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Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by SilentM68 »

AbuAssar wrote: post #34
AbuAssar wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nope, I prefer open in new tab by default

why the downvotes, I meant to demonstrate that I prefer the current behaviour so the site developer knows.

Don't feel bad. I've been down-votted and banned into obscurity meerly for providing my opinion. Do as I did, get a gigantic list of all legislators and government officials, sent them a nice letter informing them of how HN's policies are rotten to the core. In my case I took screenshots, sent those too. When I post something such as now, only I can see it while logged in. When logged off, I can't see my posts. Will take pictures in both states, send those pictures to those legislators in my list :)

Sol Roth Annex HN

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by alfirous »

gus_massa wrote: post #181
bovermyer wrote: post #54

The Briefings have been most useful for me. It feels more curated and less firehose-y. https://bubbles.town/briefing

You can try with https://news.ycombinator.com/best

This is the best for me (pun intended). Less overwhelming than the default front page. And more discussion.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by dchuk »

adrianwaj wrote: post #188
dchuk wrote: post #183

Nice job, clean and well built. I built something very similar, with a focus on engineering/product/startup blogs https://engineered.at What's your tech stack? Mine is pretty vanilla ruby on rails, while my site is closed source, I did open source a rails engine for adaptive monitoring of RSS feeds that does a lot of the heavy lifting: https://github.com/dchuk/source_monitor

The summaries are a great idea. It would be interesting to extract devices and inventions from articles to create an "inventions race" (as opposed to "arms race.") It could be used to establish prior-art and negate a lot of expensive and unnecessary patents that end up going nowhere or used for trolling. That's something I have been thinking about for tinkeri.ng. Something comparable to a patent archive - but used fo…

It’s funny, sites like these are so divisive. I’ve gotten as many “do not llm summarize anything for me” as I’ve gotten “this is super handy!” responses. I like them, so I’m keeping them.

Interesting idea overall. Could be generalized to just general trend identification I think based on named entity recognition (like google trends). Over time you can trace first mentions of stuff and buzz over time. I’ll noodle on it.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by casey2 »

throwawayk7h wrote: post #173

Very exciting! And I like the fediverse integration too. > $N independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you. This sounds a bit AI-generated (i.e. bland). I would just remove that line entirely from the UI. > top / new / hot / my this is a non-parallel construction[1], "my" sounds weird here to an english speaker. These can all be read as adjuncts if you change it to "mine".…

What happens when the instance admin gets bored? Fediverse doesn't to my knowledge have a good migration policy. I can't imagine this is recommended since even the forum hosting related proposals [1] requires email.

[1] https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-521a-representing-...

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by casey2 »

exitnode wrote: post #4

Very cool but I would like to be able to create an account with my mail address instead of using a Mastodon account because I am trying to avoid social media.

The site you are trying to make an account on is social media, the current site you are on (news.ycombinator.com) has more dark patterns than the average fediverse instance.

It's just a protocol Email uses SMTP to push text from @domainA to @domainB. The Fediverse uses ActivityPub to push JSON-LD from @domainA to @domainB.

It's also vastly easier to self-host than email.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by mirrorlake »

Sn0wCoder wrote: post #149
zenoprax wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Middle-click a link to open a new tab. I can't force a link to open in the same window but I can with new tabs. Sometimes it's easier to follow a link, have a look, and then go back without jumping around tabs.

wow, always right clicked then clicked open in new tab. Middle click now saves me one click - thanks!

I always bind a side button on my gaming mice to ctrl+click so that my thumb can open links in a new tab. Slight ergonomic improvement for me.

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by adrianwaj »

dchuk wrote: post #193
adrianwaj wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The summaries are a great idea. It would be interesting to extract devices and inventions from articles to create an "inventions race" (as opposed to "arms race.") It could be used to establish prior-art and negate a lot of expensive and unnecessary patents that end up going nowhere or used for trolling. That's something I have been thinking about for tinkeri.ng. Something comparable to a patent archive - but used fo…

It’s funny, sites like these are so divisive. I’ve gotten as many “do not llm summarize anything for me” as I’ve gotten “this is super handy!” responses. I like them, so I’m keeping them. Interesting idea overall. Could be generalized to just general trend identification I think based on named entity recognition (like google trends). Over time you can trace first mentions of stuff and buzz over time. I’ll noodle on i…

Yep, you could have an options menu (like at hcker.news) and have the ability to switch the summaries off or even extend them? Could also make them blacker and larger?

Also, looks like ArticlesBase stopped in 2024 - maybe offer a way for users to upload articles, summarize them and then people can micropay to read? Maybe just charge for older articles? Can also charge for extra long articles? Put everything into an LLM?

Re: Hacker News but for independent blogs

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Post by Schiendelman »

dredmorbius wrote: post #169
Schiendelman wrote: post #164

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1. Not in the case of Apple, since you get a unique key that's only usable for your service. 2. Did anyone say something about "only" here that I missed? I just want it added. Everything else you wrote seems based on a significant misinterpretation of what I suggested. Maybe... ask a question next time?

So, question: is AppleID based on OAuth? And yeah, I'm underinformed on these, though I'll stand by at least some of my concerns applying. Amongst the problems of adding a megacorp's identification protocols is that those have a strong tendency to embrace, extend, and extinguish ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis... >). See what's happened to email, RCS messaging, and for that matter, onli…

But Mastodon doesn't solve the stated goal by the service of why they want you to have a login. ;)
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