I visit HN from RSS feed. Articles are listed on my feed, but I have to click through to really read anything-—there is no summary in the RSS feed.
So I could visit HN directly and prolly save a step. But in truth, I like having one place to go. And here I’ve collected and curated all the places I like to visit. And I find it much better than using bookmarks.
Which is all a lot to say that I’d be more likely to return to visit this site if it had an RSS feed.
Obviously, part of the charm of the site is the telemetry and data widgety bits (weather, stock ticker) which are mixed in with newsy and fun bits (I love the quotes). But I can tell you with all honesty, if I make a bookmark for this site, it’s going into a sea of links.
RSS isn’t just for consuming site data without dealing with the design cruff. It’s also good as a bookmark.
I'll add an RSS feed to the site. Thanks for the feedback. It's kind of MVP at the moment, it's slowly turning into something. I need to add original written content which I will add, just getting the bones in place.
> “Every day, millions of developers paste sensitive code, API keys, passwords, database queries, and proprietary business logic into free online tools.”
> “This is a pretty new capability; previous approaches on re-identification generally required structured data, and two datasets with a similar schema that could be linked together.”
Right up there with Skynet, for me, has been the idea of disparate databases all being linked up by bad actors.
It appears as though DOGE illegally obtained taxpayer data from the IRS. I don’t trust DOGE to safeguard anything.
And the penalties do not seem to be very severe outside of HIPPA.
It reminds me of a story I was told about a certain vault in Hollywood that contained hundreds of priceless films that were destroyed in a fire...but they locked up the vault and pretended everything was fine. And to this day...
True. Segregated in such a way that you can ignore it as you so choose by just not reading anything in that space.
At HN we have more interactive mechanisms, vote and flag.
On the one hand I appreciate the objections of people who wish political discourse was not present in this space.
And on the other hand, I like to see what percolates through this sieve.
Same with books, entertainments, specialties of engineering and science, and, sadly, the extreme actions of the present US government overturning the table and sending everyone running for cover.
> "That's likely no big deal for Windows, which already requires you to enter your date of birth during the Microsoft Account setup procedure."
I've been working around the Microsoft user-creation requirement for years. Looks like they were ahead of the game. CA is marching towards private-business surveillance. What could go wrong?
> "The imagery of 1969, I remember it well. The Vietnam war was the first war that was televised. Everyone would watch the nightly news at 6:30 pm (take my word for it) and hear the choppers, gunfire and real life screams of people."
Slightly off-topic--
Before my time, but my professor* recalled to our class his experience watching a _live_ news report from Vietnam. Something shocking happened during the broadcast. As a visual-media scholar he contacted the station to obtain a copy. No go. He remarked how he never saw that footage ever again (at that time it would have been over 15 years ago). In our modern digital age it's difficult to imagine anything going live to the nation, and then disappearing.
* (Charles Chess, Introduction to Film, SJSU, c1992)
He might want to search the Marion Stokes collection once the Internet Archive has it all digitized. She recorded thirty years of TV for most of the major networks.
The thing which blows my mind is that the NIC handle database is simply gone. This was the database of everyone who was responsible for some internet asset (typically a domain name) in some fashion such that it was recorded for operators' use. You could look it up, it was public. Now it's simply gone. (I'm FWM6)
So I could visit HN directly and prolly save a step. But in truth, I like having one place to go. And here I’ve collected and curated all the places I like to visit. And I find it much better than using bookmarks.
Which is all a lot to say that I’d be more likely to return to visit this site if it had an RSS feed.
Obviously, part of the charm of the site is the telemetry and data widgety bits (weather, stock ticker) which are mixed in with newsy and fun bits (I love the quotes). But I can tell you with all honesty, if I make a bookmark for this site, it’s going into a sea of links.
RSS isn’t just for consuming site data without dealing with the design cruff. It’s also good as a bookmark.
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