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Ask HN: Beyond AWS/Azure/GCP, what cloud providers should I know more about? 19 by tomrod | 25 comments on Hacker News. If you were to advise someone starting to build a SaaS product from an idea, what cloud providers would you recommend knowing more about beyond the bigger three?

Article URL: https://astronomynow.com/2022/04/27/watch-venus-and-jupiter-as-they-converge-for-this-weekends-great-conjunction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31215141 Points: 24 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/dwKra83 via IFTTT

People underestimate the effect of colleges in making lifelong friends 2 by ilrwbwrkhv | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hanging out with a bunch of people who share similar interests with you for 3 - 4 yrs and living with them, fashions these strong bonds of friendship which are not made after this period. Before we get rid of colleges we need to find an alternative to this.

Article URL: https://lithub.com/find-books-set-in-your-hometown-with-this-neat-tool/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31209133 Points: 25 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/07lresn via IFTTT

Ask HN: It's 2022. Where should I direct the youths to learn about programming? 2 by slyrus | 4 comments on Hacker News. So... Child #2 (18 yo) is interested in learning programming. Good "with computers" and proficient in level-appropriate math but didn't grow up as a hacker like his old man (I'll refrain from making him learn turtle graphics and BASIC). Where should I point the kid to learn the basics? I'm afraid that if I show him how to download (or, better yet, build) emacs, how to build SBCL, install SLIME, etc... and hand the kid copies of SICL and PCL someone will call child protective services on me. I imagine there was a time when the answer would have been java/awt, but those days seem long gone. Maybe there was a let's do it all in javascript phase, but that doesn't seem to be the answer today. So... modern starter pack? VS Code and Python? Tell him to learn Pandas/SciPy/NumPy? Are there any highly recommended online courses for learning t...

Article URL: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/pipewire-bluetooth-support-status-update.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31207262 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ZbT8rIm via IFTTT

TLDR: I bought a $30K professional cinema camera that doesn't work unless I sign away my rights to privacy and possibly the video content I make with it ( at least it seems ) Over the past few years my photography business has seen a surge in demand for ultra high quality video production work. In an effort to meet this demand, I picked up one of RED Digital Cinema's newest pro camera bodies, the RED V-RAPTOR. Considering this camera is used by professional filmmakers to create films destined for cinemas, it's not surprising that it came with a $30k price tag. After unboxing and assembling it, I power the camera on and the first thing I see is a wall of legal text on the embedded LCD. Turns out it's a "Software License Agreement" that I'm required to consent to using the on-camera menu buttons before any of the camera's functionality becomes available. I can give consent or power the camera off. The full text can be found on the manufacturer's webs...

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Article URL: https://highertier.com/we-fixed-f-string-typos-in-69-of-the-most-popular-python-repos-in-only-one-day-heres-how/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208696 Points: 32 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/XWDEqkU via IFTTT

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Article URL: https://intfiction.org/t/inform-7-v10-1-0-is-now-open-source/55674 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31196063 Points: 77 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1Qie9YI via IFTTT

Ask HN: Do you find it challenging to talk to your users? 8 by atomiomi | 1 comments on Hacker News. One of the problems I faced when I had my first users on [just-diary.com](http://just-diary.com) is that I didn’t have any way to talk to them. Like getting feedback on using the product, asking them questions about what they want from it, and sharing some tips on how to use some features. Does anyone have the same problem? If yes, how did you solve it?

Ask HN: What new hobbies have you developed in the last two years? 6 by nowherebeen | 10 comments on Hacker News. I got into cycling and whiskey drinking. Both are going to stay with me for the next decade.

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/twitter-overstated-users-elon-musk-deal-f7cecef1-b156-4998-91ff-37f6f56c82e0.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31194980 Points: 79 # Comments: 65 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/l2cpaUQ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://cmdli.dev/blog/blockchain/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31195445 Points: 132 # Comments: 95 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/aQnzdwL via IFTTT

Unless you've been very careful, your production logs almost certainly contain secrets or personally identifying information. I was surprised (and annoyed) to receive the email below from New Relic, stating that on 5/3 they will start ingesting all production log data, by default. To make matters worse, if you provisioned New Relic through Heroku, you can only opt out (by enabling High Security Mode) if you contact support. And if you're on the free plan, you can't open support tickets so have to ask on the community forum. > New Relic APM agents will collect log data starting 5/3! We’ve been hard at work making improvements to our APM and logging capabilities, and when you update certain APM agents starting May 3, 2022, logs will be automatically collected and sent to New Relic One. Logs are a critical telemetry type for observability and this new feature will help you troubleshoot your applications faster. You probably have a few questions—including how to customize yo...

