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Title: Technology seems like a giant waste of time and energy for human civilisation.<p>Specifically the social media giants and advertising funded tech companies seem like the definition of emotional vampires. So do cryptocurrencies.<p>They are making society worse not better. For a time maybe 15-20 years ago, maybe peaking around the era of Snowden it looked like technology was going to truly democratise the world.<p>Now we are being led into an orwellian hell hole.<p>For what tech produces it is overly rewarded economically. The true economic value of some companies like facebook or amazon may be negative.<p>What can we do or is it already too late to save the world from the big tech monster?<p>I think it is already too late. The internet is like an opiate or stimulant for the masses and a vampire, feeding off of and feeding into emotions and mass popular delusions allowing people to be manipulated as sheep and resulting in time and energy being wasted by literally billions.
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Title: There are lots of smart people in this community who are deeply specialised in all sorts of domains.<p>I'll bet there are some fascinating counter-consensus views at the edges on what the future holds in these domains.<p>Let's hear them!<p>What do you think is true in your domain that most of your peers don't?
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Title: I’d like to hear what tools you use to easily visualize the data in a sql table?<p>Preferably I’d just like to click on a MariaDB table and receive some plots and statistics on the columns.<p>Whats your experience on this?<p>Edit: to clarify, I don’t want to visualize the database itself (Schema’s, keys etc). Just the data within it.
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Title: I just received an annoying popup forcing an "upgrade" to "Cam Plus Lite" by 15th Feb, else my cams "will capture snapshots instead of 12-second videos".<p>This is sleazy stuff Wyze, and I will be throwing away your hardware very soon as a result (and making sure to tell all of my friends and colleagues to stay away from your products).
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Title: Hi, founders!<p>We’ve actually launched quite some time ago, but (semi)pivoted a few times along the way.<p>Jet Admin is an app builder for creating internal tools, admin panels, dashboards, external portals, and so on without coding. You can connect to any backend, assemble a UI through the visual builder, and set up data binding, transformations, conditionals, etc. through the point-and-click interface.<p>If you need to, you can create custom HTTP, SQL queries, make data transformations with JS, and embed custom UI components.<p>We believe that product, data, operations teams should be able to build the very tools they use. And with HN being mostly the coder community, it’d be particularly interesting to hear your feedback/thoughts!
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Title: I can easily get on the hate train, and view cryptocurrency as a pointless waste of resources. What am I missing? To name a few problems they <i>might</i> solve:<p>International transfer of value
Protection from monetary policies
Money laundering (real for some)
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Title: What is the main thing that made your business take off and start to see success that you're kicking yourself you didn't start doing it much earlier?<p>Thanks HN!
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Title: Hi HN, my name is Andrei - I’m the founder of Fogbender (<a href="https://fogbender.com" rel="nofollow">https://fogbender.com</a>) and I’m very happy to be here. We make customer support software for B2B vendors that makes it easy for you to work with customer teams, rather than just supporting each user independently. B2B companies with team dashboards can embed our messaging widget to offer off-the-shelf shared support channels to their users.<p>The problem that we solve is a painful one for both B2B customers and vendors, so I’ll describe it from each point of view.<p>A B2B customer buys a product and has an ever-changing group of people using it over time. Those users receive customer support as individuals, not as a team. This gets painful when the vendor can’t answer a question because part of the answer is only known by somebody else at the customer. This delays solutions, creates confusion, and hinders the spread of information.<p>A B2B vendor sells to teams and wants to support them effectively. But existing customer support products don’t do that—they only work with users one-by-one. To get around this, many vendors open a shared Slack channel with each customer team. Now they have two problems, because not only is Slack too unstructured for processing complex support requests, inevitably not everyone on the customer’s end knows about the Slack channel. The vendor ends up running two separate support systems, neither of which fully works, and now has the painful task of trying to synchronize the two.<p>To sum that up: support products don’t work with teams, and team products don’t work for support.<p>My first startup was a team messaging service (launched on HN as LeChat in early 2013! <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5202381" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5202381</a>), where we created a shared support channel for every customer—this is how we found out about the power of doing support this way. When competing against Slack got too difficult in 2015, we pivoted to sameroom.io, which bridges rooms/channels between different messaging systems. We got acquired by 8x8 in 2017, then built their messaging infrastructure.<p>While at 8x8, my team began using Segment Analytics, and usage soon spread to other departments. I struggled to keep the deployment sane because I had no way of knowing which of our developers needed help. Segment supported us with Zendesk, which was aggressively unhelpful. I knew the problem was important when I started getting emails from Segment Analytics with PDF attachments outlining how much money we owed them in overage fees—that was literally my only exposure to the work other developers were doing with our Segment setup. A lot of money and people's time was getting flushed down the drain, all thanks to improper tooling.<p>I decided to start a startup to address this because (a) I thought we had the technical expertise to do it; (b) it feels like the market is enormous; (c) it's clear who the buyer is, and the price point can be relatively high, and (d) I really want to use it myself.<p>Our product is similar to Intercom or Drift in that our customer (the B2B vendor) installs a messaging widget on <i>their</i> customer dashboard. However, if the dashboard is accessible to a team of end users, all users see the same data in the widget. They can use it to talk to each other and with the vendor, just like with shared channels. We also make it easy to link these conversations to support tickets in vendor’s issue tracker.<p>Fogbender uses a pubsub-inspired messaging protocol (currently the only transport is websocket, but we may add others), powered by Elixir and Postgres. The frontend is TypeScript, React, SolidJS, and Tailwind. We're fans of monorepos and prefer to add supervisors to our BEAM supervision tree instead of spinning up microservices.<p>Our philosophy regarding the messaging product itself is closer to Telegram than Slack. We like to have the ability to view multiple rooms at the same time, to be able to forward contiguous blocks of messages between rooms, to have replies instead of anonymous threads, and to be able to follow #tags.<p>We’re still working out pricing, so you’ll notice “TBD” on our pricing page, but our basic strategy is clear: a free tier, after which vendors pay only per user with write access to customer-facing rooms. Everyone at the vendor gets free read access to all messages, and everyone at the customer gets free read and write access. This way we charge only when real value (actual support) is being delivered, and we facilitate the spread of information between vendor and customer and within the customer team itself.<p>You can try us out now at <a href="https://fogbender.com" rel="nofollow">https://fogbender.com</a>. After creating an account, you’ll be asked for a code, but just enter “HN” and it should work! To see what it’s like to receive help as a team, invite a friend/colleague and ping us in support :)<p>I’d love to hear your thoughts on the subject of offering and receiving team-level customer support (or team messaging products in general). If you have any questions about Fogbender, I’ll do my best to answer in the comments!
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Title: I was involved in a high-profile computer hacking case in 2015 which received international interest. I eventually pleaded guilty to charges of blackmail, fraud, and computer hacking. Following that, I was sentenced to four years in prison. I'm currently on probation for a year, and I'm also under the supervision of the Serious Organised Crime Unit for another four years. I'm bound by a number of technical constraints. The authorities in charge of my supervision are happy for me to find legal work in cybersecurity, but given my current circumstances, I just wanted opinions on how I should approach this.<p>I'm completely self-taught, and while on bail, I did a lot of responsible disclosure. I collaborated closely with CIRT teams, system administrators, website developers, and government agencies to ensure the remediation of over 3,000 web-application vulnerabilities. I wrote technical reports, provided remediation guidance, and validated patches to ensure that security issues were properly closed (in an informal capacity). My first bug bounty contribution took place in 2012 which was a GET-based reflective XSS on a subdomain belonging to Microsoft.<p>Over 30 private and public sector entities have sent me letters of acknowledgement. I've also been inducted into a number of hall of fames for uncovering vulnerabilities. In 2019, I was also ranked 11th out of 25,000 active researchers on a bug bounty platform.<p>I can't just walk into employment with my skillset because I'm not particularly talented, just proficient in web-application security and various methodology used to identify vulnerabilities. This leads me to believe that I should look for entry-level positions but I've been told I'm overqualified. Some opinions would be appreciated.
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Title: Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here.<p>Dell's new Latitude 5420/7420/7520 Notebooks have a ongoing issue where their CPU are severely throttled when running on any Linux distribution, even on Ubuntu OEM Certified System according to some reports at the forum.<p>After a link to the Dell forum post was ported to HN, the post mysteriously was deleted in the same day. Many users of this model posted to the forum thread since last year and so far no solution was provided and we only received very unenthusiastic responses from Dell support.<p>Shocking to see this apparent action to hide the problem.<p>Originally Here:
<a href="https://www.dell.com/community/Latitude/Latitude-5420-7420-7520-CPU-Throttling-Issue-on-Linux/td-p/7959019" rel="nofollow">https://www.dell.com/community/Latitude/Latitude-5420-7420-7...</a><p>You can still see it on Google Cache
<a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PFSFF47bK1gJ:https://www.dell.com/community/Latitude/Latitude-5420-7420-7520-CPU-Throttling-Issue-on-Linux/td-p/7959019+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk" rel="nofollow">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PFSFF4...</a><p>Screenshot here:
<a href="https://imgur.com/a/Va8EMMA" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/Va8EMMA</a>
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Title: What would you do if you were in charge of Mozilla? How would you save Firefox?
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Title: Hey HN!<p>We are <a href="https://www.magniv.app/" rel="nofollow">https://www.magniv.app/</a> - Magniv is a platform to enable data scientists to autonomously create, deploy, and maintain data applications within existing infra pipelines. That is, reduce data science reliance on data engineers in mature data organizations.<p>While living between both worlds of software engineering and data science, we have seen a lack of mature organizational tooling for data scientists. Data teams either require embedded data engineers or companies are forced to find a unicorn full-stack data software engineer to hire. On top of that, the tooling that does exist in this space does not take into consideration good software and infrastructure practices that most high performance software engineering teams require.<p>We are looking for interested teams to join our beta! Please check out or website and sign up
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Title: And that pretty much means "always"<p>Here is the offending paragraph:<p>"Geo-location Information. Such as precise or approximate location determined from your IP address or mobile device’s GPS depending on your device settings. We may also collect this information when you’re not using the app if you enable this through your settings or device permissions."<p>source: <a href="https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3175/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow">https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/3175/privacy-policy</a>
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Title: Disclaimer: Not myself, but a good friend of mine is suffering from rapid vision degradation and will be fully blind within a few months. I want to do what I can to help them prepare. Anything from software and tool suggestions to general workflow and tips would all be very much appreciated, thanks!
