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Tell HN: Netlify changing Starter plan 4 by HarveyKandola | 2 comments on Hacker News. In a nutshell.. In 30 days, our Starter plan will require that GitHub repositories connected to your Netlify account are either linked to Personal GitHub accounts or set for public visibility. If you have repositories using an Organization-owned GitHub account set to private visibility, you will need to move to the Netlify Pro plan or above.

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Article URL: https://www.movably.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31936110 Points: 29 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.movably.com via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is your development strategy? 2 by thowerawayer | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, what is your development strategy? I am a relatively experienced hobby developer who recently joined the workforce. In one of my recent projects, which as a small solo project, I noticed that I was not putting in my best effort when it came to the quality of my code and work. I was so focused on the hand-off that I forgot some parts of the main feature, which ended up not working. My question is: how can I prevent this from happening again? Do you use lists or mental models to remember the main objectives? And how do you assess your own work to ensure that you didn't miss anything?

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VyGlSKsYeo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31934400 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VyGlSKsYeo via IFTTT

Ask HN: As an URM where are the hand out jobs people mention all the time here 2 by trwayurm | 14 comments on Hacker News. Not trying to bait, I've lurked here enough and I'm trying to have a good faith discussion. As an URM who grew up in what would be considered the hood and went on to get a non-CS STEM degree (think eng/math/phys/chem,which is where my programming experience comes from) where are these jobs that people mention in anecdotal stories that URM are handed despite not being qualified? For all the diversity companies seem to signal, and everyone seems to complain about people being given jobs unfairly, my job search has not reflected that. Might be despite my STEM degree I'm not good enough, but the lack of interviews I'm landing means I'm being filtered out from the start. The way people make it out to be here, those jobs are handed out. So are companies BSing? HN comments BSing? or who is getting these URM jobs? Does anyone have any advice or willing...

Article URL: https://github.blog/2022-06-29-improve-git-monorepo-performance-with-a-file-system-monitor/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31924554 Points: 6 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/oml4W5u via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/business/media/substack-layoffs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31924622 Points: 33 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Xm5xEQt via IFTTT

Ask HN: Where can I follow JWS telescope news? 2 by Joe_Boogz | 1 comments on Hacker News. Interested in following daily/weekly type news on the James Webb Space telescope. Usually I do a search on YouTube but lately I've noticed an uptick in spam accounts making this painful. - YouTube channels? - Websites?

Article URL: https://blog.plover.com/2022/06/29/#tips Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923429 Points: 45 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/prj8iUf via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tiktok-fcc-1.6505269 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31923483 Points: 84 # Comments: 67 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/CfV6A7G via IFTTT

Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement? 2 by assemblylang | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, who here doesn't use a phone and what do you use as a replacement? I've been using my phone less and less these days, and it feels like a chore to use a modern phone now. Touch interface is slow and imprecise, apps and webapps are slow, bloated, and keep removing useful features, adblock on some systems are clunky or non-existent, VoIP and SMS are basically dead, the interface changes nearly every year (on android at least), and many other small grievances. I can get things done so much quicker on a computer with a keyboard compared to the touch interface on a phone, using a keyboard and a full desktop environment is so precise, quick, and just enjoyable to use. However, I am still hanging onto my phone for a few legacy uses, what are some good replacements for these: * Mobile wifi * VoIP * SMS Also, I am still interested in mobile computing as a concept, ...

Ask HN: How can I make links open in Incognito by default? 2 by gnicholas | 0 comments on Hacker News. Whenever I click a link on my computer (e.g, from email or Messages), it opens by default in my browser of choice, but never in an Incognito window. Nearly 100% of the time, I want it to open in Incognito, which I use whenever I'm visiting a site that I don't need to be logged into. My current workaround is to right-click the link, copy link, switch to my browser, open a new Incognito window, paste in the link and hit return. While this doesn't seem like that big a deal, it's actually a lot of clicks (11 key presses) — compared to just one click to open a link normally. Additionally, it puts the pasted link into my pasteboard manager, which is unnecessary and annoying when I go to retrieve a snippet that is now further down in the stack. What's the best way to handle this? I've considered switching my default browser to a different browser that completely bloc...

