Friday, March 08, 2024

Raycast Store: Vortex


The fastest way to use bitcoin on macOS

Monday, February 12, 2024

We Finally Know How Ancient Roman Concrete Was Able to Last Thousands of Years : ScienceAlert


Have we finally found the secret to long lasting concrete, the way the Romans made it?


This begs the question why we don't make it like this anymore? What's wrong with building, say, bridges, that will last us another 2000 years?

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Reading Coach Preview


So built into Teams, Microsoft has hidden a speech coach of sorts. 

I listen to a lot of interviews where I realise most people just aren't very good at explaining things or expressing themselves. 

Monday, February 05, 2024

How to read a scroll you can’t unroll?


Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the scrolls! | Vesuvius Challenge



Monday, January 22, 2024

Sunday, November 26, 2023

How do the karma points on Hacker News work?

 

Recently, I paid attention to my karma points on HN. I submitted an article that got around 100 upvotes. But then I realized that my karma points rose only about 40 points...

This made me pose this question to Kagi's FastGPT: Can you explain to me how the karma points on Hacker News work?

The answers that Kagi's FastGPT gives are generally very high quality because they come with source references included:

Karma points on Hacker News are a measure of how popular a user's submissions and comments are based on upvotes from other users. Each upvote a user receives adds to their total karma points.

It is currently unknown exactly how many karma points equal 1 upvote, with some context mentioning it may not be a 1:1 ratio [1]. Having more karma points allows users to downvote other submissions and comments once they reach a certain threshold, which is not explicitly stated. [2]

Karma points do not directly correspond to a user's ability to submit links or comments, which is determined by account age and whether the account has been flagged before. But generally, users with high karma points have established themselves as regularly contributing positively to the site. [3]


  1. Open secrets about Hacker News | Hacker News
  2. Hacker News Parody Thread | Hacker News
  3. The Evolution Of Hacker News | TechCrunch

Friday, October 20, 2023

Podcast episodes, sorted by location: MapsFM


I'm planning a trip for next summer. I hope to visit the convention in Philadelphia in August '24 and then to visit the Adirondack Mountains in the upper New York State area 😃 

So currently I'm compiling a list of all the places that seem to be worth a visit. This is hard work. If only I could find a podcast that takes place or talks about this area 😅 

By chance I happened upon a Hacker News link that points to just such a website. Maps.fm literally shows you a map and on top of it, a bunch of podcast episodes that mention the place on the map. I will give this a try soon™️