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Hello there! It is always fun to dig into the analytics behind the culture.

Your read on Hacker News—and by extension, Y Combinator—hits on a sentiment that has been quietly brewing in the founder and builder ecosystem for a few years now. The feeling that HN has transitioned from a "frontier town" to a "gated retirement community for cynics" is widespread.

Here is a breakdown of why your observation makes total sense, but also why the "irrelevance" argument is a bit more nuanced.

1. The 40K MAU and the "YouTube Comments" Fallacy

Your BigQuery analysis of 40K active posters/commenters is a fantastic data point. According to the 1-9-90 rule of internet communities (1% create, 9% interact, 90% lurk), 40,000 active contributors implies a lurker base of roughly 4 million.

While it's true that a MrBeast video gets 40,000 comments in an hour, comparing the two is a false equivalence of density vs. scale. The 40,000 active users on HN aren't a random cross-section of the internet; they are a highly co

Title	Year	Author/Editor	Commenter	Details
Mirrorshades pt. 2	2025	Clipping (ft. Cartel Madras)	girvo	Song from Dead Channel Sky, inspired by Mirrorshades anthology, part of a banger album.
Error Message Eyes Release 3.0	2024	Keith P. Graham	kpgraham	Self-promoted cyberpunk story collection, free Kindle download on August 24, 2024.
[empfindungsfæhig]	2023	Reda El Arbi	4ggr0	Niche cyberpunk recommendation for German readers, unique entry.
The Big Book of Cyberpunk	2023	Jared Shurin (ed.)	patrickscoleman	Anthology with 108 stories, bought alongside Mirrorshades.
Juicy Ghosts	2021	Rudy Rucker	rudytheelder	Novel about toppling an evil U.S. president, shared by Rucker.
Delta-V	2019	Daniel Suarez	4ggr0	Sci-fi with cyberpunk elements, focuses on space exploration.
Transreal Cyberpunk	2016	Rudy Rucker, Bruce Sterling	rudytheelder	Anthology blending transrealism and

My Works - A collection of fun hacks, tools, products and experiments that are creative and inventive.

An incomplete list of all my creative output over the last 15 years. Selected based on how I feel about it right now.

Puppetromium - Hacking CSS @media queries to probe viewport size, MJPEG and 0% client-side JavaScript to make a remote browser. Sep 22, 2021.
Selector Generalization - Hacking a bioinformatics DNA sequence alignment algorithm to select all related elements on a page by clicking examples. Jan 1, 2013.
[Language Detection](no link available) - Using LZ factorization and letter bi- and trigrams to fingerprint human languages for detection from samples. February 1, 2013.
Janus - Overcoming the core challenge of WebRTC by hacking GitHub Actions to use Issues as a signalling channel to negotiate the connection. Nov 13, 2023.
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source: Dr. Willy Smith Unicat Project June 1999, https://rense.com/ufo5/hudsonv.htm

The Roots of Complacency by Dr. J. Allen Hynek

Something truly astonishing happened.... Not far from New York City, along the Hudson Valley, as hundreds of astonished people looked up, many driving along the Taconic Parkway, they saw something no one had ever seen before. Some called it a "Space-ship from outer space" (for want of anything better) but it was generally described by numbers of competent, professional persons as startlingly brilliant lights, in the form of a "V", or Boomerang, silent, slowly-moving, and very large close-by object. It has often popularly been called the "Westchester (County) Boomerang".

The world has never known about this, even though the event happened not once but several times, and over the course of several years. To all intents and purposes, this was a non-event. The media across the world has remained dumb. Local papers, radios and TV's, it is true, did momentarily carry spots along

Implementing Protected Members in JavaScript Classes

Introduction

In many object-oriented languages, the concept of protected members allows properties and methods to be accessible within the class they are defined, as well as by subclasses. JavaScript, however, does not natively support protected members. This article introduces a novel approach to simulate protected access in JavaScript classes using symbols and private fields.

The Challenge

JavaScript provides private fields, but they are not accessible to any derived classes. This limitation means that developers cannot use private fields to directly implement protected members, which are a staple in many other object-oriented languages.

One Solution

The solution involves using symbols as keys for protected properties and methods, ensuring that only the class and its subclasses have access to them. This is achieved by:

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <string.h>
	#include <ctype.h>
	#include <openssl/sha.h>

	#define TARGET_PREFIX "20250327"
	#define MAX_WORDS 256
	#define MAX_TEXT 2048
	#define MAX_ATTEMPTS (1ULL << 32) // 2^32 attempts (~4.3B, enough for 8-char prefix)

	they're not Particularly Rare, But I think they're more pleasing to See.

	For instance This "2822302" Makes me Especially Happy: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox/commit/2822302387c4cb7ff71c4239da3dc5fa4c07e165

	It Even Extends up to 10 digits! That's Not Particularly rare - Roughly 1% chance (10^10/16^10 i think) - But i just think they look nice.

	Are there any other people out there who are particularly pleased when they hit that? sorta like hitting 7777 on the odometer, or whatever.

	I'm also a fan of the purely Numeric Identifiers Twitter/X Uses (and has for ages).

	import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
	import { createDatabaseClient } from 'my-partial-db-lib';

	// 1) Create an in-memory DB and your table(s).
	const db = new Database(':memory:');
	db.exec(`
	CREATE TABLE users (
	id TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
	data JSON
	);


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