I put together a votable list of most of the sites recommended by HN users so its easier to see which blogs are the most popular/recommended (anyone can vote).
This is one of my first side projects, and I created it because I’ve always been interested in opinion-based questions on HN (i.e. Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?). I know there are already several sites where you can ask opinionated questions (quota, slant, hn), but I was looking for something that’s uncluttered and straightforward. That’s why Diffur questions are simple lists. Anyone can vote and rankings are based on vote count.
Just ported it for Chrome and Firefox. Maybe the title should be updated to reflect that change. There might be extensions for this already which could be more convenient.
I understand, as others have said elsewhere, that it's just an experiment, and as such cross-browser support isn't as much of a priority - it's not a product that people need to work. I've made plenty of experiments myself that only work in one browser.
However, for many experiments like this, they're doing something somewhat novel using a tech a single browser has just introduced - in those cases, it's limitations that lead to lack of interop. In this case, it just seemed a bit disappointing. That is subjective of course, but it was my - I think warranted - first reaction.
much more impressive drawings have been created than this.
The added animation doesn't add much.
You say it's subjective, but when you start posting things like the above, you're deeming this project as unworthy of being on HN just because you feel it's "novel". The OP never claims the technology is new or cutting-edge, so why even bring that up? And there's really no need to link other css artworks in an attempt to undermine the work at hand.
You could be right. I wouldn't conflate "novel" with "new or cutting-edge" (one can still do novel things with old tech) but even just limiting it to novel may be unfair. I guess this is just something I associate with HN submissions from experience - many things posted here really genuinely blow me away. This didn't. The normal reaction to that might be to just say nothing, but given the browser support issue, I commented.
Given that I was additionally mis-attributing the non-cross-browser functionality to the author (see edit - it works fine in Firefox), my own subjective reaction to it is probably that little bit more unfair again now.
OP provided the source. Why not make a pull request and make those implementations and submit then back? Would be a good learning opportunity for some, no?
I think you're underestimating the level of traffic this "glorified phpBB theme with a relatively small community of fans" receives. Their Alexa rank sits at 3327 which alone means they're receiving tremendous traffic. Not to mention the whole concept of the site is to connect product enthusiasts with products they might end up purchasing. There's actually a fairly significant amount of upside if they can turn PH into a sales platform and take a commission.
Although some have pointed out that the article is pure speculation, this is a topic that interests me. Are there any recommendable books that explore similar topics?
I've tried googling, but there's just too many "Alien" theory books out there. Hoping for some solid recommendations.
Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem trilogy explores this problem pretty strongly in the last book (Death's End), and also foreshadows it a bit in the first two. I recently binge-read them all and I give a very high recommendation for them. Calling the guy "China's Clarke" may not be a stretch.
I mentioned it down-thread, but my favorite part of the trilogy is his answer to the Fermi paradox (minor spoilers ahead): because of the universal limit of light speed, and exponential growth in technology, by the time you see evidence of advanced alien life, chances are they have developed to the point of being an existential threat to your own civilization. So the only logical behavior is to remain hidden and immediately destroy any civilization you detect. I haven't heard anyone propose this particular solution before, so I thought it was quite clever.
It might be overselling Arthur C. Clarke, who is largely known for strange stuff like 2001. Three body has a much more salient blend of pure hard sci fi and human drama. Maybe an Orson Scott Card? It is kind of a newer style.
Pohl's "Heechee Saga" books (”Gateway" and its sequels) end up with humans getting involved in wars between a couple different God-Like Ancient Aliens who wanted to change various cosmological constants in ways that would make intelligent life more or less likely to happen.
They don't show up until like book 3 of the series though.
The Xeelee Sequence of books addresses similar ideas, except I'd argue that the Xeelee and the Photino Birds are several orders of magnitude above the Heechee and The Foe.
Both. It feels as though both could offer interesting perspectives on alien intelligence. Since there's so much we don't know, I assume many theories would be labeled as fiction to be proven otherwise.
Not really a book but I recently stumbled across a Korean drama on Hulu, called "W" that I thought was pretty thought provoking in this type of train of thought, IMO.
Clickbait to the max. Here's the summary at the end:
To summarize my main points: A few lucky men are at the top of society and enjoy the culture’s best rewards. Others, less fortunate, have their lives chewed up by it. Culture uses both men and women, but most cultures use them in somewhat different ways. Most cultures see individual men as more expendable than individual women, and this difference is probably based on nature, in whose reproductive competition some men are the big losers and other men are the biggest winners. Hence it uses men for the many risky jobs it has.
The title is intended to be provocative, but it's not clickbait to my thinking.
Posting the summary of the main points as you've done there is to do a massive disservice to the carefully considered, and thoughtfully presented arguments and evidence within the article.
It's not a short article, to be sure, but if you want complex concepts reduced to a single sentence then you're in the wrong universe.
