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Title: People with ADHD, have you ever tried dev tooling to organize or aid with your short attention span?<p>Yuval
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Title: And instead take the time to study a topic deeply? I find myself finishing endless user stories but my technical skills seem stagnant....
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Title: We have seen a lot of discussions on HN regarding ageism in engineering, and the paths for an engineer are more or less visible for me.<p>What happens to ageing / older designers? What is their path if not for an inevitable pivot to management / product management?
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Title: Last time I posted this it didn't garner much interest. There have been lots of improvements and fixes since the last release.<p>Quick list of features:<p><pre><code> - Workspaces
- Tabs
- Nested Folders
- Lots of context menus
- Response history
- Plugins
- Runs fully in the browser and runs offline if necessary
- Chrome and Firefox extension to bypass CORS restrictions
- Desktop builds for all platforms
- GraphQL support
- Import collections exported from Postman and Insomnia
- Simple user friendly interface
</code></pre>
I built this because I love Insomnia but wanted a portable version that I could run in the browser.<p>If you're tired of Postman's bloated interface and slow startup times, do give this a try.
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Title: The famous story is that Apple was nosediving under the current CEO and that Apple's acquisition of NeXT (and bringing Steve Jobs back as CEO) revitalised the company.<p>I read about drastic staff / product cuts and re-focusing on the company, however that was always told from the outside.<p>Was someone working at Apple during that transition and has any interesting stories / can share their experience?
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Title: I anticipate looking for a software engineering job starting ~next month (see below for what I am currently doing). If this were a year ago, I'd feel good; grind some leetcode, get hired at a big tech company for a good salary.<p>Now, of course, such companies seem to be laying off people way more qualified than me, freezing hiring, etc. Am I fucked?<p>I can provide whatever details people want, but I am not sure my personal circumstances are relevant except that I am not an exceptional dev with an enviable resume. The overall question is one many of us have: how bad is the hiring situation going to be in tech over the next year?<p>I also understand it's not one most people can effectively answer, but would like to know peoples' thoughts.<p>I used to be a software engineer. Then I went to law school, and now work in biglaw. I am a year out of law school, and have been working on a legal tech startup with a friend. If we cannot raise in the next couple months, I wish (almost need, really) to bail on the biglaw job and go back to being a dev.
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Title: In terms of hardware the iPad Pro is an impressive machine.<p>But for the most part it seems limited to being a daily driver for email, watching videos, web browsing, or other non-process intensive tasks<p>To those who _specifically_ use an iPad Pro for work, what do you do with it that cannot be done on a regular iPad or iPad Air?<p>Why does the iPad Pro make your life better than doing the same thing on a MacBook/notebook/Desktop?
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Title: Lately, I feel exhausted with all the late night meetings thats required of me at work. Discussed it with my manager few months ago and he offered to take me off on-call rotation and put me in a leadership role. While this was good initially, lately this has come up with its own set of challenges, where in I'm required to have nightly meetings with other teams who are outside of my timezone. Since I'm in a leadership role now, my manager says its inevitable as I've to be present in these meetings.<p>I feel so burned out and anxious all the time, not because of overwork, but due to a lack of formal structure in my work day.<p>I'm thinking of starting out on my own someday, but I wonder, is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field ? Whether i work for a big org / startup / myself, is it inevitable that I have to work round the clock and I've to accept it as a way of life ? Is there a sub-field in software dev where in I can login at a specific time / logout at a specific time and not have to worry about work after I log out.<p>PS: Honestly speaking, I used to work at IT service industry not too long ago (perhaps in mid 2000s), where I was working on a boxed software. Except for some crunch time during major releases, there was no pager duty expected, the pay was average at best and work was monotonous bug fixing, but I felt much more at peace since work was always predictable most of the time. With this on-call culture thanks to the 99.99 uptime thats become the de-facto industry standard for most companies, I wonder whether such companies exist anymore !
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Title: I was diagnosed with MS 15 years ago, and was doing pretty well for a long time, but with the pandemic experienced a tremendous amount of stress that has left me with my first major flare-up since diagnosis and, more importantly, developing over the past 3 years, a feeling in my brain that feels like having been lobotomized, and symptoms like "mild" dementia. Difficulty multitasking, make silly mistakes, mentally tired easily, emotional issues, etc.<p>The MS was so far outside my concerns for all these years that I didn't know about the cognitive effects of MS (though I retrospect I realize I had some milder form of these symptoms all along), but I now understand MS causes brain atrophy and damage irrespective of flare-ups and lesions.<p>I've tried many things to make it better over this past year especially, but it's getting worse. It's quite evidently different from depression, it feels like I've lost part of my brain, which seems to be what's happening with MS.<p>I'm posting this in hopes I can get in touch with others with MS that are programmers and are doing well, and have found ways to make this better, or have gone through periods where they felt like this and it improved. I can't imagine living like this with worsening, I don't have any support from family and any savings (lost an enormous amount of life-changing money few years ago), my programming abilities have waned, and if I can't support myself in the future I'm going to end up homeless.<p>I want to believe I can do something, that there is hope, perhaps medical advances, or anything I could do.<p>If you want to get in touch my email is mush_room_hn at protonmail.com. (but you could also reply here)
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Title: I don't believe I'm a person of interest to anyone, however I imagine some people are. With the hacking capabilities of government and organisations, would planting incriminating material on somebody's computer be trivial?
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Title: Lately, I’ve just been trying to get by.<p>Feels like my body has been running on autopilot. The consequence of which life just seems to go by even faster. Losing the ability to relax and the feeling of self-control, over-indulging in endless feeds of videos, games and services that further drain the energy that I so crave to return. To a point where it feels more like an addiction, with my body now responding with physical discomforts and a relapse of anxiety that I have not felt for years.<p>But I think everything’s going to be alright.<p>Getting out of bed is a drag, my apartment might be a bit messy, work and relationships not going as well I’d like, procrastinated every possible task that needs to be done.. You know. Right now, I’m just surprised to find myself writing about it whilst grateful to be acknowledging that I’m in a rut.<p>I'm motivated to get out of this. At the same time I’m scared I’ll just go back to autopilot on Monday.<p>In February, I’ll become a father and I want to be there for my son.<p>Where do I go from here?
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Title: Hi Guys--<p>I started a Stripe account (even incorporated through them) for a basic graphic design and web design service business.<p>I process a few charges and even though I didn't get a single chargeback or dispute, Stripe decided to deactivate my account and said they would refund all the charges that were processed.<p>Which would have been fine with me. They said they would refund on Oct 17, but that date came and past. So I kept emailing.<p>Now they're saying they're holding all the funds for 120 days because of "elevated risk".<p>Which is insane because they have already withdrawn all the funds, meaning their risk would be zero if they refunded everyone.<p>I am beyond hurt and confused as I did need this money for my daughter. These decisions have real impacts on real families.<p>What do you do in this scenario? I have tried contacting support at Stripe but seems to be of no help.
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Title: I have a mostly dormant GMail account from ages ago, which I check back into every few months to see if any mail stranded there by accident. Today was one of those days, and I tried to log in on an Arch Linux machine with Firefox 106.0.1 in Private Browsing mode, and uBlock Origin installed as the only relevant add-on.<p>After having provided correct credentials, instead of having been granted access to my Google account, I was instead redirected to a landing page telling me this:<p><pre><code> Couldn’t sign you in
This browser or app may not be secure. [Learn more]
Try using a different browser. If you’re already using a supported browser, you can try again to sign in.
</code></pre>
The "Learn more"-link lead to https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/7675428<p>Only after having read through that that I noticed an innocent "Try again using this browser"-link on the aforementioned landing page, which made me authenticate a second time using the very same credentials, and then, finally, letting me into my Google account.<p>I guess that's a new way to try shoving Chrome down even more peoples' throats?<p>It's high time anti-trust regulators slap the sh*t out of this corporation for its increasingly hostile tactics, similar to how the US set out to do with Microsoft back in the 90s.
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Title: Most sites I work on have at least one contact form and I got tired of building out the logic to send them and handle the spam into every project.<p>I built and launched Sendfly for myself 5 years ago and it's been a rock solid service that I've relied on ever since.<p>Recently I've done a full re-write, simplifying the product and making it super affordable. I wanted to share it here in case it comes in handy for someone else.<p>There are lots of competitors out there but I found them too expensive for my needs. For $15/year you get unlimited forms and 5,000 form submissions every year. Hoping that fits the bill for developers like me!
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Title: Like probably many of you, I'm kind of a perfectionist coder/creator. Recently I'd been bookmarking interesting dark mode sites just because I liked their aesthetic, and because for some of the SaaS I want to make, I wanted to make it dark mode first rather than light mode like most sites, so I was looking for inspiration.<p>I'd amassed around 20-30 and I told my friends about these cool sites yesterday. They mentioned that me linking to each one was kind of annoying and they wanted to see all of them at once, similar to how Awwwards and other web design inspiration directories worked. I thought a making a dark mode directory was a great idea as I could just link one site to my friends rather than bombarding them with links.<p>I'd previously worked on other projects but I always spent too long nitpicking every detail. It always took so long that I lost interest after a while and the project was abandoned, or I overengineered the site so much that I didn't even get to the actual app functionality. People say to build an MVP as soon as you can, but for certain people, it can be quite a challenge to constrain yourself.<p>This time I told myself I'd do everything in 24 hours, as it's not a super complex idea to create. I bought a domain off Google Domains, used Next.js to spin up a React site, and basically converted my bookmarks into a JSON file along with their titles and descriptions. In the React side, I read the JSON file and put the URLs in iframes with another container with the title and description.<p>One tricky part was that many sites block iframes, so what I had to do was save the entire website into its constituent HTML, CSS, and JS, and I displayed that instead in the iframe.<p>Overall, I'm happy that I was able to execute on an idea within only a day of working on it. It's not a monetized product or anything, simply a directory, but still, it was fun.<p>The site is: https://darkmodes.com (I was surprised that the .com domain was actually available!)<p>Edit: If the link doesn't work, try https://darkmodes.vercel.app, having some domain issues right now.