Ask HN: When does ProtonDrive come out of beta? 3 by disadvantage | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been waiting so long for ProtonDrive to arrive to users who don't want their beta offering. According to this article[0] it's still in beta, but no mention of a proper launch date for when it comes out of beta. Anyone have an official launch date so I can prepare to use it ASAP? (I don't want to try their beta version BTW) [0] https://ift.tt/kZm079L

Ask HN: What companies have jobs in low-level programming? 2 by 3a2d29 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello all, I am a current Java backend engineer, but I am taking an OS course and I am really enjoy it. I am still very junior (YOE 1.25) but I am thinking of making a job jump to a systems programming SWE position. I know Microsoft and Apple have positions obviously doing OS stuff, but any other companies I should consider? I think my preference would to be a bit higher than embedded engineering, but I wouldn't rule those out completely. I should mention I have experience (in my free time, not work experience) in C/C++/Rust/Go. I don't do any objective-C or Swift so I don't know if Apple would be an option. Thanks!

Article URL: https://www.scylladb.com/2022/04/27/shaving-40-off-googles-b-tree-implementation-with-go-generics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31182645 Points: 21 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1MfodC8 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Bank with Yubikey support? 17 by jez | 6 comments on Hacker News. Yesterday I got an SMS 2FA text from my bank for a login attempt that I did not trigger. I changed my password, alerted my bank, and have been checking my account balance every few minutes it seems, but luckily everything seems fine. The experience got me thinking, because the SMS 2FA was seemingly the last defense saving my account from a breach. My bank doesn't offer a stronger form of 2FA—neither TOTP nor any form of U2F. Meanwhile, I really love Yubikeys; I have one plugged into every laptop I own (work and personal). I use Touch ID or Face ID on sites I access frequently from mobile. It seems that the one place where U2F would be really impactful is online banking, but I've struggled figuring out which banks support strong 2FA without first creating an account with the bank. Does your bank offer U2F, FIDO2, WebAuthn or any other form of hardware security token mechanism for logins? Have you had othe...

Ask HN: SoC/ISO/HIPAA certifications for startups? 2 by h99 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Being a small startup, companies ask for these certifications. Each of these cost a fortune. I'm curious to know how indie/bootstrapped companies handle these.

Ask HN: Best IT solution/App for managing a household? 2 by negroni | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for a solution, preferably an app to manage shared to-do lists, shopping lists and household projects among my family, Post-it notes and text reminders aren't cutting it. Any recommendations that aren't overkill?

There have been threads like this before (last one in 1.5 months ago: https://ift.tt/mK9pB3g), but I'm not really sure what to do. I've emailed Maciej on 4/13/21, 12/11/21, and 4 times in the past month (a more urgent issue) with no response. Full-text search is regularly broken, archiving doesn't work sometimes, and most recently my >5yr archiving account was disabled on 4/1 with no warning or ability to re-up, so as far as I know I've lost archived bookmarks from up to a decade ago (don't remember when I turned on the service). It doesn't look like When I tried to re-up my archiving account, I selected 10 years, but was charged for 1 year (without the 10 yr discount, of course) instead. I really have enjoyed using Pinboard, and have been since at least 2011 (when the entry was created in 1pw), but this is a bummer and I'm not sure what to do. I really respect Maciej and wish him the best, and would love to keep using Pinboard. Comments URL: https://news...

Why doesn't Hacker News have images to give more context? Does it need it? 2 by anon115 | 4 comments on Hacker News. UI design question. Most social media websites do.

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-015-0492-0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31169335 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/g3Cksnc via IFTTT

Article URL: https://rootsofprogress.org/why-pessimism-sounds-smart Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31171288 Points: 97 # Comments: 69 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/iS3eyvP via IFTTT

Hi HN! Kam here. I’m the founder of Linen.dev https://linen.dev , a website that makes your public Slack community Google searchable. Linen will sync your Slack threads and make it SEO friendly so your community can find Slack content that was previously hidden. Previously I worked on a popular open source project which had a sizable Slack community. Slack was great for engaging with community members and with early sales. However as community scales Slack becomes this black hole where context becomes lost. Most public communities can’t afford to pay for several hundred/thousand members so they are limited to 10,000 free messages. You run into the problem of people asking repeat questions and not searching in Slack. It also doesn’t help that the Slack UX encourages posting and not searching. We experimented with Github discussions and Discourse but didn’t want another channel to maintain and split the community on. With Linen I wanted to build a tool that is very low maintenance withou...

