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by breck 2y ago
A soldier gets back from the front and gets a job in IT moderating internet comments. A few months later he calls his CO and asks to be sent back to the front. The CO asks "why would you want to do that?" He replies, "there&#
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Ask HN: What is the most beautiful open source technical book you've ever seen?
3 points by breck 2y ago|1 comments
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by breck 2y ago
Thanks! Also any relation to author of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pattern_on_the_Stone ? (one of my all time favorite books)
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Can you make "Total Feeds: 17162" clickable so we can see the list? Can you make it so when I click a domain it shows me all the posts from that domain? Can you put the github link on the site as well? (I only saw it in your Show
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by breck 2y ago
Nice! I like the designs starting from 2022 because of the high information density. I'd double down on that, and not have any pagination (have all the content on the homepage). My user test: https://www.loom.com/share&
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by breck 2y ago
Yes! Let's make email human again.
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Ask HN: How many battery cycles on your MacBook?
3 points by breck 2y ago|3 comments
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by breck 2y ago
Fair points. > barely know what Open Source means Perhaps there is no license that makes sense because licenses on ideas do not make sense. You simply cannot define them logically from natural principles without having to concede that th
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by breck 2y ago
There was a time when no one knew what "Open Source" meant.
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Lol. You could write a sci-fi novel with a world of cyborgs where the age of all cyborgs is N (when they first got access to the source). And primitives are called "Pre-Ns"
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by breck 2y ago
Interesting! I hadn't seen that term. Thanks! I don't like their implementation though. If one thinks from natural principles, one has to reject the idea of licenses on ideas. Early source is in harmony with nature. Also "Ear
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by breck 2y ago
I think the term the industry needs to embrace is "Early Source": https://breckyunits.com/earlySource.html Make everything public domain, fully open source, just delayed by N years.
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The Chemputer and Chemputation: A Universal Chemical Compound Synthesis Machine(arxiv.org)
3 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
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by breck 2y ago
> could there be 1 universal language to query relational databases, text file storage (json, csv, etc), and anything else. > Or put another way, is there any data storage format that couldn’t be queried by SQL? We created PLDB.io (a
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by breck 2y ago
This thread is amazing. Thanks for pointing it out. What's lovely is that it is indeed possible, but not trivial, and you can see Remi is sort of baiting to catch smart talented programmers to the project. You can see the patience and
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A Brief Interview with Microsoft SandDance Creator Steven Drucker(pldb.io)
1 points by breck 2y ago|0 comments
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> I usually get closer to the root I love this phrasing.
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A lot of little things done right. And beautiful design! I'd suggest thinking more about some large upstream things. Could be a better path to go down. User test: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=specui.org
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by breck 2y ago
HTTP error! status: 500, message: <!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta charSet="utf-8"/><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/><title>500: Internal Server
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by breck 2y ago
> You can securely use your own GitHub API Key. It's never sent to our server and is kept securely in your own browser. Okay, what is the URL where I can get the exact key I need? There are lots of kinds of GitHub API keys.
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2 thumbs up! Maybe show the "Create Story" input/prompt earlier in the flow so I could have gotten started earlier. Perhaps even on the homepage with no login required. But everything worked great! My user test: https:/
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by breck 2y ago
Very early, but looks like you are on the right track! I'd recommend putting links to your Github up. My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/f188a89805224279928d89c503ed219c?...
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by breck 2y ago
Love this! My #1 suggestion by far would be to only have 100% human authored content. But keep most of things the same, just with real content. User test: https://www.loom.com/share/83ccdbb1217f4fb5827fbe6664e1c17a?...
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by breck 2y ago
I am genuinely not sure what you mean by either of these. I also think this goes against the HN guideline "Assume good faith." But more importantly, I think all of us are hoping one day to wake up and see, "Show HN: Skysheet&
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the aientist.com ;)
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> in a homophobic society (especially the more violent ones) There is your evil problem, right there. There is a saying "lesser of 2 evils". Secrecy may be the lesser of two evils, but it's still evil. I have tremendous re
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by breck 2y ago
> It's time you stopped taking threads off-topic into whatever your personal thing is with YC/HN. I thought HackerNews readers who read "Keeping Secrets" would be a good group to discuss the secret keeping of HackerNe
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by breck 2y ago
And yet if you disclosed these things publicly to an honest crowd, you would not be harmed but helped. Just because some bad people do bad things doesn't necessarily mean the morally right course of action is to start using secrecy. I
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> Can you explain why you think they're evil now? That seems like an awfully strong position. I have been working on a long form essay on this for months. It has not fully annealed in my mind yet. But right now, heuristics leads me
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> Are you implying that cryptography is evil? I am open to the possibility that it is. I am not sure. For cryptography, my gut says 80% odds not evil, 20% odds evil, but that's after putting very little thought into it. I certainly

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