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squidhunter | 4 days ago | on: Ask HN: The sites gaming Kagi Small Web are ruining the experience

For being supposedly human curated, it's shocking how much garbage has infiltrated the smallweb.txt registry. I have an agent with browser access running right now checking it and it's close to ~10%... Here's a sample of 10 examples that were found in literally the last two minutes...

- "vermontdailychronicle.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "ziggit.dev" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "fastfrwrd.info" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "evchargingstations.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "escapecollective.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "findingada.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "fontsinuse.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "fortelabs.com" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "forum.f-droid.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

- "42zero.org" : https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb/blob/5aa8a7740149bd67...

squidhunter | 5 months ago | on: The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis

I wonder how something like ayahuasca or dmt would impact this. People have described these substances as having a type of mental “reset” quality. If they do impact time perception, I’m assuming it’s only temporary…

squidhunter | 1 year ago | on: Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web

The indie web was around before google and it will be around long after google is gone. I would argue that the indie web has incurred a much larger loss from people thinking seo/engagement metrics are something worth optimizing. Many of the best examples of the indie/small web don’t have js tracking and little to no css.

squidhunter | 3 years ago | on: Bathysphere: Historical Photos of the World’s First Deep-Sea Exploration Vessel

The book "Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss" by Bradford Matsen is all about Otis Barton, William Beebe, and the Bathysphere. The idea of locking yourself into a steel sphere and descending an order of magnitude deeper than any human had previously (and coming back alive) is wild. It's an excellent book that I found at a used book sale and it kinda sent me into a deep sea exploration rabbit hole. "Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste" by Jacques Piccard descending down to the bottom of the Challenger Deep is also a good one.

squidhunter | 4 years ago | on: YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is possible

YSFlight sim used to be my jam! Back in high school (~2004), a few of my friends and I all had YSFlight sim loaded on some zip disks. Then throughout the week, our schedules would occasionally align so that we were all in separate classrooms but each had access to a computer and we could play the multiplayer combat mode over the schools network. YSFlight sim was also my first introduction to modding. I was able to take the F-22, give it unbelievable amounts of thrust (millions of lbf), zero mass, and virtually unlimited ammunition. It was great, I could fly across the entire map in a second, then loiter like a helicopter. I dominated for like a week until I gave the secret away...

squidhunter | 4 years ago | on: Congress' new mandate to carmakers: Figure out a way to stop drunk driving

Fixing drunk driving is NOT an automotive technology problem. It’s an urban design problem. Fixing Americas idiotic zoning laws will do more than any technological solution. It’s hard to fathom how much space we’ve given up to our obscene level of car dependence. The first city in America that converts a considerable portion of their urban core into a car free zone will net a higher influx of talented workers than any Amazon HQ2…
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