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Title: Recently I was researching about DHTs and developed a DHT Sniffer in Go which connects to some known DHT Routers and sniffs all the annoucements.
I've quickly added ZincSearch and it is now basically a search engine which can search for hashes, name or files contained in the torrents. It is able to index around 5-10k annoucements per second, so the index grows quite fast.<p>Now, I am thinking about releasing it as open-source for others to study, but not sure if I should, because it might be used for "evil".
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Title: I'm excited to finally launch Outstatic, an open source static website CMS that doesn't require a complicated setup or signing up to a third-party service!<p>You can access the documentation here: Outstatic Documentation.<p>I invite you to start by deploying our example blog to Vercel and giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fun it is to use Outstatic.<p>Please, let me know what you think. This is the first public version of the project and all feedback is welcome.<p>If you dig the project feel free to leave a star on Github. I appreciate your support!
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Title: Like the reluctance for the folks working on DALL-E or Stable Diffusion to release their models or technology, or the whole restrictions on what it can be used for on their online services?<p>It makes me wonder when tech folks suddenly decided to become the morality police, and refuse to just release products in case the 'wrong' people make use of them for the 'wrong' purposes. Like, would we have even gotten the internet or computers or image editing programs or video hosting or what not with this mindset?<p>So is there anyone working in this field who isn't worried about this? Who is willing to just work on a product and release it for the public, restrictions be damned? Someone who thinks tech is best released to the public to do what they like with, not under an ultra restrictiveset of guidelines?
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Title: About a year ago I stumbled upon the degrowth concept and subsequently picked up the book "Degrowth: Less is More" by Jason Hickel. For those unfamiliar with the term: "an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to finite planetary boundaries".[1]<p>There's been some of HN posts mentioning degrowth in the past but they were heavily criticized[2][3]. I get some degrowthist literature might seem too apocalyptic, but they make some good points:<p>- Criticism of "decoupling": there's no way of our GDP keeps growing indefinitely <i>while</i> reducing our ecological footprint. In fact, despite all the advancements made in renewables during the past decades global CO2 emissions are at an all-time high.<p>- Very few people know how to build/grow anything end to end. Consumerism appears to be the only way to live in the West right now (with it, a shared feeling of powerlessness).<p>At the same time, I stumble upon articles from time to time that are indirectly aligned with the same ideas although from an entirely different perspective. These couple of HN posts come to mind:<p>- "The super-rich 'preppers' planning to save themselves" [4]<p>- "I, Pencil (1958)" [5]<p>- "CO2 emissions are being 'outsourced' by rich countries to rising economies"[6] (The Guardian, not HN)<p>I gotta admit, this has me pretty worried. However I also have hope (and with hope, it comes action). Questions that I'd like to get input on from the HN community:<p>1. Am I overly paranoid for believing this? (degrowth <i>seems</i> like our only way out)<p>2. Is believing technology will save us from climate collapse really that, a <i>belief</i>? Believing this would mean society should keep doing its thing for a tiny tiny chance of getting a free "get out of jail" card (i.e. decoupling is not a fable after all).<p>3. On the other hand, if we <i>know</i> it's a belief: why aren't our so-called leaders doing anything <i>real</i> about it (albeit at the cost of GDP), are they just trying to prevent widespread panic? I see how this might sound a bit "conspiranoic" but i can't just find better words for it...<p>4. Regardless of the answer to the question above on #2, why aren't people actively building resilient hyperlocal communities and actively ignore what brought us here in the first place? I.e. globalization and widespread consumerism<p>4.1. Low-tech, no-tech initiatives seem pretty plausible to me (provided we leave aside our current individualistic values as a society)<p>[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrowth<p>[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32416815<p>[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20058894<p>[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711413<p>[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13016980<p>[6]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/19/co2-emissions-outsourced-rich-nations-rising-economies
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Title: Hello.<p>I know that MVP is not about the finished product, but you need at least to show some reliable experience to potential customers.<p>I have an MVP in the AI field, but in order to have accuracy and a fully satisfactory experience, it requires some conditions, because it deals with random variables that I still don't have full control over (i.e: I need people to speak with good diction/utterance).<p>How can I present this to potential customers so "random variables" wouldn't discredit my product?
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Title: Are there platforms/communities such as HN but mostly with scientists instead of CS/engineering people?
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Title: Hi all, we’re Darragh and Simon, cofounders of Noloco (<a href="https://noloco.io" rel="nofollow">https://noloco.io</a>), a no-code platform for teams to create internal tools from their business data.<p>Noloco lets you create internal apps from data sources like PostgreSQL, Airtable and Google Sheets without writing any code. This makes building internal tools and configuring views a lot faster than building them with code and SQL queries. It also enables non-technical team members like those in ops, customer support or sales to make changes without having to rely on engineers.<p>Building internal tools is time-consuming and resource intensive, not just for the original build but the ongoing maintenance as well. It’s also not the kind of work that developers typically want to do, nor usually the most valuable use of their time.<p>From our prior experience at tech companies like HubSpot, TripAdvisor, Revolut and Flipdish, we experienced some of the pains around internal tooling first hand. As a PM leading the Payments team in one company, Simon would have to prepare SQL scripts every week to update customer data, and hound developers to run them. Most of the time, businesses simply didn’t have the resources to invest in updating tooling.<p>Since launching in November 2021, we have a wide variety of customers using Noloco for internal tools. For example, one real estate company is using Noloco to manage payment approvals to contractors hired across their property portfolio. An accounting firm uses Noloco as an internal practice management tool to keep track of proposals made to clients and relevant pieces of work. And a lead generation business used Noloco to build a sophisticated CRM and customer portal to track leads provided to their customers.<p>Most platforms that enable building internal tools are either targeted at developers, or are ‘low-code’ and still require some coding expertise to build something useful. Other no-code platforms typically connect to more no-code backends like Google Sheets and often focus more on B2C use cases, enabling building of publicly accessible websites, for example. Often these solutions fall short when it comes to building sophisticated internal tools around data.<p>Noloco is a fully no-code solution focused solely on web apps. We connect to relational databases like PostgreSQL as well as no-code backends like Airtable and Google Sheets, enabling companies to build powerful apps on top of their existing business data from multiple sources. We believe that we’ve got the balance right between simplicity and enhanced configuration ability for power users who want to go deep with customisation: filtering, validation rules, database permission rules etc.<p>It took us a couple of pivots to arrive at this system. Initially we were building a feature-rich full-stack website and web app builder—but no one could build anything useful with it. We decided to revamp the product to make it much simpler. A few weeks later, we had our first version of our client portal builder. This was a step in the right direction, but our value proposition around centralising customer interactions in a custom-made client portal wasn’t resonating with prospects. Finally we realized that what our most successful customers wanted was to share their existing data with their team or customers. This led us to revamp the product once more to make the focus on connecting your existing data. Once you do so, we’re able to automatically build an app around your data meaning that you can launch a whole lot faster with much less of a learning curve.<p>The starting point for building an app with Noloco is adding data. If using an external data source like Airtable or Postgres, you provide your connection details, choose what tables you want to import and then Noloco syncs your data across. Once the initial import has finished, Noloco instantly builds an app for you around your data—including collections, forms and record pages for each database record. From there, you can customise the app and select the most appropriate layout options to display your data like tables, kanban boards, calendars and charts.<p>You can set database permissions by user role to control what records different users have access to and what fields they can view and edit. This means that you can confidently invite your team or customers and allow them to view, create and update data.<p>In case you’re interested, here’s a video of us building a Lending App from Postgres data:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVDHCvPqgsg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVDHCvPqgsg</a><p>If you’re interested in trying the product, we recently launched our free tier and you get a free trial of all premium features when you sign up. Here’s a link to our sign-up page:<p><a href="https://portals.noloco.io/register" rel="nofollow">https://portals.noloco.io/register</a><p>We’d love to hear from the HN community about your experiences using and building internal tools.
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Title: I see often links about it here but honestly I don't see why I should care.
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Title: CNBC reporting that Amazon made the announcement after market close. In the past they had announced freezes across Amazon except AWS.<p>So far I can't find an article or official announcement, but CNBC is reporting it and that seems to be why the stock price has been dropping post close.
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Title: I often times see a Linkedin/resume of a senior engineer where they have jumped ship every couple of months, staying max <=2 years in every company they have worked at. Imho, I always thought this was a red flag during the hiring process at a new company, as it doesn't show any long term commitment. I can understand junior/graduate employees jumping ship often in the beginning, but for +10 YOE software engineers, I find it odd.<p>In contrast, staying too long at a single place could make it seem like a developer doesn't want any changes.<p>What is your opinion on this?
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Title: I used to use Truecrypt (file based virtual encrypted disk). But it shut down under mysterious circumstances.
Now there is veracrypt based on the same source code, but I am not sure I trust it. Are there better alternatives? What does everyone use?
