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Title: It used to be everyone had their own phpBB or vBulletin forum for discussion on niche topics and it was a sort of proto-social-media where you had the ability to 'like' or 'star' posts, build up friends and followers, etc. All tools which are now the staple of social media.<p>But lately I've noticed a lack of these forums in search results. It used to be in the good ol' days you would search for a topic and some forum would discuss it at length, with hundreds of comments, and then the topic got locked as the issue was resolved.<p>I still see forums in search results, but they're mostly old-timer forums which have sufficient funding and a credible userbase, and are staying regardless.<p>Did social media absorb these forums? Did messenger apps absorb them? Did Discord absorb them? Did Reddit absorb them?<p>Where's have all the forums gone?
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Title: Hello HN, who here doesn't use a phone and what do you use as a replacement?<p>I've been using my phone less and less these days, and it feels like a chore to use a modern phone now. Touch interface is slow and imprecise, apps and webapps are slow, bloated, and keep removing useful features, adblock on some systems are clunky or non-existent, VoIP and SMS are basically dead, the interface changes nearly every year (on android at least), and many other small grievances. I can get things done so much quicker on a computer with a keyboard compared to the touch interface on a phone, using a keyboard and a full desktop environment is so precise, quick, and just enjoyable to use.<p>However, I am still hanging onto my phone for a few legacy uses, what are some good replacements for these:<p>* Mobile wifi
* VoIP
* SMS<p>Also, I am still interested in mobile computing as a concept, I've looked into the pinephone and that may be a good replacement for me in the future (keyboard attachment, linux apps), but am fine completely ditching mobile computing and just carrying around a small, light laptop if I can't find an ergonomic mobile replacement.<p>Anyone ditch their phone, how do you get by without it?
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Title: I wanted to share a simple web app I created recently, which lets you estimate income taxes owed in the US: <a href="https://taxsim.app" rel="nofollow">https://taxsim.app</a><p>All the calculations occur directly in the browser, and are powered by a Fortran program that has been converted to WASM using emscripten. This calculator was originally developed in the 1970s [1] by the non-profit National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER has been maintaining this F77 codebase for the last 50 years, and uses it primarily for academic research on tax policy. The Fortran source code itself is over 1MB of text, because it codifies both federal and all 50 states' tax laws for each of the last 62 years.<p>I first learned about NBER TAXSIM [2] a few months ago via an interesting paper they published "Automatic Tax Filing: Simulating a Pre-Populated Form 1040" [3]. The Fortran code itself is not open-source, but is available on request for research purposes. I reached out to NBER and proposed compiling it to WASM, so it could be run directly in a browser. With relatively little effort I was able to create a js/wasm version [4], thanks in huge part to previous open-source work [5].<p>This WASM build now powers <a href="https://taxsim.app" rel="nofollow">https://taxsim.app</a>, which is my attempt to create an interactive UI to allow for easier exploration of the US tax code. Specific tax scenarios can also be shared easily, by simply copying the browser URL. The code for this webapp is also open-source [6].<p>This was my first time experimenting with WASM, and I am already a huge fan. Not only was I able to take a 60 year old codebase and get it working on every modern browser and device, this work is also now benefiting the academic community. For example, the js/wasm can be run directly in V8, which means it can also now be run locally within R using libv8 [7]. Previously most researchers were uploading their tax scenarios to NBER's servers via ftp/ssh/http.<p>[1] <a href="https://taxsim.nber.org/feenberg-coutts.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://taxsim.nber.org/feenberg-coutts.pdf</a><p>[2] <a href="https://taxsim.nber.org/" rel="nofollow">https://taxsim.nber.org/</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w30008" rel="nofollow">https://www.nber.org/papers/w30008</a><p>[4] <a href="https://github.com/tmm1/taxsim.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tmm1/taxsim.js</a><p>[5] <a href="https://chrz.de/2020/04/21/fortran-in-the-browser/" rel="nofollow">https://chrz.de/2020/04/21/fortran-in-the-browser/</a><p>[6] <a href="https://github.com/tmm1/taxsim.app" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tmm1/taxsim.app</a><p>[7] <a href="https://github.com/shanejorr/usincometaxes/pull/11" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/shanejorr/usincometaxes/pull/11</a>
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Title: Almost everyone I know keeps a list of (easily forgettable) command line snippets somewhere. I can't imagine that HN folks would be any different :)<p>So that said, could I please see your cheatsheet?<p>I'll go first: <a href="https://github.com/fastily/cheatsheet" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fastily/cheatsheet</a>
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Title: Im posting for a friend who moved recently. He found a magnetic tape that was written over 50 years ago. He says, if he recalls correctly, the tape would have contained 2 file, EBCDIC encoded, written by an IBM utility using a tape sub-system attached to a s/360 processor running MVS.<p>Assume the IBM guys have this setup in some dusty basement in upstate New York.<p>This is a 2 part question. What is the best method for attempting to read this mag tape? That’s the main question. Second, what is the probability of success here? Assume the tape was kept in a climate controlled home.
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Title: Hello HN!<p>[I'm a solo developer so this question is a bit personal to me]<p>Would knowing if the creator of a product is like me or fully fledged organisation affect your likelihood of using any software they create?
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Title: I have been working on my side project (a productivity tool) for the past 5 months. I want to find some beta users for my software. With very limited time and resources, how and where can I find my first 100 beta users?
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Title: I was reading a post about yet another language on HN's front page when I was reminded of Ceylon language which some years back was being promoted as an alternative to Java. I remember seeing it frequently those years but then I stopped following. Now I searched for it and it looks abandoned? The latest news I can find is that it's been donated to Eclipse foundation. What happened?
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Title: The premise of this is that I feel people are pinched for time and need space to work – yet when they come back from their coding mode the answers team members provide seldom respect the depth, severity, or nature of the queries which are posted while people are focusing on dev work and, in some cases, simply delay the discussion of it until the next weekly/in-depth check in.<p>I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and while daily meetings are nice, once you start to go beyond the bounds of "yesterday I was working on ... and today I'm working toward ... could you provide a bit more help and/or context on <such and such> ..." the discussion balloons beyond a reasonable check-in limit with regard to time.<p>The properties of communication in remote work seem very hard to crack and I'd like to know if this problem is something your team has succeeded at – and, If so, how?<p>Edit: To be sure, I'm not talking about alerts/system critical stuff. Additionally, I work in a small company, so maybe there are safeguards for this kind of predicament in larger orgs.<p>Thanks
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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=31947295" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947295</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947296" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947296</a>
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Title: Hi all, I’m a teacher and startup founder building a platform to support families homeschooling. I’m curious to know for those of you who have considered this approach, but not taken the leap yet, what’s stopping you and what kind of tools would make it a no-brainer/easier for you to adopt.
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Title: In particular, reverse life insurance would only pay out to your loved ones if you live beyond a certain age.<p>This would encourage your loved ones to keep you alive until you reach that age.
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Title: One-on-one, because it's simpler:<p>- When one stops talking, the other starts.<p>- No groups, no hierarchy, no status.<p>Voicechat, because it's more intimate then text and more private then video.<p>With other HN readers, because that creates some common ground.
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Title: Hello,<p>i am a foreigner Bachelor Student (Business Informatics) in Germany (came a half year ago). I had experience with HTML and CSS. One and half year ago, I decided to learn JavaScript also. I completed FreeCodeCamp course and The Odin Project. My Portfolio was enough to get my first working student job as a web developer on December 2022.<p>I then started with Tasks like removing the BootstrapVue UI Library and replace with regular Bootstrap in small projects. That took like 60h, because I had to learn vue first. My colleagues said but nothing negative about my work.<p>Yesterday was for me like disaster. I worked until 22 o'clock, (I had to stop at 17 o'clock) to find out that I'm running a microservice in a Docker Container and the changes I made on a mail template had no effect, when I send them, since I was working on local files. I feel myself an idiot and can't tell anyone.<p>Am I doing the right job? I can surely say, that I love frontend development and also backend with java and Python. But loving a theme is enough to do it as a job?<p>Edit: Thanks for all your comments, all of them very supportive and made my day better. This long-time failing experience is the first time in my life, so maybe I had to live and deal with it. And yes, I love what I do and how I feel. For me there isn't any better feeling, after fixing a bug/completing a task. From now on, I will reading the docs more and not trying hunt the exact answer on stackoverflow at first place.
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Title: For many years now most of my meals end up being junk food. My analysis is that this is mostly due to mental issues (ADHD), decision paralysis on what to cook as well as uncertainty on the huge number of different diets and advice you can find online (reduce carbs? Reduce fats? Eat lettuce all day?).<p>Planning a couple of days worth of good meals is seeming like an impossible task, let alone a plan that's healthy (for whatever definition of healthy) and manages to consistently use what's stocked in the fridge/pantry.<p>So HN: Have you hacked your meal planning/cooking? What procedures have you developed?
