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Article URL: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.29.509744v1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038452 Points: 12 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SpAWGyV via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is hungarian notation still around? 2 by f1shy | 4 comments on Hacker News. I work in a big company, we write "mission critical" software. And many people (at least 90%) want to use hungarian notation. Because management also likes it, we MUST. The variety of notation used is prefix_NameInCamelCase_sufix where prefix is the use of the variable (like Systems hungarian) 2 to 4 chars, then the name, which typically is 4 to 6 characters, and a sufix, 2 to 4 characters, the type. I get frustrated trying to advocate for not using it anymore. Do you have such experience. Are you for hungarian notation? change my mind?!

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Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bipedal-robot-world-record-speed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038335 Points: 14 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/eGZKN3s via IFTTT

Article URL: https://github.com/build-trust/ockam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038384 Points: 22 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/wJ6OTng via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.polygon.com/guides/23380339/overwatch-2-sms-protect-phone-number-required Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33038531 Points: 29 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/WbpK8vH via IFTTT

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Ask HN: Am I the only one who does *NOT* want IoT in their solar panel setup? 7 by harryvederci | 4 comments on Hacker News. All solar panel systems I can find seem to require an internet connection. The (seemingly) best option I have found so far is a system with an inverter that only requires an internet connection during the initial installation, which uses a wifi dongle so I can probably unplug that afterwards. Even then, the manufacturer states that not having it connected to the internet voids their warranty, and I'm afraid the software might even have some kind of countdown where the system will stop working when it hasn't been connected to the internet after a certain amount of time. I am not interested at all in connecting something that should help me get off the grid to the internet. Combine that with security issues[0] and I'm starting to think we're collectively folding our arms behind our back and intentionally falling forwards. Maybe I'm too paranoid...

This was a discussion when M1 macbooks were launched, and Apple supposedly addressed it in an OS update (macOS 11.4). But I'm seeing really high read/write numbers. I'm aware that SSD lifespans are long and TBW spec is pretty generous. Still, compared to my linux machines, this seems extraordinarily high. On my newish M1 MBA, with the latest updates, with barely any use, 98%+ sleep, I'm seeing about 3 to 5 GB reads per day and 2 to 4 GB writes per day. Latest report from smartctl. ---------------------------------------------------- === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 27 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 99% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 716,195 [366 GB] Data Units...

Ask HN: What do you use for API Key Management? 2 by dsinghvi | 1 comments on Hacker News. Many developer portals allow you to generate API Keys. Is there a SaaS service that is powering these or is all of that logic being built in-house?

Article URL: https://blog.interviewing.io/why-were-pausing-our-pay-later-program/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022717 Points: 22 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/yAvxo6T via IFTTT

Ask HN: Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed? 7 by cool_hw | 0 comments on Hacker News. This was a discussion when M1 macbooks were launched, and Apple supposedly addressed it in an OS update (macOS 11.4). But I'm seeing really high read/write numbers. I'm aware that SSD lifespans are long and TBW spec is pretty generous. Still, compared to my linux machines, this seems extraordinarily high. On my newish M1 MBA, with the latest updates, with barely any use, 98%+ sleep, I'm seeing about 3 to 5 GB reads per day and 2 to 4 GB writes per day. Latest report from smartctl. ---------------------------------------------------- === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 27 Celsius Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 99% Percentage Used: 0% Data Units Read: 716,195 [366 GB] Data Units Written: 616,232 [315 GB] Host Re...

Ask HN: How do you find startup owners to interview? 2 by kashnote | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have an idea for a startup and to validate it, I’d need to talk to some startup owners. But… I don’t know any. How would you go about finding founders to interview without coming off spammy or annoying?

Ask HN: Are YC interviews going to be in person this year? Will they ever again? 2 by amukbils | 0 comments on Hacker News. Also when do they usually start inviting companies. Last time I got invited only a day or so before the last day to hear from them.

Article URL: https://matrix.org/blog/2022/09/28/upgrade-now-to-address-encryption-vulns-in-matrix-sdks-and-clients/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33009486 Points: 24 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xDe3RNv via IFTTT

Google is pants and the narrowing of collective imagination 3 by shisisms | 5 comments on Hacker News. Searching for parenting advice and being a veteran searchaholic, you realise that 99% of people (me very much included) will end up reading the exact same 10 pages of advice as everyone else. With virtually no idea who has written them, with a massive cognitive load to filter that advice. When you apply that at scale you realise that on something as important as parenting advice the narrowing of our collective imagination is a dystopian nightmare. It’s not even a debate, as the technical nuance and the philosophical complexities are just too strained. This is part rant, part cry for help, part exhaustion, part there must be a need to surface the issue.

