troydavis

What's the point of fake comments, let alone talking with yourself using alt accounts?

Do you think potential users will trust someone who posts fake comments?

Good point - I just linked to the first relevant explanation. pvg linked to a much longer explanation that isn’t specific to, or about, Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23071428

Thanks for editing out the line where you told me to go get my brain checked.

Don’t rely on my assessment, go read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868. If you disagree, don’t tell me, suggest an improvement to Dan.

Your quote omits the portion where Dan explicitly addressed that case. It needs to be one year since it received “significant attention,” and also major new development. Dan’s post could be worded more clearly, though.

(We’re pretty far in the weeds here, but as long as we’re here – for all intents and purposes, this is a show HN.)

Please reread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868. It says one year since it received significant attention, not one year except when a massive chunk of features and content is added. Dan explicitly addresses that case (“but that only applies after the "significant attention" test has been passed”).

Effectively a dupe - this just got attention 3 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39672947, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39677009) and 8 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144417).

Once a year has been suggested as the typical maximum frequency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9775868 . Consider reposting in 2025.

Also, coordinating comments and upvotes won’t do you any favors. It’s an easy way to get all submissions banned.

Head over to the full text (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10899630/) and find in the page for “sleep”. Excerpt:

Covariates included … drinking status (never drinker/past drinker/current drinker), body mass index (kg/m2), physical activity (metabolic equivalent hours per week (METs-h/week), sleep hours (hours/day)

They also break down sleep hours by cohort, with roughly 12 minutes/day less sleep among high nighttime eaters.

Check out my comment in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40392631#40392877. As I wrote, head over to https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ , where you can have every version of that debate in an environment that's designed for it.

Here are some to start: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/search?q=assisted+suic...

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40772224

I bought an AirGradient indoor meter and ran into 3 significant undocumented problems, 2 of which affect CO2:

1. The VOC readings use a relative scale and it's relative to a floating value: the last 24 hours. If a VOC source is present for more than 24 hours, it will quietly become part of the baseline value (100). You can read more here: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a... , https://forum.airgradient.com/t/measurement-values-for-the-a...

2. The CO2 measurements re-calibrate to the lowest value detected every week (as ~400 ppm clean air). If it's not exposed to clean air every week, the readings will drift. When users asked how this worked, calibration hadn't been thought about much, if at all: https://forum.airgradient.com/t/model-number-for-co2-calibra... , https://forum.airgradient.com/t/model-number-for-co2-calibra...

3. The graphs don't show reboots, even though reboots (always?) reset the baselines. Reboots happen relatively frequently due to software updates. So, even the relative scale can change without any entry on the graph.

I was pretty annoyed because it didn't seem like the company had thought through the user experience enough to even encounter these questions, let alone consider the best implementation (or at least document the flaws in whatever they're able to implement). This is the whole purpose of the product. The company means well and tries hard, but at some point good intentions matter less than the product.

Another source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-18/lausd-bo...

Look for the “Search tools” dropdown menu. Change “All results” to “Verbatim” mode: https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/google-verbatim

I had about the same experience as I wrote about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40501084

Basically, let me use the app anonymously and get some value from it, so that (a) I want to act on something (save it, come back and continue learning, whatever), and (b) it’s earned some trust. Lead with value instead of leading with a signup form.

No, it’s because you need to read closer :-) Find for “hn@“

That said, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40650590 answered your question as thoroughly as anyone can.

I don’t know who to reach out to

If the other answers here don't answer your question, there's a contact email address on https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Related reading:

https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html

https://www.tomorrow.bio/intro-to-cryopreservation

https://www.alcor.org/what-is-cryonics/

I’ve been really happy with Enchant: https://www.enchant.com/

It has all the ticketing features (assignment, status, etc.), but feels/acts like a very fast email reader.

I clicked “Start Planning Now” and got a signup form. Let me use the app anonymously and get some value from it, so that (a) I want to save something it’s generated, and (b) it’s earned some trust.