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Title: Hey HN! I've been working with Go for the last 5+ years at large-ish companies building products that many of you may use regularly.<p>A ton of people say that Go's standard library is really powerful and usually enough to get by without external dependencies. I think that's true for companies that have the resources to build and maintain packages to reduce code duplication. For everyone else, we're left to finding the right set of packages to build our projects.
So, I built Copper - a toolkit that helps you get your project off the ground with minimal dependencies. It covers everything from routing, html, storage to tooling and more.<p>Check it out, star it, and feel free to ask questions!<p>P.S.
I also have a video demo building an HN clone in the docs<p>[1] <a href="https://gocopper.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://gocopper.dev/</a>
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Title: Since I was a little girl, I’ve dreamed of falling in love and having a family of my own.<p>By most cultural standards, according to my male friends, I’m smart, beautiful, fit, kind, emotionally mature and doing meaningful work in the world. Not too needy and not a workaholic.<p>Over the last two years I’ve been on over 120 dates with men I’ve met online - a few I met in person - in 3 different cities .<p>I’ve deeply invested myself in therapy, support groups, meditation, dating coaching, yoga and hypnotism.
I’ve tried bumble, tinder , Eharmony, hinge, coffee meets bagel, Thursday, Match, speed dating as well as a few other random apps.<p>I’ve asked my friends to set me up .
I tried to crowdsource a husband on Facebook.<p>I’ve read and done the exercises in Calling In the One, Love Addiction, Datonomics, Make Your Move and If the Buddha dated. I’ve listened to every episode of Girls Gotta Eat.<p>I’ve gone to CrossFit and hung out at steakhouses. I’ve dated every profession you can think of from doctors to electricians and unemployed guys.<p>I even moved to Austin because I read that’s where there was the highest ratio of educated men to women, thereby improving my odds of meeting a marriageable man.<p>My time for having children is running out.<p>This has always been my dream and I’m willing to try almost anything. I was raised by a single mom and I really want to have kids with a man I love, not do it on my own.<p>So, are there any love hacks I could try?<p>Please encouragement only, no discouragement. I’m discouraged enough already.
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Title: I spent many years learning about different ways and schools of meditation. Not professionally but as one of hobbies constantly running in the background.<p>And I still don’t get it.<p>Honestly It still looks like a big scam to me.<p>Some “teachers” say that you just focus your attention on breath or whatever you choose as a focus point.<p>But then isn’t our whole life a sequence of meditations? Because we always focus on something (with sleep breaks).<p>And then following Occam’s razor - why need separate concept for that?<p>Other gurus teach that meditation is “doing nothing”. Okay, but then again there’s nothing special about it, we all do it from time to time.<p>More than that, it means you can’t really practice such meditation, by its definition.<p>Another way to look at it - just sit peacefully and observe your thoughts.<p>Then again, aren’t we doing it anyway on a regular basis without introducing a word for it?<p>Can you please share your own personal specific definition — what exactly is a meditation for you?<p>Please be as detailed as possible and avoid abstract discussions and arguments (I’ve had enough of it already :), just your own experience.<p>Thank you.
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Title: It's the start of the holidays. My daughter is 11 y/o and I'm currently unemployed. I would like to do some projects with her that may interest her/us while enjoying the time together. Any suggestions/ ideas would be great!
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Title: Hey HN!
I'm Prajwal, the co-creator of Desklamp! I just completed my undergrad, which is where we got the idea for Desklamp.
A bunch of friends and I built this because we hated the experience of studying on our laptops. It was boring, and we found ourselves staring at the screen for hours on end with no output to show for it.<p>To make reading more engaging and to make sure we could remember what we read, we built a note-making system integrated with a PDF reader. The aim is to encourage you to make notes! LaTeX support, clipping out sections from the document, linking notes to sections in the PDF - everything is designed to really make sure you have no excuse to not make notes as you read.<p>We've also added a lot of fixes for minor inconveniences (scrolling across sections, hitting the wrong page number, light mode, viewing your highlights at a glance). And all of this is collaborative, because that just makes notes even more useful.<p>It's free for a while - we want to know what the rest of you think! Feedback can only help us make this even better. It's available as a web-app and a desktop app for Mac and Windows (Linux users, mail us, we're operating on a very closed beta right now).
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Title: Made this little thing: https://github.com/borkdude/bebo<p>In the spirit of deno it allows you to install a script from an https location but for Clojure(Script, .cljs).<p>Why would you use this? I love Clojure and I'd love to see it in more places than the JVM and browser. Maybe you do too.<p>It is similar to the idea of nbb which allows you to run .cljs scripts on Node.js via the SCI interpreter:<p>- https://github.com/babashka/nbb<p>- https://github.com/babashka/sci<p>I posted this project yesterday but forgot to add "Show HN"... I hope that is OK since I can't edit my previous message anymore.
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Title: If you could never read a new book in your life, and only had one book to re-read once a year, which would you pick, and why?<p>(Feel free to substitute “the next 10 years“ for “the rest of your life“.)
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Title: I'd guess that we would be now ready for great, successful AI-generated music. I know nothing about it, of course - can someone more knowledgeable than me tell me what's going on, what's interesting, what's noteworthy in the year 2022?
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Title: Hello HN,<p>This question has been on my mind a lot recently and after doing some research, I found a previous discussion on this topic [0]. However, I was wondering if it would be a good idea to ask it again (now that 6 years has passed) to gain some new insights from the community.<p>To be honest, I was expecting the rat of change to slow down or at least for the ecosystem to mature but this has not happened; in fact it seems like JS is moving in the _opposite_ direction with the sheer number of tools, frameworks, libraries and build packs that are being released daily at this point.<p>No other language has this problem to my knowledge, so I was wondering if you think this trend will ever stop? Will JavaSript ever evolve to a stable point like other languages (e.g Python, Ruby, Java,..) and if so, how do you envision this coming about?<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758085" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12758085</a>
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Title: The Apple M1 Ultra SoC chip achieves 87% of the performance of the Intel 12900K and Nvidia RTX 3090 combined while only consuming 34% of the power. The entire M1 Ultra chip draws 225W at full load and 11w at idle. Forget the Nvidia card and the other PC components, the 12900K alone can draw 250W and the Ryzen 5950X 140W.<p>This is a seismic shift. Can Intel and the other players like AMD and Nvidia catch up to this peformace per watt that Apple has on their hands?
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Title: I run a profitable open-source software company since 2013, and I'm considering selling it, can you advise how I can attract potential customers?
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Title: I am a full stack TypeScript dev looking to broaden my skill set by learning a new language. I’ve been weighing Rust vs Go for a long time but can’t really decide which would be a better use of my time. I often hear that people who try one of these languages after coming from something like TypeScript feel that they really level up their abilities/understanding.<p>I’d like to learn whichever language will make me a “better” coder in the long term. My understanding is that Rust would be the way to go here. However, I see that the Rust learning curve is significantly higher than Go’s, and that something like setting up a server in rust will take much longer than Go. It sounds like Go is better for “getting things done” but I’m wondering if I’m leaving growth/understanding on the table by going from one garbage collected language to another.<p>I am interested in hearing anyone’s thoughts on this matter. Especially if you have experience going from js/ts to one of these.<p>Thanks and happy 4th
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Title: It hasn't really sunk in yet, that in 2 months, we'll be having a tiny human in our hands. While I'm obviously excited, I feel like I've done precious little to really prep myself on what's to come.<p>Looking back...what do you wish you had done different?<p>What are some actionable suggestions you'd have for a new father? Habits to modify/cultivate, items to purchase, anything goes...<p>EDIT: What an incredible thread. Going through each of the replies here...thanks for the responses and advice, everyone!