Article URL: https://thereload.com/new-california-ag-website-leaks-massive-trove-of-gun-owner-private-information/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31910724 Points: 72 # Comments: 83 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/StkhZ6A via IFTTT

Article URL: https://v2.nl/publishing/tiny-mining-a-handbook-for-internal-extraction Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31910798 Points: 16 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/vt1oAG7 via IFTTT

Article URL: http://lofi.limo/blog/retry-xmlhttprequest-carefully Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31911035 Points: 15 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SkN4LxZ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.grumpygamer.com/rtmi_trailer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31911065 Points: 44 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/q3cuUgn via IFTTT

Ask HN: CI in 2022 3 by parentheses | 1 comments on Hacker News. What would you use for CI in 2022? Why? Is there some killer feature you like/want/whatever? I've heard some praise for Buildkite and Cirrus CI.

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-stolen-pii-and-deepfakes-used-to-apply-for-remote-tech-jobs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31908874 Points: 59 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/MQjLin9 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News? 3 by metadat | 2 comments on Hacker News. I hate how unclear the degree of echo chamber is with Google News. It also keeps showing me the same articles for days or weeks after I've already seen and read them. Are ther any real contenders out there? Ideally it'd aggregate all news across the globe and let me browse by region, perhaps with automatic translation for non-english articles. The idea of a global, non country-centric front page is highly appealing to me (I want to deprogram myself from the western slant, it possible).

Snorkel AI is looking for core front end engineers 2 by guharakesh | 0 comments on Hacker News. Snorkel AI | https://snorkel.ai/ | Senior Frontend Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE | SF Bay Area Just a quick bit about Snorkel. We're backed by top tier investors (https://ift.tt/YpiSDed) and just raised our Series C last year, putting us in a really well strong position to continue building Snorkel Flow and our business. Our customers include some of the world's largest enterprises — top US banks, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Chubb, F500 biotechs, and more (https://ift.tt/3KyWre8) — and we're empowering their data science teams to build high quality models in just hours or days instead of weeks or months. But we're really just getting started on our journey, and there are so many diverse opportunities for having impact across the company. As a senior front-end engineer, you'll build amazing interfaces that will empower developers and non-developers alike to ra...

Article URL: https://www.learningtypescript.com/articles/extreme-explorations-of-typescripts-type-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31898420 Points: 42 # Comments: 21 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/eHxftJn via IFTTT

Ask HN: Where can I find open source icons for my apps? 5 by moomoo11 | 8 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, Short of hiring a designer (I don't have the $$$ at the moment) or learning how to make icons (I've never even used photoshop..), what would you recommend me for finding open source icons? I'm trying to find suitable icons for broader "topics", such as: - Nature - Sports - Pets - Arts Much love, thanks!

Ask HN: Are Emojis valid CSS selectors? 2 by asciiresort | 0 comments on Hacker News. Browsers seem to support it fine, but the W3C CSS validator ( https://ift.tt/CxNSsjM) fails. The W3C HTML validator is also fine with emojis.

I have (or had as it seems now) a spreadsheet in google docs tracking important business metrics. I was trying to look at it today and got the message: "We're sorry. You can't access this item because it is in violation of our Terms of Service. If you feel this is in error, please request a review. Find out more about this topic at the Google Drive Help Center." If I click the request a review I get: "404. That's an error. Sorry, this item cannot be found or is not available." This spreadsheet simply had metrics and domains. I find it near impossible it was violating any terms of service unless there is a shadow blacklist of domain names which somehow trigger a file being removed. And I'm left with no recourse to even request a review or get my file back? I turned on airplane mode on my phone and was able to get an old cached copy, export was only possible as a PDF. So at least I have a slightly stale version of raw data that way. Even as a paying cu...

Ask HN: Is anybody tracking Teslas self-driving progress over time? 2 by MrThoughtful | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have been googling a bit, but not found anything: Is somebody out there driving the same route again and again , tracking the number of disengagements over time?

Ask HN: Is Life Short? 2 by psikomanjak | 3 comments on Hacker News. Young[21] self-taught and working a Senior position (getting paid really good). Do I continue working for companies getting paid better and saving/investing the money? Or do I quit and take bigger risks like try to build my own thing/startup because I can get back to a job later?

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886687 Points: 83 # Comments: 79 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/8MvG7lt via IFTTT

Ask HN: How on earth are you using your Apple computer with external displays? 15 by n42 | 13 comments on Hacker News. I own four different Apple computers -- a 2017 MacBook Pro, an M1 MacBook Air, an M1 MacBook Pro, and most recently a maxed out Mac Studio. I also have had in that timespan three different Windows desktops that I have built and a ThinkPad running Windows or Linux depending on the mood. I have spent countless dollars on cables and adapters in an attempt to find the magic combination. I have read DisplayPort specs, I know every brand of certified cable. I now know way more than I would ever care to know about DisplayPort and HDMI protocols. I have tried 4 different brands and models of monitor. For one of those models, I had three of the exact same model. All combinations work flawlessly with anything that is not one of the Apple devices. I have all but eliminated any of these components being the problem. Depending on the device and the day I will get: - Visual artifac...

