An article about some species of octopuses that have a relatively high IQ, but since the parents die before their offspring comes to life, every generation have to relearn everything from scratch. IIRC, the lack of inter-generational communication deprived this species from developing to the level its IQ permits. I wish I can find that piece again!
TierZoo on Youtube made a great video about octopuses and friends and mentioned that topic. It's quite an interesting stat to spec into when you don't have a high lifespan.
I read an article on SlateStarCodex that talked about how a local decision could not take into account the obvious global decision, i.e. it expanded on Game Theory by detailing how the omniscient decision isn't possible from a first-person perspective.
P.S. If anyone can help me find it, I'd appreciate it. I last spent an hour trying to find it :P
Not sure if it was on HN but it was a short story about an old retired sys admin in an age where everything runs on the cloud. One day, something went wrong in a data center and he was called to fix it because robots manage everything now and nobody knows how to fix things anymore. He was accompanied by a younger sysadmin IT person as he fixed a server or something. By the end of it, the younger IT person wanted to l…
There was a guy who posted some comments explaining how the industry basically doesn't know exactly why some batteries work better than others, and that the research in this domain is a lot like "nobody know wtf they are doing".
There was also this one comment by a guy explaining that the components used in Apple devices are "premium" components coming from the first batches, and that they make Apple's hardware more reliable than another computer with the same components
An article that provided a strong argument for why you should never stop reading, even if you forget most of what you read. There are a few articles I’ve found via Google on the same subject but they are not the one I saw on HN.
Maybe this is the article you are searching for -- It's Okay to "Forget" what you read ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15146715 )
This was it, along with the accompanying PG article. Thanks!
There was a really interesting post against Elon Musk’s argument that AI will destroy us all. The article made lots of counter arguments about why AI won’t destroy us all. I can’t find it even after lots of searching.
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14807818
Nope not that one unfortunately, but thank you! :)
I vaguely recall it being a pretty long blog post that walked through various scenarios. The formatting/design of the site was pretty plain/old school.
Wow, great timing. Around a week ago I spent an hour digging through my bookmarks for something I'd found via HN, and I must not have bookmarked. I can't recall what the original post linked to, but in the comments someone discussed their preferred method of organizing their digital notes/journal. They linked to a forum post where someone described the system. It involved using a single folder for all notes, with dif…
The index card version of that note-taking system sounds somewhat like Niklas Luhmann's zettelkasten or Pile of Index Cards, which have both had some posts describing them linked on HN previously:
Another HN post from the zettelkasten.de domain had a comment with a link to this project on Github, which sounds a lot like the filename-based system you mention, at least in terms of putting all the info into the filename:
An article about someone telling his experience of slowly growing a business (targeted at school teacher if I remember correctly) year after year eventually led to a sizeable lifestyle business.
I think you are looking for user patio11 on here...
About 4 years ago, I saw a post about a startup, I think, that was going to revolutionise hiring top talent - or something similar. I think there was a Nigerian among the founders. I haven't been able to find the same again.
All of these apps are essentially the same. I have to click some extra button or drag and drop some extra thing, and then when your service disappears I have to grab my export and figure out how to import it to the next one. What does your product offer over the hundreds of other sites that do exactly the same thing? Have you innovated in this space?
I tried to offer a one-click solution (no additional drag and drop). It also tries to capture the page as you saw it in the browser, HTML and all (more faithfully than Evernote, at least). See related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15653206
Does it have apps for mobile to share-save? Pretty important. The following would make me move from Pocket; Support for PDF, ppt, etc. Offline reading on Desktop (Pocket works fine on mobile but on Desktop it seems not very good). And yes, total export so when you close the doors, I do not have to start over.