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Title: TL;DR: I'm a founder who had some success, but now I'm disabled, can't seem to hold down a job. I'm close to defaulting on my car. I am (unsurprisingly) depressed. I need help but don't know where to go.<p>I spent the 2010s as a founder. My company was funded by YC and several others. We were moderately successful but didn't see a meaningful exit. After my startup failed, I started consulting to pay the bills.<p>In 2018 I started having problems with chronic pain and gradually became less and less capable on the job. Consulting gigs were letting me go because I couldn't keep up. The last time I worked was over a year ago, and I finally exhausted my savings in early June 2022.<p>I live as cheaply as I possibly can at this point. I live with family and only pay for absolute necessities. It comes out between $1200 and $1500 per month.<p>I'm in the US and I have an application in for SSDI, but, from what I've heard, it's very hard to get benefits, especially if you have an invisible illness like chronic pain. It's likely that my application will be initially denied and I will have to focus on an appeal. It could take a year or more of fighting to be approved.<p>I am selling some of my old stuff on eBay but it's exhausting and frustrating given my limitations. It's not sustainable.<p>I have a car payment due soon and I'm already behind by one.<p>Worst of all, my life is pretty drab at this point. I am obviously depressed. I see a therapist and a psychiatrist but, fundamentally, the source of my depression is the state of my life. I have nothing to look forward to. I can't even afford to toss a few bucks into side projects so I at least have something to do with my time... I mostly watch TV, play video games and lurk on the internet. It's absolutely soul sucking.<p>I think, given the right environment, I could finish a weekly workload of a bit less than half-time and slowly re-learn how to work again even with my limitations, but no one wants to hire a middle-aged disabled person for part-time work. Further, all of my experience is in startups and that makes me less palatable to larger companies, but larger companies have more options to accommodate disabled people.<p>I don't know what to do. Has anyone in the HN community been here?<p>EDIT: A few people have asked what I’d like to do if I were to work again. The answer is that I don’t know!<p>Before I started having problems, I was a backend-centric web developer but I’m pretty burned out on that these days.<p>I’ve always wanted to get into embedded, but I have no idea if I can make a lateral move like that in my current state.<p>Whatever I do, it needs to be with someone who will give me the space to try and fail and try again. That’s really the main thing.<p>Feel free to EMAIL ME:<p>tyvm for the shrimp at gmail dot com
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I released Trane over the weekend: <a href="https://github.com/trane-project/trane" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trane-project/trane</a>. Trane is an automated
system for learning complex skills. Think of it like defining a skills tree (technically a graph) of
all the smaller skills you need to master a complex skill and having an automated system to
automatically traverse the graph as you master them.<p>The seed for Trane was planted after my frustration trying to learn music, and jazz in particular.
There are simply too many things you need to master first (e.g. knowing the names of a note, knowing
where the notes are in your instrument, timing, etc) and it becomes difficult to track what it is
that you should focus on, and there is a process of constant atrophy, even if you practice
consistently.<p>Trane is an early state, but is already usable. I have released a command line interface at
<a href="https://github.com/trane-project/trane-cli" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trane-project/trane-cli</a> and some music courses at
<a href="https://github.com/trane-project/trane-music" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trane-project/trane-music</a>.<p>I would like to get some ideas in regard to what other skills could be a good fit for Trane. I am
thinking chess, programming, or languages could be a fit. I am wondering if Trane could be applied
to something like learning pure mathematics. I would love to hear any suggestions. Perhaps there's
some of you who have found a similar issue while practicing your own hobbies.
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Title: FYI, I try to release something random on the 1st and 15th of every month, this was my latest.<p>you can see my full list of projects on my twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1543003744161484800" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/lisperati/status/1543003744161484800</a>
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Title: ...from across the pond. We still love the USA!
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Title: Someone was asking how to determine the quality of coding practices at places they are interviewing. My mind went on a tangent wondering if it is fair for interviewees to bring a coding exercise for the interviewers to complete. I've heard that interviews are an opportunity for both sides to interview each other? So does the interviewee have an equal opportunity to determine how the interviewers work through problems by presenting their own exercise for the interviewers to complete, and therefore gain insight on the company's practices?<p>I've never heard of anyone doing this before and I don't think it would be well received. Has anyone done this? For anyone who conducts interviews what would you think if someone did this?
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Title: Hey kind stranger. Hope you find it useful.<p>Any comments or suggestions are appreciated :)<p>Enjoy your day!
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Title: Hi all,<p>My dad and I run our family business that is highly email reliant. We are currently using GoDaddy's grandfathered unlimited business email plan (yes, I know), and it's been pretty bulletproof for around 15 years, but we want a modern web interface and more control. We only need email, calendars, and contacts for 5 users, so Fastmail is an option we are considering.<p>Is anyone here using Fastmail for their email-heavy business or profession, and if so, what's your experience been like? Have you felt restricted by Fastmail's lack of cloud integrations and other services that Google Workplace and and Microsoft 365 have? Any issues with uptime, deliverability, and support, especially given the latter is email only?<p>Any feedback is appreciated!
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Title: I find myself lately gravitating back to older communities that survived the social media wave on the Internet because they seem to be a bit better at keeping track and promoting visibility of meaningful conversations, despite traditional functional flaws, screen sizing, and often dreadful large threaded views. I think a major strength is that most of these traditionally designed sites/apps still emphasize chronological order for content and posts, which makes the experience less prone to manipulation and more timely.<p>It also seems with older sites like HN and online bulletin boards, content can be bookmarked, and it's easier to correspond with users on a more regular basis. I think the most frustrating trend on modern sites and apps is that content I want to see simply disappears into a sea of other things I don't want to see, and that searching to find that content is futile, as results are often gamified and spammed into oblivion.<p>I miss IRC now, I miss bulletin boards despite all the flaws, I miss old school web sites that had the same content in the same place even after hitting refresh.<p>In my opinion, traditionally highly effective, favorable, and functional user-experience-based design has been thrown out the window lately as a trend; apps now are very often geared towards tracking, sponsored post placement, and profit/revenue optimization goals, rather than towards creating favorable user experiences.<p>It makes me wonder (despite some issues of course) if HN is still one of the best places to communicate and post serious matters BECAUSE it's UI/UX hasn't changed (In major ways) for many years?
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Title: I have a website which does well in Google results. I've been using anonimised Google Analytics but recently thought about removing even that, as what little I'm interested in can be gathered from server logs.<p>But I’m worried doing so will penalise the website in Google results.<p>My searches led me to direct answers from Google staff that no, they don’t take Google Analytics into account in rankings[1]. However, those answers are a decade old, from a time Google still touted “don’t be evil” as a motto. The Google of 2022 is one I don‘t expect to keep promises from 2010.<p>Are there reliable and/or recent sources which elucidate the case either way? Anecdotal reports can also be helpful.<p>[1]: https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-seo
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Title: Some of you may know Hong Kong has been attacked by China and most of the pro democratic media companies have shut down.<p>A number of us have been working hard to backup whatever we can and some oversea universities thankfully would allow hosting on their private library domain.<p>However I also would like to host these files on a public domain, just to ensure more people can revisit on these events in the future.<p>I am considering to start a very basic category based (eg event based) website, with text and picture files, while video files (close to 6tb) will be uploaded to censorship resistant sites.
And a torrent file that contains all files in that particular page.<p>It will be ran by my own fund/donation with monero.<p>What kind of option do I have? I am guessing it wouldn't be safe for me to self hosting, given the nature of these files.<p>If someone can give me a pointer, that will be great.<p>Thanks!
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Title: Razorpay is an Indian payment platform[1].<p>Recently Indian police arrested[2] the co-founder of a fact-checking website for a tweet he did in 2018. There are reports that Government is trying to nab him for reporting the fake news and religious hatred the current regime has been peddling.<p>Police demanded the data of the donors to the fact-checking website from Razorpay and they complied without a court order[3].<p>1: <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/razorpay" rel="nofollow">https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/razorpay</a><p>2: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/delhi-police-arrest-muslim-journalist-mohammed-zubair-india-bjp" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/28/delhi-police-a...</a><p>3: <a href="https://inc42.com/buzz/razorpay-alt-news-controversy-spotlight-on-data-security-user-consent" rel="nofollow">https://inc42.com/buzz/razorpay-alt-news-controversy-spotlig...</a>
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Title: To sum it up quickly<p>Living in Iran<p>38yo/married/no kids<p>University drop out<p>Burnt out developer because employer asks you to finish the job quicker and quicker and then throws more work at you without any perks/changes to your salary<p>Have been working as a bookkeeper/sort of an accountant for 5 years<p>No savings/hard to save much when your salary is 350USD/mo<p>My wife has a masters degree in accounting and a good resume<p>Good skills in Vanilla JS/HTML/CSS<p>Viable skills in C#/T-SQL/a lot more<p>No resumes<p>Planning to migrate to Europe/US/Australia in next 5 years because Iran is on edge of economic/social/life-basics collapse.<p>1. My main question is: Can I work as a developer and not be under pressure every minute?<p>2. If I get hired as a developer, can I have a life outside my work or I'm gonna have to learn the new hipster framework after work hours for the rest of my life?<p>3. Is it worth cutting my salary by 2 days a week to work on open source projects to build up a resume?<p>4. I'm fine learning say, COBOL. Should I go that way?<p>5. Am I better looking for other jobs?<p>6. Any advices?<p>P.s I don't think I can do paid remote work for foreign countries until I get a second passport since Iran is sanctioned and I probably can't have a bank account in western countries.