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Title: Hi HN,<p>We (myself, Adhyyan1252 and yush_g) are undergrad students that hacked out this side project last month during Hack Lodge[1] (the ideas and many of the underlying circuits for which came from the 0xPARC community[2])! We’re extremely excited to share this new primitive.<p>Besides the technical challenges building this project that folks here would find interesting (fixing the ZK proof compiler, modifying nodeJS V8 params etc.), we think this is a very novel use case for ZK tech, and ECDSA inside ZK-SNARKs is a starting point that unlocks many other ideas! :D<p>A summarized version of our README, with more thoughts on why you would want to enable this in the first place, is also in this Twitter thread[3]!<p>[1]: <a href="https://hacklodge.org" rel="nofollow">https://hacklodge.org</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://0xparc.org" rel="nofollow">https://0xparc.org</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://twitter.com/0xparc/status/1493363943036923912" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/0xparc/status/1493363943036923912</a>
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Title: Posted earlier about an account of mine having been suspended with no apparent reason (at least of posting rules breaking), then other two which I had in the past, for testing. As I was/am traveling at present, I used VPN in a few places, and I tested the theory of this being the source: created a new account yesterday, used it fine with no posting or submissions, then used it again today with two different VPN exit points, and sure enough: "Your account has been permanently suspended from Reddit."<p>If the Redit bozos do not comprehend the need for VPN, if *content* provided is of not harmful in any way, then I sure wish them good luck in keeping this service going ...<p>Edit: PIA as VPN, with three major exit points, used interchangeably: France (local when there, public place), UK (local when there, public place) and US (employer specific requirement). Original account was 10K+ submissions and almost same for comments, with never close to questionable content - got suspended during my travel, with no apparent (at time) cause. Two older/test accounts I dug up in the immediate aftermath of first closed, with no submissions, got also suspended within the span of a few days of use (reading/access only). One "control" test account got banned today, after having been opened yesterday - this purposely used while "flipping" between VPN exit points. HTH
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Title: We had some free time during the Chinese New Year vacation (we live in Taiwan). So I thought it would be fun to work with my daughter on a little web project.<p>She did all the drawings. I digitized them and added them to the page as inline SVGs. Then I wrote the code. Nothing fancy — it's just one HTML page with a few links. But I like the end result (yes, I'm 100% biased): <a href="https://kevin.tw" rel="nofollow">https://kevin.tw</a><p>Fun technical facts: the page is entirely self-contained (except the favicon). It doesn't have any JavaScript at all. And it weighs 35Kb total (52Kb if you include the favicon).
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Title: Hello HN,
I'm currently studying in Poland at technical university, studying Applied Computer Science. I'm at the first year of my studies.
I'd like to ask you for advice on how to make the most out of the time during my studies, so that I won't have trouble with employment.<p>What are some of the things that would make me stand out from the rest of the potential candidates in the future?
I'm partaking in one of the scientific clubs, where our main focus is game development. In my team, I fulfill the role of 3D artist with occasional programming sprinkled in.<p>Should I be focusing on my GitHub portfolio? What ought to be my main focus?
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Title: Last week I received a spam email from ~generic dumb scammer #199209842982~ here it is for your amusement: <a href="https://imgur.com/YYqOgYE" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/YYqOgYE</a><p>I've blurred the sender because it might have been a hijacked account, and it's not like it's hard to get a new gmail account anyways. You can also see that I've blurred all the other people too. Yeah, the scammer cc all his targets.<p>I was in a good mood, so I replied and made fun of him and warned all the other recipients that, "hey, just in case you're distracted, yes this is a spam email". I didn't use any curse words, or strong language, but I was a bit edgy.<p>Two days later, my google account was suspended. Apparently, my account was being used to send unwanted e-mails. Ha! I just became a spammer.<p>And let me tell you, it was very frustrating to be blacklisted like this. A little context for you, I'm a DevOps engineer and I've been using gmail for the past 15 years. I'll skip the classic 'my files, my contacts, my email' because I had backups.<p>But I lost access to paid services that I had set up with social login, besides all Google's services ( GCP, firebase, youtube premium, google one, subscriptions paid through play store, google ads, etc, etc). And here's the kicker: my gmail used to be the contact I shared with potential clients, current clients, and job applications which, by the way, I was actively job seeking. Not because I don't like my job, but because I had pushback on my raise on a recent promotion, so I was trying to get offers to make a point.<p>But what if I was out of a job? What if I was expecting a contract to sign? What if I had an SLA with a client? What if my bank or the government, health plan, car insurance, or any of the hundreds of notifications that I've set up throughout the years was triggered and needed my attention?<p>I know about terms of services, that they're a company and they can do whatever they want. But what if your car maker could take away your car if you turned right without signing first? Or if you went over the speed limit? What if you were a salesman and samsung could take away your phone because you're using it to call people to do your job and they've reported you for unwanted calls? Or AT&T could take away your phone number because you said a curse word on the phone?<p>You could argue that gmail is not a product that I own, but I paid for it, so technically, don't I own it? Don't I get the right to use it while they figure out if I'm really a spammer or not?<p>That got me thinking, what is an identity? How can I prove that I am who I am? I thought I could just share my profile, or gmail, or phone number, or identity and prove that I was who I was. But all those things can be taken away because of some rule that can be judged and enforced by someone else.<p>The google stack is very convenient, and it's 2022, I'm not going to start hosting my email server, but I'm in need of a foolproof and long lasting solution to online identity. And I've started by purchasing a domain name for 10 years and having a 'catch all and forward to gmail' rule setup. So I can just forward it all to somewhere else in case I lose my gmail again.
But what if I get reported on my domain name? What if that gets suspended or blacklisted too?<p>Should we own the free services that we've paid for with money and data? Do we own our identities? Do we own our phone numbers, emails, handles, PO boxes, addresses?<p>What do you use for identity? And what are your thoughts on this? Am I overreacting?
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Title: How do you “stay afloat” in the subscription economy? Are we slowly drowning in subscriptions? How do you prioritize what you pay for? Are subscriptions too expensive?<p>Backstory:<p>I was looking at an email I received this morning from Oku (A GoodReads SaaS alternative that I have no connection to -- You can easily swap in any of the hundreds of services that get posted to HN). Like so many others I've gotten from the various apps and services for which I've signed up over the years, the email espoused all the latest updates and changes happening on the platform. I was immediately hit with a sense of excitement and mild despair.<p>While I love the idea of Oku, it's become so difficult to justify paying yet another monthly fee for yet another service. Oku is even on the lower end at just $6/mo! Instapaper and Todoist are others that I can think of on this end at $2.99/mo and $4/mo respectively, but it seems the majority are $8-12/mo. This doesn't even consider the expensive subscriptions like Netflix or YouTube Premium that can be upwards of $15-30.<p>I say 'despair' because I'm torn between two realities:<p>1. If a service is valuable to me, I should be paying for it. Not only due to “you are the product”, but because if a service is not profitable, it will inevitably shut down and thereby remove my access to it; I should not depend on it if I'm unwilling to pay for it (no free tier usage).<p>2. There are a LOT of services out there (like Oku) that are not necessities, but are useful, beneficial, and deserve to be compensated if used. I really don't think it's crazy to think a person could spend $200/mo+ on recurring subscriptions.<p>Part of me thinks this could be a “power user” problem, but a large portion of the services I can think of are top downloads on their respective app stores: Music streaming, file sharing, video streaming, task management, delivery services, etc. are all pretty mainstream.<p>All of that to say: What do you think?
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Title: We are super excited to be open sourcing the Svix webhooks dispatcher!
Svix makes it easy to send webhooks. You send your payload to Svix, and Svix takes care of deliverability, retries, security, and more.<p>You can read more about why we built Svix in the original Show HN[0], though the gist is: our customers wanted webhooks to build integrations and workflows around our product, but we weren't willing to commit the engineering time, resources and ongoing maintenance required of a webhook delivery system.<p>Why open source?
On a personal level, I've been an open source maintainer and contributor for many years, and I care a lot about open source. So open-sourcing the Svix dispatcher was one of the first tickets I created on our issue tracker.
As for the company, webhooks are currently a mess, everyone does them differently, with differing levels of quality and features supported. This is something we really want to fix. The Svix service is already making a difference there (we're lucky enough to call some really cool companies our customers), and open-sourcing the dispatcher is the next logical step to increase our impact.<p>Why Rust?
It's really fast, it makes writing secure and correct code easier, it's easier to deploy and distribute (one static binary), and it's a lot more fun. :)<p>Webhooks are really cool, and I absolutely love what they enable. They make the web compose-able, interconnected, and enable people to automate a lot of their work! Our goal is to make them easy, reliable, and consistent, so that more services offer them and they are easier to consume.<p>I'd love to hear your feedback! We've incorporated most of the comments we got the last time[0] (thanks again everyone!), and we would love to know how we can improve the product further. Got any suggestions?<p>Homepage: <a href="https://www.svix.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.svix.com</a><p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/svix/svix-webhooks/</a><p>Docs: <a href="https://docs.svix.com/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.svix.com/</a><p>API reference: <a href="https://api.svix.com/" rel="nofollow">https://api.svix.com/</a><p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26399672</a>
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Title: I just received the following email from GitHub:<p><pre><code> Hi <username>,
We're writing to let you know that between January 2021 and September 2021, the following information about your repository was inadvertently made publicly viewable after being sent to a third-party vendor as part of metadata analysis of GitHub Pages sites; the name of the private repository and the GitHub username with ownership of the repository. No repository content or other private data was exposed as part of this incident.
User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach as a result of this event, nor did unauthorized users gain access to repositories. Read on for more information.
* What happened? *
GitHub learned from an internal discovery by a GitHub employee, that GitHub Pages sites published from private repositories on GitHub were being sent to urlscan.io for metadata analysis as part of an automated process. This internal process was implemented before the private GitHub Pages feature was released and provides metadata that is used during human review of potentially malicious or abusive GitHub Pages sites.
To view the name of the private repository on urlscan.io, you would need to have been looking at the front page of urlscan.io within approximately 30 seconds of the analysis being performed or have specifically searched using a query that would return the analysis in the search results.
* What information was involved? *
The following URLs, but no content, were made publicly viewable:
GitHub Pages URLs
<redacted - URL to private github page>
* What GitHub is doing *
GitHub immediately began work on fixing the automated process that sends GitHub Pages sites for metadata analysis so that only public GitHub Pages sites are sent for analysis. Future analysis of public GitHub Pages sites will be unlisted from public view as an additional protection.
We also worked with the third-party vendor, urlscan.io, to delete all existing public records of private GitHub Pages sites generated from this situation.
