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Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on? 90 by malikNF | 62 comments on Hacker News. I had transferred the domain from Namescheap to cloudflare because I had heard good things about them on here. Everything was working well (Mainly use this domain for my personal emails) and now nothing is working no warnings, nothing. I contact cloudflare support and they transfer me over to their "Trust & Safety" team. This is the response I get. ------ ` Hello, Your account violated our terms of service specifically fraud. The suspension is permanent and we will not be making changes on our end. Regards, Cloudflare Trust & Safety ` ----- What the heck is that supposed to even mean? Has anyone else had any way to deal with this sort of issue? Anyone from cf lurking here who can help me please? This is my personal domain and a lot of my other accounts are attached to this. Like what am I even supposed to do here ?

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01512-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572869 Points: 36 # Comments: 57 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/cXeIx7B via IFTTT

Ask HN: Starting a Development Shop 6 by Ant_on_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. As a hacker with 15 years of experience, I think I'm at the point that the next logical step is to start a development shop/agency to help startups and companies grow. There are are multiple questions I have: 1) How easy/hard is to find clients? 2) How much initial capital/budget is needed for starting a shop like this? 3) How much do a development shop/agency charge in order to stay in business? 4) Do checks really take 3-6 months to be received from clients? 5) Any recommendations/suggestions/hints/tips ? Thank you!

Ask HN: What's your use case for iPads/Android pads? 2 by markus_zhang | 2 comments on Hacker News. I realized, after reading that Newton article, that I actually own one iPad and one Huawei pad but not doing anything with them. The iPad mostly sits and collects dust and the Huawei pad serves as a music player for my 18-month kid. Recently I managed to read a bit on it but the experience is mediocre. I'm wondering what's your use case? I feel I'm missing out a whole range of electronics out there.

Article URL: https://dontwordle.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258 Points: 75 # Comments: 41 from Hacker News: Front Page https://dontwordle.com/ via IFTTT

Ask HN: Finding Startup Co-Founders 3 by avianion | 3 comments on Hacker News. Co-founders are the make or break of any startup company. So how do you find them? Online services like Angel List? Local meetups? Persuade your friends to co-found your company with you?

Ask HN: How did my old Gmail account get linked to my identity and new name? 9 by triyambakam | 4 comments on Hacker News. I have a Gmail account from high school that has never used my legal name, and even if it had, my full legal name (first and last) has since changed. I haven't created any logins with this address in many, many years. Every few years I check to see if there is anything important there. Just recently I noticed some recruiter messages addressed to my new legal name. How is it possible that this address became linked in any way to my identity, let alone my new name? I really want to reply to the messages with incredulity, and now it makes those companies seem scummy to use such recruitment practices.

Article URL: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/b903507b36c438653a02d7b6291e9744d5221e28 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31561240 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/G0mYazu via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why didn't Coinbase 'IPO' by issuing tokens via an ICO? 2 by pHollda | 3 comments on Hacker News. Why did coinbase IPO by selling shares traditionally instead of issuing tokens via an ICO? Wouldn't that have shown a real belief in what they are doing? If there are current legitimate legal risks to issuing all their publicly-sellable equity via an ICO? Why not do only some of it as crypto coins? What's stopping them from issuing a few coins even now? They don't need to need the money. They need to prove that ICOs can work. They are the best placed company in the world to do this: are at the intersection between tradfi and defi, and exist in a country where regulations do exist and do get enforced.

Ask HN: Are JS bundlers filling a design flaw? 4 by pipeline_peak | 2 comments on Hacker News. I don’t have a lot of experience in Node development. From a glance, my idea of a bundler is a utility that takes code from software packages and assembles it with autogenerated boilerplates to produce front end applications that can run without any backend dependence. From looking at a few, my concern is they are inherently bloated and fill a gap that really shouldn’t exist. Shouldn’t JS client code be assembled with packages as a standard, something that compiles together without all this filler nonsense? These things typically produce tens of thousands of lines just to add simple libraries.

Article URL: https://paranoidenough.com/2022/05/30/When-Tether-Blows-Up.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31561684 Points: 36 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xY4yBX8 via IFTTT

Article URL: http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2022/05/warp-lightweight-multi-key-transactions.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551221 Points: 19 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/bqf39oD via IFTTT

Ask HN: Browser Address Bar is my text formatting remover, What's yours? 7 by amrrs | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Article URL: https://efabless.com/open_shuttle_program Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31550900 Points: 44 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/HTDK7bf via IFTTT

Tell HN: Microsoft locks migrated Minecraft accounts, requires phone to unlock 111 by hn2019 | 54 comments on Hacker News. Earlier this year I migrated each of my children's Minecraft accounts to Microsoft accounts as Microsoft no longer allows launching Minecraft with a Minecraft account. About a month after doing the migration while signing in to one of the Microsoft accounts I was presented with a message from Microsoft that the account was locked due to activity on the account that 'violated their terms of service' despite no one using the account since the earlier migration. The only way to unlock the account is to provide a phone number in order to receive a confirmation code. There is no email option provided to receive a confirmation code, and the only way to contact support directly is by signing in to the account (can't be done while the account is locked). Prior to the migration from Minecraft to Microsoft I never had any issues with using any of our Minecra...

