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Title: Searching for meaningful results is becoming more and more difficult with google. I am wondering what those of you who have replaced it, what did you replace it with, and how happy are you with it?
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Title: Young person, a bit lost, struggling to get anywhere. Not really qualified for any work or able to afford degree. Had to drop out of college and have a year long unexplainable work gap after mental health decline. Have a generalized knowledge in tech from linux use, tinkering with networks and have a programming admiration but no idea how to translate this to a marketable skill set.<p>If you were in early 20s and had 6months to a year to try and get on track. what would you focus on? IT, programming, cloud, what is the optimal vehicle and will be valuable in 5 years? Is IT or programming safer bet?
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Title: After getting frustrated with Siri's inability to answer pretty basic questions with actual answers instead of "I searched the web for you", I figured out how to get GPT-3 integrated pretty seamlessly with Siri. Sharing it here in case it's useful for anyone else!<p>You can see the short writeup with instructions here:
<a href="https://alexkolchinski.com/2023/02/03/how-to-talk-to-gpt-3-through-siri/" rel="nofollow">https://alexkolchinski.com/2023/02/03/how-to-talk-to-gpt-3-t...</a><p>The Siri shortcut is here:
<a href="https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b10d3d361a3f48428a2ed8fe729dc4fa" rel="nofollow">https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b10d3d361a3f48428a2ed8fe729...</a>
(You'll need to add your OpenAI API key to the shortcut and update your Siri accessibility settings to get it to work smoothly – see the above-linked blog post for more detailed instructions.)
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Title: Hi all, I've talked about glidesort a few times on HN already, but it's finally ready for release. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. An academic paper on glidesort that goes into a lot more detail than the readme is upcoming, but is not ready yet.<p>I will be giving a talk on glidesort tomorrow at FOSDEM 2023 in the Rust Devroom at 16:10, you can seek me out there as well. In other news, I am leaving academia soon, so if you have interesting (Rust) jobs the coming months feel free to approach me.
Upvote: | 389 |
Title: This week I had 7 spam E-Mails actually hitting my Gmail inbox. Obviously reported them all and they are still coming through. Now the theme changed from FedEx to Viagra and it keeps coming. I was with this service for 15 years and can not recall a year I had as many spam Mails hitting my inbox in the whole year. Is this an isolated incident or does anybody else have problems. I can not find anything reporting this so maybe I fucked up and spilled my address to one of the more skilled networks.
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Title: Hi, This is a very early preview of a new project, I think it could be very useful. Would love to hear some feedback/comments
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Title: Is experiencing or having a better love life achievable through learning certain skill sets?<p>I am not asking about shrewd methods to lure someone into loving or wanting you. I am asking about lifelong habits that can make people fall in love with you that eventually remains stable and long lasting.
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Title: I am. Every day, there are countless new articles about ChatGPT posted on here. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks it's overrated.<p>Most of the prompt answers are smart sounding bullshit. Maybe that's why the headlines never stop - the people who like to make smart sounding bullshit are the ones who love ChatGPT.
Upvote: | 364 |
Title: I was watching a video[0] lecture about the UK NHS crisis from the 1951. In that lecture the presenter showed a video of a speech (starts at 6mins 10secs in to the lecture). There are subtitles to that speech; I have never seen such interesting subtitling. Even the coughing and laughing etc from the audience is subtitled :)<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwpzJw1vwo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVwpzJw1vwo</a>
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Title: ChatGPT scraped data from various sources on the internet.<p>> The model was trained using text databases from the internet. This included a whopping 570GB of data obtained from books, webtexts, Wikipedia, articles and other pieces of writing on the internet. To be even more exact, 300 billion words were fed into the system.<p>I believe it's unfair to these sources that ChatGPT drives away their clicks, and in turn the ad income that would come with them.<p>Scraping data seems fine in contexts where clicks aren't driven away from the very site the data was scraped from. But in ChatGPT's case, it seems really unfair to these sources and the work that the authors put, as people would no longer even to attempt to go to these sources.<p>Can this start breaking the ad-based model of the internet, where a lot of sites rely upon the ad income to run servers?
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Title: Friends keep telling me I should stfu and stop complaining but I'm genuinely depressed and looking for constructive feedback. I failed out of my universities CS program and ended up doing philosophy with a double minor in math and stats. It's my fault. I got cocky. My university is extremely cut throat when it comes to the CS program so even if I wouldn't have gotten in with really pushing myself, I would not be complaining right now. I failed intro to CS twice and passed on the 3rd try with a 52. Switched to philosophy after taking being put on suspension. Recovered my GPA (a bit) and finished university last year. Even though I shat the bed with university, I did a lot of hackathons, audited courses because of pure interest (through MIT open courseware), and getting internships. I ended up joining Shopify as a fullstack. But now, I really want to go back to school and learn things the traditional way because it feels too overwhelming. I can't work in the states because of tn visa regulations. My gpa is pathetic because of the failed courses in early years. I really don't have the patience to start a second degree at a third tier college/university because it's pointless to do so. I want to get into one of those online masters programs but let's be honest, with a pathetic 2.44 cgpa there is no way any masters program is gonna let me in. Seeking advice on what to do at this point
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Title: I follow posts from Hacker News using RSS, specifically <a href="https://hnrss.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://hnrss.github.io/</a>. It's great to consume posts at my own pace, but often a discussion is already dead when I participate.<p>It's an acceptable trade-off to me. But I wonder if others would also be interested in longer term discussions, and if there could be a way to have them. I thought about old forums, where old threads get bumped even if they were created years ago, and wondered if an hybrid model could be of interest to HN users.<p>Just a thought, I'm glad to have this site as is. Enjoy your Sunday everyone!
Upvote: | 171 |
Title: I've just discovered channels with restoration videos on Youtube and these guys are true masters at their craft!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jNeObHnZY<p>Any other authentic channels I should check out about the mastery of a skill or craft?
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Title: I am a bit fuzzy here, but I recall Google having a deal with Twitter and access to the firehose.<p>I recall finding all kinds of specific tweets, by searching "string," etc.<p>This does not seem to be the case today.<p>This is important because you may be used to relying on Google searches to be exhaustive, and include tweets. Now it seems you have to go to twitter.com as well.
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Title: Anyone have their own channel?<p>Would love to discover some interesting new YouTube channels from hacker news members.<p>Edit: (Please post a brief description too)
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Title: Many of us were remote, and now many of us are being asked to come back? Knowing office workers all work with remote people in other offices, and there’s not much in-office dynamic like maybe there was 20 years ago, what are your primary motivations dragging us back into the office? Nearly every meeting I’ve had in an office since 2014 has been a video conference with remote people.
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Title: Just wanted to pose this question to anyone who has the experience of starting up a startup/business from scratch or that worked in one for a longer time until it failed.<p>In retrospect - what do you think was the most significant factor that made it fail? Bad market research? Wrong product design? Engineering failure at executing properly?
Upvote: | 67 |
Title: I have a pullup bar and a Lebert Equalizer kind of thing. I live in a small room at my university. I am planning on training bodyweight or calisthenics as it is called popularly.<p>HNers who train from home using minimal weights or equipments, can you suggest a path for me.<p>I am looking for some hints on:<p>1. What is the bare minimum balanced routine I can start with?<p>2. How long should I stick to it before I see or feel actual results from it?<p>3. Diet? Eggs are easily available for me.<p>4. A bit about your journey. How you started and how have you progressed on parameters of strength, routine, size, energy, etc.<p>P.S: I came across this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Kboges where he suggests that to gain strength and general fitness you can train daily with 3 movements but not to failure. Is it possible?<p>My goals are to have enough muscle and strength so that I don't get tired doing chores lifting something for my household. I want this to go far into my old age so that I don't fall and spend my final years in a nursing home bed.
