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by krapp 2mo ago
Technically, Markdown supports all HTML tags, including script tags. Practically, Markdown is more of a vibe than a spec and everyone just uses whatever subset makes sense to them.
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by krapp 2mo ago
Yes, really. Different people can interpret the same social phenomena in different ways and subjective experience can differ between individuals. That your experience differs from mine doesn't negate mine.
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by krapp 2mo ago
It might make sense in a hypothetical future where artificial sentience exists, or where we live alongside aliens. But an aversion to using the term "people" to disambiguate from things that aren't actually real and necessary
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by krapp 2mo ago
I noticed some time ago, at least on HN, that almost no one refers to "people" anymore, only to "humans," with a sort of clinical detachment. I don't know if it's part of the same phenomenon but it is kind of c
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by krapp 2mo ago
HN is coded by AI now, at least in part, so that may be an issue wrt bloat and inefficiency in the codebase.
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by krapp 2mo ago
Cool. You can work three days a week and earn a fraction of what you make now - far less than a living wage - because the market value of your labor has been reduced to nil by AI. You aren't going to be paid more because you're mo
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by krapp 2mo ago
>I guess Cleopatra feels somewhat 'close' to us due to the surviving literary and archeological artifacts from the Roman empire. Shakespeare wrote a play about her and Elizabeth Taylor played her in a movie. The effect of moder
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by krapp 2mo ago
Contrarians are usually wrong, they're more wrong more often than other people. But when they're right, they tend to be ahead of the curve.
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by krapp 2mo ago
>You may think this is silly but a trained LLM to translate hieroglyphs would be amazing Why would it be amazing? We've known how to read hieroglyphs for a long time. It isn't a problem we need computers to solve.
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by krapp 2mo ago
I know there are HN bots pulling stories to Mastodon but I don't think there's an official instance.
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by krapp 2mo ago
I'm not against blocklists, I'm very much for them, and I use them on my own instance, and a browser plugin for HN.
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by krapp 2mo ago
>X is 88 in ASCII. That is literally Hitler. I hate Elon Musk with a passion, and he's definitely a Nazi, but he's been trying to do something with "x.com" since he bought the domain from Paypal in 1999.
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by krapp 2mo ago
I don't know why people decided to jump on this one specific project but there have been numerous replacement frontends for HN published over the years, and put on Show HN. And clones of HN. And datasets of HN comments.
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by krapp 2mo ago
Rumors of the death of the fediverse have been greatly exaggerated. I'm following a vibrant community of nerds, creators, writers, game developers and interesting people on Mastodon right now, and there are numerous other platforms on
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by krapp 2mo ago
Here is a page listing block lists, where you can find plenty of "fun" servers: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/18143 They'll include reasons for the block, which you should pa
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by krapp 2mo ago
For reasons. The legitimacy of which are debatable. Lobste.rs seems to get along fine with them.
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by krapp 2mo ago
I used to contribute to Anarki but the lack of any reasonable error reporting made it insufferable, and I don't want to learn enough about compiler design and Racket to get a stack trace working. Good to see people are still working on
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by krapp 2mo ago
HN offers a publicly available API. Obviously using it (and by extension creating tools and applications that use user and comment data) is within their terms of service, there have been many, many such posted here over the years. YC doesn&
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by krapp 2mo ago
>Isn't that an Elon thing? He was involved in DOGE, which did nothing but catch fraud and cut worthless spending. It did nothing of the sort. Finding someone still pushing this line in 2026 is like seeing a thylacine in the wild. On
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by krapp 2mo ago
>If that doesn't inspire positive feelings, it should at least fill you with awe. We live in an age of wonders. It's impressive, despite its ethical baggage and psychological, environmental and psychological harm. But if if fil
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by krapp 2mo ago
>Being contrarian for its own sake is pretty stupid. All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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by krapp 2mo ago
>You had to copy paste that express app from a medium.com article instead of prompting an LLM to scaffold a whole project in one second. You mean they had to import it from NPM and compile it from Typescript, right? I don't think an
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by krapp 2mo ago
>If people can flag anything they disagree with a little effort the community can be AI free at least on main page Unfortunately AI-based articles are on topic (AI generated comments are not ) and if people flag them they'll just l
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by krapp 2mo ago
You're posting on it.
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by krapp 2mo ago
> If you only support democracy when your side wins then you are just an authoritarian who wants democratic cover. Yeah, no. Obviously not what I said, or what my comment implied, and you're not even trying to respond in good faith.
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by krapp 2mo ago
Biden didn't pardon himself afaik. But... that's still perfectly legal, isn't it? All of these little backdoors the founding fathers added to the executive as some vestigial organ of monarchical power just because they coul
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by krapp 2mo ago
The United States isn't a monarchy, we fought a whole war to establish that. Our leaders aren't meant to be above the law. If our "democracy" can't survive putting even a President in jail for their crimes than it d
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by krapp 2mo ago
Walter's proud of his D and he likes to show it off. Don't make it weird.
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by krapp 2mo ago
Because Americans have been conditioned to view taxation as theft and Communism and they'll defend the right of the wealthy to keep every penny they have.
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by krapp 2mo ago
deez nuts.

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