Article URL: https://www.foredgefrost.co.uk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551037 Points: 22 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/IY7C9dE via IFTTT

Article URL: https://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2019/05/29/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-search/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31551262 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/WrL2icP via IFTTT

Article URL: http://www.whistlingshade.com/1501/The_Endearing_Colette.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31539510 Points: 5 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/oL7znrU via IFTTT

Ask HN: How would you implement a puzzle solver algorithm? 2 by drakyoko | 1 comments on Hacker News. A friend of mine was thinking about writing an app that would tell you where each puzzle piece go from just the photo of the pieces (or multi pictures) assuming each piece has a number. The puzzling (pun intended) bit to me is how would you go about determine if two pieces fit together or not...

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7vmpb/uber-and-lyft-are-out-of-ideas-jacking-up-prices-in-desperation-for-profit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31542547 Points: 104 # Comments: 152 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/u7H8xDF via IFTTT

Article URL: https://gitlab.com/CHEF-KOCH/brave-browser-hardening Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31542692 Points: 19 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QT0YFlA via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.servethehome.com/ampere-announces-5nm-arm-server-cpu-ampereone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31541858 Points: 16 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2tT3UkR via IFTTT

What Is the Difference Between Get vs. Post vs. Put? Mainly Post vs. Put? 2 by shivajikobardan | 1 comments on Hacker News. First of all I am not learning this currently from web development Point of view. So I think I don’t need the extreme level of understanding. I am studying this in a topic called “HTTP protocol”. And in my opinion, I need to learn enough to write what it does in exam paper. It is so confusing in internet. I can’t explain enough. Firstly I was just confused between PUT and POST. But later someone started to tell me that you could use GET instead of these two in submitting form. That got me confused to next level. What I have already understood(be it wrong or right I am not sure). GET-: It helps to retrieve the file indicated by URL in request line from server. PUT and POST seems same thing to me. PUT places data in body to the URL in request line. POST has no such definitions anywhere in books or internet. And it is generalized as “POST is used to submit form data...

Ask HN: Best book on modern cryptography? 84 by qorrect | 26 comments on Hacker News. For self learning, approachable etc ... any suggestions ?

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/25/23137789/aio-buying-bots-ps5-xbox-series-x-console-shortage Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532647 Points: 16 # Comments: 53 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/awkbVAF via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why do web searches for AWS commands return deprecated versions? 2 by dylan604 | 2 comments on Hacker News. It seems like 100% of the results for the CLI commands that I look up return the page for v1.x. Each of these pages has a block notice at the top of the page announcing the old version deprecation with a direct link to the equivalent current version. So at least there's that. Why are the bots not being signaled for redirection to current version, or why are the bots not doing the right thing? Yet another example of how broken search has become?

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-26/a-new-way-to-curb-the-rise-of-oversized-pickups-and-suvs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532489 Points: 36 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/rSL83oC via IFTTT

Stay in backend or build some frontend competency? 2 by silentsea90 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I am a long time backend engineer (~7 years now). I recently joined a startup where I have come to work on heavy frontend changes. I am a noob at frontend changes and my state switches from despondency to regret at having left my big tech job, and at times brief hope when I make some progress before I inevitably get stuck. For people who have dabbled in both, is it smart to endure and gain competency in frontend (react, redux etc) or should I try to stick with backend with the occasional frontend task that keeps me growing but not despondent hopefully. Ultimately, I want to grow in the management track whenever I get there.

Ask HN: How to start developing critical thinking? 7 by L0in | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm seeking practical advice on how to develop critical thinking. I need it in my life. I want to have independent though, and not be bound to anyone's view of the world without forming my own. Especially in our age it's a life or death skills to have. I my critical thinking skills are very poor for my age.