Article URL: https://slack.engineering/slacks-incident-on-2-22-22/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31170370 Points: 83 # Comments: 48 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/IsBogO7 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.erlang.org/blog/type-based-optimizations-in-the-jit/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31169332 Points: 25 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/YqQM4We via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/04/26/apple_ios_browser/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31169132 Points: 70 # Comments: 35 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/9k20NsB via IFTTT

Article URL: https://znah.net/hexells/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31158717 Points: 41 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/oWhdsBY via IFTTT

Article URL: https://jobs.gohire.io/tara-ai-wyqbsv6l/growth-lead-84924/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31158776 Points: 1 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Pvf7QUu via IFTTT

Ask HN: Which language should I learn for Back end? 2 by b3tameche | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'd like to learn backend engineering and don't know from where to start, been messing around with NodeJS a few times(and felt comfortable with it) but nothing special. I also consider learning Go and have some xp in Python (but not with Django or Flask). Need help to choose one.

Ask HN: Are there viable alternatives to Twitter? 6 by vaguetruth | 5 comments on Hacker News.

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Last week it was said that Twitter's directors will take a poison pill instead of selling Twitter to Elon Musk. What caused the board to change the direction 180 and now closing the deal with Musk? Can anyone shed a light on that, I didn't see anyone talking about this. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31157969 Points: 17 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/HXse32x via IFTTT

Ask HN: Passwordless? 2 by 3000 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Im looking for passwordless/magiclink services, as I would prefer not to have to roll my own, specially want to get rid of using passwords. i stumbled across fusionauth.io but looking for alternatives. preferably not with crazy prices. any suggestions?

Ask HN: What would you use for a Python REST API in 2022? 2 by oblio | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've heard a lot of good things about django-rest-framework. However: 1. I've used SQLAlchemy in the past and I liked it, and I'm not sure how well it works with Django or if the Django ORM is as powerful. Though at the end of the day I just want a simple mapper and SQL query builder, not necessarily the super high level DSL. 2. How useful is the rest of Django when only the REST API parts are needed? Is it easy to disable the unneeded parts? Is it easy to completely remove them from the distribution (primarily for security concerns) What would you recommend for an average Python dev team? Some of the requirements: 1. authentication/authorization with support for IdPs. 2. paging. 3. built-in security features preventing various injections and web attacks. I know about Flask but it seems like a more barebones solution that has a longer ramp-up time, in order to find the right l...

Entry to Hacking for a 5yo? 5 by orange-blue | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'd like to help my 5yo kid to eventually get computer literate, possibly without too much games, no social media, etc. Barely possible probably. Anyway, do you know of general ideas, tools, apps, tutorials, robots, devices to facilitate understanding and be just fun for a curious kid with almost zero phone/computer/writing skills?

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Ask HN: Which skills are essential for a founder and what can be learned? 4 by boredemployee | 3 comments on Hacker News. Which skills are essential for a startup founder and what can be learned through books? Please recommend the most mandatory/important readings (even youtube links are welcome)

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Ask HN: How can I build relationships in college? 2 by adawg4 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I came in with a startup with decent usage traction (not too much revenue unfortunately) and made the mistake of looking for Co-Founders. What ensued was someone uncommitted coming onboard and I made a bad hire I had to fire later. I decided its best to leverage the connections you build but I am at square one having focused heavily on side projects the past few years but just started college. Any advice on gettong really solid relationships set up and potentially down the line enabling us to work on something or trying to bring them onboard in a year or two?

Ask HN: What is your definition of intelligence? 2 by manx | 4 comments on Hacker News. I mean in general, which may include natural or artificial intelligence.

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/climate-technology-science-business-media-8ba71b6baf07c520ddb6fbfff101ad4a Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135991 Points: 100 # Comments: 124 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/HOxZWc1 via IFTTT

I compared Microsoft 365 with Google Workspace, so Google suspended my account 2 by out_sider | 1 comments on Hacker News. I made a blog post comparing Microsoft 365 offering with Google Workspace. It seemed to be a good time seeing Microosft just increased the license costs, but still, based on features and price Microsoft 365 seems to be the obvious choice. https://ift.tt/t3M2YaL I decided to add the blog post to my Google Ads , a few hours after started running I get an email that my account was suspended due to "Unacceptable Business Practice", why ? Image: https://ift.tt/kdSMW1n

Article URL: https://twitter.com/protopop/status/1517701619374338050 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31135972 Points: 45 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/protopop/status/1517701619374338050 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Should computer science degrees be separated from software engineering? 4 by khaled_ismaeel | 2 comments on Hacker News. There are schools/colleges that offer degrees in crafts (for example, car repair) which are clearly separated from academic degrees in the same field (mechanics engineering, in this case). This is not the case in software engineering: you have to graduate with an academic degree in order to work as a software engineer. Do you think it is a good idea to create separate degree programs for teaching the "craft" of software engineering with a reduced dose of academia?

