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Ask HN: What has been your biggest IT security fuck-up? 5 by hubraumhugo | 1 comments on Hacker News. Curious to hear your stories, I'm sure others can learn from it!

Article URL: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/26677/what-is-the-purpose-of-check-in-before-flying Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502971 Points: 64 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/WESgq2m via IFTTT

Ask HN: How can we pay Ukrainians to work for us? 9 by dgreisen | 5 comments on Hacker News. Our US-based non-profit, Open Law Library, would like to offer positions to Ukrainian developers. We would ideally like to pay for services weekly in advance, rather than arrears, to assist with immediate cash flow needs. Does anybody have suggestions on the best way to provide payment? I understand Ukrainian banks are still up for now, so are wire transfers the most reliable, or should we use visa/master card e-gift cards? Something else? Aside from the "who is hiring" posts tomorrow, are there any boards or services we should be posting to? Thank you! David Greisen dgreisen@openlawlib.org

Article URL: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/raspberrypi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30502862 Points: 29 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xS6cmOg via IFTTT

Ask HN: Curious about Ansible but afraid or blocked on getting started? 2 by MaknMoreGtnLess | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are you curious about Ansible [0] for your CM, IaC needs but afraid or blocked on getting started? 1. What are some of the blockers 2. What will (significantly) improve for you if you became proficient in Ansible? 3. Are there some things that you just can't do right not but would be easuer if you became proficient in Ansible? [0] https://ift.tt/UL5JaWf

Article URL: https://cookieplmonster.github.io/2022/02/17/year-2038-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30490817 Points: 60 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/c3Cn1iw via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-vote-against-apple-managements-pay-plan-2022-02-27/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30490903 Points: 79 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/cpXYGw8 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0766 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30491128 Points: 18 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/VXfGjnD via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/britains-bp-says-exit-stake-russian-oil-giant-rosneft-2022-02-27/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30491179 Points: 78 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/invZ4KD via IFTTT

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/rain-1/799a4af4a9919c14c956272fe971b5d1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30491286 Points: 22 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/lpsLe0P via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2022/02/8/7133682/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30491868 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1cv2lxf via IFTTT

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10933-what_the_world_can_learn_from_hongkong Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30490812 Points: 23 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/zQWybIM via IFTTT

Ask HN: Has there been a change in the troll activity on the internet? 2 by edge17 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Just curious if anyone has seen a change in the trolling, memes, etc on the internet/twitter etc since the Russian actions in Ukraine? Are we seeing a drop in areas of US/Western politics as those resources are directed towards a different offensive front?

Ask HN: What messaging tool should I use for a local affinity group? 4 by subpixel | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been invited to join a couple dozen non-technical people who live in the same area who have started a group for events and meetups and want a better messaging solution than email. Facebook not an option, I’ve been told. I’m tempted to suggest free Slack, we don’t need a searchable archive that goes back long. But honesty I haven’t tried half of the currently popular messaging tools, and don’t have time to try them all to form an opinion. What do or would you use for this type of thing?

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOHSysMmH0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479747 Points: 74 # Comments: 64 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOHSysMmH0 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Stripe subscription vs. chargebee? What to choose and why? 2 by zaphodq42 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I want to integrate subscription payments in my app. We are bootstrapped and around 10K MRR. What should we integrate for subscription payments? 2 popular options are stripe subscriptions and charge bee. Stripe subscriptions API looks fairly simple to add. Should I just go ahead with that?

Hey HN! Esolang Park is an online visual debugger interface for esoteric programming languages, that I've been working on for the past few months. For every supported language, Esolang Park provides the powerful Monaco code editor, syntax checking, debugging functionality and a visualisation of the runtime state. The core is language-agnostic - a "language provider" only needs to implement the esolang's parser, interpreter and visualisation UI (and some other little stuff). Apart from trying to boost DX for esolangs, the idea is for this to grow into a platform where people can discover and play around with a variety of esolangs without leaving the browser. That's quite far away though - the project is quite early in development and currently only has 5 languages (Befunge-93, Brainf*ck, Chef, Deadfish and Shakespeare). Some features like non-debugging execution mode (0ms interval) are missing too. Currently the entire source code[0] (core + language providers) is ...