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Title: Hi, OP here. A friend was involved in a custody battle and was afraid his ex was going to leak all of his discovery documents on the internet and he asked if there was something I could do to make it harder for bots/crawlers to find sensitive information. Originally I was going to turn all of his docs to image based PDFs, but those get large fast and are easy to OCR.<p>So I found a post musing about altering fonts/glyphs so that it <i>looks</i> like english, but the actual character being seen by the pdf reader is a non-english character. As such, when you try to OCR these files, it doesn't see any images and can't convert it.<p>I figured it had some potential uses and maybe you fine folks can identify other use cases. I'll be monitoring this post most of the day.
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Title: Hi HN, we’re Michael and Justin from Hello Cognition (<a href="https://beta.sayhello.so" rel="nofollow">https://beta.sayhello.so</a>). We're building a better search engine for software developers. Hello saves you time by synthesizing clear explanations to technical questions along with code snippets from the web, showing them right on the search page.<p>We’ve found that most technical searches fall into a few categories: ad-hoc how-tos, understanding an API, recalling forgotten details, research, or troubleshooting. Google is too broad and shallow of a search tool to be good at this. Even after sifting through the deluge of spammy, irrelevant sites pumped full of SEO, you still have to manually find your answer through discussion boards or documentation. Their “featured snippet” approach works for simple factoid queries but quickly falls apart if a question requires reasoning about information across multiple webpages.<p>Our approach is narrow and deep — to retrieve detailed information for topics relevant to developers. When you submit a query, we pull raw site data from Bing, rerank them, and extract understanding and code snippets with our proprietary large language models. We use seq-to-seq transformer models to generate a final explanation from all of this input.<p>For our honors theses at UT Austin, we researched prototypes of large generative language models that can answer complex questions by combining information from multiple sources. We found that GPT-3, GPT-Neo/J/X, and similar autoregressive language models that predict text from left to right are prone to “hallucinating” and generating text inconsistent with the “ground truth” document. Training a sequence-to-sequence language model (T5 derivative) on our custom dataset designed for factual generation yielded much better results with less hallucination.<p>After creating this prototype, we started actively developing Hello with the idea that searching should be just like talking to a smart friend. We want to build an engine that explains complex topics clearly and concisely, and lets users ask follow-up questions using the context of their previous searches.<p>For example, when asked “what type of semaphore can function as a mutex?”, Hello pulls in the raw text from all five search results linked on the search page to generate: “A binary semaphore can be used as a mutex. Mutexes and semaphores are two different types of synchronization mechanisms. A mutex is a lock that prevents two threads from accessing the same resource at the same time. A semaphore is used to signal that a resource has become available.” We're biased, of course, but we think that the ability to reason abstractly about information from multiple web pages is a cool thing in a search engine!<p>We use BERT-based models to extract and rank code snippets if relevant to the query. Our search engine currently does well at answering applicable how-to questions such as “Sort a list of tuples by the second element”, “Set a response cookie in FastAPI”, “Get value of input in React”, “How to implement Dijkstra's algorithm.” Exclusively using our own models has also freed us from dependence on OpenAI.<p>Hello is and will always be free for individual devs. We haven’t rolled out any paid plans yet, but we’re planning to charge teams per user/month to use on internal data scattered around in wikis, documentation, slack, and emails.<p>We started Hello Cognition to scratch our own itch, but now we hope to improve the state of information retrieval for the greater developer community. If you'd like to be part of our product feedback and iteration process, we'd love to have you—please contact us at [email protected].<p>We're looking forward to hearing your ideas, feedback, comments, and what would be helpful for you when navigating technical problems!
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Title: Hi HN, I've just got out of a meeting and like almost every non-technical meeting I have next to no idea what the discussion was about.<p>I find a lot of non-technical meetings go something like this:<p>"Hi guys, as you might be aware [Robert Smith] of the [communications department] has recently released his [quarterly review] of our ongoing [transformation strategy]. We've received a lot of positive feedback so far, but I wanted to give you all an opportunity to share your thoughts in this meeting. Would anyone like to go first?"<p>Then about half of the team (normally the same people) will jump into the discussion and somehow seem to know what the hell is going on.<p>Meanwhile I'm there wondering who is this [Robert Smith] of the [communications department]? What is the [transformation strategy] and why does it need a [quarterly review]?<p>Occasionally someone will ask what the [transformation strategy] is, but typically it won't be answered in a way that helps me understand what's going on because even more names and departments will be dropped and the strategy itself will be described in such a vague way that it means nothing.<p>I guess a concrete example that comes to mind was from a place I worked previously where they would talk about their "omnichannel" strategy a lot. Whenever someone asked what "omnichannel" meant it was described in a way that seemed to mean nothing, "a multichannel sales strategy", etc. About 6 months into the job I finally figured out we were just using it to refer to some extra functionality that we were working on that would allow customers to collect and return online orders from our regional stores. But this was never how it was referred to in corporate meetings.<p>Am I the only one who experiences this? I can't work out if there's a part of my brain that's missing that prevents me from understanding what's being discussed in these meetings or if this is a common experience. I'm very practically minded which probably doesn't help, but I worry I'm not making enough of an effort to understand what's happening in the business outside my personal bubble.<p>Does anyone struggle with this, or do you have any recommendations for people like me who do struggle to understand what's happening in corporate meetings?
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Title: I, a fairly average and not at all notable software engineer, receive anywhere between 1 and 7 emails from people claiming to be recruiters with addresses that end in @amazon.com every week. It’s different names, sometimes the same content and layout, sometimes unique. I find this quite bizarre, and I imagine it’s some kind of “ask everyone on LinkedIn with software engineer in their title to apply” strategy. Does anyone else experience this? Do you know if these are just bots? I’d love to turn it off too as I have no interest in working there but yeah just curious if others experience this weirdness.
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Title: My guess is that the logical minds here will wander towards more complicated games such as Settlers of Catan.
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Title: Compiler link: <a href="https://github.com/c3lang/c3c" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/c3lang/c3c</a><p>Docs: <a href="http://www.c3-lang.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.c3-lang.org</a><p>This is my follow-up "Show HN" from roughly a year ago (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27876570</a>). Since then the language design has evolved and the compiler has gotten much more solid.<p>Assorted extra info:<p>- The C3 name is a homage to the C2 language project (<a href="http://c2lang.org" rel="nofollow">http://c2lang.org</a>) which it was originally inspired by.<p>- Although C3 mostly conforms to C syntax, the most obvious change is requiring `fn` in front of the functions. This is to simplify searching for definitions in editors.<p>- There is a comparison with some other languages here: <a href="http://www.c3-lang.org/compare/" rel="nofollow">http://www.c3-lang.org/compare/</a><p>- The parts in C3 which breaks C semantics or syntax: <a href="http://www.c3-lang.org/changesfromc/" rel="nofollow">http://www.c3-lang.org/changesfromc/</a><p>- Aside from the very C-like syntax, one the biggest difference between C3 and other "C competitors" is that C3 prioritizes C ABI compatibility, so that all C3 special types (such as slices and optionals) can be used from C without any effort. C and C3 can coexist nicely in a code base.<p>- Currently the standard library is not even alpha quality, it's actively being built, but there is a `libc` module which allows accessing all of libc. Raylib is available to use from C3 with MacOS and Windows, see: <a href="https://github.com/c3lang/vendor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/c3lang/vendor</a><p>- There is a blog with assorted articles I've written during the development: <a href="https://c3.handmade.network/blog" rel="nofollow">https://c3.handmade.network/blog</a>
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Title: I'm quite firmly in back end development. Often times I find myself wanting to have a simple front end to which I can attach some new experiments for home brew coding such as Flask.<p>I'd not mind if my front end looked a little bit nice, but don't want to spend forever learning, hand coding, and trouble shooting html, css, JavaScript.<p>What's in your toolkit for some simple front end drag and drop style block building that gives you enough of a template to get started? I've seen the odd one posted on HN over the years, but never had the foresight to save one.<p>Given its home lab style stuff I don't really want to dive into the likes of Webflow, Canva, etc.
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Title: I am old and overeducated. I grew up poor with uneducated parents, after high school I had to get a job. Later in life I put myself through college all the way to an MBA from a top school.<p>All my life I have wanted to be an entrepreneur but while I started a few companies, they all failed.<p>Over the years I have heard here and there various versions of "Attitude is more important than knowledge" and each time I was furious, since I have invested a lot of time and money into acquiring knowledge. Alas I am starting to suspect that I was wrong all along.<p>While "some" knowledge is essential in business, "attitude" triumph knowledge when it comes to entrepreneurship, and business in general, by orders of magnitude.<p>So, what does HN think?<p>And how can I leverage my wealth of knowledge to become a successful entrepreneur?
