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As someone not very knowledgeable with cryptography, what practical benefits would such a blockchain have? What benefits would we see with widespread adoption?

Thank you!

Great points, thank you. I've been wondering how to do it in a privacy-preserving way. Also the current implementation is a browser extension, I wonder if there may be a better architecture.

Thank you! It's been slow progress because I'm a freelancer in a quiet period, so that's taken precedent. But will start posting progress soon.

Still pretty early stages. And I still have some decisions to make regarding the architecture of it. I'd like to do a ShowHN (my first), in the near future.

Thanks for the response dang. Someone below has brought to my attention that my comment doesn’t sit within within the guidelines - might it be best for me to edit it with something relevant to the article?

Out of curiosity, and regardless of this case, how do you deal with artificial manipulation of sentiment on HN?

Nudging the views of one of the most active developer communities in the world has value if you were an adversary. Do you see signs of this?

And if the campaign is sustained over a long period, with all comments/threads being within the guidelines, but heavily biased, how does one defend against it?

It would be naive to assume Reddit is the only platform that manipulates user sentiment. And despite the average user here being more capable of critical thinking, we are all still fallible. Can you speak to any of this?

The motivations for my comment was seeing well-meaning comments being downvoted for no apparent reason. On the other end of the spectrum, and perhaps more importantly, someone claiming the car is so safe that they jumped out in front of it without the driver noticing, and it stopped safely. Does that, to you, seem like a responsible thing to post, even assuming it were true?

As for the breaking of rules, dang has commented, and I’ll take responsibility for my actions.

You're right. Perhaps they simply announced this post company-wide, so lots of happy employees are here.

I’m working on a search engine crawled by users themselves. If I think about it, I'm not interested in 99% of the web. Therefore I don't need to deal with exhaustively crawling the entire web.

Hypothetically, if I could access only the sites visited by the HN crowd, that would be fine by me. Somebody in an art community might feel similarly. If there were some metric the crawlers could use to rate a page (time spent on page, manually downvote, etc), then the signal/noise ratio would be really good.

Obviously if I wanted to do a really broad search, I'd use a typical search engine, but if it's tech related, I wouldn't mind pages that have been browsed by HN.

It looks like from the responses here, we could at the very least create a community?

Could you elaborate?

I do like that too! As long as the CEO isn't being shielded by an army of supporters.

The Cruise CEO is here, along with many grand stories of how good/safe their vehicles are.

I can’t help but think this thread may be a marketing ploy. If this were the case, is it allowed on HN?

Edit: In addition, any negative/challenging/sceptical comment is quickly downvoted.

I've seen this term architect pop up a few times here, and it seems not to be referring to building design. Can you give more insight into what an "architect" career is, and some examples? Thanks!

This is the dilemma. Constant use is out of the question, which leaves occasional use. Occasional use doesn’t seem sufficient to bring about these positive thought patterns with regularity.

I lived much the same for many years. Though I must admit, during that period I didn’t do as much cooking as I do now.

My partner and I are curious how you made the single assumption? Alas, I’m just the designated dishwasher.

What kind of treated timber lasts hundreds of years? When I think of treated timber I’m thinking of Bunnings treated pine... what is the industry standard timber for longevity?

Wholeheartedly agree. Your comment gives me Aussie vibes, yet it looks like you’re in the US. Did you relocate?

Dick Smith is a legend. Great sense of humour, prioritising philanthropy and buying local.

My favourite product of his was the parody of Redhead Matches, a box of matches with a woman’s face on it. Dick sold matches called “Dickheads”, with his face on them.

A friend of mine growing up had Dick perform an emergency landing on their property (in his plane). He must still be an avid flyer as we both attended the same aviation event a couple of years ago in a rural Australian town.

I can definitely relate to this. In addition to just paying the bills in the present, there’s a pressure to be financially secure in the future. This equates to making more now, and the only means I’ve found of making more now have a soul-sucking effect, especially compared to side projects and time in nature.

I’m mindful of how fleeting life is, and I wonder whether the focus on wealth accumulation is worthwhile. Perhaps I’m just lazy though!

Intriguing... can you elaborate or give some context to this?

Is there any research on harnessing the same process as crustaceans? Sounds absurd to write, but genuinely curious.

Also switched from DDG to StartPage. Search results are much better. Am I correct in assuming StartPage uses Google as its search?

My one hesitation is that it was recently purchased by an advertising/marketing company.

This is succinct and quite eye-opening for me. Would you be willing to elaborate in any direction you please?

I’m glad you’ve found a place special to you, and hope you can enjoy it again soon. What a pleasure.

I think the platform itself could be considered no-code since there's not requirement to use the "graphiQL" editor.

I'm not sure if it fits the criteria, but Hasura has made backends considerably quicker to build.

Any sources on this?

This sounds really cool! I'm quite ignorant of the space, so can't speak to the existence of such a thing. Also curious about the practicality of "dethreading" clothes. Would also be interested in this.

Perhaps more people visiting HN during the Facebook blackout?