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ya1secon Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

Funny, one of the posts has the following hashtag: #humanwritten

ya1secon Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

I use are.na to store links in appropriate channels. I have their chrome extension mapped to a keyboard shortcut on my desktop. On mobile I use a separate shortcut. I save links many times throughout the day, trying to curate content that I think is useful or interesting. I’m building several tools derived from this practice.

My are.na bookmarks: https://www.are.na/ya-1sec/bookmarks-1ntdk32bur0

An app i made that surfaces a random page harvested from a few interesting channels: https://moonjump.app/

ya1secon Search all text in New York City

amazing. look up some graffiti writers you know

ya1secon WikiTok

Yeah, pretty similar to StumbleUpon. Right now the links are sourced from a handful of are.na channels and some other collections of content. I plan on warehousing this data and tagging it such that users can configure categories of sites that they'd like to stumble upon. HN submissions are mixed into the algorithm as well.

ya1secon WikiTok

hahahha. try the search engine - it uses the marginalia API and will select a random result to embed. maybe don't search for herpes though.

ya1secon WikiTok

it starts with sourcing - finding a massive set of interesting pages, then going through and giving them tags. planning on adding this to my web discovery app as well: https://moonjump.app/

ya1secon WikiTok

Awesome. I have a project with a similar tik-tok-esque philosophy for serving all sorts of noncommercial content from the web. The interface is one button and a random page is embedded in an iframe. I use random wikipedia pages as a fallback in case my algorithm returns a dead page.

I call it moonjump: https://moonjump.app/

ya1secon Ask HN: What's the most creative 'useless' program you've ever written?

https://moonjump.app/

It’s a window into the small web. Just click a button to open a random site harvested from are.na, marginalia, etc. It used to just be a server but ever since I’ve made this TikTok-esque UX I’ve been kinda addicted to it

ya1secon We need to rewild the internet

Gonna plug my project: https://moonjump.app/

I have a keyboard shortcut that opens moonjump.app/jump, which will redirect to a random site

ya1secon Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (1998)

I like this sentiment. A Wittgenstein collection called “Philosophical Grammar” contains a lot of these kinds of thoughts.

ya1secon A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

Returned Telephone Reproduction Plans

ya1secon Full Time

Best of luck. Easily my favorite project. Emailed Viktor last year about using the marginalia API for my side project[1] and he responded almost immediately. I use the API to get marginalia's arcane search results for a given query and choose a random link from those results to redirect. Endless fun.

Hope to see it continue to grow until the internet goes dark.

[1] https://moonjump.app/

ya1secon This link is a random dev tool

Oops. I tried to post https://moonjump.app/devtools, which is a server that redirects to a random tool from a very long list of links. The post seems to have hit the server and chosen the first link as the URL

ya1secon This link is a random dev tool

More info: https://moonjump.app

ya1secon Launch HN: Lume (YC W23) – Generate custom data integrations with AI

Will this functionality be available only as a no-code tool? I'd love to see a python library or something of the sort.

ya1secon Doors I touched today (1999)

I made a server that redirects you to a random site from a selection of are.na channels, where users actively add interesting sites. There’s a bit more to it than that - you can read about it on the homepage: https://moonjump.app

Add https://moonjump.app/jump to your bookmarks if you want a shortcut to jump to a random site.

ya1secon A Malleable Web

Sure, this has been possible all along, and I've been using plain old python and javascript to do it. The essence of hacking is in effect making things "malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else".

That said, I don't have a problem with re-skinning it as something of a bold new frontier. Honestly, it might be useful to express that sentiment at somewhat frequently - maybe it inspires someone who hadn't had that thought before. The advent of LLMs also makes this type of hacking accessible to non-programmers.

ya1secon A Malleable Web

> If a website is completely malleable to the point that the data it holds can be re-shaped into something else, then you can almost see a website as an application programming interface (API).

> A future where websites are combined into local frankensteins, only pulling the data it needs and combines it on a new website that does not exist.

This is exactly what I want to see. I've been toying around with similar ideas myself but prompting GPT-n with your instructions will make this extremely accessible. Browser configurability will be crucial, but we seem to be doing pretty well in that regard. Rare moment of optimism. Thanks for posting.

ya1secon Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

> Isn’t it in fact the ONLY thing you have evidence of?

That seems to be the case.

ya1secon Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

Yeah, some of the channels are quite old and have dead sites in them. I should add a function to re-route on a 404/500 response

ya1secon Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

Woah that one’s great - saving that to my personal list! The fun thing about this is the source material is constantly being added to so it’s pretty damn near a never ending list. Still get some repeats though, I’ll look into reducing that when I have time

ya1secon Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

https://moonjump.app

Moonjump is a server that redirects you to a random page harvested from Are.na, Hacker News, Marginalia Search, and Gossip Web. This project aims to spark curiosity and provide a portal to the vast collection of interesting material hidden by the commercial web.

