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Title: My daughter will graduate next year and, having always been technically inclined, has indicated that she would like to pursue a career in some aspect of the technical industry. I think this is wonderful.
However, having recognized the importance of your industry tragically late I feel like I am letting her down when she wants to discuss specifics, i.e. What do I think about the future of AI, which programming languages will remain relevant etc.
I've started to regularly read here (often with a search page pulled up to research some of the terminology) and have begun subscribing to newsletters etc, but I'm wondering if anyone resources or pages they would recommend to help me better educate myself in her chosen field of interest. I am not seeking to be an expert, but I would love to be a somewhat informed sounding board as she switches into adulthood.
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Title: Just wondering how other open-source developers deal with valid by badly-written pull requests.<p>I usually work closely with the PR author, giving them multiple rounds of suggestions until it's up to our project's coding standards. Sometimes the PR author "drops out" of the process in frustration, as they were just trying to give us a quick fix, and didn't necessarily want to do a lot of work. In those cases, I usually thank them, and rewrite the PR (or heavily modify it). But I'm hesitant to do this in all cases, because often the PR author is excited to see their name as part of the contributors list, and/or to see their own code used in the project.<p>How so you deal with this kind of thing?
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Title: Greetings,<p>Is losing faith/hope in humanity something others experience as well?
Is it due to the way i perceive things (i.e. my entourage)?
Am I in a bubble and I don't see it? How do I get out?
Should I <i>be</i> in a bubble to keep my sanity?
How do I build those filters?<p>Please let me know your thoughts and how you're handling it.<p>Things that are making me lose hope:<p>- climate change or how society/corporations/governments are destroying the environment and/or are barely doing anything. All I think about sometimes is how we'll begin to see famines spreading across poor countries until it's all too late... Yet Elon buying Twitter is still in the news till this day.<p>- social inequality is rising year on year. inflation is a killer for poor families that are barely making ends meet. Yet most corporations are announcing lots of profits and they barely give a sh*t about their workers.<p>- workers: all I hear is there's a shortage of workers. shortage, shortage, shortage. But they rarely talk about salaries and wages being so low.<p>- billionaires: ugh, enough about these megalomaniacs.<p>- media: it's feeding people rubbish all the time. All. The. Time.<p>- corruption: it's so wide spread, people have become desensitized. war... famines... I could go on...
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Title: I'm aware of the almost magical effects caffeine can have on my coding and productivity.<p>If you stopped taking caffeine (or adderall or whatever other drug that enhances focus)... how long do you think you could continue to do your job effectively. Would you be fired within a month?
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Title: design or otherwise
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Title: I'm pretty interested in finding a fully remote company, that hires for a 4-day workweek (as opposed to 5).<p>How can someone (in Europe) find such employers?
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Title: Python/Golang/C (ye, C) day-to-day job here.<p>I am interested in either updating myself on (C++11>) or going the Rust way. I see a lot of criticism/hate of C++ lately (mostly due to the comittee), but the tooling and libraries are there for multiple areas.<p>Rust is also interesting to me from a security standpoint.<p>So I don't really have time to invest in both languages; any directions?
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Title: Every week I see a new terminal app here on HN, and it's always some startup with no good will that's built it on Electron and filled it full of always-online trackers.<p>Why is this a thing, and why do companies think this is a market worth pursuing?
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Title: Roughly 3 years ago I launched the open-source blogging platform [Bear Blog](<a href="https://bearblog.dev" rel="nofollow">https://bearblog.dev</a>) (which was greeted by the HN hug on its first day live). Since then it's been cracking along well, with about 150 blogs per week being started, and some prolific bloggers settling into it.<p>The best thing is seeing the variety of blogs popping up. I'm going to have to set up a list of "neat Bear Blogs" in the future.<p>The worst thing is the sheer number of spam accounts being opened (about 30% of new blogs).I review all blogs by hand in a Tinder-esque system.<p>Currently there are a few people sponsoring the project (about $240 per month) which pays for the server and my coffee. It's fun. I only put in a handful of hours a month to maintain, update, and secure the blogs.<p>Next steps? I'm thinking of just keeping it up. Over the next few years it will become more refined, more robust, and more secure. This isn't a financial project (my other company pays me a salary). It's just fun building the blogging platform I want to use.
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Title: Hello HN,<p>I (firmware/software) and a group of fellow mechanical (1x) electrical (1x) engineers often wax about starting a company. None of us are interested in managing anything non engineering-related. Where do you usually find the manager types for your startup? You know, the ones who can talk to investors, do the government paperwork, and other boring stuff.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
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Title: Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location:
Remote:
Willing to relocate:
Technologies:
Résumé/CV:
Email:
</code></pre>
Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/" rel="nofollow">https://seisvelas.github.io/hn-candidates-search/</a> or <a href="https://hirehackernews.com/" rel="nofollow">https://hirehackernews.com/</a>.
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Title: Please state the location and include REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA
when that sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is <i>not</i> an option,
include ONSITE.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company. If it isn't a household name,
please explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>,
<a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>, <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235966" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235966</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235967" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235967</a>
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Title: Hey HN, I'm Gabriel, founder of Meticulous (<a href="https://www.meticulous.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.meticulous.ai</a>). We're building an API for replay testing. That is, we enable developers to record sessions in their web apps, then replay those sessions against <i>new</i> frontend code, in order to catch regressions before the code is released.<p>I was inspired to start Meticulous from my time at Dropbox, where we had regular 'bug bashes' for our UX. Five or six engineers would go to a meeting room and click through different flows to try to break what we built. These were effective but time consuming—they required us to click through the same set of actions each time prior to a release.<p>This prompted me to start thinking about replaying sessions to automatically catch regressions. You can't replay against production since you might mutate production data or cause side effects. You could replay against staging, but a lot of companies don't have a staging environment that is representative of production. In addition, you need a mechanism to reset state after each replayed session (imagine replaying a user signing up to your web application).<p>We designed Meticulous with a focus on regressions, which I think are a particularly painful class of bug. They tend to occur in flows which users are actively using, and the number of regressions generally scales with the size and complexity of a codebase, which tends to always increase.<p>You can use Meticulous on any website, not just your own. For example, you can start recording a session, then go sign up to (say) amazon.com, then create a simple test which consists of replaying against amazon.com twice and comparing the resulting screenshots. You can also watch recordings and replays on the Meticulous dashboard. Of course, normally you would replay against the base commit and head commit of a PR, as opposed to the production site twice.<p>Our API is currently quite low-level. The Meticulous CLI allows you to do three things:<p>1) You can use 'yarn meticulous record' to open a browser which you can then use to record a session on a URL of your choice, like localhost. You can also inject our JS snippet onto staging, local, dev and QA environments if you want to capture a larger pool of sessions. This is intended for testing your own stuff! If you inject our snippet, please ask for the consent of your colleagues before recording their workflows. I would advise against production deployments, because our redaction is currently very basic.<p>2) You can use 'yarn meticulous replay' to replay a session against a URL of your choice. During replay, we spin up a browser and simulate click events with Puppeteer. A list of exceptions and network logs are written to disk. A screenshot is taken at the end of the replay and written to disk.<p>3) You can use 'yarn meticulous screenshot-diff' to diff two screenshots.<p>There are lots of potential use cases here. You could build a system on top of the screenshot diffing to detect major regressions with a UX flow. You could also try to diff exceptions encountered during replay to detect new uncaught JS exceptions. We plan to build a higher-level product which will provide some testing out of the box.<p>Meticulous captures network traffic at record-time and mocks out network calls at replay-time. This isolates the frontend and avoids causing any side effects. However, this approach does have a few problems. The first is that you can't test backend changes or integration changes, only frontend changes. (We are going to make network-stubbing optional, though, so that you can replay against a staging environment if you wish.) The second problem with our approach is that if your API significantly changes, you will need to record a new set of sessions to test against. A third problem is that we don't yet support web applications which rely heavily upon server-side rendering. However, we felt these trade-offs were worth it to make Meticulous agnostic of the backend environment.<p>Meticulous is not going to replace all your testing, of course. I would recommend using it in conjunction with existing testing tools and practices, and viewing it as an additional layer of defense.<p>We have a free plan where you can replay 20 sessions per month. I've temporarily changed our limit to 250 for the HN launch. Our basic plan is $100/month. The CLI itself is open-source under ISC. We're actively discussing open sourcing the record+replay code.<p>I'd love for you to play around with Meticulous! You can try it out at <a href="https://docs.meticulous.ai" rel="nofollow">https://docs.meticulous.ai</a>. It's rough around the edges, but we wanted to get this out to HN as early as possible. Please let us know what you might want us to build on top of this (visual diffs? perf regressions? dead code analysis? preventing regressions?). We would also love to hear from people who have built any sort of replay testing out at their company. Thank you for reading and I look forward to the comments!
