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Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @06:44PM (#22650887)
I am working on webby, an app for neatly organising your social media into collections.

Instead of only relying on algorithms, you can group and keep tabs on exactly what you want. [1]

Currently supports reddit/YouTube. I hope to release an MVP soon.

1: https://streamable.com/hlrye

Re:GitHub Discussions Beta on Saturday February 22, 2020 @01:00AM (#22389669)
As long as they retain the option to disable certain features on a repo, I am wholly in favor of consolidating the development stack into GitHub. Easier to mandate 2FA and other security procedures when your team doesn't have to juggle several sites.

Friendly aside: the expression is "err(s) on the side of..."

Re:Show HN: Hide Likes Everywhere on Thursday November 21, 2019 @07:06PM (#21601168)
It seemed pretty clear that the GP was saying if the platform already shows points/likes, hiding them only from yourself is a disadvantage.

With that said, I believe it can function similar to all those no-procrastination tools; allowing those that want to stop the feedback loop of likes to ween themselves off of it. More of a personal growth tool than a societal solution.

Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @10:42PM (#21278473)
That still holds true, eventually nearby clusters will go beyond our "observable" view.
Re:Show HN: Bel on Saturday October 12, 2019 @05:59AM (#21231848)
Quite intrigued with your approach; will look into trying something similar for visualising an embedded system.
Re:How to create your own SMTP server in 20 minutes on Friday October 04, 2019 @07:45PM (#21162858)
Just a friendly tip: consider posting it to dev.to[0] (no affiliation); the content seems more geared towards helping people starting out on their dev journey.

Without generalising, HN tends to be more frank in dissecting the novel aspects of a post.

0: https://dev.to/

Re:TypeScript 3.7 Beta on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:21AM (#21134341)
Slightly OT, but for those not aware: typescript's type system is turing-complete[0], and there's a playground demonstrating number base conversion[1].

0: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833

1: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14833#issueco...

Exactly why the fallacy fallacy[0] exists. Just because an argument has a fallacy does not make its conclusion false.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy

Fixed your link[0]

PS: Linking from your already downloaded url will generally be tied to your account session.

0: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JKoYoqMIbsaj0jZNvpUzFQCHrWP...

Relevant xkcd [1]

A fun weekend project would be to utilize GPT-2 [2] to model HN comments; quite the challenge considering the usually insightful comments here when compared to other sites.

[1] https://xkcd.com/810/ [2] https://github.com/openai/gpt-2