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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hnes/
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
I personally find the Hacker News Extension Suite [1] to be incredibly useful. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Stripe doesn't owe anyone the right to use their services. Just as an airline can bar anyone for most any reason (unless that reason is membership in a protected class[0]), Stripe can do the same.
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
What tech stack did you end up using for the backend?
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
In the absence of US leadership in the region it was only a matter of time before some other treaty came into being.
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
The link to [1] is an interesting take that questions the future of Asia as bipolar (China vs US) [1] https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/09/09/asia-s-future-beyon...
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Found this interesting: > A paper from the Peterson Institute for International Economics by Peter Petri and Michael Plummer cites modelling showing that it will raise global GDP in 2030 by an annual $186bn (compared with a gain of $147b
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Indeed the fact that China's econ is shifting away from manufacturing is not well known [1] [1] https://www.worldfinance.com/markets/chinas-transitioning-ec...
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
> although [the new technique] produced better results for NLP benchmarks, GPT-3 appeared more flexible.
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
It only works in incognito for me.
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Facebook Bans QAnon Completely(arstechnica.com)
6 points by 5986043handy 6y ago|0 comments
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Is this stable to use as a daily driver?
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
The Chinese Room ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room ) would agree it's the same
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
I remember working on a simple peer-peer chat using WebRTC [1] and it took me a long time to actually grok what the whole protocol was and how it worked, even with off-the-shelf libraries available. This would have saved me so much time! [1
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Ent – An Entity Framework for Golang(github.com)
4 points by 5986043handy 6y ago|0 comments
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Take with a grain of salt, JVM tuning is an entire art and science, probably same with CLR.
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
yep, the citations don't lead anywhere
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Yep can confirm none of the citations check out
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
A large chunk of the arguments tend to assume Proof of Work as the consensus mechanism which isn't a flaw inherent in blockchain (eg. could have Proof of Stake, etc.)
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Would add HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere and NoScript https://noscript.net/ to that list
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
The waste of electricity/mining gear is mostly due to Proof of Work consensus, but moving to Proof of Stake/other consensus algorithms will eliminate basically all waste (eg. Ethereum is moving to PoS).
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Yep, Blake3 can do around 6-7GB/s https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3
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Drash: A new approach to building web servers(github.com)
5 points by 5986043handy 6y ago|1 comments
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
I do some frontend web dev and all my tech notes from >2 years ago is heavily outdated.
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
The primary disadvantage of handwriting notes for me is a total lack of search functionality.
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
This looks awesome! I love the tech stack as well, huge fan of TypeScript/React/Next.js
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Ask HN: Are there any messaging apps supporting Markdown?
19 points by 5986043handy 6y ago|12 comments
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
Yes, this feels very much like a weekend hackathon project rather than a finished product, even for its intended use case.
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by 5986043handy 6y ago
This seems pretty useful! Will try out for my next side project.
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TypeORM 50x performance penalty for many joins(github.com)
1 points by 5986043handy 6y ago|0 comments

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