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Title: I'm looking for resources/tips on how to learn concepts in system design. Things around backend engineering and all the various components that go into building large scale systems (load balancing, message queues, CDNs, etc.). I'd also like to learn concepts around data like database sharding, non-relational database models, streaming/batch (lambda architecture, kappa architecture, etc.) and more.<p>In terms of what I've done so far...<p>I've read<p>- Designing Data Intensive Applications (<a href="https://dataintensive.net/" rel="nofollow">https://dataintensive.net/</a>) - This book has been recommended a ton on HN/twitter/reddit and I found it extremely useful to get a better idea of how data systems work, different types (OLAP vs. OLTP, data warehouse vs. lake, etc.) and get a better understanding of distributed systems.<p>- Quastor (<a href="https://www.quastor.org/" rel="nofollow">https://www.quastor.org/</a>) - This is a newsletter that sends out summaries of system design blog posts from Big Tech engineering blogs. It's been helpful to me for getting an understanding of the different components involved in the tech stacks at various companies and how companies think about building scalable systems.<p>- MIT Distributed Systems (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-WkMbsvGQk9_UB" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrw6a1wE39_tb2fErI4-W...</a>) - This is a series of lectures by Robert Morris (co-founder of YC) on distributed systems and their properties. The lectures pick a specific tool/technology (Google File System, ZooKeeper, Apache Spark, etc.) and then discusses it. I've really enjoyed reading the papers and watching the lectures.<p>I'd really love any recommendations from the HN community on how else I should be learning about system design.<p>Thank you very much!
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I've designed the site based on what I wanted a couple of years ago when I had been looking for a remote job. It's very early and any feedback is appreciated.<p>I've also used this opportunity to reduce some of that front-end framework fatigue by using just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.<p>Edit: I'll add location and salary filters as soon as I wake up tomorrow
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Title: Hi HN! I suffered from chronic insomnia for over a year and tried everything from cutting coffee, blocking blue light, to taking melatonin and antihistamine, but couldn’t find anything that worked. I even bought a $500 research-grade EEG device to track my sleep, which was honestly kind of depressing because it showed that I was sleeping less than 4 hours per night for weeks straight.<p>In the day, it took an immense amount of energy for me to perform even the most mundane of tasks, such as doing my laundry or ordering groceries. At night, I felt an overwhelming sense of loneliness and resentment as I lay in bed wide-awake, reading and re-reading Sleep by Murakami or mindlessly scrolling through reddit/ HN. My performance at work suffered, my personal relationships suffered, and my happiness suffered.<p>When I finally decided to see a sleep specialist, I was put on a 3-month long waiting list. Eventually, I was able to get my insomnia treated, but I realized that there is no reason why anyone should wait 3 months to get treatment when the same therapy that I received can be delivered online. My co-founder and I both have experience in digital health, so we decided to partner with sleep experts to create a mobile app to help people with insomnia get better sleep using psychology.<p>We launched in February this year, and have already helped over 500 patients improve their sleep permanently. Our data shows that our program is just as effective as group, in-person sleep therapy, and we’re doing a clinical study with Brigham and Women’s hospital and Harvard Medical School to prove the efficacy of our product. On average, our users sleep 74 minutes longer than before and spend 52% less time awake in the middle of the night.<p>If you have trouble with sleep, try our app and let us know what you think!
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Title: Where'd you go? What'd you find?<p>Glad it's back up now.. :)
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Title: I have been planning to buy a Mac for my development side projects. Before I do this, I thought I would ask people here for their experience and suggestions.
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Title: In a hypothetical scenario where HN would disappear for whatever reason more or less permanently, what alternatives would there be?
Where someone could find similar quality of commenters?
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Title: I made a table where you can find out the source/location of factory for where health supplements are made. This is a work in progress but it functions. At the moment you can sort by cGMP/GMP certification.<p>* Full disclosure - if you purchase anything using the links, i earn an small affiliate fee (5%)<p>I made this to help demystify the language behind product labelling, which in many cases is obfuscating the manufacturing and sourcing of certain products
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Title: After many years of remaining static, HN's IP address changed.^1<p>Old: 209.216.230.240<p>New: 50.112.136.166<p>Perhaps this is temporary.<p>Little known fact: HN is also available through Cloudflare. Unlike CF, AWS does not support TLS1.3.^2 This is not working while HN uses the AWS IP.<p>1. Years ago someone on HN tried to argue with me that IP addresses will never stay the same for very long. I used HN as an example of an address that does not change very often. I have been waiting for years. I collect historical DNS data. When I remind HN readers that most site addresses are more static than dynamic, I am basing that statement on evidence i have collected.<p>2. Across the board, so to speak. Every CF-hosted site I have encountered supports TLS1.3. Not true for AWS. Many (most?^3) only offer TLS1.2.<p>3. Perhaps a survey is in order.
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Title: Made a tool to organize thoughts.
Actually it is a mind tree, but in a more web-friendly form.<p>It has pivoted from what I originally started building at evryca.com.<p>Some years ago I got the idea of fractal conversation, instead of old-school tree/ladder-like comments.
I wanted to see only comments related to the current level.<p>I started making "something" with fractal comments. This "something" was a project discussion platform. But it turned out that even I myself don't use it, and the idea of fractal comments stuck there unused.<p>And recently it dawned on me that it may be a conversation with yourself — thinking, brainstorming, taking notes, writing.
So made this kind of cork/whiteboard, where one can dive into the subject and, being in the flow, write and see only related notes and rearrange them later.<p>I'm trying to make it flawless and add keyboard shortcuts where it's possible (Ctr+Enter to submit idea, drag-and-drop to rearrange, Esc to jump level up).<p>So finally I've made a tool that I use myself and will update it gradually (sorting, touch devices, ex/import (json, text), boards, more navigation with keyboard and other stuff, and login).
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Title: Hey show HN!<p>This course came about as a result of wanting a more targeted way of practicing using new vim commands I wanted to pick up, rather than just trying to use them in my regular code editing sessions.
When I would try to use new commands during code editing, my productivity took a hit because I was trying to do two different things at once: thinking about code vs practicing my muscle memory.<p>So, I made a separate environment for practicing, one that had an interactive editor, progress tracking, and achievement goals to let me see which areas I should work on, like speed and efficiency (# of keystrokes).
When I realized it would be useful for beginners too, I added lessons to go along with it and this course is the result!<p>Let me know what you guys think about it :)
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Title: I'm based in Vancouver, work remotely for a global company, and the outage yesterday was a huge pain in the butt for myself and many Canadians I work with... I am appalled that 911 services weren't even working in some cases.<p>The telcos here are terrible. I'd love to hear how HN users would think of bootstrapping a telco?<p>We've had a few startups try and disrupt things in Canada (e.g., Wind Mobile). They were funded by large global investment groups and eventually simply got acquired by the incumbent telcos.<p>The other approach I've seen is piggybacking on existing telco infrastructure. This is required by law since the Canadian government subsidizes telco infrastructure... It's not uncommon for the telcos to renege on their contractual/legal obligations. Plus, this doesn't create any redundant networks.<p>So: how else can one launch a telco? What creative solutions have folks seen?<p>I'm thinking: VOIP-only service that has direct access to the Internet backbone in Toronto, Vancouver, etc. so you can at least have completely separate service in major cities... Or crowdfunding 5G towers (though I imagine spectrum licensing is an issue here).<p>Would love to hear what other HN readers think.
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Title: I made this because building React components from scratch is super annoying. Most visual elements already exist on the web, and I figured there should be a way to leverage that. I hope it's useful!
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Title: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia anyone* can edit, blocks T-Mobile's entire IPv6 address space of 2607:fb90/32 from anonymous editing and account creation and has for years.[1] For reference, that is 79,228,162,514,264,337,593,543,950,336 or 2^96 IPv6 addresses. Most T-Mobile customers use native IPv6 without knowing it, so they have de facto blocked an entire nationwide ISP. Since they now sell home internet, this is not just limited to mobiles anymore. Wikipedia has published a sob story[2] where they justify these actions, claiming it's so difficult to ban IPv6 users because the addresses dynamically change when the device is restarted and the address space is so large, and T-Mobile's use of proxy acceleration, they are left with no choice but to ban the entire ISP's customer base, all 110 million of them. Their "advice" is to have a friend on another ISP create an account for you on a desktop computer. Why even allow access over IPv6 at all at that point, if they can't deal with the management of it? This is all especially hilarious and hypocritical given this quote:<p>"The Wikimedia Foundation believes that the principle of net neutrality is critical to the future of the open Internet."<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3A2607%3AFB90%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%3A0%2F32&type=block" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_T-Mobile_IPv6_users" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_to_T-Mobile_I...</a>
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Title: In light of a recent thread about SOC 2 certification (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32018066" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32018066</a>), I wanted to share my perspective as an auditor/consultant on the other side of the table and inform people just how grim it looks from the inside. Before I get dunked on, yes - there are probably smaller niche firms worth every penny.<p>Shortly after starting in this line of work, it became clear that the services we sell are disingenuous. Here are some examples of why:<p>* My main argument: there is a HIGH likelihood that information security consulting is the first job out of college for the auditor leading you through the engagement. Beyond surface-level knowledge about multi-factor authentication being important and knowing that “Splunk is where the logs go,” your assessor is probably just nodding their head, asking canned questions from a spreadsheet, and not fully comprehending what you are telling them.<p>* We are told to describe ourselves as information security experts. I am not an expert. Every time I have to describe myself as the expert, I die a little inside. If I am the expert in the room yet still a recent college graduate, there is a glaring problem here.<p>* The middle manager of my department did not know the difference between a public and a private IP address when we reviewed DRL evidence together.<p>* The person leading your engagement may have a slight idea about what is going on, but they probably are tied to five other engagements and are not genuinely motivated to find problems because they are already underwater.<p>I can’t say that information security consulting is all bad. On several occasions, I have helped companies remove the clueless CEO from Domain Admins or explain why adding MFA to Cisco AnyConnect was a good idea for them. I should also mention that these types of positions are great for learning the inner workings of large companies that you might want to work at later on, how to passably write a report, and how to present information to executives.<p>Maybe I am preaching to the choir here. Interested to hear others' perspectives.