Article URL: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/25630/major-mathematical-advances-past-age-fifty Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31521721 Points: 29 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/uc2i8FH via IFTTT

Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use today? 4 by leszekzawadzki | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I asked a similar question a couple of days ago, but for some reason it didn't manage to get to 'Ask HN'. However, before it sunk into oblivion, I got some really interesting comments [1]. So I'd like to give my tiny research one last chance. ;-) So the question is: Which app or tool (if any!) that is no longer developed or supported — or perhaps so far from mainstream that it’s practically dead — you used to use a lot, like a lot and now miss a lot? Can be pro or personal. Feel free to share more than one, if you like. Thanks for any comment. :-) [1] https://ift.tt/8XVmzOi

Article URL: https://www.perceptivetravel.com/issues/1218/kelly.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518605 Points: 24 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/qmtEzPi via IFTTT

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/power-beaming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31521665 Points: 12 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/kMbVPC4 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Would you find it helpful if candidates rated you, Uber-style? 2 by s16h | 1 comments on Hacker News. As an interviewer, imagine if candidates anonymously gave you a rating and answered a few questions about the interview (e.g., did the interviewer give you enough opportunity to shine?). Can you imagine finding this helpful? How do you think you'd feel about it over time?

Ask HN: What are some of your failed startup experiences and lessons learned? 3 by shreythecray | 0 comments on Hacker News. I work for a small startup and although it’s been going well so far, I’m sure that a lot of you have thoughts on what can make or break a startup. Or share advice that can help drastically improve the experience working at a startup. Really just want to have a good experience and learn from your journeys.

Ask HN: What Happened to Reddit? 98 by skdotdan | 117 comments on Hacker News. Terrible UX, mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point). Before it wasn't like this. Did the Reddit board voluntarily or involuntarily cause this via technical decisions, or it's just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much?

Article URL: https://newatlas.com/science/tomatoes-crispr-genetic-engineering-vitamin-d/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508084 Points: 31 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/YOW63B0 via IFTTT

Terrible UX, mostly useless answers (most replies to posts are either poorly sarcastic or not replying to the actual point). Before it wasn't like this. Did the Reddit board voluntarily or involuntarily cause this via technical decisions, or it's just unavoidable to get this degradation after the userbase grows too much? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31508253 Points: 79 # Comments: 84 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UQgZSPr via IFTTT

Hi HN! I’m Justin, founder and CEO of Arctype, and we’re very excited to share Arctype with the community. Arctype is a cross-platform GUI (soon to be open-sourced) to manage and query your databases, with built-in collaboration and visualization. It currently supports Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite, as well as newer-generation databases like ClickHouse, PlanetScale, and Yugabyte (and more coming very soon!). Think of Arctype as “phpMyAdmin meets Postman”. Most of our team grew up learning how to program using the LAMP stack and we missed the experience of interacting with our databases using phpMyAdmin. We wanted to bring back the experience of a simple app that lets you explore and query your databases, but with an updated and modernized interface. At the same time, we were heavily inspired by the ease-of-use and collaboration features of Postman. We wanted to create a super useful, collaborative app like Postman that your whole team uses for development—but for databases instead of API...

Instagram forcing users to login to browse 5 by digital79 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I guess 2022 is the year of the "Paywall". I have been unable to view any of my favorite bands posts on Instagram without being forced to login. This is absurd! Anyone having this issue?

Today I launched an Imba course for Scrimba.com. Imba is an amazing language for building web applications, that deserves more attention. Watch my announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSIsvZJhow Take the course (it's free): https://www.scrimba.com/learn/imba Some context: I fell in love with the Imba programming language a couple years ago and quit my job to spend all my time building projects with Imba. The first one being TaskTXT ( https://www.tasktxt.com ), a plaintext notepad with built-in timers. It's full of UI details that were a joy to build with Imba. Trying to build things like this with React in the past honestly made me feel dumb. Imba ( https://www.imba.io ) is a language that compiles to Javascript, like TypeScript or JSX. Imba's syntax diverges much more from Javascript, looking more like Python or Ruby. It's compatible with Javascript and Typescript and NPM modules. It also has fantastic VSCode tooling and even supports TypeScript types. ...

Ask HN: If you are bootstrapping looking for your feedback on my next book 2 by skmurphy | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have a final draft ready of the second volume in my Working Capital series. This one is about "Assembling Your Team." I am looking for feedback and critique: I am most concerned about flow, organization, and anything important that you feel is missing. Here are the chapters: Building your Team Finding a Co-Founder Forming an Advisory Board Finding Early Employees Contractors, Suppliers, and Partners Activating Your Network Coming to a Working Arrangement My goal is to provide inspiration and support for founders who have stepped onto the entrepreneurial roller coaster. You are doing the hard work of changing the world. It's never dull and it’s never easy. I hope that this book helps you with insights and stories that renew your gumption. This book is part of a series of “Working Capital” books intended for early-stage entrepreneurs to familiarize themse...