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Title: Typical story I imagine-- ambitious, smart, promising career, was a technical co-founder at a small startup, and things seemed fine. Then I found myself wandering in the woods all day, crying for no reason and looking for non-existent fossils, which I found. I eventually saw petrified sea creatures everywhere and stopped going to work, or answering my phone, paying bills, etc. Things ended predictably, in horrible slow motion. Now I have a two year hole in my life, and I’ll never forgive myself for what I put my family through.<p>But nobody else will ever know that.
I’m functional and back in the industry, but it’s not the sort of thing people discuss at the water cooler.<p>So I’d like to ask if anyone else had a secret breakdown? I’m curious if my story is an outlier, or if this is one of those things that “just happens” to some people.
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Title: I use Firefox as my primary browser, and I would absolutely love to be able to use the Firefox Sync functionality to sync bookmarks, etc. across several devices.<p>However, I do not want to risk storing absolutely sensitive data (browsing history, auth cookies, credentials, etc) at some third party.<p>Everytime this comes up in HN comments, someone says that Firefox Sync can be self-hosted. And while this was true in the older versions of Firefox, it seems to me that self-hosting is currently neither supported nor documented. And it has been like this for at least since 2020[1][2].
It seems self-hosting is not a priority for Mozilla.<p>Is anyone actually self-hosting Firefox Sync?
If so, how do you do it?
How is it working for you?
Any issues to be aware of?<p>[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/681
(opened on Jun 22, 2020)<p>[2]: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/550
(opened on May 26, 2020)
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Title: I've been around software and computers for three decades already and I'm getting very tired of it.<p>Why do we have a constant stream of updates, security fixes, improvements, etc. etc. etc.? Why can't we enjoy something ... stable and complete?<p>I'm thinking back in 80s/90s software was released as something which required basically no maintenance, it didn't crash, it just worked. Nowadays, everything is fixed, improved, streamlined and optimized all the time. What's worse, software is often released as early beta, you may even say late alpha and of course I'm talking about games.<p>Why has it happened? Why does this affect seemingly only the software industry? We have equally if not more complicated things such as planes, rockets, cars, microwave ovens, refrigerators, buildings, etc. etc. etc. which are produced/built as something complete. Of course there are recalls here and there but they are the exception, not the rule.<p>What do you think? Are you content with the status quo? What would you change? What would you mandate if you were in a position to enact laws?
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Title: security.ubuntu.com have been slow and unresponsive for this whole morning. Is anyone else experiencing the same slowness?
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Title: As a black man, I have some issues with the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) trend. As it exists within some (most?) companies, it seems to perpetuate imposter syndrome significantly. For example, I know I'm talented - I've got the projects, certs, and experience to back it up.<p>However, when I have to join a cheesy townhall once a month to discuss diversity hires, it makes me feel like I have no right to feel proud of any accomplishments I've made within the company.<p>"Why should I feel proud of my accomplishments, when the accomplishments were spoon-fed to me by the company because of my skin color? If I were a white man with the same experience, I might not even be here?"<p>In my opinion, it would be beneficial if DEI initiatives were confidential and kept "hush hush" within a company. Diversity is able to be seen. If you're actually a diverse company, then people will notice.<p>I could understand publishing a quarterly report, but creating townhall meetings and parading your black/brown employees around like show ponies is nothing short of corporate virtue signaling.<p>I realize this isn't the type of content posted to HN usually, and I realize it is in 'rant' territory, but I know a lot of managers in a lot of influential companies hangout here, so I figured posting this could spark some meaningful discussion.
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Title: I spoke to a lot of software engineers around me and the feeling seems common.<p>I remember the days I started coding, and how much I enjoyed that. I was able to create things with just the power of my thoughts, and it felt like a superpower.<p>Nowadays, I feel like I have to jump so many hoops and spend so much mental bandwidth just to get the permission to code. It would be fair to say that on avg I spend less than 20% of my time coding or solving problems.<p>Any project I work on is connected to a million different tools, workflows and services, that all do things their own way, and everything lives in a totally different place, where it’s hard to monitor what’s going on.<p>I feel like anything can break at any moment and ruin my day. I don’t understand any of the tools well enough to be confident that it’s stable, and the worst problems are the silent ones. This is giving me anxiety.<p>I work mostly with Javascript — and that doesn’t help. All the frameworks/libs I use insist on being too flexible, to the point where I don’t know where to start and how to do things. Just show me the “right” way, and let me figure out how to opt out if I want to. Oh and every 10 minutes there is a new tool that pops up that does things differently.<p>I wish I could go back to the days where I spent most of my day in the IDE and at the end produce something that was (to me) amazing. My most challenging moments were when I had a tough logic problem to solve — but I enjoyed those immensely. I’d rather fight with my brain than with the tools I use.<p>I wish I could just use an IDE that takes care of all the crap for me and just lets me code and write business logic.<p>I now understand why there’s a trend of developers who want to go live in a farm or take up woodworking: tough(er) problems, but with less variables & easier to reason about. If the wood breaks, you can see where and can probably guess why. Making a table is a mostly linear set of steps, and the basic tools you use don’t change much throughout the years. There is no invisible ghost that lives in a separate realm (dev environment) that can ruin your work at any time and leave no trace.<p>Any insights? Should I just switch careers?
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Title: While going through my Outlook junk folder, I noticed that nearly all my Azure related mails are classified as such.<p>These e-mails are all real and also sent by addresses like [email protected] with the source SMTP server being in a subdomain of PROD.OUTLOOK.COM.<p>How comes that Microsoft would not just whitelist their own domains on their own e-mail service?
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Title: We spent the past few weeks building Supaglue (<a href="https://github.com/supaglue-labs/supaglue">https://github.com/supaglue-labs/supaglue</a>) and would like to share an early public alpha version with you. Supaglue is an open source platform to help developers build customer-facing Salesforce integrations into their applications. Use code to define syncs for pulling objects from Salesforce into your application. Embed functional and customizable React components for your customers to configure these syncs.<p>Why?<p>- We built user-facing HubSpot and Salesforce integrations in a previous product we worked on and did not find an existing solution that let us build it quickly, using code, and that supported custom business logic, so we built in-house.<p>- There were some unified API products we evaluated, but they lacked depth, e.g. support for custom fields and objects.<p>- There were UI-based workflow builders, but we did not want to click around in a UI tool to author business logic.<p>- None of the options we evaluated came with ready-to-use React components, nor were they customizable.<p>With our public alpha you can:<p>- On a schedule, sync Accounts, Contacts, Leads, and Opportunities from Salesforce into your application<p>- Customize where syncs write to (Postgres or an API endpoint), as well as its retry behavior<p>- Author syncs using Typescript<p>- Offload the full OAuth flow and token management to our backend and frontend components<p>- Embed React components for OAuth, field mappings, on/off toggles, and manual syncs into your Next.js application<p>- Deploy sync code and monitor sync status using a CLI<p>- Open source MIT license so anyone can self-host<p>We’re very early: we started working on this after the new year and are releasing a public alpha to get early feedback. You can run Supaglue locally using docker compose today. Try it out and send us a note! Website: <a href="https://supaglue.com" rel="nofollow">https://supaglue.com</a>. Github: <a href="https://github.com/supaglue-labs/supaglue">https://github.com/supaglue-labs/supaglue</a>.
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Title: Our baby is due in September and I want to be prepared. What is the best data-driven, tactical field-guide that you found before becoming a parent?<p>I've started reading a few, but there's a mountain of choice and so far, these books are about 80% fluff. They pontificate like recipe websites, despite having no ads in the pages. I'd ideally like to find a book that goes over:<p>1. What I need to do<p>2. When I need to do it<p>3. Why it's important<p>4. Absolutely nothing else<p>I'd especially like to avoid pseudo-science / instructions backed up by no data, paragraphs congratulating me on being a modern participatory dad, and anecdotes.
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Title: Hey all, author here! This is a demo of the rules engine we built to fight spam/abuse on the internet. It was built based on learnings from Facebook & Google, while trying to make a language that makes it simple for anti-spam analysts to quickly (and safely) deploy rules to production.<p>Unfortunately it looks like the Twitter event feed is temporarily down (they're blocking it, possibly as part of shutting down the API on Thursday). I have a cache of events from a little earlier that I'm going to try play through the stream.
