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SkyHunter.com is a personal blog at skyhunter.com about security, programming and philosophy. Since 2009, 37 different Hacker News readers have linked it 45 times, most often “Best short story about the future I've ever read”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Most-linked posts?
- Best short story about the future I've ever read17 people · 22 mentions · first linked 2009-03-09
- An Introduction to Petname Systems (2010)9 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2009-07-14
- Introduction to Capability Based Security3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-12-23
- The E Language in a Walnut (2000)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-04-28
What Hacker News says?
One typical way to resolve this is to use Voluntary Oblivious Compliance (VOC). In this capability-based pattern, every storage service could provide an opaque handler to a user that represents their authorization and it can be used to restrict on which documents indexing is done. http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Walnut/Secure_Distributed_Compu... http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/ewalnut.html#proofOfPurchase If the opaque…
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on “Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers”Submitted An Introduction to Petname Systems (2010) as a story · 41 points
HN discussionIs there a description/examples of these anywhere? Combex doesn't provide a lot of info and I couldn't find anything on PowerBox. From the description of Combex ( http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/capabilityIntro/ ): > Suppose you were running a capability-secure operation system, or that your mail system was written in a capability-secure programming language. In either case, each time an executable program in your em…
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on “The Collapse of the Unix Philosophy”Submitted Best short story about the future I've ever read as a story · 21 points
HN discussionThe Gentle Seduction is a similar short story in regards to singularity that The Egg reminded me of http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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on “The Egg”Submitted The Gentle Seduction - A Short Story About the Singularity as a story · 11 points
HN discussionAnd "The Last Answer", which ironically ends with a question while "The Last Question" ends with an answer. And a bunch of others that aren't quite similar except that they're short, provocative scifi. Here's my list of favorites: * Ted Chiang - Understand - http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm * Ted Chiang - Exhalation - http://www.nightshadebooks.com/Downloads/Exhalation%20-%20Te... * Ted Chiang - Hell…
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on “The Egg”Submitted An Introduction to Petname Systems (2010) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI think the key here is to introduce the concept slowly because saying "stop ageing" freaks people out. A lot of people have this idea of what "natural" means and stopping ageing just doesn't sit right with them. I think a better strategy would be to call it "eradicating diseases and higher quality of life towards the end of your life", both of which is really ageing research, but with a better spin. We've been exte…
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on “Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?”Submitted The Gentle Seduction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSo called "pet names" like /etc/hosts span only two of the three corners of the triangle: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/zooko-triangle.gif
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on “The GNU Name System”Submitted The Gentle Seduction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe title is a likely nod to The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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on “The Gentle Singularity”Submitted The Gentle Seduction as a story · 2 points
HN discussioncapabilities based security http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/capabilityIntro/index.html
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on “Who keeps an eye on clipboard access?”Submitted The Gentle Seduction as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI do not see this as a bad thing. I would rather live happily ever after than take life-ending risks. That said, I disagree with the premise. Any true form of immortality would virtualize us. As individuals we would be able to take risks as never before. Paragliding through dangerous canyons? Why not? Worst case scenario your fleshy avatar dies, and you wait a few weeks in a virtual utopia as a new one is printed. A…
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on “A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage”Submitted Introduction to Petname Systems (2005) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> reduce us and the entire ship can be reduced too You may enjoy "Gentle Seduction" by Marc Stiegler [1]. TL; DR Leave the meat part in place and project your consciousness through offboard sensors. [1] http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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on “Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale”Submitted The Gentle Seduction as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt's a beautiful quote. I truly think what the quote describes is the endgame for our species. This short story conceptualizes the beauty of such an idea really well: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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on “Protein found in robins’ eyes has all the hallmarks of a magnetoreceptor”Submitted Introduction to Capability Based Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussion"your friends can assign to you their own nickname for you" is "petnames": http://skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html Quote: Though no single name can have all three properties, the petname system does indeed embody all three properties.
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on “Zooko's Triangle”Submitted The Gentle Seduction (1989) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSo the machines put them on a barren planet in the middle of interstellar space with no source of natural light? Seems like a pretty desolate end for humanity. I'd rather merge my consciousness with the probes and explore, something like this: http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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on “Humanly Traversable Wormholes”Submitted The Gentle Seduction (short story) (1989) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Gentle Seduction is a short story that you might find interesting. http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
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on “Darpa Wants Brain Implants That Record from 1M Neurons”Submitted The E Language in a Walnut (2000) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think pet names ( http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html ) can help here; your @wmf doesn't have to be the same as someone else's @wmf (full URLs must be used on the wire). (Fun fact: People in Germany keep tweeting about @WMF, but it's clearly not me.)
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on “Tent.is alpha”Submitted The Gentle Seduction (1989) as a story · 1 points
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