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Title: Progress in hardware allows software to build computationally costly abstractions to make devs more productive (for better or worse). While some use-cases definitely required improvements (e.g. deep learning became a thing thanks to powerful hardware), it is not clear that all software is better now that "RAM/CPU is cheap". For instance, IRC predates the World Wide Web, but desktop apps like Slack/Discord (that get shipped with a whole browser with ElectronJS) solve the exact same problem. Many websites are excessively heavy, "because they can", I guess mostly to "look better", and maybe to some extent because of ads/trackers. Modern developer tools require to download half the Internet regularly (e.g. node projects often come with 30 000 dependencies, apps get shipped with a whole rootfs in containers, or with an embedded chromium browser, etc). There is a ton of overhead everywhere, sometimes just because we can, sometimes because it's faster to market.<p>So I was wondering: how do you think software would look today if hardware had stopped improving, say 10 or 20 years ago? Surely we would have end-to-end messaging apps and social networks, but maybe video-on-demand (e.g. Netflix) would be more limited, and we would not have TikTok? Maybe we would not need 5G to connect our fridges to our shoes? We would not have cryptocurrencies or NFTs. But that does not mean we would have stopped developing software.<p>Or maybe said differently: what are "useless/cosmetic" improvements that happened in the last 10 or 20 years in software, and what are "real" ones?
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Title: I have used Docker more than almost any other tool, and I have genuinely given it a fair shot. After all of that, I still don't understand the appeal.<p>Docker nearly seems to be an industry standard by now. Some people treat it like an obvious choice, but it's not so obvious to me.<p>People say that Docker can run anywhere. It solves the infamous problem of "works on my machine". Despite what people claim, I have not found this to be the case. I developed containers on windows and then I still had to debug the containers when deploying on Linux. There were formatting issues, filenotfound issues, and chmod issues. I have spent so much time configuring docker, and been able to complete the same task in a VM in a fraction of the time.<p>Am I alone here? Am I doing it wrong? Is it the case that I am not the intended audience, and it's meant for larger teams?
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Title: When Harry (my co-founder) and I started Trevor.io we obviously needed customers. We'd often bonded over Paul Graham's "Do Things That Don't Scale", so it was a no-brainer that every month, like clockwork, we'd get on that €50 Ryanair flight to London, to spend a week pitching potential customers / partners / anyone who would listen. We tried as best we could to rotate which lucky friend or family members' sofa we would be sleeping on each time, so as not to out-stay our welcome.<p>One event that we ended up doing again and again was called TechHub Tuesday Demo Night. It was an epic monthly event (first Tuesday of every month) hosted by the most sought after startup co-working space on London's famous "Silicon Roundabout" (yes, us English can't quite fill a valley yet with our startup scene, but we sure can fill a roundabout!). The event was an opportunity for up-and-coming startups to show (not tell) what they had built, and get instant feedback from the community. Importantly, you had to have built something (an app / website / platform / etc.) and, unlike competing events, it wasn't about trying to pitch for investment. It was a welcoming, enthusiastic audience of fellow entrepreneurs, builders and product lovers. Pitching your product here was always a buzz.<p>Unfortunately, like many other great ventures, TechHub London was one of the unlucky victims of Covid 19. In the summer of 2020 they slipped into administration, and with it TechHub Tuesday Demo Night. We've very much missed it - both presenting and attending - so we have decided to do something about it.<p>We are pumped to announce that next Tuesday we are launching our very own Tuesday Demo Day with a twist:<p>- it will be 100% virtual,
- and 100% free.<p>This means that you can join us from the comfort of your couch. Bring a beverage of your choice and be ready to be give our startups the feedback and advice they need to take themselves to the next level.<p>We would be absolutely delighted if you would join us (<a href="https://hopin.com/events/trevor-demo-day-global" rel="nofollow">https://hopin.com/events/trevor-demo-day-global</a>).
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Title: I think I’m suffering with burn out and just want to crawl under the covers and come out again in spring, unfortunately I am only half way through my probation period and don’t have an vacation days.<p>I left a long term job about 7 months ago, join another company and very quickly realised I didn’t like the atmosphere so left there for what should have been my dream job, however I’m 4 months in, still in probationary period and think I’m burning out (home, kids, marriage, etc)<p>I’m not sure if to tell my boss, tell the company or how to deal with it, because I can’t afford to loose this job with a family to support.
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Title: I want to look at some "best" C# code (whatever you think best or top code is).<p>Do you know public C# code that you would recommend to look at it because it is well designed or very well readable?
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Title: It was all over the place rumor-wise, and now there's radio silence.
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Title: I am a remote worker in a country that is not the same one as any of the company offices (they have multiple offices in multiple countries).<p>They hired me as "contractor", but promised I would be treated as employee, to facilitate things legally.<p>Things went good at first, but now they been treating me as contractor regarding rights, but employee regarding what they want from me.<p><pre><code> - I have no vacation, no paid sick days, no leave, no benefits.
- One of the owners (he has a huge amount of shares) explicitly told me I will never get a raise, because contractors don't get raises.
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At same time:<p><pre><code> - I have to work in specific work hours
- I have a manager that even micromanages my work and keep pestering me whenever I don't reply promptly, can't even go to the bathroom without my phone without this guy noticing.
- I got a semi-leadership position, I don't have any employees under me but there is a project in the company that I own completely and make all decisions, and whenever someone else screws up on that project I am responsible (even if they don't report to me directly).
- Whenever a project is late, I have to help and work unpaid overtime (in fact I worked the past months 12+ hour per day including weekends, also having zoom calls with clients 4:00 in the morning is a thing that happened).
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Also despite my speed being faster and faster, with more and more Jira tickets completed, enormous amount of Git commits, and clients being happy with my work, my manager keeps saying I am underperformer.<p>To be honest I wanted to quit, but I am living paycheck to paycheck with zero savings after I had to expend them because of a family member car accident. Other employees been quitting for a while now, company has very high turnover, including losing lead engineers that didn't document their work so many new employees have no idea how the company tech actually works.<p>Also the jurisdiction of my contract is UK, but I don't live in UK, and I am not UK citizen, I am not sure if I even can sue them, or if I was going to sue them, what kind of lawyer I would have to look for.<p>Contract is full of sketchy stuff, like they owning even my personal diary if I wrote in it during my contract, or owning my private correspondence.
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Title: Mine is iPhone as hotspot/'net sharing feature, for other mac products (macbook pro, macbook air, etc.), be it bluetooth or wifi, let alone non-mac clients == ongoing failures/stoppages, regardless of iPhone or macbook models.
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Title: Hey HN! Daniel here, I’m a software engineer and hobbyist hacker. I’m joined by my cofounder Matt. We’re building Paigo (<a href="https://paigo.tech" rel="nofollow">https://paigo.tech</a>). We make it easy for SaaS businesses to bill customers based on usage.<p>To get your hands dirty a bit we have a stateless and signupless demo you can try out: <a href="https://hn.paigo.tech/" rel="nofollow">https://hn.paigo.tech/</a> and a video of me walking through the system in a bit more detail: <a href="https://youtu.be/T6J1Yh8GhdU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/T6J1Yh8GhdU</a>.<p>The idea of our platform is fairly straightforward: You give us read-only access to your SaaS backend and based on tenant metadata for your infrastructure, we measure, persist, and aggregate SaaS tenant usage data to give a clear picture of per-client usage. We can measure metrics like API requests, Compute time, Data Storage, Transaction Volumes and many more. Some common scenarios would be: an ML platform could use Paigo to track processed input files for customers, a Data platform could use Paigo to determine the data size customers have consumed, and an API company can use Paigo to track customers’ API requests. Additionally, we also help you understand your cost to serve your clients’ usage, and this data allows us to provide your SaaS with usage based billing.<p>What’s the problem we are solving? Many SaaS products need to measure their customer's usage in some form, and many want to incorporate it into their billing plans. It’s fairly annoying to either build the entire system in house or to build a measurement system in house and then connect to a billing provider. It takes months to get a usage based billing system up and running and usually requires several engineers (if not more) to maintain and operate. Also, when Sales wants to offer specific discounts or deals to major enterprises, it’s typically handled outside of the in-house system in Excel spreadsheets with some good guesses. This is how a lot of money gets lost for major deals.<p>With Paigo we handle 100% of the measurement and collection of SaaS customers’ usage for the business. SaaS business can see their customers’ usage within 10 minutes, because all they need to do is give us read access to their cloud account. Since we pull the lower level infra-data we can additionally give information like per tenant cost, and profit margin.<p>Matt and I came to this project after we built similar internal billing systems at previous jobs and we realized how error-prone these systems can be—one incident might have even undercharged a client by a few million dollars! We also realized there was no solution which integrated directly to a backend system and handled the measurement and gathering of usage data as well as providing the end billing integration to platforms like stripe, AWS marketplace, or through ACH.<p>To get into the technical details Paigo has a few measurement systems to measure different forms of usage data: infrastructure-based, where we connect directly to cloud APIs then to slice-and-dice per tenant usage data; agent-based, where our agent is deployed into a runtime to gather usage like pod cpu time, memory, and file read write, along with any exported metrics that are prometheus compatible; and datastore-based, where we connect directly to datastores like S3, Kinesis, or log file. We require that the data in the datastore based approach adhere to a standard data format so we can process it. However this allows us to Pull, any custom metrics and dimensions directly from your Datastore. All of this data is then processed and sent to our backend usage journal, where we store it in an append-only ledger pattern.<p>For clients to search, and aggregate their data into an end bill or to slice and dice their client’s cost and usage we have an API clients can use. We’re an API first company, which is why our demo can work with Retool—the demo is just a very thin skin over our API. The API is a NestJS based application, currently running in AWS Lambda with API-Gateway.<p>We bill based on invoiced revenue (surprise surprise its usage based) and we have a platform fee, roughly it breaks down to 1% of invoiced revenue on Paigo. Note that pricing is not currently transparent on our website. Our typical customers are mid-sized enterprises where an initial sales call is typically expected. However, we will be updating our main webpage soon to have some self-service options.<p>For a bit of deeper dive on the measurement engine we have some docs here: <a href="https://docs.paigo.tech/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.paigo.tech/</a><p>Thanks for taking time to read! Let us know what you hate and maybe what you love :P. We’d also love to hear your thoughts and experiences with measuring customer usage and usage-based billing!
