiser kick for quite a while now. He has a youtube channel that's worth checking out - he's a character that's fun to listen to as well.

Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my obsession):

You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-cruisers.

A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are great big liveaboard boats sailed up in Alaska, but they tend to be built on the cheap and breaking all the rules of traditional boat design.

The late Phil Bolger influenced Dave Zeiger, if you want to go even deeper. Well known for his "brick boats" and pioneering the "instant boat building" techniques that leverage plywood and epoxy.

There's also James Wharram, who pioneered Polynesian-style catamaran designs and making them at home, and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the boom in catamaran designs we've seen over the last ~50+ years of yacht design.

OK, infodump over.

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by irrational »

ardit33 wrote: post #32

Checking out Blind .... I love HN but Blind is more entertaining for sure.

I’d never heard of blind. I downloaded the app to try it out. Oh, they need my work email for verification? Hell no. I understand the rationale, but they do know that IT can see all my work emails, right?

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by john-tells-all »

deltarholamda wrote: post #55
inasio wrote: post #29

I actually opened slashdot.org, first time in like 10 years, probably. Still there...

I go there on occasion. It's really sad to see how far it's fallen. It has all of the news stories that were posted elsewhere, just a day or so later. And none of the discussion. It's more like k5 right before it went blooey.

Agree. I've been on Slashdot for decades and used to love it.

Now I realize I can't stand it unless I don't read the comments. Sort of an anti-HN :|

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by marginalia_nu »

higerordermap wrote: post #123
marginalia_nu wrote: post #60

A while back I changed my search engine's crawl data to be ZSTD compressed JSON. It's a bit finnicky to work with, but I'm beginning to realize just how powerful this is. Could literally just do find -name \*.zstd -exec zstdcat {} \; | jq 'first(select(.doc|select(.!=null)|.[].headers|select(.!=null)|test("[xX]-[aA]dblock-[kK]ey")))' and it spewed out samples of domains with a header like X-Adblock-Key. (I'm not grea…

I don't have much context about your technical requirements but can I ask why JSON instead of a more indexable format?

It's a tradeoff between ease of writing, and ease of reading for indexing, and freeform analytical usecases like this. JSON caters to all fairly well.

It's one file per domain, so looking at specific urls is no prob with this setup.

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

deltarholamda wrote: post #55
inasio wrote: post #29

I actually opened slashdot.org, first time in like 10 years, probably. Still there...

I go there on occasion. It's really sad to see how far it's fallen. It has all of the news stories that were posted elsewhere, just a day or so later. And none of the discussion. It's more like k5 right before it went blooey.

10ish years ago I scraped a sample of their posts and you could see a notable declining trend in volume that projected out to 0 in the 2020s. I'd be expecting them to shut down any year now.
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