* What you can do *
No action is required on your end; we have updated our systems and worked with our third-party vendor to ensure this data is no longer publicly viewable.
Please feel free to reach out to us with any additional questions or concerns through the following contact form:
<redacted>
Thanks,
GitHub Support</code></pre>
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Title: I’m thrilled to finally be able to show everyone what we’ve been working on for the last 2 years. We’re re-inventing the email experience to help you email smarter and faster, so you can get more done, and maybe even actually <i>enjoy</i> your inbox.<p>When we launched Firebase here 10 years ago, HN was tough but fair, and I expect no less this time around! I hope you’ll check out what we’ve built and share your feedback. I’ll be around here all day and am happy to answer any questions. Let us know what you think!
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Title: Yesterday on Twitter:<p>Marc Andreessen: Let's try an open Twitter Q & A -- ask away!<p>Sriram Krishnan: What do you find people in tech (our outside) missing about web3 the most<p>Marc Andreessen: The enormous payoff from decentralization and permissionless innovation. I cannot believe more people don't understand this. It's so obvious.<p>It's not obvious to me so I'm asking Hacker News what he means<p>Forgot the link: <a href="https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1493464162340532225" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1493464162340532225</a>
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Title: Looking at the current top HN post "Google Search Is Dying"[1] on the HN front page and all the upvotes it's receiving and reading most of its comments, I'm kind of forced to ask:<p>In your opinion:<p>1. Is HN becoming more of an "echo chamber"?<p>2. If yes[2], how big of an "echo chamber" you think HN has become (or is becoming)?<p>3. How wide-spread is this issue? Is it limited to certain topics only? If yes, what are those topics?<p>...<p>My reason for asking this question is that afore-mentioned post[1] is referencing mostly YC personalities and HN post as answering its main question: "How do we know Google is dying?"[1] which I don't think is really very convincing.<p>Note:<p>I find it quite ironic that I'm asking this question on HN while knowing that one can't rely too much on the received responses. Still, IMHO, HN is the best place for asking this HN specific question than any other place on the internet (at this moment).<p>Edit:<p>1- Disclaimer: I don't have any investment or work-related relationship with Alphabet/Google or any of its subsidiaries. Just a regular HNer who loves mostly STEM or business related healthy/constructive discussions.<p>---<p>[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719<p>[2] - To some extent, I accept that all online social platform are inherently kind of an "echo chamber", in a very specific sense. However, I could not be alone here expecting a little more from the majority of HN users (compared to users of other online social platforms, like Reddit) when it comes to the issue of an "echo chamber" and its corresponding negative effects.
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Title: I haven't been able to get this idea out of my mind that to be a successful CEO, you need to be a sociopath. Somehow it feels like decent people with decent products just don't make it.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Vincent here, maker of Streamline 4.0. I spent the past 12 years perfecting icons and making the largest sets on the internet.<p>The 5 open-source sets are:<p>1. User Interface Icon Set (1,000 icons)<p>2. Streamline Flex (500 icons)<p>3. Streamline Flat (500 icons)<p>4. Covid Icons (147 icons)<p>5. Nasty Icons (45 icons)
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Title: Just looking for suggestions from all topics, not just programing. A better question might be what books <i>are</i> you reading this year, I guess you can respond to either.
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Title: I feel that I was lucky early in my career. I got a job at an early-stage startup which bootstrapped with agency-style work. I got a generous share in the company, so pumping out high quality work products very much directly contributed to my own interests. I worked a lot, but at the end I was rewarded very well for this when we had an exit.<p>Since then I have failed to find an incentive structure which actually rewards programming. I've worked inside of standard agile teams, and typically I can handle the tasks which management can prepare for work within a matter of a couple days if not a number of hours. I'm not incentivized to excel in these environments, since I'm not rewarded more for producing output faster than the rest of the team, and there's social consequences for making other programmers "look bad" and increasing management expectations.<p>In principal I would be happy to just finish my tasks, and then spend the extra time working on projects which interest me, but due to IP clauses in contracts, it's not possible to do this during the many unused work hours without causing issues.<p>I have tried freelancing, but it seems that most clients want to have a time commitment. So basically they want to have someone acting as an employee, but only for several months vs. a long term commitment. So the same problems arise as you have with the FTE situation.<p>Currently I transitioned into management, just because I was <i>so bored</i> having to find ways to stretch several hours of work across multiple weeks. I'm a fine enough manager, but it seems kind of silly since I have much more unique value I can add as a programmer of my experience relative to what I can do as a manager.<p>So basically I am a very prolific programmer, and I am capable of producing a very large amount of value per time on the keyboard. It seems like there <i>must</i> be some way of monetizing this skillset, but I have yet to find it.
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Title: Last week Vodafone Portugal saw a cyberattack bringing down its mobile network. It seems it took quite some effort to bring the network up again. There was next to no debate here on HN which is frankly quite surprising. Does anyone have more information what exactly happened? (https://www.vodafone.pt/press-releases/2022/2/vodafone-portugal-alvo-de-ciberataque.html)
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Title: I grew up behind the iron curtain and have been taught to be afraid and careful of everything. That engraved a deep risk aversion towards anything.<p>However the richer and more experienced I get I feel a lot of FOMO and envy especially for those that managed to pull something off.<p>I feel like trying a side project is very risky and I should rather invest into climbing the corporate ladder (although deep down I know that's a dead end especially in Europe).
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Title: Hi HN, We’re Sean, Curtis and Tim from Realize (<a href="https://www.realizefi.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.realizefi.com/</a>). Realize is an API that lets you integrate your website or mobile app with popular retail brokerages. Your users can view near-real-time data and make trades from their existing brokerage accounts.<p>Plaid and Yodlee are the main two options for devs building investing apps. However, investment data updates on Plaid/Yodlee are capped at daily frequency, with pulls happening overnight, after market hours. Plaid/Yodlee support a lot of institutions, but the way they collect data causes unreliability when interacting with some of them. And there’s no way to place trades.<p>We encountered these problems while building a social investing app. We wanted our users to be able to subscribe to other users’ portfolios and be alerted when they placed new trades. This isn’t really possible when order pulls happen only once a day. We also wanted users to be able to “copy trade”, meaning they could replicate other users’ trades in their own brokerage accounts — another feature that wasn’t possible with existing APIs.<p>We then considered using an embedded brokerage solution like Alpaca, but our users would have had to open a new brokerage account. We talked to some friends who said they wouldn’t want to do that, especially with a brokerage they didn’t know of or trust. As a result of this, we started digging into the APIs of some of the major brokerages such as TD Ameritrade, and realized that although it would be super annoying, it is actually possible to integrate with these brokerages and aggregate them in a way that would allow us to build a fully-functioning investing app on top.<p>At some point we discovered that other companies were experiencing the same obstacles as us, so we decided instead to build a startup to solve this problem for app and website developers.<p>Plaid and Yodlee screen scrape in order to provide investing data. (Fun fact: some legacy brokerages have implemented significant countermeasures to screen-scrapers, including blocking suspect user agents and IP addresses, requiring non-headless browsers, presenting subtly different login pages to unfamiliar user agents, bricking links with 2FA, etc.)<p>We take an entirely different approach by building direct integrations, which increases authentication success rates and allows us to produce more accurate, more frequent data. Our API automatically pulls a user's portfolio positions, order history, transactions, and historical performance at per-minute frequency, and we allow users to send orders to their brokerages.<p>The quality and accessibility of both public and private brokerage APIs varies significantly. Public APIs for the largest retail brokerages are sparsely and inaccurately documented (the documentation sometimes contradicts the implementation) and many can only be accessed after completing arduous compliance processes with many-month delays. Private APIs need to be reverse engineered and are liable to change at any moment, so we had to develop systems to catch breaking changes and are always on alert to address them.<p>We have companies building a wide variety of products using our API, such as an app that looks at what is in your portfolio and shows you how those stocks are being discussed on social media, or a copy-trading app which lets you clone other people’s portfolios and execute orders for those positions in your own brokerage account.<p>We make money as users link accounts to apps that use our API. We’re still working out pricing, but currently charge a base fee of $300 per month for the first 300 linked brokerage accounts, and after that a monthly fee that ranges from $1 to $0.50 per account as the number of linked accounts grows.<p>You can begin testing our API by heading to <a href="https://www.realizefi.com/register" rel="nofollow">https://www.realizefi.com/register</a> and creating a developer account, which will give you access to an app to which you can link institutions.<p>We’d love to hear your ideas and feedback! We’ll be online today to answer any questions - we’re always excited to talk about investing, fintech, APIs, etc.
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Title: I read HN on my kindle as I find it useful for reading under sun(while walking in a controlled environment) and taking notes. I was running hntokindle.com to offer this as a service for others.<p>But Amazon has recently made sending bulk emails to the Kindle impossible by requiring 2FA over registered Amazon email address for each item sent to the Kindle.<p>Hence I've stripped down HN to Kindle code to enable local transfer to any e-book reader which supports .mobi format and made the project open-source.
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Title: hue.tools was created after spending way to much time trying to find the right tools when working with colors.<p>It's an attempt to create a simple but useful toolbox for common color related tasks and problems.<p>While it's in no way perfect or provides the tools for every use case, it has served me well in the last few months and I hope it will be useful for some of you as well.
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Title: hi, this is a project I've been working on and off for the last three months,
it's my first non-trivial, non-hello-world, actually useful (at least to me) go
project. it would be very nice if you could just try the program and see if it
works on your setup!<p>the readme[0] explains how it works, why I wrote it and how it fits in my
"command-line centric" computing environment (there is also a video demo[1] :)).<p>if you know go, feel free to take a look at the code and review it! I'm still
pretty much new to go and I'd love to hear opinions, feedback and tips from more
seasoned go developers :)<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/MarcoLucidi01/ytcast#ytcast" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/MarcoLucidi01/ytcast#ytcast</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07aWOpi8DVk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07aWOpi8DVk</a>
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Title: Managers? Architects? Backend? Rails? Javascript?<p>I'm curious which roles / skills others find most difficult to hire and details on why.
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Title: After losing a few key personnel lately I have become painfully aware of the amount of knowledge stuck with individuals. While we do have a wiki of knowledge, a lot of the pages are outdated, incorrect or just not needed anymore.<p>My problem is, I know that we are missing information, what I don't know is how to tease out that information from myself and other coworkers. Do you have any advice on how to get the knowledge out of my coworkers and into the knowledge base? Or, do you have a book you recommend? I have found a few books on knowledge bases but the reviews seem to be pretty hit and miss.<p>Edit: After talking with some friends about it I think I was able to articulate my main issue I have. In making this documentation it feels like I am winging it. However, all my training has been in coding and coding always has standards, guidelines and frameworks. It's hard for me to just work on the docs as I feel like I should be following some sort of standard as I do it.<p>Edit: Currently I am stuck with Confluence as the actual technology to use.