Ask HN: How to Call the Opposite of Enlightenment? 2 by kite_and_code | 8 comments on Hacker News. How to call the opposite of enlightenment?

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Ask HN: Job application advice fresh undergrad web dev 3 by exitoxic | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone i‘m a soon to be finished computer science student with internship experience in full stack web dev, some personal projects and some team projects on uni and I am based in Germany and want to work in Switzerland. How do I apply for junior positions? What do I have to mention and what should I pay attention to? Thanks in advance.

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Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities? 20 by dkarp | 13 comments on Hacker News. With increasing remote work, are there rural communities where many people are tech workers? Curious globally, but mostly interested in USA/UK. I would like to live a more pastoral life, but anecdotally I've heard that people tend to be very different to those you find in a city.

Subsystem maintainers routinely use git request-pull as part of the process of sending work upstream. Normally, the result includes a list of commits included in the request and a nice diffstat that shows which files will be touched and how much of each will be changed; examples abound on the kernel mailing lists. Occasionally, though, a repository with a relatively complicated development history will yield a massive diffstat containing a great deal of unrelated work. The result looks ugly and obscures what the pull request is actually doing. This document describes what is happening and how to fix things up; it is derived from The Wisdom of Linus Torvalds, which has been posted numerous times over the years ( example 1 , example 2 ). from LWN.net https://ift.tt/xKjB7Cq via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-polyester-bounced-back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31114188 Points: 32 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/6AWmxdH via IFTTT

The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release, codenamed "Jammy Jellyfish", is now available. It comes in several editions (Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core) and multiple flavors (Ubuntu Budgie, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, Ubuntu MATE, UbuntuStudio, and Xubuntu). Lots more information can be found in the release notes . Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS gains significant usability, battery and performance improvements with GNOME 42. It features GNOME power profiles and streamlined workspace transitions alongside significant optimisations which can double the desktop frame rate on Intel and Raspberry Pi graphics drivers. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is the first LTS release where the entire recent Raspberry Pi device portfolio is supported, from the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2W to the Raspberry Pi 4. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS adds Rust for memory-safe systems-level programming. It also moves to OpenSSL v3, with new cryptographic algorithms for elevated security. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/g8d6L0n via IFTTT

Article URL: https://webreturn.co.uk/how-thatcher-killed-the-uks-superfast-broadband-before-it-even-existed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31113920 Points: 128 # Comments: 101 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/cQyMxBv via IFTTT

Ask HN: Interviews with Founders That Failed 4 by throwaway2214 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I was looking at old Steve Jobs interviews (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfejwP1d3c) and I was thinking, where can I find the interviews of people that failed? That had just as grand visions, and were just as confident, but things didn't go their way. It is hard to find them, and you tube doesn't recommend them to me. If you know any, it will be great to build up a list.

Article URL: https://k9mail.app/2022/04/18/K-9-Mail-6.000.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31112659 Points: 32 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/aQpHkt4 via IFTTT

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Ask HN: What is going on with Spotify for Mac? 2 by ciguy | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is there some deep trouble going on at Spotify that's preventing them from releasing useable software? Spotify on my MacBook has recently become so unstable that I am going to have to remove it permanently. It constantly messes with my audio settings so that Zoom and all other apps stop working when it's running. My Airpods randomly disconnect whenever Spotify is running and I have to restart to stabilize them again. Every time I restart my computer Spotify hangs and has to be force killed. I have a relatively recent MacBook pro (But not M1) and standard setup, nothing crazy. This is getting to the point where I am going to cancel my subscription with them but I wanted to see if other people are having similar issues or it's just me? Edit: I have tried all the standard things to troubleshoot, reinstalled it, reinstalled audio drivers and reset things etc... Nothing helps.

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Ask HN: How should the cost of maintaining new software features be forecast? 6 by cwkoss | 2 comments on Hacker News. I PM for a software engineering team. Estimating the cost of implementing a new feature is a fairly squishy process, but our team has gotten reasonably good about it. i.e. How many engineer weeks will it take to go from specification to released to customers? However, I think it's an even-harder problem to try to estimate what the ongoing maintenance costs of supporting that new feature will be. - There will inevitably be some amount of bugs and/or UX issues that need to be resolved soonish after release. - Adding a new feature increases the cost of making future changes to the overall system (ex. changing a db object that is queried by 4 different endpoints will be harder than one that is only queried by 3 endpoints, also dependency management with microservices) - Having more code doing more things means that engineer spin-up and switching costs increase. We cur...