Article URL: http://m1el.github.io/oculus-tls-extract/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31494825 Points: 57 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/AS9iEL0 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Elixir as a First Language? 5 by freedomben | 1 comments on Hacker News. I was recently asked, "Is Elixir a good first language for someone to learn who has never done (serious) programming before?" After thinking for a minute, I realized that at some point in the last 20 - 25 years I really lost touch with this area. My first language was C, and I did and still do think that was a fantastic first language because you can start very simply and don't have to learn a ton of programming concepts prior to writing some code. In my experience, learning to code is much more likely to succeed if you can write something (even hello world) and iterate on it. For example, working with people learning Java as their first language, they really struggle because you can't really do a hello world without encountering objects, classes, static keyword, public/private, and other things. I love functional programming and Elixir, but I do worry that it has a few things like that ...

Article URL: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/bugs-are-evolving-to-eat-plastic-study-finds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31495836 Points: 35 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/sCqA4oM via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.05.20.492834v1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31496375 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/YUPofIF via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is your present sentiment on GraphQL? 4 by frabjoused | 5 comments on Hacker News. A few years ago GraphQL was looked at by many as a Next Big Thing. I'm looking for a comparison from developers who have now implemented REST APIs as well as GraphQL APIs in production. What is your preference now and why?

Ask HN: Do You Miss OOP? 3 by parentheses | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've been writing Typescript in a shared repo lately. I've noticed that rather than using classes, many opt for functions and data (which is the "FP way"). I can't help but want OOP for situations where encapsulation is helpful. Creating boundaries around code with similar level of abstraction is useful. The opposite is what we have in Typescript - every file is a bag of functions and data with no clear distinction between parts that may do file IO and business logic. After re-reading my whining, maybe this is more of a "Tell HN". lol.

Article URL: https://masterwp.com/5-things-id-want-to-see-improved-in-wordpress-core/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31483120 Points: 24 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UBjw0bK via IFTTT

Ask HN: Missing interesting topics due to title rule 3 by firebaze | 1 comments on Hacker News. Seldomly there is an article or post waiting to be discovered but hidden behind a innocuous title. An example would be something a corporation is obligated to publish due to legal reasons, but it is not in their interest to drag attention to whatever it is. Of course I understand that one of the pillars of the success of HN is this specific rule ("do not editorialize"). But is there an escape hatch for such cases?

Article URL: https://sharedphysics.com/everything-is-important/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31481888 Points: 16 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/DTaqcHj via IFTTT

Article URL: https://blog.merovius.de/posts/2022-05-23-operator-constraints/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31482256 Points: 10 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/buUXW10 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Solo founders, what’s your got-hit-by-a-bus strategy? 10 by herodoturtle | 10 comments on Hacker News. If you’re the sole person in charge of codebase, hosting, support, etc. - what sort of measures do you have in place to support your users/customers in the event that your life is unexpectedly taken? Apologies for the morbid question. I suspect this is a real concern that is shared by many solo founders.

I have thousands of online accounts, hundreds of thousands of saved items (likes, bookmarks, papers, books, movies, videos, photos, files, open tabs, tasks), hundreds of inbox and feeds, and they just can't seem to stop growing. Inbox zero is now a rare occurrence, only made possible by abusing Gmail's snooze function. My phone, laptop, and clouds are full. Using personal finance analogies, should I: - Reduce my spending (unsubscribe, stop consuming feeds)? - Pay back my debt (consume the saved items)? Perhaps using the debt-snowball method? - Get more credit (file storage) so that I can spend (save items) more? - Declare bankruptcy (delete everything)? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31471127 Points: 51 # Comments: 37 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/AL5hPKX via IFTTT

Ask HN: How can I stop my inbox/wishlist/bookmarks/tabs/todos from growing? 43 by miguelrochefort | 30 comments on Hacker News. I have thousands of online accounts, hundreds of thousands of saved items (likes, bookmarks, papers, books, movies, videos, photos, files, open tabs, tasks), hundreds of inbox and feeds, and they just can't seem to stop growing. Inbox zero is now a rare occurrence, only made possible by abusing Gmail's snooze function. My phone, laptop, and clouds are full. Using personal finance analogies, should I: - Reduce my spending (unsubscribe, stop consuming feeds)? - Pay back my debt (consume the saved items)? Perhaps using the debt-snowball method? - Get more credit (file storage) so that I can spend (save items) more? - Declare bankruptcy (delete everything)?

Is equity the only way to incentivise contributors in the absence of salary? 3 by ybalkind | 6 comments on Hacker News. Firstly, I'm not from the startup world, have never been in one, and dont know all the standard models, so forgive me if this sounds naive. But I'm working on a startup idea. I'm looking to bring on some contributors to help with content and business development and I can't pay unless I get funded which I'm hoping to avoid for now. Offering equity feels like overkill for the type of work. I'm basically looking to get some freelance contributors to work on a risk basis, but with an overly generous upside if the business works. I'm envisioning something like a revenue share type agreement. Needless to say the contributors would have to strongly believe in the idea in order to take this risk. But if we could put that aside for a moment, I'm asking if there are existing models in the ballpark of what I am describing so that I don't hav...

