Off topic, but browsers should be appending the referrer page in the history list when openning a new browser tab. Countless times i've lost an article because i opened a link and much later discovered i had somehow closed the opener page.
Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
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Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#72Someone commented: "how things have changed, emacs and vim are partners and the enemy is Eclipse and Visual Studio"
A play on words of an episode in star trek the next generation, where someone from the past wakes up to realize that now humans and Klingons are friends and the enemy are the ferengi and the borg.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#73This thread. I tried to find it a month later, but couldn't remember anything to search for.
Regards, future pcf
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#74I was just doing this yesterday.
Trying to find an article describing simple devices that use no external power to send a basic on/off signal (TX–only) over wireless (802.11 I think?).
Anyways, it was said to be used for simple applications that send a wireless signal to a receiver when the laundry detergent gets too low. Sort of like Amazon's push button thingies.
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#75Someone sent a link to a simple programming online game. Player had to provide isntruction for an character walking araound a square level, gathering stars. Never could find it again after a month...
Doesn't sound like this is what you're looking for, but LightBot (http://lightbot.com/) is a wonderful game with similar sounding game play.
Re: Ask HN: What interesting thought did you read on HN but couldn't find later?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
The one set of material you probably shouldn't read.
why do you say this? i want to understand your point of view.
Because PG's essays are intellectually uninteresting and often times mistaken (which is a nice way of putting incorrect). If the essay's didn't have his name on it, they'd be harshly critiqued when they get past around these parts. If you're looking for academic perspectives, especially around the subjects of rhetoric and debate, there is absolutely nothing worth reading in those essays.
Quite frankly I find it annoying whenever I see someone linking to them. It's junk food for your mind, with some Silicon Valley sprinkles on top.
I mean look at this gem in the linked essay:
>So although not knowing how you know things may seem part of being human, it may not be.
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#77I recall reading a phenomenal blog(?) post about data science in history in which the author presented some historical data relating to the northern renaissance (iirc, shipping logs) and then presented two completely plausible but divergent analyses of the data. I've spent hours trying to find it again on multiple occasions with no success. :(
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#78A blog post about a guy trying out various ways of organizing his projects/filesystem. In the end the guy settles on chronological hierarchy.
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#79Someone once posted a short science fiction story about the animals that became the dominant intelligent species on earth after humans. First it was raccoons, then it was crows, traveling by air balloon. I loved it, and I’ve searched many subsequent times to no avail.
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#80Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…
Love this thread and the books mentioned. Folks might also enjoy “We are Legion” by Dennis Taylor: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32109569