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Title: Almost 25 years ago before I went down the rabbit hole of backend programming - I did some windows app development. I want to get into macOS programming now (I have been using a mac for the past 5 years and want to get to a place where I can build some hobby apps - I don't need to make money - I just need the damn machine to do what I want it to) - but I am having difficulty figuring out the right resources.<p>I am not interested in API documentation or how-to recipes. I am looking for explanations that will help me build a conceptual understanding of macos UI development. What is the equivalent of the event loop under macos? Do events bubble up through the hierarchy? What is the right way to persist user configuration?<p>In the windows era there was a very famous book called "Programming Windows" by Charles Petzold. I am hoping that I can find similar book for macOS programming.<p>Please do point me to the resources that have helped you.<p>I am not interested in non-native frameworks like Electron or PyQt. If I am developing an app for myself I don't want to deal with daily irritation of working with a non native framework.
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Title: Hey HN!
FlappyBirdle combines elements from the game Flappy Bird and the popular word game Wordle. I wanted to see if I could make a game that added urgency to Wordle, while also feeling outragous at the same time. I think I achieved it with FlappyBirdle. Every time you type a letter of the word, the bird flaps its wings and you get closer to the goal. It also has an easy mode that ignores the pipes, so even beginners can get a good score. Let me know if you have any ideas on how I can make it better!
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Title: It's built on top of Cadence Temporal(Similar to AWS SWF, Microsoft Azure Durable Function) by expert of Cadence/Temporal to provide clean and simple API/interface for development.<p>* Easy to understand and get started<p>* Easy to make changes -- no non deterministic errors and no need to write versioning code.<p>* Easy to write and maintain unit tests<p>* Easy to monitor and operate<p>* Provide all power of Cadence/Temporal（scalability/reliability)<p>Look at the samples for how easy it is, and try it out!
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Title: Career, love-life, education, health, wealth, finance, family, marriage, etc all are different dimensions of one's life. And habits are the building block of one's life.<p>What habits have you built for yourself (maybe by rectifying past detrimental habits or building entirely new ones) that have improved your life in many dimensions? If possible describe a bit about what role the habits played in improving your life.
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Title: docker-compose is great for single node docker deployments, but it doesn't have a feature that would allow zero downtime deployments. It's not possible to deploy often if your app goes down every time, and using Kubernetes/Nomad/Swarm on a single node is an overkill.<p>I created this Docker plugin to be a drop-in replacement for the restart command in usual docker-compose deployment scripts. It performs a simple rolling deployment of a single service.
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Title: Inspired by this discussion[1], I want to start working out. I'm in my mid 30s, and my age starts to show it's signs. I do train in boxing once a week, but I feel like it's not enough. Most of the week I stay seated.<p>I have an on-and-off relationship with gym for multiple years. I came to a conclusion that I simply dislike the format of the gym. I don't like wasting time by getting to the gym, getting from the gym, and waiting for my turn for the equipment.<p>I don't want to invest a lot of time. 30 min max a day. I prefer to workout from my home, without being dependent on the weather.<p>What will be a good way to stay in shape, given the above constraints?<p>[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34689709
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Title: Hey HN, Nir, Gal and Tomer here. Last week, we open-sourced Enrolla (<a href="https://github.com/enrolla/enrolla">https://github.com/enrolla/enrolla</a>) - feature management for SaaS companies. It makes it easy for developers to control how their product behaves for customers in different pricing tiers. So things like which features are enabled for whom, rate limits and seat limits, but also your customer secrets (with end-to-end encryption), and other configurations.<p>After 15 years of working together at various companies, where we rebuilt the same SaaS foundation layer again and again - we wanted to create something reliable and feature-rich that will be available for everyone.
We now have a backoffice UI, a backend and SDKs for managing customer features and a way to manage pricing tiers on top of it. We plan to add more features around metering and integration with Stripe, so that ideally Enrolla can be used to bootstrap any new SaaS software in minutes.<p>We’ve launched this repo under the MIT license so any developer can use it. The goal is not to charge individual developers. We make money by charging a license fee for enterprise features like Salesforce/Hubspot and SSO integrations.<p>Give it a try (<a href="https://github.com/enrolla/enrolla">https://github.com/enrolla/enrolla</a>), and let us know what you think!<p>Main website: <a href="https://www.enrolla.io">https://www.enrolla.io</a>
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Title: Nango (<a href="https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango">https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango</a>) provides pre-built OAuth flows, secure token storage and automatic refreshes for 40+ APIs and counting.<p>Why we built Nango:
We built Nango to solve the pain of accessing OAuth APIs. Despite OAuth being a standard protocol in theory, it remains a major burden to implement it, even with the help of a library. You still need to add endpoints and logic to your app for the server-side dance, implement token refreshes, build & secure your token storage, deal with redirects on the frontend etc.<p>But the worst part is that (almost) every API has quirks and non-standard behaviour. This is why we think open source and knowledge sharing is key here: With the templates in Nango we capture these edge cases and make sure that OAuth just works.<p>How it works:
Nango is a small Typescript/Node.js service that handles the OAuth dance, token storage & refreshes for you. It works with any language, API or framework. It is easily self-hostable for free, or as a cloud service if you want to avoid the burden of securing tokens yourself (that’s how we pay the bills). To get started we recommend you take a look at our Quickstart on the GitHub repo: <a href="https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango">https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango</a><p>We currently support 40+ popular APIs. Adding a new one is as simple as updating a YAML file, so anybody can contribute one. In the coming weeks we plan to add a dashboard, a proxy to authorise requests, monitoring and more APIs.<p>One thing we learned from talking to other engineers about OAuth is that everybody has their own horror stories: What was the hardest OAuth API you ever used? What made it so difficult? We look forward to your stories and your feedback on Nango!<p>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango">https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango</a> // Website: <a href="https://www.nango.dev">https://www.nango.dev</a>
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Title: I'm getting tired of repeating every Google search with quotes around each word. What search engine do you clever hackers use these days, and why?
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Title: Psychology research is currently facing a crisis: A significant amount of published studies cannot be reliably reproduced. Yet these studies will still be used in news headlines, and treated as fact.<p>Research into social media has not been immune to this either, with the problem exacerbated by study designs that don’t match the real world. We built the Misinformation Game to aid in this problem.<p>Our tool allows researchers to design social-media studies that look and feel like social media, while also making sure that each participant has a similar experience. This is really important for the ecological validity of studies (i.e., is it similar to reality), and the reproducibility of studies (chance plays less of a role). The tool’s reproducibility is further helped because the configuration of studies can be downloaded and shared alongside published research, minimising the work required for replication.<p>I have really enjoyed working on this project, and I hope you also find it interesting! I think there are huge opportunities to aid in research in non-tech fields using software, and I hope this project is a step in that direction.<p>There are example studies for you to play through that are available through the website. I’m excited to hear your thoughts on it!<p>All the best,
~ Paddy
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Title: I am looking to purchase a old laptop from what seems to be a reseller of decommissioned laptops.<p>I read about Intel Management Engine and how it is a backdoor at the CPU level and does is not installed at the operating system level.<p>I tried googling this but how would I know if the laptop is still enrolled into some network? I would hate if some sysadmin could remotely do stuff to my PC.
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Title: Hi,<p>I wanted to share a simple game I wrote.<p>It's a sliding pieces puzzle like many others. I have focused a lot on making the experience smooth and
minimalistic and the levels being challenging in a way a sudoku or chess puzzles could be.<p>I had no prior knowledge of game development and while it feels like someone competent could build this game in a week I spent over two years and hundreds of hours to bring this game to life.<p>My journey went through:<p><pre><code> - thinking it will be a PC game
- being overwhelmed by the amount of different game frameworks
- hiring an indie dev to bootstrap the game in Unity for me
- realize the small levels are actually cool and it might fit on a phone
- generating levels and playing through thousands of them myself to curate a smaller list
- realizing the Unity wasn't a good choice
- rewriting the game in html + js drawing on canvas + React
- hiring a bunch of fiverr artists and testers to polish it up
</code></pre>
I think I am finally satisfied with the result enough to be willing to share it with the world.<p>If you're a fan of minimalist sliding pieces puzzles I'd be happy if you give it a try!<p>the game has:
- no ads
- no tracking of any kind
- fully offline after first load
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Title: Love Hacker News.