Ask HN: Is non-invasive glucose monitoring technically feasible on a smartwatch? 3 by Austin_Conlon | 0 comments on Hacker News.

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Article URL: https://brave.com/discussions-in-brave-search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31099450 Points: 33 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/kS8ywq1 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is it still possible to live without a bank account? 6 by jacquesm | 4 comments on Hacker News. In the 60's and 70's wage earners were lured to deposit their wages in bank accounts because they were 'free' and made payments more convenient. It also reduced the chances of theft from the payroll and in general seemed like a great idea. Fastforward 60 years: it seems to me as though it has gotten to the point that operating without a bank account is neigh-on impossible, especially for businesses. Which has - predictably - led to one rate increase after another, especially with interest rates near zero banks need other sources of income or they won't be able to make their 'quarterly earnings targets', which are apparently somehow set in stone and shall be satisfied come what may. So, I'm wondering: is it still possible as a private individual to operate without a bank account? What about doing so as a business? Is anybody here doing this?

Article URL: https://projectionlab.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093 Points: 61 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UGY6goN via IFTTT

Ask HN: What do you guys think of Tarot or other metaphysical things? 6 by trifit | 19 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Which email app can be trusted with my data? 11 by behnamoh | 11 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for an email app on desktop and mobile because the Gmail website experience sucks. There are lots of apps out there, mostly priced. But I'm worried that my data (including email texts, attachments, contacts, calendar, etc.) will be saved on third-party servers, and I already have to grapple with that issue on Gmail. Are there any email apps that can be trusted with our data, even if they're not free?

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/wasm-core-2/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31086217 Points: 9 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/9Dzn2kl via IFTTT

Article URL: https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31086310 Points: 92 # Comments: 85 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1516463416885399554 via IFTTT

Ask HN: A Dumb Database? 5 by kashnote | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have two scenarios where I want to store certain values outside of my main database and I'm looking for a SaaS solution. 1: When a user joins my website, I want to show them a Welcome popup. Once they see this popup, I want to mark has_seen_welcome_popup to true. Next time they log in, I'll know not to show it to them. This is just one example. I may want to have a dozen of these sort of values defined per user. 2: Let's say I have a banner on the landing page that says "40% off" and I want to change that to "30% off." Instead of making a code change, I want to make this change in some sort of UI in the SaaS and have it update automatically. --- Basically just need a place to store little things that I don't really want to store in the main database. And some nice UI where I can toggle those values as an admin without touching the prod DB. My initial thought is to use Airtable but...

Ask HN: What kind of technical blog should I start? 2 by jzer0cool | 2 comments on Hacker News. I had a blog before but its mixed with short snips of code, how to's and some personal anecdotes. It was not well kept and more something from long ago and not really comfortable sharing. I like to start a new one, this time, marketed using my real name, for example. What might you like to see (and not see)?

Ask HN: Why doesn't Wikipedia redirect from mobile links to desktop? 4 by onychomys | 1 comments on Hacker News. If you're on a non-mobile device, this link: https://ift.tt/2sw8MYf will open in mobile format. But getting the user agent is trivial, and so wiki should be able to easily redirect to this on a non-mobile device: https://ift.tt/TLHjFMd But they don't, and since they're one of the most-visited sites in the world, I assume there's some really good reason why they don't bother. Anybody know why that might be? Is there some sort of esoteric security thing that sites have to worry about? Do they just not want to have to do the work of serving one page and then immediately switching to the other? Or is it something else entirely?

Ask HN: Switching from Java Back end dev to systems programming dev? 4 by 3a2d29 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello all, Curious how hard it is to move from a generic web backend engineering job to a systems programming job. I am currently a junior with 1.5 YOE. I took a few cs classes in C++ and have messed around on GitHub with C and Rust. I enjoyed the extra challenge of memory management and thinking more of performance / memory safety. While I want to try and program an emulator or some sort of systems project (recommendations welcome / textbooks to read welcome) before I definitely decide to move into that area, I was curious how hard it is. I’m sure companies aren’t thrilled to hire juniors with no systems or embedded experience. Would it be better to move to a company with low-level programming teams as a Java dev and then transfer to those teams? (Current employer does basically no low level work anywhere on any team)

