niklaslogren | 2 years ago | on: How to Win Friends and Hustle People
https://archive.is/xFoyz
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niklaslogren | 2 years ago | on: Public-key cryptography (2018)
The "digital signature" description gives the impression that the signed message is encrypted with the private key and later decrypted with the public key.
Is this how message signing works in reality? I had a different mental model.
niklaslogren | 3 years ago | on: What things did you purchase that enhanced the quality of your life in 2022?
Baby brezza. It's like a coffee machine but for baby formula. It really improves my family's night sleep!
niklaslogren | 3 years ago | on: Pocket Casts goes open source
Pretty off-topic, but:
> I hope that Pocket Casts can do for podcast clients what Firefox in the early days and Chromium now does for browsers — push the state of the art, be manically focused on user control, and grow a more decentralized and open web.
It's pretty funny to see the claim that Chromium is "manically focused on user control" and "is growing a more decentralised and open web" :-)
niklaslogren | 3 years ago | on: I miss the programmable web (2021)
I love the programmable web!
I wanna give a shoutout to Stylus[0] for offering userstyles (basically the same thing as TamperMonkey but for .css files)
niklaslogren | 4 years ago | on: Tokyo: A big city that is also pleasant to live in
niklaslogren | 4 years ago | on: ‘The Contrarian’ Goes Searching for Peter Thiel’s Elusive Core
niklaslogren | 4 years ago | on: Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M
Surprised and happy to see this! I was an avid user of the old Turntable.fm which sadly shut down. (I would love to get an invite for the new service if anyone has any ;) )
Related, there is also jqbx.fm which integrates with Spotify which is basically the same thing, can recommend.
niklaslogren | 5 years ago | on: Playwright-test – cross-browser end-to-end test suite with Playwright
We are using Cypress at my workplace and we're quite happy with it. It also has endpoint mocking, mobile emulation etc.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know of any advantages of Playwright when compared to Cypress?
niklaslogren | 5 years ago | on: In California, a journey to the end of the road: the Salton Sea
"Bombay Beach (2011)" is a documentary that depicts life in a once-bustling settlement by the Salton Sea, can recommend:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758576/
niklaslogren | 5 years ago | on: Virginia Woolf kept her brother alive in letters
That possibility was actually mentioned in the article:
> She had to lie, Virginia implies, in order to shield Violet, who was recovering from her own illness.
niklaslogren | 5 years ago | on: Google, Facebook, Twitter halt govt data requests after Hong Kong security law
The same move was made by Telegram:
https://hongkongfp.com/2020/07/05/exclusive-telegram-to-temp...
niklaslogren | 5 years ago | on: Tink – Cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly
Not to be confused with Tink, an open-banking fintech from Stockholm.
https://tink.com/
niklaslogren | 9 years ago | on: Hackers Make $5M a Day by Faking 300M Video Views
The article has since been updated, now it mentions $13.04 per 1000 views:
>> those bots "watched" as many as 300 million video ads a day, with an average payout of $13.04 per thousand faked views.
niklaslogren | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Make an app by adding JSON to this app
This seems similar to what is used internally at AppSpotr[1] (disclaimer: I'm a former employee). They also use JSON to represent apps that can be rendered in iOS/Android clients. The difference is that apps must be built using a WYSIWYG editor rather than by editing the JSON directly.
From my experience, a JSON representation works very well for a big percentage of all the apps out there, and you can often do without custom code. Good job creating this open-source version, it looks very expressive and useful!
niklaslogren | 12 years ago | on: IKEA or Death-Metal
Fun idea! Too easy for us Swedes though, as the names of almost all of IKEA's furniture are Swedish words.
niklaslogren | 12 years ago | on: The Fallacy of Money As A Means
This article really resonates with me.
I've come to roughly the same conclusion as the author; namely, that I should focus on figuring out my real motivations and work to fulfill them, rather than blindly follow the "more-money-more-happiness" default route provided for all of us.
I find it interesting that other commenters react so strongly to this article. I think the article is a sobering one, and that the author makes a good point. After thinking about it, if you come to the conclusion that more money _is_ what you need to fulfill your goals, then by all means go ahead. Introspection is never wrong.
niklaslogren | 13 years ago | on: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI
Very interesting article, it makes me hopeful.
This might be slightly off-topic, but I'll try it here anyway: can anyone recommend any books/other learning resources for someone who wants to grasp neural networks?
I'm a CS student who finds the idea behind them really exciting, but I'm not sure where to get started.
niklaslogren | 13 years ago | on: Nitpicker - an overly picky language style checker
Interesting service, will definitely try it out the next time I write something.
A heads-up, though: the "blog" link in the site's menu doesn't work.
niklaslogren | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best books you read in 2012
Could you please expand on this? This book is on my to-read list, but I'm not sure I'll ever get around to reading it. Wasn't it very repetitive?
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