Article URL: https://github.com/hlorus/CAD_Sketcher Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470482 Points: 19 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/PuQw98R via IFTTT

Ask HN: How would you make quick money? 3 by spark3k | 4 comments on Hacker News. If you had your current skills, but were starting from scratch, and had exactly 7 days until your cash ran out completely, what would you do?

Article URL: https://kinopio.club/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31460626 Points: 49 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://kinopio.club/ via IFTTT

I was just told in the supermarket card payments are down in -all- supermarkets in my neighborhood. The internet doesn't seem to know much about it yet. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31460883 Points: 56 # Comments: 44 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/U9b2ZPd via IFTTT

Is VISA down everywhere in the US? 46 by sly010 | 34 comments on Hacker News. I was just told in the supermarket card payments are down in -all- supermarkets in my neighborhood. The internet doesn't seem to know much about it yet.

Ask HN: Preferred SQL Auto-Formatter? 5 by ISL | 2 comments on Hacker News. Is there a good black-equivalent for SQL?

Article URL: https://aztecreports.com/human-rights-official-accuses-mexicos-judiciary-of-obstructing-investigation-into-the-disappearance-of-43-students-in-2014/2884/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31459167 Points: 26 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/d5ejpEB via IFTTT

Co-Founder Dating 2 by dazlamphibian | 0 comments on Hacker News. Here is what I don’t understand: Every VC, consultant, incubator, and accelerator including YC, advises to not co-found a startup with someone you did not go to college with, worked on a project together with, or know very well before jumping on building a startup. Peter Thiel said, something along the lines of it does not matter how great your idea is and your talents, if you tell me you met your co-founder at a networking event, or something along, I won’t fund you. Now, it seems to me that a networking event is way the hell better to meet and get to know a co-founder than a speed dating site and a tinder version for online meeting and dating a co-founder. I mean what’s behind this, really? Are they desperate to sign up as many startups as possible, are they looking for a couple of co-founders that look like they are a match made in IT, or have they just simply realized that, hey, if you meet someone online or at a co...

Ask HN: Should I learn the tech behind crypto even if I don't want to own any? 12 by rg111 | 18 comments on Hacker News. I have to be extremely picky about stuff I want to learn. I lack time, and moreover, if I actually want to reach a non-trivial level of skills in a particular field, I have to spend serious amount of time, abandoning other wishes/ideas. So, my question is- is the Crypto tech, like blockchain, worth learning? Will there be applications beyond decentralised finance, web3, etc.? Will learning the tech make me a better "technologist" in any way? I want to be clear: I do not want to buy or own cryptocoins. Web3 does not look interesting to me at this point. Should I still learn about blockchains?

Article URL: https://twitter.com/albertxu__/status/1527703889104863232 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31451114 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/albertxu__/status/1527703889104863232 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Updates on Jetbrains Fleet? 37 by sarahdellysse | 4 comments on Hacker News. It's been like half a year since it was first announced in closed beta; I never got an invite to the beta, and on occasion I look it up to see if it's ready for general consumption yet. Those who are in the beta, what's your thoughts on this editor?

Over the past few years I've met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter. Many of these people are fresh out of college and the ‘industry’ puts them through leetcode/hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard. I’ve seen the kind of questions these rounds have and quite frankly, if I graduated this year, there’s no way I’m going to get a job. Ever since 'Cracking the coding interview' was released, every company's interview process has become like Google's and Google didn't have a particularly great interview process to start with.[0][1] Now, there are several GitHub repositories that prescribe 3-4 month grinds on leetcode questions to "crack" the interview. And people do go through this grind. The people who do manage to crack these rounds are not necessarily good at programming either because the time they spent do...

Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leetcode’ 32 by mikymoothrowa | 73 comments on Hacker News. Over the past few years I've met people who are really good programmers when it comes to putting together a full back end system , creating a very nice front end or creating any kind of app for that matter. Many of these people are fresh out of college and the ‘industry’ puts them through leetcode/hackerrank style rounds that are needlessly hard. I’ve seen the kind of questions these rounds have and quite frankly, if I graduated this year, there’s no way I’m going to get a job. Ever since 'Cracking the coding interview' was released, every company's interview process has become like Google's and Google didn't have a particularly great interview process to start with.[0][1] Now, there are several GitHub repositories that prescribe 3-4 month grinds on leetcode questions to "crack" the interview. And people do go through this grind. The people...

Ask HN: What do you think of GraphQL? 2 by burtonator | 0 comments on Hacker News. I created a poll on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/socializ3r/status/1527721872296665089 ... go vote but would love to hear your thoughts on GraphQL. I'm not going to bias the vote by giving my personal opinion but would love to hear yours.

