If youre too young to have context for blogging then it’s not your fault. The intent of “blogs” is generally indeed advertising now a days.

Not enough to fracture the user base or dilute the diversity of what people see, but also give people a little more space both to engage in and decide not to engage with… basically techno-communists and hype-addicts.

I like HN. It’s a community that by default has something in common. That’s what made old forums good. Hanging out in the news or off topic section of the car or guitar forum you frequented felt cozier than modern communities. Reddit ruined things.

Maybe I’m just very nostalgic right now. I have been awake for a long time cleaning and migrating data from Excel to Postgres. Maybe I’m delirious.

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Is this open source? If I can’t audit the code, and it isn’t from my bank, a program is not getting my financial information.

Put privacy front and center on the homepage. Put why it’s better than google sheets or excel.

If you ask an AI a question and it replies with incorrect information... dunno. Probably would be argued that it is similar to reading a forum post of incorrect information or picking the wrong book to research a topic. Kinda on you if you're doing the research.

Trying to come up with your own solution to this is a very "roll your own auth" approach to such an important thing.

Not being sarcastic.

If you wanna try a bunch of topics you can check out Brilliant.org.

Very odd.

I'm sure the five eyes intelligence community has archives of everything ever, so maybe someday they'll be able to open source the older stuff on a rolling basis.

Don't watch Inception, if it hits you like it hit me it is emotionally debilitating and you'll be sad until February. Tenet is cool.

Ex Machina is unsettling but good.

"Devs" is a short series that is Ex Machina-esque in feel. Weird but good.

The 5th Element is best for beer drinking fun NYE.

If I hit a wall working on coding logic, I kind of get annoyed and take a short break and come back and try some more.

If I'm doing _anything_ involving databases and API calls I get actually ANGRY when something doesn't work.

My theory: Explaining logic in syntax feels natural, since we do it talking to each other all the time.

Exchanging information in structure feels unnatural, since we don't do it in interpersonal communication. If we're talking about a subject we don't have to first define a schema and endpoints. Our brains do all that automatically.

Imagine trying to use migrations and API routes to represent the memory access, changes in data, and relation mapping our minds do when studying new subjects or learning new information about old topics.

I HATE DATABASES.

...oh right. So we'd have to go and "induce" communal sharing using our military. So lots of people would die in the name of an authority asserting that everyone will share everything, except the resources involved in killing, because then we couldn't make sure everyone shares. So we don't share those resources.

...hey wait this scenario is ringing a bell.