I seem to be bombarded by multiple Cloudflare posts on Hackernews lately. Is there something else I should know? Is this 'innovation month' at Cloudflare or something? All these were posted in the last few weeks! ↪ https://ift.tt/YfHRur3 https://ift.tt/hm8R264 https://ift.tt/fySjhn9 https://ift.tt/9pR1vS3 https://ift.tt/Q31tqGw https://ift.tt/4ITZl0E https://ift.tt/uigFD7Q https://ift.tt/g8YJI4k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010744 Points: 44 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QrMvCxp via IFTTT

Article URL: https://twitter.com/PixelatedWah/status/1574924613456343041 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010912 Points: 19 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/PixelatedWah/status/1574924613456343041 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://depot.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33011072 Points: 20 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://depot.dev via IFTTT

Article URL: https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/how-new-are-yann-lecuns-new-ideas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33011647 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/lr7jgGD via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to Stop Gmail Rate-Limiting 2 by foxylad | 0 comments on Hacker News. Gmail messages from one of our mail servers (190.92.179.88) suddenly started being rate-limited a week ago. This affects thousands of Google's customers, who are getting their booking confirmations over 24 hours late. We comply with every part of Gmails bulk sender guidelines. Both servers are registered with Postmaster Tools and have 0.0% spam stats; both have PTR, SPF and DMARC records; all messages are DKIM signed; neither server is on any blacklists. We've filled in the form referred to on Gmail's bulk sender guidelines page twice, with no response or effect, and are now faced with the common problem of transmitting meaningful information through the Google event horizon. Is anyone else experiencing this? Has anyone solved this in the past? Any Googlers able to pull a few strings to help thousands of YOUR customers?

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2003/jul/12/weekend.davidnewnham Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33000306 Points: 14 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/smOl5fu via IFTTT

Ask HN: Good Zig Code to Read? 4 by kosolam | 1 comments on Hacker News. What would be a good open source project that’s written with what may be considered clean best-practices zig code?

Ideas for New Startup Magazine 2 by uunetorg | 1 comments on Hacker News. We’re launching a new digital magazine for the startup and tech community. The 2 things that we have decided on so far is that we will give more coverage to newer startups than the big boys and we will NOT allow garbage-a* autoplay ads. We’re still developing what the rest of the product will be. What features or editorial emphasis would make you want to read? What do you like or not like about the current market offerings ie TechCrunch, Wired, VentureBeat, etc. We’re a very lean team right now. Every idea won’t make it into the launch but all feedback will be factored into our roadmap.

Ask HN: Are there any good “Caller ID” apps for iPhone out there? 11 by janandonly | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm asking because I sometimes get calls from numbers I don't recognize. Now, blocking those calls is trivially simple on iPhone, it's just a switch under "settings". But I am a curious person. I want to know who or what company called me. Some Caller ID apps force the user to upload their entire contact list. I am not interested in those. I consider that a breach of my privacy. Maybe that is their true monetization method? Reselling contact lists?

Article URL: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/09/27/closing-pixel-gap-native-web-window-controls-overlay/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32999133 Points: 16 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/4XZsqQ6 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Are ad revenue still a viable way to monetize an app in 2022? 1 by lairv | 0 comments on Hacker News. Do you have examples of app that still make their main profits from ad revenue ? If so, are their better alternatives than AdSense to put ads on a website ? I guess a typical answer would be "it depends on the app", so I'll give a bit of context, you can skip if you don't care: I'm building an app which fetch and process big amount of data from multiplayer game, and users can check their data and stats (similar to op.gg for those who know). Processing and storing such data is costly, and ads seems like the most natural way to monetize the app, since ideally users would regularly come and check multiple pages

Article URL: https://casparwre.de/blog/webapp-python-deployment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32986969 Points: 40 # Comments: 16 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/qBjWdug via IFTTT

Article URL: https://vivqu.com/blog/2022/09/25/outdated-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32987028 Points: 52 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/eisQXIw via IFTTT

Article URL: https://noahnorman.substack.com/p/augments-are-speech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32987060 Points: 11 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/OYp1d5i via IFTTT

Article URL: https://blintzbase.com/posts/pir-and-fhe-from-scratch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32987155 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/r7g6uLv via IFTTT

Ask HN: What Happened to Pushbullet? 2 by agluszak | 0 comments on Hacker News. There's a very handy app called Pushbullet (https://ift.tt/9OWSwjv) which allows you to send urls/text/files from one device to another. It also has an ability to sync SMS and notifications. I've been using it for several years now. It looks like it has been transitioned into a passive maintenance mode. The app still works, but there haven't been any updates to the Firefox extension since 2020 (https://ift.tt/plj317c). Anyone knows the reason? Their blog doesn't seem to explain that. I'm afraid it may stop working at some point.

Article URL: https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/polar-vortex-early-disruptive-event-winter-influence-united-states-europe-fa/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32985927 Points: 12 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/THVeCkN via IFTTT

Ask HN: The perfect digital note inbox? 2 by eykrehbein | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm researching what the perfect digital inbox for notes might look like. Have you found it yet? How do you currently store uncategorized digital notes? Can you imagine what the "perfect" digital inbox would look like for you?

Article URL: https://www.ethswarm.org/The-Book-of-Swarm.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32976390 Points: 5 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/KjUko7N via IFTTT

What has kept you going during a personal crisis? 2 by mrdespair | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been struggling immensely and I'm wondering what has helped you guys keep going in life when all hope is lost?

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How will the Software Engineering be in 20 years? 2 by aeroxis | 2 comments on Hacker News. 20 years ago, we were dealing with PHP mainly and the LAMP stack, or JSPs and deploying to JBoss/Tomcat. Today we deploy apps written in any language to containers. Where do you think software engineering will be in 20 years?

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/iran-protests-2022-internet-shutdown-whatsapp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32974548 Points: 50 # Comments: 15 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/QH9Lvat via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.joeantonakakis.com/posts/divide-without-division-operator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972763 Points: 11 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/h18Tw2t via IFTTT

Article URL: https://learnabout-electronics.org/Semiconductors/opto_53.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966518 Points: 20 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/sRTfYBQ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/news/hertz-is-still-having-rental-car-customers-wrongfully-arrested-lawsuit-claims Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32966412 Points: 22 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/DmeyEpv via IFTTT

Orbot use in Iran ( I am Iranian) in Iran 2 by thecoook | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have orbot , but don’t understand the bridges or ehat to do to connect at all , i got a little from you all , but please a step by step instructions would be very helpful. Bridges ? Nodes ? What to put where . Need help . There are restrictions. So i cant download another vpn from appstore. I luckily and very sneaky downloaded orbot last minute.

Are there canonical books, resources, or readings for how to design data structures that will be primarily read and written to a disk rather than memory? Most of what I learned in school about big-O assumes that, for example, random access is O(1). However, random disk reads are really slow due to spacial locality. People who write databases obviously have solutions to this problem - for example, DuckDB is based on a number of papers that have come out over the years on this topic. If I wanted to design, ie, a tree structure which was intended to be read/written from a disk, are there general principles or patterns the have been developed to take advantage of locality of reference, minimize random reads, or decrease the overhead of writes, that I could familiarize myself with? What is the CLRS for disk? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32965075 Points: 8 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/exihVy0 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why are older processors slower at the same frequency? 3 by etamponi | 6 comments on Hacker News. I am a software engineer so I am pretty knowledgeable in the topic of computers in general, but this specific question continues to bother me. Why does a processor from 2015 at 2.5GHz run slower than a processor from 2022 at 2.5GHz? What should I look at specifically? Is the difference reported somewhere? In general: how can I tell when I need to replace my processor with a new one (without needing to manually compare the new and old one...)? I think looking at the GHz and number of cores is not enough anymore.

Ask HN: How do you manage AWS root MFA in a remote work environment? 2 by gfisher | 0 comments on Hacker News. As offices are going more and more remote, how do you handle your AWS root 2 Factor credentials? We have typically used physical hardware keys that we store in a safe, but with employees leaving the city and the state, we are running low on in-city employees. Is there a smart solution for multi factor authentication that can be shared between people who are remote?

Ask HN: I love to be alone. But this loneliness is killing me 63 by endofreach | 43 comments on Hacker News. It‘s not a phase. I am turning 30 soon. I have had this feeling ever since i can remember. I know, often times i am subconsciously aligning my actions to end up alone. Sometimes it seems like i do that to create something like a melancholic void, that i must feel, because otherwise, i would feel empty… I can‘t summarize it better right now. I have learned the portuguese word „saudade“. That feeling, i believe i know. It seems somehow related, to what I am trying to describe. I truly can not handle it anymore… How do you deal with it? Also I have recently read about „intellectual loneliness“ on here, which i resonated deeply with. It is not what i am describing, but rather a part of it. But the totality is too much for me. I don‘t even know what to expect from posting here. I just have nowhere else to turn to…

Ask HN: What's the state of the art in AI generated music? 3 by andrewstuart | 0 comments on Hacker News. I had a good look a couple of years ago at AI generated music - there was quite alot going on. Presumably however things have moved quickly since then. Back then my goal was to be able to get royalty free music to use as backing tracks for videos. I couldn't find much to meet this goal back then. What AI generated music systems can you recommend?

Ask HN: Heroku to Beanstalk? 2 by r2sk5t | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi All - Our stuff is on AWS except for: 1/ Postgres 2/ Rails 3/ Hosting our React app Since we're a small team, there is a lot we like about Heroku but would prefer to have one less moving part especially since Heroku has had reliability issues. I'd love to know if you know of any deal breakers moving from Heroku to Beanstalk? Thank you!

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/23/23368603/san-francisco-police-private-surveillance-cameras-vote Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32954926 Points: 59 # Comments: 51 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3QDqvH1 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://etherscan.io/tx/0x21f4b538ea53df8685eed62a8036562c48dee0a64bfee77b3299988bec84f134 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32955332 Points: 57 # Comments: 29 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/jHxMOF6 via IFTTT

Open Prompts is the dataset used to build krea.ai. The data comes from the Stability AI Discord and includes around 10M images from 2M prompts. You can use it for creating semantic search engines of prompts, training LLMs, fine-tuning image-to-text models like BLIP, or extracting insights from the data—like the most common combinations of modifiers. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32943224 Points: 19 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/EC34ex2 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://hci.stanford.edu/dschool/resources/readings/Rittel+Webber+Dilemmas+General_Theory_of_Planning.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32943474 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/x6LIVap via IFTTT

Things ML cannot draw or produce so far 2 by aszantu | 2 comments on Hacker News. I do artsy things, and drawing and painting is one of them. You can see some of my stuff on https://ift.tt/CxbTIjD (forgot what email I registered it to and cant access DA anymore) and https://ift.tt/ylWa03E Dall-E and stable diffusion felt exciting for a while and I used up my Stable diffusion contingent quickly, could not manage to set it up on my linux, something always goes wrong in my setup and then it does not run. So things I found the models could not draw on prompts. This one was used https://ift.tt/3cgo58U An angel sitting under a mushroom An angel with wings made from money Feet A cow with tiger stripes a cat with wings snake dragon winding around a key Interesting results: dog-faced cat, made the eyes look weird milipede cat, I liked the patterns maybe its me and im just not able to do the right prompts, if artists want to survive this they have to come up with some unique ideas. I gave up tr...

Ask HN: Will there be fewer mathematicians due to fear of brain fog? 3 by amichail | 10 comments on Hacker News. If a viral infection could destroy your ability to do math research due to brain fog, then maybe you will avoid this career path?

Ask HN: Is recycling lithium virtue signaling or greener/cheaper than mining? 2 by brntsllvn | 0 comments on Hacker News. The price of lithium carbonate is skyrocketing in response to demand for EVs (especially following the Inflation Reduction Act's EV tax incentives): https://ift.tt/6kx0cWF. Solid state batteries may reduce but not eliminate demand. Ridwell is the only startup I can think of offering battery recycling as a service and it's just a fraction of their overall model. Is lithium recycling from consumer electronics viable? "Green" in both senses of the word.

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02999-9 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32942260 Points: 37 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SX6Oipk via IFTTT

Ask HN: What are the use cases of WASM outside the browser? 6 by jpbadan | 5 comments on Hacker News. What are the non obvious use cases of Wasm? Other than facilitate distribution and improve security, what do you think are the best potencial applications of wasm?

Ask HN: How often is software built in secrecy for years prior to release? 4 by chrisfrantz | 1 comments on Hacker News. With the Figma acquisition, I rediscovered this post from the founder of Figma. https://ift.tt/7YkE1Qx They started building in 2011/2012 and then had their first limited preview release in Dec 2015. How many other companies today are building for years before their first preview launch? Especially as prevailing wisdom has turned to launch quickly and iterate instead of crafting, iterating, and refining a product first.

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Article URL: https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-09-21-btrfs-compression.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32928995 Points: 6 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Si17oNF via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.datatilsynet.dk/english/google-analytics/use-of-google-analytics-for-web-analytics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32929070 Points: 15 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Lsge4zX via IFTTT

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Version 43 of the GNOME desktop environment has been released; see the release notes for details. This latest GNOME release comes with improvements across the board, ranging from a new quick settings menu, a redesigned Files app, and hardware security integration. GNOME 43 continues the trend of GNOME apps migrating from GTK 3 to GTK 4, and includes many other smaller enhancements. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/zZC5uTn via IFTTT

Ask HN: Do you live close to your family? 3 by aprdm | 4 comments on Hacker News. Have you moved to work abroad? Do you live close to your family / visit them often? How do you feel about being far from your loved ones?

Ask HN: Anyone have a software consulting playbook (negotiation to delivery)? 6 by throwtoday | 1 comments on Hacker News. I received an inbound request for shorter-term, part-time software consulting in a specialized domain. I'm in the SF Bay Area and work full time, they're in a different major tech-hub – and appear to be well funded. It's been a while since I last consulted, and I was hoping for a playbook to follow to ensure everyone is happy: negotiation through delivery. My questions range from how to set prices, to how to present findings (scope), to how to manage expectations, and how to ensure satisfaction. Any insights HN? Thank you!

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Ask HN: What do you think is the most promising branch of AI? 2 by KerryJones | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been an engineer for 15+ years, and dabbled in various areas like image generation (years ago, before DALL-E), NLP, Deep Learning. I'm looking to dive in again, but without a specific goal, I'm curious what people's opinion on what are the most promising fields of AI?

Article URL: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-remix-announcement/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32915455 Points: 11 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/YFsagIP via IFTTT

I built TaskTXT.com based on my experience timing my tasks. I found that committing to a task before I start helps with my focus, and guessing how long it will take, then timing it prevents me from wanting to give in to distractions because I'm "on the clock". Video Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOYO0c_D6w0 There's also a Mac app which you can download here: https://dl.todesktop.com/22080519n9z1jew/mac Video overview of the Mac app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMs-V5v5gZY But I didn't want the tool to be distracting, so its based on plain text. That means the UI is very familiar and you can use it for generic notes in any structure you like. When you work in TaskTXT you are working directly on its data format, I made a video about this concept here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdBgVZn5NI I think this tool is uniquely suited for programmers, so I'd be interested to hear any feedback about the product, or its viability as a business. Comment...

Ask HN: Is it hard to get into systems programming from back end engineer? 5 by 3a2d29 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have 1.5 YOE as a Java backend engineer. I have a CS minor but not major. The job market is a tad rough, but I am starting to wonder if my lack of a CS major / experience in a high level language means I should not apply to any C/C++/Rust type roles.

Ask HN: Google Maps cuisine bias issue? 2 by asiachick | 0 comments on Hacker News. Today I was searching for "Malaysian restaurant" in Fremont California with Google Maps. I saw it listed Burmese restaurants as well. In my experience, Burmese food is more different from Malaysian food than French to German or Italian so I was a little dismayed that Google was thinking if I asked for "Malaysian restaurant" that it was ok to suggest "Burmese restaurants". Trying some other things, I tried "French restaurant". I could find no examples of google maps recommending things other than French restaurants. Not in Fremont, or Singapore, or Taipei. It made me wonder, how does Google maps decide what is a similar search result? Why did it show me Burmese when I asked for Mayalsian? It's certainly not "because they are geographically close" as France and Germany share a border. It made me wonder if this is an ML issue or if it's mistake whe...

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What are the biggest challenges when building an ecommerce platform? 2 by owenpalmer | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are the biggest challenges purely technical? Is it tax, security, payment, cost of development, marketing the platform? If you find this question too ambiguous, just provide your own context. High quality answers are very much appreciated!

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Ask HN: Next big thing in Computer Science or tech according to you? 2 by pdrojack | 2 comments on Hacker News. Apart from a new JavaScript framework, Machine Learning, BlockChain, etc. Is there any new field or emerging tech that you think will make an impact in coming future or are we reaching a saturation point ?

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Milestone: My archaeology newsletter just hit 1K subs - next stop, monetization 3 by jamesofthedrum | 2 comments on Hacker News. So excited! I'm having a ton of fun with it and growing organically (mostly reddit). Woohoo! Next stop, monetization. I think I'll make the current format paid, and offer a truncated version to free subs. Pricing this type of thing is really hard, but I'm thinking $8/mo. Would really love feedback/thoughts if any of you have done this type of thing before! ancientbeat.substack.com

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Hello HN, this is a small side project I worked on that restyles HackerNews to look like the desktop of an older version of MacOS from the 90s. Internally, this is just a proxy to news.ycombinator.com that injects a custom `news.css` style sheet on some routes (login routes redirect back to HN). If you want to use the style sheet on the client side, there are browser extensions and a custom style sheet available at the github repo [0]. [0] https://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.css edit: try https://hackertosh.org/news if the page is blank Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32889720 Points: 25 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://hackertosh.org/ via IFTTT

Ask HN: Have you commented on HN about a court decision without reading it? Why? 6 by dpifke | 4 comments on Hacker News. Inspired by this thread: https://ift.tt/DksA5zP I'm curious how many people actually take the time to read primary source material—not just news articles about it—before writing a comment here. In this case, the decision is long—113 pages!—so I can understand why someone wouldn't have read it in its entirety. But if someone doesn't have the time to read the decision, I don't understand why they think they're qualified to opine about it here, and why they think its fair to make other participants in the discussion waste time wading through their uninformed speculation. It's akin to writing a review of a film you've never seen and have no intention of seeing. Is there something HN could do to discourage this? (One idea that comes to mind would be banning news articles about court cases in which the article does not link to the actual text ...

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Ask HN: How to deal with side-project fatigue, incl. hobbies, etc.? 4 by drabadur | 2 comments on Hacker News. Currently I am in somewhat of a predicament, in that I have so many things I want to do in a day, after work, but once I finally have the time, I'm unable to choose and just start to aimlessly surf or go to bed early. These things include gaming, learning specific things like a new language, creating a blog post, working on personal website, woodworking, more sports, list goes on and on. This has become more and more severe as time goes on for me, and leads to a form of regret that I've again wasted time. How do you deal with this? How can I focus on one specific think after work?

Ask HN: Seven Wonders of the Modern World? 2 by kaycebasques | 2 comments on Hacker News. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World documents the most remarkable man-made creations of classical antiquity. What are the seven most remarkable man-made creations of our present world?

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Ask HN: Developer Training Tools Recommendations 2 by stuckinhell | 3 comments on Hacker News. So apparently the economic downturn is worse than I thought, my company is planning to lay off 10-15% of our engineering team. This is mostly going to be junior developers or very under-performing mid-tier developers. I've been asked to co-lead a task-force to start studying how to increase the efficiency of developers at the organization given my team is one of the highest performing results oriented teams. To be honest, I'm at loss here. I don't think my team's methods will generalize because they are all self-driven and compensated with bonuses. I just need to keep people out of their way, make sure teamwork is good, and keep people out of their way. However people's jobs are on the line, and management want to see increases in efficiency or else. So I'm reaching out to hackernews. Are their any recommended note taking systems, learning tools that are software engi...

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Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike MongoDB? 2 by kadomony | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just curious, what is it about MongoDB that many people seem to dislike? Is the developer experience lacking in any way? Do people just prefer schemas? Or is it more that people dislike NoSQL in general and MongoDB is the big name in the space?

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Ask HN: Is avoiding unpaid career prep/learning a viable path when unemployed? 2 by spearingthehead | 1 comments on Hacker News. About 2 years ago I joined a fairly well-known prep program for software engineers on job interviews. At the time I had been one year without a job and with some 8 years of experience, and this program was recommended to me so I gave it a shot. I did the several weeks-long course and the longer follow-up portion which mainly involves applying to jobs, attending one weekly meeting and checking in with my progress. A year later, still no job offers. Therefore, I ceased doing my follow-up at the end of last year, and this year I really decreased my output for job applications, mainly limiting myself to recruiters. To meet a weekly quota with the interview prep program, I had sent nearly a thousand applications last year. My ratio of applications to interviews was still pretty low with the interview program, so I stopped mass-sending applications. But I also dec...

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Ask HN: How much do you use uppercase vs. lowercase characters in your code? 2 by Victerius | 6 comments on Hacker News. some programmers use lowercase exclusively. SOME USE UPPERCASE EXCLUSIVELY. Some only capitalize the initial of variable names. What's your preference?

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ARM Neoverse V2 Nvidia Grace CPU 4 by zepmck | 0 comments on Hacker News. servethehome.com/arm-neoverse-v…

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Is Lisp Regaining Popularity? 3 by whispersnow | 1 comments on Hacker News. I thought lisp is losing its audiences but seeing more Lisp posts on front page recently. Is it coming back?

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The GitHub blog has a detailed look at garbage collection in Git and the work that has been done to make it faster. To solve this problem, we turned to a long-discussed idea on the Git mailing list: cruft packs. The idea is simple: store an auxiliary list of mtime data alongside a pack containing just unreachable objects. To garbage collect a repository, Git places the unreachable objects in a pack. That pack is designated as a “cruft pack” because Git also writes the mtime data corresponding to each object in a separate file alongside that pack. This makes it possible to update the mtime of a single unreachable object without changing the mtimes of any other unreachable object. from LWN.net https://ift.tt/mC6sb5d via IFTTT

Ask HN: List of Carrier-Grade-NATs (CGN/RFC1918) Used 2 by dovholuknf | 3 comments on Hacker News. I work on a zero trust overlay and we're having some debates about who uses what address space we should use, what others use etc. I know of a few solutions in the space using some ranges but I was wondering if there was a big long list of them somewhere of blocks known to be used. I've been trying to "internet search" this but I've not found it yet. Any tips to find such a list, if it exists? Or just leave behind a comment on ones you know about - that'd help too. ;) TIA

Ask HN: Am I a bad stupid engineer? I feel like everything I do is so simple 2 by moomoo11 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I work as a backend/platform engineer and I'm considered a "senior" engineer 6 years of exp, and in the past I've done everything from web UI/backend, mobile apps, and data related stuff. I feel like I understand how to build systems at a high level. So, I feel like a total noob when I show my work to other people. I'm trying to focus on some of my ideas and build out a company around something I can manage to build to 80% and start demoing. Here are my doubts: - I don't really understand how CI works. At work our CI process is massive and honestly confusing/complex. In my case, I have just a few simple scripts that manage this. - I keep my code organized by separation of concerns using some things I've learned from clean code, clean architecture, DDD, etc. Almost everything is a single responsibility, small functions that I can test eas...

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Ask HN: Freelancers of HN, how do you manage your clients? 2 by yscodes | 4 comments on Hacker News. With my first client I immediately got my second one and so I am starting to think: What's the true HN-way (i.e. best way) to manage all the increasing client data, invoices, monthly payments, track and archive everything important etc in a structured, organised manner? Do you use common tools? Do you write your own tools? Do you use MS Excel? Is a single text file enough? What's the way

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Ask HN: Can cryptographic time-stamping protect our history from deepfakes? 3 by axelsvensson | 1 comments on Hacker News. As the rate and quality of AI-generated content keeps increasing, it seems inevitable that it will become easier to create fake content and harder to verify/refute it. I keep thinking that "someone" could use cryptographic time-stamping as one line of defense. As a philanthropic effort, it seems relatively easy, cheap and valuable to do so. I imagine a web archive could save a stream of hashes not seen before, occasionally compile a merkle root and publish it in several places where time of publication is common knowledge. Is this being done, else why not? It seems like an opportunity too good to pass on.

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Ask HN: Is there better airfare search than Google Flights? 6 by aridiculous | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is there a Stable Diffusion for music? 3 by btdmaster | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've seen some models like MuseGAN but nothing yet that has the same level of performance and generality as Stable Diffusion (granted, they are different applications). Does such a model exist?

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