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Attention Media ≠ Social Networks(susam.net)
653 points by susam 8mo ago|270 comments
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Mirfield man's tears of joy after lost voicemail of wife retrieved (2015)(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by susam 8mo ago|2 comments
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Why Is Debian Called the Universal Operating System?(itsfoss.com)
4 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 8mo ago
Codeberg is one of my favourite Git hosting services. It is (to me) what GitHub should have remained like. I have been mirroring most of my GitHub projects to Codeberg as well. Someday when I can afford the time, I might decide to make C
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by susam 8mo ago
Go for it if Tailwind works for your team. Inline CSS for your solo project? Chase your dream. Still stuck on SASS? It'll work just fine. All in on modern CSS? Go ahead and shine.
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by susam 8mo ago
The name drop is much appreciated. This is a fantastic website, so thank you for sharing it. Good to see such niche forums still active.
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by susam 8mo ago
One thing I fondly remember from the 1990s is how newspapers used to publish monthly sky charts. That is how I got started with stargazing, with nothing more than cut-outs of those charts and my naked eyes. I had two plain star charts as w
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by susam 8mo ago
The CSS is complex indeed. Moreover, the page renders the Shorts widgets after the page has completed loading, so JavaScript-based solutions need to exercise a little care in ensuring that it can hide the distracting elements after the pag
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by susam 8mo ago
Thanks for sharing. I realised I have several userscripts I've written over time to tackle web browsing distractions. I found another one and this is probably the most effective for me because it hides Shorts at the CSS level. That
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MicroGPT - Train and inference a GPT in pure, dependency-free Python (200 lines)(gist.github.com)
1 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 8mo ago
Here is another one I found in my personal userscripts. I believe this script is more effective than my previous one because it prevents recommendations for Shorts or other videos from being shown. // ==UserScript== /&
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by susam 8mo ago
I wrote this little quick and dirty userscript for myself sometime back: // ==UserScript== // @name No Shorts // @match https://www.youtube.com/shorts/* // @match https:&
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Personal websites with a /now page(nownownow.com)
4 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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Generative Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law [pdf](congress.gov)
1 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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Three Inverse Laws of AI and Robotics(susam.net)
4 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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One Year of Work for Ten Seconds of Film [video](youtube.com)
1 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 8mo ago
Perhaps a little unrelated but I want to mention that I take great joy in maintaining an active comments section on my website: https://susam.net/comments/ The trick is to not auto-publish anything. Every comment post
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Attention Media ≠ Social Media(susam.net)
33 points by susam 8mo ago|4 comments
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Stories From 25 Years of Software Development(susam.net)
3 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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Pilot mistakenly attempted to take off from a taxiway at Brussels Airport(brusselstimes.com)
6 points by susam 8mo ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia Template: Committed Identity(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by susam 9mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 9mo ago
I just went back to check whether I have a sandbox on Wikipedia. Turns out I do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Susam_Pal/sandbox I am not a regular contributor to Wikipedia but the little time I have spent co
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by susam 9mo ago
> Modern social media is nothing like social media in early days Indeed. I no longer call them social media. They have all become attention media platforms. I recently expressed my thoughts about this on my blog at < https:/&#
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Ask HN: Weekend Social: What personal chore did you automate recently?
3 points by susam 9mo ago|2 comments
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Transport for London Interchange Signs Standard [pdf](content.tfl.gov.uk)
3 points by susam 9mo ago|0 comments
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by susam 9mo ago
Doesn't the 'paid' tag under the game description already address this concern?
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by susam 9mo ago
Indeed. This is precisely what we did for the HN Personal Websites Directory at < https://hnpwd.github.io/ >. The website info cards are shown in random order, with the ordering reshuffled every hour. I am not a profe
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by susam 9mo ago
Submitted my only two rather humble attempts at games: https://susam.net/invaders.html https://susam.net/myrgb.html Both were pretty well received here on HN. The second one is more popular one among the t
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by susam 9mo ago
This is great. Thank you for building and sharing it. May I request you to consider moving this project to a community organisation like https://github.com/<your-new-org> so that we, the HN folks, can maintain it as a
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by susam 9mo ago
If you view the HTML source of a YouTube video page, there is a LINK tag that contains the feed URL. I have shared an example here: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772655#46775759 >.

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