So often I see people sharing something that seems driven mostly by the availability of some domain, instead of being idea first, then domain. I find that an interesting niche of human history.
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#112How hard is it to export all of the comments someone has written on HN? I have been thinking about converting my HN comment history into something like a blog. Each entry would show the title of the submission, link if applicable, and the comment and link to comment thread. Maybe you could provide that service for a small fee. https://github.com/runvnc/hncomments
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#113How hard is it to export all of the comments someone has written on HN? I have been thinking about converting my HN comment history into something like a blog. Each entry would show the title of the submission, link if applicable, and the comment and link to comment thread. Maybe you could provide that service for a small fee. https://github.com/runvnc/hncomments
I wrote a simple program a while ago to just download all of https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=arp242, with my cookie set. Upshot of this is that it will include scores and flagged comments, which public sources won't have. It's useful to filter comments.
To be honest I don't remember what the exact status is; it should work because I have a large TOML file with all my comments. But I don't recall if there's anything "TODO" or if I just forgot to publish it.
Need to put your cookie in the variable at the top.
https://gist.github.com/arp242/4f88069cdc8166d21aa26daac7ffe...
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#115How hard is it to export all of the comments someone has written on HN? I have been thinking about converting my HN comment history into something like a blog. Each entry would show the title of the submission, link if applicable, and the comment and link to comment thread. Maybe you could provide that service for a small fee. https://github.com/runvnc/hncomments
Genuine question, how is that any different from just your list of comments on HN? What you're describing seems pretty identical to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ilaksh
Is it just that you want to host it on your own domain?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Around here I think you’d have better luck selling tiny cute looking computers with tiny screens and open source hardware.
Uh ... do you have a link for this? Just (mostly) joking...
https://tinycircuits.com/
One of their projects, TinyTV, previously on HN:
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Around here I think you’d have better luck selling tiny cute looking computers with tiny screens and open source hardware.
Uh ... do you have a link for this? Just (mostly) joking...
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#119So often I see people sharing something that seems driven mostly by the availability of some domain, instead of being idea first, then domain. I find that an interesting niche of human history.
I own phone.wtf and I crafted my phone usage pattern into a message to fit within the domain narrative. ;-)
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#120Just be a little careful, or the OnlyFans people might hear there's a new "social" where they can promote. (For example: LLM-assisted forum presence, combined with profiles with oh, hey there, I have an OF, lol, combined with tech industry disposable incomes... I'd guess would pick up a couple new whales worth the effort. Now that Reddit presumably has been picked clean.)
Any OF models would be met with HN users over-explaining their own economics to them and how it's a terrible business that'll never work. These models will also learn they don't even have a moat to differentiate themselves from other offerings and should keep their development jobs. :)