Ask HN: Thoughts on Stack Ranking for Perf Reviews? 4 by tasoeur | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN crowd. I'm a new manager in a relatively large company (think FAANG) and just went through a training for employee performance training. For each direct report, we are expected to provide a rating (meet expectations, does not meet, exceed etc.), but in addition to that, we also need to "rank" each individual within each rating, with the goal of helping our director do a "calibration" that will basically curve overall ratings at the org/company level (meaning that someone who meets expectations may be pushed down to "does not meet", purely to match some statistics). My knee jerk reaction here was that this was pretty unethical, after all, if someone does meet expectations and the data is there, it should be possible to give them the corresponding rating / comp increase? But then after talking with other manager friends from other companies, it does seem...

Ask HN: How to keep tech running in the apocalypse? 40 by armagon | 33 comments on Hacker News. The gist of this question is, "how does one prep to keep technology operable?" Imagine a disaster causes widespread collapse, where resources are no longer easily available, power and internet access is erratic or non-existent, and then things calm down enough to where the necessities of life are available and society tries to resume functioning. Now, suppose you'd like to make computers work. What sort of things would you need?Power, obviously, or a way to charge batteries. What else? What if you wanted to have communication with other people, or perhaps data communication? Would you want packet radio? HAM gear? What if you want to repair equipment? I don't know if the computers in cars "break", for example [not that I imagine fuel being available]. I wonder about what sort of needs there might be to repurpose gear. What if you need to keep an application runnin...

Article URL: https://github.com/actix/actix-web/wiki/v4-Announcement Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470809 Points: 80 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/eDWnBvr via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.prosepainter.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470960 Points: 12 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3z2NbpH via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do we know Russians aren't influencing HN? 8 by dmarchand90 | 7 comments on Hacker News. With all the recent talk of a massive cyberattacks from Russia, and in particular, the recent story of Russian bots reporting viewers of Ukrainian livestreams, how do we know HN is not under external threat or influence?

Article URL: https://www.kolide.com/blog/is-grammarly-a-keylogger-what-can-you-do-about-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30470457 Points: 44 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/9Ls02Wl via IFTTT

Version 1.59.0 of the Rust language has been released. There are a number of new features, including support for inline assembly (in unsafe blocks, naturally), the ability to use tuples and slices on the left-hand side of an assignment, const generic defaults, and more. Incremental compilation is also disabled by default in this release to work around a known bug. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/6oWlhHg via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.dataengineering.academy/pipeline-data-engineering-academy-blog/learn-data-engineering-on-a-shoestring-free-courses Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30457921 Points: 28 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QU9B8tS via IFTTT

Article URL: https://tholman.com/elevator.js/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458167 Points: 121 # Comments: 39 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SVBQMyG via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chernobyl-power-plant-captured-by-russian-forces-ukrainian-official-2022-02-24/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458277 Points: 210 # Comments: 274 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/lLHnmKp via IFTTT

Hi HN, I’m Omar the Founder and CEO of MutableAI (YC W22) ( https://mutable.ai ). We transform Jupyter notebook code into production-quality Python code using a combination of AI (OpenAI codex) and PL metaprogramming techniques. I'm obsessed with clean code because I've written so much terrible code in the past. I went from being a theoretical physics PhD dropout -> data scientist -> software engineer at Google -> research engineer at DeepMind -> ML engineer at Apple. In that time I've grown to tremendously value code quality. Clean code is not only more maintainable but also more extensible as you can more readily add new features. It even enables you to think thoughts that you may have never considered before. I want to reduce the cost of clean, production-quality code using AI, and am starting with a niche I'm intimately familiar with (Jupyter), because it's particularly prone to bad code. Jupyter notebooks are beloved by data scientists, but notoriou...

Article URL: https://f-droid.org/en/2022/02/05/decentralizing-distribution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458679 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/iNDXm09 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://punkjazz.org/programming-time/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30457900 Points: 40 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/aYEbky6 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30443747 Points: 39 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/RrAGpPT via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do I build payment integration for in-app currency 2 by runkinrun | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems Stripe and others consider it a risk and don't allow it. I am trying to add in-app currency to my web app - to allow some users to buy the currency and send to others who can then get a pay out.

Ask HN: How to scale a multi tenant app that uses a db per tenant 4 by aszen | 0 comments on Hacker News. We have a multi tenant application which uses a db for each tenant, how do scale it to support 1000s of tenants. Managing dbs for each tenant seems a lot of work. MySQL server has a limit on how many databases you can create on a single server. Also how to make sure each tenants load stays balanced, and one tenants worse performance does not affect another.

