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wewake··on Brave – A private, secure and fast browser
> Interestingly OP didn't trim the /index/ part of the URL so the main URL has another chance to be part of the frontpage.

Wasn't intentional at all.

wewake··on Brave – A private, secure and fast browser
Brave has introduced BAT (Basic Attention Token), a token for a decentralized ad exchange. Give their interesting white paper [0] a read.

[0] https://basicattentiontoken.org/BasicAttentionTokenWhitePape...

wewake··on Brave – A private, secure and fast browser
Wow, you're a saviour! Blokada is exactly what I've been looking for ever since I switched to a non-rooted android phone.
wewake··on Show HN: A simple webapp that recommends HN stories to HN users
I've currently set 20 to be the minimum number of submissions required. Lowering that limit would only result in random recommendations. Wouldn't it be hard for even a human to properly tell what someone might be interested in by looking at just 4-5 submissions they've made?
wewake··on Show HN: A simple webapp that recommends HN stories to HN users
That's okay :)

It started as an experiment and the initial results convinced me to make an app out of it rather than letting it be an experiment. I believe it's not possible to make a good recommendation system in general, with the limited data available about the community users. Using the HN API, I could only find user's submissions and comments (upvotes are private, thus limiting the amount of useful data). I ended up using only the submissions to determine user's topics of interest.

wewake··on Modi’s Cash Crackdown Failed, Indian Bank Data Shows
Having the will to take hard decisions is not a bad thing in general and getting work done is almost never discouraged.
wewake··on Google says it coded UIDAI helpline number into Indian phones
New story with working URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17686705
wewake··on Understanding Text Pre-Processing for Topic Modeling [pdf]
Same here -- I've always used stemming but this paper convinced me against it. That being said, one should still write some rules to stem words such as "Google's" to "Google" and take care to avoid duplicate words in corpora (e.g. when "Google" is already present in data).
wewake··on Mumbai bans plastic bags, bottles, and single-use plastic containers
One must acknowledge that there's no such thing as "ban" in India given the numerous past records of people not obliging to regulations set by the govt.
wewake··on Ask HN: What's stopping YC from publishing locations of their startups?
Ok, just did. Thanks.
wewake··on Delhi’s air pollution monitors have recorded the highest levels they can measure
> Approx 2 more weeks to go when the monsoon arrives and everything would be back to normal.

Wow, that's a very indifferent take on such an alarming matter.

wewake··on Microsoft acquires Github
This doesn't seem okay. I don't feel good about this acquisition. I used to associate Github with open-source, now I'm going to have to associate it with another proprietary software from Microsoft and that breaks my heart a little.

"Developers are the builders of this new era, writing the world’s code. And GitHub is their home.", doesn't feel like home anymore. :(

wewake··on An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean
> That you're posting one of the most widely used extensions...

I don't think it is as widely used as you think it is.

wewake··on An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean
Well, atleast 11 people found it helpful.
wewake··on An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean
What do you mean?
wewake··on Sl: a mirror version of ls
Thank you. You made my day! :D I'm confident that there are other such commands that I'm unaware of and don't know how to find them. May be you could help out.
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