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northes | 7 months ago | on: Jen Pawol becomes first woman to umpire a Major League Baseball game

It's a small total count (76 in crews of 4) in a sport without a well-defined path for women and girls. It takes a long time to advance and people can hold spots for quite a while. That doesn't make for a very conducive environment for change, even if the league encourages it on the surface.

northes | 2 years ago | on: Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

I don't want to be mean, but...

- the keynote video isn't scrollable behind the giant "share" button - the text on the keynote page is incredibly difficult to read (small text + very low contrast) - the homepage is full of dizzying animations that don't tell me anything about what the "phone" is actually supposed to do - "How it works" is just a set of animated cards. Once you figure out they're clickable (hoverable?), they spin around to reveal... half-formed ad copy? I wanted to know how it worked.

I'm willing to believe this is a real product only because of the "research" page, but it feels more like an aspiring web designer's portfolio piece. The flashiness of it all makes it really difficult to figure out what anything actually is.

northes | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Structpad: notepad-database hybrid that helps you use abstract thinking

I think this space, for all the energy already being poured into it, is still having a tough time finding the right abstraction for deeply-linked note organization without resorting to reinventing the wiki. I'm really glad to see an approach that isn't trying to be a Roam replica plus a couple extra features, the whole space is desperate for better abstractions. It seems to me like the flexibility of existing tools can lead to everybody building a subtly different and incompatible notetaking strategy, which is fine, but sacrifices a lot of the benefits of standardization and opinionated tooling. Exploring different structural patterns like you're doing might be just what the space needs to jump out of the local maximum it's in.

For a proof-of-concept, I really like your approach to hierarchical notes here! I'm a student and that structure makes sense for a lot of what I need to take notes on, but existing tools for linked notes don't have a great answer for that (and sometimes actively discourage it). I think you're onto something, looking forward to seeing how you develop these (and more) ideas over time!

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