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Ask HN: How do you follow a post with over 500 comments?
2 points by asim 3y ago|3 comments
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by asim 3y ago
THIS. No one cares about regions, you just care that the app is fast and globally available. The way we did things is a relic of the past and everyone mimics it because trying to guide new user behaviour is hard. The reality is we just need
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Ask HN: What does a new operating system look like in 2023?
1 points by asim 3y ago|2 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Well yes so all of this "return to office" stuff from tech companies always seems to result in backlash from engineers and the majority of discussion on HN skews to people who are outraged or are quite happy with the comfortable r
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Ask HN: Are you tired of being fully remote?
25 points by asim 3y ago|74 comments
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M3O.org – Community Led Infrastructure(m3o.org)
2 points by asim 3y ago|0 comments
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by asim 3y ago
Realistically neither do files. I think it really comes down to our common abstractions. Everything is IO. For the most part shared memory maps are what drives the most performance and ease of use.
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by asim 3y ago
Everything as a file was an interesting architecture in the 70s. The whole system was dependent on that model so it made total sense. In the 00s and beyond I thought everything as a service was a better model. Called through an API. Basical
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by asim 3y ago
You have the right idea. I don't believe in federation in the way the "fediverse" is approaching it. I think distributed works but with centralised coordination. It means people have to join a network and any bad actor can be
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by asim 3y ago
Most of what we use now is profit seeking, everything is built to fuel an addiction and increase screen time as opposed to being a utility that benefits you. As a user the idea is that you'd actually be free from that. The technology w
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by asim 3y ago
Well I guess I've spent two decades in software, networks and distributed systems engineering, especially quite significantly in protocols and platforms. It's not that I want to create some new protocol, it's that there'
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by asim 3y ago
Well part of that effort is that I'm working on a standard protocol for communication. But I don't think the protocol alone is the answer. It's definitely part of the solution but you need to actually build the rest of the so
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by asim 3y ago
I'm not really having doubts but I am trying to figure out the right way to approach this. I have spent many years writing code thinking as an engineer if I just built the technical solutions I would figure out the rest but it's c
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by asim 3y ago
The link to the proposal https://mu.xyz/proposal
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Ask HN: Should I build a new community app platform?
17 points by asim 3y ago|23 comments
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by asim 3y ago
I don't drink, but I know what loneliness and depression feels like. And those are the times I ended up in those places just looking for an iota of connection to save me. We're crying out for help and no one will help us. > so
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by asim 3y ago
This is it. Clean up your life. What you do in your 20s is not the same as 30s or 40s, etc. That might speak to the people you interact with as well. I was "searching" for something on reddit and other places like it. Spending tim
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Show HN: Mu – A community-first app platform proposal(mu.xyz)
2 points by asim 3y ago|0 comments
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by asim 3y ago
> You seem to be intent on wanting people to just trust that you'll never sell the business and all the communication history, for confusing reasons I think the words "just trust" here are not right. No I don't want p
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks, we're thinking about changing to a feed format but will take your comments into consideration.
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by asim 3y ago
Do you believe slack messages are private? Or DMs on twitter? How about the content you store on Notion or Google docs. I guess what I'm saying is there's a lot of places where it doesn't matter as long as your data is stored
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by asim 3y ago
The 20 limit was really based on personal experience in the sense that those are 20 really high fidelity connections with people you know and interact with in a way that's more powerful than the network of 100 interrelated people. So i
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by asim 3y ago
Thanks that's super interesting to hear! I think we sort of share this pain and spent 4-5 months basically riffing about it while working on other ideas. It definitely solves a personal pain and feels like everyone is missing this tool
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by asim 3y ago
> In ye olden days the whole world didn’t exist This! Why is it everything we build is to communicate with the world? The reality is we live in a certain physical space, we can only see, hear and speak at a certain distance and while tec
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by asim 3y ago
There's no end to end encryption right now but it's interesting the thought immediately goes there. This is not a replacement for signal, WhatsApp, etc. It's more like an advancement on forums or replacement for Facebook grou
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by asim 3y ago
Good eye. Yes we're thinking about that already. I think when we think about this tool from a community and even family or friends perspective, keeping track of everything you're doing or need to do becomes difficult even if you&#
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by asim 3y ago
That's good insight and similar to my own experiences. I spent time on various forums in the late 90s and early 00s. It was a golden experience and I got to know a lot of the members there. You had the usual suspects chatting amongst a
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by asim 3y ago
Yea sorry, there's some very random breakages happening right now. Working on it. Thanks for the feedback.
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by asim 3y ago
So it's private and invite only by default. There is no element of "public" and the focus is on real connections with people you know rather than people you've never met in person. There's also no notifications or &
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by asim 3y ago
It's not meant as a replacement to signal or WhatsApp but more a compliment for the "community" aspects which often just get lumped into a group. Community discussions usually breakdown by topic and so that's how micro c

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