Ask HN: How do you future-proof yourself? 2 by behnamoh | 2 comments on Hacker News. Been using proprietary OSs (Windows, macOS) and I think fundamentally they're rock solid. But I also fear the day that Apple and MS either go bankrupt or just stop supporting their OSs. It happens all the time at a smaller scale, like, each version of macOS breaks some features/apps that I'm used to, and MS stops supporting Windows versions after a few years. I always thought Linux would be the most future-proof OS, but choosing something like Fedora entails the same problems as above (something being maintained by a corporation), and other distros seem too distracted that I don't know if most of them will be around in a few years anyway. Same thing with my tools. Atom was dropped in favor of VSC and Zed, despite having millions of users. Again, it seems something like Vim or Emacs would be the most future-proof alternative. Sure, VSCode is supposedly open-source, but I don't think peo...

Article URL: https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reading-ourselves-to-death Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885615 Points: 15 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/JUn93DB via IFTTT

I built an app for my university in the US. They love using it. Now I want to charge a subscription ($16 per month), but I am an international student with F1 Visa. Should I form an LLC or incorporate? If yes, how, should I find a US partner? Or, I shouldn’t charge them at all? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877840 Points: 7 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/js3VwS8 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.cosfone.com/arm-original-operating-system-risc-os-still-alive-after-35-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31878100 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/bh4d32l via IFTTT

Ask HN: Built an app for my university. Faculty loved it. Should I charge them? 4 by KhoiUna | 2 comments on Hacker News. I built an app for my university in the US. They love using it. Now I want to charge a subscription ($16 per month), but I am an international student with F1 Visa. Should I form an LLC or incorporate? If yes, how, should I find a US partner? Or, I shouldn’t charge them at all?

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihz2WY-E2C8 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31874943 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihz2WY-E2C8 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2022/06/23/most-of-the-worlds-grain-is-not-eaten-by-humans Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877373 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/CdjqJtV via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.newsnationnow.com/solutions/police-are-fighting-crime-by-looking-at-buildings-not-criminals/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877444 Points: 11 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/YpT8ZF1 via IFTTT

Hey, Wanted to share what my friend and I built — Feather. It provides investors with all imaginable financial data, without breaking the bank. Effectively 90 percent of the Bloomberg Terminal, at 5 percent of the price. We just opened sign ups for early access — all you need to sign up is your email address. We’ll open access to the software in order of sign ups, and we’d love to have you onboard. Check it out! https://try-feather.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877584 Points: 24 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/IcMDkYq via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-psychiatry/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31877618 Points: 3 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/wMFDRBO via IFTTT

Ask HN: What real innovation in CS can be attributed to Bitcoin? 2 by emadehsan | 2 comments on Hacker News. Not an expert in the field, my question is: Can some real ground breaking innovation in Computer Science be attributed to Bitcoin and its successors? People claim it to be: * Trustless, Proof of Work * Immutable append only ledger (Blockchain) * Smart Contracts Are any of them new concepts? While solving their problems, has the Crypto community invented any new general purpose Algorithms (or Data Structures) that could be used elsewhere? I'm curious to understand those Algorithms.

Article URL: https://github.com/maxcountryman/warc-parquet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867179 Points: 52 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ParZfbM via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL-E is praised for ART? 2 by amrrs | 3 comments on Hacker News. Both DALL-E from OpenAI and Github CoPilot work on the same philosophy. While one receives a massive praise online the other is being criticised that it's working with copied code and just pastes copied code. Why is this difference in opinion?

Article URL: https://github.com/p0deje/Maccy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867121 Points: 9 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Ie8n6cB via IFTTT

Ask HN: If you could talk to a database in plain English, would you? 4 by brochington | 5 comments on Hacker News. For the past 6 months I’ve been working on a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API. Essentially the request would contain a plain english sentence, and the response would include a breakdown of actions, entities, agents, location, temporal, logic, etc. My hope was that I could create a “Stripe/Twilio for NLU”, but recent feedback has been that it’s more a “technology”, and less a “product”. It would still require a lot of development work to create anything of value for an end user. While I see the value of an API, I also agree with their sentiment, and so I’ve begun exploring problems to apply my API to. One use case that tends to pop up frequently is “text-to-database”. Similar to text-to-SQL, but with my API I could target any DB regardless of query language. This would require a large amount of work, and I’m not convinced that it’s something that users even want. T...

