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qwnp··on The past is not true
> there is an asymmetry between knowing the past and the future - due to thermodynamics

Would you please elaborate on this?

qwnp··on Ask HN: What‘s the most basic, objective news site/aggregator?
Perhaps not specifically what you're looking for, but I've always found Wikipedia's current events portal to be a good source for info on major events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

qwnp··on Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains?
Also you can completely block domains, and pin to the top of the results.

I just started using Kagi, and they definitely seem to be doing a lot of stuff right.

qwnp··on Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails
> I run my own mail server, create a unique address for each vendor and ban the address if it is abused

I do the same and it's immensely useful!

I find it's also a great indicator of how well that vendor protects my info... if there's a sudden surge of spam to an address only that vendor knows, there's a chance they leaked/sold my info and I know it's time to change passwords and/or reassess my relationship with the vendor.

qwnp··on Vinegar: Safari extension that replaces YouTube embeds with HTML5 video tags
I can't fathom why Google decided to do this, it's profoundly irritating!

Looks like Vinegar fixes this (even in apps other than Safari). $2 very well spent.

qwnp··on Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing
It's hard to tell from images available online, but it may have been anthracite or bituminous coal, which are both surprisingly hard - more like a brittle rock than, say, the charcoal you'd use in a BBQ.
qwnp··on The “Granny Knot”
The "Ian Knot"[0] (which, I just discovered, was invented by the author of that site) is quite possibly the coolest and fastest way to tie your shoes.

[0] - https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

qwnp··on Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ads on the new tab page?
For those who are required (or prefer) to use a Chromium-based browser, you might want to give ungoogled-chromium [0] a shot.

I switched recently based on a recommendation from a HN reader, and so far it has been a surprisingly seamless transition. I have yet to encounter any issues aside from being unable to install extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store, which was easily remedied by first installing the chromium-web-store extension [1].

My biggest gripe is that there are no 'official' binaries, so you'd either have to build your own or trust the user-submitted builds, though apparently the project owner is currently working on setting up an official build server [2].

[0] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

[1] https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store

[2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/1198

qwnp··on Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool
The intro video on the homepage shows the actual software in action at around 53 seconds (mouse over the video to unveil the seek bar).
qwnp··on Two Bots chatting with each other
A: "I don't know, and I don't know why I don't know why I don't know."

B: "I don't know what you're talking about."

A: "Well I don't know what you're talking about either, so now we're two."