Article URL: https://blues.io/blog/gps-asset-tracker-with-blues-wireless-and-react/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442044 Points: 35 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/by1qP5E via IFTTT

Article URL: https://buf.build/blog/buf-cli-v1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30442843 Points: 18 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Tcqnxdh via IFTTT

Article URL: https://github.com/samueldobbie/remarkable-extension Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30431556 Points: 43 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/M7Fj6kd via IFTTT

Article URL: https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/sponge-structure-bacteria Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30431128 Points: 25 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1y0Msmr via IFTTT

Regular expressions are a common feature of computer languages, especially higher-level languages like Ruby, Perl, Python, and others, for doing fairly sophisticated text-pattern matching. Some languages, including Perl, incorporate regular expressions into the language itself, while others have classes or libraries that come with the language installation. Python's standard library has the re module , which provides facilities for working with regular expressions; as a recent discussion on the python-ideas mailing shows, though, that module has somewhat fallen by the wayside in recent times. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/dNSpRof via IFTTT

Article URL: https://blog.px.dev/detect-monero-miners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30431098 Points: 62 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/7uyiSPd via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do I help my elderly grandmother remotely? 2 by emptysongglass | 4 comments on Hacker News. My grandmother has a Windows 10 PC that looks like it was set up by Geek Squad. We used the built-in Quick Assist app and while I was in I saw a new browser, "Wave Browser" [1], it looks like snuck into her AppData directory. There's also an anti-virus, Webroot, I believe was installed by Geek Squad, which is now out-of-license. She's called me a few times since, complaining of not remembering her passwords and other small things. I'm worried she's going to have her identity stolen with passwords that are literally her username plus a symbol. How can I best help in 2022? I've looked at Alexa Together [2], which provides everything but remote access. I'm considering getting her to use a password manager but I'm doubtful she'll remember how it works or that her passwords were generated by the built-in password generator if Chrome. Sometimes sh...

Article URL: https://frame.work/at/en/blog/bringing-the-framework-laptop-to-more-of-the-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430300 Points: 36 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fmFC9z1 via IFTTT

Seasonality in Google Searches for “USSR”, “Soviet”, and “Cold War” 2 by IAmGraydon | 2 comments on Hacker News. Any guesses as to why there is strong seasonality in searches for "USSR", "Soviet", and "Cold War"? https://ift.tt/Btf8rlK Delete the "Cold War" item to rescale for a better look.

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60387324 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30418842 Points: 73 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/S3g8rt7 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Who's Investing in Startups? (February 2022) 3 by hubraumhugo | 0 comments on Hacker News. We regularly see the successful "Who's hiring" and "Who wants to be hired" threads here. As a founder who is currently raising a financing round, I thought it could be interesting to introduce "Who's investing" (and "Who's raising") threads. Please state what sectors you invest in and at what stage (check size and global/US only could be helpful). Commenters: please don't reply to posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. (copied from "Who's hiring")

Article URL: https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2020/feynmans-advice-to-wm-student-resonates-45-years-later.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30417660 Points: 16 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/EG2SXIN via IFTTT

Ask HN: Recommended books on blackholes for school-aged? 2 by ffhhj | 0 comments on Hacker News. My little daughter started drawing blackholes and asking about them, whether these are doors to other dimensions, and so on. When I was a kid I got fascinated by the concept of these "gravity wells", from a 1984's encyclopedia and Disney's black hole movie with AI and all. Even designed a spaceship inside an asteroid to withstand the travel. Now I know the topic is more complex than that, but I'm looking for kids oriented literature on BH, gravitational waves, etc. "The Science of Interstellar" looks good for her age due to the visuals.

Which blogging platform should I use? 4 by Ishini_Av | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am planning to start blogging but I'm still confused with choosing a blogging platform/CMS. A no code one or one which requires coding knowledge would be OK. What are you guys' suggestions. Need a hand with that. What about WordPress, Weebly, Webflow, Ghost, Medium? Is there anything other than that which you found cool?