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Title: The last thing I found was this Show HN post from 2016 (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539</a>)
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Title: I mentioned this in a comment [0], but given how serious this potentially is I thought it might warrant a Tell HN.<p>Only tested on a Mac with 1Password 7 using Agile Bits' sync.<p>If you have shared and private vaults on 1Password, using the Generate Password button in 1Password Mini doesn't let you select which vault that password should be saved in until it becomes a login, however, at that point it has already saved the password you generated in your shared vault, and anyone who you share that vault with can see both the password, and the site that it was generated for. This has obvious security implications but also, maybe less obviously, privacy implications as you may not want your entire company to know that you just generated a password for a jobs site.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30370947" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30370947</a>
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Title: Hi all, author here.<p>This project was a pleasure to do, Remix has very good developer experience. But further than that it's actually a really good way to develop applications, it's a mix of old meets new where the paradigm encourages you to take advantage of web standards for data fetching (forms, links, a tags).<p>And it turns out that it's actually an optimal way to develop simple or even complex web applications which can deploy in a number of runtime environments (including edge workers). So you can get an insanely fast website for users. Note that this project is not necessarily an optimal website implementation (since it copies Hacker News) but rather it's intended to be useful as a starting point or reference for your own projects!<p>You can read about some of the benefits of it on the project page linked.<p>By the way I'm currently available to work (if you email me at clinton.dannolfo @gmail!)
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Title: This is a piece of tech that has slipped under my radar for a long time. I've been having my own methods for safe handling of passwords on the web.<p>Why do people trust password managers?
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Title: Hi HN, I’m Kai from 1Flow (<a href="https://1flow.app" rel="nofollow">https://1flow.app</a>). 1Flow is an easy way to create in-app surveys for web / mobile apps.<p>It’s really hard to get reliable feedback from users. We solve that problem. Our surveys have a 50-70% response rate on average, compared to 5-10% for traditional surveys.<p>I studied product design at college and then joined a mobile gaming company. It was painful to see how far removed product teams are from their users in the real world. We didn’t talk to users directly, as my design program had taught me. Instead, we relied on monthly reports from customer support and made top down decisions on what to build.<p>Then I started a mobile app company of my own and also experienced this problem—it is actually very hard to reach users and hear their thoughts. We didn’t have a good way of contacting them, or often even know who was downloading our app. And when we did manage to contact them, they wouldn’t respond. I tried showing a pop-up in my app that led users to a Google form. I was surprised / frustrated when after 2 weeks of waiting, I received zero responses.<p>But then when I was doing ASO (aka SEO for the App Store), I got a lot of users to write me good reviews after I had implemented a bottom-drawer UI that asked them to please leave a review if they liked us. This UI was only a half-page in size, showing from the bottom edge of the screen (close to the thumb) and the rest of the screen was only darkened, not fully blocked. This worked like a charm! I was able to get consistent reviews from my users on a daily basis (when before I was getting 1-2 reviews per month).<p>I connected the dots and realized, what if I could do user surveys effectively by giving people a user experience that they actually like? And went to work.<p>1Flow embeds a JS code snippet in websites / web apps, and a native mobile library in mobile apps. After this initial 5min setup, anyone—technical or not—can use our cloud dashboard to create and launch new in-app surveys that ask users about feedback, satisfaction, and opinions. No app updates or code changes are required beyond the initial installation.<p>Our in-app surveys can easily be designed to match the branding of the client application, so app makers can engage users for feedback in key moments of the user flow without compromising their user experience. Results from the surveys are available on our dashboard in real-time. We also have filters that allow app makers to view results by cohorts, location, and answers to a particular question.<p>We provide webhooks and csv download for teams to easily feed data into other tools they are using (Amplitude, Slack, GA, Intercom, Hubspot) - so they have a single source of truth for qualitative and quantitative data.<p>I've met developers who desperately needed a solution like this, went into code and hacked together a question flow inside of their apps. But then they are stuck with this hardcoded questionnaire in their code base. Every time they need to update it they need to spend engineering hours to go inside the code and update it, then for mobile apps they'll have to submit the new version to the App Store / Play Store and wait until the updates are approved. Also, it gets complicated to target certain users only (e.g. users in France who completed 3 transactions recently) and automatically stop collecting responses, e.g. after 500 people have given their answers. Visualizing the data and filtering/slicing it is also really hard if you don't have a dedicated tool.<p>There are other embeddable survey tools, but we’re different in three ways. First, most of these tools have poor UI/UX, so much that it's painful for developers to put them inside their beautifully crafted apps. Second, they tend to offer static forms that can't be used to target certain users based on their app behaviors, and can't be used to enrich your CRM / analytics easily. They are also a pain to manage. Third, the newer solutions that sort of solve these problems are focused on enterprise customers, not startups. They have extra features that many developers don’t want (such as video calling your users), and non-transparent pricing that imposes limits on surveys / seats. 1Flow solves all of this.<p>We are currently open to the public as self-serve mode. Anyone can visit <a href="https://1flow.app" rel="nofollow">https://1flow.app</a> and create a free account to start using it. We use Intercom to engage with users if they have any questions while using us, but you can also ping me in the comments here.<p>We’d love to hear about your experiences and ideas on collecting better feedback. If you’ve done any cool hacks that got great results, we’d love to hear that too!
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Title: Hypothetically, if your Solo-Founder SaaS was used a suspicious customer based in Russia to access a USA financial institution.
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Title: Just want to surface this to see if anyone has it fixed or so anyone at Apple can give it a look. I remember finding a fix involving editing a cursor file a while back, but it must not work as I've been seeing it again (and can't find that fix searching anymore).<p>There's a lot of reports:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookair/comments/pome1y/mba_m1_cursor_problems_occasional_stuttering_and/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookair/comments/pome1y/mba_m1_c...</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/nlbf6w/weird_cursor_lag_and_choppy_scrolling_m1_macbook/?context=3" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/nlbf6w/weird_cursor_...</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/qtfc2e/lagging_jittery_and_stuttering_cursor_on_macbook/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/qtfc2e/lagging_jittery...</a><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/qj77mq/cursor_lag_continues_on_monterey_m1/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/qj77mq/cursor_lag_cont...</a><p><a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252777347" rel="nofollow">https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252777347</a><p><a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253079227" rel="nofollow">https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253079227</a><p><a href="https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252732117" rel="nofollow">https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252732117</a><p>There's this one video with a fix, but I already have shake to locate off and it happens without using any bluetooth mouse:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPlbpbCiVI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPlbpbCiVI</a>
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Title: I have a laptop with an i5 processor and 8G of RAM. Hard drive is an SSD. It sometimes takes me a full minute and a half to get Teams open and ready to join a meeting. It is driving me crazy.
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Title: I was wondering if there is VC appetite for defense based tech companies.<p>We are in advanced talks (hence the throw away) with M&A teams of various of the top defense contractors for our startup, but me as CTO can't help but wonder if a VC model for us going forward wouldn't also be a good fit. Traditionally VC's shied away from hardware and defense startups but with the funding round of Anduril perhaps this is changing.<p>Katherine Boyle of A16Z also had something to say about how VC investment and Defense in the past didn't make sense, but that things could be changing [1].<p>The second problem with VC's is it is notoriously difficult to get in contact with the correct person, thus the proposal below. Dang let me know if this is not allowed please.<p>If there are any VC's perhaps interested you can contact me here<p>throwawaydefence at gmail dot com<p>and I can send you our prospectus / NDA agreement.<p>[1] - https://www.defensenews.com/smr/cultural-clash/2020/01/30/the-math-doesnt-make-sense-why-venture-capital-firms-are-wary-of-defense-focused-investments/<p>Edit - To address some of the comments below, this is a well established team (~50), with a proven track record, many years in the industry and a well developed sales pipeline, relationships and technology base.<p>So not just an idea or proposal thing, startup was maybe the wrong characterization but since this is HN...<p>The deal is (I believe) well above the typical SBIR grants threshold.
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>I'm in my late twenties and looking for states / cities to relocate to with more of a social balance than where I currently live in New York City. I feel like to continue growing I need to be in a place with fewer people, less noise and more nature (not to mention being able to save more $$).<p>I have a number of friends living in Boulder and Denver, however I'm not too sure if I want to make the jump to CO given their recent employment laws mandating employers publish salaries up front[0]. Although I support this legislation and the core initiatives of transparent compensation disclosure it's clearly driving some companies to explicitly not hire remote in CO.<p>Curious if anyone else here on HN can comment on the current hiring climate here, both for startups and growth stage companies that are full remote (think Stripe, Brex, etc).<p>0 - <a href="https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/some-employers-are-excluding-colorado-applicants-for-remote-work.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/...</a><p>direct link to CO "Equal Pay for Equal Work Act" text - <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_085_signed.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_085_signe...</a>
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Title: Growing up in middle class family, I had almost no internet access till high school. I could read a book till hours and no one would bother me. I was not affected by any social media announcements or fast track news making my brain(tinkered by thousand years of evolution) go into panic stage. Life was more routined and controlled as I wanted to be. Less access to resources meaning I had to work around solutions and do things creatively without pressure of posting it on internet.<p>Now, I get distracted by so many new things coming up. Each new venue or event brings up a new opportunity. I am in my mid 20s and planning to get married. So, I have to invest in future like Mutual funds, stocks etc. I have to think about buying a house in next 10 years as the real estate prices are going up. I have a decent paying job but I have a fear that it will not be be enough for my retirement. So, I have either invest in opportunities like NFTs, cyrptocurrency, real estate etc. or start working on my own startup. I wanted to learn a lot of things but keep getting distracted.<p>So, how can I get boring once again? Boringly passionate about what I want to do. Is there any stream where I can work in and feel safe about it? Or Is it even possible for the remanants of Industrial Age to work in boringly passionate way as this doesn't suit work style of information age?<p>PS: I am looking for specific techniques, tricks or strategies which anyone has applied in their life and working for them. I am already going through the abstract advices on life goals, philosophy, values, beliefs etc.
