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'Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life(theatlantic.com)
60 points by hunter-2 6y ago|54 comments
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by hunter-2 6y ago
>The quality of results is obviously irrelevant to the fact that most searches do not result in clicks. Disagree. It's completely relevant. There are two reasons why people do not click on search results - either because they got th
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by hunter-2 6y ago
>Is there another industry where a few employees with "domain knowledge" can sink a company? I guess any company where leadership got there without progress on the technical side. Law firm partners get there after being lawyers
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by hunter-2 6y ago
I'm no expert on the subject, but do you think the plutonium being buried under several tons of ice could cause it to explode?
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by hunter-2 6y ago
My son is 22 months old and is in an extremely serious relationship with our Roomba. His entire day revolves around when she gets to eat food (that is, sucking in dirt around the house), and when she goes to sleep. So much so that when he o
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Pizza Pie Calculator(pizzapiecalculator.com)
3 points by hunter-2 6y ago|0 comments
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by hunter-2 6y ago
>I mean, when Google started the internet was actually small enough that it could be indexed relatively cheaply. Infrastructure is much cheaper today than it was in 1998. Anybody with the tech know-how can start a mini search engine from
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by hunter-2 6y ago
Interesting product. But I can see why other HNers are not so kind to it. It's probably because they are not the target market you should be going after. Nobody is going to switch from Slack to Woice simply because they can now send an
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Unfolding the Earth: Myriahedral Projections(philogb.github.io)
80 points by hunter-2 6y ago|11 comments
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by hunter-2 6y ago
I really miss Sitemeter - loved their simple, no nonsense metrics that was exactly what I wanted from an analytics tool. I don't even understand the new version of GA, and have no idea why I still have it on my site. But again, I don&#
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A Whole New Trello(blog.trello.com)
2 points by hunter-2 6y ago|0 comments
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What if a website could be a conversation (not OP)(niksethi.com)
2 points by hunter-2 6y ago|0 comments
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New Unreal Engine Lets You Create Lifelike Digital Humans(interestingengineering.com)
2 points by hunter-2 6y ago|0 comments
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Wikimedia narrows down the app sendin 90M requests to a pic of flower(phabricator.wikimedia.org)
190 points by hunter-2 6y ago|97 comments
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by hunter-2 6y ago
At the time of my posting, the title on this article read something along the lines of "Government asks Twitter to comply with orders to remove content/accounts related to farmers protests" I added 'Indian' to provi
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by hunter-2 6y ago
Is XSPDF the site you are referring to? That site is so full of ads, so ad spam appears to be the obvious gain.
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Indian government orders Twitter to remove contents related to farmers protest(ndtv.com)
56 points by hunter-2 6y ago|44 comments
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Behind Kozmo's Demise: Thin Profit Margins (2001)(nytimes.com)
1 points by hunter-2 6y ago|0 comments
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How Google autocomplete predictions are generated(blog.google)
1 points by hunter-2 6y ago|0 comments
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by hunter-2 6y ago
Rickrolling is no longer fun with a pre-roll ad
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by hunter-2 6y ago
It would be cool for someone to build an interactive app with a slider - slide left and you see the same location as it stands now on Google Maps and slide right and it would show what it used to be
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by hunter-2 6y ago
I'm unable to dig out the link now. But from what I understand, it was not coded in the script. Instead, if you were someone from a developing country, you could email them about a discount and the site owner would then send you a uniq
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by hunter-2 6y ago
I was recently introduced to parity based pricing - the app was priced around $99 or so. However if you are from a country with lower purchasing power, they would reduce the price. Same for students or charities. I think more apps need to d
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by hunter-2 6y ago
The article is a little alarmist. Automation is on the rise which means you don't so many people to take care of things. So there will be enough resources to handle healthcare and the elderly.
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Startups Got Their First Users(bridgeurl.com)
2 points by hunter-2 6y ago|0 comments
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by hunter-2 6y ago
Pro-India is not the same as Pro-Modi
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by hunter-2 6y ago
Please, not him. Guy has a real shady history. He killed his wife and claimed she attained moksha or something.
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by hunter-2 6y ago
One of the sample videos has a baby wishing someone on their birthday. I am not sure if I would pay $20 for this, but would really like to do something like this for my wife's birthday.
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by hunter-2 6y ago
Someone I work with from another company just messaged me that they are being furloughed for a couple of months. I wonder how many of these furloughs are going to end up in layoffs.