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Title: We've been hard at work for a few weeks and thought it's time for another update.<p>In case you missed our first post, PostgresML is an end-to-end machine learning solution, running alongside your favorite database.<p>This time we have more of a suite offering: project management, visibility into the datasets and the deployment pipeline decision making.<p>Let us know what you think!<p>Demo link is on the page, and also here: <a href="https://demo.postgresml.org" rel="nofollow">https://demo.postgresml.org</a>
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Title: Hey, I’m Dave, the founder of Kontxt.io (<a href="https://www.kontxt.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.kontxt.io</a>). Engage directly on the web and save, organize, and share highlights and notes. Follow people. Join groups. And search content. Here’s a 2-minute demo (<a href="https://youtu.be/Th4vaOzuGnU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Th4vaOzuGnU</a>). It works on desktop and mobile.
The web layer is like Google-Doc collaboration on the entire web, and it’s connected to a web app that’s like a combo of DropBox to save and organize your findings, and Twitter/Reddit to share and discover bite-sized article highlights with other people.<p>1.) The Social Web Layer has rich collaboration features with privacy and share controls: Inline highlights, tags, polls, comments, @mentions, deep-links to anything you add to the page, and navigation between parts. The web layer can be added to any site or PDF with a single line of javascript. This is done with a browser extension, bookmarklet, or added to a page directly by the site owner with the word-press plugin or hard-coded javascript.<p>2.) The CMS and Social Network lets you organize with folders that have privacy and share controls, a profile with your public highlights, a feed of highlights from people you follow, groups with feeds around topics, and the ability to search your content and what others share publicly.<p>For years, I had a long commute, so I read online a lot–from HN, of course. There’s too much to read everything, and you only know if an article is “worth-it” after you read it. Then it hit me. Highlights! 1.) On the page with navigation, 2.) visible before you open the link, and 3.) to increase quality and relevance, follow and search highlights by trusted people like friends, co-workers, university peers, and industry leaders.<p>There’s too much information and not enough time. Highlights are short, useful, and fast to read. Kontxt.io lets you direct attention to what matters. First, it lets you find quality sources from trusted people, then it lets you focus on the important parts of them. Kontxt basically turns the web into an interactive workspace so you can have rich web interactions with other Kontxt users. Or you can extract highlights into a shareable link and post it anywhere on the web–with analytics for what you share. Highlights are automatically saved to the CMS and based on their privacy settings, may be published to feeds in the social network for others to see. Naturally, you may want to discuss the same site with different people for disparate reasons, so you can create multiple highlight layers on a single site, each with Google-Doc-like sharing, privacy, and authorization controls.<p>It’s now evolved into a general communication and engagement platform for the web. Here’s how Kontxt has been used or where people expressed interest: social news aggregator, productivity, research & planning (generally, and specifically for sales, law, & finance), knowledge-base, training & education, publisher inline-engagement system, etc.<p>Kontxt gets to the point fast. It brings collaboration directly to the web itself and is already part of your natural workflow since it's always with you every click of the way. The social network is unique since it uses highlights to seed discussions. This has many benefits. Highlights mean people have actually read the article, the source is cited, and parts can’t be misconstrued because you have context. It’s also a human filter of the internet. A site is likely worthwhile if someone took the time to highlight it, and if someone found it useful, then someone “like” them probably will, too. Similarly, if someone’s not willing to highlight a site before they send it to you, it’s probably not worth your time. And highlights will increase how many people actually read what you send them because they’re short, useful, and fast to read.<p>I’m excited to share this with all of you. Thanks for your time. Please leave any feedback or questions in the comments. If you try it out, be sure to join the “Hacker News” group.
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Title: I recently added a Segments feature to the Hangtime mountain biking app for Android and IOS. If you are familiar with Strava’s segments, this new feature works much the same. For example, you can add a segment to an existing recorded ride by simply defining a start and end point for the segment. Once the segment is created, it will match any new rides, and optionally “back match” all previous rides. If a segment matches a ride, you you will see your time to complete that segment as well as your personal record (PR) and king of the mountain (KOM) for that segment. The KOM represents the best segment time amongst all riders that have matched that segment. You can also open the segment to see your complete history on that segment to gauge how your performance has changed over time. Some screenshots and videos as well as other features at the link below.<p><a href="https://mtbx.bike?page=hangtime" rel="nofollow">https://mtbx.bike?page=hangtime</a>
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Title: I'm just curious to know the effectiveness of this. I have got some sales emails after I shared my details on who wants to be hired. So wondering if anyone's got a job through these monthly HN posts ?
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Title: I've been working with a partner team to integrate wasm workloads with existing container toolchains with the goal of enabling wasm workloads anywhere, be it on the edge, in kubernetes, or wherever.<p>To that end, this project implements a containerd shim which runs those wasm workloads.
It is designed as a library to bring your own host implementation, but also includes an implementation for WASI.
Right now the library assumes you are using wasmtime, which is embedded in.<p>It works either standalone (run with containerd directly) or in kubernetes. Kubernetes networking and storage are wired into the wasm host and the wasm can run side by side with native workloads on the same machine. Wasm pods can be exposed as a service like any other pod.
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Title: What are the most important things that have helped you get as good at programming as you are today?
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Title: Hi all,<p>This is a generative art project I worked on over the past year or so consisting of about 100 little artworks generated using P5.js.<p>I have an overview and technical write up here: <a href="https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs" rel="nofollow">https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs</a><p>You can play with my interactive demo and make your own here: <a href="https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/designer" rel="nofollow">https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/designer</a><p>And the gallery is here: <a href="https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/gallery" rel="nofollow">https://dannyking.uk/artwork/colororbs/gallery</a><p>This project came about after reading a HN post about a year ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712767" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25712767</a>) by Atul Vinayak on generating beautiful 'Noise Planets' and I got kind of obsessed from there!
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Title: What are some mathematics books that made you so fascinated about the subject that you became curious and started learning more and ultimately became a student of mathematics directly or indirectly?<p>The books got you from understanding mathematics as rote arithmetic calculations to what mathematics really is about. Of course the books were themselves good teachers due to their excellent exposition and carefully set exercise problems (maybe with solutions).<p>Btw, I am not talking only about pure mathematics.<p>Do you have a few such books?
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Title: There were many threads previously on how bad/impractical it is to self-host your email. For example, this thread[1] is just a few days ago.<p>I was wondering if anyone had any experience combining the microsoft 365 business basic (6$ a month) with self-hosted email server? By relaying SMTP through the Microsoft provided outlook server, would my custom domain be free from being marked by spam?<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180379" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31180379</a>
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Title: FAQ: <a href="https://withoutdistractions.com/cv/faq" rel="nofollow">https://withoutdistractions.com/cv/faq</a><p>Feel free to ask me any questions.<p>FAQ archive in case the website goes down: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220503102946/https://withoutdistractions.com/cv/faq" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20220503102946/https://withoutdi...</a>
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Title: During the start of the year I was thinking how could I bet against certain stocks (in my case mainly Tesla) without using derivatives and the risks that come with them.<p>After I had success betting on the oil price with a highly correlated investment fond, I came to the conclusion that negative correlations could be used to bet against the price of other assets. Unfortunately, it is not easy to find correlations between assets if you don't know which assets to compare in the first place.<p>So I created a website where you can find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations of certain assets.
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Title: I've had a Mastodon account for a few years but it feels like the time to dust it off and reassess.<p>In the past I followed a lot of bots that cross posted info from other sources as the original sources or people weren’t on the platform. This always felt a little unsatisfying as you can't interact with a bot and they're often a little too noisy - posting hundreds of articles a day.
(although that said there are a few I'll certainly stick with)<p>I was wondering who would you recommend following and why?
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Title: "To help keep your account secure, starting May 30, 2022, Google will no longer support the use of third-party apps or devices which ask you to sign in to your Google Account using only your username and password."<p>What does it have to do with phone numbers, you might think? Well, it's not that obvious.<p>I have beed using FairEmail app to read emails on my phone for many years. Recently, Google made this change, so I thought I need to take some actions to make sure I can continue using my favourite email app. After reading a bit, everything looked pretty simple:<p>- I could add my email account to my phone and login using google's native authentication methods, or<p>- «you can use an app password, please see below.»<p>Sure I don't want to add google's account to my phone just to be able to receive emails via IMAP, so I'll just generate separate app password for my email app, right?<p>Well, for some reason it's not possible to generate app passwords unless you have 2FA enabled. The option is just not there.<p>What can be simpler than adding 2FA to my account? I use password managers and my passwords are super strong, but I have no other choice, I'll have to use an authenticator app to continue reading emails on my phone, doesn't make much sense but anyway…<p>You can't just scan a QR with TOTP secret and enable 2FA for your account. Well, you can, after you enable 2FA by SMS using your phone number, or 2FA by notification on the phone, after you add google account to your phone. But using an authenticator is an «additional method» which is not available until «primary» 2FA method (SMS / phone number) is added. Oh, you can give away your phone number first, enable 2FA, after 2FA is already enabled you can remove 2FA by SMS and keep using authenticator app as your 2FA method, it's simple.<p>I guess I'll just have to stop using google. Thanks for making my life more difficult and caring about my security, Google.<p>TL:DR; You can't use «less secure» apps (apps other than official gmail app) to sync emails if you don't want to link your account to your phone number or add google account to your phone.