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Title: Some of the features:<p>* Quickly preview or jump to figures/references/equations/etc. (even if the PDF doesn't have links)<p>* Search paper names in google scholar by middle clicking on their name<p>* Searchable table of contents<p>* Searchable highlights/bookmarks<p>* Browser-like history navigation<p>* Mark locations for quick navigation (Vim style)<p>* Synctex support<p>Video demo of some features:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmCI0Xp5vI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTmCI0Xp5vI</a>
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Title: Hello HN,
I was clearing my old house and got a box with a 100+ 3½ floppy disks. All except one working!<p>Among others I got DisplayWriter 4.0, OS/4 Warp Slovenian, dBase IV, Clipper, PowerPoint 4.0, Netscape Navigator 3.0, etc.<p>I found also some files with .CHT and .IMG extension which I can't find any software to open them. I know I made them, but unfortunately I can't remember which software was used. There is my family tree and chart of my height growing (which I'd like to compare now with my kids).<p>Some files I uploaded here: <a href="https://github.com/twooclock/KdajBi/tree/main/cht_img" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/twooclock/KdajBi/tree/main/cht_img</a>
Files timestamp is 1990 and 1991.<p>Please help me find appropriate software!<p>So far I tried (does not work):<p>-ABC Flowcharter 3.01<p>-IBM Storyboard Plus 1.01 (5.25)<p>-Harvard Graphics for Windows 4.0<p>-Harvard Graphics for Windows 2.0 (3.5)<p>-HarvardGraphicsViewer<p>-PowerPoint 98<p>Googled, checked file.org, WinWorld, ... loosing hope... really makes me think about digital preservation.<p>Thank you!
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Title: Ive been working on large distributed system for the last 4-5 years with teams owning few services or have different responsibilities to keep the system up and running. We run into very interesting problems due to scale (billions of requests per month for our main public apis) and the large amount of data we deal with.<p>I think it has progressed my career and expanded my skills but I feel it's pretty damn exhausting to manage all this even when following a lot of the best-practices and working with other highly skilled engineers.<p>I've been wondering recently if others feel this kind of burnout (for lack of better word). Is the expectation is that your average engineer should now be able to handle all this?
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Title: I have a dream job in terms of work-life balance so I don't even have to think about it on the weekend. In theory, this is the right time to relax, do whatever is not job-related, enjoy the time with family, friends, etc.<p>That said, recently I have some strange discomfort inside when, for example, watching a movie in the evening. It feels wrong to spend time this way when there are so many things I still don't know or understand in computer science, software engineering and related fields.<p>Even though I do enjoy reading technical books and learning new things, it feels stressful at time when you would like to do something else, but it feels stressful and, well, "wrong".<p>Probably, someone has experienced the same and can share their take on that.<p>I realize how stupid that might sound, but this is what it is :)
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Title: I had a 100GB BX10 Hetzner storage box for photo backups. I was paying €2.9/month.<p>Today, I logged into their console and noticed BX10 wasn't listed as an option. The lowest config now is a 1TB BX11 for the same €2.9/month.<p>Just changed the storage option to BX11 and now I have 10x the capacity for the same price! Had I not noticed, Hetzner would have kept me on a 100GB box for that price.<p>If anyone here is using that service, check if an unexpected capacity upgrade is available to you.
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Title: I want to understand the ins and outs of the semiconductor industry. What resources would you recommend for beginner, intermediary and technical person?
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Title: The 6502ctl project is an Arduino controller for the 6502 CPU. The controller controls all 6502 pins, including the clock signal and interrupts, and simulates an address and data bus with attached memory and an output peripheral. The controller includes a clock-cycle debugger with disassembler. An assembler is also included with the project.
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Title: Have you completely cut caffeine out of your life? How did that affect your creativity, problem solving, programming skills, general mood, etc?<p>Asking because I’ve noticed a trend over my years of software that the best developers don’t drink coffee and don’t appear to consume caffeine in any other forms (at least not at work).<p>Just looking for anecdotes!
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Title: There are many threads that discuss one’s favorite programming or technology or startup related books. I’d love to hear from the community what fiction books they enjoy!
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Title: I just wanted to share an experience as a warning to fellow users of hacker news and in the hope that somehow someway 7 years and countless hours can be recovered.<p>I've never posted anything like this, but this is the only place I have any hope of a human response after youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company. My wife started a company that helps people transition from colleges in their home country (for instance the IIT system in India) by translating their credit system into the American educational credit system.<p>She utilized a youtube channel with unlisted videos to explain to internal employees the nuances of difficult evaluation types, for instance how to determine for CEGEPs in Quebec the difference between upper secondary and post secondary. Another example would be how to award credits for MBBS programs from U.K modeled educational system (West Africa, India etc).<p>Youtube sent her 3 strikes in one week. On videos that were 4 years old, indicating cyber bullying. These videos were unlisted and literally contained only incredibly dense, rather boring videos covering the nooks and crannies of various educational systems and how they relate to each other. When she responded, she received an auto reply that stated you get a reply within 2 business days. No further response despite repeated requests within the system, then tweets, and finally submitting a new appeal form from scratch to which the reply was nothing can be done because too much time had passed.<p>This content was incredibly time intensive to create and was basically another job on top of her position as CEO. As a small company this was a devastating blow. Her work youtube account is now removed.<p>Personally the cynic in me speculates that google cleans out low hanging fruit, using metrics, and there was nothing in the content that triggered the bot at all, just a case of over 700 somewhat lengthy videos that were getting almost no traffic, and they get to delete them and hide behind the byzantine garbage fire that is their "support".<p>If you work for the youtube division and can help, I'm begging you please send me a message or reply to this post, it seems this is the only way to rectify this kind of problem. If there is anyway to download the videos that is all we are asking for.<p>-jdh
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Title: i have recently been suffering from neck pain and headache, seems to be from bad posture. my fellow engineers, what do you do to keep those pain away?
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Title: When I search for phones with 3GB+ RAM and <=140mm height, there's only iPhone SE, iPhone 12 mini, and iPhone 13 mini.<p>The fact that Apple released 3 phones in 3 years with this form factor shows me that it is a profitable market segment and that there is demand.<p>Why is there no Android equivalent?<p><a href="https://m.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&nHeightMax=140&nRamMin=3000" rel="nofollow">https://m.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&nHeightMax...</a>
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Title: After working with Bash and Shellcheck for a few months, I noticed I could improve my code quality by making it compliant with the Shell Style Guide by Google [0]. While working on that, I thought some aspects of this Shell style guide can be verified automatically, granted some assumptions/opinions are formed. So I looked around for linting tools and autoformatters for Bash:<p>Shellcheck: <a href="https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck</a><p>From Asynchronous Lint Engine (ALE): <a href="https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/supported-tools.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/supported-...</a><p>- bashate: <a href="https://github.com/openstack/bashate" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/openstack/bashate</a><p>- cspell: <a href="https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell/tree/main/packages/cspell" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/streetsidesoftware/cspell/tree/main/packa...</a><p>- Bash Language Server: <a href="https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bash-lsp/bash-language-server</a><p>- shell -n flag: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-set" rel="nofollow">https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-set</a><p>- sh(shfmt): <a href="https://github.com/mvdan/sh" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mvdan/sh</a><p>- shdoc: <a href="https://github.com/reconquest/shdoc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/reconquest/shdoc</a><p>From this stack post [1]:<p>- checkbashisms: <a href="http://man.he.net/man1/checkbashisms" rel="nofollow">http://man.he.net/man1/checkbashisms</a><p>- shlint: <a href="https://github.com/duggan/shlint" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/duggan/shlint</a> (archived)<p>Prettier: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.prettier-vscode" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=esbenp.p...</a><p>Within all these linters and auto-formatters I did not find checks that enforce, for example, the Function Comments of the Shell Style Guide by Google:<p>All function comments should describe the intended API behaviour using:<p><pre><code> Description of the function.
Globals: List of global variables used and modified.
Arguments: Arguments taken.
Outputs: Output to STDOUT or STDERR.
Returns: Returned values other than the default exit status of the last command run.
</code></pre>
Hence, I thought we could make a Bash linting tool that verifies compliance with the Shell Style Guide by Google. To do so, a brief start was made here [2]. It identifies/lists elements in that style guide that may be verified automatically. Since Bash has been around longer than me, I think there may be some people better suited for the development of this enhanced linter. Hence, I thought it might be wise, for impact and usability, to share this idea here.<p>What do you say, HN?<p>[0]: <a href="https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html" rel="nofollow">https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3668665/is-there-a-static-analysis-tool-like-lint-or-perlcritic-for-shell-scripts" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3668665/is-there-a-stati...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/TruCol/checkstyle-for-bash" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/TruCol/checkstyle-for-bash</a>
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Title: https://wesupportsb2992.medium.com/re-s-2992-the-american-innovation-and-choice-online-act-f49cc61abd87<p>(YC is near the bottom of the signers' list)
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Title: I've gotten myself a Supernote A5X (awesome device btw) and since it doesn't have a web browser or anything I've wanted to have a way to read news on it. I've hacked together this utility in a couple of days and it works wonders for me personally so I thought it might be interesting to others. It can also be used as a noise free newspaper generator as it removes images/ads/links and other noisy stuff.<p>https://github.com/lnenad/newser<p>(there is a screenshot of the first page of the generated pdf)<p>It scrapes (news) websites for content and puts it into a pdf. For me the pdf location is my dropbox supernote directory so my setup is to run this thing daily and have a fresh pdf with news whenever I want it.<p>It's rough around the edges probably (currently added crawl support for verge, ars, engadget) but I think it's a good base so if anyone wants to contribute feel free. Some of the stuff I want to add is pictures (maybe), maybe parse the text html to include font styling and other stuff.<p>I've tried to generalize it as much as possible so the crawling is pretty much automatic and is controlled by a config file where you define "rules" on how to parse the website.
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Title: Hi all, hope someone enjoys (or not) my weekend project. See how many matching pairs you can find in two minutes.<p>This is written in C++ and built to WebAssembly with Emscripten. The code is at <a href="https://github.com/0xf00ff00f/rotator" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/0xf00ff00f/rotator</a>
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Title: Intuit, the owner of TurboTax is one of the largest players in tax e-filing. How do they seem to employ so many dark patterns with little complaint from consumers? TurboTax employs user hostile UI patterns that attempt to get consent to release filing information to Intuit and 3rd parties, switch to more expensive plans, and open new Credit Karma accounts (another Intuit owned property). I don’t understand why consumers are not more frustrated.
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Title: I am looking for interesting "book recommendations" particularly.<p>Someone told me that they were afraid to share their vulnerabilities with me because they feared I might not be comforting or even give them more anxiety.<p>I have looked up to HN for wisdom over the years and hopefully this ask piques enough interest.