I know there are several counterexamples, but in general I'm impressed that Apple manages to keep new products/features under wraps until a major event, and then the product is in stores a couple weeks later with pretty high quality (user experience, reliability, minimal major bugs, etc.) Can anyone who has first-hand knowledge shed some light on how this is achieved with what I assume is quite limited user testing to contain leaks. Even working on products with multiple public betas and customer feedback sessions, it's hard to hit a high quality bar with a product release. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31073754 Points: 28 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/kocxHnZ via IFTTT

Ask HN: How did you get into a professional system programming life 3 by markus_zhang | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi friends, Wondering if you could share the story of getting into a professional sys prog life? The definition of System programming can be taken directly from wikipedia btw. Did you get hired directly after graduation or did you gradually moved into one? Which decade was then? Thanks for sharing =)

MacBooks seems to be the only viable option these days 3 by open1414 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've used ThinkPads all the way from the IBM days and those good old solid Dell computers too. Recently, I decided it was time for an update. I use Linux on the often so it was important for me to purchase a laptop that was compatible. I bought 2 laptops, all of which I had to return in the last 2 months. 1. Dell XPS: I spent over 20+ hours with their support going back and forth. I also had a tech come to my house to replace my motherboard before I gave up and demanded a return 2. Lenovo Carbon X1: The laptop came with a faulty keyboard so I just returned it because I didn't want to wait 30 days for a mail-in repair or drive 2 hours to go to a "local" repair shop. They also made me order the laptop 3 times because their system kept cancelling it for whatever reason so it took an insane amount of time to just purchase the laptop (I spent ~6 hours to just purchase the lap...

Ask HN: Why is Hacker News so much more successful than Slashdot? 10 by tentacleuno | 19 comments on Hacker News. Hacker News has so many people on it everyday, which makes me wonder why Slashdot fails in comparison. I also hear that the community at Slashdot is less than pleasant, but I'm not sure as to the validity of those claims. Why is Hacker News so successful while Slashdot has become a relic of internet history?

Article URL: https://github.com/warp-tech/warpgate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31062399 Points: 19 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/9UtMsXB via IFTTT

I have no idea what to do with my life 17 by alirsgp | 22 comments on Hacker News. Some background: I'm 25, finished my undergrad 2 years ago. I went to work for a FANG straight out of college, and also was working on some social networking apps on the side that I started in college. At some point my apps covered my living expenses and I decided to quit my job because I felt like it was sucking away my youth. I make enough money every month to pay my bills, and I have a decent amount of savings. I wake up everyday and want to work on something fulfilling, but don't know where to start. I feel like I have no more purpose in life and am not sure how to spend my time. I know this is a ridiculous first world problem, but it bothers me a lot. I tried studying math, buying drones, microscopes, and lots of other side hobbies but I need something to wake up to in the morning that keeps me hungry. I feel like I'm dying slowly and am not sure what to do.

Article URL: https://www.wevolver.com/article/hero-20-an-ultra-low-cost-3d-printed-robotics-platform-could-open-swarm-robotics-experimentation-up-to-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31057382 Points: 31 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xRgviZd via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/28/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31058075 Points: 72 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/BK0dHkn via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do I get over my obsession with operating systems? 5 by behnamoh | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm not officially a programmer, although I code a lot. And despite the impression people get from me, my college degree is not in CS. One of my tech obsessions in the past few years has been reading about operating systems, their differences, their history, and the decisions they made along the way. Sometimes it's a sad story (like when I read what happened to Solaris and BeOS), and sometimes it gives me joy (like seeing how Linux distros are getting more stable and consumption-ready for end-users). On that note, sometimes I ask myself how the world would be different if UNIX had won instead of Windows, and then I remember that I actually don't hate the Windows kernel as it's honestly a rock solid design. Still though, I think a lot about OS's and sometimes get sad that Unix (as it was meant to be) didn't get into consumer's hands. OS X and Linux are o...

Article URL: https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/news-events/all-news/faculty-news/the--batman-effect---how-having-an-alter-ego-empowers-you.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31055709 Points: 15 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/HXbd5tl via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-map-of-the-standard-model-of-particle-physics-20201022/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31055798 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/OXYeb1q via IFTTT

Article URL: https://iongion.github.io/podman-desktop-companion/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31055475 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/BXrq0MS via IFTTT

Article URL: https://mstmetent.blogspot.com/2022/04/using-lisp-libraries-from-other.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054796 Points: 41 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QD5K4nE via IFTTT

