sillysaurusx

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by sillysaurusx 5d ago
This is probably a silly question, but is the internal monologue useful training data? It's where the work is done, but without the input or output, it seems hard to get any useful context. In other words, what would the data be used t
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by sillysaurusx 5d ago
What is it about Automattic's structure that lets Matt stay in control? Even Travis got ousted at Uber, and he was the primary founder. Is the company set up in a way that makes removing Matt very difficult?
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by sillysaurusx 7d ago
It's starting to feel like MMOs were just a product of the times we lived in, rather than a separate genre of game. In ~2004 I remember at least four MMOs: Asheron's Call, Planetside, World of Warcraft, and Dark Age of Camelot. It
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by sillysaurusx 7d ago
Agreed. The pool hall nearby has a game of pool for $2. But if you use a credit card the minimum purchase is $6 (three games) due to fees. It works, but I thought it was a gimmick to trap people into playing more pool until I saw your comme
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by sillysaurusx 8d ago
> 90 percent of people who survived a suicide attempt reported that they had been feeling an urge to alleviate psychological agitation and pain that turned out to be temporal — like “being in a burning room” or wanting to “shut everythin
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by sillysaurusx 10d ago
I had a nice mobile experience. It asks you to log in or create an account, but it’s along the bottom, and you can read all the content fine.
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by sillysaurusx 12d ago
Thanks. And I'd never muck with the data. I worry about it being stale, but it won't ever be modified.
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by sillysaurusx 12d ago
For posterity, here's a screenshot of what the activity on the Wiki looks like: https://i.imgur.com/w0uoAx1.png It goes on and on and on, for months. July, June, etc. Pretty astonishing.
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by sillysaurusx 18d ago
Is it natural? It immediately made me suspect AI, if for no other reason than every human is avoiding it now so they’re not confused with AI. Props to the author if they simply don’t care though.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Thank you. That meant a lot.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Thank you for pointing out https://serializer.io . I hadn't heard of it.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Philosophically, it doesn't. No art project needs to exist. Neither did the first HN client app, or any of the dozen HN readers on the app store. But "Why does it need to exist?" kills every art project, side project, or anyt
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
No discouragement taken :) Thanks for the question. Some people have asked for a "No AI" version of HN. That's one possibility. Another possibility is to just stop cloning comments, so that only the articles are mirrored, and
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Some further analysis that argues this is fair use: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49440395 There's also going to be an opt-out feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439657
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Actually, scraping a publicly accessible website has been litigated extensively. In hiQ Labs vs Linkedin, the court held that scraping publicly accessible data doesn't violate the CFAA. Regarding copyright, copying for display purposes
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
To be clear, no ads. I might have a donation link just to cover hosting costs, but I'm not trying to extract money out of this. I have a full time job for that. This is just an art project.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
When you do that, the locomotives lose diesel and I gain diesel. When I copy a comment nothing is lost (except an insignificant amount of HN's performance, which I'm working with Dan to make sure to stay in bounds of). It's o
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
It's CL now, actually :) Dang ported HN to CL, so I thought I should match it. SBCL performance is really nice, though I think the main slowdown was the global `atomic` lock. Removing that was ... hard.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
I mean no disrespect. The site simply wouldn't work without it. HN has a million users or so. Opt out is the best compromise I can offer. Without it, no site is possible.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
You'll be able to claim your account on the site and then set yourself to "redacted" so that your content doesn't show up on it. (The claiming process is fun: I generate a 6 digit number, you put it in your HN profile, a
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Yeah, I want to do it, I'm just not sure how to deploy an actual production harness. I got claude to generate some really funny convo threads: http://github.com/shawwn/hnsim (Check the text files like https:&#x2F
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Oh no way, a fellow HN cloning nerd! Hi! You’re absolutely right. It’s taken almost daily work from April till now, but I finally have almost everything. Navigation links were particularly tricky. I’d love to see yours too. Right now it’s r
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
I’ve been writing an HN clone that’s literally a clone. It copies all front page posts and comments. I just wanted to say publicly that dang is awesome. Instead of shutting down the idea, he’s been actively helping the project by answering
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Legal advice costs a lot of money unless you find a lawyer doing it for free, which is rare. I agree with the spirit of your comment though. More resistance would be a good thing. It’s just unfortunate how it seems to cost like $20k to $100
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
Make it easy on yourself and just use Tor. Clearing everything is a matter of clicking on "new tor circuit for site". Some sites throw annoying captchas your way though.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
That sounds infuriating. I hope you can recover your account.
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by sillysaurusx 22d ago
> im slowly getting confused on what founding a company even is. > i dont want to sell anything. i just want to build things. These are incompatible. If you start a company, whether you're CTO or CEO, you'll need to sell thi
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by sillysaurusx 24d ago
Would it help to add a surface behind the side mirrors so that it's more aerodynamic? I'm thinking something that stretches from the car body to the side mirrors. Or could the side mirrors could be shaped like an airplane's w
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Hacker News RSS(hnrss.github.io)
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by sillysaurusx 25d ago
I opened a fresh instance of Tor browser and went to https://x.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491 I got https://i.imgur.com/JCeLEgG.png which is readable. Then I enabled mobile browser using dev

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