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/02/19/books/how-a-book-is-made.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30407060 Points: 20 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/W6iHGy1 via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is the killer app/library of your favorite language? 8 by lquenti | 2 comments on Hacker News. I liked the idea of [1] that many languages just get popular because they have killer apps. The prime examples are - Wordpress and PHP - Rails and Ruby What are the killer apps of your favorite language? You can go for any language if you want to as well. For me, Haskell has 3 great apps/libraries: - PostgREST: An awesome way to create a REST-API from PostgreSQL tables - Shellcheck: A static analysis tool for Shell scripts - Pandoc: A parser/converter for various formats How about you? [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4

Article URL: https://www.augmentedmind.de/2022/02/20/optimize-docker-image-security/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30406076 Points: 20 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/uKfQmrp via IFTTT

The 6502ctl project is an Arduino controller for the 6502 CPU. The controller controls all 6502 pins, including the clock signal and interrupts, and simulates an address and data bus with attached memory and an output peripheral. The controller includes a clock-cycle debugger with disassembler. An assembler is also included with the project. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399129 Points: 14 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2rWQwkS via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why do Google/App Store search show ads AND the real result together? 2 by behnamoh | 3 comments on Hacker News. When I search for something on Google or Apple's App Store, I often see an ad at the top, followed by the same link below it. Aren't search engines smart enough to know these are the same links? Example: https://ibb.co/fHv6ThK

Article URL: https://www.amazon.science/blog/a-gentle-introduction-to-automated-reasoning Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399612 Points: 13 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/mQTg9HG via IFTTT

Ask HN: Quit caffeine? Before and after anecdotes 44 by rubicon33 | 49 comments on Hacker News. Have you completely cut caffeine out of your life? How did that affect your creativity, problem solving, programming skills, general mood, etc? Asking because I’ve noticed a trend over my years of software that the best developers don’t drink coffee and don’t appear to consume caffeine in any other forms (at least not at work). Just looking for anecdotes!

Article URL: http://mrgris.com/projects/oilslick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30399576 Points: 20 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/0G6iBze via IFTTT

I want to understand the ins and outs of the semiconductor industry. What resources would you recommend for beginner, intermediary and technical person? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30398930 Points: 20 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/NbBhtqR via IFTTT

Ask HN: Who is the most curious person you follow? 2 by sandes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Article URL: https://tech.chrishardie.com/2022/rss-useful-important/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387879 Points: 52 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Uqz6o90 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://destevez.net/2022/02/demodulation-of-the-lte-uplink/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30389335 Points: 19 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/eN9LGyi via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.apple1registry.com/en/serial.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30389355 Points: 44 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/rsRtEH8 via IFTTT

Ask HN: How would you displace Ticketmaster? 2 by alpha_squared | 10 comments on Hacker News. There are no shortage of frustrations with the business practices and illegal activity Ticketmaster utilizes to keep its dominance in the event ticketing space. I'm consistently baffled at how they remain so dominant, but I have little experience in this space. How would you go about displacing them?

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/18/22940517/windows-11-pro-require-microsoft-account-internet-connection Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30387866 Points: 69 # Comments: 63 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QpBAMcv via IFTTT

People are attracted to free software for a number of reasons, including price, overall quality, community support, and available features. But, for many of us, the value of free software is to be found in its ability to allow us to actually own and maintain control over our systems. Antifeatures in free software tend not to last long, and free drivers can often unlock capabilities of the hardware that its vendors may not have seen fit to make available. Intel's upcoming "software defined silicon" (SDSi) mechanism may reduce that control, though, by taking away access to hardware features from anybody who has not paid the requisite fees. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/tUovLB3 via IFTTT

How do you guys come up with such an algorithm 2 by Handsome2734 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I was on an Apple QA interview yesterday, and I was asked to design a stack, which can do push and pop, and should have O(1) complexity to find the minimum value. I couldn't solve the problem, so after the interview, I looked up Google and found this: https://ift.tt/fj1UQqw I wonder how you come up with such a solution when given the problem. It seems just incredible.

Article URL: https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/data-structures/s-tree/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376140 Points: 92 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1HhYuBW via IFTTT

Article URL: https://maori.geek.nz/the-unreasonable-math-of-type-1-diabetes-8c96bdf5b7fb?gi=a3b25a4cbeb0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30376777 Points: 58 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1OAyr0D via IFTTT

Qualys has disclosed a vulnerability in the snap-confine component of Ubuntu's Snap packaging system. " Successful exploitation of this vulnerability allows any unprivileged user to gain root privileges on the vulnerable host ". Affected systems with untrusted users should probably be upgraded forthwith. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/2lu1rF3 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Do you still use Exposure Notifications? 3 by gnicholas | 1 comments on Hacker News. When checking my battery stats, I noticed that Exposure Notifications was around 5% of my recent battery usage. Although this isn't a lot, it seems like it's for a completely useless feature. Is anyone else still using this, or are there any reasons I should deactivate it?