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Heroku: Compromised OAuth Tokens for GitHub 6 by kdazzle | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just got an email and link to this update from status.heroku.com. Sounds pretty dodgy. In effect, it means I'm unable to link up a new GitHub repo to Heroku and might not be able to do any updates either. Not to mention the possible security vulnerability (luckily I only use Heroku for side projects). Edit: Here is the page specifically for this security incident - https://ift.tt/0EKUgIl ------------ To mitigate impact from potentially compromised OAuth tokens, we will revoke over the next several hours all existing tokens from the Heroku GitHub integration. We are also preventing new OAuth tokens from being created until further notice. Your GitHub repositories will not be affected in any way by this action. Currently running Heroku applications will not be affected, but this will prevent you from deploying your apps from GitHub through the dashboard or via automation. Some other actions in the ...

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/15/twitter-board-adopts-poison-pill-after-musks-43-billion-offer-to-buy-company.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043439 Points: 70 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/p8BOCn2 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043668 Points: 114 # Comments: 47 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/j2cHFwm via IFTTT

Ask HN: Does anyone understand anything from academic presentations? 2 by ducktective | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm talking about 30-45minutes post-graduate level seminars in which PhD students or professors talk about their thesis or paper. I've always tried to enthusiastically "sit through" such sessions but unless the field is really really close to my own, I don't understand anything. Like their whole literature or notations feels alien language to me. In one of such cases, I wanted to know about "differentiable programming languages" which was posted here recently. I watched this seminar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1-YOWa0vJU) but I didn't understand anything and lost all my confidence in what I knew. (Note that I searched the presenter, he is very much respected in his field. I just provided that clip as an example. It's not just this, as I said, I feel the same in 90% of similar topics)

Ask HN: What methods do you use to focus and stay relaxed? 6 by codemonkeysh | 8 comments on Hacker News. I'm fairly certain that I have ADD. I partly feel like it started to get worse over time when utilizing certain platforms designed for to capture peoples attention with short content. I have since stopped using things like Twitter (for various reasons) and any platform that encourages short form content. What methods are you using outside of avoiding social media? Thank you for ... oh what's that over there?

Article URL: https://ameliorated.info/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043375 Points: 70 # Comments: 55 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/LWlF7Ic via IFTTT

Article URL: https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043655 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/69N38RC via IFTTT

Ask HN: Career paths when you've been disillusioned by the software dev process? 3 by Trasmatta | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm 10 years into my career, and I'm very tired of team based software development. I still enjoy programming but I've come to dread almost everything surrounding it. My work / life balance is decent, I work for a pretty good company on a cool product, and my co-workers are good people. I have suffered from mild to moderate depression most of my life, but I'm doing my best to take care of the basics there, and I'm seeing a therapist. I'm beginning to see some of the classic signs of burnout, but I don't think this is strictly a burnout question. I work well on teams, my teammates like me, but I've always preferred solo work. I think this is a stable personality trait, as I remember feeling like this as early as kindergarten. Other factors include the already incredibly complex social problems that come from developing software...

Hi HN! I've been tinkering with this mini-game / horror experience for a while. I hope it creeps you out! You can go into settings to toggle between 2 different chatbots: a scripted experience (with achievements to unlock) and a more versatile GPT-3 mode. Let me know what you think! :) There's also a toggle to show how the mouse magic is made. Source is available here: https://github.com/baobabKoodaa/ouija Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31030425 Points: 21 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2hFKoyC via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.eejournal.com/article/can-you-insert-hardware-trojan-spyware-ip-into-an-ic-at-the-fab-yes-you-can/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31029443 Points: 19 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/EaAwiYu via IFTTT

Ask HN: How can you make quick money? 2 by handsandwhich | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN. I'm in between jobs currently and am wanting to make some extra cash. I'm a full stack engineer with about 6 years of professional experience. Very confident in my craft, and just beginning to apply to jobs at mid-large companies. Thing about mid-large companies is their hiring processes can be SLOW and I could use the cashflow sooner rather than later. So I'm curious if anyone here has ideas on how to make quick cash within a week/month. Would love to leverage my engineering skillset (web development-react,typescript,node,postgres) but am open to any and all ideas folks may have. Currently residing in the US.

Ask HN: Alternatives to Twilio for SMS? 3 by daenz | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm having atrocious SMS deliverability through Twilio. All of my recipients are OPT-IN only and 100% vetted (the explicitly sign up to receive messages). The message contents are never spam or marketing, only alerts associated with my customers accounts, and my OPT-OUT rate is very low. Yet Twilio keeps telling me that the phone carriers must be filtering my messages. They have no problem continuing to charge me though! I have a paid Twilio support account, but they have been awful with their response times. I'm at my breaking point with Twilio. Are there any alternatives that you've used successfully?