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Title: In their official example, 300PB for $104. Cloudflare only charge for the cost of GET operations. Actual "bandwidth" is free. For comparison, Amazon S3 is $90/TB. So, the equivalent cost would be 300,000TB x $90= $27 million.<p>What is the catch? Am I missing something?<p>https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2/platform/pricing/
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Title: I'm sorry/not sorry for creating this.
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Title: It feels like every time someone gets into a new field now, there's always the expectation they'll 'go pro' or turn it into a day job. Every open source project or website gets treated as the potential basis for a company, every creative seems to think they'll become a full time artist or creator, every writer wants a book deal or mailing list or whatever...<p>And while there's nothing wrong with that, it feels like people have lost sight of what hobbies can be, and forgotten that something can just be a way to relax or destress instead. Hell, if you create anything, everyone will seemingly tell you how much money you should be making from it, and encourage you to monetise it in some way or another.<p>So is there a reason for that? Has the financial situation forced everyone into always looking for a side hustle or way to 'escape the rat race'? Or is there some other explanation for why everything seems to need a financial reason to exist now?
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Title: Hello, I'm building SadServers.com, a SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills on real Linux servers in a "Capture the Flag" fashion.<p>I hope this is useful, to learn more about the project please see <a href="https://github.com/fduran/sadservers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fduran/sadservers</a>
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Title: I've built Villagers, a group travel app, in an attempt to overcome my own social isolation while working remotely, especially as someone who's friends are now largely parents and much less available for group travel.<p>I find small group travel magical from an interpersonal and experience standpoint but organizing trips is absolutely brutal. With Villagers, I wanted to see if software could overcome some of those planning challenges with financial incentives, social features, and automation -- especially around messaging.<p>I love climbing, so I've built a trip to co-work and climb in Red Rocks (Nevada) in November.<p><a href="https://villagersapp.com/t/gkkfv" rel="nofollow">https://villagersapp.com/t/gkkfv</a><p>I'm looking for 4-8 high EQ tech folks who'd like to co-work and climb. Everyone's identity will be verified and I'll make sure it's a broad culture fit (i.e. polite, respectful, reasonably extroverted, etc.). We'll keep the costs down to less than $500 per person for 3 nights.<p>For more social proof before you join me on a trip, you can click through my profile on the trip page above to see my LinkedIn work history as an early engineer at Plaid and most recently the founder of a 70+ person company (Tremendous).
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Title: Nik and Jagjit here, founders of Idemeum (<a href="https://www.idemeum.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.idemeum.com/</a>). We are excited to share our product with HN!<p>Idemeum is a SaaS platform that offers a single place to manage access to applications and infrastructure. We let businesses eliminate passwords for everything employees access: devices, applications, servers, and networks. Our cloud platform eliminates VPNs and allows access to applications and infrastructure from anywhere with a single click.<p>In industry terms, we combine Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity and Access Management (IAM), and passwordless technologies.<p>In simpler terms: you install our mobile application, navigate to your SaaS idemeum tenant, scan a QR-code, and login with biometrics. Once you are in, you can access anything with a single click - SAML Single Sign-On apps, hosted on-premises apps, password apps, SSH servers, and more. There’s a quick overview here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3StOlDjMrQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3StOlDjMrQ</a><p>We spent more than a decade in identity access management and threat detection at VMware, Facebook, and Cisco, building platforms to manage user access. That experience left us excited about two things: (1) kill passwords; (2) make things simple.<p>We started our company with the mission to eliminate passwords in the workplace. That’s important—80% of breaches involve passwords—but our vision gradually evolved into an all-in-one platform to manage employee access.<p>First we built Passwordless MFA, a mobile app that replaces passwords with biometrics and certificates. You can login into any company resource - SSO portal, Windows or Mac desktop, Wi-Fi, VPN - with a simple Face ID scan. But behind the scenes we use a lot of technology to make our MFA unphishable and secure (FIDO2, hardware-backed crypto, device attestation, and more).<p>Second, we added a full-featured Single Sign-On Identity Provider. It is a web and mobile portal to centralize access to all apps and infrastructure. Unlike other Identity Providers that focus only on SAML SaaS applications, we added all resources to the same portal, so you can access apps, servers, databases and more from the same place. Today we support hundreds of SAML integrations, offer account provisioning, RBAC, auditing, group management and more.<p>Next, we added a password vault. Companies asked us to add a password management capability to safely store credentials, share amongst employees, and autofill on websites. But unlike other password managers, we do not use a master password. Instead you login into your vault (on desktop or mobile) with mobile biometrics such as Face ID. The vault is end to end encrypted, and your passwords can not be seen in our cloud.<p>Last but not least, we realized that SSO for cloud applications is solving only part of the problem, as engineers need to access hosted apps and compute infrastructure. As a result we added a cloud proxy to our platform to offer remote access to on-premises applications and SSH servers. Not only do we provide connectivity, but also handle authentication, authorization and auditing for infrastructure access. For example, we replace SSH passwords and keys with short-lived certificates. We will release RDP access shortly, and will then start adding database access to our platform.<p>Security is critical for us - we have been prioritizing security from day one. We are open with how our system is architected, and published all designs on our docs portal (<a href="https://docs.idemeum.com/mobile-app-security.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.idemeum.com/mobile-app-security.html</a>). We also conducted our first penetration test with Cure53 to validate our designs, crypto, and security principles. We are also SOC2 compliant.<p>We offer a free plan and would love your feedback if you give us a try: <a href="https://idemeum.com/try" rel="nofollow">https://idemeum.com/try</a>.<p>We would be very grateful to hear your feedback, ideas, and experiences from the identity and access management domain. Thank you!
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Title: I run a couple of businesses with ad accounts connected to my personal account.<p>I received multiple calls this morning on my personal cell that's used for 2FA for my personal FB account. All of them, they were pitching me ads to buy for my business accounts.<p>None of my business accounts have my personal cell on them.<p>Edit: Now my personal email connected is getting emails to purchase business ads...
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Title: The site is completely customisable, you can create a start page that suits your own style.<p>Initially, I built the site to only work for me, however I wanted the website to be re-usable for anyone. You can now login to your own Twitter/Spotify/Strava accounts for your own personal feed.<p>Everything is stored locally in your own browser so there's none of your data floating around in the clouds somewhere.<p>You can find the code at <a href="https://github.com/allister-grange/startertab" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/allister-grange/startertab</a>.<p>Here are some examples of themes in a gif:
<a href="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18430086/193997502-8d9c7c75-e5d8-467f-b378-36328854f0c9.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18430086/193997502...</a>.
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Title: If your style of programming or the way in which you approach designing solution to a problem has been severely affected (positively) after learning a programming paradigm, which one is it? Why and how do you think so?
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Title: After working in the Generative AI space as consultant/freelance for a few years, a friend and I have decided to create a company around it.<p>There seems to be increasing VC interest in the field and we are getting contacted by multiple investors (we do realize this doesn't mean they want to immediately cut us a cheque).<p>We have deep technical expertise but limited fundraising knowledge.<p>What are the best resources to learn the fundamentals? eg:<p>- How much should we aim to raise and at what valuation?<p>- How to show financial projections in a field that evolves at such a breakneck speed?<p>- Should we prioritize local (Europe, Switzerland) investors or North-American ones?
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Title: Hey HN, I 3d scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid / Khufu's pyramid for the Giza Project this summer and just finished the guided version to share. Would love feedback and/or problems you encounter.<p>I used both a Leica BLK 360 and Matterport Pro 2 to do the scanning and the Matterport SDK for the web viewer. Matterport's web display with Three.js has been the most accessible to a wide audience in the past (previous iterations are in Unity and Unreal, but difficult to download over slower connections).<p>I've been interviewing social studies teachers around the 6th grade level to create teaching materials as well, and these along with other monuments that I've scanned at Giza are up at <a href="https://giza.mused.org/" rel="nofollow">https://giza.mused.org/</a><p>Cheers from Cairo--and thanks for any feedback.
