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E.g., I like to see https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gwern.net sorted by the scores of the submissions.

I like to be able to create web apps for my own personal projects. I am interested in using this for both traditional websites, and electron/react-native apps. I don't care at all about legacy support, I can transpile…

I am looking for nonfiction non-historical books that aren’t too dumbed-down/light (essentially, a book that needs careful reading, not something skimmable), but still readable on an e-reader such as Kindle (so…

I have been looking for a CLI alternative to apps like CanScanner, Scannable, Office Lens, etc. I have taken a look at ocrmypdf, unpaper, http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/textcleaner/index.php, scantailor. None of…

There are several analyses and tools that give the most upvoted/favorited etc submissions on HN; I have yet to see an attempt that ranks the domains' long-term popularity on HN.

I’m looking for lectures/talks that are one-shot (not a traditional course) and their goal is to teach something amusing. Something like Royal Society talks, Darwin Day lectures. “Awesome talks” lists on Github provide…

This makes it really hard to read the said comment, and makes me have an urge to skip the eye-straining comments. A simple downvote count or a red circle that gets more opaque can convey the same information, without…

I want to have my notes plain-text, and git-versioned. I can easily do that on desktop via vscode/emacs/etc, but I am having difficulty finding good solutions on iOS. I am currently thinking of testing Joplin and…

alias ocr="pngpaste - | tesseract stdin stdout | pbcopy; pbpaste" I saw https://screenotate.com/ mentioned in one of the threads, and thought I share this one-liner free replacement. You need to install the obvious…

I want to use a mailing list like I use Github Issues; Opening one 'issue', getting the replies to that, and NOT getting any superfluous stuff. How can I do that? Case in point being zsh's mailing lists…

Often times when I found a low-quality link and go to the comments section, I see that the link has been flagged. But this doesn’t reach the RSS. Can’t anything be done about it?