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Don't worry, that's just cyclical fluctuations in human OS software, best summed up like this:

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. Weak men create hard times.

You only see this as troublesome because your scale of perception is one human life. Look at current events as if you are reading a history book.

When you look at the state of things, you should realize that things evolved to be this way _for_a_reason_.

What specific reason or reasons might not be clear, but those reasons and forces nevertheless exist.

Calls to return "back to roots" are quite naive, for example, "let's abandon governments and have private police!". No, we have what we have for a reason.

Same with the state of the Internet. "Let's all go back to protocols! Remember gopher? Let's all do that!".

You cannot "unroll" progress. You cannot go back and live like the Amish. Well, you can, in a tiny weird closed community, while the rest of the world continues to march on.

What happens if a smart employee puts a backdoor in the client code served to you?

Be smaller.

Because nobody yet built a good implementation of the idea.

There was Flattr, but they pivoted from their original idea because they couldn't make it work for some reason.

It can't be implemented on the level of individual sites - the solution needs to be universal, like Google adding a 'tip' button to Chrome + Play Store payment integration.

Read your rationale. Sorry, this is extremely naive.

You describe the problems correctly, but your solutions are very shallow.

"Don't store delivered emails"? Great, now we need to do backups of all the individual mail clients!

"Instances that can't be accessed from outside". What happens when such an instance gets compromised? And now _everybody_ on your internal network, who trusts this system without a slightest doubt, will get massively owned.

And on and on it goes...

Why is it "oversimplification"? In the long run, it's true.

If it's not a charity, _you_ will be bearing the cost, one way or another. Your attention will be sold to other people. So yes, you are the product.

How else can you monetize a big project if not at the expense of its users?

My guess would be that it's OK.

Vitamin D should definitely be taken in the morning, as it affects circadian clock, but K2 timing is probably not that important.

Well, for one it will deposit in the walls of your arteries.

Vitamin K2 is a must, because without it all the extra calcium will be just hanging in your blood and that's not good.

D increases absorption, while K2 increases utilization. And we're all starved of K2 because industrial farmers feed crappy food to our animals...

4 top results are all Ads and cover the whole front page on my screen! Not cool.

One would expect the ability to download books in various formats (EPUB, TXT, etc) in a site like this from the start. Otherwise it's pretty much useless.

Is there a way to create a custom tag component?

Like "<my-button></my-button>"?

This looks cool.

I am still using MSVC6.0 and loving it... There was a clear drop in quality when MS switched to the "modern" VS.

It seems most people here look at a short period of history: they take some crappy software, like modern VS or Office and point that it improved from the initial very crappy version to a less crappy one. Hurray, progress!

What they don't take into account is how much crappier the whole "modern" range of product versions is compared to the original.

I don't think this is the case at all! To me Excel, for example, peaked at 2003 version, which I still use, and after that it followed the same pattern the topic started described - worse and worse and worse.

Same with Google Chrome (I am using v43 whenever possible) and pretty much all the software.

Thinking. It's the _only_ skill programmers need. Everything else will follow.

I would design it as a Web of Apps rather than the Web of Docs.

Lots of current issues are because it started as a Web of Docs, yet what people wanted was the Web of Apps.

It would also be based on UDP rather than TCP.

There will be no cookies, Local Storage covers it.

Authentication based on public key cryptography.

Search similar to RSS, where each site provides an API feed, not bots scanning content.

And on and on it goes :-)

Usually this is done server-side in something like PHP. It will not be a "static" website, though. The script will generate an HTML page on each access and return it to the user.

Alternatively, if DB data rarely changes, you can generate and save static HTML's on the server and then serve them. But usually if people are accessing database, they work with dynamic data.

This should exist, yes. Good luck!

One thing I noticed so far: search doesn't search for people. Try "Trump" and see.

It would also be nice to have a separate list (probably with first letter shortcuts) of all people. Major use case is checking the track record of some politician. Or a lookup field with auto-complete, which shows the names as you type.

Actually, I slightly changed the syntax to be simpler:

* "cool stuff" will only match if both 'cool' and 'stuff' are present

* "cool, stuff" will match if either 'cool' or 'stuff' is present

* "cool stuff, pizza" will either match both 'cool' and 'stuff' or 'pizza'

Vertical line is also supported: "cool stuff | pizza".

It does work, just pay attention to syntax:

* "cool, stuff" will only match if both 'cool' and 'stuff' are present

* "cool | stuff" will match if either 'cool' or 'stuff' is present

* "cool, stuff | pizza" will either match both 'cool' and 'stuff' or 'pizza'

Tried it, here are some first impressions:

- On the page where you start a debate it's not clear how to save it and not obvious that you need to move to Schedule. A big green NEXT>> button at the bottom would help.

- Can't the debate be started right away? It's sort of cumbersome to think about all the dates and then wait, and also can't really test anything right now.

- The design looks slick, nice that it's not one of the overused templates.

Hard to say anything about the process itself since can't test it until it starts.

Hi HN,

I made a telegram bot that can send you new Hacker News stories by keywords.

You specify a list of tags, for example "ai, tesla, musk" and it will start sending you all new stories matching those words.

Tags can be grouped with | or semicolon: "ai, escaped | president, heart, attack".

Special tags [show] and [ask] notify about all 'Show HN' and 'Ask HN' posts.

Another special tag $ matches all numbers like '$25B'.

You can also use host names: "[show], github.io".

To view current tags use /tags.

To stop notifications use /stop.

Direct link: https://t.me/hnbuzz_bot (HN auto-deletes t.me links)

Can't try it - it shows a red triangle with ! in it and a Retry button which does nothing.

The title font is so heavy it's difficult to read. Also, poor vertical space utilization.

Maybe make design more similar to HN?

How does this differ from other similar sites?