But, is there one for Finance?
Not: seekingalpha, wilmott, zerohedge, etc.
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Title: What are your best practices for self-healing apps for low maintenance of servers for a solo founder? I use go but general patterns are welcome.
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Title: I've written in many very different languages in a professional full-time capacity in my many-year career. Now I'm interested in building something new and I have a clear idea in mind with some code already in C++ to proof-of-concept it for myself, but I'm struggling to find a direction forward that would be... fun. I don't mind challenging work, but I like an environment that feels sane and logical and where I am not facing loads of incidental complexity along the way. I'm also attracted to implementing my app cross-platform.<p>I just want to have some fun writing something without headaches, and that is seemingly less and less easy to achieve today. I'm not a fan of the complexity of either JavaScript or C++, and while I very much like Swift and working in the UIKit world, it's not so portable to platforms that many use.<p>I feel like there aren't really any good options in software development any more. It's always one big compromise with lots of possible decision fatigue. Every direction has drawbacks.<p>If I could write an app in a good static-compiled language that did not require extraneous expertise in CSS but that shipped on a web page and looked good using tools only in that language, with good interop with an HTML Canvas, that would be one possibility, but it is again a compromise -- no <i>easy</i> multithreading, dealing with all the front-end baggage to bundle or deploy such an app, etc.<p>Any recommendations? I'm not afraid of learning an entirely new language too.
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Title: I hope I'm doing this right, since it's my first submission. It is a question directed to sysadmins of HN:<p>How do I reach nameserver redundancy?<p>Right now our provider is getting DdoS'ed, so my employer is not reachable by mail, web etc. If I do a whois on the affected domain, I'll get multiple nameservers (which the provider owns).<p>Looks like this:<p>nserver ns01.provider.tld
nserver ns02.provider.tld
nserver ns03.provider.tld
nserver ns04.provider.tld
nserver ns05.provider.tld<p>Actually two questions arise from this:<p>- Is it a good idea to setup my own nameserver which basically just "copies" the entries from my current provider and specify it (wherever that may be). By doing this I won't have to maintain 2 different NS, only the one from the provider since the 'secondary' will simply be a copy of the primary?<p>- Is it a good idea to simply increase the TTL of the important A/MX-Records?
Will for example, 1.1.1.1 still resolve my domain correctly, even if my providers nameserver is down for an hour? (assumed I have a TTL of 3 hours for example)<p>Thankfully, I'm not the CTO, but since he mentioned to me that this happens regularly to the provider (being DdoSed), it got me really curious what the right mitigation to being unreachable is.
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Title: Just watched the 'Google Live from Paris' event and it looked like a non-event to me.<p>It seems that the livestream event was set private after it ended. (It was unlisted to begin with) They even forgot the phone used to demonstrate multisearch.<p>This suggests to me that Google is finally getting disrupted and are scrambling of desperation because of the release of ChatGPT.
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Title: I have noticed that I am getting more and more addicted to consuming information so I am listening to podcasts while working and I watch Youtube videos in my free time. This is all fun and interesting but I feel this makes me want to do things less and less. Instead of working on my own problems I distract myself by listening to ever more information. I get a lot of benefit from this information but somehow it feels shallow.<p>I think part of it is that my work is quite uninteresting and doesn't really keep my mind engaged. But the work is tedious enough that I am too tried in the evening to do something interesting. After a few years everything feels like it's a repeat.<p>Does anybody else feel that way? Have you been able to detach yourself from the constant flow of information and focus on your own stuff?
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Title: We released Filmbox two years ago, and it has gotten a great response. It's been used in huge movies like "Everything Everywhere All At Once".<p>It's been a huge rewrite to get this working on Linux and Windows from our original Mac and Metal code.<p>We also have some interesting uses of cross-platform Swift + Electron in our plugin manager app, and cross-platform Swift generally in the plugin. Hopefully we can detail that in a blog post at some point.<p>There's a free Filmbox Lite version to try, if you're interested.
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Title: In 2017, "a friend"* did Andrew Ng's original Stanford AI Coursera course.<p>- it renewed their understanding of Matrix Algebra and more importantly "why" they need it (being from India, they were fortunate that they learned matrices by rote, and the Indian education system ensured that details like "why" on earth they needed to study this thing never had a chance to pollute their pristine mind
/sarcasm).<p>- it gave them an intuitive understanding of how neural networks are a sort of regression (those weights are akin to regression weights).<p>- it showed them some crazy things, such as how an image is fed into a neural network as a sequence of pixels. They suspect the way humans view images is more holistic... all pixels at the same time.<p>They did it as a lark. Because pmarca said that he would work on BTC or/and AI if he were young again (they did the BTC Princeton Coursera too).<p>They're glad they did Ng's course back then. Wonderful teacher, a gift to humanity.<p>Since then, they've not done anything with AI (they're gratefully and gainfully employed, albeit in an unrelated area). But they kept an eye on developments in the space, such as "tensors".<p>They're beginning to see some urgency in AI now. The noise is building up to a crescendo.<p>They want to jump in again, and dedicate every spare hour to learning more. Where it will take them, who knows. With gratitude, they don't currently need it to earn their bread. But who knows why they might need it in future.<p>However, they don't want to read any more "think pieces" in Bloomberg or Forbes about how AI will affect the future. They want to get busy learning the MVK (minimum viable knowledge) for actually building something useful, and alone.<p>The "alone" part is important.<p>So, they need to learn the AI equivalent of dev ops, front end, and back end. But not too much (to start with). Just enough. Give them a curriculum, HN. FLOSS/FOSS of course. Please, and thanks in advance.<p>----------<p>* Forgive me for trying Taleb's "a friend" instead of using first person. He says it gets better results.
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Title: Hi HN,<p>Does anybody have experience launching a web application with Java recently as compared to more modern framework and does anyone have any feedback?<p>Thank you!
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Title: Over 10 years at FAANGs (mostly working in ML) I've lost the joy of software engineering, and I've been at some level of burnout for a few years. I'm considering leaving tech, but I wonder if a change of focus could reignite my motivation. Can you suggest some options, or share any relevant advice?<p>I figure I could take a sabbatical and explore some new areas, try to transition to contracting, or look for jobs outside of the big tech/web startup scene. Ideally I'd like something that requires rigor, with a focus on software architecture or algorithms/optimization. I'd also like to minimize the type of workplace politics I've experienced at FAANG. I'm open to suggestions that don't exclusively have to do with software. Part of me is tired of spending so much of my life in front of a computer.<p>Here are some disorganized ideas that might give a sense of my interests:<p>- Cryptography and security (not cryptocurrency/blockchain): I have a math background and I was always an algebra/discrete math person, so this seems a potential fit.<p>- Formal verification / theorem proving<p>- Open messaging standards (e.g., Matrix): I find the current state with siloed proprietary messengers a travesty<p>- Open repositories of knowledge (e.g., Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap)<p>- "User-empowering" software (e.g., Emacs, Ableton Live)<p>- Distributed systems<p>- Programming language development (compilers, libraries)<p>- Graphics (though the gaming industry isn't exactly the place to recover from burnout)<p>- Research in cognitive science, psychedelics (lots of hype here though), complex systems, physics<p>- Studying music composition or audio engineering<p>- Helping out with homelessness, loneliness, the elderly or disabled
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Title: There was a post [0] recently about the bing chatGPT assistant either citing or hallucinating it’s own initial prompt from the (in theory) low privileged chat input UI they put together. This feels like it’s almost unavoidable if you let users actually chat with something like this.<p>How would we sanitize strings now? I know OpenAI has banned topics they seem to regex for, but that’s always going to miss something. Are we just screwed and should make sure chat bots just run in a proverbial sandbox and can’t do anything themselves?<p>[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34717702
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Title: I understand that OpenAI might get into trouble if their tech outputs hate speech etc, but it drives me insane that such a useful AI is "crippled" and restricted to such extent. What are your thoughts on this?