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Title: The hacker community holds the right to privacy sacrosanct, and we understand more than most the hard fight that we all face trying to protect it.<p>That's why it's critical that we lend our support to fight for the right to privacy whenever it is threatened. Today, that threat comes from the Supreme Court. We have a duty to step up join the call for privacy today, or we shouldn't expect to see the support of others when it's our turn.
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Title: Just received this email from Heroku. Given the timeline it seems like the breach is pretty serious.<p>"As part of our efforts to enhance our security and in response to an incident published on status.heroku.com, we wanted to inform you that we will begin resetting user account passwords on May 4, 2022. We recommend that you reset your user account password in advance here and follow the best practices below:<p>Minimum of 16 characters
Minimum complexity of 3 out of 4: Uppercase, Lowercase, Numeric, Symbol
Don't just add a letter or a 1 digit number to the existing password while changing
Passwords may not be duplicated across accounts
If you do not reset your password and your user account password is reset by Heroku on May 4, 2022, your existing password will no longer work. To log in to Heroku, you must reset your password by accessing the Heroku login page and clicking the "Forgot your password?" link . Please be aware that you may be required to reset your passwords again in the future. "
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Title: I am a bit in a pickle. Looks like I cannot trust or even use Heroku any more. The trust is broken a bit because of how they are handling the breach, that they had.
The "use" is even more complicated. I've used review apps extensively with their pipeline, and since they revoked GitHub integration 2/3 of Heroku are non-functional for me (no review apps, no staging migration pipeline).<p>I've been looking for alternatives and found them severely lacking in security scope or basic functionality.<p>Render.com<p>- There is no concept of read/manage permissions. Anyone who is invited into a team can delete the team, all apps, services etc. By design of their UI also possibly by mistake. Support responded that they have been working on this the last 2 years or something like that.<p>- /tmp folders are misconfigured. This means that if you send a large enough POST and the web server stores the payload into a temp folder, that seek file is lost. I noticed this after a week of random EOF errors that the web server reported. The support responded I should just use their disk offering and that ephemeral services should not use temp folders, mind that Heroku is also ephemeral but /tmp folder can still be used because otherwise you have above problem.<p>- GitHub integration. The problem is that only one team/user can link the app to the entire platform. This means that if other team members visit the "Blueprint Sync" page, they will see an error that GitHub integration is broken. And for every team that you have, you would have to create a new GitHub user, just to set up sync and only that user can then see sync status.<p>I feel they are working hard and are closest to the Heroku. Yet I feel they are not up to the task that Heroku was/is, in particular I think they are not using the service themselves otherwise they would fix these shortcomings a long time ago.<p>Railway.app<p>They have Teams properly solved, and GitHub integration also works as expected. But they have issues elsewhere.<p>- Builder is slow as hell. For example, 200mb bundle needed 6 minutes to be deployed (they don't have build cache) and I was able to do it only once. The second attempt resulted in timeout (builds in 179s on Heroku and on Render in ~30s).<p>- No support for scheduled executions. This is a feature that both Heroku (Scheduler) and Render (Cron Jobs) provide. What it does, it spins the bundle/container and executes something at specific interval, you pay extra, but that's the whole point so that you can run more demanding tasks. I would have to rewrite everything into fake web cron of PHP era.<p>Do you know any alternatives besides these two? What are your plans with Heroku?
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Title: I cannot help but wonder, where is our software industry heading? There are overly complicated solutions to simple problems, huge push for moving to fancy stacks just for the sake of moving. Distributed systems? Kubernetes? Rust for CRUD apps? Blockchain, NoSql, crypto, micro-frontends and the list goes on and on. Its gone too extreme to the point where no one is exempt from these things anymore. Couple of years ago, I thought, its fine as long as I am not involved in this complexity, I can turn a blind eye towards it. But now, this unnecessary complexity has seeped in my day job as well. Managers start talking about "micro services", "writing" kubernetes operators in Go, moving away from python (because its too "slow"); someone recently gave a talk in my company, how to make a 500 line python script (which heavily involves in-efficient handling of IO) go faster with Rust.
Someone else talks about that we need to move our poly repos into mono-repo because that where the leaders of the industry are moving to. Even recruiters started asking questions like "have u looked at modern languages like Go?"<p>I cannot help but wonder, that we have possibly screwed ourselves pretty bad, and there is no escape from it. The vocal minority tries to push these overly complex solutions down everyone's throats, and management loves this, because it creates "work" for the sake of it, but it doesn't add any real business value.<p>What are your thoughts on this? Will industry move towards simple solutions after experiencing this churn down the line or are we doomed forever?
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Title: I am working on some typographical software that is supposed to generate PDFs at the end. It seems like there is no accessible information on how to do this. The PDF ISO specification is behind a paywall and has a dead link to a 2008 spec. There are open source converters like pandoc, but nothing that actually writes to PDF that I can find. Is there any resource that goes over the process of PDF generation?
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Title: If everything is wired correctly in my house, should all equipment attached to my UPS have survived this with no impact or is a direct lightning strike so powerful that even high-quality home-grade UPS must give up?<p>My computers were connected to an UPS surge projector. Various kitchen machinery and extension sockets that was not doesn't work anymore. The neighbor's TV blew.<p>There was a bright white flash inside of my living room, just under an open window and directly above the my UPS surge protector and then all my devices turned off including the surge projector. The PSU in one of the computers is gone, but not the motherboard and rest.<p>I was sitting on the concrete floor in the middle of the room watching it happen.<p>I live in Thailand in the middle of a big flat coconut groove with only two houses. Except for the palm trees, my house is the tallest structure in a 200 x 200 meters (300 feet)+ area and we have frequent huge thunder storms, but this one was in a category on its own. It made my concrete walls tremble. It was so intense. Spectacular show by nature.<p>Only two months ago, I bought a socket outlet tester. It reported that my sockets was not grounded. I got an electricians out to fix that. I suspect this is the reason why the lightning chooses me. We have frequent big thunderstorms and haven't had this issue before, but now there is a ground connection.<p>I don't know if there is a proper grounding rod. There is a cable going from the house into the ground, but I don't know what it is attached too. The rest of the electric installation is amateur's business so could be connected to nothing. The house is a long-term rental and the electric installation came with it, but I can change it regardless of it's is a rental.<p>The electricity doesn't even come directly from the power company's cables. It goes in to the owners house, where the meter is. From there they have pulled a 200 meter cable into ours. There is a fuse box in my house.<p>Any suggestions on what to do next? A big metal stick somewhere in the garden?
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Title: from email:<p>> Beginning June 1, 2022, you will no longer be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the cloud control panel. You will still be able to create FreeBSD-based Droplets through the API until July 1, 2022, but after July 1, 2022, only legacy FreeBSD Droplets will remain on the platform (...)<p>> Rest assured: Existing FreeBSD Droplets and FreeBSD Droplets created from May 1, 2022–July 1, 2022 will continue to work as usual despite these changes to our offerings.
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Title: Hello HN!<p>You can read this [1] blog post if you want to know more about some ideas that I have for this thing.
This is just an experiment right now, there isn't any real game (yet).
Any feedback would be appreciated, do you think this could become something that would be fun to play?<p>[1] <a href="https://unit520.net/posts/dead-trees-an-absurdist-block-laying-game-prototype/" rel="nofollow">https://unit520.net/posts/dead-trees-an-absurdist-block-layi...</a>
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Title: AT&T disabled users phone numbers and account for using SIM in the phones not on the whitelist.
https://www.att.com/idpassets/images/support/pdf/Devices-Working-on-ATT-Network.pdf<p>https://forums.att.com/conversations/wireless-account/my-att-prepaid-account-disconnected-today-but-i-just-added-money-this-sunday/6271d8e6ee9f260c2628029a
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Title: I've been a software dev for 15~ years professionally and over the course of my career have moved from front end to full stack and back to front end depending on the project. I make multiple 6 figures and by all accounts could be considered "successful".<p>My most recent gig after working for years in React and Angular I've had to move to a new framework (Vue) due to project requirements that I did not write. As a senior contributor I'm expected to handle the complex stuff but after five months on the project I feel fatigued - like I just don't care enough to work on this project. I don't know if it's JS framework fatigue or the project itself or even depression. But I feel like after 15 years of doing this I'm getting "dumber" to the point where I question the most basic things in coding. It's rather discouraging.<p>My boss is pretty cool and has kept an open door to let them know if I want to switch projects but I'm worried (without evidence) that if I say anything I'll be put on something even "harder" when I can't bring myself to write some simple JS these days.<p>Anyone ever experience this? I'm in my mid 30s.
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Title: I moved to the Netherlands during COVID last year. I have a fully remote job and work from home 99% of the time. This combination has wrecked my social life, and I find myself sad and missing social connections and in a new place. I’m generally a social person that enjoys conversations with people, and service energy from being social. But, I feel like I’m stuck in a loop that I can’t even think properly to get myself out of it.<p>My initial step is to get to my office(1.5 hour train commute one-way) for two days of the week.<p>I would like to know how others in similar work patterns like myself handle it?