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Title: So I wanted to book some places for my next holidays on Airbnb and I came on the most annoying CAPTCHA I ever saw<p><a href="https://i.postimg.cc/sXppmyxm/airbnbdes.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.postimg.cc/sXppmyxm/airbnbdes.png</a><p>Now you have to make sum of dices only to acces the website. And 5 times in a row.<p>And be sure to make no mistake ! I unfortunatly did on the fifth/last one (was getting really p*ssed), and had to start over !<p>So this morning I had to make around 50 dices sum just to acces this website.<p>I don't kow who came with this idea, but I find this really bad.
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Title: Not that progress should be denied <i>entirely</i>, but I often think that the past gets discarded too quickly and many good ideas got lost with the bath water. I'm certainly not the only one to feel that way.<p>So I'm wondering what such good ideas that have disappeared can other HNers remember.<p>I'll start:<p>In the golden age of sun stations, the BIOS was written in forth, and the ROM contained a forth interpreter. Not only all extension cards ROM was interpreted and therefore all extension cards were architecture independent, but you were given a Forth REPL to tinker around the boot process, or in fact at any later point once the system had started with a special key combination.<p>That was in my opinion way ahead of the modern BIOSes, even taking into account OpenBIOS.<p>Your turn?
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Title: What technology can be used to track multiple flying objects in a space like football field and up to 100 ft above it? Attaching something lightweight to each object is fine. I would like to visualise an FPV drone race with computer graphics in realtime.<p>Any ideas are welcome thanks!
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Title: I created this ORM to fill a gap in the Python ecosystem. Due to the nature of typing in Python there are no other Python ORMs that can provide correct type hints. Prisma Python manages to work around this by auto-generating python types.<p>Aside from static type checking, providing type hints means that you will get autocomplete suggestions for you which for me is the killer feature for this ORM (see the GIF in the README for an example).<p>It's also built on top of Prisma, a next-generation ORM for TypeScript which means that the core query building and connection handling has been battle tested, getting around a potential concern with adopting a new ORM.<p>Prisma Python also supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MongoDB, MariaDB and more!
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Title: HN is a rare place on the web, where it provides great value to a big community for free without any ads or trackers that plague the web right now. So thanks!
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Title: Don’t get me wrong, FaceID is an incredible, futuristic piece of technology, yet I find myself missing the simplicity of TouchID.
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Title: Here's the repo: <a href="https://github.com/simonw/google-drive-to-sqlite" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/simonw/google-drive-to-sqlite</a><p>The README is using a trick I'm increasingly leaning on: parts of that document - the --help output and the example database schema - are automatically generated using Cog: <a href="https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog" rel="nofollow">https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog</a> and <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/python/cog-to-update-help-in-readme" rel="nofollow">https://til.simonwillison.net/python/cog-to-update-help-in-r...</a>
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Title: The more I advance in my career, the more frequent are the phases when all novelty and excitement about software development, and tech in general, starts to fade away.<p>I'm looking for inspiration, so what's something really exciting that you're working on? (day job, hobby project, whatever...)
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Title: After two years of being beaten into this <i>new</i> way of working I honestly feel more at a loss for what my career is than any other time in my life.<p>I've been doing software work about four years now, first year or so was at a big co. next two were at a series B startup (8 mo. in person the rest remote due to covid).<p>I took a full-remote job at another startup thinking their processes would be better calibrated and I'm finding being social / building any kind of work relationships being nothing but an uphill battle. I'm not incredibly social outside of work, sure I can go to a bar and meet new people relative to a group of friends and don't necessarily think I have serious social anxiety (more than the average person) but the idea of 80% of accessible work for me (looking at my level of ability / experience / leetcode foo) is sort of freaking depressing.<p>My growth has without a doubt stalled, I can focus sort of but working from home with an office isn't great and having to pay for a noisy co-working space isn't exactly a "win" either.<p>I'm in New York currently, sort of decided to hold out while I have a group of friends here / sort of took a risk hoping office culture would sort of come back. Realizing that's likely not looking like a probable outcome at this point and curious what others on HN think about this. Even at the Big Co. I could get lunch with people, found mentorship relatively easily etc. Now, it's this bizarre constant process of scheduling, trying to "leverage" the time of who you're talking to and all feels very effete and robotic. I should also add that if I ever have to start doing meetings in VR I'll willingly just become a lumberjack and chuck my MacBook into the nearest river.<p>Basically, I'm on the fence in terms of moving into a rural area with cool outdoor things (and lower CoL) since why live in New York without an office. Or stay in NYC for the "network" but what's the point if I'm not super social and if I don't have the chops to really see the comp gains you get working here?<p>The Future of Work TM is looking pretty bleak - what do you kind folks think?<p>Cheers!
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Title: Today is the last date with only two digits until 2111/1/1.
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Title: Every day there are posts here with some Twitter thread as the source.<p>This used to be just annoying in the past (because of the overall low quality of such sources), but now it's gone too far.
Twitter won't let you see the content without logging in anymore. At least this is what I see when I open a Twitter link and scroll down: https://i.imgur.com/E0h2CtQ.png<p>There are many free blog posting platforms out there that don't annoy users like that and — needless to say — are in a much more readable format. All it takes is a couple of minutes to sign up...<p>I think such a HN rule could help in promoting common decency on the web.<p>EDIT: A couple of posters made valid points against an outright ban. Someone suggested flagging paywalls/credential-walls. How about lowering the score for Twitter-link submissions (something like: 1 vote counts 0.5 votes)?
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Title: So I bought a LG C1 OLED tv... It has that shiny new WebOS 6 that seemly is plagued with ads even if you disable all permissions, and I heard reports it is circunventing pi-hole too (by putting ads on same server as content you actually want).<p>The Brazillian version of it insists in advertising content available on "Looke", with little filtering, it has no shame in just pasting there posters of splatter horror movies or adult stuff, for example ads for a documentary about Rocco or another named just "Porn" with a giant naked ass on the poster.<p>Anyone know how I buy a dumb TV? One that does not need internet, at all? Or if it does need internet to update its firmware, it won't spy on me or fill stuff with ads?<p>OLED TVs aren't cheap either, and I am very disappointed that even paying a ton of money I am still the product.
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Title: I am on and off Twitter for years now. I tried to build a following, went until around 2k followers, but than got sick of constantly thinking if "thing x" in daily live is worth tweeting.<p>I deleted my account, but then created a new one because some tweets and threads were more easily viewable with an account. This lead to build a more serious Twitter profile again.<p>However, I realised the actual ROI of using Twitter is so negative, it's shocking. Even interesting threads turn out to be half-wrong. I see takes from 10k+ follower accounts who are not well researched, one sided and all. Tech twitter things just because they are good at programming, they have a valid view on topic Y.<p>Now this is all common knowledge I believe. But Jesus, I stumbled across accounts which I used to follow, and these people post still every few hours or days the same take on public outcry and nothing changed. They do this for 8+ years now, you can scroll back by years and it's the same over and over again.<p>I wonder if someone has a take which changes my mind or what makes them do this stupid things? Imagine looking back on your life when you are 60 and seeing that you tweeted stuff with no effect WHAT SO EVER and you did this for 30 years of your life. Isn't this so depressing?
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Title: Hi, we’re Seth & Andrew (Aalk4308), founders of Constructor, the newest contestant in the issue tracking thunderdome.<p>TL;DR - we’re building a lightweight-yet-powerful tool that aims to minimize friction and improve clarity for both developers and managers alike, mostly by modeling things differently. We’re aiming for an out-of-the-box experience as simple as Trello, but designed completely from scratch for software teams, with enhancements like threaded comments, blockers, and integrations with GitHub and devops tools. You can take it for a spin with our instant, no-signup demo at <a href="https://try.constructor.dev" rel="nofollow">https://try.constructor.dev</a> – please let us know what you think!<p>Really, another tracking tool? Why?<p>Yes, another tracking tool, because nobody’s done it right yet, not even the recent entrants. We think the friction and complexity everyone hates about tracking tools are largely rooted in flawed models. Dev tracking tools both model the software development process and participate in it, and if they can’t model it in a lightweight way, then their participation adds friction and complexity. This wastes the team’s time and makes management more difficult. For over a decade as an engineering leader I struggled to capture my teams’ run-of-the-mill dev processes in a satisfyingly lightweight way; our solutions were always either inadequately simple or much too complex (Jira) and couldn’t strike a good balance between the needs of management and staying out of the team’s way. We’re building Constructor to solve this problem.<p>How is Constructor different from other dev tracking tools?<p>Abstractly: we differ in our product philosophy and our approach to modeling. Concretely: we’re redesigning lots of familiar features in novel ways, for example:<p>- Comments are threaded, assignable, and resolvable so you can keep discussions in the context of the work, have multiple going at the same time, and keep clutter to a minimum. Most importantly, they provide a lightweight mechanism for keeping track of small ad hoc tasks that might otherwise get lost in Slack, without requiring the overhead of a separate ticket.<p>- Blockers are first-class objects modeled as free-form text, so anything can be a blocker, not just another ticket – and are built on comment threads so you can easily have discussions around them.<p>- Checklists are provided for each stage in your workflow. So you can have one checklist for design, a different one for coding, one for QA, one for UAT, etc. We love checklists because they’re flexible and provide a ton of value with a minimum of hassle.<p>- In the near future, checklist items can be pointers to tickets and thus be used to create completely user-defined work structures. So you can build any structure you like, e.g. milestone -> epic -> story, or have no structure at all. Tickets can be in multiple projects/features/epics at once, since it’s a DAG. This may sound complicated, but we think it will prove to be lightweight and powerful. (And before you say “that’s great for devs but no non-technical PM would ever understand that” – this design was suggested to us by a non-technical PM customer.)<p>If you’re curious about how we differ in philosophy:<p>* We view complexity as enemy #1 for software development teams and pursue simplicity with an almost unwholesome zeal.<p>* We believe a tracking tool should be a great solution for many teams straight out of the box and provide solid value with virtually no configuration or learning curve.<p>* We don’t think a tracking tool should tell you how you ought to run your team. We don’t buy the idea that there’s one “best process”, certainly not during rapid team growth and change. We think everyone should do what works for their team and adjust it as they grow and circumstances change. It’s Constructor’s job to support that growth and evolution as well as possible.<p>* We think a tracking tool should never stand in the way of you getting your work done; if you want to do something, you probably have a good reason, and Constructor should let you do it. We can’t stand being blocked by simpleminded validation rules; our approach to consistency checks is more akin to linting.<p>* Avoid manager footguns. E.g. we’ll probably never report “velocity” even if it’s computed internally because it’s so commonly abused as a dev productivity measure (when in fact there’s no such thing). We know this is in tension with letting teams work however they want, but every rule has its limits.<p>We have a lot of cool stuff in the works but wanted to get feedback on what we’ve built so far. Please take it for a spin at <a href="https://try.constructor.dev" rel="nofollow">https://try.constructor.dev</a> and let us know what you think.<p>Thanks!
