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limn.it · Group blog · on HN since 2012
Limn is an anthropology and social science magazine whose issues cover topics like hacking, algorithms, and supermarkets.
What HN saysHN links it for ethnographic pieces such as the study of Bret Victor's lab, supermarket design, and security.
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- 1Utopian Hacks3 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 2All Lost in the Supermarket2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Crowd Contouring on the Casino Floor2 people · 4 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 4Peek Behind Bret Victor's Lab at YC HARC1 people · 193 points · first shared 2017 · 79 comments on HN
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- 6Half-Lives of Hackers and the Shelf Life of Hacks1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 7The Zone of Entrainment1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 8Limn Issue Number Eight: Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 9Can you secure an iron cage?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
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- 11The Bombing Encyclopedia of the World1 people · 1 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Utopian Hacks – Limn1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 13Strangling the Internet: Geopolitical Chokepoints1 people · 1 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
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- 15The weakness of crowds1 people · 1 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
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smacktoward · 2015-10-03
The design of grocery stores has actually evolved in such a way as to make it pretty easy for you to shop healthy, though not on purpose. (At least, it did in the US, I don't know if other countries follow the same pattern.)
The standard supermarket layout consists a "perimeter" running around the sides and back of the store, with a "center store" made up of aisles in the middle. Center store is where the shelf-stable, processed and frozen foods go, while fresh/perishable foods -- produce, dairy, meats, seafood, bakery, etc. -- are placed along the perimeter. (More on this here: http://limn.it/all-lost-in-the-supermarket/)
So if you stick to shopping the perimeter and only duck into center store when you absolutely need to, it's not hard to come away with a cart that's mostly fresh foods. It's when your shopping consists mostly of running up and down the aisles of the center store that you get in trouble.
jarmitage · 2018-01-24
By the same author, who has been ethnographically studying Bret Victor's lab: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14815772 // https://limn.it/utopian-hacks/
westoncb · 2017-09-22
Here's where the 'pointing toward the future of computing' bit comes in:
Similarly, Laser Socks is a fun demo by itself, but what we as researchers hope it points toward is a new type of computing that instead of isolating humans in artificial digital worlds, provides a medium of expression that is continuous and integrated with our physical and social worlds
So this is one 'application' built on an 'OS' developed by Bret Victor and Robert Ochshorn which was called Hypercard in the World, though the latest version is called Realtalk. More info here: https://limn.it/utopian-hacks/
stevetrewick · 2016-11-01
>You could have no security and just get lucky and never get hacked.
It's been a decade and more since that was even remotely true (if it ever was). Back in 2008 the average survival time of an unpatched internet facing XP box was around 4 minutes [0]. Pwning an unpatched XP box was (very marginally) harder than pwning a system with no security at all. The Morris worm (Edit: which is heavily mentioned in TFA, my bad) [1] got loose in 1998. There's some interesting stuff regarding whether such risks are comparable with things we use insurance to hedge at [2].
[0] https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Survival+Time+on+the+Internet/4721
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
[2] http://limn.it/the-morris-worm/
jpindar · 2021-05-05
Found it.
https://limn.it/articles/car-wars/