This is excellent.<p>Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something?<p>- New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency<p>- Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time<p>- Nikola Tesla on Direct Current<p>- Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down?<p>Any other ideas?
This is fabulous.<p>>If you have the temerity to submit a video or pdf, I should be grateful if you would mark it as such, so as not to cause the undoing of my fragile sensibilities.<p>The <i>temerity</i>, the absolute <i>temerity</i> of assaulting my fragile sensibilities with a pdf or video! I will not countenance it. I say good day to you, sir.
Along similar lines:<p>If PHP Were British: <a href="https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/" rel="nofollow">https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/</a><p>Reddit Proper: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/</a>
My fellow countrymen, I am grateful for the time you have given to my humble endeavor, and I remain ever hopeful that you will find some small gem of beauty or truth that will illuminate your day.<p>The code, if one wishes to peruse it, may be found upon the GitHub website. [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/lwneal/victorianhackernews" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lwneal/victorianhackernews</a>
This reminded me of the "Victorian Laptop" that Justine Cassell and students worked on at the MIT Media Lab, in the late 1990s.<p>IIRC, in the original idea, the Victorian Laptop hardware was an antique portable wood laptop desk, retrofitted with PC electronics and custom software, and the purpose was to relate/connect the user's thoughts in a particular location to the writings of others who've been in some similar context before. With the time-traveler writing desk adding to the reflective experience.<p>(Physical craft-wise, this was before the steampunk DIY computers that we see today. Cassell collected antique writing desks, had inspiration from those, and some energetic students worked on figuring out and building it.)<p><a href="http://www.justinecassell.com/publications/narr_intell.vlt.99.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.justinecassell.com/publications/narr_intell.vlt.9...</a><p>Seems like modern ML tools should open up more possibilities along these lines. I'd like to see the focus on leveraging information and computation for genuine experiences and accurate understand (not, say, some of the currently more obvious automated content generation applications, for SEO, addictive engagement, demagoguery, etc.)
"Do not complain to me, gentle reader, that a submission is inappropriate. Rather, take it upon yourself to peruse the rules and guidelines, and to use your best judgment in making a decision. If you find a story to be spam or off-topic, you are within your rights as a reader to report it to the moderators, that it might be dealt with swiftly and the site returned to its former glory. Do not attempt to engage those who would fling the most vile and abhorrent comments; instead, report them so that they might be dealt with swiftly and with the utmost severity. It is the custom of many a gentleman to flag, when the arduous journey has become too much for their failing strength, yet they will not deign to offer the lady a word of explanation or apology, but will continue to drive on relentlessly, as if nothing were amiss, leaving the poor lady to wonder what has become of her escort, and whether he has met with foul play."<p>Brilliant.
Victorian AWS: <a href="https://victorianaws.com/" rel="nofollow">https://victorianaws.com/</a><p><pre><code> S3 is a glorious bastion of uptime in the otherwise storm-tossed sea of the World Wide Web, a shining beacon of safety to which one may entrust one's most valuable data, whether files, or precious objects, or even blobs of the most unique and ephemeral content.</code></pre>
Wouldn't the Victorians have used 'enquiry' and not 'inquiry'?<p>(Asked in all honesty and w/o an ounce of snarkiness because to this day I still struggle with the difference)
Some researchers say Victorian era people were more intelligent than people in our present time, and after reading the Victorian guidelines, maybe they're right.<p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intelligent-modern-day-counterparts.html" rel="nofollow">https://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intellige...</a>
I wonder if there's an Victorian -> contemporary English filter. While I actually like Victorian prose, I know some people (especially non-native English speakers) are put off from reading Charles Dickens and the like because of the Victorian style which can come across as stilted to to modern ear. Maybe a filter could be made to make Victorian prose seem more modern.
Wonderful. Two thoughts:<p>- Is the use of the first person entirely correct? Shouldn't there instead be some reference to the convening institution, such as "management" or "proprietors", or the community? (Though I would think that for HN the convening institution would be something less commercial.)<p>- It would seem a different font is in order.
Next up, New International to King James.<p>Bonus Butlerian Jihad:<p><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&version=KJV" rel="nofollow">https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&v...</a>
I recognize that sweet distinctive scent!<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM</a>
"Starlink is now on all seven continents, enabled by its space laser network"<p>...<p>"The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com."
I’ll piggyback on this to show something I made: autosummarized HN. <a href="https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/" rel="nofollow">https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/</a><p>I originally intended to run it for a month only, but when OpenAI slashed prices at the beginning of September, I figured another month won’t hurt.
Great site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users?<p>I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help.<p>(I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it)<p>If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.