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Ask HN: Non-US Person Incorporating in the US 7 by Startup_hustle | 11 comments on Hacker News. I have two questions to non-us startup founders who incorporated in the US: 1. Can I as a non-US citizen own an LLC and "work" for the LLC as an owner outside the US (meaning invoicing to customers in EU from the LLC)? 2. How did you guys managed to work for your US startup as a non-US citizen, without a working visa? PS: Can anyone recommend a good lawyer?

Ask HN: How are you preparing for the recession? 19 by noobrunner | 10 comments on Hacker News. Obviously, if you believe there will be one in the next 3-6 months! My question is for someone in tech, but of course, please feel free to chime in even if you are not in tech 1. What are the obvious Dos and Don'ts? 2. Were you around during the last one? How did you survive it / What got you through it? 3. What did you learn from the last one? Any dumb mistakes you made last time that you wish you didn't? What are some of the common mistakes people make?

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-psp-security-protocol-is-now-open-source Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31437033 Points: 27 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/I4MEciF via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why aren't we more scared of Moore's Law ending/slowing down? 6 by moorequestion | 4 comments on Hacker News. So much of our progress is currently dependent on computers getting faster to do more fantastical things. Why isn't everyone talking about our slow progress in increasing processor speed as a big concern? Or is it actually not that big a deal?

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/05/18/manifest-v3-in-firefox-recap-next-steps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425256 Points: 16 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2k8LSr7 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31426039 Points: 17 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/latiJY7 via IFTTT

Shell plugin I wrote writes your Git commands 4 by tom_doerr | 4 comments on Hacker News. This shell plugin I wrote turns out to be really good at writing git commands. The git commands below are AI generated from the comments. ``` printcon-ml git:(master) # show the date the file fastai_main.py was first added to the repo git log --diff-filter=A --follow --format="%ad" --date=short -- fastai_main.py printcon-ml git:(master) # show the commit before the 2021-12-04 git log --before=2021-12-04 printcon-ml git:(develop) # show all git branches and their creation dates git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname:short), %(committerdate:short)' refs/heads/ develop, 2022-04-28 multiprocessing_manager, 2022-04-28 master, 2022-01-11 plotting_upgrade, 2022-01-04 image_samples, 2022-01-03 label_output, 2021-10-12 percentages_output, 2021-08-10 add_model_argument, 2021-08-10 model_9, 2021-08-05 model_7, 2021-08-05 ``` [Zsh version](https://ift.tt/82J0nKE) [Fish v...

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/googles-subsea-fiber-optics-explained Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31425523 Points: 37 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/kWVQeHr via IFTTT

In a combined filesystem and storage session at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), Chuck Lever wanted to discuss the need for a permanent, globally unique ID for network filesystems. He was joined by Hannes Reinecke who has worked on the problem for NVMe storage devices; Lever said something along those lines is needed for NFSv4. He was hoping to find a solution during the session, though it would seem that the solution may lie in user space—and documentation. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/y7C9Xp3 via IFTTT

Ask HN: C/C++ web framework with routes (like Node.js, Python Flask) 7 by josephernest | 3 comments on Hacker News. Node.js, and Python Flask or Bottle micro-frameworks make it possible to create a server with routes like this: from bottle import route, run @route('/hello') def index(): return 'hello world' @route('/news') def news(): ... run(port=8080) What are the most popular solutions like this in C or C++?

Ask HN: Joining startups of different sizes/different roles 2 by grvdrm | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am asking a question that oversimplifies lots of things about companies, teams, and other aspects of evaluating new roles, but here goes. I have two offers from tech start-ups that are quite different from each other: [1] 50 person company. $50M+ A. Selling cybersecurity software to financial services. Sales role, though I'm quite technical, so focused more on that flavor of sales. This is the CEO's third company, with two prior successful exits. [2] 8 person company. $10M seed. CEO is a friend. #2 (in seniority) in company most likely but less structured role, probably focusing part on product, part on sales, with key goal to help boost the insurance knowledge of the company. Helping build the company up and sell/iterate the product that is a real-time data reporting platform for insurance MGAs. I think of it as a connectivity and data business rather than a SaaS platform (l...

