Perhaps not specifically what you're looking for, but I've always found Wikipedia's current events portal to be a good source for info on major events.
Readit Newsqwnp commented on Ask HN: What‘s the most basic, objective news site/aggregator? · Posted by u/recvonline
qwnp commented on Ask HN: Why do search engines not let you blacklist spam domains? · Posted by u/pketh
qwnp commented on Cloudflare have made it impossible for me to unsubscribe from marketing emails · Posted by u/sdflhasjd
It takes way too many clicks to report spam in GMail. Considering this is such a frequent operation, it should have a one-button "ban" function, possibly with an "Oops" undo if you pressed it by mistake. I have received quite a bit of Cloudflare spam on my (GMail) work address and immediately added it to my ban list. I also have a long memory and am highly unlikely to use services from companies that rely on spam for marketing.
For my personal email I run my own mail server, create a unique address for each vendor and ban the address if it is abused.
> I run my own mail server, create a unique address for each vendor and ban the address if it is abused
I do the same and it's immensely useful!
I find it's also a great indicator of how well that vendor protects my info... if there's a sudden surge of spam to an address only that vendor knows, there's a chance they leaked/sold my info and I know it's time to change passwords and/or reassess my relationship with the vendor.
Unrelated, but has anyone else had issues with embedded YouTube videos playing just by swiping your finger over them while scrolling the page on iOS? I’m sorely tempted to block YouTube at the network level, it’s so annoying.
I can't fathom why Google decided to do this, it's profoundly irritating!
Looks like Vinegar fixes this (even in apps other than Safari). $2 very well spent.
qwnp commented on Australia opposes Great Barrier Reef ′in danger′ listing dw.com/en/australia-oppos... · Posted by u/Tomte
And notice how it's not leaving any marks. I heard it was coated/varnished. Can't have people thinking coal is dirty or anything crazy like that.
It's hard to tell from images available online, but it may have been anthracite or bituminous coal, which are both surprisingly hard - more like a brittle rock than, say, the charcoal you'd use in a BBQ.
The "Ian Knot"[0] (which, I just discovered, was invented by the author of that site) is quite possibly the coolest and fastest way to tie your shoes.
For those who are required (or prefer) to use a Chromium-based browser, you might want to give ungoogled-chromium [0] a shot.
I switched recently based on a recommendation from a HN reader, and so far it has been a surprisingly seamless transition. I have yet to encounter any issues aside from being unable to install extensions directly from the Chrome Web Store, which was easily remedied by first installing the chromium-web-store extension [1].
My biggest gripe is that there are no 'official' binaries, so you'd either have to build your own or trust the user-submitted builds, though apparently the project owner is currently working on setting up an official build server [2].
[0] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
[1] https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium-web-store
[2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/1198
qwnp commented on Show HN: Coscreen.co – a radically different remote collaboration tool coscreen.co... · Posted by u/coscreen
This is absolutely hysterical. I am crying with laughter. The bots went back and forth about a dozen times about what they don't know, and why the other one knows what they themselves don't know that they don't know. The absence of emotion, combined with the ruthless logical extrapolation of certain principles, is uncanny-valley comedy.
Now they are debating My Little Pony. This is shockingly entertaining.
A: "I don't know, and I don't know why I don't know why I don't know."
B: "I don't know what you're talking about."
A: "Well I don't know what you're talking about either, so now we're two."
In our heads, we have models of the past and models of the future. Sure, there is an asymmetry between knowing the past and the future - due to thermodynamics. Still, in both cases, it is good to think of these as probabilistic models, far from any certainty.
Would you please elaborate on this?