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Title: UI Lead here - managing a few projects at any given time, mentoring junior developers, working with the backend team on endpoints, etc... most of you know the drill.<p>Pulled master branch, no build errors, Angular isn't complaining but I know the problem is in the UI side, probably with graphQL (angular apollo). I cannot get a single VSCode extension to work to help debug it so a junior is going through and commenting out code they changed to try to find it.<p>There is no way this project is done on time and the entire software department is looking at it. I'm 1 of 3 leads on it.<p>Quite literally just gave myself a panic attack thinking about it and the looming deadline.<p>This isn't the first time; I've been dealing with this for months now. It went away for a bit (2-3 months) and now it's back. I've been drinking all kinds of clamming teas, supplements, trying to change my diet, walk more, etc...<p>I just can't stop them :( 99% of the time it's chest pain or back pain or etc... every once in a while it escalates into a panic attack.<p>I keep trying to tell myself f' it - it doesn't matter. Fire me if you want to; we're doing the best we can. But it's not sinking in...<p>I.do.not.know.what.to.do.anymore. Vacation? FMLA? Career change? wtf would I do if not web development (been doing it 20+ years)<p>help.
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Title: Hi HN. I was inspired by so many other folks also longing for a return to the old web that I put together a service to scratch my own itch: An extremely fast headline aggregator done in 1990s style HTML.<p>Sharing it with you all for those of you that also would enjoy this now esoteric style.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Philip, Amby, and Declan from Hyperbeam (<a href="https://www.hyperbeam.dev" rel="nofollow">https://www.hyperbeam.dev</a>). Hyperbeam is an API that makes it easy for developers to embed real-time multiplayer capabilities into their web apps—including any other web app that you want to provide multiplayer access to.<p>Building software to connect people in real time is hard. We experienced this in college when we built a “watch party” site for people to watch movies together (<a href="https://hyperbeam.com" rel="nofollow">https://hyperbeam.com</a>). Other watch party solutions were unreliable, so we spent two years building tech to allow friends to watch stuff together with ease.<p>The key piece was a “multiplayer web browser”. By that we mean a Chromium instance that you embed inside your own web app (i.e. web browser inception) which is actually hosted on a server and streamed via WebRTC, and so can be shared and controlled by multiple people at the same time.<p>For example, say you have an online tutoring platform. An instructor can open any application in the embedded web browser and then work on it with the student together.<p>Another use case is making non-multiplayer apps multiplayer. One of our customers wanted to add a collaborative version of Google Slides to their product, so multiple participants could navigate the slides at once. Google doesn't provide an API for that, so users had to screen share, which isn't multiplayer. With Hyperbeam, you just open up a shared instance of Google Slides and then multiple people can control it.<p>We didn’t learn about those use cases until later, though. What happened was that we grew hyperbeam.com to 150k monthly active users and over 1M hours of video per month, but then it stopped growing. Despite this, we got into YC, and soon had multiple companies asking to buy our multiplayer browsing tech. After closing three deals, we decided to sell our multiplayer web browsers as an API. That way other companies can build products to connect others without going through two years of WebRTC hell like we did.<p>We allow developers to embed multiplayer web browsers in their web apps with a few lines of code. Users can then visit any website from inside that web app together. Developers can specify control permissions, programmatically navigate to specific URLs, and hide the browser UI so apps appear as if they are natively integrated.<p>Unlike screen share solutions that upload your personal computer stream to participants, Hyperbeam’s multiplayer web browsers run on our own virtual machines. This eliminates the upload speed bottleneck that many users experience.<p>We host a Chromium browser instance on our server, record the video and audio output and stream it to all participants using WebRTC. That sounds simple, but hosting full-blown Chromium instances is challenging, especially doing it cost-effectively: what we learned is Chromium instances, at scale, love memory bandwidth a lot more than the amount of memory. Also, network unreliability, like last-mile packet loss, is also a problem, especially audio packet loss which is a lot more noticeable than video packet loss. A simple hack we have in place is literally sending every audio RTP packet twice, which improves audio quality drastically over spotty connections.<p>Anyone is welcome to get a free playground API key and try our product! Rather than spend time building a UI for that, we’ve just put up a Google Form in the spirit of do-things-that-don’t-scale. Go to <a href="https://forms.gle/RSQhbFXbdrcqwqsc9" rel="nofollow">https://forms.gle/RSQhbFXbdrcqwqsc9</a>, fill in your email and we promise to send you an API key right away. The API docs are here: <a href="https://showy-backpack-b3f.notion.site/Hyperbeam-API-eb9874bd1ef54c22ba7197324ce22231" rel="nofollow">https://showy-backpack-b3f.notion.site/Hyperbeam-API-eb9874b...</a><p>Pricing is not transparent on our website yet—we’re still working it out. However, we’re going to use the same business model as CPaaS companies such as Agora and Twilio. We’ll charge customers a minimum amount per month and provide a set amount of participant hours. If a customer exceeds the provided participant hours, we continue charging at a fixed rate.<p>If you want to try our tech in action, you can do that by signing up for free and creating a room using our original Hyperbeam watch party platform: <a href="https://hyperbeam.com/app/register" rel="nofollow">https://hyperbeam.com/app/register</a><p>Alternatively, we'll be answering questions live in our HN watch party here: <a href="https://gg.hyperbeam.com/invite/w0c6n-Ko" rel="nofollow">https://gg.hyperbeam.com/invite/w0c6n-Ko</a><p>We’re happy to answer any questions you have, and would love to hear your ideas for other potential use cases as well. Thanks!
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Title: It seems like it would be great for open source projects with limited funding to use BitTorrent for downloads. However I only see a handful of projects using this model, e.g. LibreOffice and GIMP. Whereas a lot of Linux-based OSes just host their disk images over HTTP, which I imagine could incur substantial hosting costs over time.<p>Why don't more software projects do this? Are there any big downsides to distributing torrents as opposed to traditional FTP/HTTP downloads?
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Title: If you visit the basic HTML version of google.com right now (turn off JavaScript, search for something, return home), there's a TODO at the top of the page:<p>> // TODO(b/219794336): Hide keyboard when opening from Dragonglass homepage<p>Here's a screenshot:
<a href="https://severnaya.net/google.png" rel="nofollow">https://severnaya.net/google.png</a>
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Title: That is all
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Title: What are some of your favorite websites you've ever come across on the internet? And why?<p>List for whatever reason.. the most obscure, interesting design, the worst design, etc.<p>I'm waiting to see some exciting findings.
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Title: Hi HN – we first launched Supernotes[1] to HN in April 2020, and since then Tobias and I (it's just the two of us) have put in the work to make what we hope is an amazing note-taking app. Although the note-taking / personal knowledge management landscape is <i>incredibly</i> competitive at the moment (with lots of great apps adding great new features every day), we think that with the newly released Supernotes 2 we're keeping pace and delivering a unique and satisfying knowledge management experience.<p>Here's the combination of features that make us stand out:<p>- a powerful markdown-based notecard system that is simple/beautiful but also super flexible<p>- a WYSIWYM[2] editor that keeps markdown marks for explicitness while still giving you a preview of what the content looks like when rendered<p>- eschewing a folder system in favor of multi-parent nested hierarchies<p>- unique collaboration system that is optimized for granular sharing between individuals rather than "all-in" sharing amongst teams or specific groups<p>- notes that can be linked both with inline bidirectional links or the aforementioned hierarchies, allowing you to build (and <i>experience</i> with our 2D and 3D graph views) a robust graph of your knowledge<p>There are of course tons of other cool features that are included as well, but those are the highlights. If any of that sounds interesting to you, you can sign up here[3] – we would love to hear any feedback you might have!<p>[1] <a href="https://supernotes.app/?ref=hn" rel="nofollow">https://supernotes.app/?ref=hn</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM</a><p>[3] <a href="https://my.supernotes.app/entry?signup=1&ref=hn" rel="nofollow">https://my.supernotes.app/entry?signup=1&ref=hn</a>
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Title: Hello Hacker News! We're Joseph, Kieran and David from elestio (<a href="https://elest.io/" rel="nofollow">https://elest.io/</a>).