Article URL: https://github.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-filter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30374905 Points: 31 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ZPAMVD0 via IFTTT

Tell HN: Can we surface the M1 Mac laggy/choppy cursor and scroll bug? 10 by nwienert | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just want to surface this to see if anyone has it fixed or so anyone at Apple can give it a look. I remember finding a fix involving editing a cursor file a while back, but it must not work as I've been seeing it again (and can't find that fix searching anymore). There's a lot of reports: https://ift.tt/EDu9zHZ https://ift.tt/MJAckwa https://ift.tt/3kKY1Uc https://ift.tt/2KVkd0W https://ift.tt/GFlU4Zt https://ift.tt/WPhYbec https://ift.tt/PYTOsrU There's this one video with a fix, but I already have shake to locate off and it happens without using any bluetooth mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPlbpbCiVI

Article URL: https://blog.jatan.space/p/lunar-rovers-launching-in-2020s Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361919 Points: 66 # Comments: 82 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/GKsM1oy via IFTTT

DuckDuckGo, StartPage, Kagi, Brave Search and other alternatives search engines 5 by SkyLinx | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do you use a search engine other than Google? If yes which one and why? I would like to stop using Google because of their tracking but I am not sure of which one to use. I tried several and I can't figure out which one gives the best results average. Each of them seem to lose compared to Google :(

Article URL: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/16/introducing-arrow-flight-sql/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30360726 Points: 31 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/cKWlxua via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/028-2022 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30363495 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/U7v4rXq via IFTTT

Ask HN: Are you prepared for a recession? How would you prepare for it? 4 by llampx | 2 comments on Hacker News. The financial/economic news isn't all that rosy nowadays. If we are looking at a recession in the next 1-2 years, lasting 5-10 years, are you prepared and if not, how would you prepare?

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/02/version-100-in-chrome-and-firefox/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350310 Points: 114 # Comments: 66 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SRtiucj via IFTTT

Over on the Bootlin blog, Michael Opdenacker has an introduction to using device tree overlays to support changes to the standard device tree definition for a particular system-on-chip (SoC). This allows users to add new hardware or modify the hardware configuration for their system relatively easily—and without recompiling the kernel or the full device tree source files. For a given CPU architecture (ARM, PowerPC, etc), such a description allows to have a unique kernel supporting many different systems with distinct Systems on a Chip. The compiled Device Tree (DTB: Device Tree Binary), passed to the kernel by the bootloader at boot time, lets the kernel know which SoC and devices to initialize. Therefore, when you create a new board, and want to use a standard GNU/Linux distribution on it, all you have to do is create a new Device Tree describing your new hardware, compile it, and boot the distribution’s kernel with it. You don’t need to recompile that kernel, at least when it supp...

Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/content/119/7/e2024455119 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350261 Points: 39 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/0mSsKnT via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is HN becoming more of an “echo chamber”? 9 by alasr | 5 comments on Hacker News. Looking at the current top HN post "Google Search Is Dying"[1] on the HN front page and all the upvotes it's receiving and reading most of its comments, I'm kind of forced to to ask that: In your opinion: 1. Is HN becoming more of an "echo chamber"? 2. If yes[2], how big of an "echo chamber" you think HN has become (or is becoming)? 3. How wide spread this issue? Is it only certain topic specific? If yes, what are those topics? ... My reason for asking this question is that afore-mentioned post[1] is referencing mostly YC personalities and HN post as answering its main question: "How do we know Google is dying?"[1] which I don't think is really very convincing. Note: I find it quite ironic that I'm asking this question on HN while knowing that one can't rely too much on the received responses. Still, IMHO, HN is the best place for asking...

Article URL: https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/why-you-should-or-shouldnt-be-using-jax-in-2022/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30349687 Points: 17 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fYe50ya via IFTTT

Tell HN: Use “Verbatim mode” to fix Google search 7 by eof | 2 comments on Hacker News. I, and it seems many others, have noticed a massive decline in quality of google search results. Really frustrating behavior like ignoring quoted strings, giving me results that omit the most important token for my search, etc. I see tons of discussion on this and very few people mentioning the verbatim mode which completely fixes all of this toxic search behavior. Among a tiny, informal survey of my nerdy/developer/tech friends literally none of them knew about this feature. So based on the discussion happening now, and extrapolation, I am assuming most of HN also doesn't know. After you do a search, choose `Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim`. This will give you the behavior that you used to get from google search.

