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ssn··on My approach to running a link blog
Please share other technical setups for keeping a link blog.

Static Site Generators seem like a perfect fit.

ssn··on ResearchAgent: Iterative Research Idea Generation Using LLMs
I am interested in this. Can you point to a reference about the application of LLMs to sequence secreening? Thanks.
ssn··on TeX Live 2024 released – ISO available for download via torrent file and magnet
Only support for macOS >= 10.14 (Mojave)
ssn··on TeX Live 2024 released – ISO available for download via torrent file and magnet
Always amazed with the size of these releases - 6GB (!)
ssn··on How to Read a Paper [pdf]
"The first version of this document was drafted by my students: …"

So why aren't they listed as co-authors? :-)

ssn··on AI Canon
Hope this is an "in progress" article.

Not a single resource or pointer mentioning "ethics"?

ssn··on You and Your Research (1986)
Any recommendations on similar materials? I.e. advice on how to manage research.
ssn··on Djot, a light markup syntax from John MacFarlane
"Djot is a light markup syntax. It derives most of its features from commonmark, but it fixes a few things that make commonmark's syntax complex and difficult to parse efficiently."
ssn··on Ask HN: Books about full text search?
Three reference textbooks are available openly:

* Introduction to Information Retrieval, http://informationretrieval.org/

* Information Retrieval in Practice, http://www.search-engines-book.com/

* Entity-Oriented Search, https://eos-book.org/

Modern Information Retrieval is also a classic reference. Not openly available but some contents are (were?) available online. Their site seems to be down but the Internet Archive has a copy.

Additional resources here:

* https://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/information-retrieval.html http://web.archive.org/web/20220708135205/http://grupoweb.up...

ssn··on How We Built r/Place (2017)
Very interesting post.

Where can we find posts like these — e.g. architectural and technological analysis and decisions in real word contexts?

ssn··on Has UML died without anyone noticing?
No, unfortunately is a sign that documentation is not being take seriously.
ssn··on Solr is now an independent Apache project
With a new home at solr.apache.org
ssn··on I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?
Downvoted due to the "clickbait style" headline. You can rewrite it when posting to Hacker News.
ssn··on Gmail having issues
Still having error trying to fetch email from one Gmail account to another via POP3. Seem different from the error described in the post link.
ssn··on macOS Big Sur
Any relevant problems on your update?
ssn··on Apple is building a Google search alternative for iPhones
"When iPhone users with iOS 14, the latest iPhone software, type a query into the search window, Apple now shows its own search results instead of Google’s. It also displays auto-complete style suggestions, highlighting how it is learning from users most common search queries. However, few are likely to have noticed the change."
ssn··on Forget Google, time to end the Visa-MasterCard duopoly
I don't understand Hacker News. Tim Bray's post on Break Up Google was buried and not visible on HN's front page. The next day this on Visa-MasterCard post shows up on the top with a "forget Google" comment. Why?

Is this a result from the community or the algorithm?

HN seems to have changed a lot in the last few years.

ssn··on No to Chrome
Contributing the diversity of the web is an important action that all of us should be committed to.

Read Zeldman's "Browser diversity starts with us." http://www.zeldman.com/2018/12/07/browser-diversity-starts-w...

ssn··on Arrested Japanese stalker used pupil image reflections
Thanks. Just corrected my comment.
ssn··on Arrested Japanese stalker used pupil image reflections
"[Tokyo Shimbun, a metropolitan daily,] also said people shouldn't make the V-sign with their hand, which Japanese often do in photos, because fingerprints could be stolen."
ssn··on GitHub Sponsors
Contributing to open source software has never been about money. I would be very interested in reading the economical analysis of the impact of this move by GitHub.

How will the money incentive align with the existing incentives.

ssn··on Fusuma – Make slides with MarkDown easily
I recommend Remark

https://remarkjs.com

ssn··on Ask HN: Why not a low-cost TLD domain?
Thanks, seems interesting.
ssn··on Ask HN: Why not a low-cost TLD domain?
I own a couple of .com domains and I have seen a steady rise on the renewal price each year. This recent news piece made me post this 'idea'.

Internet industry freaks out over proposed unlimited price hikes on .org domain names https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/26/dot_org_price_incre...

ssn··on Ask HN: Why not a low-cost TLD domain?
Prices are marketed at <<$10 prices for first year registration. Renewals are then much expensive. The price that I am going to pay each year is really unpredictable and subject to business / commercial interests.
ssn··on Ask HN: Why not a low-cost TLD domain?
Where? Usually prices are marketed at <<$10 for first year registrations, in the following years they go up in an unpredictable way.

Do you know any registrar that guarantees a final price of $10/year on registration and renovations?

ssn··on Ask HN: Why not a low-cost TLD domain?
Yes, precisely.

This should be the goal of a non-profit organization like the ones I mentioned.

ssn··on Ask HN: Why not a low-cost TLD domain?
It is common for registrars to offer large discounts on first registrations. But then the prices can go up (a lot) in the following years.

The idea here would be to have a price that is fixed, i.e. it would not change depending on business or commercial decisions.

ssn··on Notes for the New Year
A tribute to work. Depressing.
ssn··on Web Fundamentals
Missing: "managing web projects".

Anybody has a good reference on this? Including managing teams from different backgrounds and details on documentation and artifacts that support web projects?

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