If/when I want to save a generated itinerary, then let me create an account.

I also entered a location and clicked “Create Demo Itinerary.” The page showed this error: “ Max search limit reached, please register to continue!”

Big picture suggestion: design the home page around making it so easy to create new itineraries (and/or browse some that you consider great) that I want to keep using it.

And for where you are, that’s probably the key metric: what percentage of anonymous site visitors do you deliver value to (ie, they see an itinerary and click on it or try to save it or something)? Are there subsets - certain referring sites, for example, or people searching for certain types of trips - where that number is really high? If so, those are your initial market; get more like them. If not, find out what visitors actually want (interview recent travelers in your network, offer site visitors $20 to talk with you for 10 few minutes, etc.).

If you enjoy this (or are into foil cats or unusual watercraft), you might also appreciate

* "A Flat Barge Goes to College": https://www.proboat.com/2022/11/a-fiat-barge-goes-to-college...

* "Fledging the Eagle": https://www.proboat.com/2019/09/fledging-the-eagle/

I've stuck with Fusion 360. It's good enough and I'm not trying to learn it deeply, I'm just doing occasional one-off designs for myself.

Because it's owned by Autodesk, I expect that Autodesk will eventually discontinue or reduce the free plan until it's unusable. Hasn't happened yet, though, and as long as one is not married to Fusion, I don't think it would be any harder to switch later (and maybe something else will exist by then).

Fusion 360’s free non-commercial plan is a much softer learning curve than Blender. It doesn’t handle nearly all the situations that Blender can, but if you’re designing products for eventual manufacture, it’s worth trying.

I did something really similar a few times between about 2010-2017 and wrote about it in 2017. "DIY 360° review: how I asked colleagues for anonymous feedback about myself": https://troy.yort.com/diy-360-review-how-i-asked-colleagues-...

I sent it to some friends as well.

When I first did this, I couldn't find anyone else who had shared that they did it. That's the main reason I wrote about it - to make it a bit more approachable for others.

Most HN users didn't sign up looking for "Respectful discussions on controversial topics" (and aren't seeking that out), and of course the site wasn't designed for that. It's like me asking why HN isn't a good place to debate atonal music theory: no one else wants that and the site wasn't designed for it.

If "Respectful discussions on controversial topics" is sincerely what you want, check out https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/ . There, folks did sign up for that and the culture and moderation was built around it. They also set and enforce rules designed for that use case, like "Explain the reasoning behind your view, not just what that view is (500+ characters required)" and "Only post if you are willing to have a conversation with those who reply to you, and are available to start doing so within 3 hours of posting."

It takes quite a bit of work to do well: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules

You can read or join every phrasing of every conceivable vaccine topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/search?q=vaccine&restr... (or search for related keywords).

The company that acted as salvor, Resolve Marine, publishes detailed explanations of past ship salvage projects: https://resolvemarine.com/services-capabilities/salvage-wrec...

I have a Dell U3818DW that I love. The only thing I would change is to go even higher resolution - so your comment made me go look at the U4021QW. Thanks :-)

Nope, it's all plagiarized. The site is garbage, as is the site owner. And of course, the upvotes are fake. If you see sciinsider.com, flag it.

https://www.geekynews.org/0222blog says “Updated: December 11 2022 17:52” and is stolen word for word from https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/dublin/dblbl/ho...

If you want a suggestion, I guess this is one: don’t steal other people’s words and republish them as your own.

This whole site reads like LLM-generated garbage. The domain was registered a week ago, yet it has random pages dated 2022: https://www.geekynews.org/0222blog

And… that page is plagiarized from https://www.ihg.com/crowneplaza/hotels/us/en/dublin/dblbl/ho...

This looks to be a mix of stolen/plagiarized copy and LLM-regurgitated crap.

You’re welcome, and thanks for saying so. I wish it wasn’t needed.