We've built a platform that offers open-source software as a managed service - we take care of the OS and app updates, security, SSL, networking, backups, the whole deal.<p>In 2009, we started deploying open-source software for websites and web apps we built, many for SMB and enterprise customers. Our process was basically: spin up VM's from a hosting provider, install the software we needed, then update it manually / when it was needed / critical, etc.<p>Once we hit > 100 servers/services needing updates, backups, capacity monitoring and alerting, etc. we saw that it was getting totally unmanageable… so we built what would eventually become elestio.<p>We've put a lot, a lot, a lot of work into building something that allows us (and now you) to deploy a new service in just a few minutes, with zero ongoing maintenance / devops overhead. We basically turned open-source software into a SaaS experience.<p>We update all the apps, respecting SemVer on the branch you select, issue and renew SSL certs automatically (even for your own domains, for free), automatically implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy, caching is handled and we put your service behind a configurable firewall and rate limiter with sane defaults. We have implemented Nebula to connect your services hosted in different datacenters across regions and providers as if they were on the same network and Borg backups to do deduplicated incremental backups in a remote datacenter.<p>There were many challenges in building it… VM providers don't have homogenous or feature-complete APIs for provisioning servers, we tested 6 different mesh networking/VPN solutions to enable services running in different datacenters, regions, or providers to connect to each other securely, and we did a lot of work to create a sane templating system that covers setup, security, backups, upgrade, migrations and monitoring, lots of work to test the safest ways to update OS and apps without breaking things… but we got there and it works really well (we think)! Deployments are based on Docker, which helped a lot to standardize everything.<p>We've been using it to deploy and maintain over 12,000 services for our own enterprise clients and we've spent the last year making it user-friendly (and even more bulletproof for end-user configs). Elestio can currently deploy any one of over 150 open-source software stacks like Postgres, MySQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Wordpress, NodeBB, Jitsi, Uptime-kuma, Plausible, GitLab,, Strapi, Ghost, or even PowerDns, Grafana, ClickHouse, etc. in about 3 minutes, flat.<p>We currently support AWS Lightsail, Linode, Hetzner, Vultr and Digital Ocean, and BringYourOwnVM, if you want to run on your own provider account or even on-premise but have all the features of managed services. We are offering 1 BYOVM service per customer for free forever.<p>Something we really wanted to do was make sure we were part of a healthy open-source ecosystem. To that end, elestio will donate part of all revenue to the open-source projects our customers are using. We will review this annually and if it's possible to increase it, we will. This is a win-win-win to us. Open-source developers and communities get more resources to improve their software while our customers, our staff and other stakeholders know that they are helping to support the open-source community.<p>For this launch we made a partnership with DigitalOcean, they are offering $250 of free credits on Elestio if you go through this link: <a href="https://try.digitalocean.com/elestio/" rel="nofollow">https://try.digitalocean.com/elestio/</a><p>Alternatively you can also register here and get $20 of free credits but not limited to DO infrastructure: <a href="https://dash.elest.io/signup" rel="nofollow">https://dash.elest.io/signup</a><p>All your questions and comments are welcome and if you want to share any devops horror stories, please do! We're giving out free credits for the best ones!!<p>Joseph, Kieran and David
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Title: Hi HN, My name is George, and I am helping build an office focused VR headset called the “Simula One”. It was discussed recently here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28695455" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28695455</a>. We have just opened our store for preorders (<a href="https://shop.simulavr.com" rel="nofollow">https://shop.simulavr.com</a>), so that we and our backers can help people replace their old PCs/laptops with more capable VR headsets.<p>We call our headset a “VR Computer” (or a “VRC”) to distinguish it from gaming headsets. When Simula was founded, most people thought the future of VR was in games & entertainment. The truth is that VR offers a superior way for performing knowledge work, but until now there haven’t been dedicated VR computing devices available on the market. While existing headsets are optimized for gaming, ours is optimized for productivity: it features bleeding edge high-resolution displays, has a detachable compute pack with specs comparable to a premium office laptop (x86 architecture), and runs a VR specialized Linux distro optimized for clear text.<p>VRCs offer several advantages over Laptops & PCs: they provide unlimited screens of any size, improve work focus & immersion, are usable outdoors (no laptop glare), improve privacy (no one around you can snoop your screen), and their compact design frees up desk space. They also promote better posture and freedom of movement: with a VR computer you can change positions, sit up, lean back, stand, lie down, or even walk while you compute.<p>Our project started out as an open-source VR window manager (<a href="https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula</a>), which you can try out today on the Valve Index or HTC Vive. It's built over Drew Devault's wlroots and the Godot game engine. Once our compositor became relatively stable, we ran into the issue of “no other manufacturer wanted to offer us Linux support” (thinking there was no market for something so niche, I imagine?). So we decided to build our own =] We are happy to answer any question (technical or otherwise) about our project.
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Title: Hi HN, this is Harsh, I am the developer behind Hathora. I tried making a simple multiplayer game a few years ago and, as someone with software engineering experience but no gamedev experience, I found it to be very challenging. On top of the challenges of building a single player game, you now have to constantly battle the network and latency, find ways to prevent cheating, and figure out how to make a scalable backend architecture. With Hathora my goal was to encode best practices for online multiplayer game development into a framework so developers can simply focus on implementing their game logic.<p>Some technical pieces of Hathora I wanted to highlight:<p>- Hathora includes a system I think of as “gRPC for games”. You define your API in Hathora’s declarative format and the framework spits out typesafe data models, clients, and server endpoint stubs across multiple programming languages (although currently only Typescript is implemented). Minimal packet sizes are achieved through a binary serialization format which includes a delta encoding feature, allowing the framework to efficiently synchronize state by sending data diffs.<p>- Hathora includes a Swagger-like Prototype UI generated from the API definition. This allows you to view the game state and call server methods all in realtime, letting you interact with your backend logic without writing a single line of frontend code. Once you are happy with the backend logic, you can create a fully custom frontend using any framework/technology you’d like and just use the Hathora client to communicate with the backend.<p>- By handling generic game functionality (state synchronization, messaging, persistence, etc) for you, Hathora lets you create multiplayer games with very few lines of code. For example, see chess which is implemented in under 200 lines of user code: <a href="https://github.com/hathora/hathora/tree/develop/examples/chess" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hathora/hathora/tree/develop/examples/che...</a>. I also made (a massively simplified version of) Among Us in under 200 lines of code: <a href="https://github.com/hathora/among-us-tutorial" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/hathora/among-us-tutorial</a><p>I am looking for developers interested in making online multiplayer games to try out Hathora and give me feedback. Additionally, if the roadmap seems interesting to you I would gladly welcome contributions: <a href="https://docs.hathora.dev/#/roadmap" rel="nofollow">https://docs.hathora.dev/#/roadmap</a>. I’ll be around to answer questions, let me know what you think!
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Joe and JD from Hydra (<a href="https://hydras.io/" rel="nofollow">https://hydras.io/</a>). Hydra is a Postgres extension that intelligently routes queries through Postgres to other databases. Engineers query regular Postgres, and Hydra extends a Postgres-compliant SQL layer to non-relational, columnar, and graph DBs. It currently works with Postgres and Snowflake, and we have a roadmap to support MongoDB, Google BigQuery, and ClickHouse.<p>Different databases are good at different things. For example, Postgres is good at low-latency transactional workloads, but slow when running analytical queries. For the latter, you're better off with a columnar database like Snowflake. The problem is that for each new database added to a system, application complexity increases quickly.<p>Working at Microsoft Azure, I saw many companies juggle database trade-offs in complex architectures. When organizations adopted new databases, engineers were forced to rewrite application code to support the new database or use multiple apps to offset database performance tradeoffs. All this is expensive busy work that frustrates engineers. Adopting new databases is hard and expensive.<p>Hydra automatically picks the right DB for the right task and pushes down computation, meaning each query will get routed to where it can be executed the fastest. We’ve seen results return 100X faster when executing to the right database.<p>We've chosen to integrate with Snowflake first so that developers can easily gain the analytical performance of Snowflake through a simple Postgres interface. To an application, Hydra looks like a single database that can handle both transactions and analytics. As soon as transactions are committed in Postgres, they are accessible for analytics in real-time. Combining the strengths of Postgres and Snowflake in this way results in what is sometimes called HTAP: Hybrid Transactional-Analytical Processing (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_transactional/analytical_processing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_transactional/analytica...</a>), which is the convergence of OLTP and OLAP.<p>Existing solutions are manual and require communicating with each datastore separately. The common alternative is trying to combine all of your data together into a data warehouse via ETL. That works well for analysts and data scientists, but isn't transactional and can't be used to power responsive applications. With Hydra engineers can write unified applications to cover workloads that had to be separate before.<p>Hydra runs as a Postgres extension, which gives it the ability to use Postgres internals and modify execution of queries. Hydra intercepts queries in real-time and routes queries based on query type, user settings, and Postgres' cost analysis. Writes and operational reads go to Postgres, analytical workloads go to Snowflake.<p>Recently committed transactions are moved from Postgres to Snowflake in near real-time using Hydra Bridge, our built-in data pipeline that links databases from within Postgres. The bridge is an important part of what we do. Without Hydra, workloads are typically isolated between different databases, requiring engineers to implement slow and costly ETL processes. Complex analytics are often run on older data, updated monthly or weekly. The Hydra bridge allows for real-time data movement, enabling analytics to be run on fresh data.<p>We make money by charging for Hydra Postgres, which is a Postgres managed service, and Hydra Instance, which attaches Hydra to your existing Postgres database. Pricing is listed on the product pages: <a href="https://hydras.io/products/postgres" rel="nofollow">https://hydras.io/products/postgres</a> and <a href="https://hydras.io/products/instance" rel="nofollow">https://hydras.io/products/instance</a>.<p>A little about our backgrounds: Joseph Sciarrino - Former PM @ MSFT Azure Open-Source Databases team. Heroku (W08) and Citus Data (S11) alum. Jonathan Dance - Director @ Heroku (2011-2021)<p>Using Hydra you can create a database cluster of your own design. We’d love to know what Hydra clusters you’d be interested in creating. For example, Elasticsearch + Postgres, BigQuery + SingleStore + Postgres, etc. Remember - You can experiment different combinations without rewriting queries, since Hydra extends Postgres over these other databases. When you think about databases like interoperable parts you can get super creative!
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Title: I realize that asking this probably makes me sound like an asshole, but bear with me for a second. When I joined Reddit, circa 2012, it had its shared of misinformed, poorly researched comments/posts like every other internet community, but as long as you stuck to niche subreddits it was mostly downvoted and contained.<p>As the years pass and I pick up new niche interests, my instinct is to turn to Reddit to find like minded individuals, but more and more increasingly I find that misinformed and poorly researched content is becoming the default and taking over the more quality content.<p>Is this everyone else's experience with Reddit lately as well or I'm just becoming more of an asshole as I age? Genuinely curious what others think.
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Title: This post shows and explains the design of the eBike I built myself. I decided to post it on this specific forum because this is where it all started, by stumbling on another post, as mentioned in my entry.
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Title: Like many companies we have employees affected by the the violence in Ukraine. What are others doing to help their employees?
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Title: JetBrain is company registered in Prague, Czech, however it was created by three Russian developers and currently is hiring a lot of people for their Russian offices[1]. There was also some allegation of malware being embedded in their tools[2].<p>In the light of recent development is it safe to assume that JetBrain products are not use for Russian espionage?<p>[1]https://www.jetbrains.com/careers/jobs/<p>[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/russia-cyber-hack.html
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Title: I use TOTP for every site that supports two-factor authentication. When setting up 2FA for a new google account, I can choose: SMS/call, security key or google prompt. I don't have a security key, I would prefer not to log into google with my work account on my phone, and I would prefer not to be susceptible to sim swapping. Is TOTP less safe than SMS/call?<p>Interestingly google's own Authenticator TOTP app still exists, but apparently you can't use it to set up 2FA for a google account anymore: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.authenticator2" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...</a>
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Title: Examples:<p><a href="https://lite.cnn.com/en" rel="nofollow">https://lite.cnn.com/en</a><p><a href="https://text.npr.org" rel="nofollow">https://text.npr.org</a>
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Title: How do you start researching for an idea you have? How do you look for if it is even worth the effort, what innovation can be made if a similar app exists?<p>If you completely don't have an idea, but want to work on one, how do you look for ideas? Do you have a process that works for you, or some resources that help you generate ideas?
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Title: Incident: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2402<p>Update: our apps appear back up after 23 minutes total downtime. Others are reporting applications still down.<p>Update: it appears most or all services have been restored.
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