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Title: Its been 24+ hours, have mercy on us.
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Title: Very often (for example right now) I get the impression that at least for some products market evolves backwards. Or maybe it's just flooded with crap making it just close to impossible to find the "tip of the pyramid" (nicely demonstrated by Adam in his rant on search engines [1]).<p>Right now I'm searching for a Music/MP3 player device that comes with a list of attributes that I'd take for granted. Apart from modern technology like Bluetooth - most of them existed 20 years ago!<p>But looking the length alone of the list of features I don't want to pass on fill my mind with hopelessness nowadays:<p>[ ] lightweight / has a clip<p>[ ] plays from filesystem<p>[ ] supports resume from last played for large files (must have for audiobooks)<p>[ ] support for at least OGG and FLAC next to MP3<p>[ ] auto-connects to BT headset<p>[ ] equalizer or at least bass/treble control<p>[ ] playback modes (continue alphabetically, shuffle, etc.) (no - not obvi<p>[ ] auto-off after N minutes<p>[ ] display easy to read in sunlight (why not e-paper?)<p>[ ] support for firmware updates (I don't dare to ask for open source..)<p>[ ] nice: audio jack for analog headsets<p>[ ] nice: support for multiple (2) bluetooth headsets<p>I know today it's profitable to throw cheap crap on the market - most people will just buy and forget. But what's with those who'd like to spent quite some money for a quality product? Do they have a chance to search nowadays?<p>How do you do it? Just with standard search engines and endurance? Reddit? Special keywords? Are there reliable platforms for product recommendations? Build your own ([2])?<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31476069<p>[2] https://www.instructables.com/ESP32-Audio-Player/
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Title: I was inspired to make a web based ants simulator after watching this video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81GQNPJip2Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81GQNPJip2Y</a><p>Any feedback appreciated.<p>Best viewed on Chromium based browsers. Firefox is slow for some reason and Safari is not tested as I don't have a Mac.
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Title: Howdy HN, just recently made this silly typewriter variant and think some of you might enjoy it so thought I'd share.<p>Here the cursor takes no heed of what you're typing and just advances at a steady pace, with the effect that typing something reasonable-looking requires you to type at a very steady rhythm. There's also the bonus that the space character is no longer needed—you can (and kind of have to) just wait—so the keyboard minimalists among us can shave even more space off their devices. Only desktop for now.<p>It's an interesting contrast to the last one I made—which requires you to do all the heavy lifting in moving the cursor position yourself—<a href="https://oisinmoran.com/typewriter" rel="nofollow">https://oisinmoran.com/typewriter</a>
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Title: I know this sounds ridiculous but in conversations on zoom or in-person with my colleagues or friends I'm constantly joking all the time. Even in serious moments, I don't know why but if I'm in a group I need to make a joke and make people laugh at something in the situation that's ridiculous. For example we had an incident and I couldn't help myself - I don't know if this is good or bad, but I find it really hard to be serious. There's something in the situation that I find to be out of place and I bring it up. I do my job and take my responsibilities in stride and complete what's necessary. But... It is really hard for me to be in situations that are serious and I just can't help myself when its so dry and boring.
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Title: Hi everyone! For the past year I've been working on a simple LDAP server for user management, targeted at self-hosted servers.<p>The idea is that OpenLDAP is a pain to install, configure and manage, and on top of that you need a frontend if you want a web UI.<p>LDAP instead provides a minimalistic LDAP server that supports the subset of LDAP needed for user management and authentication, with almost no configuration required, and a nice UI/API in front of it.<p>We just released version 0.4 (and 0.3 actually) and it should now be stable enough to use it yourself!<p>We've had some people using it for tests as well.
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Title: Like, it's really bad, and lags after some scrolling. Uses 50GB*of RAM after an hour of scrolling.
EDIT: Was joking about 50GB. But it consumes a lot of my RAM.
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Title: I suppose my own context is somewhat unique, in that we have a very technical product that's used by other technical products. This means our customers are all effectively engineers. Some of these customers even used to work on our product.<p>Whenever we tell them, for example, the team has estimated it'll take X weeks to do something, we continuously get pushback of: "Why would it possibly take so long? All you have to do is A, B and C!" (often providing incorrect solutions, increasing the burden of having to explain all possible implementation strategies to them and the risks involved with each step)<p>I've also experienced this in previous companies where managers, who used to be technical, do the same thing.<p>To me this is insanely disrespectful of the team, and it seems as though it's a boundary violation on some level.<p>Has anyone found a healthy, emotionally mature response to this line of questioning? Ideally one that results in the customer understanding that they're crossing a boundary of sorts here.<p>In an ideal world I'd much prefer to not have to give estimates in the first place, and rather involve our customers more frequently in our development process to help them see the progress. It's hard, however, to convince them of the value in this approach.
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Title: I'm pretty disillusioned with the corporate rat race...I naively took on some additional managerial/strategic responsibilities assuming I'd get a promotion, but I'm finding that even if I did get the promotion, I'm not enjoying my current work as much, as I'm far less hands-on. I know I can provide value--I've got industry-specific domain expertise and I can write high-quality software.<p>One of the projects I've recently been managing is the outsourcing of some programming work--work outsourced to a team of "professional programmers" but with no domain expertise. I think I could have done better myself in terms of code quality, but even if I had, I know I wouldn't have gotten paid as much since I'm an employee. I'd like to capture that value myself instead of dealing with an OK bonus and sub-inflationary raise.<p>I've been considering trying my hand going solo, offering my skills on a contract basis. But I've never done this, and it's a big change for me. Ideally, I could start with my current employer as a client.<p>How often is this done? What steps should I take and what should I consider? Any resources that you'd recommend?
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Title: I am in my mid-thirties, working four days a week, and making over 100k. I have a house, a good relationship with my wife, and young and healthy kids.<p>I work from home. My job is technically interesting, and I still learn/improve. I do not have meetings. One or sometimes two 30 min calls a week with my boss. Most days, I do not have to interact with anyone from work, not even customer contact.<p>If I knew I could have a job like this ten years ago, I would have thought that's it, the dream.<p>But somehow, it isn't. It's never enough.<p>I dream about doing my own thing or retiring early to do other projects. It is probably human to always want more.<p>So HN, how did you settle and slow down and become happy with the way it is without always wanting more?
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Title: My new client hates WordPress with a passion so I am currently seeing what everyone is using for a CMS that supports a headless architecture.
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Title: Hi HN! For over a year we've been working on Kreya. At first, it only supported gRPC, because the alternative tools (eg. BloomRPC) were very limited in their functionality. Since then, we have added many features, trying hard to keep the UI clean while still supporting advanced use cases.<p>Yesterday, we released Kreya v1.8, which added support for REST!<p>In our opinion, Kreya is a good alternative to the existing tools out there. Sure, it may not support all the features that Postman has. But we think that Kreya has some innovative approaches (eg. authentication or API importers) that users may find interesting.
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Title: Greetings! A 2.5 weekends project to teach myself newer Python features (>= 3.10). Conditions are written as Lambda expressions that annotate parameters and return types, and coexist with type annotations. Symbols to share values between conditions are also supported to a limited extend.
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Title: I'm looking for suggestions for an email host that includes IMAP access: my wife is very attached to the Gmail interface (web and phone), and so I need to cover that in the transition (and maybe convince her otherwise in the long run). That sadly immediately rules out Protonmail.<p>Bonus points for EU jurisdiction, and a mail interface that doesn't look like the 90s (for my use).