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Title: Hello folks,<p>People using alternative shells (oil shell, nu shell, etc) as daily drivers, how is your daily experience?<p>I'm talking about a professional work experience, i.e. you use the shell as your daily driver at your workplace, not just for playing around.<p>Fish is probably usable, but outside of fish, is there any other production-ready alternative shell?
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Title: AI is great. ChatGPT is incredible. But I feel tired when I see so many new products being built that incorporate AI in some way, like "AI for this..." "AI for that..." I think it misapplies AI. But more than that, it's just too much. Right? Right? Anyone else feel like this? Everything is about ChatGPT, AI, prompts or startups we can build with that. It's like the crypto craze all over again, and I'm a little in dread of the shysters again, the waste, the opportunity cost of folks pursuing this like a mad crowd rather than being a little more thoughtful about where to go next. Not a great look for the "scene" methinks. Am I alone in this view?
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Title: Hi HN,<p>I have been working on a set of PDF tools that does all the processing directly in the web browser. From time to time I needed to do some simple PDF manipulations like merging PDF files. Sometimes the files contain my personal data and I was not comfortable using other online services where the file usually is uploaded to a remote server.<p>Behind the scenes there is a small library written in C++ doing the changes to the PDF files. I am using the Emscripten compiler to compile it to WebAssembly that is running in the browser. It was a very good learning for me and it was easier than I thought to get something working, credits to the Emscripten project. The tool is also a PWA and can be used offline (once loaded).<p>I am looking for any kind of feedback, comments or ideas for new tools that I could add.
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Title: Idly chatting with the search box doesn't strike me as the most productive use of my time.<p>Instant answers or whatever they're called already produce direct answers plus they cite sources and provide links which is what everyone seems to think is the solution to the "LLMs make stuff up" problem.<p>Not to mention they're faster and cheaper to run.<p>Only truly practical use case I can think of is summarizing articles or writing them which makes more sense as a word processor or browser add-ons
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I've been working on Todool for a year trying to make an editor that fits my development workflow.<p>a) Fast text-editing without needing to touch the mouse<p>b) Multi-Selection to perform commands on more than a single line<p>c) Switching between List/Kanban mode<p>You can try the free demo at itch.io for (Windows/Linux) <a href="https://skytrias.itch.io/todool#demo" rel="nofollow">https://skytrias.itch.io/todool#demo</a>
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Title: Hi HN, I’m one of the creators of Activepieces, an open source (MIT) no-code business automation tool. We’re excited to share it with HN! Our Github is <a href="https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces">https://github.com/activepieces/activepieces</a>, our website is <a href="https://www.activepieces.com/">https://www.activepieces.com/</a> and there’s a video that shows how to build a Pipedrive + Slack + Email flow in 2 minutes at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4TI6jGBwM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4TI6jGBwM</a><p>When we used automation tools like Zapier at my previous job, we found that it became incredibly expensive very quickly, and we had only too few options to self-host business automation when data had to reside on prem.<p>There are open-source automation tools that we think are too technical like Huginn and Node-RED or developed under less permissive open source licenses like N8n.<p>So we decided to build an open source automation tool under a permissive license (MIT) with a simple user experience that doesn’t require technical knowledge, and can be self-hosted. We plan to make money from the cloud version and a future enterprise edition with advanced features - maybe advanced roles and permissions.<p>The current version includes a visual designer for automation flows which can run on schedules (Cron), by Webhooks, or by triggers from external apps—25 apps and counting, including Stripe, Calendly, Google Sheets and others (we’re building these rapidly).<p>The app is customizable, you can add custom steps using HTTP requests or you can write Node.js code and bring in your npm packages.<p>If you’re curious about how it works, here are the docs: <a href="https://www.activepieces.com/docs">https://www.activepieces.com/docs</a><p>We’d love to hear HN’s thoughts on what we’re building! Thanks!
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Title: With the rampant layoffs, are you guys getting hired? How are you doing?
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Title: Just heard it from a friend of a friend who works there.
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Title: Hi HN, wanted to share a project that I’ve been working on recently.<p>PodText allows users to find anything said on a podcast. You can also listen and share clips to a specific part of the podcast audio, simply by highlighting the text of that part. Currently there are just over 25k podcast episodes and I’m adding a lot more in the coming weeks (yes my GPU bill is painful).<p>In order to monetize it, I’m building a sponsorship database to help sponsors find podcasts and vice versa. This will be sold in the form of a $99/month “PodText Business” subscription. I bet I could charge a lot more to large sponsors but I’ll tweak that as I talk to potential customers.<p>Right now the UI is very bare bones (doesn’t even have pagination) but I’ll polish it once the data pipeline is working well. Please let me know if you run into any bugs or have any questions about the site or business model.<p>PS: I'm a regular on HN using my real name but can't post under that account since my employer will fire me if they found out about this project :-)
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Title: Two months ago, I started building this side-project in the morning, before my full-time job.<p>A visual and easy-to-use web scraping app.<p>Please, roast it a bit so I can work on improving it. Thanks.
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Title: Enc is a CLI tool for encryption, a modern and friendly alternative to GnuPG. It is easy to use, secure by default and can encrypt and decrypt files using password or encryption keys, manage and download keys, and sign data. Our goal was to make encryption available to all engineers without the need to learn a lot of new words, concepts, and commands. It is the most beginner-friendly CLI tool for encryption, and keeping it that way is our top priority.
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Title: Linear logic has been known since 1987. The first release of Coq (dependent types for functional programming and writing proofs) was in 1989. The HoTTBook came out in 2013. Ada/SPARK 2014 came out the same year as Java 8 did. We also witnessed the Software Foundations series, the CompCert C compiler, the Sel4 microkernel, and the SPARKNaCl cryptographic library.<p>Instead of learning about those achievements and aiming to program for the same reliability, clarity, and sophistication, we see an abundance of software that cannot clearly describe their own behavior nor misbehavior.<p>Instead of incorporating the full functionality of XML/HTML/CSS/SVG/JS/WebGL into the development experience and providing ways to control them at the fundamental level, we reinvent crude approximations like the various web frameworks.<p>YAML and JSON often trumps XML/XSD until things get out of control, and even then, people still don't learn the lesson. Protobuf, flatbuffer, capnproto, and the like keep reinventing ASN.1.<p>Naive microservices partially reimplements Erlang's BEAM VM while ignoring all the hard parts that BEAM VM got right. Many people riding the microservice bandwagon have never even heard of Paxos, not to mention TLA+.<p>Many programmers keep learning new shining frameworks but are reluctant to learn about the crucial fundamentals, e.g., Introduction to Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, nor how to think clearly and unambiguously in the spirit of Coq/Agda/Lean.<p>No wonder ChatGPT exposes how shallow most of programming is and how lacking most programmers are in actual understanding. Linear logic and dependent types are there to help us design and think with clarity at a high level, but people would rather fumble around with OOP class hierarchies (participate in the pointless is-a/has-a arguments) and "architecture" design that only complicate things.<p>What is this madness? This doesn't sound like engineering.
