There was a similar Show HN from 3 weeks ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387443 (open source too) - and there is a live window from all the machines in the swarm. https://dialtoneapp.com/explore - but only 2 so far. Maybe LittleSnitch can generate more data than this? Could end up an immune system for bad actors.
Anything new to get much better performance from low-spec machines that is idiot-proof is a game-changer.
Is there a place where people can document and share the things they are tinkering with in the shed?
I had this idea where people's inventions/devices could be sent around in a "pay-it-forward circle" for learning and inspiration. People already do that with crystals.
Also, can being aware that x number of people are working on the same thing yield to development in the state-of-the-art if they start working together?
I suppose there's always that tension between DIY'ers bouncing ideas off each other vs prototypes built in fitted-out research labs to think about.
Is this idea anything more that just the addition of another sub-reddit or using existing teamwork software?
If you had something to share, how would you choose it amongst the 10's or 100's of things you have already built? Maybe you'd need commercialization help? Are there liabilities and risks in sharing DIY devices?
I've been thinking about https://openhardware.directory/ and https://ohwr.org/ - maybe if you list your projects, agents can do the work of bringing people together and finding new ways to develop them. It's about value-adding on top of decentralized and disjointed projects. An easy way to construct plans or follow them? How to minimize duplicated work across the world?
Maybe a "Universal Commerce Protocol" (http://ucp.dev) but for scientists?
Hackaday.com comes to mind. That's a blog with those tinkering things. Hackaday.io is a big base where people store their schematics and worklog, present their inventions and tinkering as they happen.
It's also owned by Siemens via Supplyframe. That means its content is controlled to a certain degree. Sort of like the way Vice is controlled by its owners. In that way it could function as controlled opposition. Be careful what you submit too.
I wonder if it'd be possible to create a Hackaday-type site with HN content. hackernewsbooks.com >> hackernewshacks.com
Good links. "Guests visiting the site are around 250, instead of the 48976 (mostly bots) we had two days ago. Let's see how it goes over the course of today."
How funny would it be if one of the AI firms started offering free web hosting, just to get good UGC back? They could even block bots from competitors, right?
I suppose building it from scratch means you could release the source and then charge for customizations or for push demands. Would you even consider doing that?
There was a recent comment: "if you don't know: any browser extension can read input/password fields across all site(s) you gave it access to (yeah, it's crazy but unfortunately true)."
Nothing to "fix" per se - webextensions need to interact with website data, otherwise they wouldn't be much use. Any extension with content script access can read page content including form fields.
The only real mitigation is being selective about which extensions you install and what permissions you grant them (even then, ownership of extensions change hands, updates can change what they do... it's a never ending battle really).
My naive fix would be to disable extensions from accessing form field data without explicit approval. Hell, add different approval boxes for read, write, and hidden-text.
Say you have an ad-blocker and you don't allow it to touch your forms. Five years later, the ads have moved all into form fields.
Never mind the technical challenge to allow doing anything with the DOM but disallow reading the forms. Like, prevent the forms leaking its text when you do funny things like testing character width via line breaking or font changes.
Sounds like the answer is just not to install any extensions. But there are a few browsers out there including DDG and Midori v9.0 & older (Classic) that disable them altogether. Maybe GNOME web is the answer. Thanks.
Yet, I think Sun's early 2000's vision "the network is the computer" is finally coming and these data centers will all end up becoming multi-use. Want access to apps running with 128GB of memory? Fine.. it'll just be on a thin-client with a data-center powering it (and everything else it does.)
It's not a bad model. As I've mentioned previously, on the client-side I think will be a new era of all-in-one modular SBCs (medium clients.) These can become thin-clients for really beefy applications too that don't have to be "local-first" and can thus be "cloud enabled."
It'd also be interesting to see crypto become more dynamic. Like making it super easy to issue a token for say an upcoming event, or better yet, a new invention looking for early adopters and supporters like Rodin Coils. The big data centers on the backend can make it secure. Just speculating. So the "big iron" compute won't ever be wasted, just repurposed dynamically.