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Title: WebAssembly is a modern bytecode supported by all browsers and designed to be a compiler target for a wide variety of programming languages.<p>To effectively support some forms of Functional Programming support for tail-calls has been proposed as an extension to the WebAssembly standard.<p>This proposal has reached Phase3 of the standardization process years ago, but has since stalled.<p>Phase3 is known as "the implementation phase" and the prerequisite for advancing the proposal to Phase4 is to have support in two different browser engines. V8/Chrome support has been available for a long time, so another engine is required.<p>To unblock this situation we have contributed full support for WebAssembly Tail Calls to JavaScript/WebKit/Safari. The PR is available here:<p><a href="https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/2065" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/2065</a><p>An in-depth article about the challenges of implementing this feature is also available. This is intended both as documentation for our contribution, but also as a general explainer about how tails calls actually work, with a particular focus on stack space management.<p><a href="https://leaningtech.com/fantastic-tail-calls-and-how-to-implement-them/" rel="nofollow">https://leaningtech.com/fantastic-tail-calls-and-how-to-impl...</a>
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Title: When I think about TypeScript and Angular I break out in a cold sweat. When I remember creating UI's in GWT and it just worked, in Java, it brings back fond memories. So I'm relegated to the backend. Any other Java devs out there who'd like to to more in the front end but in Java, the language we know and love?
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Title: By "ruin" I mean the less tangible parts of the smaller company, such as the culture, the enthusiasm and spirit, the flexibility, the overall happiness.<p>Having now been in two medium-sized companies that have been acquired by large, public firms, I find that everything we enjoyed is gone. Perks slowly disappear; meetings, trainings, and general wastes of time increase; productivity slows; engineers become demoralized; processes grind through bureaucracy. As I understand it, this is typical.<p>What are some examples where acquisitions like this have happened and the smaller company wasn't essentially destroyed?
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Title: With a recession looming and inflation already here, are you cutting back on any subscription services?<p>I have recently gotten rid of Spotify, Amazon Prime, my paid email service, Playstation Network.<p>I still have Google One (I use Photos, Mobile VPN, switched back to GMail, Google Calendar). I am currently on a trial of Youtube Premium (with Youtube Music) but I probably won't keep it.<p>I still have iCloud extra storage, Dropbox, GoPro cloud, Netflix and Disney+.
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Title: Or any other kernel, professionally?<p>I've been offered a position at Microsoft to do kernel development work. This would be a big transition to me, coming from a services background (backend only).<p>The job's main draw to me is doing low-level work. I did some in my very first job, but for the past 10+ years, due to a number of circumstances, I've been in the services world. I really liked being a C programmer and I've kept an eye on things over the years, and did some hobby projects (on x86 and some embedded stuff as well).<p>There's a lot about my current job that I treasure, despite the work itself not being interesting to me about 99% of the time. It's a remote job, the work-life balance is stellar, and I get 25 days of vacation a year (this is in the US), which allows me to spend a lot of quality time with my wife.<p>However, I'm considering leaving because I've been having significant motivation and performance[0] issues for the last two years. Through a lot of soul searching and even help from a therapist, I've identified that the source of my issues is the nature of the work itself. Building services is just something that doesn't give me a sense of accomplishment, and I'm not attracted to the stuff at all. Some issues I've identified are:<p>1. Infrastructure complexity, especially since moving to Kubernetes. I refuse to touch it at this point.<p>2. Debugging exclusively via metrics and logs, since I can't just attach a debugger to a running server.<p>3. Designing systems in general. Some people love the challenge of distributed transactions, eventual consistency and all that jazz, but it just rubs my brain the wrong way. I'm not interested at all in that problem space [1].<p>4. The insane amount of work required to stand up even the smallest microservice: infrastructure provisioning, certificates, security reviews, GDPR compliance, etc.<p>5. Anything I build will end up paging some poor soul at 3am some day when something is down or under heavy traffic.<p>So, what I'm wondering is: what are the things that would make me say "ugh" on the day-to-day as a kernel developer? Is there a chance I'll be happier, or would I just be trading one miserable set of problems for other equally miserable problems?<p>I tried asking that to every person who interviewed me, but I only got somewhat vague answers like "the build can take a long time depending on what you're doing", etc. Someone complained about windbg.<p>[0] Even though my reviews have been good, I know deep inside I'm not doing even 10% of the good work I could do before.<p>[1] Ironically, I've acquired a ton of knowledge about it and I'm one of the "go to" people within my org.
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Title: Hey folks, I'm Ben from Armory.io (YC W17). We just launched Continuous Deployment-as-a-Service (CDaaS) to make it easy for developers to deploy their apps safely to the cloud. We’d greatly appreciate (raw, candid) feedback from the HN community if this solution improves the speed at which you deploy to production. We have a free-forever tier that gives you up to 25 Application Targets[1] (our unit of scale for pricing).<p>Try it here: <a href="https://www.armory.io/products/continuous-deployment-as-a-service/" rel="nofollow">https://www.armory.io/products/continuous-deployment-as-a-se...</a><p><i>Our Story</i><p>We’ve been helping large companies with CD since 2016 by selling them our distribution of Spinnaker (spinnaker.io, originally Netflix OSS). We’ve learned three big lessons:<p>One reason developers are drawn to Spinnaker is because it provides an imperative approach to orchestrating deployment workflows
Operating Spinnaker “on-prem” (usually in the customer’s AWS account) requires significant effort
Doing true continuous deployment to production requires the use of advanced strategies to mitigate risk<p>These learnings inspired us to build CDaaS and make it easy for developers to employ well-understood deployment strategies like blue/green and canary deployments without having to write custom code. With CDaaS, our aim is to deliver many of the features developers rely on from Spinnaker, but in a declarative manner that supports the GitOps approach they know and use extensively.<p>CDaaS currently supports deployments to Kubernetes but we’re adding additional cloud providers quickly (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc)<p><i>How It Works</i><p>Connect any number of Kubernetes clusters to our central control plane by installing a lightweight network agent. Once connected, you can configure your application deployment logic in a declarative YAML file that can be checked in alongside your app’s source code. Deployments can be invoked from our CLI which allow you to use your existing CI platform (Jenkins, Github Actions, CircleCI, etc) to trigger a deployment. Monitor deployments (and take additional action like rolling back, if needed) from our UI.<p><i>More Information</i><p>CD-as-a-Service product docs: <a href="https://docs.armory.io/cd-as-a-service/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.armory.io/cd-as-a-service/</a><p>Short Demo (8 min): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r29UCKMXEi4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r29UCKMXEi4</a>
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Title: Here's a little side project I’ve been working on: <a href="https://totalrealreturns.com/" rel="nofollow">https://totalrealreturns.com/</a> The Total Real Returns chart demonstrates the preservation or growth of real wealth more clearly than conventional (nominal-dollar, price-only) stock charts, because: (1) we include the effects of inflation-diminished purchasing power, and (2) we include the effects of reinvesting dividends from the initial investment.<p>I found it harder to explain the y-axis in words than it was to do the math, so please let me know if you think the "baguettes" explanation on the homepage helps.<p>I was up until 4am ET finishing some features on this, and then at 8:30am ET the BLS released the new CPI numbers through their API: <a href="https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu/" rel="nofollow">https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/cu/</a> and I was able to manually re-run my daily cronjob with the new numbers, so it's up to date! If you catch any bugs, please let me know via the “Report a bug” link in the footer of every page.<p>Some FAANG examples: <a href="https://totalrealreturns.com/s/META" rel="nofollow">https://totalrealreturns.com/s/META</a><p><a href="https://totalrealreturns.com/s/GOOGL" rel="nofollow">https://totalrealreturns.com/s/GOOGL</a><p><a href="https://totalrealreturns.com/s/AMZN" rel="nofollow">https://totalrealreturns.com/s/AMZN</a><p><a href="https://totalrealreturns.com/s/AAPL" rel="nofollow">https://totalrealreturns.com/s/AAPL</a><p><a href="https://totalrealreturns.com/s/NFLX" rel="nofollow">https://totalrealreturns.com/s/NFLX</a><p>Comparing three Vanguard treasury funds, showing vividly the impact of bond duration (short-term, intermediate-term, long-term) on both risk and reward: <a href="https://totalrealreturns.com/s/VFISX,VFITX,VUSTX" rel="nofollow">https://totalrealreturns.com/s/VFISX,VFITX,VUSTX</a>
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Title: Obviously a lot of space related questions with the JWST doing it's thing, but i wanted to know how they find the ancient sections of space to analyze? Do they scan the entirety of space looking for super redshifted space, or are there areas of the sky that are known to be particularly old?
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Title: I asked the same question last year [1] and received fascinating answers - I'm looking forward to your new answers.<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26492180
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Title: I created a web page to compare different analytical databases (both self-managed and services, open-source and proprietary) on a realistic dataset.