Article URL: https://www.bramadams.dev/projects/cousins-or-dating Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31414044 Points: 23 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/0ZPbBXp via IFTTT

Someone claimed my domain and turned into a porn site 3 by onmyway133 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Someone on SO just commented that my "fantageek dot com domain" has been claimed by some p*rn site. I forgot to renew this domain and now it is in the wrong hand, and my apps are still using the umbrella name Fantageek Labs

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-air-force-says-it-conducted-successful-hypersonic-weapon-test-2022-05-17/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31412983 Points: 28 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Nase2mV via IFTTT

Bcachefs is a longstanding out-of-tree filesystem that grew out of the bcache caching layer that has been in the kernel for nearly ten years. Based on a session led by Kent Overstreet at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM), though, it would seem that bcachefs is likely to be heading upstream soon. He intends to start the process toward mainline inclusion over the next six months or so. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/GuFxK9B via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is there a descentralized DB with a simple social conflict resolution? 2 by madacol | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been thinking it might be practical to build a simple decentralized database, where agents just know each other, so conflict resolution does not need to be so complicated and rely more on the social layer. I think this applies to most databases, but I'm particularly thinking of internal enterprise databases, some social networks, any federated database system, and different devices of a single user I'm thinking of this features: 1- Append-only?, full history of operations. Deletes / edits do not remove data, they only modify the "active state" 2- Agents are public keys or similar (DIDs?) 3- Operations are signed, and receivers verify if operation is valid, and sender is allowed 4- Operations form a Merkel-DAG (similar to git, they link to the tips of current "active state", like a commit/merge in git) So far I think I've basi...

Ask HN: Can the US fix regulatory capture? 8 by DoubleDerper | 2 comments on Hacker News. From the FCC to SEC to CDC lobbying and rotating door hiring practices, is it possible to engineer a legal framework to ensure public trust in our institutions?

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/33645/the-incredible-story-of-the-us-armys-earth-shaking-off-road-land-trains Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31400812 Points: 119 # Comments: 44 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Z4OHpSi via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2022/05/16/prestons-paradox/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31401006 Points: 32 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/u8oW6d3 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/walmart-cant-find-enough-store-managers-even-at-200-000-a-year-11652619602 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31399654 Points: 17 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/jNFEIC1 via IFTTT

Ask HN: SaaS that you pay for that still bites you? 4 by sharmi | 0 comments on Hacker News. What do you wish changed?

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/16/science/electronics-silicon-gallium.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31400302 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/LhpMV14 via IFTTT

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It is perhaps unusual to have a kernel tracing developer leading a filesystem session, Steven Rostedt said, at the beginning of such a session at the 2022 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-management and BPF Summit (LSFMM). But he was doing so to try to find a good way to dynamically allocate kernel data structures for some of the pseudo-filesystems, such as sysfs, debugfs, and tracefs, in the kernel. Avoiding static allocations would save memory, especially on systems that are not actually using any of the files in those filesystems. from LWN.net https://lwn.net/Articles/895111/ via IFTTT

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Ask HN: I need a node/graph based backup solution 2 by samstave | 0 comments on Hacker News. A network diagram of sorts, with the central node is the Backup Router. Connected to it are all my devices. I can drill into the Router for various endpoints. I drag a device/folder between any node or drill-down-folder to drop a sync-link between locations. Right-click on object for sync details. Scroll out to select pods, racks, clusters, whatever. DropBox on DMT.

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421522001756 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31389645 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/29tOcxT via IFTTT

Article URL: https://paulbutler.org/2022/the-problem-with-bitcoin-miners/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31389647 Points: 88 # Comments: 50 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/oQ1yMXS via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to be enough smart to be a mathematician? 2 by eimrine | 0 comments on Hacker News. Did your mathematician-ness came from some decisions from childhood? Some supernatural brain abilities? Lots of training? Desire to be like a god? Something else?

Ask HN: Senior Engineers with ADHD, any mental/physical structures for work? 3 by neo_optimus | 1 comments on Hacker News. I recently got promoted to a senior position involving one of the top distributed system projects in the world. The journey till here was very strenuous for myself, and the next level seems very difficult to reach without better mental structures in place. Even becoming a senior required putting in a lot of extra effort in my day to day activities so that I can barely achieve all objectives by the deadline, compared to my teammates with a similar workload. Because of my executive dysfunction, I'm having a hard time with the following things and I need to put in extra effort (on order of multiple hours everyday). It took me many, many months to develop simple planning and organization abilities, for eg. planning for the day at a granularity that doesn't overwhelm me and yet provide me a good enough overview of tasks so that I don't miss out on anything....

Ask HN: Whats more important in regards to finding a new job? 2 by kbrisso | 1 comments on Hacker News. Would you spend time on a side project hosted on GitHub or practicing algorithms? I'm finding myself chasing my tail at times. I do have a full time job but I want to find something else to do. I would like to get job using Electron/React or React native (don't hate - I find Electron fun to build desktop apps) so I'm building a project that uses Electron/React so I can get the experience.

Ask HN: Which websites have good and efficient design? 3 by Hbruz0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking to improve my website's design and I'd love to get some inspiration from you. I'd like to avoid a website where the code looks like if you know what I mean. I'm looking for websites that are efficient, clear to navigate and do not scream "I am a startup, please buy my product". The hackernews website is a great example, albeit not appealing to the non-savvy users. Which websites should I look at ?

