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Sam Johnston
Personal blog · samjohnston.orgaipolitics
Sam Johnston's personal blog at samjohnston.org covers ai and politics. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as a 2008 post showing that Gmail's IMAP server supports the IDLE extension. One commenter cites it as evidence that Gmail gives instant notifications in Mail.app.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tech executive & serial entrepreneur
What Hacker News says?
I'm pretty sure last time I checked, Gmail supported IMAP's IDLE[1] extension just fine. I get instant notifications on Mail.app. [1] https://samjohnston.org/2008/07/18/proof-gmail-imap-gimap-su...
Comment linking /2008/07/18/proof-gmail-imap-gimap-supports-imap-idle/
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HN discussionSubmitted The Open Source(ish) AI Definition (Osaid) as a story · 1 points
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