It contains 20+ databases, each with installation and data loading scripts. And they can be compared to each other on a set of 43 queries, by data load time or by storage size.<p>There are switches to select different types of databases for comparison - for example, only MySQL compatible or PostgreSQL compatible.<p>If you play with the switches, many interesting details will be uncovered.<p>Full description: <a href="https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/README.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/README.md</a>
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Title: A relative of mine asked for help with their 18-year-old child and computer time. The teen spends 9+ hours a day playing games and watching anime. When I was a kid, I got around a lot of restrictions, so I'm concerned a software-based approach won't work. The parent has tried locking the computer in a different room, which works, but it lacks nuance. It's okay to play video games as long as it is a healthy amount.<p>Parents of HN, what measures or completely different approaches have worked to establish healthy computer time limits for your kids?
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Title: What kinda project do u usually code when learning a new language or framework? And what kinda dev are u? (backend, web, mobile, devOps, sr, etc)
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Title: I have build many small size web apps.<p>I lack experience in designing medium to large application. I tried to read system design content but not able to gain confidence.<p>How can I do the hands-on practice of system design concepts. Please your tips, resources, plan etc.
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Title: Only allows direct versions of Google Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox<p>See message here when using Brave, a Google Chrome (chromium) derivative: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/MV66H85.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/MV66H85.png</a><p>Triggered when trying to log in.
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Title: I'm moving house after 10 years and realising just how many computers I have accumulated in 20 years of collecting.<p>I have all sorts of machines, and in fact whilst packing up the house I keep finding boxes that have been mailed to me from eBay purchases that I never opened - I don't even know what's in them.<p>To illustrate how many I have, the other day I thought "Do I have an Amiga? I think I do." and I went looking through boxes. I opened a box and on top was an Amiga 1200. Underneath it were two Amiga 1000's.<p>I have two Apple 2 computers signed by Steve Wozniak.<p>I'm conflicted about whether to keep all these machines or not. On one hand, having them makes me feel good inside at some level. Howver, I don't DO anything with them - they mostly stay in boxes. Partly this is because I am way too busy doing real world stuff to be fiddling with vintage technology, partly it's because I think for me the joy is in the wanting, the finding and the buying.<p>I'm pretty sure I've developed this habit because as a child in the last 1970's and early 80's we could never afford a computer for many years, when it was something I wanted more than anything in the world.<p>Partly I hold back from selling them because firstly if I regret it then I'll never be able to build such a collection again. Partly I think maybe I'll get around to playing with them when (if) I ever "retire".<p>On the other hand it's sort of a burden to have this giant collection of "stuff". I don't have anywhere nice to display them, and vintage computers need a level of care and attention I just can't give.<p>In favor of selling them I would probably get maybe a number of thousand dollars which would help buy a house - something I ned a whole lot more than I need a bunch of vintage computers.<p>I dunno - what do you think HN, sell the collection or keep them?
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Title: Hey HN!<p>Alexis here, I’m a product manager and software developer in Berlin by way of New York.<p>I want to show you this app I made – It’s like a "buddy" for those, like myself, who inadvertedly talk too much in meetings.<p>The app gives me feedback and a little more in control of what I have influence over by:<p>* Keeping track of how long I’ve been speaking<p>* Catching myself before I talk too much<p>* Developing a better sense of timing<p>I truly love having conversations with people in real-life.<p>But online meetings, especially group calls, tend to make me nervous. I can't read body language. The tone of voice, micro-experessions and social cues get lost.<p>If you, too, accidentally talk too much too often, check it out "Unblah". Watch the quick 2-minute demo and download the macOS app over at <a href="https://unblah.me/" rel="nofollow">https://unblah.me/</a>.<p>Cheers!<p>Alexis<p>PS: There’s a whole FAQ section for common questions you may have – Including if this is yet another "native" Electron app ;)<p>edit: bullet-list formatting
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Title: The past few days I started getting interview invites from companies and people I had never heard of. I initially shrugged it off as aggressive spam, but after declining one of the invites, one of the emailers followed up to confirm that I was the same person that they were talking to on Upwork.<p>I had never setup an Upwork profile before so I said no, after which they responded with a link to a profile of someone that was completely impersonating me. They had scraped my LinkedIn page for information and were interviewing under the guise of being someone they were not (they were even using my picture). I talked to Upwork support, and after about 36 hours they deleted the impersonator. However, I just did another search and there is already someone else impersonating me again (this time they changed the face on the picture).<p>I only discovered this because the first impersonator was too lazy to change my resume they downloaded from my website and kept my real email on it, so some companies had used that email to contact me instead of their Upwork registered email.<p>I would recommend everyone search for their name on Upwork (I had to wrap mine in quotes to find the matches) and make sure they aren't being impersonated.<p>In the meantime, Upwork really needs a better validation mechanism. As engineers we really have no recourse, and there is absolutely nothing we can do to prevent this from happening.
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Title: Hi HN.<p>I built Payload to make file transfers easy for less-technical users who need large/fast transfers, so I have focused on auto-discovery, drag-and-drop, visually distinct device icons.<p>It's using Tauri (an "Electron alternative" built on Rust) which keeps my binaries small and bundles to .msi, .dmg, .deb and .appimage. No CLI, iOS or Android support (yet).<p>The network stack is a separate binary written in Go. It uses mDNS for local network discovery and TLS over TCP or Quic, with a public Ed25519 keypair for each device. The protocol is ad-hoc and symmetrical control stream using JSON and binary data streams. Planning to open source these parts eventually..<p>Transfers should saturate the local network link. It reaches ~116 MB/s wired at my home, but if you have a >1000 Mbit link, I'd be curious to see how much speed you can squeeze out.<p>See also:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21575869" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21575869</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351111" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24351111</a>
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Title: I feel like we are living in uniquely pessimistic times, at least when compared to the last ~70 years. The world order is being challenged, and not for the better. Massive geopolitcal problems are ahead with no good prospects - continuing Russian aggression in Europe, looming aggression in Taiwan, gloomy prospects over Iran nuclear situation. The US may well see a new civil war in the next few decades. Demographics, particularly in Europe, are not looking good. There are climate change risks to look forward to. Deglobalisation will lead to less global economic efficiency/prosperity. Tech advancement appears to have stagnated, and in any case the dream of technological innovation making tomorrow better has been replaced with the reality of tech making a lot of our lives worse, disconnecting people, pitting people against each other, hijacking our attention. Culturally, we seem to be getting worse at getting along with each other. Generally, we seem to have given up on making things better overall, and instead just focus on trying to prevent bad/worse outcomes. I can't remember when I last saw someone outline a positive vision of the world we are building with a rough idea of how to get there - mostly, anything referring to the future is some cyberpunk dystopia.<p>Given all the above, what makes you optimistic about the future? Why do you believe that the world of tomorrow will be better than the world of today? What do you look forward to in the world of the future?
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Title: I just went through a month from receiving a verbal offer, to offer on paper. In between, they reduced the offer twice, and the offer on paper was 15% lower than the prior verbal offer. At no point did I negotiate. I was going to negotiate once they got their stuff together on paper. Now that I received the formal offer, I felt like I had to walk away with dignity and just declined.<p>It was with a mid-tier cryptocurrency exchange. I knew their culture was terrible since the NYT recently covered them, so I can’t say I was surprised.<p>It appears the balance of power has shifted back to employers.
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Title: History widget that focuses only on github links.<p>Useful to have it somewhere in the toolbar to go to repos quickly.<p>Most recently-visited urls go to the top.<p>Can be filtered. And navigated with arrow keys.<p><a href="https://i.imgur.com/pokaRck.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/pokaRck.jpg</a>
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Title: I'm lead on a small team of web developers.<p>The other members consist of:<p>A Maverick who insists they know what they are doing but clearly don't and won't admit it. Going so far as to add concepts to the code that don't belong (or work for that matter), applying shiny new ideas from stackoverflow that bog down the system where a simple line will suffice.<p>Hour long tasks for them take a whol work week because of back and forth with PR comments.<p>The other member is a copy paster who will grab anything from anywhere (old projects, the web) and paste it in and expect something to happen (it doesn't).<p>I'm going on vacation and all PR's require my approval. I dread the mess I will have to sift through when I get back, could push the project back weeks.<p>What can I do in this situation?<p>I'm sure there are many thoughts going through your mind regarding the team and perhaps my lack of managment skills but I am only lead on the project, I don't manage people.<p>My boss trusts my judgement and is aware of the situation but he is not technical enough to take over the code reviews.<p>Is there a possible solution to this without adversely affecting the porject?<p>Thanks
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Title: Hi HN!<p>I wrote a small program to browse folders in the terminal. The main inspiration was type-ahead search in GUI file managers. There exist several programs that are similar (see the listing in the README), but none of them do it quite the way I like, and often they have a very complex UI and a ton of features. I tried to make something that is obvious how to use and gets out of your way. (I also wanted an excuse to learn Rust.)<p>Let me know what you think!
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