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Title: Looking at how big social media companies are operating , their R&D and their stated plans about the future..can we infer that such phenomenon has reached its saturation point?<p>Zuck changed the company name and is now fixated with the metaverse, which is something nobody can really define or understand. Cartoonish characters used as avatars and the other elements put forward in his keynote leave people wondering what will the actual improvement be.<p>Twitter is making the transition towards a "free speach" platform which will now ask people to pay to play, somehow creating synergies with Tesla and SpaceX (what???) given the cult of personality surrounding the new owner.<p>Seems to me like we are really splitting hairs with regards to future improvements and innovation from both those companies, the plateu of the S-curve is in for both of them.
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Title: 1) Summary = RecipeHunt(<a href="http://recipehunt.app" rel="nofollow">http://recipehunt.app</a>) is a Recipe Search Engine that gives you the only 3 things that matter in my opinion: (a) Picture, (b) Ingredients, (c) Directions<p>2) Problem = Every recipe site is bloated(e.g. full of ads, long backstory). I just want to see 3 things: Picture, Ingredients, Directions.<p>3) Solution = Built a simple Recipe Search Engine that gives you only those 3 things.<p>4) Tech Stack = Vanilla HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, SQL (some JQuery). Frameworks are too complicated for me, so I just wanted to build with what I know.<p>5) Design<p>-Main Feed = Similar to Instagram Explore (Square Shaped Thumbnails).<p>-Categories = Filter by "Country" or "Dish Type".<p>-Search Bar = Quickly go directly to a Recipe or Category.<p>-Recipe Page = Gives you only 1 Picture + Ingredients + Directions + Comments. Separated by tabs (I don't like scrolling).<p>-Paywall(for Spam) = I put up a paywall to prevent spamming (Stripe).<p>6) Content(Recipes) = I manually put in some initial recipes (posted a few for each Country/Dish Type). Challenge is to fill the site with enough recipes to make it useful. May look into Recipe API's and make sure I'm not violating any terms (give source credit in recipe page).<p>7) Conclusion = Just wanted to share this because I think it will solve my own problem (making it less painful to search recipes). Still a work in progress, but hopefully it may be useful to someone else as well.<p>Will happily welcome any feedback! Thanks!<p>-nsemikey
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Title: Hi All, this is Shardul here - I am the co-founder of Videobug.<p>https://bug.video<p>We are super excited to share Videobug with you. Videobug records run time code execution so that developers can watch it line by line as frequently as they want, right in their IDE. It takes away the pain of recreating exact conditions that led to a bug and saves developer time in every bug squash.<p>Parth (my co-founder) and I have worked on multiple production grade applications in startups and enterprises.<p>We used Logrocket, Sentry, and Datadog for logging and found ourselves adding more logs after a bug is found.<p>Adding accurate logs required disciplined engineering and collaboration across teams. Time to connect these logs to what’s wrong in the code, took quite sometime.<p>Videobug logs everything automatically. We are super psyched to launch our offline version. We plan to launch a fully self hosted version in 4 weeks from now, which will allow you to record and replay code executions in your staging and production environments.<p>We are looking for product feedback.<p>Here is a 2 min demo explaining how to use Videobug.<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U53IQifMt54<p>Join our discord channel to share your feedback or in case you need support.<p>https://discord.gg/Hhwvay8uTa<p>P.S. Please note that we collect the following analytics data from your IDE: Your computer hostname, debugging events such as “started debugger”, “fetched exceptions” and “searched for code execution”.
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Title: I worked for Google for a few years and hated every day of it: lots of proto shuffling and bureaucracy and very few interesting problems to work on. I'm now at a different company, but I'm honestly feeling very burned out here too. I have a lot of meetings due to being in a fairly senior IC role, but I'm an introvert and feel very ineffective.<p>I've also become painfully aware over the years how many aspects of development are tedious and uninteresting. Things like wrangling dev environments, writing tests, debugging issues in prod, hunting through docs, and chasing down teams to figure out how a large system fits together (especially if the system is boring). A lot of engineering work is plumbing together different systems, and having more experience doesn't make this work any easier or faster.<p>I used to really enjoy programming, but that's because I would choose to work on solving problems I found interesting. I've always appreciated elegant systems (ideas like lambda calculus, Unix's files, programs, and pipes, LISP, Haskell, etc.), but most of the systems I work on are the exact opposite: large and boring. I also really dislike corporate culture: trying to maneuver politically, show off in meetings, etc. I'm starting to wonder if being a software engineer is really the right choice for me. Any thoughts?
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Title: We've collected 34 approaches to monetize open-source software in an open github repository (https://github.com/PayDevs/awesome-oss-monetization).<p>What have we missed?
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Title: After participating in a few past discussions in HN, I have noticed many comments whose main argument is developed upon one or several of the following misconceptions. Disclaimer: I am an EU citizen.<p>Misconception: "The browser decides to send cookies." Wrong: A browser, or user-agent in general, will never invent a cookie out of thin air, and therefore it never sends a cookie unless it has been set by the webserver beforehand (either with an HTTP header 'Cookie' or with JavaScript code). [1]<p>Misconception: "Consent forms are mandatory for all cookies." Wrong: Cookies that are essential for the proper functioning of the website (e.g. supporting a login session) do not need any consent form, and can be set silently. [2]<p>Misconception: "Consent forms are mandatory _just_ for cookies." Wrong: User consent must be obtained for any kind of processing of the user's personal information (where no other lawful basis exists for the processing), no matter what technical solution achieves that processing. Example: A tracking pixel needs the same consent form as a tracking cookie. [3]<p>Misconception: "By browsing this site, you implicitly accept tracking cookies." Wrong: Consent must be opt-in, informed, freely given. If it's not freely given, it is not consent. Also, the user must be able to revoke consent just as easily as consent was given. [3]<p>Misconception: "If a user doesn't like cookies, they can just disable them in their browser." Wrong: Some cookies may be essential for proper functioning of websites. Browsers cannot technically propose any means to disable only non-essential cookies, that's outright impossible. The only entity capable of deciding if a cookie is essential or not is the website that sets the cookie. [2]<p>Misconception: "Marketing or tracking cookies can be disabled: just disallow third-party cookies." Wrong: marketing or tracking cookies can also be set by the first-party, ie. the website being visited. Example: Google Analytics. [4]<p>Misconception: "Cookies are morally justified because the webmaster has to cover the cost of running the website." I disagree: that reasoning is only valid for not-for-profit websites. If the webmaster struggles to cover the cost of running the website and cannot find a legitimate source of income, they are welcome to shut it down. No website is entitled to make money off of non-consenting visitors. "Staying afloat" is not a right of the webmaster, it is a privilege.<p>Cheers!<p>[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Cookies<p>[2] https://www.cookieyes.com/blog/cookie-consent-exemption-for-strictly-necessary-cookies/<p>[3] https://blog.chino.io/gdpr-compliant-consent-tracking/<p>[4] https://www.optimizesmart.com/google-analytics-cookies-ultimate-guide/
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Title: Recent events have made me realize I should at least consider switching away from Heroku.<p>I run a handful of small PHP apps with Redis and Postgres as add-ons. Max 5 Standard 1X dynos per app.<p>I want strong GitHub integration and would also like the replacement to be Docker-based.<p>I imagine there are tons of developers like me out there. And it seems like there are many options. Which ones would you recommend?
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Title: Backstory:
I was in medical school and had to study a ton of materials in short period of time. I came across Anki but always had trouble with making cards. In my mind, making cards should be quick, seconds instead of minutes. My other problem is after making the cards, each card does not really relate to the other. When you study the individual card, your thought process is very random and not cohesive. I wanted to be able to still reference to my notes for big concepts and then use the cards to memorize the details but also for long term retention.<p>Ankify came out of that. At the time, I did not know any programming and paid someone to write a script in Python to convert the cards. Then, eventually I learned Python myself and expanded on the script. I also uploaded the markdown files online so I could view them anywhere (<a href="https://kangruixiang.github.io/wiki/" rel="nofollow">https://kangruixiang.github.io/wiki/</a>).<p>I ran into a wall in making user interface for the program. It was difficult to make good looking cross platform user interface with Python. I gave up on making user interface for a year or two with end of med school and residency. After a while, I went back to see if anyone else had made anything similar. Despite many plugins/programs that makes it easy to make cards, none of them really focused on readability of the original notes. I decided to sit down and learn javascript to help with UI creation.<p>After about 3 years, everything finally came together after I learned Svelte, Tailwind, and Electron. I know Electron is not the most efficient program, but it's what works for me.<p>Also, it's also the feeling of being able to make whatever my mind can think of. It feels really refreshing and empowering. Even making the website for Ankify is a lot of fun. You have to think so much about the presentation, typography, logistics.
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Title: There are certain keywords that are dominated by SEO optimization to the point that it is difficult to find results that are from other sources than a corporate website. Often the results I find most useful are the ones created by individuals in their "spare time" that they post on their blogs.<p>Is there a good "blog search" out there?<p>Is there currently something like Google Blog Search out there?<p>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Blog_Search
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Title: I live in Berlin, Germany. I'm struggling with my current income and I would like to make passive income, would you please suggest some realistic ideas?