Article URL: https://www.unicef.org/media/122921/file/State%20of%20Learning%20Poverty%202022.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31867162 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/mzdwLJK via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is the best way to Upload Images to AWS S3? 3 by fuadnafiz98 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am building a full stack Nodejs, Express.js and React application with a file upload functionality. What will be the best approach to upload the file? 1. Upload the file from frontend to S3? 2. First upload the file to backend and then upload the file from backend to S3? What will be the best option? In my opinion the first approach is better as it doesn't require extra load on backend if the file is larger, but I am not sure about the security issues to keep the AWS credentials in the frontend code. Any suggestions are welcome :)

Ask HN: Alternatives to raspi or where to find one 3 by baremetal | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am having a hard time sourcing any raspberry pi's. Are there any alternatives that are available? I need it to be able to run headless debian. im designing a system for automation of watering of plants. Are there any places with raspi in stock or any alternatives?

Article URL: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/fuzzing-rust-minidump-for-embarrassment-and-crashes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852480 Points: 32 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/qBjk5P8 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Tool for Comparative Method? 2 by permo-w | 0 comments on Hacker News. i.e. a mass translator. put in a word in x language, receive out a list of the same words in y chosen languages. google translate en masse perhaps with a few extra features. If this doesn't exist, which I doubt, I suppose it could be relatively easily written with a translation API

SIXT (car rental) security breach 2 by traceroute66 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm sure you can guess how the email goes, so I will spare you most of the waffle and corporate-speak, I will just post the first paragraph. ============== Dear customer, we are writing to you today as a very valued customer of SIXT*. As you have probably read in the press, cyber-attacks on European businesses and authorities are currently on the rise. Our business has also been the target of a criminal cyberattack. Despite comprehensive security measures, these attacks unfortunately cannot always be completely prevented, but at best contained. In this context, we would like to inform you today about a data incident. ============

Article URL: https://www.brex.com/journal/last-weeks-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31853248 Points: 21 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/lbtOPGa via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to Bookmark Videos on YouTube? 2 by rishikeshs | 2 comments on Hacker News. I often watch long videos like podcasts or interviews on YouTube. Since I have turned off search history, YT usually restarts video from beginning. Is there any otherway to bookmark a particular timestamp?

Ask HN: Is there a GitHub analog for electronics? 5 by eimrine | 1 comments on Hacker News. Schematics and layout of a circuit design and binaries for digital components with ability of public developing.

Gleb, Alex, Erez and Simon here – we are building an open-source tool for comparing data within and across databases at any scale. The repo is at https://github.com/datafold/data-diff , and our home page is https://datafold.com/ . As a company, Datafold builds tools for data engineers to automate the most tedious and error-prone tasks falling through the cracks of the modern data stack, such as data testing and lineage. We launched two years ago with a tool for regression-testing changes to ETL code https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071955 . It compares the produced data before and after the code change and shows the impact on values, aggregate metrics, and downstream data applications. While working with many customers on improving their data engineering experience, we kept hearing that they needed to diff their data across databases to validate data replication between systems. There were 3 main use cases for such replication: (1) To perform analytics on transactional data in an...

Article URL: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-06-22-openbsd-selling-arguments.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31839692 Points: 39 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QtWPcYA via IFTTT

In a keynote at PyCon 2022 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Peter Wang introduced another entrant in the field of in-browser Python interpreters. The Python community has long sought a way to be able to write Python—instead of JavaScript—to run in web browsers, and there have been various efforts to do so over the years. Wang announced PyScript as a new framework, built atop one of those earlier projects, to allow Python scripting directly within the browser; those programs have access to much of the existing Python ecosystem as well as being able to interact with the browser document object model (DOM) directly. In addition, he gave some rather eye-opening demonstrations as part of the talk. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/718g40y via IFTTT

Article URL: https://parti.research.google/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31839193 Points: 22 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Kdx8yBm via IFTTT

Ask HN: Group Mailing List for HOA? 2 by teeray | 0 comments on Hacker News. Our homeowners association is looking for a simple group email solution. Does anyone have any thoughts? Need to have: one email address that broadcasts to everyone signed up for the list. Basically an outlook d-list not tied to one email provider. Nice to have: Some permissions management: Board members should be able to send emails without impedance from the system. Other members should be able to send group messages with approval from a board member. We have some older folks in the community, so this has to be drop dead simple and reliable. I’m hesitant to suggest something like Discourse because of the unfamiliar UX. Same thing for FB Groups. Email is ubiquitous, so that’s where we have to start.

