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New comment by ceasesurthinko in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

ceasesurthinko — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:17:56 +0000

Archive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet

https://gist.github.com/cemerson/043d3b455317d762bb1378aeac3...

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

ceasesurthinko — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:16:33 +0000

You don't need a massive government program for this.

Just post on r/DataHoarder: "Free 16TB NVMe SSD to anyone who indexes and mirrors the entire out-of-print 20th-century physical archive." The problem would be solved by next Tuesday. With probably 10x redundancy and people willing to do it for free for fun.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

ceasesurthinko — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:09:42 +0000

Realistically the vast majority of those books haven't been touched for half a century and won't ever be read by a human again. It is a price to destroy these, but it's a price I would pay for progressing models towards AGI and the billions of lives it will save.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

ceasesurthinko — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:05:58 +0000

Ah, yes, because we all know OpenAI and Anthropic are famously just front operations for the high-end antiquarian book trade.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Gloomberb"

ceasesurthinko — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:54:54 +0000

Slack (acquired by Salesforce in 2021 for $27 billion) started out as a chat app built for the devs of a failing online multiplayer video game called Glitch.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links"

ceasesurthinko — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:39:54 +0000

you call them stupid questions, but i say these are quite good, trivial-seeming but actually non-trivial questions that lead you to a deeper understanding.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

ceasesurthinko — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:00:12 +0000

Yet blocks the internet completely decimating all necessary services for a couple hours for La Liga futbol. Spain is a backwards country

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)"

ceasesurthinko — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:24:57 +0000

Yeah I don't think Mr. Johnson foresaw TikTok.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: How Does the NY Times Paywall Work?"

ceasesurthinko — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 23:45:52 +0000

https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "A collection of coins and theoretical cost of a 51% attack on each network"

ceasesurthinko — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:13:01 +0000

This is why coins like Ethereum Classic needs like 50k confirmations which is a 1-2 week waiting period for deposits, since blocks take like 15 seconds to mine and a 51% attack on the ETC network is relatively affordable compared to BTC/ETH, so fake chains sprout up very often and many transactions would be reversed

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?"

ceasesurthinko — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 05:04:30 +0000

That's why he said he will delete if you request, GDPR or not. They've helped me delete a previous account, change usernames, and delete comments- they are nice people and aren't trying to make anything difficult. They just don't want deleting to be as instant as reddit with a delete button which can easily disrupt archives- such as when you go into old threads on reddit on google, you see like half the comments deleted and that makes for a poor reader experience.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Show HN: Browse HN Together in Three.js"

ceasesurthinko — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 23:34:27 +0000

This is the most random funnest thing i've done in days. I tried to inception it by pasting the hyperbeam link into the VC, didn't work though heh.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Show HN: Wordle but for Tweets"

ceasesurthinko — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 23:56:47 +0000

Really good animations! Hoping we can play past games or at least generate new phrases after completing the day's puzzle because this is somewhat entertaining and dopaminergic for some odd reason.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: Best books to build up entrepreneurial mindset?"

ceasesurthinko — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:33:09 +0000

E Myth Revisited Lean Startup Zero to One

Not a book but just a personal opinion, that building is the easier part, marketing is way more difficult and it is way more important. If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not going to be very fun or stimulating

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: What skills have given you a 10x return?"

ceasesurthinko — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 01:56:08 +0000

second the regex

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: Will I Ever Recover?"

ceasesurthinko — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 02:04:48 +0000

Isn't the average age of the founder of a successful company at the time of launching, somewhere in the 40s?

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: Why isn't TikTok owned by the U.S. government?"

ceasesurthinko — Sat, 23 Jul 2022 13:11:17 +0000

Because Twitter is banned by China and isn't used there.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: In hindsight, what advice would you give to your younger self?"

ceasesurthinko — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 04:46:21 +0000

Your thoughts aren't == to you. Your mind is literally a monkey facepalming onto a keyboard 24/7, telling you to worry about the most random trivial things. Don't think too much, you are slowly killing yourself by overthinking.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "Ask HN: Do you use the browser address bar to search?"

ceasesurthinko — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 04:32:18 +0000

I don't think I've visited the homepage of https://www.google.com/ in a decade. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button click rate probably dropped 99.99% ever since browsers started including search in the address bar.

New comment by ceasesurthinko in "In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’ (2019)"

ceasesurthinko — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 05:31:21 +0000

dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)