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Title: I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc).<p>Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I think making a game like this is quite easy with the browser performance/features nowadays. The game server and client side JavaScript are around 5000 lines of code each.<p>If you have any questions about the tech I'm happy to answer them.
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Title: Hey HN! I just released weron, a P2P VPN that uses WebRTC for transport which I've been working on for the last couple of months. It can create both layer 2/Ethernet and layer 3/IP overlay networks, and the underlying transport layer can be easily embedded to write your own P2P apps with Go. Compared to for example Tailscale, WireGuard and ZeroTier, its much harder to block on a network level and also significantly easier to set up, while not sacrifing much performance.<p>I'd love to get your feedback :)
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Title: I have a personal project I’ve been working on that is a desktop app with a UI that has some fairly complex data visualizations.<p>I’ve been using Electron because I know JS well and can leverage D3.<p>The problem I’m facing is that I sometimes go for months without working on it, and it feels like everyone I start up I’m running into some dumb JS/TS/Electron ecosystem issue that takes me a few hours to debug (if I don’t just give up first.)<p>What are some good modern tools/frameworks for building native Desktop apps? Bonus points for cross-platform support.
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Title: A couple of days back, after I logged in to my gmail account, a security message flashed that someone had logged into my account and I was prompted to change the password or confirm that it was me who logged in. This was during a time when I had to replace my fried router twice within the span of 2 days (one that I rented immediately from my internet service provider on the same day my router died and then with brand new router that I bought a day later). I presumed that the security message was because of new IP addresses that must have been assigned. While I was initially able to log in to my accounts after replacing both the routers, on subsequent logins, I started getting a message that google was not able to ascertain that the email accounts really belonged to me. I managed to use my recovery email on 2 of my accounts and was able to gain access. However, after I entered a recovery email on the email account that displayed the security alert, google refused to accept that the account belongs to me. I have had this account, where I have my whole digital life, ever since goggle offered one. Unfortunately I did not have a phone number associated with this account. My understanding is I would have been able to recover my account, If I had one.<p>Is there a way I can recover my account? I have started changing the email id’s at various business and agencies where I have used this Id. Is there anything else I need to do?
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Title: I really enjoy my local library in Texas but the digital/Overdrive selection they offer is limited. Do you know of any libraries that have open memberships to non-locals?
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Title: I have some extra electronics around my house that I’d like to sell so I signed up for an eBay account. In one hour I posted 6 listings totaling less than 500GBP.<p>I received an email that my account was suspended. I was told to call eBay.<p>I have called twice and been told that I am banned from selling on eBay for life with no ability to appeal or hear the reason for my ban. I am not allowed to create a new account.<p>On both phone calls I asked to speak to a supervisor. In both cases the agent promptly hung up on me.<p>Don’t use eBay. They collected a ton of my sensitive information (address, phone, bank account, etc) and then insta-banned me without even having the courtesy to explain why or let me appeal.
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Title: I'm curious about a game genre that seems really niche. A poverty or low-income simulator game that might put people in the shoes of such folks, particularly showing the struggles of low-income people in the USA without much of a safety net.<p>There is SPENT (https://playspent.org/html/). It's a linear, choose your own adventure story, but not really a game, IMHO.<p>I've seen a couple apps on Google Play but they have under 100 downloads, and focus more on stock trading.<p>Is this a niche worth exploring? Would it be possible to make a game that is both entertaining and educational about the real challenges these people face, at the same time?
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Title: Hey HN!<p>I wanted to demo TDD with Python, as well as showcase some BDD practices I've been blogging about recently[1].
So I used literate programming to implement Wordle, and rendered the narrative into this "Show HN" webpage.<p>I'm certainly no Knuth, but I'm pretty proud of the result. Proud enough to chance myself to a HN post, and risk HN's mockery and ire: my first "Show HN".<p>I hope this crowd will enjoy this annotated walkthrough of Wordle implementation in Python. Codebase available on Github[2].<p>Relevant for folks here (though not covered in the main narrative) is how the Gherkin files are listed as Requirements[3] via Sphinxdocs extensions[4]<p>[1]: <a href="https://jiby.tech/" rel="nofollow">https://jiby.tech/</a>
[2]: <a href="https://github.com/OverkillGuy/literate-wordle" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/OverkillGuy/literate-wordle</a>
[3]: <a href="https://jiby.tech/project/literate_wordle/_collections/gherkin_feature.html" rel="nofollow">https://jiby.tech/project/literate_wordle/_collections/gherk...</a>
[4]: <a href="https://github.com/OverkillGuy/literate-wordle/blob/6d51eb6db4950fbeea3479036e701b7e479dd5da/docs/source/conf.py#L75" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/OverkillGuy/literate-wordle/blob/6d51eb6d...</a>
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Title: I once heard, if you can work from home you will be out sourced.<p>Is the WFH movement going to turn into a “they replaced with with cheaper labor from xyz?” Is this a be careful what you ask for situation?
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Title: Companies throwing $$ at for recruiting has been part of the normal ebb-and-flow of the tech industry for the past few years. Even as one company slows down hiring, another, usually pre-IPO company, is there to take its place.<p>However, with interest rates going up and funding going down, things <i>seem</i> to be tightening up.<p>So HN - Do any of y'all happen to know of any tech companies throwing $$ at candidates these days? I know the big tech companies are still pulling good numbers, for the ones that are still hiring, but I'm curious about the <i>exceptional</i> offers that we used to hear about a few years back. Have those completely dried up?<p>(Not actually asking for myself so much as to get a pulse on things.)
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Title: Is database administrator(DBA) as a career fading out in the IT industry?
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Title: Running a business is hard. Startups are even harder. A lot of it comes down to not actually knowing what you're doing wrong.<p>What are some important observations and lessons you've learned working at startups and running businesses that were not immediately obvious (both technical and non-technical)? Did you learn the hard way?
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Title: I'm curious of the veracity of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31291549<p>It describes a "Project Periwinkle" that essentially would be spinning down Heroku. Is this really happening?<p>Is it time for me to look for a different host?
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Title: What is the most compelling reason young people (13-18) should learn to program—especially if they are not interested in pursuing a career in the tech industry? Why should students use their computers for more than browsing the web and using word processors?
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Title: I pose this question in all seriousness. An observation: after being an elixir developer for a few years now, and bringing new talent into the mix (no pun intended), is that it's a friction point for new devs learning Elixir when they invariably stumble across the things in erlang — libraries and the like. I'd hoped I could avoid it myself, but it's too interdependent.<p>The notion that to learn a language you also need to learn a second one is not great. Imagine people saying "cool, learn python, but oh, you also should brush up on cobol while you are at it, you know." It's just bizarre.<p>And before the vocal defenders kick in I want to clarify that the following response (which is what I usually hear) is NOT a valid response to the question being posed:<p>"Erlang is easy, it's just semantics that are different"<p>While this statement might be true, it doesn't address my point. That something is easy to do for one person is irrelevant to the fact it causes friction for new devs and may hinder adoption.<p>I think there are many amazing points to Elixir, and thanks to Erlang it has a lot of amazing roots.
I know both communities are trying to make both co-exist well. But every time I come across an Erlang library, invariably the documentation is a nightmare (if it exists at all) and I have to read the code just to figure something out. This is true also of many system level things even in Erlang. The docs are horrific. Reading the code is NOT an answer.<p>I don't know what a solution is, but perhaps a concerted effort to create a documentation and library ecosystem that never links back to Erlang would help. And where there are critical systems that use an Erlang library, perhaps rebuilding it in Elixir is in order?<p>Flame away :) I ask the question because I'm curious how others feel about it, and I want to help promote more adoption of Elixir. (And hearing from ALL sides, not just defenders of the faith. What about people who've tried elixir and moved on?)
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Title: This question is for both sales people and technical people. Did you follow a course? Read some books? Got practical experience with a mentor?<p>Also, how would you recommend someone to start learning sales?
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Title: I got an email this morning saying that APC has "changed" their cloud offering to add a premium tier, and that my current cloud service will lose features such as email notifications and firmware updates when the warranty expires (unless I pay a subscription fee).<p>Is this new? I don't remember agreeing to pay for firmware updates when I set it up. They recently had to patch a remotely exploitable security flaw, so it seems foolhardy to continue to use remote monitoring moving forward. (Will put entire email in thread).
