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paramk··on Ask HN: What do you think of the Wordle guy not monetizing it?
Here is a NYT article about the creator - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-ga...
paramk··on USC professor’s DIY online teaching hack to engage students goes viral (2020)
And this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agsUU9i__hc
paramk··on Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised
Looks like this script is not working anymore. I wanted to try the script when I saw this couple of months back in twitter. And in the process downloaded the whole catalogue.
paramk··on Zoom Acquires Keybase
Will this mean Keybase will be killed in the near future ?

From the blog

Initially, our single top priority is helping to make Zoom even more secure. There are no specific plans for the Keybase app yet. Ultimately Keybase's future is in Zoom's hands, and we'll see where that takes us. Of course, if anything changes about Keybase’s availability, our users will get plenty of notice.

So, our shortest-term directive is to significantly improve our security effectiveness, by working on a product that's that much bigger than Keybase. We can't be more specific than that, because we're just diving in.

paramk··on Tesla teardown finds electronics 6 years ahead of Toyota and VW
So Tesla is doing what Clayton predicted twenty years back.
paramk··on Ask HN: Books on specific topics that have applied to many areas of your life?
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

This is supposed to be the author's memoir but it is more than that. Read it and it will change the way how you look at your own life.

paramk··on Ubuntu on Windows
So does this mean sooner or later we will be seeing the end of Cygwin ?
paramk··on JEP 286: Local-Variable Type Inference
Scala ?
paramk··on Paypal and Crowdfunding: don’t do it
These stories depends on whether you are using PayPal as seller or buyer. Usually buyers don't run into these kind of trouble. Also there is dedicated website to share PayPal horror stories. http://letskillpaypal.com/?page_id=40
paramk··on Ask HN: Which Linux distribution you are currently using?
Ubuntu 14.04
paramk··on Ask HN: Best open source/free software in their own category?
Subtitle Edit: for creating/editing subtitles
paramk··on Ask HN: Whats the most challenging book you have ever read?
'The Zen Experience' by Thomas Hoover

I didn't get most of the Zen kōan from this book. But I feel its a great book about the history of Zen.