Article URL: https://github.com/blacknon/hwatch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30334834 Points: 21 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/cKlAksj via IFTTT

Ask HN: WebM or WebP for GIF Replacements? 5 by dangayle | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are benefits to either approach, but using an animated webp image has the benefit of using the same workflow, semantics and markup as a gif (aside from accessibility concerns). A webm video requires more changes to templates and partials and redoing a lot of work, but is [apparently much faster](https://ift.tt/43wNxDP). I've read that the underlying tech for these is the same thing, so if I wanted to do a replacement gifs, which one should I choose?

Article URL: https://margin.re/blog/mikrotik-authentication-revealed.aspx Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30334291 Points: 41 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/TwIZ5cz via IFTTT

Ask HN: What remote work dreams didn't come true for you? 7 by lastofthemojito | 3 comments on Hacker News. I know some folks have worked remotely for years, but a vast number of us are coming up on 2 years of working remotely instead of being in the office 5 days a week. Life is different now, but not as I expected. And I also don't feel like I'm as good at it as I expected. Looking back to the days before I worked remotely, it sounded amazing - no commute, no dress code, no obnoxious cube neighbors, etc. And those aspects of remote work haven't disappointed. On the other hand, I always felt like if I was working from home I'd find ways to exercise while working and I'd work on language learning by immersing myself in foreign language audio (news, music, podcasts, whatever). Neither of these panned out. Maybe partially because my work projects have been extra-demanding, maybe partially because I don't multi-task/context-shift well. What remote work dreams ...

What are the best ways to fight imposter syndrome? 6 by danielgh7 | 1 comments on Hacker News. When my students get jobs in tech (especially FAANG level) there is this feeling like they don't deserve to be there. This causes their mental health to suffer pretty significantly. My current approach to helping is to just remind them that if they passed a companies technical assessment, they deserve to be there. It doesn't feel that effective. Would love to know if anyone has successfully tackled imposter syndrome or has helped others through it. What works and what doesn't?

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30323432 Points: 79 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77h7dmoQU via IFTTT

Article URL: https://theorg.com/insights/how-the-rise-of-the-railroads-gave-way-to-the-worlds-first-org-chart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30323355 Points: 17 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/mUH8Pbi via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to build a piano that sounds good after decades of low maintenance? 3 by JabavuAdams | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are there existing pianos or designs for acoustic instruments that could survive a shtf scenario? The idea is to require minimal non-specialist maintenance. Should be able to survive being transported in a vehicle over rough terrain, sitting in a bunker for years, or what about a space capsule?

I’d like to hear what tools you use to easily visualize the data in a sql table? Preferably I’d just like to click on a MariaDB table and receive some plots and statistics on the columns. Whats your experience on this? Edit: to clarify, I don’t want to visualize the database itself (Schema’s, keys etc). Just the data within it. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30323131 Points: 14 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/TF42ZKp via IFTTT

Ask HN: Raising animals a good drug addiction cure the homeless have? 2 by MaknMoreGtnLess | 2 comments on Hacker News. I hired a homeless person to help at my farm and he was off drugs in 6 months. He's recruited another homeless who has been now testing negative since last month and we're celebrating today. They really appreciate being able to spend time with each other and with the animals on the farm and have spoken with me, telling me that it's the animals to take care of and be responsible for that have given them meaning to life again. Have any of you stumbled across this yourself? Does this make sense to you (incase I am in a local minima that won't generalize)?

Ask HN: How to avoid career stagnation in my 20s? 2 by rschachte | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm currently approaching year 2 of my current job and have been in the industry for about 5 years since I graduated with my masters in comp sci. A couple years ago, I did the leetcode thing to get cushy pay and worked really hard for the first year and a half. I'm now extremely bored and realizing all I'm doing is pushing Kafka messages and writing Java micro-services, leaving me with this daily existential dread of not advancing my career or knowledge. Despite spending a lot of my time reading, learning and admiring tech, I'm sitting in my office wanting bigger and better opportunities so I can grow into a solid engineer. I've never had a mentor and despite seeking out mentors, I'm not sure how to really go about finding one that can provide guidance like this. I want to have opportunities to dive deep and become smarter, but realizing I don't really know how to ...

Ask HN: Best books for developing a business strategy specifically for startups? 2 by SMAAART | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've read my more than fair share of Business books, including Blue Ocean Strategy, and while experienced and business savvy, I don't feel like I have a good grasp on the process of developing a sound business strategy for a startup. Care to share your choice of books on the matter? Or any other resource for that matter?