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Ask HN: Food Addiction 30 by magusd | 44 comments on Hacker News. I'm very obsessive and it makes me very susceptible to addictions. I have very poor moderation but I've got strong will power. I was able to stopped smoking, drinking alcohol and playing video games by just getting rid of all the "paraphernalia" and quitting cold turkey. After a good year or so of complete abstinence, I was able to introduce those things back in my life and exercise moderation. I could drink socially and play video games without harming my work productivity, etc. Now I'm struggling with food addiction, which ended up being my escape valve and receiving all my obsession after I quit everything else. I've tried fasting and I was able to do 18h fasts daily with no problem and even go over a week without eating, just on water and herbal tea. But that completely messed up my habits, metabolism and relationship with food, and I'm now struggling to follow a schedule and any kind o...

Article URL: https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/13/how-bad-government-policy-is-fueling-the-infant-formula-shortage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31379386 Points: 24 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/emXxo3g via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to make Windows 11 suck less? 4 by runjake | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a UNIX native spending more time in Windows 11 lately (from Linux and macOS). What are your best tips to make Windows 11 suck less? Tips be could be for installation, bloat removal, preferred apps, registry hacks, security, daily usage, etc.

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Ask HN: How to build a brand as a Product Manager? 3 by gogo61 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As a developer, it is relatively easy to build stuff and then show it to public. What can i do as a PM to build a brand?

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Ask HN: Any other self taught devs terrified of interviewing these days? 6 by ramesh31 | 5 comments on Hacker News. When I got into this industry 10 years ago, the world was a completely different place. Bootcamps weren't a thing. Computer Science programs were still something just for the nerds. And the industry was almost entirely autodidacts like myself who grew up immersed in technology and did it for the joy of it. Fast forward a few years, and now literally everyone and their uncle wants to be a software dev, and CS programs are churning out hundreds of thousands of graduates. The thought of competing against someone credentialled with 5 years experience vs. myself with 10 years and no degree, feels hopeless. It almost seems like the path I took would be completely impossible today.

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Security updates have been issued by Fedora (microcode_ctl, mingw-SDL2_ttf, seamonkey, and thunderbird), Mageia (cifs-utils, gerbv, golang, libcaca, libxml2, openssl, python-pillow, python-rencode, python-twisted, python-ujson, slurm, and sqlite3), Red Hat (gzip, kernel, kpatch-patch, podman, rsync, subversion:1.10, and zlib), Scientific Linux (gzip), Slackware (curl), SUSE (clamav), and Ubuntu (curl, firefox, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.13, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.13, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.13, linux-hwe-5.13, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-raspi, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-azure-4.15, linux-dell300x, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-snapdragon, linux, linux-aws, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fde, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-gkeop-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-oracle, linux-oracle-5.4, linux-raspi, linux-raspi-5.4, linux, linux-aws, linux-kv...

Ask HN: Who decided copy+paste should copy styling/formatting? 226 by unbroken | 159 comments on Hacker News. I don't know if you have noticed that if you copy+paste into email pages/apps like outlook and gmail they bring over all the formatting and styling of the source. That is, it pastes the text in with things like the font color and background color, and the font type itself, which then become the styling for the rest of the email if you keep typing as well. Who came up with this? It makes absolutely no sense that anyone would want to transplant styling/formatting into an email, where there is no guarantee (indeed, little chance) that it will mesh well. It's just baffling.

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Ask HN: What's the “best” way for a senior to begin learning how to code? 8 by kcarter80 | 14 comments on Hacker News. My mother told me her 72 year old friend wants to learn "how to code" and that she mentioned Python. She's starting from zero, so my first thought was that could be prohibitively complicated to get to "Hello World". I'm interested in suggestions about what language/platform/resources I should suggest. Something she could show off to my mom and their friends would probably have value to her.

Article URL: https://hugoconf.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31343294 Points: 10 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://hugoconf.io/ via IFTTT

Over on the Python Software Foundation (PSF) blog, Alex Waygood has a report from this year's Python Language Summit. There are reports from each of the nine sessions, including " Python without the GIL ", The 'Faster CPython' project: 3.12 and beyond ", " F-Strings in the grammar ", lightning talks , and more. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/9JhLfp2 via IFTTT

Google Cloud released a new database product (AlloyDB) 14 by GabeWeiss_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. So this is a thing. Google launched a new database product today at Google I/O. #GoogleAlloyDB is a new managed #PostgreSQL compatible database. Optimized for heavy workloads, it's got some significant improvements across the board, and in particular it handles heavy read workloads without affecting write performance. The launch blog is here ↓ https://ift.tt/QJiNWwF And there's a blog post about how the storage layer has been optimized for some of the performance improvements ↓ https://ift.tt/sl1Xx8N