Article URL: https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/02/x-plane-12-flight-model-update-supersonic-transition-delta-wings-and-mass-properties/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31827301 Points: 107 # Comments: 45 from Hacker News: Front Page https://developer.x-plane.com/2022/02/x-plane-12-flight-model-update-supersonic-transition-delta-wings-and-mass-properties/ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.halteobsolescence.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rapport-indice-de-reparabilite.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31827340 Points: 115 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.halteobsolescence.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Rapport-indice-de-reparabilite.pdf via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do professional artists feel about DALL-E? 8 by ratio11 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Article URL: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2022/06/21/wikimedia-enterprise-announces-google-and-internet-archive-first-customers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31826651 Points: 76 # Comments: 43 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/DzI4faQ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.themarginalian.org/2017/10/11/a-life-of-ones-own-joanna-field-marion-milner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31826631 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/yabxQzW via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is scientific facts more important than scientific thinking? 2 by 3g4o53g4o5 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Scientific Fact: Up-to-date science discoveries that absolutely excludes ancient knowledge like astrology or metaphysics. Scientific Thinking: How you think when you can't do experiment about the matter at the moment. While the seemingly like term of "scientific method" is defined to be the almost same thing but when you are doing/can do experiment at the moment. I think knowing scientific facts is more important because people are just gathering pseudo-facts and that leads to the wrong conclusion all the time.

Ask HN: I struggle to hire a UI/UX designer, can anyone help? 2 by s1k3s | 1 comments on Hacker News. For the past 2 months I've been struggling to hire a web designer to create a website for me. I wrote the entire product specification, all screens and app flows, and I want a designer to take that spec and turn it into a real product design. Attempt #1: Direct hire Posted a local job and hired a person based on their portfolio. We signed the contract, and they started the project. 2 weeks later I check in and all they have done is the color palette and fonts. I don't think I'm unreasonable when I say this is way too little work for 2 weeks booked at 8 hours / day. I closed the contract afterwards and I consider I simply got scammed. Am I being unreasonable here? Attempt #2: Upwork I posted my project on Upwork for a fixed price, estimated at 300 hours and with a price per hour that matches what Upwork says is their "top freelancers". I received more than 100 app...

Article URL: https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-vr-headset-prototypes-visual-fidelity-indistinguishable-from-reality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31813443 Points: 73 # Comments: 69 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Gn6HIrj via IFTTT

Ask HN: Anyone run a service with millions of users from one home computer? 3 by launchiterate | 2 comments on Hacker News. Reposted on Ask HN for visibility. With the advent of M1 Max and fast internet speeds is running a scaled up service from home more common ?

Article URL: https://adamj.eu/tech/2022/06/20/how-to-find-and-stop-running-queries-on-postgresql/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31809394 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/s1ztDhT via IFTTT

Article URL: https://narrativespodcast.com/2022/06/20/99-daryl-fairweather-the-housing-crisis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812984 Points: 32 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/5fowB93 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://playground.lexical.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31813550 Points: 61 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/XVQIRNc via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-61871547 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31813618 Points: 34 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/HJ8IrvV via IFTTT

Article URL: https://ifuckinghatejira.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31813957 Points: 92 # Comments: 67 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/rbRILpv via IFTTT

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Article URL: https://git.disroot.org/dCF/deCloudflare/src/branch/master/readme/en.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31801947 Points: 47 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Ci9oQK7 via IFTTT

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Ask HN: 30s and “senior” software engineer, but I suck at programming 2 by yamisobad | 6 comments on Hacker News. No I don't think its imposter syndrome. I got into tech a few years ago because I find building cool stuff, especially clone apps, to be really fun. It's like legos for me, and I build a bunch of projects using various technologies so I keep learning some new frameworks and languages. I feel good working on all sorts of applications, from backend to web and mobile apps. Unfortunately I tried to do some mock interviews (leetcode) and got demolished. I have been practicing for the last couple of months, but I just cannot solve a single medium problem on my own without looking at some help and even then it is hard for me. I think that I'm hitting my limits because I'm finding that I am not that good at actually "programming". I have a hard time thinking about some of these problems, because I can't comprehend the question itself. I can build UIs,...

