Ask HN: Is there a way to unsave stories on HN?
It sucks, now I actually think, should I save this list? How much meta data can be pulled out of what is essentially a bookmark within a website for future use. Who Knows, but just guilt by association is bad enough these days.
I have saved stories on Snowden, all just "read later" stuff, tons of stuff on hacking, which I hate that it means two things now. It means someone broke in and messed up a ton of stuff, for real, it means people are idiots and call 'letting my S.O. have my passwords' a good idea, then call it "getting hacked" when they BreakBook them.
Anything that is somewhat bad, is now hacking. I think of hacking as totally technology unrelated. Hacking is human natures innately strong desire to take something that needs resolving, resolve it, and iterate that solution until it approaches perfection.
From a cracked rock being used as a Knife, eventually that cracked rock 'evolves' at the hands of a human to be a bit better, and over time, a long time, we now have knife snobs. People just want to fiddle with stuff and see what it does.
It's called curiosity and kids these days are being trained to be afraid of it. I thought the internet was this great leveling field. Now, sure, bootstrap a startup and what happens if something legal comes your way, patent troll, etc. It's not the good ole' days anymore, that's for sure. I liked it a lot better when the government thought this "internet" thing was not going to pan out.
I almost miss auto-play music! :)