The source material is aggregated with care by users of these platforms. Since this accumulation is performed by hand, pages are saved because they had an effect on the users who saved them. The goal is to find something that has an effect on you.

For Are.na, the dictionary of channels that the app pulls from is weighted by the number of pages in the channel. Channels with the most pages are more likely to be selected.

Moonjump makes a decision for you by selecting something random from a deep sea of unconventional content. Results may be peculiar, profound, or absolute nonsense. But you can always close the tab and jump again.

The search engine is powered by Marginalia. I have to admit that the existence of Marginalia is a huge inspiration for Moonjump. Search queries on Moonjump use the Marginalia API to redirect you to a random result.

The easiest way to jump is to click the large logo at the center of the homepage. You can also add https://moonjump.app/jump to your bookmarks bar.

If you are an OSX user and have hammerspoon installed, check the github repo for instructions on how to jump via a keyboard shortcut.

github: https://github.com/ya1sec/moonjump

ya1secon Ain't it funny how the knight moves?

profound statement

ya1secon Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

Salute. But we can haz a little cuteness here

ya1secon Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment

OP is asking you to “comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment, however niche it might be.”

Are you passionate about pedantry? If so, you might be in the right place.

This post was nice to see. In addition to other things, I’m thinking about how to make simple tools/apps that bring back the sense of wonder we felt in earlier times on the internet. I made a little app (really just a function that i have mapped to a keyboard shortcut) that redirects you to a random website sourced from a handful of interesting are.na channels as well as from HN. It has brought me joy both making it and using it. The app is called moonjump and also has a minimal UI:

https://moonjump.app/

ya1secon Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)

Ah I just commented about my app, Moonjump, which uses Gossip Web as one of the sites to source material from. Just found Gossip Web a couple weeks ago. Great job!

Here's mine: https://moonjump.app

ya1secon Why isn't the internet more fun and weird? (2019)

I made an app called Moonjump as a tool to browse the fun/weird internet. It's a server that redirects you to a random page harvested from Are.na, Hacker News, Marginalia Search, Gossip Web, and other sources yet to be configured... I saw someoe mentioned Wiby - totally forgot to include that. Going to do it this weekend!

My project aims spark curiosity and provide a portal to the vast collection of interesting material hidden by the commercial web. The source material is compiled with care by users of these aggregation platforms. Since this accumulation is performed by hand, pages are saved because they had an effect on the users who saved them. Hopefully you will find things that have an effect on you. Everything opens in a new tab, so you can easily close and jump again. I find that it's fun to map the jump function (https://moonjump.app/jump) to a keyboard shortcut.

Try it out: https://moonjump.app

ya1secon Moonjump – A server that redirects you somewhere interesting

not really any restrictions. the main source now are are.na channels, which are collections of links. the channels currently being used are in the `lib/arena.py` file. if you have some sites to add i recommend making a channel on are.na and linking me to it so i can add it to the list! channels with the most links have a heavier weight to reduce repeat results

ya1secon Moonjump – A server that redirects you somewhere interesting

Moonjump is a server that redirects you to a random page harvested from Are.na, Hacker News, Marginalia Search, and Gossip Web.

This project aims to spark curiosity and provide a portal to the vast collection of interesting material hidden by the commercial web.

For Are.na, the dictionary of channels that the app pulls from is weighted by the number of pages in the channel. Channels with the most pages are more likely to be selected.

This collection of curious content is a trove of handcrafted treasures. But as our habits have taught us in the contemporary era of web surfing, we are prone to doomscrolling (and even doom-bookmarking).

The search engine is powered by Marginalia, an amazing project which indexes non-commercial content and may surprise you with sites you perhaps weren't aware of. I have to admit that the existance of Marginalia is a huge inspiration for Moonjump. Search queries on Moonjump use the Marginalia API to redirect you to a random result.

The easiest way to jump is to click the large logo at the center of the homepage. You can also add https://moonjump.app/jump to your bookmarks bar.

If you are an OSX user and have hammerspoon installed, check the github repo for instructions on how to jump via a keyboard shortcut. (This is really fun! I have mine mappt to Cmd-Ctrl-J)

If anyone has any suggestions for improvements, please let me know! Also feel free to open a pull request. The codebase for the homepage is a little bit of a mess but the main functionality is in the Flask app.

Links:

https://moonjump.app https://moonjump.app/jump https://moonjump.app/hn https://github.com/ya1sec/moonjump

https://www.are.na https://search.marginalia.nu https://gossipsweb.net

ya1secon Ask HN: What book changed your life?

Three Novels - Samuel Beckett

The Upanishads - Eknath Easwaran translation

Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud

Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung

Abandoned Fragments - Franz Kafka

Philosophical Grammar - Ludwig Wittgenstein

The Gay Science - Friedrich Nietzsche

Hapworth 16, 1924 - JD Salinger

The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop