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Ask HN: How do you share your blogs on other platforms? 4 by mrayushsoni | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey writers! I was curious to know how do you share your blog on other social media platforms? Also where do you generally share and in which format? What tool you use to create and schedule the posts?

Article URL: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2022/06/will-california-eliminate-anonymous-web-browsing-comments-on-ca-ab-2273-the-age-appropriate-design-code-act.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666995 Points: 83 # Comments: 88 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/q1CUnvi via IFTTT

Ask HN: Should HN care about accessibility? 2 by wizofaus | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've noticed the HN site fails quite a number of key WCAG accessibility metrics (particularly around colour contrast, but even more basic stuff to ensure the site makes sense to screen readers and those needing assistive technology). Most would be simple to fix and I believe would benefit a not insignificant percentage of the userbase. As HN readers should we care? Are there any current users who have had issues using the site because of this?

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Article URL: https://austinmorlan.com/posts/entity_component_system/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666049 Points: 12 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/PHVhKLF via IFTTT

Article URL: https://quick-answers.kronis.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666075 Points: 42 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/XrmpfHl via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hector/pcr.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666135 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/tYCj5al via IFTTT

Article URL: https://rpeszek.github.io/posts/2022-08-30-code-cognitiveload.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32666506 Points: 20 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/98q2Dkm via IFTTT

Article URL: https://lulu.substack.com/p/joe-rogan-has-a-werewolf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32649123 Points: 153 # Comments: 343 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/8zydcvX via IFTTT

A short sci-fi story written with GPT-3 and illustrated with DALL-E 2 99 by andreyk | 23 comments on Hacker News. Hi there HN, Disclaimer: I've submitted a Show HN as well as the link for this general project before, but particularly like this one short story so want to submit one for it specifically. Hope it's not considered spammy! I and a collaborator who writes sci-fi just released the short story "The Great Filter Button" - https://ift.tt/6D5vEBr Here's why it's relevant to HN: most of the text for it was generated by GPT-3 (with human curation, using SudoWrite) and it was entirely illustrated using DALL-E 2 and MidJourney, and a bit of DreamStudio aka Stable Diffusion (of course with human selection of prompts) AND it narrated using neural voice synthesis (via BeyondWords). And I think it came out very well! To my mind it is a pretty good example of how the newest commercial tools by powered by learned media synthesis models can be leveraged by humans t...

Article URL: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2020/09/a-simple-paint-job-can-save-birds-from-wind-turbines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32653133 Points: 13 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fVOrgy8 via IFTTT

Ask HN: New engineer, already burnt out, what now? 6 by CodeSgt | 5 comments on Hacker News. I've spent the past several years teaching myself to code, telling myself that I enjoyed it as a hobby and that a well-paying job would just be a bonus. Well, a few short months ago I finally got a well-paying job! I'm not sure what or why or how, but it flipped a switch in my brain. I think I've been gaslighting myself for years, telling myself I enjoy coding, forcing myself to spend my weekends and evenings doing it in the hopes that one day I'd be able to leverage that skill to advance my economic position. And so I did. I'm good at it. I don't have any specific complaints about my job or my team. But now that I'm finally here I don't feel happy like I thought I would. I've learned that I don't enjoy the process of software development. I don't enjoy writing code. I enjoy creating things, with writing the code being an essential but miserable part...

Article URL: https://exafunction.com/blog/are-gpus-worth-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32641769 Points: 71 # Comments: 43 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/NEVA8O6 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Any decent Linux-compatible tablet/detachable laptop in 2022? 5 by powersnail | 0 comments on Hacker News. My surface pro 6's battery is dying, and it's way out of warranty, so the cost of replacing that battery is just no longer worth it. Is there tablet or detachable laptop that: - supports touch and pen on Linux - can be used as a regular Linux computer - with a screen that's at least 12 inches - preferably under or around $1200? Most 2-in-1s seem to be with a 360 hinge, which doesn't really fit my use case (too thick, too heavy, and not flat to put onto a music stand). Thanks!

Ask HN: Is forcing users to use a photo of themselves (Slack, etc.) ethical? 3 by zucked | 2 comments on Hacker News. I work in a group of ~250 people nested within a much larger org. I have worked here for three years. We use Slack and have a company directory, both allow photo uploads. Some people choose "things" or "characters" to as their profiles Slack - I've seen "Silicon Valley" characters, I've seen Star Wars characters, I've seen non-characters (pictures of flowers, mountains, etc.) Some people never upload anything at all. After working here for three years and interacting with an individual occasionally, I just was able to put a real face to a slack account represented by Erlich Bachman. It got me thinking - how are other groups handling this? I understand not everyone wants/likes to choose a photo that represents them. I also know that it's really hard to have a work conversation with Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes.

Ask HN: How to get a phishing website that steals credentials taken down? 3 by temp_account_32 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Every few weeks I receive one of those scam SMS messages that are along the lines of "You have not paid for shipping for your parcel, please go to scam-domain-123.xyz to pay" which then has a php form to steal unsuspecting people's credit card details. Sometimes I look for these on popular social media posts as well where people repost SMS scams, and every time I do a WHOIS check, contact the registrar's abuse email, send them the details, and get them taken down so they don't scam more people. I know the scammers will just register another domain, but it does slow them down and in my mind if I save just one person from getting scammed by doing that, it's worth it. It's like a hobby in my free time. My success rate has been pretty much 100%, some registrars like Porkbun get the domains delisted within minutes, I am very impressed. Ot...

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Ask HN: Is there a good unified end-to-end stack? 2 by Pxtl | 1 comments on Hacker News. This may be a dumb question. I'm a full stack C#/DevOps guy with a bit of a dated skillset, but I want to get into some hobby projects... but the more I look into it, the more I remember all the various layers of glue that we have to roll ourselves on every platform. Surely there must be something off-the-shelf that will get me a nice mobile/web GUI and an online persistance layer, right? I mean, I know how to put things all together using .NET Core and EF and SQL Server or Postgres and Xamarin Forms for mobile and Razor templates for web and oData for restful stuff and a pile of powershell scripts for deployment and EF for migrations. I know all that stuff. And I can do it again. But even the simplest "hello world" application in that architecture represents a crapload of work. But I also know that these are solved problems and that I'm not opinionated. I'm more than willing...

Article URL: https://www.scottsantens.com/the-toothpaste-argument-for-universal-basic-income-ubi-gotz-werner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32641573 Points: 11 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/gcxRoq6 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Does your personal page get any interaction? 2 by kcindric | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm slowly creating my website (using Hugo) were I can share my art and hobbies, practice writing in a non-native language (which is English) and have a slice of the Internet which I can call 'mine'. Although it doesn't bother me much I was wondering what are other people experiences on having a website. Do you just have it without any particular interactions from other internet persons? Or you do have interactions and feedback to your content? Does it bother you if you don't get any hits or you maintain your website just for fun and you find it fulfilling?

Article URL: https://github.com/volution/kawipiko Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630350 Points: 14 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/VOXRZxn via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is the best programing language and teaching resource for 10y child 4 by asasidh | 4 comments on Hacker News. Looking for best programing language to start with and online teaching resource for a 10+ child.

I recently saw a short documentary with a case where someone had an overdose because of interaction with medicines and grapefruit juice. This is apparently due to substances in grapefruit that interact with an enzyme used to metabolize some medicines. Warning labels in the leaflet seems like a very inefficient solution. Why isn't the warning placed on products containing grapefruit? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630318 Points: 29 # Comments: 41 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/JP9CB4n via IFTTT

Article URL: https://chsxf.dev/2022/08/28/5-tup-why-i-quit-using-swiftui.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630389 Points: 46 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/JasYg6L via IFTTT

Ask HN: Are most software engineering decisions subjective? 3 by caprock | 3 comments on Hacker News. Occasionally I'll hear someone refer to some particular aspect of writing code and assembling software as "more art than science". That view is expressed in seemingly arbitrary situations. Is it possible the vast majority of decisions, preferences, best practices and so on are subjective?

Article URL: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2022/08/26/american-chestnut-tree-discovery-in-delaware-wows-conservationists/65414649007/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621570 Points: 128 # Comments: 34 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Nx0VqL6 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://constructionphysics.substack.com/p/how-nepa-works Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621466 Points: 21 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/0eyHVYz via IFTTT

Twillio the only way to send transactional SMS? 5 by peralson | 5 comments on Hacker News. hi, i'm fed up of people in marketing/product asking to update sms templates every now and then. is there a tool like sendgrid but for SMS? thanks

Article URL: https://online.interlisp.org/user/login Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32621183 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/qKsy7Rn via IFTTT

Who acquires big (13,000 lines) Mac apps? 7 by cc101 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I don't want to deal with Apple any longer. My app helps college students in academic trouble organize and sustain large academic projects. It's mostly for very bright college students with ADHD. Any potential acquirers you would like to suggest?

Article URL: https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32610589 Points: 17 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/uJzvw4b via IFTTT

What can I do if I don't like web development? 4 by cdparanoia | 2 comments on Hacker News. Note: I can't do university because I lack money. Please don't start saying only "don't do web development" or "university make you". TL:DR; at the end. Schools in Italy are a disaster, they use bad practices -- I am obsessed with best practices -- and languages that I don't like PHP (widely used in Italy), for the language design, crap salary and less jobs. So in my free time I try to learn to be a full stack developer (they -- the school -- learn you to become this) and the most part I hate is the front-end one, nothing wrong with HTML, CSS is easy but hard to master with it; and I lose interest in the back-end part, web frameworks, React, Ember, Vue [...], I know they made the work more easier, it's not for me. What I like? I like developing, working with Software, Deep Learning / ML, AI, Game Dev, Low Level Things, I use Linux, I like do things wi...

Article URL: https://www.hagen-schmidt.de/suomi/worldlanguage.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32610292 Points: 131 # Comments: 134 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/lxyZERO via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.numworks.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32610536 Points: 15 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/lICu2im via IFTTT

Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on 18 by sremani | 20 comments on Hacker News. In the 2020s most old generation people are retiring and not only the replacement generations smaller but there is gap in generational knowledge transfer. What do you think is important tech out there in which are we are losing our collective knowledge and hard won wisdom?

Ask HN: Did anyone here with normal-to-low levels of energy has had success? 3 by badpun | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if it's possible to successfully strike on my own, as say a startup founder or an indie gamedev, if my body is just not compatible with working 60 hours per week, as is advocated by the likes of Jon Blow or John Carmack. Did anyone here accomplish anything hard, while only being able to work for say 20-25 hours per week? BTW I'm not interested in accomplishments while working for someone else (i.e. in a job), as I've had career success already and know that it can be done under such limitations.

Article URL: https://www.cultofmac.com/788200/why-the-apple-m2-pro-processor-will-be-even-better-than-expected/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32594716 Points: 63 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/8YaXsh1 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Best Watch for Tracking Health That Doesn't Share Data 3 by andrew_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in a watch that can help me track health (sleep, etc) which also doesn't report or share data with third parties. I'm a bit Apple-adverse, but open to it if that's the best option. I tried doing my homework on this but am finding a lot of conflicting information and a slew of marketing making it hard to tell fact from fiction. What are your experiences? What device(s) should I check out?

Article URL: https://spreadprivacy.com/protect-your-inbox-with-duckduckgo-email-protection/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32592671 Points: 43 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/GuMo7Om via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596182 Points: 369 # Comments: 52 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/t8OpXL3 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32596903 Points: 66 # Comments: 27 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/AfOb49G via IFTTT

Article URL: https://yacy.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597309 Points: 13 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://yacy.net/ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/when-private-equity-takes-over-a-nursing-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32597326 Points: 41 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/x58lZ0v via IFTTT

Free Unlimited Stock/Finance API 4 by bigman113 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I have an investing app, so I am paying (quite a bit) for a subscription to get financial data for the app. While building this, I always wished that I could have free access to this information. I would love to provide this information as an API for free, but I wanted to know what sorts of info people would want. Ideally, I would only like to create a few endpoints so it’s easier to track. Feel free to check out my app (Hubble Investing) and let me know what information you would like from there in an endpoint. Note: I won’t be able to provide the AI as an endpoint because that model is stored locally in the app.

Ask HN: Why was the “Rust” programming language named like that? 5 by zepearl | 0 comments on Hacker News. I indirectly started asking myself this question yesterday & today while struggling to query Google with e.g. "rust ammonia keep cleaned elements" ("Ammonia" is an HTML lib which I just started to use to transform relative links to absolute in an HTML doc, and to then extract them), getting back results like "Cleaning metals: basic guidelines", "10 household items to help clean rust at home", etc... => I'm in a Google-search-bubble, argh :P This thread https://ift.tt/grPWwlJ. ...mentions... > TL;DR: Rust is named after a fungus that is robust, distributed, and parallel. > It is also a substring of "robust". ...referring to this: https://ift.tt/MiyLDJ5 Is it really like that? Named after this fungus https://ift.tt/muHn2Sv ? Asking just because I'm curious (and annoyed about the SEO, but that's as well the f...

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02233-6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32581027 Points: 23 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/TGtCyc0 via IFTTT

Ask HN: What programming languages have the best documentation? 2 by mitchbob | 2 comments on Hacker News. Suppose you're starting from scratch with a new programming language, and your goal is to become productive and able to complete a reasonably ambitious first project. Are there languages whose official documentation is good enough by itself to get you there?

Article URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org/msg760508.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32582260 Points: 12 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UI0cxC9 via IFTTT

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Ask HN: Are student loans being forgiven? 2 by noobly | 2 comments on Hacker News. Regardless of the political, economic and societal implications, I stand to personally gain from this as I near graduation with approximately $20k owed. Is debt cancellation a "for sure" thing at this point?

Ask HN: If you had to start a business, what would it be? 3 by smarri | 4 comments on Hacker News. Let's say you had no option but to start a business today, what would it be? The only caveat is this has to be your primary income.

Article URL: https://github.com/layerhub-io/react-design-editor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32568423 Points: 25 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/PXwJEhe via IFTTT

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2022-2797-is_there_hope_for_linux_on_smartphones Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32568553 Points: 33 # Comments: 35 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/vJyFW4g via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.dewanahmed.com/alcohol-obsession-in-tech/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32568758 Points: 24 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fPdeKQ4 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/07/22/investors-bought-a-quarter-of-homes-sold-last-year-driving-up-rents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32568858 Points: 178 # Comments: 178 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/AEsRtcx via IFTTT

Article URL: https://erock.prose.sh/typescript-terrible-for-library-developers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32569112 Points: 26 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/WVoBAqu via IFTTT

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-23-ssh-commit-verification-now-supported/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32567874 Points: 33 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/u4FTtSV via IFTTT

Ask HN: What happened to the “car loan calculator” tool on Google? 2 by hypeatei | 0 comments on Hacker News. Google used to have a simple built-in tool for calculating the cost of car loans. It used to show up when searching "car loan calculator" or "auto loan calculator" but now I'm not seeing it. The only relevant thread I can find is this: https://ift.tt/9PgpUOw

Article URL: https://chrisfrantz.com/reflections-on-my-time-in-y-combinator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32555533 Points: 28 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/mF0MEjn via IFTTT

Ask HN: How does HN maintain high quality still? 10 by funerr | 14 comments on Hacker News. I was wondering recently how HN is a community (in 2022) yet still manages to be pretty much 100% spam free. Also, thanks for everyone participating.

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Article URL: https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32555441 Points: 9 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/OvgfAXh via IFTTT

Version 1.9.0 of the public-inbox email archive manager has been released. Improvements include a POP3 server, a new multi-protocol "superserver", some search improvements, and performance improvements. (LWN looked at public-inbox in 2018). from LWN.net https://ift.tt/YoUQAZJ via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is this a feasible idea or rather not? 7 by jacquesm | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, I have a pretty weird idea and I'm wondering if it is technically feasible: advertising is in my opinion poison for the mind and I avoid it where I can. At the same time I use lots of sites and services that are ad powered and I am blocking ads knowing full well that I deprive these providers from a revenue stream. But ads are just too obnoxious. Would it be possible to create a service that serves up 'blank' content (let's call it 'whitespace') in every ad spot on the sites that you visit but that uses the same mechanism as the ad delivery services. So instead of advertisers buying up the space I would buy up the space on the sites that I visit creating a revenue stream that is as good or better than the one that advertisers would offer, effectively crowding them out. OpenRTB or something like that would be a good start to inject this because you could essential...

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Ask HN: Can you share your experience with sleep apnea? 3 by throwawayosa | 2 comments on Hacker News. Ever since I was a teenager I have always felt sleepy, tired and unable to concentrate. Later I was diagnosed with mild sleep apnea and upper airway resistance syndrome. Since then I have tried cpap, nasal surgery, mouth appliance etc but none of it helped. My quality of life is significantly lowered because of it. Does anyone here also have sleep apnea or uars? How are you treating it? I would love to hear your story

Who’s your favorite public thinker? 8 by 1penny42cents | 9 comments on Hacker News. Someone who’s ideas resonate with you deeply and who you would recommend everyone to at least know about

Tell HN: Google Intercepting SMS 4 by version_five | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm probably late to this. Today, my Samsung phone started intercepting my SMS conversations to provide "chat" features: the typing dots and read receipts. It did it without my permission and without me installing any updated. In the settings there was a (I'm paraphrasing) "let google steal your data to enable rich chat" popup, that I clicked no to, and it appears to have gone away. I know iPhone already does this, personally I don't want it, and it's super unethical to just start intercepting SMS without opt-in.

Article URL: https://automating.life/using-automation-to-become-a-better-public-speaker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542062 Points: 6 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/kFhWlO1 via IFTTT

Article URL: http://wesclark.com/jw/sound_propagation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542633 Points: 21 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/KVk7Clu via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/singapore-will-decriminalise-sex-between-men-pm-2022-08-21/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542791 Points: 40 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xEku6LO via IFTTT

Article URL: https://twitter.com/eternalstorms/status/1559794943673122818 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542828 Points: 59 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/eternalstorms/status/1559794943673122818 via IFTTT

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Ask HN: Looking for a fantastic old talk on kernel network abstractions 3 by deltasepsilon | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, it's probably been at least 10 years now since there was a talk about the design of network abstractions within an operating system kernel. I think it may have been by someone from the BSD camp, as opposed as to someone from Linux. The slides from the talk really elegantly addressed issues about the kind of devices and various complexities around abstracting driver interfaces whilst dealing with differing protocols, hardware interfaces, and other issues. I would really appreciate finding this talk again. Please help, I'm sorry I can't provide more details. I seem to have lost my old bookmark.

Ask HN: Is it time for AI to start replacing doctors? 3 by eth0up | 8 comments on Hacker News. Hello wizards and apprentices, Most people, regardless of their politics, understand that healthcare, notably in the US, is too often unaffordable and sometimes destructive through financial means. Many doctors, from my observations, function as pen pushers in what seems an administrative bureaucracy, relying as often as not, on remembered-information rather than improvisation or critical thinking. Many of the conditions they treat or medicate are done so in an almost automated manner. In many cases, a nurse would suffice at a much lower cost. Obviously those who sacrifice a decade of their lives to study medicine desire and deserve to be rewarded. The discretion and experience that comes with such an immersive decade is of undeniably great value. However, I am convinced AI could rival a significant portion of what they do, theoretically at a drastically lower cost. We (or some of we) trust ...

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Article URL: https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32533061 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/5zGgroS via IFTTT

Article URL: https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2022/crazy_pile/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32533616 Points: 25 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/G27nfyz via IFTTT

For sale: 8 hours/week of my time 20 by gbruins | 28 comments on Hacker News. I have a full time job as a software engineer that I enjoy. I work 4 10-hour days and have Fridays off. High inflation and increased expenses are driving me back into the job market looking for ways to supplement my income, but I don't want to fight for gigs on freelance platforms like Upwork. Ideally I want a reliable project where I can invest 8-12 hours per week. One idea I had was to offer my services to companies looking to fill full time roles as a 'bridge' employee until they find their full time candidate (I could even participate in the interview process). I guess I'm looking for a 'long term gig'. Am I nuts? Or is there a job board out there for companies/startups that need just a bit of extra help?

Ask HN: Can BeReal Scale? 6 by umgefahren | 5 comments on Hacker News. I never did any real software engineering, just read stuff, so i wanted to ask HN engineers, what they make of BeReal. The app is really hyped right now, but I thought that it might be really difficult for them to scale beyond a certain point, because of the apps nature and concept. Essentially BeReal has virtually no traffic all day long, with a very high peak at one point with a lot of data. Could this be an issue?

Article URL: https://blog.timac.org/2022/0818-state-of-appkit-catalyst-swiftui-mac/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32524462 Points: 22 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Y5Q9n31 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Where did you go after big tech? 6 by civicsquid | 3 comments on Hacker News. I work at Meta, and I have for 3 years now. I made it from new grad to a terminal level. For better or worse, I stayed on the same team the whole time. I am not interested in building a career on a single team at a single company. I know I could get to the next level if I stay on my current team, but I am tired and need variety. I think it is time to move around, if not within FB then elsewhere. I am not sure how to make a move that will allow me to continue to advance my career. I think I want to spend time at a company that is trying to grow and scale, but I’m concerned that will look or feel like a step down due to smaller scale or less recognizability of the company. If you were in a similar situation / left big tech, where did you go? How did you decide whether or not it was the right career move?

Article URL: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32524007 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QLmwaos via IFTTT

We saved 2 centuries of compute time by applying caching 5 by juristr | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a core team member of Nx (nx.dev) and one of the core features we implemented quite a while ago, is "computation caching". Basically to speed up things, we get all the input to a given computation, which our case as a devtool means running your Jest tests, Webpack/esbuild/... build etc, and cache the result (logs & potential build artifacts). Next time when the same computation is run, we look it up and restore it from the cache, obviously tremendously improving the speed of the run. The real value is when you distribute that cache among co-workers, CI agents etc., which you can do with Nx Cloud (nx.app). We had played with the idea of potentially mapping this to CO2 emissions. If you start saving a lot of computation, this reduces the number of times a machine gets spin up & executed on your CI. Well, earlier this week we aggregated some stats of how much time ...

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/904960/21b6c0e8aea8f235/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512918 Points: 16 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/BGhSWyx via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why server side rendering is not used anymore 6 by stdcall83 | 6 comments on Hacker News. For an internal tool at our company that served a website with register schema of SOC (derived from IPXact XML's) we used an old tool written in perl that was very hard to maintain. I took it upon myself to contact few software solution companies to rewrite the tool in a modern language and add few features. All the companies dissmised server side rendering and suggest a server - client scheme based on NodeJS on the server and React / Angular on the client. After proceeding with one of the companies, the end result was slow, very hard to maintain and every new feature was very highly priced. We're in a worse situation than we were. Was is a bad selection of technology for the specific use case ?

Ask HN: Why are we not using debuggers more? 8 by pentab | 26 comments on Hacker News. I noticed that I rarely use debuggers. I asked around, and most of my co-workers are the same. We rely on debuggers only as a last resort, instead opting for prints, asserts, or the "method of the long stare". We are developing in Python/Java/C++ and use other convenience tools like IDEs. Are you also avoiding debuggers? If so, why? What makes debugging so tedious?

Article URL: https://www.nimsdai.com/bremont-project-possible Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32508082 Points: 18 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UQejhkR via IFTTT

Article URL: https://azdavis.net/posts/millet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512715 Points: 6 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/vcxhuRS via IFTTT

We benchmarked on more than 55K series and show that ETS improves MAPE and sMAPE forecast accuracy by 32% and 19%, respectively, with 104x less computational time over NeuralProphet. We hope this exercise helps the forecast community avoid adopting yet another overpromising and unproven forecasting method. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500725 Points: 103 # Comments: 22 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/r1mGeW5 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213413 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500912 Points: 37 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/6FTS5ws via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/17/23310126/twitter-saudi-woman-sentenced-34-years-salma-al-shehab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32500944 Points: 80 # Comments: 40 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Xbzqvpu via IFTTT

Lessons learned from building a chatbot platform for 2 years 2 by tumidpandora | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been working on Presbot for over 2+ years now. It started as a self-learning chatbot designed to act as an interactive agent that would represent its owner in all sorts of situations. I realized that until that interaction is smooth and believable - not passing a Turing test, but closer to an actual dynamic conversation, it provides much less value, more slowly. Also, users don't like to enter a ton of information upfront or train the chatbot, which requires the onboarding process to be as simple and straightforward as possible. Most of the chatbot responses initially were reliant on scanning profile text and incoherent user input which did not result in a great user experience. Interestingly, a large portion of the users perceived the chatbot as a general-purpose AI agent capable of responding effectively to random questions (for example., - Cheap flights to New Yo...

Article URL: https://watabou.itch.io/one-page-dungeon Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32499371 Points: 15 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/hzD1nYw via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to Get Perspective on Latest AI/ML Developments? 2 by avajen | 1 comments on Hacker News. It seems like recent developments in AI/ML (DALL-E 2 et al.) have been quite dramatic. Commentary ranges from art is dead, to art is now more empowered than ever. As someone who is an outsider to the field (although perhaps effected by developments in the field), I wonder what I should do to get a level-headed perspective? Are there experts who give honest opinions semi-regularly that I can follow? Has this all been considered somewhere already in the philosophy of AI? Or is there a way I can gently gain enough understanding to parse the latest developments myself and draw my own conclusions?

Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Vietnam-to-make-Apple-Watch-and-MacBook-for-first-time-ever Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32499298 Points: 21 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/YUc8Amz via IFTTT

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4184367 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32499743 Points: 48 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/PgWETl7 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://carlosbecker.dev/posts/ssh-tips-and-tricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32486031 Points: 34 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/ienwauZ via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to handle a layoff when I already planning on leaving? 10 by throwaway84390 | 12 comments on Hacker News. I'm a middle manager and I've just been informed that we're doing a layoff. I'm not being let go, but 2 of my 5 directs will be. I've been through several layoffs before, but this time is a little different. I have been very unhappy in the job, and have already been looking around for something new. The default option is just to carry on until I actually have another offer in hand. However, it feels kinda bad to lay off teammates, only to quit myself several weeks later. Do you think there is anything to gain by being transparent with my boss about my intent to leave? I could be fired on the spot, but that doesn't leave me much worse off if I just quit. Best case, I could negotiate my own severance, and/or leave on very good terms. Any advice or experience from those who have been through similar would be appreciated!

Ask HN: Anyone here switch to Go for building (REST) APIs? 2 by Cwizard | 0 comments on Hacker News. As the title states, did you switch to Go/Golang for developing REST api’s or other kinds of web services? What has been your experience? Would you use Go again in the future? Would you rather use something else?

Article URL: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/react/why-react-re-renders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485460 Points: 49 # Comments: 19 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SMZK7OR via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is MySQL 8, in 2022, a safe DB for storing financial data? 2 by profwalkstr | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've joined a financial startup which is in the process of building a MVP and they want to use MySQL instead of PostgreSQL as the main DB (their critical DB, the DB which will store all financial transaction data). Think checking accounts, transactions, ledgers, credit cards, investment, etc. All of this will be stored in MySQL with InnoDB. My main concern is data loss and corruption. I know that HN and Reddit hates MySQL and praises PostgreSQL, but their arguments make sense to me: - Team more familiar with MySQL. It's better to use something that you know the defects and workarounds than to use something that's better in theory but you don't know how to tame it. - MySQL has more documentation and training resources. There are excellent, up to date O'Reilly books about it from the development, optimization and administration perspectives. Just from O’Re...

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-to-keep-last-three-nuclear-power-plants-running-in-policy-u-turn-11660661914 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32485125 Points: 40 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/X0iIHAp via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/police-used-a-babys-dna-to-investigate-its-father-for-a-crime/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32473403 Points: 37 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/mCilLuN via IFTTT

Ask HN: What do you watch on YouTube? 4 by amrrs | 11 comments on Hacker News. I'm always curious what People watch on YouTube? I watch: 1. Movie Trailers 2. Movie Reviews 3. Food Vloggers 4. Cooking Tutorials and so on.