Article URL: http://bannalia.blogspot.com/2022/06/advancing-state-of-art-for.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31801814 Points: 15 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ms9jhed via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to develop React+Flask locally in a way that can easily be deployed? 3 by RSchaeffer | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a newcomer to fullstack development with no experience in infra. I want to make a web app based on a React frontend and Flask backend (with a Postgres database). What are people's recommendations for developing locally, in a way that can be easily & immediately deployed? A lot of the tutorials I can find either (a) don't mention deployment, or (b) treat it like a final step at the end, rather than something that needs to be done on a semi-frequent basis.

Article URL: https://github.com/dblalock/bolt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31792206 Points: 35 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Ybv85zl via IFTTT

Ask HN: How should we design anti-shrinkflation laws? 5 by acadapter | 4 comments on Hacker News. Let's say there's an initiative against "shrinkflation", to avoid situations where the busy crowd is tricked by corporate tricks. The system should allow price changes, but only honest ones. Should we have sets of fixed package weights and volumes for food and beverages? VAT penalties for odd form factors? Or something else?

Article URL: https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/abi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791790 Points: 22 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/WlXnPM7 via IFTTT

What projects were affected - stopped existing or the opposite, could grow. How was the atmosphere at Microsoft at the time? How normal devs were affected? What implications it had on other companies? In general, what changed after threat of break up How big topic that was? Did people outside IT even know about it? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31791989 Points: 23 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/EaXPZF7 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why Are Git Submodules So Bad? 15 by ghoward | 8 comments on Hacker News. I have been a git user for a long time, but I've never used Subversion or any other VCS more than a little. I also hardly use Git submodules, but when I do, I don't struggle. Yet people talk about Git submodules as though they are really hard. I presume I'm just not using them as much as other people, or that my use case for them happens to be on their happy path. So why are Git submodules so bad?

Ask HN: Shouldn't an 8% inflation rate be synonymous to an economic recession? 5 by kovezd | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How can I be sure my work MacBook isn’t spying on me after work? 2 by throwawayxyziz | 2 comments on Hacker News. How can I be sure that the device actually shuts down and isn’t listening to collect information for my employer? Furthermore, how can I be sure that apps such as PagerDuty or other “on-call” apps aren’t relaying my location and other metadata to my employer?

Is Nasdaq a stock exchange or Ads company? 2 by parth79 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I found it a bit strange to find the Nasdaq website filled with ads, mostly ads unrelated to stocks or even investments & financial planning. Maybe it's just me? Or maybe it makes sense since Nasdaq is also a marketplace where ads are part of their revenue model.

Article URL: https://rootsofprogress.org/erik-brynjolfsson-interview-automation-productivity-work-and-the-future Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782599 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SmJUwTO via IFTTT

How to hack a hospital? Scada ICCShacking 3 by comaksemih | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone My name is Semih. I am an 18 year old hacker. Actually, it would be more accurate to say SCADA/ICS and OSINT hacker. Today I'm going to talk to you about hacking critical industrial control systems. When I first started this business, there were not many resources on the internet, so I decided to write this blog. I want to inspire you by writing an incident that happened to me First of all, I must say that scada hacking is not like other types of hacking. Thanks to the scada system you hacked, you can sometimes cut off the electricity of a city, and sometimes cause dozens of planes to crash at an airport. I was doing bug bounty when I was 16 years old. I suffered many injustices and did not receive any money. I wanted to focus on a more serious field. First, I targeted a sector (health sector). Then I chose a country and chose India. The reason they chose India was because they pr...

Ask HN: Do You Use Enum for Yes, No, Unset? 10 by whitakerch | 19 comments on Hacker News. I've seen different arguments on this topic and thought I'd ask HN if you all have a standard for this. Say you have a form that's filled out and saved to a DB. One required field is a dropdown with Yes and No. But the field begins as blank to show that a value hasn't been selected yet, ensuring that the User pays attention to the field. Do you use a Nullable Bit (DB) and Nullable Bool (Code)? OR an Enum: Yes, No, Unset? You wouldn't use a boolean to represent states like say New, Processing, Done. But do you consider NULL a separate "state"? Thanks

Ask HN: How to Overcome Mental Fatigue? 2 by MathCodeLove | 1 comments on Hacker News. I find that most days after work, and often before my work day officially ends, I'm mentally drained and unable to do any more meaningful work. I want to work on personal projects when I get home, but so often am unable to devote the attention I'd like to devote due to having already drained myself that day at work. In the office I reach a point where I know that I'm done for the day and will just sit at my desk not really accomplishing anything for an hour or two. How do you overcome this?