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Title: A few years ago, I read an excellent article on HN [0], which recommended keeping a daily log in a simple text file. I've been following this advice. Recording many short entries over a day is very useful for me. I can easily find items for my performance review, leave notes for myself, etc.<p><i>Questions</i>:<p>1. What is your workflow?<p>2. What tools do you use?<p>3. If you log to a text file, how do you format your entries?<p><i>My framework</i><p>Daily log vs. daily journal<p>For me, entries in a daily journal require deeper thought and reflection on what you have done, your goals, etc. Usually, journaling is done 1-2 times/day. Conversely, entries in a daily log concern immediate actions and are done many times a day. However, your daily log could inform entries in your daily journal.<p>Daily log vs. a to-do list<p>For me, entries in a to-do list are only the things you need to do. Also, most to-do lists I've seen don't store the timestamp of when a to-do item was created. Conversely, entries in a daily log are more diverse and are all timestamped. They may include to-do items but don't have to. My entries are updates, notes, questions, and to-dos.<p>My log is a markdown file, which I edit in Sublime Text. I created Espanso [1] shortcuts to add timestamped entries. E.g., "zzq" expands to "[2022-10-26 10:45:24]: Question []:" and "zzn" expands to "[2022-10-26 10:45:56]: Note:". For proper task/to-do management, I use Amazing Marvin [2], which is decent.<p><pre><code> [2022-10-23 09:18:44]: Update: prepared slides for meeting with @Laura #1on1 #projectLion
[2022-10-23 10:54:36]: Note: I created a new keystore key using these instructions https://xxx.xxx, stored in keys dir #projectGamma
[2022-10-23 11:16:54]: TODO [x]: deploy a new build, which fixes the bug with incorrectly parsed dates (id:1332); [2022-10-24 10:12:12]: rolled out, v17 (2.0-17) #projectGamma
[2022-10-23 12:27:56]: TODO []: ask about daily log software on HN @me
[2022-10-23 13:38:00]: Note: password for W in stored in LP #projectGamma
[2022-10-23 13:43:25]: Question [x]: should the style guide be in the repo or YouTrack? @Alex #weeklymeet #projectGamma; [2022-10-25 15:17:13]: @alex said in YT because we'll use it in other projects
[2022-10-23 14:11:15]: Question []: should we use Red Frames (https://github.com/maxhumber/redframes) in addition to Pandas? Criteria for decision? @me #projectLion
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<i>What do you want to improve and why?</i><p><pre><code> - I need an easier way to find, e.g., all questions from this week for @Alex about #projectGamma. I'd like to easily filter entries by date, project (#projectGamma), person (@Alex), and type (Update, Question).
- Nice to have but not required:
- sort entries by status (not done: [], done: [x])
- auto-timestamp when a to-do item was created and completed
- surround selected text with [], {}, "" and auto-close them like a programming text editor, e.g., ST, VSCode
- duplicate & move entries via shortcuts
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<i>What have you looked into?</i><p><pre><code> - People enjoy Obsidian [3] and Logseq [4]. I find them alluring too, but I don't yet know how to make them support my daily log. I'd need to spend at least a full day to figure out each of them, the time I don't have at the moment. (I use Obsidian for code snippets; it is excellent.)
- Org-mode is very popular, but emacs and vim are way too much of a time investment (I tried many times before). Do share your evil and holy workflows, though. There are org-mode extensions for other text editors and EasyOrg [5]. I still need to try them.
- I like the todo.txt format [6] and I am considering forking pter [7], but making it fit my needs would take quite a bit of work.
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<i>Dealbreakers:</i><p><pre><code> - No Windows version
- No desktop app
- Subscription-based software, including charging for syncing between computers
- No export option
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Title: Hello HN! We are Andres and Edgar and we are building MovingLake (<a href="https://movinglake.com" rel="nofollow">https://movinglake.com</a>). We are creating real-time, bidirectional data connectors which aim to solve automated ETL (eg moving data from an API to Snowflake), reverse ETL (we pipe the data straight to your CRM instead of going through the data warehouse), and transactional integrations (e.g. for an ERP integration) in one swoop. Polling, webhooks, websockets, REST, GraphQL, SOAP—we merge it all into one reliable, replayable, real-time data stream which can be sent anywhere.<p>Here are two demos: Whatsapp to Google Sheets (<a href="https://youtu.be/Qy4eInGgIhw" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/Qy4eInGgIhw</a>) and Postgres to Webhooks (<a href="https://youtu.be/cmrkUan8o1w" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/cmrkUan8o1w</a>).<p>Moving data around is still difficult and a pain. Companies spend thousands of hours and lots of money making data pipelines. General solutions are difficult in that there are too many sources and too many destinations. It also entails a ton of schlep that no one really wants to deal with. At the same time, the API / data connector market is vast. Even when there are already multiple billion-dollar companies in the space, we continue to see big verticals unattended.<p>We previously worked at big tech as well as have been CTOs of Series B startups in Latam. We got into this problem when we had the experience of paying for pre-built data connectors, but at the same time having to do custom integrations to the API, at which point it didn’t make sense to have a paid data connector. After a few paid connectors and manual connectors we thought that there should be an event-driven, realtime data connector company which could solve all of our API integration needs in one go.<p>We also are not huge believers in operationalizing the data warehouse, i.e. the trend to use the data warehouse as a processing tool out of which data is extracted and pushed to other systems. Since data warehouses are built on an OLAP frame of mind, we think using it as a computation source for automated workflows is not the best idea. At MovingLake we propose using rather realtime connectors with a transformation pipeline which is specifically designed to do these things.<p>We combine polling with webhooks and websockets to provide a single reliable stream. If there's websockets, we use them. If there's webhooks we use them. If there's only GET endpoints then we poll as fast as the API lets us. Either way we ensure you'll get the data as fast as possible.<p>We provide destination adapters so that this data can be sent anywhere to as many destinations as you want for the same price. We provide CDC (Change Data Capture) plugins for databases to pull data as it is written and then send it anywhere. We also provide automatic JSON to SQL converters with Schema Evolution.<p>On our roadmap we still have to add the data transformation layer as well as add support for more bidirectional connectors.<p>“Get started” on our home page takes you to a “book a demo” thing, but there’s an open beta at <a href="https://app.movinglake.com" rel="nofollow">https://app.movinglake.com</a> which everyone is welcome to try out. Everything is free for now, though eventually we’ll have to charge. Although we wanted to charge a standard fee per event extracted, this would have tied our hands to deliver tougher-to-build connectors. So most of our connectors are charged at $0.00004 per event, but some which include scraping are charged higher (we want to be very explicit about which connectors are charged differently).<p>Please let us know what you think! Roasting our product would be super helpful :)
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Title: Hey HN... my son is 2 years into his Business/CompSci degree and already has lots of summer work experience. He's got an internship offer from Amazon and one from GoDaddy. He just declined GoDaddy because it's only remote, and for a new aspiring developer, he thinks it's important to be around other developers/teams to learn norms and gain "osmotic" experience. Amazon is on-site. With all the attention on WFH over the past 2 years in the tech space, what do you think of his rationale? Could this be what a lot of young developers are feeling?
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Title: Today Pavel Durov just announced the launch of their dedicated platform to sell/buy premium Telegram usernames. Checking that list, I've searched my channel's username and it says is coming soon: https://fragment.com/?query=%40kissfm
Going back to my channel to make sure this username belongs to me (my channel), I've noticed that the channel was transformed into a private channel, without username!<p>So telegram just literally stole my channel's username to sell it!
Durov, what you were saying about privacy and security in Telegram? You just dropped its level yourself!<p>P.S. check if your usernames still yours!
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Title: I uninstalled google maps because they deliberately push login so they can legally share location data across properties. (I was there when Eric Schmidt described that strategy so I know it's true) If I really care about privacy I probably need to get rid of gmail. Has anyone gone there? How are the alternatives treating you?
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Title: This thread, a repost, has nine points in 2 hours, and a single comment:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33331697<p>There are a half dozen Elon/Twitter posts on new with more comments and upvotes. Not a single one is on the front page.<p>Facebook had a massive dip this week, and it hasn't touched the front page.<p>Are posts on certain topics being censored or being given limited traction on the front page? These are the two biggest stories in tech this week, but not apparently on HN.
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Title: With Musk officially at the helm of Twitter now, I noticed a few prominent people on Twitter saying they have jumped ship to Mastodon or other platforms. How many on here are considering disbanding and choosing Mastodon as an exit strategy? Does Musk = Bad hold any weight?<p>I know for me I noticed a sharp decline in engagement on my Twitter account, and a recent study said Twitter's core users are leaving in droves. I don't even get any new followers. They used to trickle in over time, but all that has stalled. Twitter has now devolved into bread and circuses IMHO.<p>Anyone jumping ship?
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Title: It's mind blowing to see all the advances in AI from generating images based on text input to designing beautiful interiors and even editing out objects live from video.<p>Where would you start if you want to practically work with AI?<p>I have some programming and high school level math background.
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Title: The only two possible filters on the list of videos of a channel now are most recent and most popular.<p>I know it's a small thing but somehow this hits me really hard.<p>Also, there's less videos on a single row now. Because we can't read more than that without our attention span going poof.
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Title: The pattern of downloading and executing installation scripts without verifying them has bothered me for a while.<p>I started messing around with a way to verify the checksum of scripts before I execute them. I've found it a really useful tool for installing things like Rust or Deno.<p>It's written entirely as a shell script, and it's easy to read and understand what's happening.<p>I hope it may be useful to someone else!
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Title: I couldn't find any relevant info about this. Maybe I'm part of some new Chrome experiment, or just very bad at searching.<p>Here's what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/idXLYOJ<p>I opened a new Chrome tab just now, typed GitHub in the address bar. Opened the top suggested repository I'm checking frequently, and then used the GitHub search input box. As GitHub search results loaded, on the right side of the Chrome address bar I noticed a new, and colorful G icon. Animating and distracting, the icon expanded into a pretty big inline notification saying "See more search results". After a few seconds it animated and minimized itself back to the G icon.<p>Clicking the icon opens a right side panel with Google results of my GitHub query.<p>I then tried to search for something via the Chrome address bar. Without clicking on any of the results, I used the address bar again to open Twitter's home page (typing twitter.com). The animated G icon showed up again - right there on Twitter's home page.<p>Firefox installed.<p>Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Title: Why were they some of the best to you?
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Title: Just curious. I personally have nothing in particular yet, wondering if others do.