Article URL: https://www.mattroelle.com/fennel-the-practical-lisp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31029478 Points: 27 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/vRjJp4u via IFTTT

Support for developing in the Rust language is headed toward the kernel , though just when it will land in the mainline is yet to be determined. The Rust patches are progressing, though, and beginning to attract attention from beyond the kernel community. When two languages — and two different development communities — come together, the result can be a sort of cultural clash. Some early signs of that are appearing with regard to Rust in the kernel; if the resulting impedance mismatches can be worked out, the result could be a better development environment for everybody involved. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/7dS8qvX via IFTTT

Ask HN: Any solution to smooth line drawings, maybe converts to bezier? 2 by Gys | 2 comments on Hacker News. A few weeks (?) ago I came across a website for drawing and sketching which smoothes everything. So instead of an oneven clearly hand drawn result, all lines become smooth. Maybe everything was converted to bezier curves or something. The result could be saved as a svg? At that moment I did not see a use case. But now I think it is useful for drawing logo's by hand. I think I saw it on HN, maybe even as a Show HN, but I am not sure and cannot find it. Maybe someone else knows?

Article URL: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/04/13/californias_vanished_dream_by_the_numbers_826300.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31018709 Points: 39 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/XsAlkRF via IFTTT

Curious to know if anyone has written programs for their own, regular, & personal use. And if so what they are? E.g. A colleague of mine tracks all of his homes energy use through a custom program which disaggregates the energy consumption per device and outputs a report to a tablet. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31018836 Points: 21 # Comments: 28 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/gqtKhE8 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Can I call myself a senior? 2 by azoth128 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, I would like to know which state i’m currently in. I got my bachelors degree last year. I resigned at the end of June. Due to the setup of the study, i’ve got 2 years of part time and almost 4 years of full-time experience in software development. In my current job, I do ERP-Desktop-Software development with Delphi and MSSQL-Database. Additionally, I do project management, analyze problems and develop solutions together with the customers, support, etc. (It’s a very small company, so the list goes on.) It’s important to note that my employer is extremely happy with the work I’ve done. In the new job, I would like to do full-stack development on a modern stack. For example JAM, with a proper backend and something like ReactJS on the frontend. In preparation, I learned my last missing basic (CSS). I’m doing so by building a personal forum with nextjs and postgresql. My question remains whether I can...

Article URL: https://openai.com/blog/measuring-goodharts-law/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31017965 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xFcTblB via IFTTT

Article URL: https://gos.si/blog/frontend-component-architecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31018171 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/A9ugZRM via IFTTT

Research Request: Self-Reproducing Systems 4 by daly | 0 comments on Hacker News. In order to colonize Mars it seems that a system that could (a) reproduce itself a few times and then (b) seek and collect needed raw materials for those systems which would repeat the cycle. The result is exponential growth. SpaceX and Axiom may get us to Mars but they can't terraform (mars-aform?) a planet with material only shipped from Earth. I've been doing research in self-reproducing systems for a while now. In particular, I've been working with a robot and a 3D printer. This raises many thought experiments, such as how to create a servo motor. The point of the research is to highlight "interesting issues" and uncover interesting facts. For example, a Bridgeport is the only machine that can make all of its own parts (so far). Many interesting ideas arise. For example, certain plants can extract useful elements. To quote (The PDF is behind a Springer paywall and I don't ha...

Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use? 2 by smarri | 0 comments on Hacker News. Curious to know if anyone has written programs for their own, regular, & personal use. And if so what they are? E.g. A colleague of mine tracks all of his homes energy use through a custom program which disaggregates the energy consumption per device and outputs a report to a tablet.

Article URL: https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/the-fake-artists-problem-is-much Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31004588 Points: 53 # Comments: 43 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ik2mRy7 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006003 Points: 234 # Comments: 85 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/sgUWEZu via IFTTT

When last we looked in on the proposed trusted_for() system call, which would allow user-space interpreters and other tools to ask the kernel whether a file is "trusted" for execution, it looked like it was on-track for the mainline. That was back in October 2020; the patch has been updated multiple times since then, made its way into linux-next, and a pull request was made by Mickaël Salaün for the 5.18 merge window. But it seems that there will be more to the story of getting this functionality into the kernel, as Linus Torvalds declined to pull trusted_for() , at least partly because he did not like the name, but there were other reasons as well. While he is not opposed to the functionality it would provide, he also had strong feelings that a new system call was not the right approach. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/wkVt4iH via IFTTT