Article URL: https://thehill.com/blogs/3525313-us-prison-workers-produce-11b-worth-of-goods-and-services-for-little-to-no-pay-at-all/# Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31783508 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/a1n52P9 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Whats the difference between cross-site cookies and third-party cookies? 2 by zagrebian | 1 comments on Hacker News. Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection uses both the terms “cross-site cookies” and “third-party cookies”. What’s the difference? Screenshot of Firefox’s settings: https://ift.tt/mXLMoHJ

Hey folks! I'm trying to actively get better at pitching developer tools. So I had the idea of collecting an inspiration list of the "best of all time". Would like to crowdsource this! The vibe I'm going for is pitches that left you with a clear "before" and "after" division in your life where you not only "got it" but also keep referring to it from that point onward. Obvious candidate for example is DHH's 15 minute Rails demo (and i've been told the Elixir Liveview demo is similar) and Solomon Hykes' Docker demo. What other pitch is like that? (or successfully pitches a developer tool in a different way, up to your interpretation) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782200 Points: 17 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2qfJygA via IFTTT

Ask HN: Best Dev Tool pitches of all time? 9 by swyx | 7 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks! I'm trying to actively get better at pitching developer tools. So I had the idea of collecting an inspiration list of the "best of all time". Would like to crowdsource this! The vibe I'm going for is pitches that left you with a clear "before" and "after" division in your life where you not only "got it" but also keep referring to it from that point onward. Obvious candidate for example is DHH's 15 minute Rails demo (and i've been told the Elixir Liveview demo is similar) and Solomon Hykes' Docker demo. What other pitch is like that? (or successfully pitches a developer tool in a different way, up to your interpretation)

Article URL: https://wasmer.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31768936 Points: 53 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://wasmer.io/ via IFTTT

Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent 166 by teraflop | 17 comments on Hacker News. Triplebyte (YC S15) is a tech recruiting company that operates by getting developers to take skill tests, and then using the results to match them with employers. Back in 2020, they got in a lot of hot water by suddenly announcing that user profiles -- which had been collected with assurances that the data wouldn't be shared without consent -- would be made public, unless you opted out within a week[1]. This provoked a lot of backlash, especially since the CEO seemed totally oblivious to the privacy concerns[2]. After a lot of angry comments, he publicly apologized and reversed course[3]. Then in 2021, some users started once again being notified that their profiles were automatically being made public[4]. This time, it was explained away as an "oversight" related to the fact that previously, opt-outs weren't permanent but had a hidden expirati...

Article URL: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2022/06/attempting-to-create-aesthetic-global.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31740978 Points: 13 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3ArqZdM via IFTTT

Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2022-06-chemist-pursues-solar-cell-material.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742748 Points: 25 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/jOHnyP4 via IFTTT

Tell HN: Got an email titled “Important information about your GitHub account” 9 by herpderperator | 1 comments on Hacker News. We're writing to let you know that between 2022-02-25 18:28 UTC and 2022-03-02 20:47 UTC, due to a bug, GitHub Apps were able to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. You are an owner of an organization on GitHub with GitHub Apps installed that generated at least one new token during this time period. While we do not have evidence that this bug was maliciously exploited, with our available data, we are not able to determine if a token was generated with elevated permissions. User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach that either created or resulted from this event. Read on for more information. * What happened? * GitHub learned via a customer support ticket that GitHub Apps ...

Article URL: https://jacco.ompf2.com/2022/06/15/how-to-build-a-bvh-part-9b-massive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756589 Points: 43 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/mi9MLjJ via IFTTT

Are V8 isolates the future of computing? 10 by pranay01 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was reading this article on Cloudflare workers https://ift.tt/1zxDvup and seemed like isolates have significant advantage over serverless technology like lambda etc. What are the downsides of v8? Is it poor security isolation?

Ask HN: How to Improve Documentation? 2 by shreythecray | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are some features or styles of documentation that make you want to read more vs. what are some characteristics that make you hate documentation?

Article URL: https://www.airbus.com/en/a321xlr-first-flight Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755029 Points: 21 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/MJHq2sz via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6738531/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755361 Points: 54 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/W1Odosp via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/15/23169718/roe-wade-elizabeth-warren-location-data-tracking-ban-sale-brokers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31755999 Points: 131 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ODWwAgn via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/tick-bite-prophylaxis.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756201 Points: 7 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/wH8QKl3 via IFTTT

