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www.bbc.co.uk 1y ago

Reddit starts verifying ages of users in the UK

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selkie.design 1y ago

Using Apple Private Cloud Compute in macOS via Shortcuts

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www.notably.news 1y ago

Show HN: A News Service That Almost Never Emails You (By Design)

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www.boardy.ai 1y ago

Boardy – the AI "superconnector" that phones you up

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www.bbc.com 1y ago

DOJ has demanded Google sells off Chrome

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semantic.builders 2y ago

Semantic Builders – commercial Wikidata mirror

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blog.funcall.org 2y ago

EURISKO Lives

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www.anthropic.com 2y ago

Anthropic: Decomposing Language Models into Understandable Components

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Tell HN: Foo Is a Valid TLD

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emailsecuritycheck.service.ncsc.gov.uk 3y ago

Email Security Checks from UK National Cyber Security Centre

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danijar.com 3y ago

DeepMind DreamerV3: Diamonds in Minecraft from scratch

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hummingbirdclock.info 3y ago

The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum

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www.bbc.com 4y ago

Mutations across species reveal clues to ageing

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Data Embassy

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www.rfc-editor.org 4y ago

RFC 7686: The .onion Special-Use Domain Name

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www.reuters.com 5y ago

Ethereum Breaks Past $3k

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www.independent.co.uk 5y ago

Facebook accidentally announces “Re-Entry” social network targeted at prisoners

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techcrunch.com 5y ago

Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

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www.bbc.co.uk 5y ago

Airbus looks to the future with hydrogen planes

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e.gg 5y ago

E.gg, from Facebook

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youtu.be 6y ago

Procedural Generation of Moons and Planets

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developer.apple.com 6y ago

App Clips for iOS

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seri.tools 6y ago

Compiling Rust binaries for Windows 98 SE

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github.com 6y ago

Show HN: Python Testing Crawler – spider your Flask or Django website in tests

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www.lancelist.com 6y ago

LanceList – a directory of ways for freelancers to find work

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nitaym.github.io 7y ago

--ours vs --theirs in git

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root.co.za 9y ago

Root – Programmable bank account for software developers

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www.bbc.co.uk 9y ago

Ordnance Survey's 3D map of UK

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adespresso.com 9y ago

Anatomy of a Startup M&A (AdEspresso Joins Hootsuite)

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www.bbc.co.uk 9y ago

British Government loses Article 50 court fight

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First, make me care 6 months ago

You can't just find one hook that works and reuse it forever...

I would be interested in a study on how long popular accounts do use their one hook -- or set of hooks, or rotate them...

OP here. One thing I don't have a good answer for yet: this mostly uses Wikipedia as a source. How can I pay back to volunteer editors ("Wikipedians") if this is at all successful? I've seen other sites like newsasfacts.com suggest giving a proportion of profits to the Wikimedia foundation, but obviously they are ultimately separate from the volunteer base, and its fundraising appears increasingly controversial [1, 2].

I slightly balk at the idea, but is a cryptocurrency token possibly the answer? Generate, distribute to editors and have donations come inbound somehow? I see the dangers here!

[1] https://unherd.com/newsroom/the-next-time-wikipedia-asks-for... [2] https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/wikipedia-wikimedia-fou...

By George, ItsMattyG is right! After editing a question (with the "stylus"/pen icon), the revision number counter that appears (e.g. "1 / 2") has arrows next to it that allow forward and backward navigation through the new branches.

This was surprisingly undiscoverable. I wonder if it's documented. I couldn't find anything from a quick look at help.openai.com .

* The main thing that makes ChatGPTs ui useful to me is the ability to change any of my prompts in the conversation & it will then go back to that part of the converation and regenerate, while removing the rest of the conversation after that point.

Agreed, but what I would also really like (from this and ChatGPT) would be branching: take a conversation in two different ways from some point and retain the seperate and shared history.

I'm not sure what the UI should be. Threads? (like mail or Usenet)

I don't think I'm alone in considering blinking keyboard cursor/carets as the original sin of this.

Here's an long-running collection of how to disable flashing cursors everywhere, from vi to Vscode: https://jurta.org/en/prog/noblink

Software development is not an easy task, and often after a painful process of writing a program developers feel they should share their pains with users, so they put a part of own sufferings onto the shoulders of users in a method similar to the Chinese water torture - blinking cursors.