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Title: By far my favourite software development task is to fix bugs.<p>Investigating, documenting, and fixing the root cause of a nasty bug has the ability to keep me in a mental state of flow for a full working day (and probably more).<p>Thus far in my career I’ve been employed, but I’d like to give self-employment a try. I’m not looking to create the next unicorn, just earn enough to become financially independent sooner rather than later.<p>My question is: can one be self-employed fixing bugs? If so, what are some effective strategies to make it a reality?
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Title: Always curious about these things, because I think too much about how to think, what to think, how best to be etc... it can be in any domain, no matter how small, if it made a difference to you, i'm curious, how/why.
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Title: New article on Mel's Loop project – an analysis of Mel Kaye's hack for his blackjack game for the RPC-4000 computer.<p>"This approach to coding is far from extinct. One often finds it in software teams, among some highly regarded – though less valued – members. If you've spent several years in the industry or in Computer Science academia, you surely know this subspecies: the developer that replaces a straightforward loop with a series of auto-resolving promises, capped by a cryptic reducer, then revels in their teammates' bewilderment at the sight of the new code. Hardly the personality that you'd select for a coding legend."
(ibid)
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Title: Cash-poor stock-rich is the current measure, how about liquid cash rich mostly, is there such a list and who would be on it?
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Title: I have been dreaming of creating things (arts, games, etc.), but that wouldn't be possible because I can hardly draw anything. But now with Stable Diffusion everything is hopeful again, so I further collected the AI magics that I considered necessary in creation activities, and integrated them into an Infinite draw board (like Figma).<p>Hope that I can hear from you, any advice or suggestions will be really appreciated!
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Title: I keep getting 'reaching out' and 'just following up' (because I haven't replied) spam from Craig Cummins 'DevSecOps Enablement' at Datadog.<p>One of them even said something like 'you may be wondering why you are getting this, do not worry, I got your email from our internal CRM' -- ..ok that's fine then?! No mention of how it got <i>there</i>. No idea why Cummins thinks it's how he specifically got my email address to use in a work capacity that might be a concern, or why 'from my employer' would be a useful answer.<p>It's incessant, and sure it has an 'unsubscribe' link but of course I never subscribed to your 'tell me how paying for Datadog might benefit me' spam, I shouldn't have to unsubscribe.<p>I assume many others here are getting this crap too?<p>If you happen to work at Datadog, I'd suggest telling the relevant teams that this sort of thing is only going to make people <i>not</i> use Datadog's services. (Or frankly, just tell Craig Cummins if that's a real employee's name - it's always him.) It's <i>terrible</i> for 'developer relations'.
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Title: For several years, I've run 3 VOIP phones from my house. About a week ago they stopped working. SIP REGISTER started failing.<p>Turns out Spectrum now blocks TCP/UDP port 5060. My workaround is to use a VPN. After that, everything is fine.<p>This reddit thread https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/t8nulq/spectrum_is_rate_limiting_voipsip_traffic_port/ suggests Spectrum was rate limiting 5060 on 300mbps plans, but not on the 100mbps plans.<p>I have the 100mbps plan, and it is definitely affected now.<p>So if you are in SoCal, using Spectrum, and your VOIP phones suddenly stopped working in the last week or so, maybe this will help you.
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Title: One of the coolest things I've been able to get GPT-3 to do is generate questions based on a piece of text.<p>So, I built a simple site to help others do the same. Hopefully, this can be useful to teachers, trainers, or just anyone who wants to create a fun and unique quiz.
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Title: Hi everyone, We’re building an open-source identity and risk management platform and we’ve just released the first chunk of code, a fully customizable KYC flow & UI, to the public.
We’ve chosen to use Svelte so our flows would be lightweight (it is ~50kb gzipped).
Next up:
- Adding forms and components for it to be used as a full onboarding flow.
- Releasing an open-source case management dashboard, for manual approval of users.
- Releasing an open-source rule engine, to help automate decisions.
We’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or any question you’ve got.
And if the rest of the project is relevant or interesting to you, follow us and, we’ll update you once new things are available.
Thanks!
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Title: I don't usually go in for conspiracy theories, but this one seems pretty clear-cut and I can't see anyone else discussing it online: WhatsApp appears to be selectively censoring references to Signal.<p>Specifically, I had changed my profile picture on WhatsApp to the Signal logo and my ‘About’ text to ‘Message me on Signal - https://signal.org/download/’. However, I noticed recently (after someone happened to open their WhatsApp in front of me and I saw their chat with me) that my WhatsApp contacts are seeing my profile picture and my ‘About’ text as blank. I've checked and this seems to be the case for all of my WhatsApp contacts.<p>See screenshots from me and my friend's phones here: https://imgur.com/a/qvEsswW<p>On the bright side, this serves as an ideal demo for convincing anyone who doesn't understand why I am trying to migrate them over to Signal. So, I guess, <i>thanks</i> Meta?
Upvote: | 140 |
Title: I can't find joy in life. Nothing interesting. When I think rationally I am excepting myself as whom I'm. Yes, for example, friends talk to me passionately about something (music, events, chess, etc..). I'm just like, "yeah, interesting". I never feel excited about anything deeply. I admire people like Feynman who are passionate and curious about science, life, to learn. I want to feel like them but nothing triggers that type of feeling. In the end, I'm just passing my days. Naval says in his book something like " we will be forgotten 100000 years from now. There is no meaning". this is not the case for me. I don't want to be remembered or make something useful for people, for the world. I just want to be curious, and passionate like Zorba (Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis), like Feynman. Without curiosity, man is nothing. If you had experienced this type of thing, how did you handle it?
Upvote: | 75 |
Title: I'm curious what it was like to be a developer 30 years ago compared now in terms of processes, design principles, work-life balance, compensation. Are things better now than they were back then?
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Title: Hi everyone,<p>I recently had no choice but to upgrade to an M1 Macbook from an Intel-based one. I did not want to upgrade, as I’m working on a software for which performance on mid-range machines is critical, but unfortunately the previous laptop gave up on me. Since M1 macbooks are so much more powerful than previous generations, is there a way to intentionally slow it down to be able to test my program on a slower machine? One way I can think of, is to run the program inside a VM, but that would slow down the development loop.<p>Thanks for all the suggestions. Now I have the following list of tricks to try (collected from the thread):<p>- taskpolicy -b -p [pid]<p>- macOS low power mode (which can even be enabled when plugged in)<p>- VM with limited CPU and RAM, and shared filesystem with host OS.<p>- Buy older laptop (not an option at this point, really)<p>- Stress the machine by compiling the Rust compiler in parallel :)
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Title: I've been spending some time coding fp. It is a programming language heavily inspired by the language John Backus described in his 1977 Turing Award lecture.
There's plenty of examples in the projects github repository for the interested!
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Title: After coming back from my home country where the insecurity is a big part of the daily life (armed robbery, kidnapping, murder), I started thinking of what would happen if something happened to me and how would I be able to ease the burden on my love ones to manage my digital assets (cancel subscriptions, keep my digital libraries, etc). So I ask: do you have a procedure in place to grant or transfer access in case of death?<p>My first idea would be using a password manager for everything, list every device used for 2SA and confine within my will a master password.
Upvote: | 340 |
Title: heyo! Explainpaper lets you upload a research paper PDF. If you don't understand a formula or sentence, just highlight it and the tool explains it for you<p>I built this a few weeks ago to help me read a neuroscience paper, and it works pretty well! I didn't fine-tune GPT-3, but I do take a lot of context from the paper and feed that into the prompt (not the whole paper).<p>Ppl have uploaded AI, biology, economics, philosophy papers and even law documents. Works in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French and more as well!
Upvote: | 223 |
Title: For those who want some relief from the Twitter/Musk drama, here are three cosmetic filters to add to your custom uBlockOrigin / AdGuard rules:<p><pre><code> news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bTwitter\b/):upward(tr):remove()
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bMusk\b/):upward(tr):remove()
news.ycombinator.com##tr.spacer + tr:not(.athing):remove()
</code></pre>
The first two ones remove the post title if it contains Twitter and/or Musk. The third one removes the second line and the spacer.<p>I also hide some machine learning topics with these rules:<p><pre><code> news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bstable\Wdiffusion\b/i):upward(tr):remove()
news.ycombinator.com##tr.athing span.titleline > a:has-text(/\bdall-e\b/i):upward(tr):remove()
</code></pre>
I'll probably make that a configurable template for https://letsblock.it/ soon
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Title: Mine was when I learned a subset of recursion called mutual recursion. It was for a pair of function to determine if a number was odd or even.<p>(define (odd? x)<p><pre><code> (cond
[(zero? x) #f]
[else (even? (sub1 x))]))
</code></pre>
(define (even? x)<p><pre><code> (cond
[(zero? x) #t]
[else (odd? (sub1 x))]))</code></pre>
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Title: If Twitter crashes and burns, what existing or in-development social media site could "replace" it?
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Title: I say “most” because you’re reading this on HN.<p>I haven’t had FB for over 6 years and I don’t use Twitter. I primarily find the internet to be a distraction these days and considering just phasing out news all together for weeks at a time. Has anyone done something similar?<p>In the past people have been harsh to call me ill informed for not being up to date on all things media, but to what end does this actually benefit the individual? My argument is that it’s mostly a detriment given the state of the world.<p>For those that have experimented with “going dark” in a sense, how was it, what did you do and what’s a good balance?