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Title: I'm trying to break into freelancing/consulting/contracting.<p>Following best advice on the net/podcasts/etc I'm contacting my past companies plus some new ones and all of them tell me the same exact story.<p>"No. We cannot hire freelancers directly. You must go through a third company (consulting firm/body shop) which we work with."<p>But why the heck would I even consider doing that? The whole point of freelancing (at least IMO) is being _free_ from the middlemen.<p>Anyway, humoring the idea of actually doing that I contacted one of these middlemen companies and was sent a hideous contract full of terms that -let's put it mildly- are not in my favor. (Liabilities fully on me, limitations on where I can go afterwards, Information asymmetry, need to support for long after project finish, etc).<p>So the question remains - is there any real freelancing still on? (I'm not talking platforms here - I wouldn't go there for several reasons).<p>Could it be that the specific market I've been looking at (UK/IE) is skewed like that and other markets are in better shape?<p>Thanks
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Title: Django is already pretty low code but there's a lot of times I'd just like to write a quick SQL snippet, display a nice grid and then define another couple of SQL snippets for handling actions on the grid. I can scaffold this out pretty quickly with standard MVT but is there a simpler way?
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Title: Recently, I saw Github Next Code Brushes (<a href="https://githubnext.com/projects/code-brushes" rel="nofollow">https://githubnext.com/projects/code-brushes</a>) which is a VSCode extension that can use AI to do things like make your code more readable, add types, etc.<p>This inspired me: what if there was an extension that could use AI to make your code worse as well?<p>Meet Spaghettify. An extension I developed that can do things like:<p>- Obscure your code<p>- Introduce a bug<p>- Make the variable names way too descriptive<p>- Use nonsymmetrical whitespace<p>- Add irrelevant/rambling comments<p>- Document the code with emoji<p>- Document the code in any style (Dirty Limerick, Fast Talkin' 1930s Gangster)<p>I built this extension over the last couple of days and released it in collaboration with BCAD.one. It's available on the VSCode Marketplace, you will need an OpenAI API Key to use it. You can grab it here:<p>(<a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BCAD.spaghettify" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BCAD.spa...</a>)<p>Code here:<p><a href="https://github.com/BeforeCutieAfterDoggo/spaghettify">https://github.com/BeforeCutieAfterDoggo/spaghettify</a>
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Title: Hey HN.
Over the last half a year I have been working on a 3D CAD programming language called DSLCAD. Today I am here to show my first release!<p>It is heavily inspired by OpenSCAD which got me hooked on the idea of a CAD programming language and what it can do.<p>Please let me know what you think. Ill be in the thread to answer any questions you may have.
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Title: Nobody wants to use a laptop that has high performance but also fan noise for extended periods of time.
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Title: Our company has gone on a spree of hiring Scrum-Masters for virtually every team, and it seems like this role adds little to no value to the teams or company.<p>The SM's all seem to work a few hours at most a day, most of which is running a 15-minute Daily Standup that typically goes 30 minutes (yeah they're not even running standup right).<p>Is this common? Am I crazy to think that this is maybe a perfect low-hanging fruit for ChatGPT to essentially replace in the next few years?
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Title: We're using fly at my work. It's had multiple outages in the last month that have taken down our production servers. There has been no proactive communication and very little insight besides "We've identified the issue and are attempting a fix."<p>We're now 24 hours into an outage that started with everything being taken offline, and is now causing intermittent 502 errors. Their status page (<a href="https://status.flyio.net/" rel="nofollow">https://status.flyio.net/</a>) still shows 99.99% uptime <i>24 hours</i> into an outage.<p>Besides the outages, the service is great. But, that's a <i>big</i> caveat. We're pretty frustrated and are considering leaving.<p>Is anyone else in the same situation, and if so what's keeping you/what are you leaving for?
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Title: Medium.com is still up and running so it hasn't failed exactly, but it's not the best platform to go to anymore when it comes to blogging.<p>The post quality has deteriorated, and it feels like I'm reading the same posts over and over again. Not to mention the stupid paywall which is infuriating.<p>Why did Medium end up like this? In the beginning it was pretty good but then it started to wither. Is there any way for a platform like Medium to keep up with high quality posts while also paying their writers well?<p>Substack has done a good job at competing in the blogging market but it's different from Medium. Medium is more of a social blogging platform while Substack is more of a newsletter platform. Substack doesn't have an algorithm that recommends you content, but instead shows you exactly who you follow. This is nice, but I can't deny that I also like finding new content through a recommendation engine, which Medium <i>also</i> sucks at.
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Title: I'm a web developer who has been in the market for a new job for a while now. As someone who has never enjoyed working with frontend JS frameworks (yes, I sucked it up and learned them and have worked with them professionally) I'm wondering who all the companies are who have embraced the semi-recent "HTML over the wire" movement (Can you imagine... using hyper text transfer protocol for transferring hyper text? Seems nuts, I know). It's a massive slog shifting through endless React/Vue/etc-focused jobs out there. Even if you use React in small areas where it pulls its weight but generally try and stick to simplicity of sending plain ol' HTML, I'd love to know who you are. Even if you aren't hiring, it's nice knowing you're out there fighting the good fight :)
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Title: I remember years ago I spent sometime to learn it as I was curious how a purely functional front-end language feels like, and genuinely thought it had a good chance of being massively adapted in the near future, especially with what seemed like a vibrant community.<p>However, I got distracted by a data science career and toolchain. Am in the process of starting my first SaaS as a solo founder and was looking at what languages to use and was surprised to see that Elm...seems dead? As an example I did a search on hackernews and it hardly got mentioned in the last year (both comments and posts!)<p>Am wondering if anyone can provide some more light on what happened to the language? Is it a safe bet? And what is a suitable good replacement for it?
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Title: I created jendeley to help organize documents for programmers.<p>- jendeley is JSON-based. You can see and edit your database quickly.<p>- jendeley works locally. Your important database is owned only by you. No cloud.<p>- jendeley is browser-based. You can run it anywhere node.js runs.<p>Repository: <a href="https://github.com/akawashiro/jendeley">https://github.com/akawashiro/jendeley</a>
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Title: Updates needed on Paul Graham's startup essays?
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Title: As a curious developer, my knowledge is scattered between many external resources I consumed and want to keep at my fingertips: blog posts I read, Youtube videos I watched, Stack Overflow answers I read, Github repos I follow, etc. My knowledge is NOT the notes I took, but these external resources I consumed and loved.<p>But over time, I forget. I don't know what I know, and as soon as I need something like, I google it. For example, it could be the 10th time I google "efficient logging with Python". I may come across a link I already clicked, or not.<p>To me, it would be much more efficient to be able to search among all my external resources I already read and decided to keep, because it is limited to quality contents that I have already filtered, and that I already read, so that memory will activate when I read it another time.<p>At that point, you could tell me to use bookmarks. And it's what I do. Then 6 months later, I end up with 200 bookmarks I will not sort. And even if they were sorted, I will be too slow to find something in them with no tagging, I and I would use Google anyway.<p>In a ideal world, It would be easy to save and tag external resources (one click from the browser), and then, browse and find them back easily.<p>Do you have this feeling too, or it's just me? If so, what do you use for this?
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Title: I’ve literally spent 20 minutes for the xth time in a row looking for anything that remotely captures me on both platforms and in the end did not watch anything. I’ve spent hundreds of hours binging series and movies on both platforms, but neither seems able to use this to suggest anything I like. I’ll probably cancel at least Netflix.<p>It would be so easy:
- Store series I‘ve watched, show me new seasons when they release. - neither does it reliably.
- Don’t keep suggesting things I have watched, except in a „watch again“ category. Especially using new pictures, getting me to click on the same stuff only to realize that I have seen this already.<p>Given the billions invested in these UIs, how can they fail so miserably? What am I missing? This makes no economic sense … or am I just a weird edge case, and this kind of UI works for the majority?
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Title: Hey guys, I'm building erlog to try and solve problems with logging. While trying to add logs to my application, I couldn't find any lightweight log platform which was easy to set up without adding tons of dependencies to my code, or configuring 10,000 files.<p>ErLog is just a simple go web server which batch inserts json logs into an sqlite3 server. Through tuning sqlite3 and batching inserts, I find I can get around 8k log insertions/sec which is fast enough for small projects.<p>This is just an MVP, and I plan to add more features once I talk to users. If anyone has any problems with logging, feel free to leave a comment and I'd love to help you out.