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Title: Users of Waterfox Classic and Pale Moon browsers have been reporting that they're stuck in an infinite loop of Cloudflare's infamous "checking your browser" screen and can't access web sites that enabled Cloudflare's browser integrity check feature.<p>Ghacks' post [1] has a good summary of related links and an active discussion at comments section, though the "protection" got more strict in the meantime thus the mentioned workaround isn't effective anymore.<p>Some users have posted at Clodflare community forum to no avail and Cloudflare support is only available to paid customers. Visitors are told to contact respective web site owners and forum threads are locked quickly.<p>Let me be clear, this is not a case of a web site owner deciding to use a recent feature that's not supported by these browsers. That'd between visitors and owners of that web site, and completely understandable.<p>This is a serious issue. A 3rd party corporation is <i>deliberately</i> deciding which browsers are legitimate and which are not. They prevent users of these browsers from accessing millions of websites with a flip of a switch. There's no transparency and no accountability to their actions.<p>I hope this issue will be heard, fixed and never be repeated again.<p>[1] https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/05/fix-pale-moon-browser-not-passing-cloudflares-checking-your-browser-verification/<p>Other links:
https://github.com/WaterfoxCo/Waterfox-Classic/issues/107
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Title: Hi everyone!<p>I've been working on a web search interface for Python's documentation as a personal project, and I think it's ready for other people to use...<p>Please give it a go (and join me in praying to the server gods):<p><a href="https://pythondocs.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://pythondocs.xyz/</a><p>Here's the tech stack for those interested:<p>- Parser: Beautiful Soup + Mozilla Bleach<p>- Database: in-memory SQLite (aiosqlite) + SQLAlchemy<p>- Web server: FastAPI + Uvicorn + Jinja2<p>- Front end: Tailwind CSS + htmx + Alpine.js<p>I have ideas for future improvements but hopefully the current version is useful to someone.<p>Let me know what you think!
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Title: It seems that right now there is no browser that supports h.265/HEVC <i>even on hardware that can decode it</i> - "Old Edge" used to, but "New Edge" does not. Neither Chrome nor Firefox support it (actually, both of those refuse to use any form of hardware decoding at all on my Windows box, only Edge uses it for VPx and h.264 - and of course every media player).<p>The only exception is Apple with Safari.<p>Why is this? h.265 can do a lot better than h.264 in some scenarios, but certainly isn't worse.<p>And why, oh why, is debugging hardware video acceleration still such a nightmare, even on Windows? Firefox doesn't even seem to have it in about:support any more!<p>And why is hardware video acceleration <i>only</i> a problem with browsers? I've never had any kind of problem with it with any media player, regardless of OS. It just works. But browsers - it seems to never work OOTB. Except for Edge, apparently. Which I <i>thought</i> was just a Chromium reskin with MS tracking.
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Title: Hi all! A little background: I've been working on natto.dev, a spatial environment for JavaScript. I'm really excited about new interfaces for code (leveraging metaphors we're good at, spatial reasoning, making state visible, design tools, etc). With all the buzz around PyScript, I discovered Pyodide and got it working inside natto. This Python version is a stripped down version of <a href="https://natto.dev" rel="nofollow">https://natto.dev</a> (eg interactive outputs, multiplayer) so please check that out if this interests you.<p>I'm excited to share this spatial environment for Python. Imagine Jupyter cells arranged on a 2D canvas.<p>Some key differences from traditional Python notebooks:<p>- By default, cells rerun whenever its code changes or an input reruns, like a spreadsheet!<p>- Dependencies are explicit. There is no parsing or global scope.<p>- Duplicate panes by option-dragging. This is a core interaction in design tools for exploring ideas.<p>- State panes add interactive elements. Check out this scikit demo <a href="https://python.natto.dev/example/de5cae3dfbcb43919981cc1420309756" rel="nofollow">https://python.natto.dev/example/de5cae3dfbcb43919981cc14203...</a><p>- Python execution happens in your browser as WASM via Pyodide (implementation detail, not design choice). This is currently a demo, not meant to replace your production ML notebooks.<p>I would love to hear your feedback on any of this and your thoughts on new programming interfaces!
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Title: Spoiler: rant.<p>I don't know what happened exactly but I'm pretty sure it's the lack of dislike stats, that now my suggestions and home page of youtube is filled, and I mean FILLEDDD!, with videos that have 4k stock clips, catchy title, but completely lacking in content. Misleading 100%. Not 1, not 2, but like 8/10 videos are now garbage stock footage with bs commentary over nothing.<p>Example:<p>Nasa just discovered truth about solar system!?!?!?!<p>Science has progressed a lot in last 100 years....<p>So and so first discovered pluto in 1xxx<p>Mayans used to think balbala...<p>Some historians think....<p>Now scientist finally have answered....<p>New evidence (2014 research) shows there might be a planet ...<p>No explanation of study because you know it actually requires some comprehension...<p>Insert failed attempt at humor...<p>Leave a comment on your thoughts..<p>===========<p>Same script, like 8th grade essay you didn't study for, but multiplied by 100x.<p>We knew it was gonna ruin youtube, people told youtube it was gonna ruin it, and now exactly that happened. Click baity videos with nice stock footage that is barely relevant and half assed 'answers'.
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Title: Just wondering how many (working) computers do you have at home, if you're on HN you are probably technical and maybe even a developer. How many computers do you have? Not counting computers that I could set up to do something but haven't because I would need to do stuff to make it all work I have 4 computers, counting stuff I need to do to make work probably 7 or 8.<p>Also one Android Tablet. An old Ipad that would need to do stuff to make work. And a reMarkable tablet.
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Title: Hiya HN!<p>Just released Artillery Probe - a Swiss army knife for testing HTTP from the CLI. Think mini-curl with better UX for common use-cases, plus a couple of extra features.<p>Would love for you to try it and give some feedback!<p>https://www.artillery.io/blog/swiss-army-knife-for-http-testing<p>and:<p><pre><code> npm install artillery@latest
</code></pre>
What does it do?<p>- First of all, it's a HTTP client! It does all the usual stuff you'd expect from a HTTP client... HTTP methods, request bodies, custom headers, forms, Basic Auth etc.<p>- Got some JSON or XML back? It'll pretty-print it, and syntax highlight it for you.<p>- It'll show you request waterfalls like this one: (inspired by httpstat)<p><pre><code> DNS Lookup | TCP Connection | SSL Handshake | Time to First Byte | Content Transfer
56ms | 14ms | 19ms | 181ms | 88ms |
| | | | |
56ms | | | |
70ms | | |
89ms | |
270ms |
total:358ms
</code></pre>
- JSON responses can be queried and sliced and diced with JMESPath (same syntax as AWS CLI) - no need to reach for jq. XML & HTML may be queried with a jQuery-like syntax too.<p>- You can set expectations on the response, e.g. have the CLI check that the response is a 200, or that a certain header is set, and exit with non-zero code if not. Super handy for quick acceptance testing.<p>We've got lots of ideas for improvements, but would love to hear what you think!
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Title: Oldest Search is a custom google search that specifically targets the oldest entries available. I'm always curious about the first entries for certain data on the internet, it's a valuable perspective builder.<p>I personally like news articles that have been digitized that were written in the pre-internet era. Unfortunately some results don't always work well because pages have been dated incorrectly. For example, searching "Covid" shows recent results.<p>I launch new projects like this daily: small tools to increase human agency. I'm also very open to suggestions to improve!
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Title: We are a reasonably medium sized company, with very tight IT budget. We were previously on GCP, CF sales team saw us use the free version and were happy to onboard us to their business plan ($200/mo). Now, after a year and half roughly, CF wants to move us to the Enterprise plan, claiming we are consuming a lot more bandwidth than what is "allowed" for the business plan and that they won't be able to provide us good uptime % at this rate.<p>A lot of this stuff wasn't communicated when we signed up for the business plan. There was no mention of limits, nor any contracts nor fineprint. The business plan was pitched to us as if it was the only plan we would ever need. And now, CF wants us to pay $3000-4000 a month which we clearly don't have budget for. I checked their fineprint, it says nothing about any limitations whatsoever. If you go to their pricing page, https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/business/ even that doesn't talk about anything of this sort.<p>I'm not saying CF is bad, but, their sales tactics are shady and there was a lot of integration done on our backends to migrate from GCP to CF. This really has left a sour taste in my mouth. If they had just been upfront, I could have saved all this pain and money.<p>Do you know of any alternatives to CF? If I can convince my top execs to afford $3000 a month, I want to make sure it's on something else and not on CloudFlare. Pretty sure this $3000 a month will be increased to additional for some other excuse later as I don't trust them anymore.
I was thinking of Google Cloud CDN, but it doesn't look cheap. We do about 200-300TB a month as per CF reports.<p>Any suggestions are much appreciated.
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Title: I've had an interviewer laugh in my face when I told them my favorite language was Scheme.<p>Then they just walked out in the middle of the interview without saying a word when it wasn't going well, leaving the other interviewers to continue without them.<p>At the time I didn't say anything, and just continued the interview as if nothing happened, but in retrospect, I think I should have politely terminated the interview myself, as I don't want to work with rude, unprofessional snobs, but I'm wondering what people here would have done, and how you've faced rudeness during interviews yourself?
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Title: With Cloudflare workers able to be called single digit ms away from customers on much of the planet now, I wonder how I can keep state as close to the workers / lambdas as possible.<p>What are the options we have for handling state as the edge? What do you use in your business or service?
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Title: There are lot of speculations around economic crisis given tech stocks are in down fall and some companies started talking about reduced hiring ( FB, Uber).