Upvote: | 173 |
Title: So much talk about Twitter alternatives in recent days, including people migrating to Mastodon and even Jack Dorsey announcing his new decentralized social media platform.<p>I was thinking, if I was to build a new micro-blogging aka Twitter alternative, what technological choices would I make to get it quickly off the ground but allow for scale?<p>What database technology or approach would you go for?<p>Would you build a (mobile first) web application first or would you start straight away with a native iOS/Android app (maybe Flutter)?<p>Would you go for a centralised or decentralized approach? If the latter, how would you decentralize it without sacrificing the "public town square" effect that Twitter currently has but is clearly lacking with the fragmentation of Mastodon?<p>To answer my own question, I would probably build a centralized platform like Twitter is now, probably opt for a fast NoSQL database like Google's Firestore in Datastore mode and to keep things simple I would probably even make sure that tweets would get automatically deleted after some years as I don't think it's needed to build a forever growing database of people's thoughts in that moment that persists for decades to come. Micro-blogging always felt to me as a thing right now, a thought in this moment but that thought could be different in a few days, months and definitely a few years, so why store it forever. Feels like I could save a huge operational cost and prevent abuse by not keeping tweets for beyond their relevancy.<p>What are your thoughts?
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Title: Royal Mail (the UK's postal service) has a product called click and drop that allows businesses to pay for and print shipping labels online. It has some value-add features like order-syncing to make buying labels easier. Today when loading pages on click and drop it will show you details from some random account each page load. We saw details of other businesses orders and customer addresses before we logged out and called them about it. We asked another business if they noticed the same and they confirmed that they had.
Upvote: | 85 |
Title: Hi HN! This is a trail companion web app (think AllTrails) I hacked together in a couple weeks time. I was inspired to create this project while training for an extended backpacking trip. My motivation was to create a UI tailored exactly to my liking, and to be able to track my progress along the trail without draining my battery. I also wanted to experiment with PWA technologies.<p>I successfully used it on my five day adventure along the Knobstone Trail in southern Indiana, and even though it's web-based it hardly consumed any battery life on my old first-gen Pixel XL.<p>It's set up currently to support a single trail, where the trail and trail markers are deployed with the rest of the app. So it's single-use in that way. For future trips, I can simply swap out the GPX files and deploy.<p>I am releasing it with an open source license in case anyone wants to use it as a boilerplate to create their own.
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Title: I am seeing so many posts here about Twitter and it's possible alternatives. People are going on and on about<p>- What could be the next big thing<p>- What they want from new platform<p>- What tech stack they would use and so on<p>It's like there's fire in the house and all of us are discussing how to improve fire extinguisher design. The issues of Twitter are not a technical problem to solve. No amount of algorithms can improve human behavior on any platform. It's good that we at least see the issues that have surfaced because of Twitter and other platforms. We now know people<p>- can have extremely polarized views<p>- feel the need to defend their polarized but flawed viewpoint at any cost<p>- are virtue signaling others but refuse to take any accountability whatsoever<p>- have less and less attention span<p>- only consume the content that aligns with their views<p>I can list another dozen issues but you get the point. Instead of trying to fix Twitter we need to look into why these things are happening. It does not seem like a technical problem that the HN crowd wants to solve. It's more of a personal, interpersonal and a social problem which needs extensive research, surveys to find the "why" and how we might be able to fix it or avoid it from happening again.
Upvote: | 210 |
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER,
your location, and whether remote work is a possibility.<p>Bonsai (YC W16) (<a href="https://www.hellobonsai.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.hellobonsai.com</a>) offers freelance contracts, proposals, invoices, etc.
Upvote: | 60 |
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://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>, <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=33422127" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422127</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422128" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33422128</a>
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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>.
Upvote: | 114 |
Title: RISC-V's compressed instruction (RVC) extension is intended as an add-on to the regular, 32-bit instruction set, not a replacement or competitor. Its designers intended RVC instructions to be expanded into regular 32-bit RV32I equivalents via a pre-decoder.<p>What happens if we explicitly architect a RISC-V CPU to execute RVC instructions, and "mop up" any RV32I instructions that aren't convenient via a microcode layer? What architectural optimizations are unlocked as a result?<p>"Minimax" is an experimental RISC-V implementation intended to establish if an RVC-optimized CPU is, in practice, any simpler than an ordinary RV32I core with pre-decoder. While it passes a modest test suite, you should not use it without caution. (There are a large number of excellent, open source, "little" RISC-V implementations you should probably use reach for first.)
Upvote: | 171 |
Title: Hi HN! We’re Alex Kilkka and Olly Wilson, co-founders of SimpleHash (<a href="https://www.simplehash.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.simplehash.com</a>). We allow developers to fetch comprehensive NFT / digital asset data from many blockchains at once.<p>Using our API, developers don’t have to worry about how different chains like Ethereum, Solana, and Flow implement digital assets under the hood. We collect, standardize, and cache all this information for you, so you can retrieve it in a single request.<p>There has been a lot of controversy and hype around NFTs, but we’re focused on solving the technical challenges that our customers (software developers working with digital assets) deal with on a day-to-day basis. We don’t hold, transfer, mint or issue any form of crypto or digital asset ourselves–instead we aim to be the most comprehensive data provider for people who need to programmatically access this kind of information and media.<p>Working with digital asset data is harder than other kinds of blockchain data. For a given item, you typically have to go to 3 separate places to get data–which oftentimes includes a decentralized storage system (such as IPFS or Arweave) that may time out or be unavailable. To pull the ownership history requires parsing through the extensive log history of a blockchain. And that’s just for one NFT on one chain.<p>We’re building SimpleHash because our co-founder Alex experienced these pain points at his last startup, an NFT showcasing product called showtime.xyz. While there he built out an in-house indexer because no suitable alternatives existed for getting cross-chain data. After leaving showtime, Alex teamed up with me (we're friends from college) to help fill this gap in developer tooling.<p>As digital asset activity has moved across chains and ecosystems, it’s become increasingly difficult for companies to deal with this data in-house. Our indexer has now ingested half a billion assets across 16 blockchain networks, including testnets, and the volume and complexity is only growing.<p>SimpleHash is doing a number of things differently than other solutions. We generate thumbnails and blurhashes for images, along with SVG to PNG conversion (to improve compatibility with mobile apps). We pull in marketplace data, like floor prices and sales transactions, even from sources that do listings off-chain. We provide a spam score to help apps like wallets filter out unwanted NFTs. We provide enterprise-grade support and integration assistance, which many companies expect in web2, but is hard to find in web3. We’re one of the few options to have comprehensive coverage of both mainnets and testnets.<p>If you’re a developer building in the space, we’d love for you to try the API. You can read the full documentation here: <a href="https://simplehash.readme.io/reference/overview" rel="nofollow">https://simplehash.readme.io/reference/overview</a>, and generate API keys here: <a href="https://app.simplehash.com/" rel="nofollow">https://app.simplehash.com/</a>. We have a free tier for experimentation and testing, and beyond that our pricing model is request based, similar to other APIs. If you need help with anything, feel free to contact us at [email protected].<p>We launched the initial version of the API coming out of YC and have had strong reception so far—we’re now serving some of the leading web3 wallets, like Phantom and Rainbow, and dozens of other players. Please don’t hesitate to share your feedback and questions.<p>Thank you!
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Title: As a personal project I wrote a really tiny Wat 2 Wasm compiler in Go. Mainly for demonstrative and educational purposes. It was tough: I didn't know anything about WebAssembly internals and I'm a newbie with Go... so I tried to document it as much as I could for anyone that would like to approach the quest in the future!<p>It misses a lot of features (that will be gradually implemented).<p>Any feedback is welcomed!!<p>Demo: <a href="https://luna-demo.vercel.app" rel="nofollow">https://luna-demo.vercel.app</a>
Upvote: | 75 |
Title: I'm developing Hyperstep[0], a spatial language for music production. I find using existing DAWs frustrating because they don't allow me to navigate and operate intuitively on the latent spaces behind my musical ideas. This is why I've decided to build my own set of "seeing tools".(Bret Victor)[1]. I'm also convinced that by framing music as processes and interactions in the 3D world, spatialization and mixing should become fairly pain-free.<p>I'm still early in development and I would love to build this into an actual product that can be integrated into existing DAWs or even turn it into a musical framework itself for AR and VR experiences.<p>If you're interested in working on it or if you simply want to know more, feel free to contact me.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/a-sumo/hyperstep" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/a-sumo/hyperstep</a>.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ</a>
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Title: Hi everyone, I've been tasked with finding ballpark pricing for a dozen-item list of enterprise SaaS software. The websites for most of these packages list the price as "Contact Us," and I'd like to avoid spending the next month in sales calls.<p>Is there a website or service that lists cost ranges for enterprise SaaS products?<p>Thanks in advance for your help!
Upvote: | 195 |
Title: I've been working on Recall for a while now, it had some initial traction in the beginning which has since died down now. I am facing the inevitable question of whether to continue with the project. I just put out a new release and it would be helpful to get advice from the community on what they think of the idea and my implementation.
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Title: hiSHtory is a better shell history. It stores your shell history in context (what directory you ran the command it, whether it succeeded or failed, how long it took, etc). This is all stored locally and end-to-end encrypted for syncing to to all your other computers. All of this is easily queryable via Control-R and via the hishtory CLI. This means from your laptop, you can easily find that complex bash pipeline you wrote on your server, and see the context in which you ran it.