Article URL: https://www.evilsocket.net/2022/08/15/Process-behaviour-anomaly-detection-using-eBPF-and-unsupervised-learning-Autoencoders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471400 Points: 19 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/4laG2XM via IFTTT

Article URL: https://andrewchen.com/how-to-design-a-referral-program/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32471605 Points: 19 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/hOorMuW via IFTTT

Article URL: https://blog.google/products/android/android-13 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32472399 Points: 35 # Comments: 18 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Mdm6Ej0 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/learnings-of-a-ceo-wade-foster-zapier Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32473112 Points: 24 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/I74s8mS via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-aapl-set-to-expand-advertising-bringing-ads-to-maps-tv-and-books-apps-l6tdqqmg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461690 Points: 44 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/CF0aP5M via IFTTT

Article URL: https://reactos.aaron.cc/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461711 Points: 19 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/F2u0ayn via IFTTT

Ask HN: What is the current state of Recommenation services(inhouse, SaaS etc.)? 2 by glintik | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, Just wondered with lack of good recomendations(cross/up selling) in many ecommerce sites. I.e. - looking for gravel/cyclocross bicycle. Checking out most popular bicycle sellers: 1. https://ift.tt/QOmPwda No recommendations. "Customers Also Viewed" section looks weird. 2. https://ift.tt/NMgtD8X "Helmets" and "Jackets"?? Weird set. Better than nothing, but I want more. "Also Recommended" looks weird. 3. https://ift.tt/9Vj5yt7 "Related products" shows me weird set of products - kickstands, KNOT stems and very expensive bike. 4. https://ift.tt/5GWomC7 No recommendations. 5. https://ift.tt/jSOnGzL Similar bikes - looks weird. "Purchase Together" - tires and tubes?? What I'd expect - what bikes other people look also, what accessories people bought(shoes, pedals, helmets, clothing, gloves, spare parts ...

Article URL: https://toolguyd.com/milwaukee-tool-new-usa-factory/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462275 Points: 17 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/7iFCSRV via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why don't I have any email address nor email inbox with my domains? 2 by mike31fr | 1 comments on Hacker News. I own multiple domains (Namecheap and Google Domains). I recently tried to setup sendgrid to send emails but I realized I don't even have any email account on those domains. What would you say is the best/cheapest way to buy an email-enabled domain? Thanks.

Article URL: https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/1558623545374023680 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461138 Points: 30 # Comments: 26 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/arvalis/status/1558623545374023680 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://a16zcrypto.com/social-network-status-traps-web2-learnings/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32461293 Points: 6 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/1UvnF7j via IFTTT

Ask HN: App Distribution Through the Ages 2 by vivegi | 0 comments on Hacker News. It used to be that you distributed app binaries for installation on your OS. There were issues of memory safety, code security, viruses, piracy etc., with this approach. The rise of open source, garbage-collected languages, language runtimes and centrally controlled appstores has become the norm. Why haven't we had an evolution of better ways of linking/loading applications and policy enfocement that improves memory safety, user security and privacy without the rent-seeking central app store mechanisms? Something like docker or podman but at an application binary level that can enforce a stricter contract and policy enforcement (and maybe portable across OSes) using advancements in languages and systems such as refinement types, SMT solvers, proof systems etc., Is there any practically usable software that strives to do this?

Ask HN: How to price a service that saves hundreds of engineering hours? 32 by punkpeye | 46 comments on Hacker News. I've built a Cypress test runner that completes all tests (no matter how many you've got) in less than a minute. In contrast, based on my experience, a medium-size Cypress test suite takes about 15 minutes to complete. The only catch is that individual tests have to be under 30 seconds. The idea came out of frustration running Cypress in my previous company, where it was taking 10 minutes+ to run all Cypress tests while parallelizing across 30 VMs and costing us in excess of USD 2k/month. In order to achieve this, I have effectively built a new Cypress test runner from the ground up. It understands Cypress syntax, but otherwise have nothing in common with how Cypress works. The way it achieves this performance is by splitting each spec into individual tests and starting all of the tests at once, i.e. if you have 10 specs with 5 tests each, this program will sta...

Article URL: https://github.com/fogus/thunks/blob/main/reading/quirkeys.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32452673 Points: 22 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/8M4XUqs via IFTTT