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Title: When I search for ways to improve memory there are plenty of articles to do basics like exercise, eat well, get lots of sleep. Assuming you're already doing those things are there other ways to improve your memory and recall?<p>Ideally I would love to be able to easily recall something I read from a book, or easily recall something someone told me in a conversation.
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Title: So this is a thing. Google launched a new database product today at Google I/O. #GoogleAlloyDB is a new managed #PostgreSQL compatible database. Optimized for heavy workloads, it's got some significant improvements across the board, and in particular it handles heavy read workloads without affecting write performance.<p>The launch blog is here ↓<p>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/introducing-alloydb-for-postgresql<p>And there's a blog post about how the storage layer has been optimized for some of the performance improvements ↓<p>https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydb-for-postgresql-intelligent-scalable-storage
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Title: Hi Hacker News,<p>We're Bryan and Richard, cofounders of you.com. Together with our team of engineers, we are working on YouCode, a search engine for people who code. You can try it at code.you.com.
The main idea is to make the search experience better and more efficient when coding. We’d love your feedback for a few use cases that we have in mind so far:<p>* searching through StackOverflow for quick code snippets: reverting a git commit for example [1]<p>* searching through GitHub Issues: when you’re getting an error message that looks unfamiliar [2, 3]<p>* searching through the documentation for quick reference: PyTorch [4], HuggingFace [5], Docker, PyPi, AWS, MDN, and several others<p>* searching for walkthroughs, tutorials, tips, and quick intros to a new subject: Medium [6], Tutorials Point, Geeks for Geeks, and others as well<p>* searching for utilities: code completion (from a large language model that writes code) [7], JSON validator/formatter [8]<p>* searching for relevant discussions and projects: HackerNews [9], ArXiv [10], Github Repos [11]<p>* changing preferences in the account dropdown menu so that you can influence which sources you get answers from<p>* doing all of this from VS Code: we made an extension to make that easier [12]<p>YouCode is still a work in progress — we’re adding new apps each week and improving the search results — and we would love your feedback.
Where do Google or other search engines leave you wanting more when it comes to coding searches?
Which sources do you go to when you can’t get what you need from Google and others?
What other utilities and use cases would you like to see?
How else can we make this better?<p>If you find something that we can improve, apps that you’d want to see, or a search query didn’t give you a good result, please let us know! We’re here to answer any questions!<p>Richard and Bryan<p>[1] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=revert+a+git+commit" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=revert+a+git+commit</a><p>[2] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=MLflowCallback+to+log+run_name+argument" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=MLflowCallback+to+log+run_name...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=onnxruntime+segfault" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=onnxruntime+segfault</a><p>[4] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+isnan" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+isnan</a><p>[5] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=huggingface+transformers" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=huggingface+transformers</a><p>[6] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=git+rebase+interactive" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=git+rebase+interactive</a><p>[7] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=%23+this+function+sorts+a+list+in+ascending+order+code+complete" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=%23+this+function+sorts+a+list...</a><p>[8] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=json+validator" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=json+validator</a><p>[9] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=show+hn" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=show+hn</a><p>[10] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=attention+is+all+you+need" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=attention+is+all+you+need</a><p>[11] <a href="https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+examples" rel="nofollow">https://code.you.com/search?q=pytorch+examples</a><p>[12] <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=youdotcom.YouCode" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=youdotco...</a>
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Title: paperd.ink (<a href="https://paperd.ink" rel="nofollow">https://paperd.ink</a>) is an open-source e-paper development board. We wanted to build something with e-paper given its low-power nature and beautiful, high contrast display which complements your environment and is easy on the eye. Thus, we started working on something to be developed along the lines of Arduino, Raspberry Pi’s open-source ecosystem.<p>paperd.ink has a 4.2” e-paper display comes mounted on the PCB which we have designed to be a general-purpose development board suitable for your projects and applications. You can sync calendars, set up your home IoT dashboard, get to-do lists, and notifications, display art, etc. We have used an ESP32-based microcontroller with WiFi, Bluetooth, and microUSB connectivity. The board can be programmed in Arduino IDE, micropython, or ESP-IDF, you can check out the documentation at docs.paperd.ink. paperd.ink is designed to be low power so you can charge the battery once and go on for months on it depending on the refresh rate. It’s suitable to display low to medium latency or static information. Every paperd.ink comes with a hand-polished, 3D-printed external enclosure.<p>The first paperd.ink prototype was first posted on Show HN (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340398" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22340398</a>) and other related communities (Reddit, Hackaday, etc) a little more than 2 years ago. We had a landing page, a short video of the prototype, and a user survey form asking a couple of questions along with a “Would you like to be a part of the waitlist?” question in the end. We got quite an interest from everyone on it so we decided to move ahead.<p>After receiving a positive response to the prototype, the next step was to figure out how to actually bring the product to the real world. We had no upfront capital required for manufacturing so we decided to do a crowdfunding campaign (finding a platform supporting our country India was another issue). At the same time, the pandemic happened which delayed everything because of unfeasible component prices, supply chain issues, and lockdowns everywhere. After researching thoroughly and formulating a production plan and figuring out unit economics, we launched the crowdfunding campaign roughly last year and had the 2nd Show HN post (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27331311" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27331311</a>). In the course of promoting the campaign, we got in contact with FOSS United which is a non-profit foundation that aims at promoting and strengthening the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) ecosystem in India. FOSS United offered us a grant and that’s how we survived despite failing to achieve our crowdfunding target goal (we had ~40%).<p>After accepting the grant, we tweaked the PCB a bit and redesigned the external enclosure to make it ready for production. Scouted for manufacturers, suppliers, and shipping agents. Samples were ordered and tested. Test criteria and SOPs were exchanged. Vacuum casting (or any other method of manufacturing) of the enclosures was out of the question given the high NRE cost and high quantity needed to be manufactured, so we 3D printed them. Finally, the first batch was ready in the inventory to be shipped. All the orders received until now have been shipped and users should start receiving them shortly. Thanks to the HN community and our early supporters for everything. And special thanks to Daniel (moderator) for helping with the post. We plan to get feedback on the first batch and then decide on how to move forward. Please feel free to ask any questions!
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Title: They'll release something only to kill it a few months later. Is anyone taking Google IO seriously?
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Title: Hey HN. I'm in a bit of a rut. Feeling with no sense of goal, unmotivated to do basic shit, and falling back into dangerous old habbits. I have a nice job and still perform well on it. I'm just trying to became inspired as opposed to "smarter", which is what the technical books I usually read do.<p>And yes, going back to therapy is on my line of sight :D
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Title: Obviously it's bad if people lose their entire life savings and all that dead horse beating disclaimer stuff.<p>I fancy myself as a somewhat esoteric idea person, and so when I first discovered cryptocurrency a few years ago, I was very excited to explore the mind bending ways we can build __NEW__ things.<p>Instead, JPEGs and skeuomorphic representations of traditional financial vehicles in web3 space.<p>I'm hoping this crash and those in the future rid the space of the toxic backrooms these $30,000 jpegs provide access to and get us to collectively work on building really exciting cool new things.<p>What do you all think?
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Title: I don't know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages/apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well.<p>Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling/formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will mesh well. It's just baffling.
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Title: Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/<p>We help companies drive down AWS EC2 spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps engineers end up becoming cloud accountants trying to figure out what commitments are expiring soon and how much they're saving.<p>Previous to founding Usage, I worked on high-performance computing research at JP Morgan Chase and as a software engineer at a number of medium-sized startups.<p>Here's how it works: We are typically brought in by a DevOps manager to cut AWS EC2 costs. The app is entirely self-service and the savings are generated automatically, typically we do this live on a call. On average, we reduce AWS EC2 spend by 57% for 5 minutes of work.<p>To reduce by ~57%, we don't touch the instances, require any code change, or change the performance of your instances. We buy Reserved Instances on your behalf (a billing layer change only) and bundle them with guaranteed buyback. So you get the steep 57% savings of 3-year no-upfront RIs with none of the commitment (you can sell them back to us anytime after 30 days).<p>We make money off a 20% Savings Fee. Happy to chat directly [email protected]<p>Have you experienced any issues with managing your company or organization's AWS expenses? We'd love to hear your feedback and ideas!
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Title: I recently shut my small travel business and lost all I had worked for over the last few years. After incurring massive debt and struggling for a few months I have decided to start looking for a job. However, the burden while looking for a job has been so hard on me to an extent that living sometimes becomes meaningless. I have tried freelancing opportunities in my Marketing field but very little has come my way. I am posting this because I feel am not the first one to go through this startup failure/debt thing and I believe someone's experience on how they overcame might just help me pull through. Thank you in advance.
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Title: Hello everyone! I've been working to make an FPGA run asynchronously. I think this will be the fastest way to compute.<p>I interned at You Know Solutions and learned the flowchart programming environment they use. Now they have a new technology patented and I'm trying to help realize the potential. The flowchart programs are asynchronous by design and can create parallel computations. I've been trying to reproduce a flowchart program on a FPGA.<p>Does anyone use flowchart programming anymore?
Has anyone used a FPGA to run parallel processes or asynchronously?