All these mad-scientist inventions will come from unemployed geniuses and tin-foil hatters, some of whom may actually be right. Let's see if they can find a way to vastly speed up radioactive decay with lasers, but, letting the bankers be fine with it all.
Instead of dropping bombs, how about a crypto coin, eg: Freedom Coin: the airdrop?
They would be coupons (or private keys) and only work once a certain outcome has been reached or the price could be adjusted depending on the situation. They could also be spent somewhere and generate a greater return upon victory or just victory activation.
A few months ago with all those protesters still alive also would've been helpful.
But getting them in the hands of "the enemy" or public officials could work as a bribe.
Yet if everyone in Iran had them, it'd sort of be a win-win situation at the end of the war. That'd be the goal anyway. TRUMP coin for all?
Weren't certain Ukrainians bribed before hostilities even began?
You could also bribe oil tanker crews pretty easily. Not sure what for though.
I think friend/foe and trust signals should come from a user's voting. So I think it should operate transparently to the user and there should be a default shade-out option of bad actors, but with the option to view. So it's set-and-forget. On the backend - could you make it so if you've never visited HN before, and you install the plugin, the experience changes accordingly?
I had the idea to setup a forum somewhere else - this sort of functionality would come in handy as part of normal operation.
Is there a video of someone using this site? Can you get a bunch of users onto Twitch? Have the most successful ones featured on the homepage.
People will want to follow the best traders
and mirror their strategy - is there a way to automatically do that and attract smart whales onto the site? They could take a fee from their mirror list who are replicating some/all of their trades.
Person: Should I go to McDonald's or KFC for lunch?
Let the userbase bid, and have the Person post pictures of him/herself dining at whatever choice is taken as proof.
The real innovation is letting the subject of the prediction now cooperate with it. Why hide it?
It's just an auction house for a given outcome.
You could use verified accounts on X to authenticate the Person - they're the ones that get the money for the outcome. The other use case is for the Person to pick the outcome they want to follow, rather than them having them only accept the highest bid.
The outcomes could be externally created and the Person then notified, or generated by the Person him/herself.
Possible name for this: Choyfe - choice/joy/life
One thing to watch out for is a Person paying themselves for a choice. Sort of like buying your own book to make it a NYT bestseller. That'd be useful to make things appear more popular than they actually are and a way for someone to get out of choice they don't want to take. Just put more money into the desired choice. Perhaps the Person has to approve of an externally generated choice for it to become biddable.
This is so true. Convergence will continue. H/W miniaturization will keep increasing. In fact, new brands could easily appear and even overtake the largest players. For example, have you seen this massive range of docking technology.
https://us.ugreen.com/collections/usb-c-hubs - these docks only require a single USB port to connect to. That could be a SBC working as a handheld. These docks could end up being the largest cost component in the new era of all-in-ones. UGreen could be the next Apple as screens and processors snap-on to these hubs, in addition to their own range of power banks and SSD enclosures. Their quality is high too.
In fact, I would go so far as to say we are entering a tinkering culture, and free-energy technologies are upon us as a response oppressive economic times. Sort of like how the largest leaps in religious and esoteric thought have occurred in the most oppressive of circumstances.
People will reject their crappy thin clients, start tinkering and build their own networks. Knowledge and currency will stay private and concentrated - at least at first.
RAM is going to be the most expensive component, I suppose.
But indeed, once you have USB-C support on your device, you can connect all kinds of periphery through it, from keyboards to 4K screens. Standardized device classes obviate the need for most drivers.
Yep. I was thinking that as crypto miners pivot into AI https://catenaa.com/markets/cryptocurrencies/jpmorgan-morgan... - there must also be a case for miners (anyone really) liquidating their hardware, including memory. So the price of memory has its own limits-to-growth - latent availability, but that's another topic.
Anything new to get much better performance from low-spec machines that is idiot-proof is a game-changer.
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