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Ask HN: Is there a way to unsave stories on HN?

5 pointsby biturdover 11 years ago
This was posted by michaelbwang 886 days ago, no discussion. A yes with instructions or a no would be cool.<p>It sucks, now I actually think, should I save this list? How much meta data can be pulled out of what is essentially a bookmark within a website for future use. Who Knows, but just guilt by association is bad enough these days.<p>I have saved stories on Snowden, all just &quot;read later&quot; stuff, tons of stuff on hacking, which I hate that it means two things now. It means someone broke in and messed up a ton of stuff, for real, it means people are idiots and call &#x27;letting my S.O. have my passwords&#x27; a good idea, then call it &quot;getting hacked&quot; when they BreakBook them.<p>Anything that is somewhat bad, is now hacking. I think of hacking as totally technology unrelated. Hacking is human natures innately strong desire to take something that needs resolving, resolve it, and iterate that solution until it approaches perfection.<p>From a cracked rock being used as a Knife, eventually that cracked rock &#x27;evolves&#x27; at the hands of a human to be a bit better, and over time, a long time, we now have knife snobs. People just want to fiddle with stuff and see what it does.<p>It&#x27;s called curiosity and kids these days are being trained to be afraid of it. I thought the internet was this great leveling field. Now, sure, bootstrap a startup and what happens if something legal comes your way, patent troll, etc. It&#x27;s not the good ole&#x27; days anymore, that&#x27;s for sure. I liked it a lot better when the government thought this &quot;internet&quot; thing was not going to pan out.<p>I almost miss auto-play music! :)

2 comments

dbondover 11 years ago
This makes no sense but I feel like I agree with it, I&#x27;m gonna go catch up on some sleep...
anigbrowlover 11 years ago
I suspect you need to put the bong down. Virtually nothing you&#x27;re written here makes sense.