Hey, HN -- I just received the following email and I'm not sure what to do about it. Obviously I want to discourage requested-posting like this; is there some structured way that we can do that? One of the things I love about HN is how high the signal-to-noise ratio is relative to...pretty much the rest of the internet. I wouldn't ordinarily call someone out like this, but I want to innoculate HN against this sort of thing. ---- Hey doches, Not sure if it's conventional, but thought I'd ask anyway. Would you be open to posting about my product on Hacker News? I understand that similar to Product Hunt, HN gives higher priority to users with higher karma. I usually keep up with recent discussions via RSS feed on Feedly, but almost neve post. So I thought I'd reach out to someone that has authority. My product is called Popupular and it helps embed just about anything into a popup via a Google Chrome extension. [rest of email truncated] Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Ask HN: Which programming language for a first-time coder in 2022? 4 by headmelted | 5 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been asked recently by a buddy who’s kid (13) wants to learn programming but isn’t sure where is best to start. My gut feeling is something like Python might make the most sense, but wanted to ask the room. Criteria I’m working on are: 1) Ease to get to “Hello World”. 2) Kid-friendly, easily available learning resources. 3) Low setup complexity. It’s been so long since I’ve been there (VB6!) that it’s harder to know in 2022 what the right advice to give is for someone just starting out. I also thought about steering them to HTML first, but I don’t think the open web as the same excitement factor for someone starting out in 2022 that it did for me back in the day (which is a shame). What do you folks think?

Article URL: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/Gaia_sees_strange_stars_in_most_detailed_Milky_Way_survey_to_date Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31742773 Points: 30 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ulYSFhc via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-06-13/amazon-builds-property-empire-for-warehouses-even-as-online-sales-growth-slows Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743335 Points: 17 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/W2He81n via IFTTT

Today's branded, logo-equipped vulnerability is known as Hertzbleed ; it affects x86 processors (at least) and can be exploited in some situations to extract cryptographic keys from a remote server. Hertzbleed takes advantage of our experiments showing that, under certain circumstances, the dynamic frequency scaling of modern x86 processors depends on the data being processed. This means that, on modern processors, the same program can run at a different CPU frequency (and therefore take a different wall time) when computing, for example, 2022 + 23823 compared to 2022 + 24436. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/VFK6tZf via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do I stop flip-flopping an important decision? 4 by overclk64 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been indeterministically bouncing from one state to another (and back again) for longer than I would like to admit. Frankly, I'm in a while(1) loop, and I desperately need someone to hand me a 'break.' I would love to settle on the decision and act upon it. For context, I'm 28, a non-EU resident, and have been programming for five years. I have always wanted to get a degree in software engineering. However, when I first considered going to university, my math skills were far below the level required for passing the entrance exam. Despite not knowing how to add two fractions, I was determined to get into the study program I wanted in the future. Fast-forward a few years: I invested about 2K hours, scattered across three years, in mathematics only. Besides math, I read and programmed a lot. I was very disciplined and covered about 70% of the university curricul...

Ask HN: Gut feeling on North American economy for next 2 years? 2 by boringg | 2 comments on Hacker News. What is everyone else thinking out there? I know where I stand but am curious for other peoples intuition. Interested in global perspectives as well.

Tell HN: YouTube comments now display in sidebar 2 by darepublic | 0 comments on Hacker News. Not sure if its just some A/B testing, but youtube comments no longer displaying for me below the video at all since an hour ago. They all appear in a little box in the sidebar. On narrower screen widths it is a small truncated box below the video. Also top comment is selected by default, so only one comment is going to show on page load. This screws with full album track listings, requiring a click + reload on all videos to get a really small window to scrolling comments.

Could you recommend me a light web-stack for my web app? 3 by laxmymow | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm making a small free web app in Django with bootstrap for frontend for small-size farmers to exchange services in between each others, the app will have no more then a 1000 users. Along the way i stumbled with a lot of problems: * phone version * chat in with selected groups of users * deployment and security I tried making it in django-rest with vue or using uvicorn and django-chat and even implementing my own chat system but it complicated the whole project a whole lot. Is something like firebase or aws lambda with preact or petite-vue with ionic(for phone version) better for these kind of small apps ? I'm looking for a different web framework that will have all these things included with minimal code required. I just would like to get it shipped as fast as possible. Do you have any suggestions ? Thanks in advance

Article URL: https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/lumi-europes-most-powerful-supercomputer-is-solving-global-challenges-and-promoting-a-green-transformation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31729273 Points: 50 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/R9MaxCX via IFTTT

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Ask HN: What is the best book you have read with the greatest impact on you? 6 by newsoul | 6 comments on Hacker News. The book may be on any topic. Relating to your profession or not. A book that had a significant impact on you or your life in any manner possible. You can name multiple books though if that is the case with you.