<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: webwanderings</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=webwanderings</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:48:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=webwanderings" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Take the Pedals Off the Bike"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't just take the pedals off. You slide down the slope. This is the best and the fastest way to learn to bike.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 20:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703588</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So you missed one more: religion. If you were going to reappropriate the internet into existing - I take it that you mean, human - structure, then you might as well add religion here too. There have been no other factors beyond religion and national geographies, that have bound humans at a larger scale. IMHO, this is/was not the original intent when DARPA unleashed Internet beyond it's laboratory. Sure, we can reappropriate as we move along. But there is no precedence of a promised land here. The nation-states and/or religions have been at wars since the beginning of time. What's there to prove that a technology like Internet (throw AI of the future into it) would make things better for human nature to adopt. Just because we can scale does not mean that we may be scaling to something better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:50:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692465</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not in human nature to scale their communities/tribes. Case in point, the continuous wars. It was foolish of humans on the early Internet to perceive ideas of forming large scale communities (business and ego motivations did that). If psychologists and anthropologists were techies and influencers of early Internet, we wouldn't have built such experiences in the first place.<p>Humans thrive in small scale and close knit communities. Unfortunately, Internet was not built for such ideas. It will take a while for the original intent of the social media to die out. First, the ego will have to subside. Then, the business motivations would need to shift to something other than profiting off the human communication (did anyone care to throw Ads on the old fashioned telephone lines? Or tag an Ad inside our snail mail? No). When the humanity reaches such proportion of correction for the sake of Internet, we might come back to our senses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:33:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42674704</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42674704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42674704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like a winner! Thanks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:20:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41383187</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41383187</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41383187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Regarding APIs, what is a recommend good and free tool, other than Postman, that allows for importing and exporting of saved collections?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:02:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41373631</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41373631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41373631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "IBM lifts lid on latest bid to halt mainframe skill slips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In around 2015 or so, prior to social media, etc, there used to be a mainframe forum or two (perhaps they still exist) where a whole bunch of newbies from India used to hang out, to learn and grow their mainframe skills. It is the same time when there were stories floating around of mainframe veterans being let go. People have short term memory issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 22:41:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39888796</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39888796</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39888796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is such a great quote for everyone! No matter the age. No matter what one wants to do.<p>> “I’m not able to learn mathematics easily,” Talagrand tells ... “I have to work. It takes a very long time and I have a terrible memory. I forget things. So I try to work, despite handicaps, and the way I worked was trying to understand really well the simple things. Really, really well, in complete detail. And that turned out to be a successful approach.”<p>Just imagine. You may be super smart who gets things easily and right away. Or, you may be average. Using this philosophy in life, one can excel further.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:58:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883849</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Michel Talagrand wins Abel Prize for work wrangling randomness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is such a great quote for everyone! No matter the age. No matter what one wants to do.<p>> “I’m not able to learn mathematics easily,” Talagrand tells ... “I have to work. It takes a very long time and I have a terrible memory. I forget things. So I try to work, despite handicaps, and the way I worked was trying to understand really well the simple things. Really, really well, in complete detail. And that turned out to be a successful approach.”<p>Just imagine. You may be super smart who gets things easily and right away. Or, you may be average. Using this philosophy in life, one can excel further.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:57:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883840</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39883840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Outline: Self hostable, realtime, Markdown compatible knowledge base"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is pretty fast. Wow. Question for you. Does the search feature works out of the box, or does it need a plugin?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:51:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39018160</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39018160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39018160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Winner. Anything no-nonsense, now a days in this world, is a winner! Thank you!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:33:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38857770</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38857770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38857770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a same thing everywhere. Hard work makes you a go-to person (at whatever). The go-to person gets you into high visibility projects. You ultimately can bargain your promotion using both of these qualities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:02:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38674253</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38674253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38674253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "This is the year of the RSS reader?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Be humble grandpa! There were people who used to use Google Reader without any of its social network shenanigans. And of course, there were people who have been using RSS readers before Google Reader was even born. But, no RSS reader has ever reached the ceiling of common usage, which is not a bad deal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2022 14:20:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106052</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106052</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34106052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "The mysticism of Alan Watts (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watts and Osho were on the same wavelength when it comes to imparting their own definition of religion and philosophy. Both had their human flaws and didn't care. Their message was and is still sound (no wonder they are popular on YouTube).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2022 20:05:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387515</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387515</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Unboxing a $100 Chromebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've had two over relatively few years. Both became paperweights. Cheap chromebooks are not worth wasting money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2022 02:50:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199813</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32199813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Prose.sh – A blog platform for hackers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the deal with copycats and similarities? This looks like a copy of bearblog.dev and one cannot tell who has copied whom. Is there anything on the Internet that is trustworthy anymore?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2022 18:17:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129464</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32129464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Why Linux Succeeded"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't underestimate the rise of Internet, websites, and the web servers in pushing the rise of Linux. Linux usage took hold not because people dropped Windows for desktop and adopted Linux. Linux usage took hold due to the increasing adoption of server and its related technologies. Simply put, nobody cared about the mass scale use of Active Directory for ldap and whatever Microsoft was selling as a web server. Linux servers provided better adoption to evolve with the rise of Internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2022 15:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036040</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036040</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32036040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Minikube quickly sets up a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you seen this? <a href="https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/3036#issuecomment-1045024784" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/3036#issuecomm...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2022 23:21:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31512157</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31512157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31512157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Why America has so few carpenters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All these professionals from vocational fields are horribly expensive in America. And then there are articles like these claiming they don't make money. BS. America has no public/private vocational school/training culture. People don't even teach each other unless you are born into the family of craftsman.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2022 03:55:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31464757</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31464757</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31464757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lotus 1-2-3's UI was nowhere modern/polished as QuattroPro. Of course they had a hold of the user base.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 20:09:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390594</link><dc:creator>webwanderings</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31390594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by webwanderings in "Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bill Gates gave the world Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc, so the humanity could become creative, educated and thriving. Zuckerberg gave the world social media and the world became ...</p>
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