Upvote: | 179 |
Title: Hi HN, we are Jevon, Blake and Isaac, we've been working on Tier for a little while ( <a href="http://github.com/tierrun/tier" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/tierrun/tier</a> )<p>Tier is "Terraform for Stripe" but it goes further and gives you feature flag style access checks, and allows you to count/report usage which can be used for metered billing.<p>When we started Tier, we knew that there was something interesting in the SaaS pricing and packaging space. Adjusting price is the single most effective lever a business can use to achieve product/market fit, and there's a strong correlation price nimbleness and market success.<p>In spite of overwhelming evidence of this, most startups pick the price for their product once and then never change it, opting instead to invest in less effective levers like CAC, sales efficiency, "virality", churn, etc. Why?<p>It's just too hard. Any change you make to the pricing model means refactoring not just the entire product, but sometimes the entire <i>company</i>. The path of least resistance leads to a place where there's no single source of truth, and changes anywhere require changes everywhere.After over 50 or so customer conversations and user research chats, this represents our third or fourth implementation (depending on how you count them), and our conception of how best to solve it has been refined and adjusted along the way.<p>The concept of "PriceOps" came out of those conversations, looking at where mature companies end up after several expensive rounds of iterating on how they implement their prices for flexibility and order. <a href="https://priceops.org" rel="nofollow">https://priceops.org</a><p>What we're releasing now is an open source tool you can use to set up your Stripe system that keeps everything organized around a single source of truth. With this, changes to your pricing model don't require changes to your application code or business processes.<p>As a bonus, I think it's actually easier to integrate with than integrating with Stripe the "normal" way. Use the identifiers for your customers and features that you already have. Define plans and subscribe customers to them. No ever-growing pile of object ids to manage.<p>If you are just starting to think about adding pricing to your product, or if you've built something custom but would like something less maintenance intensive, then please give Tier a try and we'd love your feedback.
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Title: Hi!<p>Xata was on HackerNews once before (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590816" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28590816</a>) a bit over a year ago, when we were at the beginning of our development. We've promised we're going to do a Show HN page when we come out of Private Beta, and this just happened today.<p>Xata is a product in the serverless database space. We know that the space is fairly crowded now, with lots of great companies started recently. We're happy to see a fresh wave of database products, that are focused more on the developer experience, rather than a race to the bottom on performance and cost.<p>We are part of this wave, but we also think our offering is quite differentiated:<p>- First, out of all the options out there, we're aiming to be the easiest to get started with and the easiest to use. We are cloud-only and our product feels more like a SaaS-like experience than an IaaS experience. If you've hacked together an app with data stored in Airtable or GitHub, you should try Xata next time. It's just as easy to use but has constraints, data integrity, type-safe clients, etc.<p>- We offer functionality from multiple data stores. Today, the source of truth for the data is in PostgreSQL and we also replicate it in Elasticsearch. This means that we can offer free-text-search and aggregation functionality that goes beyond what's possible in PostgreSQL. In the future, we'll add more functionality around in-memory caching, queues, etc, so all data patterns that you need are available via a single, serverless, consistent API. This sounds complex (and it is), but the complexity is entirely on our side. Your application can just reap the benefits.<p>- It is vertically integrated and focused on developer workflows: we provide a nice web UI, a TypeScript/JavaScript SDK, and VS Code extension, all working together with minimal friction. The TypeScript SDK is somewhat similar with Prisma, because it gives you type safety for both the parameters and the return types. However, it is different because it is a pure-TypeScript implementation, which means it is more lightweight and can run in Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, etc.<p>Some more links, if you want to dig into the details:<p>- For examples of the API, see our API Guide: <a href="https://xata.io/docs/api-guide/insert" rel="nofollow">https://xata.io/docs/api-guide/insert</a><p>- For technical details about the inner workings of Xata, see our fairly long How it Works guide: <a href="https://xata.io/docs/intro/how-it-works" rel="nofollow">https://xata.io/docs/intro/how-it-works</a><p>- We think this approach is new and gave it a name: Serverless Data Platform, which is explained here: <a href="https://xata.io/docs/intro/serverless-data-platfrom" rel="nofollow">https://xata.io/docs/intro/serverless-data-platfrom</a><p>- For a high-level overview of the features available, see: <a href="https://xata.io/features" rel="nofollow">https://xata.io/features</a><p>We would really love your feedback!
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Title: I tried switching from T-Mobile to US Mobile after parking it on a VoIP service for a year (was abroad). They botched the port request completely. Ended up gaslighted by both companies, both claimed they "don't have the number".<p>Need my number for 2FA—literally can't move forward with a background check for my new job, can't send money to my family with my bank, etc. I'm sure I could theoretically get a new number but it seems the admin cost of this would possibly be in the hundreds of hours.<p>Do I have any recourse?
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Title: Hey HN,<p>Earlier this year I burned out hard and spectacularly, having nothing short of a total breakdown and being forced to take many, many months of medical leave by my GP.<p>My job wasn't overly difficult, but the corporate environment I found myself in was something I'd never done before and it was completely unsuited to me as an individual. It is the worst working experience I've ever been through.<p>I returned to my job late last month and I find that I simply don't care anymore. My burnout was never really fixed despite the time off. I'm unable to accomplish even basic tasks at work now and truthfully I'm at a point where I don't even care if I get fired. In the time I've been back I think I've been able to close one of two tiny tickets, the rest of the time I've literally done nothing.<p>During my time off I've been poked and prodded by psychologists and they seem to think I have ADHD and that it was a large contributing factor to this, though I'm not completely sure I buy this explanation.<p>I'm not well off like most people on here, I can survive 4-6 months with no salary, which I'm likely going to have to consider given my firing seems imminent at this point. I simply don't think I'm capable of maintaining this job anymore.<p>I really don't know how to get over this and how to move past it. I feel quite literally incapable of working. My mind knows what needs to be done, but my body says no and I am overwhelmed by apathy. I'm honestly not sure if I'm capable of working in tech anymore at this point and that's doing quite a number of any selfesteem I had.<p>Truthfully I didn't know things could get this bad. I'm trying to figure out what my future even looks like and how to move past this and any advice would be really appreciated.
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Title: We are tired of the risk that SMS 2FA brings. Most of us have gotten smart enough to not use it but some companies (financial institutions especially) only have SMS based 2FA even in 2022.<p>Then, there are some shady ones that force you to enter a phone number even for non SMS/TOTP based (looking at you sendgrid)<p>People losing access to their phone is a scenario and puts users at significant risk of losing access to key accounts. I am not even talking about the security risk SMS 2FA brings which of course it does.<p>The worst part is that even now, companies are implementing it as a "updated security measure". Who are these people in the tech. departments making these decisions ? It is beyond ridiculous and why can't there be someone who understands that this needs to stop. I know most common people have no idea but there are plenty of us who know what a pain in the ass this is.<p>Is it time to try and force a legislation through Congress because I don't think these companies give a shit until forced to.
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Title: This year, I retired from a FAANG job, but I have a profile on a freelancing website to coach people for tech interviews. (Unlike many, I always enjoyed the interview process, and have been told many times I'm a great interviewer.) This provides a small amount of income and keeps my brain occupied.<p>Recently, I was contacted to participate in a remote work scam, where I would pose as the face of a remote worker. They offered 20%, all I needed to do would be attend the interviews, meetings, and pose as this person. The scammer already had a fake linkedin profile, interviews lined up, and just needed a willing participant.<p>I've contacted my local Attorney General to file a complaint, and am investigating how to let the freelancing site know this is taking place.<p>While I've known things like this could exist, this is the first time I've seen one play out in real-time. I'm posting this informationally to let people know this is actually starting to happen.<p>Good luck with hiring out there, people.
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Title: I built this app primarily for my wife, who has tried many mainstream todo-list apps (OmniFocus, Things, and Todoist come to mind) over the years with little success. She isn't particularly interested in setting up a productivity system and the administrivia that goes with it. Even having to remember to look at an app once a day was far from ideal for her. This app is an attempt at a solution for anyone that fits this description, with a focus on alerting over organization.<p>Here's how it works: you create a nudge that's set to trigger at a given date and time, and the app phones you, texts you, or emails you (or all three) at the right moment. Nudges can trigger on a schedule, so something like "call me about monthly bills for the next month on the last day of every month" is quite easy to set up. It also works well (sample size 1, admittedly) as a supplement to a more robust GTD system. I use Things for almost everything, but my most important reminders are set up as nudges.<p>I've worked on this on and off for the last month or so and I think it's ready for a Show HN. There's likely some rough edges in there so I wouldn't use it for anything _critical_ just yet (let me know if you see anything that looks buggy!). I cut a lot of scope in order to release an initial version quickly; here's a list of things I'm considering adding to the app in the near future:<p><pre><code> - Implement something analogous to Pagerduty: create nudges that repeatedly nag you (with something like an escalation policy) until you acknowledge them
- More notification channels: get nudges on Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, etc.
- Families (or teams, possibly) share a namespace and can send nudges to each other
- Nudges that collect a response: possibly for polls, a daily diary entry, or habit tracker
- Incoming and outgoing webhooks
- Snooze a nudge so it re-triggers in X minutes
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I work on distributed systems at my day job and haven't done frontend and CRUD things in a long while now, so building this out was a nice change of pace. If anyone's curious, the app is built with: Next.js (in static HTML mode) and Tailwind for the frontend, Go for the API server and background nudge loop, and SQLite (+Litestream) for persistence.<p>In any case, I'm looking for feedback from the HN community here: is this something you would use?<p>TL;DR: schedule reminders for yourself via phone call, text message, and/or email<p>(PS: the free plan doesn't allow call/SMS nudges because I'm a bit wary of spam, but if you'd like to give this a shot and can't [or don't want to] subscribe to a paid plan at this point, send me an email at [email protected] for a 1-month code)
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