Heck, I hope I’m productive on Monday!

Generally I'm really glad that HN has resisted the social media brain-rot trends, but sometimes the ability to react to a comment with a heart emoji would be cool.

I think for the upvoter, sending an upvote can trigger that same feel-good, "I agree to this!" dopamine hit as an emoji reaction would.

For the upvoted, seing their magical internet points go up can also feel the same as the notification that they received your heart emoji.

BUT - for the network, having scores be hidden and not displaying a loot of emoji reactions on each post makes a huge difference - it changes the incentives.

You don't get socially rewarded for engagement, because the loot is invisible in the thread (aside from being shown higher on the page). This disincentivizes Reddit-style snark, Twitter-style dunks, etc.

This probably disproportionally tends to attract the kind of people who like discreet positive reinforcement for smart well thought-out comments.

I think you are looking for ForecastAdvisor. However depending on your geo, different weather providers will be more accurate than others.

I type using my old Sun keyboard still. The escape key is where the tilde key is on normal US PC keyboards. So the pinky stretch is quite easy.

(Also the control key is where the caps lock is. Also another fine position.) :)

Store your BB&B coupons in this new type of online notebook I wrote.

Seems like a perfect area for patreon to expand into.

Support a user/artist on patreon, get access to their vids also hosted on patreon.

Indeed. Or even make sure to integrate Patreon (or other donation applications) to any privacy-friendly video application.

I have a Twitch account just to have a paid subscription for the Critical Role channel, despite the fact that I never open Twitch and download their videos from Youtube using youtube-dl. It kind of feels ridiculous (especially knowing Twitch will put me in metrics of "their users").

Patreon is going to face the same issue then.

Ironic workaround. :)