Hey thanks! I hope so too. I actually want it to be a semi-regular thin on HN, like Who Is Hiring, or WHat are You Working on. I think the utility is in the joy and laughs, but also in the novelty/interestingness of the titles that cause quite a number of people to actually read articles they wouldn't have otherwise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775501 - the joy however is a big thing, if you read through the comments of my previous popular posts in this vein, there's so much pure enjoyment. I love that, and it's a reall good to see here.
Also it breaks the monotony of seriousness and is a welcome relief. Humor expands the mind and shifts perspective. It's a genuine good. That said, the mods don't feel the same way (not saying they are humorless!) and side with those who complain about these posts or are tired of them. The mods say this is because they are repetitive, and not original, and they've already given more than usual space to me for posting these. They say this is about a balance. I feel they really don't want more of these to be posted, and seem certain they will not allow these to become new front page stories again.
However, while I might have failed to convince them, if you email them, and explain your thinking/reasonsing, it might make a dent in their perspecitve. Idk, but if you or others who enjoy this stuff could try, you might be able to convince them to semi-regularize it, something I would be happy to do: hn@ycombinator.com
My feeling is there are a bunch of people who really despise these kinds of posts for various reasons, and they are vigilant and loud. And the mods have precedent for punishing repeitition (yet its permitted for genres like WIH, and WAYWO). I think the mods just don't want to deal with the loud complainers who this displeases, and also genuinely believe this kind of post is bad for the community.
However, I know the mods change their mind when the community speaks, too. So if you want to maybe add some voices of reason to those who might email and complain about these, I beseech you, do email and support a semi-regular "honest/savage titles" type post! And if we get approval, I'm happy to do these like last friday of every month, or every friday or whatever cadence is good.
I don't know about everyone else, but bottom line for me is, for all the ones this displeases, I know you have your principles about this, but are you really not laughing at any of it? 100% zero joy sparked? I would be surprised. But if that's the case do we really need to kowtow to the joyless who would rid our community of the joy of many, for thier own poverty of enjoyment?
You might not agree with how I feel about it, but if you would like to see more of this, and have some reasons, I really encourage you to email the mods and relay your support. Then, this might happen! Otherwise the mods have made it clear it will not be permitted to become a real front page story again ("short amount of time on front page then moved to second page soon after" quoting email from mod). That limits the joy collectively because only a fraction of people can see it then.
I'm fine if I get 0 karma for these posts, if the mods require such "concessions." It's about the joy and good vibes of all. I think balance should be more star trek balance and less volume balance. I truly feel the joy of the many here outweighs the few sours. To the sours: skip over it, don't engage; don't let our joy break your joy. Compartmentalize!
A fun little functional language where everything is a parameter in a glorious cascade of functions from a parent function. It's called OAF (Oops All Functions).
Tangentially, if you enjoy The Great Gatsby, you might also enjoy All The King's Men, which is a work of fiction that I think similarly richly described a swath of the American experience.
As for Gatsby, I think it's a great piece of fiction that invites a lot of readings, and everyone's invited to that ownership of the text. I think you can come away with the deeply shallow understanding of "the twenties were cool," and still be enriched by Fitzgerald's writing style.
I don't think anyone has made a good film adaptation of Gatsby and I don't know if anyone will, as long as it's adapted literally. The imagery and iconography of wealthy 1920s America eats so much of anything that tries to adapt it, that they tend to come out feeling shallow, and the writing is so dense that dialogue feels stilted and weird spoken out loud. You'd either need to, in my opinion, lean heavily into both, or abandon both, to make a good adaptation (leaning into both immediately feels like a Wes Anderson movie to me).
I think the best adaptation would be to do something like Jobs, where they just take a few scenes from the book and create a movie out of that.
A hobby language called OAF (Oops All Functions). Everything is an argument of a parent function PROGRAM. It's very cursed but it's now fully competent as a general purpose language.
I believe they are saying that this update will remove the ability to decide if you want to install it and will require developers to register and pay for their applications to be installable at all. It's been several years since I developed for Mac, but they operated a similar way, secretly marking a file as quarantined and saying "XYZ Is Damaged and Can’t Be Opened. You Should Move It To The Trash" if you didn't pay to play. Maybe this has since changed, or maybe I'm just a dummy. Regardless, whether a platform has any business funneling a user into their walled garden is another philosophical argument altogether.
In my experience the quarantine flag gets added if the file is downloaded via browser, chat program, email, or some other way that isn’t curl/wget/other CLI tool. At least for the past 6-8 months this has been my experience. Not that it excuses anything, but for what I have had to deal with it’s been somewhat helpful.
Usually the hurdle is just a pop-up informing you that it's been downloaded from the Internet. Sometimes the malware checks go wrong though and try to prevent you from opening it at all.
If you're interested in learning morse, there's a great app for Android, "Morse Mania: Learn Morse Code" from which I learned. It's surprisingly easy to pick up the basics but requires a good bit of practice to be able to parse it in real time.
I would imagine not very much? The people buying vinyl are buying as a collectors item or because of its audio qualities. It's very easy to accidentally listen to something that's AI generated, you have to very actively purchase a vinyl. It also costs virtually nothing to get music on Spotify but is relatively expensive to get anything on vinyl.
I should start by saying that I find ads incredibly irritating in any form. That said, Miele and DeLonghi are both more than a hundred year old companies. Maybe they don't need to advertise because they have such solidly establish brand identities, but they do advertise and they have advertised throughout their history as companies. Ads are a way of maintaining brand awareness, introducing new products, and creating demand. Even if you have an incredibly solid product with good word of mouth there is still benefit to advertising it.
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