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Re:An Interview with Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut (1999) on Saturday July 27, 2024 @07:24PM (#41090085)
> The Power Broker

They really need to publish this in ebook form. It's so hard to read as a real book because of the size, and the only other way is audiobook.

I can't find discord comments on Google.
Re:Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting on Sunday February 25, 2024 @10:10PM (#39507260)
> Nekoweb is a free static website hosting service, created in 2024 by a group of coders, programmers and artists, passionate for the old web and personal websites.

> Join us on our discord to chat with the community and the developers!

Gating discussion of the open web in a proprietary service is an interesting decision. Shows that we're still far too reliant on closed protocols for even smaller nontrivial tasks like making a message board.

Re:Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023) on Saturday February 24, 2024 @01:38PM (#39493972)
What's the self-hosted open source alternative that's actually good? I've been using Inoreader because the UI for any alternative is mediocre.

I'd like it to work on web and Android, sync back and forth properly, and look nice (sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, etc) and nothing else appears to provide this.

Plus, Inoreader allows you to assign a single feed to multiple folders (tag style) which many other readers don't allow.

Ask HN: Deriving modern markets from first principles?

Are there any books/websites that start from actual scratch and rederive the modern financial system from first principles?e.g. "Alice has an apple orchard, Bob has a banana orchard. They'd like to trade these directly, but apple season isn't the same as banana season. Therefore, Alice gives Bob an apple in exchange for a token, then uses that token later to obtain a banana from Bob. We've now...

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It'd be easier if their UIs weren't absolutely terrible, and missing basic functionality.

There's no simple "mark watched"/"mark unwatched"? I can't have multiple playlists, just one "My List" that gets randomly reshuffled? Who knows where my "Continue Watching" row is going to be on the main page, because it sure isn't at the top! etc...