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Ask HN: What is the best way to author blogs in 2024?

_8j50 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 07:37:47 +0000

I want to share technical blog content but I want to author it as I am developing the content easily, screenshots and markdown would be ideal and I don't want to self host things.

What is the ideal tool to help create quality content?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014806

Points: 120

# Comments: 133

Topic: Discord Stealer

_8j50 — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 02:26:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/topics/discord-stealer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38147459

Points: 114

# Comments: 110

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_8j50 — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:17:52 +0000

I haven't tried F# because I am already having to work with powershell and C# and that whole .net/visualstudio ecosystem. The last thing I will look at on my personal time is a language in that ecosystem but since you recommended it I will have a look.

New comment by _8j50 in "Louis Rossmann explains why he left New York"

_8j50 — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:39:38 +0000

Cities always vote democrats because american republicans depend on being hostile to those who are different from you and you have to be neighbors with people different from you in cities. Do you know a very large conservative city?

New comment by _8j50 in "23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M"

_8j50 — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 06:43:29 +0000

I am not kidding. Only a subset of college educated people have that cynicism

> If we sat around and waited for the perfect environment that addressed everybody's concerns, we'll be waiting forever.

Forever sounds better than the alternative. You seem so eager to sacrifice so much on the altar of hope based on wishful thinking that this data will not be abused. The #1 rule in technology should be "if it can be abused,it will be abused" there are no exceptions to this.

Like another commenter suggested,perhaps your current place in society has you free from such fears but rest assured that in times of war,turmoil or civil conflict or when spy agencies and the military want to gain an operational advantage using this tech/data It will be used against you. Your sick and disabled family members would have been subject to eugenics. It's not difficult to imagine any social group finding themselves in a position of weakness against a hostile power,group or individual. Look at all the horrible experiments the CIA performed, euegenics by usgov/army, the horrible things they did in Iraq and cia detention facilities,etc... the typical situation imho will be a cooperation between evil government and these companies where the companies abuse the data/tech with impunity in exchange for sharing access with their gov protectors.

Just take a peek at all the inhumanity and amorality of the pharmaceutical industry's greedy price hikes/rigging. Do you still think these are trustworthy people who won't take every opportunity to profit and say "sorry" when they get caught? (Or just bribe politicians and ignore the whole thing).

I mean how naive and deluded are you? I still don't get you and op's state of mind here. Horrible abuses will happen at large scales, guaranteed (not even speculating)!

New comment by _8j50 in "23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M"

_8j50 — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 02:07:30 +0000

I don't get it, are you being naive or ignorant? Are you not aware of how much genetic science and ML have already been abused in the past? Are you also not aware of how much the laws and public understanding of the techs and their implications is severely lacking? Cure parkinsons but hey systemic eugenics no big deal? I mean,come on...we live in quite the evil world with all sorts of people that will gladly misuse this data and the tech to make inference out of it.

I am all for finding cures but the unwitting public needs to be protected. Most people assume there is no way a legit company would do something terribly evil.