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Title: Hi all,
I'm a PM by day who taught themselves to code over COVID. One of the things I enjoyed during that process was learning how to make basic games in Unreal Engine using Blueprints. I found visual scripting was such an intuitive way to express what I call "mid-tier complexity" logic and I felt there really wasn't a great equivalent for the web - so I built one over the last few months and this is my MVP.<p>Tools like Zapier etc are great and easy to use, but they're heavily limited when it comes to expressing any kind of complex logic or trying to follow coding principles like DRY.<p>On the other end of the spectrum, serverless setups like Cloudflare workers or Firebase functions give you all the power of code, but there's atleast 20-30 minutes of additional overhead involved in just getting the things live.<p>G-Script is designed to land exactly in the middle of these two options. It's "Lower level" than tools like Zapier and supports most of the code-level primitives you NEED in order to express logic.<p>Examples being:
- Conditional Logic
- Loops
- Static Typing
- Objects & Arrays
- Version Control
- Reusable logic/functions<p>On the flip side, it's much less friction that writing an actual serverless function, both up-front and ongoing.<p>Examples:
- You don't need to know "Code", just how to express your logic visually.
- No need to manage even basic deployments or use a CLI, it's all done via a UI.
- Every Workflow is a seperate little microservice with it's own URL that you can call via HTTP.
- The super simple version control system makes it easy to role back to earlier versions of a workflow if you break something, or make changes to your logic without impacting what executes and the Workflow URL until you're ready to deploy your final iteration.
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Title: pyCirclize is a circular visualization python package implemented based on matplotlib.
This package was developed for the purpose of easily and beautifully plotting circular figure such as Circos Plot and Chord Diagram in Python.<p>I'd love to hear your feedback.<p>Document: <a href="https://moshi4.github.io/pyCirclize/" rel="nofollow">https://moshi4.github.io/pyCirclize/</a>
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Title: Save and sync your web bookmarks using Link Book and GitHub while retaining full control of your data
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Title: Summer Friends Don't Stick Around is a "forever-time" multiplayer game created to immortalize players and give others a chance to play with them "in spirit" even after they are no longer with us.<p>In the "Remember Me" mode, players can train a neural network to capture their play style. The output is a data model that can be shared with friends and family. Your playstyle is essentially encoded in the data model.<p>In the "Remember Them" mode, players can load a data model file and play with them.<p>I'm still learning more about neural networks and tweaking them to capture more of how any particular player approaches the game. There is room for improvement.
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Title: Schibsted created a transcription service for our journalists to transcribe audio interviews and podcasts really quick.
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Title: It can be a new programming language, or learning a new subject or subtopic or whatever. What rules do you follow to pick up the new unknown thing?
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Title: I've been developing game backends for several years, using and designing a lot of code. They all about calculations, synchronization with front-end data, and database data, and try to ensure consistency, atomicity, and high response, etc.<p>However, these codes and frameworks have always had problems such as very complicated APIs, incomplete or non-existent ACID, multiple calls to RPC, and non-real-time full or semi-full data landing.<p>So, we created Lockval Engine. An easy-to-use, ACID, distributed, DOP, multi-language support backend engine.<p>Here are some online demos that will give you a quicker understanding of Lockval Engine:<p>[APIdemo] <a href="https://apidemo.lockval.com/" rel="nofollow">https://apidemo.lockval.com/</a><p>[playground] <a href="https://playground.lockval.com/?lang=JavaScript&code=97aa205250922a6839f4595ae0002711c93435fb" rel="nofollow">https://playground.lockval.com/?lang=JavaScript&code=97aa205...</a>
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Title: Hi HN, we’re the cofounders of Lago: an open-source alternative to Stripe Billing, Chargebee, and Recurly. That is, we make software that helps businesses calculate how much their own customers should pay them—based on their subscription, consumption, discounts, taxes, credit notes, or negotiated terms—and then invoice them.<p>Our website is at <a href="https://www.getlago.com">https://www.getlago.com</a> and our Github is here: <a href="https://github.com/getlago/lago">https://github.com/getlago/lago</a>.<p>We’re focused on composability (use only the parts you need), metering (measuring how much of a software service end users use, so that the service can charge them based on that), code transparency (we’re open source, so no black box - you can have a full understanding of how we built our API) auditable code, no lock-in into anyone’s ecosystem, and fair pricing (we don’t take a cut of your revenue).<p>We’ve been in Fintech for more than 7 years, and were the earliest employees at Qonto.com (SMB Neobank in EU), where we built and scaled the billing system and led the revenue team that took the company from pre-launch to $100M+ of ARR.<p>Back in the early days at Qonto, our pricing was very simple, a single “all-included” subscription. We budgeted 3 months of a single back-end to “get it done, once and for all”. As we shipped new features (add-ons, new tiers, usage-based etc), improved the packaging, changed our reporting structure as we matured (or instance, we changed the billing cycles from anniversary dates to calendar dates which looked trivial until we had to migrate 100K+ companies), launched new countries (new prices, new taxes implications new reporting!), we iterated on pricing dozens of times.<p>We consistently underestimated the engineering nightmare billing would create, and learned the hard way about side effects: delayed launches at best, billing errors at worst, resulting in churning users. We wrote an article about this that had a large HN thread last year (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450</a>).<p>We tried to get rid of our home-grown system many times but never found an alternative that was flexible enough. As a result, there were only two options: either stop iterating on pricing and leave revenue on the table, or grow a billing engineering team. We chose the second, but it was expensive. Finding pricing or monetization experts living in spreadsheets is easy, but finding technical professionals to build and maintain a billing system is a real bottleneck. Few engineers or product managers have experience in billing, and it’s rarely a career path they look forward to.<p>At some point, we realized we’d stopped being able to do pricing strategy based on what was best for the company and found ourselves driven by what was easiest to implement—not because we wanted to, but because it was all too complicated. We asked around and realized a lot of companies were in a similar situation. There are a lot of clunky internal billing systems out there! We spent a lot of time analyzing why no one had solved this problem, as we thought companies like Stripe or Chargebee had partially addressed it. We came to the conclusion that a proper solution needed to be open source.<p>A lot of teams continue to build their billing system themselves because they have unique edge cases that closed-source solutions can’t address. They are part of the “long tail”, which a closed-source SaaS has no incentive to invest in solving. That’s how we arrived at the idea of open sourcing “core billing” foundations that other people could use and build on. We don’t solve 100% of use cases either, but what we don’t solve, others can build, without having to reinvent an entire system. We think of Lago’s features like “Legos” you can pick to build your own system, rather than a “one size fits all” billing platform.<p>Unlike closed source solutions, we aim at giving full transparency on how Lago works (auditable code), and enable our users to pick only the parts of our product that are relevant to their needs (e.g., if they are already handling subscription management but want to manage prepaid credits with Lago, they can). You can make your own design decisions, build anything custom that you need, and collaborate with other engineers in the community.<p>For instance, one of our users built a Javascript SDK that is now available to everyone. Others are developing additional “charge models”: for instance we don’t offer the ability to “cap a charge” yet: if you’re a fintech processing transactions, you’d like to bill for instance “2% of the transaction amount capped at $50”, to make your pricing attractive. We’re working with a team who are contributing this to Lago. Other contributions involve adding native integrations with local payment processors (in India, Northern Europe, Africa, Middle East), because they usually cater better to the needs of local players in these regions: better payment success rates, better conversions at checkout pages, and usually better prices.<p>We’re making Lago as open as possible to adjacent tools (e.g., payment processors, quoting software, CRMs, etc.)—both market leaders and niche solutions in smaller markets. We’ve built native integrations with GoCardless and Stripe Payments, but our API is usable with any payment processor from any region, and some community members are already doing so.<p>We’re also partnering with Osohq.com, open-source as well, that manages authorization and entitlements (granting access to a specific feature if a user had subscribed to a specific plan): <a href="https://doc.getlago.com/docs/integrations/entitlements/oso">https://doc.getlago.com/docs/integrations/entitlements/oso</a>
You can also use Lago with automation tools like n8n.io to create workflows, for instance if you notice your end users have an unusually high consumption of your product, and you want to avoid “bill shock”, you might want to alert them or your customer success team to take proactive actions: <a href="https://doc.getlago.com/docs/integrations/alerting/n8n#overconsumption-alerting-example-with-n8n">https://doc.getlago.com/docs/integrations/alerting/n8n#overc...</a><p>We’re actively working to build an ecosystem around Lago and address the long tail of edge cases that makes billing and monetization complex, with the help of the community.<p>How it works: Lago collects HTTP events sent by a backend application. These events are automatically aggregated to create “units to be charged”. Each unit can be priced using different pricing models (tiers, packages, percentages). At the end of each billing period (month, quarter, year), a worker gathers all the fees into an invoice (PDF or JSON webhook message). The issued invoice can be connected to various services (payment providers, accounting tools, CRMs) and edited with discounts or credit notes to adjust it.<p>Once the back-end events are sent to Lago, non-technical users can use our user interface and manage pricing without help from engineers. This is what our UI looks like: <a href="https://youtu.be/dXnoMRetsr4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/dXnoMRetsr4</a><p>Lago is self-hostable and you can download a Docker image here: <a href="https://github.com/getlago/lago">https://github.com/getlago/lago</a>. We also have a cloud product that is being used in production. For now we’re still granting access manually, but we’ll make it generally available in the near future. In terms of pricing: the self-hosted product, which contains the core billing features, is free. We’ve tried to make it featureful enough for a business to just use the free product and build what they need on top of it. Premium (i.e paid) features currently include billing on different time zones, credit notes, and will include Salesforce integration in the future. Beyond that, we’re still working out our approach to pricing and have written some of our thoughts about it here: <a href="https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-we-think-about-our-own-pricing">https://www.getlago.com/blog/how-we-think-about-our-own-pric...</a>.<p>The billing / monetization is space is huge and we’re continuing to learn every day, so we would greatly appreciate and are (nervously) eager for your feedback! Thanks!
