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It's a shame fuchsia is so hard to spell. 25% of the references to "fuchsia" so far in this thread spell it incorrectly.

Curious if anyone has technical details on this or similar attacks?

Vote for politicians that want to address monopolies in big tech, so someday we have real alternatives to Apple and Google that I can consider switching to.

Are you confused about the stock market? I know I am. I'm a data nerd who is putting together free analytics for people who want to track and understand what's going on in financial markets.

I'd love to have some beta testers if any HN readers are interested in this.

thank you for this! exactly what I was looking for.

Good point

do you feel like the 20% of your submissions that go to the top are your best submissions?

for me, my submissions that get attention are not my best submissions, IMO.

i can spend a long time on a really thoughtful idea or product, and get zero clicks from a hacker news submission, whereas sharing a poorly researched press article with a clickbaity headline goes to the front page.

it's really disappointing.

it's subjective, but i think most would agree that "best" doesn't mean "requires a voting ring to get actual consideration" or "requires a super-clickbaity title" (like the title of this post)

we're working on this problem with mendoapp.com

but instead of following "feeds" you follow people, and it queues up links they've shared on twitter

Imagine if Hacker News was whitelisted to a set of people you trust & respect (so only their votes count), and it queued up the top links so you don't miss anything, even if you take a day or two off. That's what we're trying to build.

Mendo is a platform to see links shared by a selection of people you follow (and trust), sorted by most-shared.

It's like a "private Reddit" or "private HN" where you have your own feed, and you get to choose who can vote on it.

It's great because it puts the best stuff first and doesn't addict you.

We made a few "example groups" to show what Mendo surfaces when you follow a group of people who specialize in topic areas:

Economists - https://mendoapp.com/group/econ Scientists/Environmentalists - https://mendoapp.com/group/enviros Tech Commentators - https://mendoapp.com/group/tech Politicos - https://mendoapp.com/group/politicos

You don't have to check social media all the time – the most important things being shared come to you, via email and our iOS app.

Isn't shopping/consumerism deeply entwined with a distorted notion of the "self" ? I am what I have, what I wear, where I fall on the status-totempole.

An alternative would be a community-outlook. I am part of a greater whole. I don't really own anything. We are living a story, together.

Have you read the book "Stand Firm" ? It was a best-seller in Denmark, with the idea that our new religion is "find yourself inside." The author advises that most who look inside won't find anything, and that we should look outward instead.

Ultimately, the author is making a case for a modern version of Stoicism.

Tom and I decided that the way we consume information on the internet is broken – what we're seeing is being determined by algorithms we don't understand, and anonymous curators we don't know. We wanted to change that; we wanted to choose who puts ideas in front of us. So we built Mendo!

It's an iOS app, but if you don't have iOS, look for the "Get the digest" link in the lower right, and you can still signup for a daily email digest of the things being shared by people you follow.

Today we use a Twitter integration to get people started, but our plan is to open up to everyone soon.

sometimes qualitative information precedes quantitative. that's why speculative prices move ahead of fundamentals. it's definitely subjective, but that doesn't mean it might not be valuable or indicative of an noteworthy change.

how is it meant to sway the election? is this good news or bad?

thanks for the context!

thanks!

Does anyone have details on the "speculation" tax? Do any other regions use similar taxes?

(this was meant to be snarky. i'm just a developer with a calendar app that requests location data to humbly provide location place recommendations... no monetization, no sharing of this data, and it's essential to being able to fill out the "location" field accurately. this constant stream of negative attacks against apps not built by FAANG is destroying trust in independent apps, due to the actions of a few bad actors. ironically, this is just driving people back to a handful of monopolies who monetize user data in-house. the winner here is google (and, let's be honest, they are probably already doing something with the location data we're sending them to get the nearest place ids).)

Why isn’t Google on this list? Is it because they monetize your location data in-house?

Hi Hacker News,

We’re beta testing a new thing, and we’d love your feedback. It’s called Mendo, a new take on social sharing that’s understandable, asynchronous, and surfaces the best things being shared by people you trust.

Mendo is simply ranked by number-of-shares, for links last shared in a given time period. In order to start cheaply, we integrated with Twitter and are surfacing our data as a daily digest of top links shared by the people you follow on Twitter. On its own, this feels useful for us: we want to be in the loop, but often miss things on our social feeds.

But, don’t be fooled, this isn’t just a Twitter digest email. The idea here is a new system for sharing and ranking content on the web. We’re working on apps and other ways to display this data, if the idea resonates.

Please let us know what you think! Justin (& Tom, who might chime in if there are comments)

Interesting. For me, the underlying mechanics won't likely be remembered, but the big takeaway was a better understanding of what character sets are, why they exist from a historical perspective, and why I should care... That higher level context makes character encoding issues seems less scary and more worth trying to understand.

It's too bad he may have gotten some technical details wrong, but I found it refreshing to get a somewhat entertaining "story" along with some of the details.

This is a fantastic organization with a transformational message – would highly recommend their book and their consulting if you're at a company so enlightened.

way to go Stripe!

we do have a plan. but we also expected facebook to at least tell us when and if they cut off access — not put up a blog post that says they are removing some endpoints, and then just cut them all off regardless without warning.

this simply doesn't seem like the way to treat people who have invested time in a platform.

yes but at least apple is consistent. when you spend time integrating with things, some level of predictability is important, no?

word of warning to anyone who wants to integrate with facebook. although their blog posts say they are only removing select endpoints, as the comments in the link above indicate, they have basically shut off access to core endpoints well beyond what they listed. instead of errors, the endpoint returns empty data.

this is extremely disappointing. our app was reviewed by FB (including source code), we have thousands of impacted users, and FB gave no indication that they would start doing this (and the issue was silent).

is a walled garden better than an API that lets users share their data? should we shut down the entire graph because of a few bad actors? is this how FB treats developers?

It looks like Google Finance has become the Google News Business section.

And now I need a new free financial website with clear line graphs representing markets, on the homepage, where I can explore the data, not just read headlines generated by an algorithm.

Anyone have suggestions?

as a completely-stressed-out techie cofounder, i've started taking sunday sabbaths—a simple weekly break from technology and distraction. it's been essential to my well-being. it takes way more discipline than coding and doing tasks 7 days a week.