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It's mostly boring. About 50% of comments of HN are about this at the moment, drowning out actual discussion.

If someone writes an interesting article using LLM, I don't mind.


Apparently you get only an empty root directory, nothing else. https://medium.com/@fabrizio.sgura/the-forgotten-minimalist-...

Correct. At least, not that I know of. On the other hand, when you move, you must deregister with your old municipality and register with your new one. The exact system differs a bit per country.

Self-reported though; that throws a huge spanner in the works.

I suppose this is about Ayn Rand. I haven't read her books, but from what I hear they aren't very nuanced though.

Her books are mostly about genius caring people being held back from their plan of helping humanity into a golden age by more stupid evil people and regulation and so on.

Interesting, earlier today the page didn't truncate the paragraphs, a minute a go it did, and now it doesn't again, all in the same browser. I haven't found a pattern yet.

Edit: looks like the author just fixed it while I was looking.


Looks like it, the author's name matches.

I would suggest changing the title to the actual title of the article: Adaptive PDFs.

Assuming the program works, the PDF will not actually look different to me than to anyone else looking at it, so there is nothing that "changes based on who is reading". It is just that text extraction, a wholly different (and much fuzzier) process than viewing the PDF, and something that the same person can do, will now return structured (Markdown) text. (One might say the PDF changes based on how you are reading it.) A great idea, IMHO.


Thanks, the title was little misleading, I just changed it.

Having slightly different versions would certainly be a help in identifying leakers of certain kinds of documents to increase the odds of identifying leakers. That would be of interest to some kinds of organizations or departments within organizations.

Just have slightly different versions then. This has always been possible.

PDF has lots of facilities to do that.

Email the mods: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40493683>.

hn@ycombinator.com


Thanks! Changed now. Submitted title was "A PDF that changes based on how its read".


I think the current title, while admittedly a bit clickbaity, describes the core issue better.

Fair enough, my point is mostly that it doesn’t follow the HN guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

The current one is editorialized and clickbait-ish


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