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Title: Have you ever seen an example where anything became better than before when it grew big. There is almost a law that a company, a group, a community, a game or anything once it grows past its core audience it just gets ruined.<p>I have seen a game with millions of players become crappy once they became mainstream and started to attract very young and very old. Suddenly all jokes were inappropriate and game themes were too family friendly.<p>I have seen fb go from a place of being basically school wide chat to family announcements forum.<p>I have seen restaurants go from personalized/affordable service, to multi-store chain food that is barely edible and more expensive.<p>I have seen small startup where everyone enjoyed working and build dreams to become required corporate happy hours.<p>Take YC, I have heard from many founders it's not what it used to be...<p>On that note, I am glad that HN is still a niche community and hope stays that way, and UI becomes even more crappy so people from other cultures and walks of life don't start joining in. There are negatives to this, but not huge because there are other platforms for general population. (Imagine a forum for doctors to discuss new treatments and everyone can join in, soon it'd be r/AskDoc and of almost no value to actual doctors).
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Title: I made this because building UIs in a lexical medium like code is super annoying. I have to pre-render what I’m making in my head, and then jump between the browser and IDE to test. I was inspired by the developer console in chrome and safari since I end up editing css there because it’s ironically more convenient. Hope it’s useful!
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Title: Hi HN!<p>Whilst trying to build an online community for content creators, we failed!
Taking the learnings and stripping down our product to a true MVP, we now started working on "fruits", which allows creators to sell files such as ebooks, designs, checklists, music and online coachings online in less than two minutes.<p><a href="https://fruits.de/en" rel="nofollow">https://fruits.de/en</a><p>It works as simple as this:<p>1. upload a file at "fruits" & set a price
2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link
3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)<p>In addition, we also take care of the tedious office work such as invoicing and VAT collection for you, and this is completely automated.<p>What do you think? We are looking forward to your feedback!
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Title: Hey there HN! We're a pair of devs looking to get feedback for our open-source project.<p>We're remote engineers who have contracted for many clients overseas. There's a problem that all codebases share: Onboarding devs to a new codebase is hard no matter what.<p>We're also open-source engineers and learned about the techniques used in OSS to tackle the problem. Please give us your feedback.<p>Homepage: <a href="https://watermelon.tools/" rel="nofollow">https://watermelon.tools/</a><p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/watermelontools/wm-extension" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/watermelontools/wm-extension</a><p>Install: <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=WatermelonTools.watermelon-tools" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Watermel...</a>
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Title: Hey HN! I want to share my side project with you. It's called Bud and it's a full-stack web framework for Go.<p>I created a short video to show you how to create a minimal Hacker News clone with Bud: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoypcRqn-xA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoypcRqn-xA</a>.<p>The framework is free, open source and MIT Licensed. You can find it on Github: <a href="https://github.com/livebud/bud" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/livebud/bud</a>.<p>I started working on Bud 2 years ago after watching the introductory Laracast videos about the Laravel web framework. I was just blown away by how productive you can be in Laravel. However, like many of you, I've been so spoiled by Go. I didn't want to go back to writing PHP, so I decided to try creating Laravel for the Go ecosystem.<p>At this point, I just had the following goal:<p>• Be as productive as Laravel in a typed language like Go.<p>I got the first version working in 6 months and tried building a blog from it... It fell flat. You needed to scaffold all these files just to get started. If you're coming from Rails or Laravel you may shrug, this is pretty normal. Unfortunately, I've also been spoiled by the renaissance in frontend frameworks like Next.js. What I love about Next is that it starts out barebones and every file you add incrementally enhances your web application. This keeps the initial complexity under control.<p>With these newly discovered constraints, I started working on the next iteration. Bud should:<p>• Generate files only as you need them. Keep these generated files away from your application code and give developers the choice to keep them out of source control.<p>• Feel like using a modern JS framework. This means it should work with modern frontend frameworks like Svelte and React, support live reload and have server-side rendering for better performance and SEO.<p>With these new goals, the Bud you see today started to take shape. But along the way, I discovered a few more project goals:<p>• The framework should be extensible from Day 1. Bud is too ambitious for one person. We're going to need an ambitious community behind this framework.<p>• Bud should be able to provide high-level APIs for developers while compiling down to performant low-level Go code for production.<p>• Bud should compile to a single binary. With platforms like Fly.io and Heroku, these days it's easy to not care about this, but I still cherish the idea that I can build a single binary that contains my entire web app and secure copy it up to a tiny server that doesn't even have Go installed.<p>It's still super early days. You can find the the Roadmap on Github: <a href="https://github.com/livebud/bud/discussions/9" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/livebud/bud/discussions/9</a>. I encourage you to contribute your thoughts.<p>And here's the current documentation for what's already in Bud: <a href="https://denim-cub-301.notion.site/Hey-Bud-4d81622cc49942f9917c5033e5205c69" rel="nofollow">https://denim-cub-301.notion.site/Hey-Bud-4d81622cc49942f991...</a>. Comments are enabled for anyone to chime in.<p>I have big plans for the framework. I hope you'll join me on this journey to build ambitious websites faster with Go!
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Title: When I got into this industry 10 years ago, the world was a completely different place. Bootcamps weren't a thing. Computer Science programs were still something just for the nerds. And the industry was almost entirely autodidacts like myself who grew up immersed in technology and did it for the joy of it. Fast forward a decade, and now literally everyone and their uncle wants to be a software dev, and CS programs are churning out hundreds of thousands of graduates. The thought of competing against someone credentialed with 5 years experience vs. myself with 10 years and no degree, feels hopeless. It almost seems like the path I took back then would be completely impossible today.
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Title: Apparently from this CNN report there is a suggestion (@1:57) that DJI is feeding Russians the location of Ukranian drones used to call in artillery.<p>Is there any scheme (alternate firmware, open source app, firewall settings) that can prevent DJI from receiving this location data?<p>https://youtu.be/b166ecyNBCw?t=117
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Title: Was it a specific language that caused the shift in mindset? Or was it a book, a project or a course at university?
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Title: We have Youtube premium, where it is possible to pay a monthly fee not to have adds. Why isn't there an analogous version of this for the Google search engine?
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Title: Hey HN! I'm looking for new ways to keep track of my personal to-dos. I started using Google Tasks a few years ago and stuck with it for awhile but over time I fell out of the habit and now I'm ready to declare bankruptcy on the remaining tasks. I'm especially interested in finding something always-on (or always-on-top) and maybe with an intrusive reminder to make sure it's still accurate on some kind of schedule.<p>Thanks!
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Title: I'm very obsessive and it makes me very susceptible to addictions. I have very poor moderation but I've got strong will power.<p>I was able to stopped smoking, drinking alcohol and playing video games by just getting rid of all the "paraphernalia" and quitting cold turkey.
After a good year or so of complete abstinence, I was able to introduce those things back in my life and exercise moderation. I could drink socially and play video games without harming my work productivity, etc.<p>Now I'm struggling with food addiction, which ended up being my escape valve and receiving all my obsession after I quit everything else.<p>I've tried fasting and I was able to do 18h fasts daily with no problem and even go over a week without eating, just on water and herbal tea. But that completely messed up my habits, metabolism and relationship with food, and I'm now struggling to follow a schedule and any kind of diet.<p>So I was looking for a way to "quit food" without the unpleasant side effect of death. This is not about weight, I'm a bit overweight yes, but I exercise and am able to keep a decent shape. The real problem is that my blood work is starting to approach the higher ends of what is considered ok. And I'd love to avoid becoming diabetic and obese in my later life.<p>I'd love to know if anyone has been able to completely replace food with protein powders and vitamins, hospital liquid diet, or any other alternative. The idea here is to abstain from food for a full year and then restart eating normally with a light balanced diet with a nutritionist's help.<p>Has anyone done this or is familiar with the supporting science? What is recommended or non-obvious mistakes to avoid?<p>Thanks!
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Title: Previous thread: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167391" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30167391</a><p>Hello again HN!
It's been 3 months since I last submitted this project and the back-end server software melted down.<p>I was really bummed that many people didn't get to play, so I've spent most of my spare time since that last post completely rewriting the back-end server software using small, carefully selected dependencies (C99, sqlite, mongoose.ws & cJSON)
I've done some basic performance testing and I'm cautiously optimistic that it can now handle up to ~1000 concurrent users.<p>If you have any ideas for improvements, do let me know! Bots are permitted, but try and do something creative instead of just filling the canvas with junk :^)<p>You can view the source code for the new back-end here: <a href="https://github.com/vkoskiv/nmc2" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/vkoskiv/nmc2</a>
You can also check out a recent time-lapse here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmnUvTqn6M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUmnUvTqn6M</a>
The time-lapse gets generated from the server log output using this tool: <a href="https://github.com/zouppen/pikselipeli-parser/" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zouppen/pikselipeli-parser/</a><p>(Note to HN staff: It wouldn't let me repost this unless it had a 'slightly different url', hence the sneaky redirect there. If this is a big no-no, I apologize, otherwise feel free to swap out the URL to the redirected one :^))
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