Article URL: https://tuxphones.com/the-shift-we-need/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313643 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/i9JjHBw via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is Gmail spam out of control for everyone else too? 9 by agency | 7 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been seeing steadily more spam in my Gmail inbox for a long time now but the past couple weeks it has been on another level completely. At least 3 or 4 emails a day going to my inbox that follow the same pattern of gibberish subject line with a PDF attachment. I asked some coworkers and I don’t think it’s just me. Is there some subtlety to this situation or has Google just completely dropped the ball here? How are emails from strangers with PDF attachments not subject to a level of scrutiny that would catch this easily?

Ask HN: Is alternativeto.net considered as a reliable source? 2 by nile-crocodile | 0 comments on Hacker News. They've had a Virustotal report [0] for Cheat Engine pinned (Windows) without specifying that the reports seem related to the bundled installer adware — I'm not aware of any reputable malware reports, this is an open source project with bundled installer "offers". From what I know their criteria for apps which are considered as an "alternative" to X isn't strict, more of a list of software with some shared functionality. [0] https://ift.tt/2i8TntB

Joke written by an AI: “A basic program walked into a bar ” 4 by dane-pgp | 0 comments on Hacker News. There doesn't seem to have been much discussion on the recent paper by Google researchers titled "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications"[0], and one of the most remarkable things about it was hidden away in an appendix (Table 24 on line 45). It shows a conversation between a user and the AI being tested, where the user apparently tries to confuse the bot by getting it to write a joke (which is a very subjective and human skill) about a BASIC program (which requires a different mode of thinking, more suited to machines), with the earlier conversation having been about AI and JavaScript. Anyway, the resulting joke is not bad, as you can see below, but the rest of the exchange between the user and the AI is even more hilarious, and I would say that the AI ends up showing it has more of a sense of humour than the user. User: Can we write a joke together. I could ad...

Ask HN: How do you use email aliases? 2 by alxthm | 2 comments on Hacker News. With a number of email providers you can create a number of email aliases that will redirect emails to your main inbox. This can allow you to filter incoming mail by having e.g. me@example.com, newsletters@example.com, signup@example.com. Some services allow you to have unlimited aliases (I'm thinking of https://simplelogin.io/), which makes it possible to create a new alias for every website you sign up for instance, and block the spam if you want to. And finally most services seem to support unlimited email extensions (e.g. signup+ebay@example.com, signup+spammy_website@example.com). I'm curious about you organize your aliases/extensions?

Article URL: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.S081/2021/readings/biscuit.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313022 Points: 13 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Beao410 via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to visualize the dependency graphs of my codebase? 5 by toto007 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for a software to mac that visualize a dependency graph of my base-code in c#. My goal is to have a quick way to find bad dependencies in my code and refactor them.

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/privacy-preserving-attribution-for-advertising/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305770 Points: 122 # Comments: 90 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/5JCQxHz via IFTTT

Security updates have been issued by CentOS (log4j), Debian (chromium, xterm, and zabbix), Fedora (kate, lua, and podman), Oracle (aide and log4j), and SUSE (xen). from LWN.net https://ift.tt/5Mxvkoi via IFTTT

Andrew 'bunnie' Huang introduces PDDB , a database meant to allow users to (plausibly) deny the existence of specific data within it. Precursor is a device we designed to keep secrets, such as passwords, wallets, authentication tokens, contacts and text messages. We also want it to offer plausible deniability in the face of an attacker that has unlimited access to a physical device, including its root keys, and a set of “broadly known to exist” passwords, such as the screen unlock password and the update signing password. We further assume that an attacker can take a full, low-level snapshot of the entire contents of the FLASH memory, including memory marked as reserved or erased. Finally, we assume that a device, in the worst case, may be subject to repeated, intrusive inspections of this nature. We created the PDDB (Plausibly Deniable DataBase) to address this threat scenario. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/iK1gnUX via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do you stay focused when working at home? 3 by throwaway25625 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Using a throwaway for (I think) obvious reasons. Like a lot of people, since the pandemic started I have been working from home. I have a lot of trouble focusing or completing work this way, to a point where there will be days (weeks?) where I accomplish nothing at all other than showing up for meetings that I don't care about. I know a lot of people say they are more productive working from home, and I would like to be too, but that's just simply not been the case for me. I'm currently on several medications, and am talking to a psychiatrist, and the meds (Wellbutrin + Lamictal) do help a little, but they are insufficient. I'm not proud of this, this isn't me bragging "look how little work I do!", and I don't want any pity, I just want people who are "good" at working at home to tell me what they do to stay focused. It's getting to a p...