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Title: We have black mirror. But no white mirror, yet (Microsoft/OpenAI, this could be a cool thing to do ).<p>What are some of the best inspiring visions of the future you've seen?<p>Both distant ones, as well as ones that could be possible within ~1-2 years
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Title: Applies to ALL employees within 40 miles of an office.<p>Announced internally in what’s known as V2MOM, which is an internal top-down KPIs. All managers will be judged based on this metric.<p>This applies to employees at all organisations under its umbrella, including Slack. Includes engineers.
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Title: Hi HN! Fil here from Formsort (<a href="https://formsort.com/" rel="nofollow">https://formsort.com/</a>). We just launched Fineflows, a design gallery that showcases leading sign-up flows from around the web.<p>Why? My team has been building sign-up flows for close to a decade across mortgages and healthcare. We’ve spent a lot of time working through the technical and design aspects of this problem, such as state management (getting that pesky back button to work), design flexibility, and data enrichment.<p>Time and again, we’ve seen product teams who don’t know <i>what</i> to build even though they <i>can</i>. Often times, builders of forms start their process by looking at what other people are doing, answering questions like: What are different ways error validations are done? Should I use photos of people, or is text enough? Is it appropriate to use emojis in forms? How can I decline a user in a polite yet firm way?<p>To that end, we set out to capture as many different form flows as we could and make them available. We’ve found it to be an invaluable resource ourselves, and many of our customers have used it to improve their own designs. I’m always shocked by how often people reinvent the wheel instead of using a tried-and-true technique, and I hope that we’re helping address that problem.<p>Take a look at the gallery at (<a href="https://fineflows.formsort.com" rel="nofollow">https://fineflows.formsort.com</a>), or head to Formsort’s homepage to start building yourself! Would love to hear any feedback, inspiration, or thoughts, as we are just getting this off the ground :)
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Title: Do you have any important questions someone not laid off should be asking to their managers?<p>More importantly, do you expect real answers?
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Title: Context: I'm trying to buy an API for Text-To-Speech. There's a few that look promising but I can't really try them out without going through a sales guy first. All I'm going to tell them is that we want a short trial where I can check out the quality for myself in our specific use case.<p>It's frustrating that I need to wait for our calendars to align and to sit on a call to do this.<p>I don't need the sales pitch, it's an extremely straightforward concept, and I'm likely to choose whichever one lets me build an MVP the fastest.
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Title: Anyone have better data than whats being reported, be it air, fish, frogs, birds, livestock?
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Title: Data Painter is RATH's new feature to interact with your data. It helps you to specify complex visual patterns and find explanations and potential causals.<p>It allows you to do on-flight data labeling, cleaning or even create new features does not exited in original dataset. Everything can be done with a brush tool(painter), You can even play with your data with your fingers on mobile.<p>RATH is an open-source alternative to Tableau, but with more automations. Feedbacks and suggestions are appreciated.<p>RATH's Github: <a href="https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath">https://github.com/Kanaries/Rath</a><p>RATH's HomePage: <a href="https://kanaries.net/" rel="nofollow">https://kanaries.net/</a>
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Title: What's the state of the art in open source GPT models right now, in practical terms? If your typical use case is taking a pretrained model and fine tuning it to a specific task, which LLM would yield the best results while running on consumer hardware? Note that I'm specifically asking for software that I can run on my own hardware, I'm not interested in paying OpenAI $0.02 per API request.<p>I'll start the recommendations with Karpathy's nanoGPT: https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT<p>What else do we have?
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Title: Well, I was experimenting with search engines in my browser and I had you.com search extension installed to try it out.<p>I didn't get to remove the extension and a few days ago while I was on the element inspector in devtools I noticed a strange div on the bottom of the page which contained a class of "you-firefox-addons-beacon". Needless to say I forward immediately and removed the extension.<p>I didn't get the chance to share it then and I happened to think about it today. Went ahead and re-installed the extension to make sure its still the case and no surprises it is.<p>I think this won't come as a big surprise as to my knowledge you.com is vc-backed so that is something one would most likely anticipate in such scenarios.
Thought I share that as it might be interesting to know for people using the engine/extension.
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Title: Hey HN,<p>I'm a backend/systems programmer by trade who has always wanted to build a full stack app, but gets frustrated / overwhelmed by 'modern' web dev. I’m incredibly wary of overcomplicating and don’t want to throw in the entire kitchen, if YAGNI. I want to build a somewhat complicated UI (think Notion level) and not completely bend over backwards making the front-end work through 10000 layers of abstraction.<p>Right now, I'm looking at Svelte(kit) and a Go (stdlib) or Rust (Axum) backend. I know Rust is a bit of a meme, but I find it very pleasant to write vs. Go in a lot of respects.<p>Is there something else out there that is worth trying? I have thought about trying Elm, but it seems to be niche / not future-proof.<p>Thanks.
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Title: Been a fan of cloudflare for a while but am having second thoughts about such a centralized service with so many lock in mechanisms. What options are out there? (open source would be great!) Looking at features like DNS, DoS protection, basic WAF, CDN...etc
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Title: "Excited to launch CareerGPT.ai on Hacker news today! We're on a mission to help people ..yada...yada"<p>No, that's ChatGPT's writing, not mine :)<p>Folks, I was a PhD student once, in a non-home country, and just wished to know what was it like to go and work in the industry, being a programmer, or started a company. Torn apart between choices, I just wished there was a totally unbiased counselor to talk to. I couldn't do that with my supervisor since he always encouraged me to finish the thesis (of course).<p>Heck, had ChatGPT exist back then, I would have had more infos and made decision easier. So why not launching one, on the back of the collective "intelligence" and "creativity" of large language model.<p>About building the product: Yes, I call OpenAI's API, but need to do some 'prompt engineering', updating temperature along the conversation.<p>Just tell me what you think. Thanks.
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Title: Apparently Stripe is closing GPT-3 tools because they "are unable to accept payments for the sale of essays and other academic work". I tried to appeal but no luck. What can I do? The tool is EndType.com and I obviously don't sell academic work
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