Hacker News: ascertain

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

ascertain — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:47:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/security/application-security/how-github-gave-every-repository-a-durable-owner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852151

Points: 87

# Comments: 25

The Case That A.I. Is Thinking

ascertain — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:55:10 +0000

https://archive.ph/fPLJH

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802029

Points: 278

# Comments: 1011

New comment by ascertain in "A revolution in English bell ringing"

ascertain — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:52:11 +0000

https://archive.ph/xEMWC

A revolution in English bell ringing

ascertain — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:51:36 +0000

Article URL: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/10/a-change-of-tune-veronique-greenwood-bell-ringing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45316744

Points: 99

# Comments: 35

Bot that generates videos of old web pages and media files

ascertain — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 16:45:07 +0000

Article URL: https://botsin.space/@eternalwanderer/109139220534296800

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35754575

Points: 57

# Comments: 4

Teaching GPT-3 to reverse words

ascertain — Sun, 15 May 2022 19:42:15 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/npew/status/1525900849888866307

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390371

Points: 147

# Comments: 78

The Mechanical King

ascertain — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:48:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.strangeloopcanon.com/p/the-mechanical-king

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29741867

Points: 44

# Comments: 6

The mystery of Truman Capote's final novel

ascertain — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 21:13:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a36740693/truman-capote-la-cote-basque-scandal-answered-prayers-mystery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28438167

Points: 19

# Comments: 12

On Training the Medical Mind

ascertain — Sun, 25 Apr 2021 06:59:29 +0000

Article URL: https://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2021/04/for-god-and-progress-notes-on-liberal.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26930860

Points: 70

# Comments: 14

If you want peace, study war

ascertain — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 05:10:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.persuasion.community/p/if-you-want-peace-study-war-533

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25772365

Points: 208

# Comments: 209

A preliminary census of copies of the first edition of Newton’s Principia

ascertain — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:31:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00033790.2020.1808700

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25130810

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

What is it like to be a smartphone?

ascertain — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:29:58 +0000

Article URL: http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8528

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24621421

Points: 69

# Comments: 61

CLIs are reified UIs (2017)

ascertain — Wed, 27 May 2020 19:51:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.expressionsofchange.org/reification-of-interaction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23328990

Points: 127

# Comments: 122

Wood wide web: Trees' social networks are mapped (2019)

ascertain — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 08:31:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48257315

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22381719

Points: 53

# Comments: 2

AI and Economic Productivity: Expect Evolution, Not Revolution

ascertain — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:41:54 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/ai-and-economic-productivity-expect-evolution-not-revolution

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21726748

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

My Kid Lost a Game of 'Magic' to Its Creator But Scored a Piece of Its Art

ascertain — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 07:34:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-my-kid-lost-a-game-of-magic-to-its-creator-but-scored-a-piece-of-its-original-art/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21480548

Points: 214

# Comments: 141

New comment by ascertain in "Gitlab: don't discuss politics at work"

ascertain — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 02:03:54 +0000

They've since changed #2 to the point of walking the whole thing back.

New comment by ascertain in "Peter Ratcliffe's Nobel Prize Winning Study Was Rejected by Journal"

ascertain — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:37:45 +0000

This shows the letter: https://twitter.com/pipcosper/status/1182799512621977600

New comment by ascertain in "What You Can't Say (2004)"

ascertain — Sat, 12 Oct 2019 05:51:35 +0000

But the comments that got turned to grey are things that people can and did say.

Don't Outsource Your Thinking (2015)

ascertain — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:34:12 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@blakeross/don-t-outsource-your-thinking-ad825a9b4653

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21228194

Points: 193

# Comments: 27