Show HN: TypeBook.lol: Gamified reading by typing novels
2 by vegnus | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Was inspired by a post here on HN a couple of weeks ago about Typ.ing. This is a more gamified version, where stats are tracked, xp is gained, time is tracked, each book has its own time trials tables, upload your own epubs/txts/raw text. Disable punctuation and capitalization (with separate high score tables). I've spent 20 hours typing Dracula. Reading a book each word at a time has been a very good experience for me.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD
4 by xeonmc | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Been pulling my hair out debugging a relative’s persistent BSOD (once every ~6hrs) after nudging them to take the first degoogling step by switching browsers. I could not believe at first that a user space program, especially a Windows Store sandboxed one, could affect anything in the kernel, but analyzing every single coredump shows the exact same trigger: Firefox attempted to rename the UrlAssocistions/http registry key in the UWP sandbox’s virtualized registry hive, triggering an access violation in the Registry system service and crashing ntoskrnl. It turns out that there is a secretly enabled config “browser.shell.setDefaultBrowserUserChoice.regRename” that causes Firefox to attempt this renaming periodically despite the user already having unchecked the “check if default on startup” option. A quick search reveals that it was a vestigial A/B testing feature that was already slated for deprecation[0], but remained in the current version and a perfect storm of I’m guessing UWP kernel memory bug and Firefox dark pattern triggered this outcome. [0] https://ift.tt/fS8miOK
4 by xeonmc | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Been pulling my hair out debugging a relative’s persistent BSOD (once every ~6hrs) after nudging them to take the first degoogling step by switching browsers. I could not believe at first that a user space program, especially a Windows Store sandboxed one, could affect anything in the kernel, but analyzing every single coredump shows the exact same trigger: Firefox attempted to rename the UrlAssocistions/http registry key in the UWP sandbox’s virtualized registry hive, triggering an access violation in the Registry system service and crashing ntoskrnl. It turns out that there is a secretly enabled config “browser.shell.setDefaultBrowserUserChoice.regRename” that causes Firefox to attempt this renaming periodically despite the user already having unchecked the “check if default on startup” option. A quick search reveals that it was a vestigial A/B testing feature that was already slated for deprecation[0], but remained in the current version and a perfect storm of I’m guessing UWP kernel memory bug and Firefox dark pattern triggered this outcome. [0] https://ift.tt/fS8miOK
New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do?
Ask HN: Why does it matter if no one reads your novel as long as the AIs do?
4 by amichail | 15 comments on Hacker News.
AI can in principle surface content that you create that no humans consume directly. And it could even credit and financially compensate you whenever this happens. So it seems that you can have a creator-only economy where all humans create and the AIs do most of the consuming. And stuff that the AIs surface in their replies allows humans to indirectly consume some of your content (in which case you would be credited and financially compensated) and perhaps even lead to them directly consuming it as a result of the free advertising. Do you think this is workable as a future model for creation and consumption (and not just for novels)?
4 by amichail | 15 comments on Hacker News.
AI can in principle surface content that you create that no humans consume directly. And it could even credit and financially compensate you whenever this happens. So it seems that you can have a creator-only economy where all humans create and the AIs do most of the consuming. And stuff that the AIs surface in their replies allows humans to indirectly consume some of your content (in which case you would be credited and financially compensated) and perhaps even lead to them directly consuming it as a result of the free advertising. Do you think this is workable as a future model for creation and consumption (and not just for novels)?