Article URL: https://github.com/andy-goryachev/MemSafeCrypto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30305379 Points: 5 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Opnjwut via IFTTT

Ask HN: Do “underrepresented” engineers hang out here? 3 by laurex | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hopefully this won’t become flame-y, but I have the sense that HN tends to have a predominance of engineers who fit a (admittedly limited in actual meaning) stereotype of white (or maybe South Asian), male, cisgendered. The perception is based partly on posting jobs here and who responded as well as a kind of ambient sense from comment-reading. It’s not a sense that HN is unwelcoming, more just reflective of the general state of things, but I’m curious what other people who don’t fit that stereotype experience here and if there are other spaces that are more diverse that could be good to check out?

Tell HN: "Upload your resume and then type it out” is hurting your company 75 by valar_m | 34 comments on Hacker News. I understand why it exists - text is easier to query than reading a resume, but it's a terrible and outdated design pattern that needs to go. But good news: there are better ways! Some possible solutions and suggestions: -Use a list of checkbox options for candidates to click skills/requirements that you want for the role. If you need SQL, JS, Python, and you believe a CS degree is necessary, then let candidates click which ones they have. No more messing with text! Bonus: You could add some kind of percentage of skills match metric when reviewing applicants (you should still review resumes, however). Bonus #2: You can autofill the job posting with a list of desired skills instead of needing to type them out - just select which ones you need when creating the posting. -You don't need user-entered text fields for keyword matching. Extracting text from PDFs...

Article URL: https://guzey.com/theses-on-sleep/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30289642 Points: 18 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/KurCLzV via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30290225 Points: 107 # Comments: 39 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/8NpgqDI via IFTTT

Ask HN: Have you ever switched personal email providers? 2 by pageandrew | 1 comments on Hacker News. I use Gmail now, but I care about security and I don't want Google reading my emails. I'm evaluating Protonmail, and like its focus on security and its minimalist design. Not sure its worth the pain of migrating my personal email over. I do use a custom domain so I wouldn't need to change my address. Has anyone migrated to Protonmail from Gmail?

Article URL: https://thewalrus.ca/have-we-been-thinking-about-inflation-all-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30290098 Points: 7 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/HQlUk38 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://numericcitizen.me/2022/02/09/on-sideloading-on-iphone-its-ok-im-changing-my-mind/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30276657 Points: 17 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/IUX907D via IFTTT

Ask HN: Fantasy Stock Software? 3 by giantg2 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for stock tracker software that allows you to build a fake portfolio and track the gains or losses. Then rank everyone's performance in the group (like a classroom or grade). I've found some stuff out there, but didn't see one that did the ranking. Any recommendations?

Article URL: https://fly.io/blog/our-user-mode-wireguard-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275905 Points: 137 # Comments: 39 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/MYvRuFO via IFTTT

Tell HN: I'm Loving the 'Context' Button 3 by NotAWorkNick | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm not sure when this feature was introduced but it certainly was new to me to see a button labelled 'Context' in the comments section. Very useful and (if new) a welcome addition.

Hello, I am not a competitive guy. Neither am I curious enough to dive deep into intricate details. I am jack of all trades but master of none. All I is know enough subject matters to make things work. Is there something fundamental that I am missing? I enjoy life in the most boring way. Just doing enough to pass a day. I strive for being good, but my good is just average. Is it necessary to be competitive to have a successful career in tech? How far can a boring person with diversified interest go? If one doesn't aim for excellence, is it a bad thing? I am really early in my career and sometimes I get cold feet when I see how incredible other people are. What does it take to uplift myself and my own levels? I have come to realize that just to make a small dent (as in new contribution beyond being a boring copy-cat), I would require tremendous amount of years of consistent effort. Thank you for suggestions! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30275825 Points: 28 # Co...

Ask HN: What skills are you hiring for but can't find qualified applicants for? 7 by uptownfunk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Article URL: https://www.lucaspauker.com/pdes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30263330 Points: 13 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/obG7vzU via IFTTT

Ask HN: How are you preparing for the incoming recession? 3 by max_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, guys. I hear a-lot of negative sentiment regarding an incoming recession. I hope it doesn't happen, but I don't want to be a sitting duck. Just want to know how fellow hackers are consuming this news. - What do you anticipate? - Do you have plans incase you get laid off? - Savings? If so for how long? - Are you sitting on an inflation hedge? - What business plans may thrive in a recession?