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New comment by dkh in "The happiest I've ever been"

dkh — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:48:18 +0000

Funny, I also accidentally formatted my dad’s hard drive, destroying work, while trying to install Red Hat, though in my case it was 6.2 “Zoot” somewhere around 1999.

New comment by dkh in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

dkh — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:03:53 +0000

Crazy

New comment by dkh in "AWS data centers' water use tied to spike in cancer and miscarriages in Oregon"

dkh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:30:53 +0000

Not sure, but we know that it is definitely not AWS’ job to pollute it

Prosocial Design Network

dkh — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:06:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.prosocialdesign.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45981986

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dkh in "Extreme Moon: The Major Lunar Standstill of 2024-2025"

dkh — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:01:57 +0000

Just glad to see content from the Griffith Observatory on here. A wonderful benefit to the public and a point of pride for many Angelenos.

New comment by dkh in "Dark Pattern Games"

dkh — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:54:58 +0000

I give things like Duolingo a pass because it’s not trying to trick me into doing something they want me to do but I don’t want to do. It’s trying to gamify something that I do genuinely want to do (learn/practice a language) but haven’t had the discipline or plan in place.

Just like how there are apps that gamify getting through tasks, gamify chores, etc. They aren’t really dark patterns in this context.

New comment by dkh in "Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024)"

dkh — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:59:17 +0000

oh god some of these just brought back memories long repressed

New comment by dkh in "Semantic Line Breaks (2017)"

dkh — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:11:40 +0000

I think you might be misunderstanding. The semantic line breaks described here are not shown to readers. They are visible only to the person writing/editing the text, as a tool for their own use. If you aren't someone who finds a tool like this useful for your own writing, then no worries! Nobody has been harmed by this existing but not being used. It has no effect on the result.

While I never knew there was a name for this, I naturally do something very similar when writing, keeping thoughts separated by at least a line or two, even if I imagine they'll be in the same paragraph in the end result, just so I have a visual sense of where my different thoughts are and how long they are.

New comment by dkh in "ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links"

dkh — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:06:56 +0000

I just made a root comment with my experience seeing their process at work, but yeah it really cannot be overstated how efficient and effective their archiving process is

New comment by dkh in "ArchiveTeam has finished archiving all goo.gl short links"

dkh — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:03:45 +0000

Excellent! ArchiveTeam have always been impressive this way. Some years ago, I was working at a video platform that had just announced it would be shutting down fairly soon. I forget how, but one way or another I got connected with someone at ArchiveTeam who expressed their interest in archiving it all before it was too late. Believing this to be a good idea, I gave them a couple of tips about where some of our device-sniffing server endpoints were likely to give them a little trouble, and temporarily "donated" a couple EC2 instances to them to put towards their archiving tasks.

Since the servers were mine, I could see what was happening, and I was very impressed. Within I want to say two minutes, the instances had been fully provisioned and were actively archiving videos as fast as was possible, fully saturating the connection, with each instance knowing to only grab videos the other instances had not already gotten. Basically they have always struck me as not only having a solid mission, but also being ultra-efficient in how they carry it out.

New comment by dkh in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

dkh — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 04:08:51 +0000

Incredible show

New comment by dkh in "Rethinking DOM from first principles"

dkh — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 09:58:03 +0000

> I'll leave this here: https://wiby.me

I’m still not entirely sure what this is, but I visited, hit “Surprise Me”, and then spent a couple hours listening to/enjoying the retro-looking pirate radio site I got sent to, so, thanks

New comment by dkh in "Online Collection of Keygen Music"

dkh — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:21:51 +0000

I felt the same way, but admittedly the scenario in which I would encounter it was always “in a dark, quiet room at 3am after downloading something and forgetting once again that the .exe is probably going to play music”

New comment by dkh in "Telo MT1"

dkh — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:09:36 +0000

No, prejudice is bad, full stop. By definition it means to judge someone for something before you actually know for sure that they have/do the thing that bothers you. It doesn’t matter what the thing is, that’s not the problem or the point. The point is you can’t, or shouldn’t, view or treat someone as though they have some quality you dislike when you don’t actually know about this individual and only know that a high percentage of them do. You can’t judge an individual this way! If you hate waste (as do I) and you feel trucks contribute to that and that a majority of truck owners don’t make use of their trucks, then great! Speak about it exactly like that. But you can’t simply take any truck driver and say “that individual is wasteful” without knowing.

You can’t do that any more than you can assume my friends and I are criminals and drug dealers because at some point we decided to use Telegram as our primary messaging app, or like ICE can assume anyone standing near a pro-Mexico protest is an illegal immigrant, you cannot attribute a quality to an individual without having actual knowledge of it.

New comment by dkh in "Telo MT1"

dkh — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 22:31:22 +0000

You know, for someone who clearly is a bit triggered (reasonably) by dealing with whatever stereotypes and judgements people make about trucks and truck owners, their post is quite positive and respectful. Your reply to it is not. It seems like your argument is “the data indicates a statistical likelihood that someone judging, assuming, or stereotyping will still be accurate.” The factual inaccuracy of prejudice is not the problem with prejudice, the prejudice is

New comment by dkh in "I used Suno AI to cover my own demo album"

dkh — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:56:50 +0000

Makes me wonder how often A.I. will be used by creative people to write themselves out of the equation voluntarily because they are self-critical or have imposter syndrome

New comment by dkh in "I used Suno AI to cover my own demo album"

dkh — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:53:06 +0000

Yeah, but here’s the question: If/when A.I. can nail those things, will that be good or bad?

New comment by dkh in "Cosmoe: BeOS Class Library on Top of Wayland"

dkh — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:50:06 +0000

Finally, the killer app to checkmate the Wayland naysayers: BeOS API implementation

New comment by dkh in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

dkh — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:19:57 +0000

Just out of curiosity, what would you consider a reasonable price for such a service in your region?

New comment by dkh in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

dkh — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 06:17:07 +0000

Are you just worried about his/their divided attention or are there specific projects that concern you?