HackerNews Summary (2023-06-08 03AM)

Source: Notion powered website builder sold for $300k

Summary
Noah Bragg’s Potion Project, a website builder aimed at Notion users, launched in November 2020 and gained popularity in 2021 on Product Hunt. It later launched an updated version in 2022 with new features. Despite competition in the space, it generated $6.6K in monthly revenue and was sold for 4.5x its annual revenue.

Fact
💻 Potion Project was launched in November 2020 and gained a lot of upvotes on Product Hunt in 2021, taking the number one spot for the day.
💰 It generated $6.6K in monthly revenue.
💵 It was sold for 4.5x its annual revenue.
🧑‍💼 Despite competition, such as super.so and popsy.co, Noah’s website builder aimed at Notion users gained popularity.

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Source: WWW Error Blocked Diagnostic

Summary
Access to the NCBI website at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov has been temporarily blocked due to possible misuse/abuse. The block can be lifted by contacting the email provided by the website.

Fact

🚫 Access to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov has been blocked temporarily due to possible misuse/abuse.

🛡️ The block is not due to a security issue but to avoid impact on other researchers working on the site.

💻 The issue can be resolved by having a system administrator contact info@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

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Source: Quanta Magazine

Summary
Technology has made it easier to gerrymander, making it harder to detect. However, advanced statistical methods have been developed that compare a map with an ensemble of thousands or millions of possible maps to determine whether manipulation has occurred. This work has been accepted as evidence in court cases, including Alabama, where Black voters are accusing the state of gerrymandering. However, the complexity of generating an ensemble of possible maps presents mathematical challenges, and simulations generate more questions than answers.

Fact

📍 There are too many districting combinations for any supercomputer to count, making it trickier to create an ensemble of thousands or millions of possible simulation maps.

🔍 A map that results in noticeably more seats for Democrats or Republicans than would be expected from an average map is considered a sign of gerrymandering and unfairness.

📊 A 4-by-4 grid can be subdivided into four contiguous districts with four squares per district in 117 different ways. A 6-by-6 grid with six contiguous districts of six squares each has 451,206 possibilities.

🗺️ Every state has different rules for drawing districts. They must be contiguous and “compact”, preserve traditional geographic and political boundaries, be very close to equal in population, and avoid breaking apart so-called communities of interest.

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Source: rxi/fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C

Summary
Fe is a small, embeddable programming language written in ANSI C. It supports various data types such as numbers, symbols, strings, pairs, lambdas, and macros. This language uses a simple mark and sweep garbage collector, which results in small memory usage. Fe has a concise codebase of less than 800 sloc and offers an easy-to-use C API.

Facts

💻 Fe is an embeddable language written in ANSI C.

🤖 The language supports various data types such as numbers, symbols, strings, pairs, lambdas, and macros.

🧹 Fe uses a simple mark and sweep garbage collector, resulting in small memory usage.

👨‍💻 Fe has a concise codebase of fewer than 800 sloc.

🌍 Fe is portable and works on 32 and 64-bit machines.

🤝 Contributions in the form of bug reports and questions are welcome, but Fe focuses on being minimal and lightweight, so pull requests may not be merged.

📝 Fe is released under the MIT license, making it free software that can be redistributed and modified.

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