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Stripe Shutdown Our Nonprofit's Account, Holding $12k in Donations Hostage 4 by nickwelsh | 1 comments on Hacker News. Our founder woke up to a gut-wrenching email from Stripe today, reading "We're writing to you because, after conducting a routine review of your Stripe account for Integrate for Good (account ID: [**]), we've found that it presents a high level of risk for customer disputes." We're a very small, hyper local nonprofit and have been using Stripe without any significant issues for over four years. Radar has flagged only one charge in the past year, and we've had just a single dispute since opening our account. We requested further review of our account and supplied Stripe with further information in the dashboard. Just 45 minutes later, we received a second email confirming their decision to close our account. I find it hard to believe that Stripe was able to "conduct another review of [our] account" in such a short span of time. W...

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Ask HN: Current best GUI and render window stack? 3 by CrimsonCape | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in learning a new stack to accomplish my side project which is a desktop app GUI with a rendered canvas. Ideally i'd like to have a GPU-driven OpenGL rendered window integrated with either a traditional CPU-bound GUI or even better, a GPU rendered UI. Looking around, it seems that the most advanced of UI tools peaked with WPF in terms of diversity of prebuilt controls and the complexity of those controls (think tree views, data grids, reflowing, etc), but WPF is practically abandonware at this point. Seems like there are lots of good render surfaces out there, so maybe the actual ask is for a render surface that pairs well with an existing UI option. I would really not like to have to design UI controls, layout logic, repainting, etc, all the low level UI tasks. Any suggestions?

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New dark pattern just dropped – PayPal payments goes through immediately 2 by Racing0461 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Paypal payments goes through immediately and the redirect page is just the "order successful" page instead of the way it used to be (even a couple months ago) where paypal would just authorize the payment and on the redirect back to the website would be the "submit order" or "complete order" button to finish.

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Ask HN: How do you manage email on a custom domain? 3 by jcuenod | 10 comments on Hacker News. I want to send email using domains I own. It would be nice to have a decent gmail-like interface for them, but I don't want to pay for gsuite. I could set up access within my gmail account, but I don't want to accidentally email people with the wrong address. What do people generally do?

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Ask HN: Flutter vs. React Native vs. Swift/Kotlin 5 by bingemaker | 9 comments on Hacker News. I have been trying to get my feet wet in mobile development, but I don't know what is the best way to start. So far I've explored Flutter and React Native. There seems to be a steep learning curve when it comes to Flutter. I'd like to know more from the community

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Ask HN: We're about to enter into a partnership with a company / Advice needed 4 by bitsbytes | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi there, I've been building this SAAS / No Code platform for the past 1 year with my friend, and now we're at a critical point where we have some discussions with a company/founders on collaboration opportunities. And I wanted to see if you guys can give us some ideas on how to collaborate without getting burned. I will provide more details and also feel free to ask me as many questions as you think you need, so you can give us better advice. To give more context, the platform allows you to create apps without a code, something similar to Microsoft PowerApps or similar. The company that we talked with does BI and services for multiple US clients using Microsoft PowerApps and a lot of other tools. They have demand for their services, and they want to sell our solutions, after polishing it, to these smaller clients/use cases, for which our solution is p...

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Ask HN: Am I the only one who is sick of seeing posts/ads by Skio.com? 4 by dotcoma | 2 comments on Hacker News.

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The AI Reproducibility Crisis 2 by ocolegro | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've really been struggling of late to replicate recent findings in research that has built on top of GPT-3.5/GPT-4. This leads me to believe there is growing yet largely unnoticed issue is taking root in recent AI research. I've termed this the "AI Reproducibility Crisis". The principle is simple, if accessible private models are silently changing in time, then previous results cannot be replicated. *Key Issues*: 1. Users have reported significant performance shifts post the May release. 2. Beyond community discussions, academic studies are showing differences in performance across time https://ift.tt/AKLTqNz. 3. It appears difficult to replicate previous benchmark evals, see our effort here - https://ift.tt/x41V92v. 4. The centralized approach of major providers amplifies these concerns, underscoring the essential need for research autonomy. *Proposed Solutions*: - Lean towards open-source fou...

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Ask HN: Anyone Feel Reddit Style Forums Are Soulless? 3 by CM30 | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is a weird thought I know, especially given Hacker News uses the same sort of format. But I feel like the format of forums like that really dehumanise the folks posting there, and feel almost nothing like a community due to their design. I suspect part of it is because the lack of identifiers for accounts make it hard to tell anyone apart, and the strict separation of 'communities' about a particular topic mean you never really get to know anyone in particular, they're just names that occasionally crop up when you're reading threads about something or another. It feels like a system designed to treat members like interchangable content producers, where no one would notice if any one user left or was kicked out. Anyone else feel this way?

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Ask HN: Is there public tracking for the success of YC “request for startups”? 2 by shaburn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Either by market or startup(s)

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Buy, redecorate and sell property in Sweden 2 by RayKhalid | 0 comments on Hacker News. “I recently came across an apartment in the suburbs, and went for a viewing, its rather cheap and quite large. The apartment is old and needs redecoration (as the previous tenant died), I was wondering what’s the market in Sweden for buying such old, unfurnished and dilapidated apartments for cheap, refurbishing them new and selling it for a higher value? Has anybody done it, what’s the catch?@

Hi HN, Gentrace is our new evaluation and observability tool for generative AI (open beta). Generative pipelines are hard to evaluate because outputs are subjective. Lots of developers end up just doing “gut checks” on a few inputs before shipping changes, or they build up a spreadsheet of test cases that they manually run through the pipeline. Some companies outsource filling out the spreadsheet. However, in any of these cases, you end up with a very slow and expensive process for evaluation. At one point, we did this too. Gentrace is the result of a pivot; it was an internal tool we used to automatically grade new PRs as developers shipped changes to generative pipelines that other people thought might be useful. Gentrace makes pre-production testing of generative pipelines continuous and nearly instantaneous. In Gentrace, you: - Import and/or construct suites of test data - Use a combination of AI and heuristic evaluators to grade for quality, hallucination, safety, etc - Use our in...

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Ask HN: Anyone here who works at Google Search? 2 by MawKKe | 2 comments on Hacker News. Could you guys _please_ lock down result category button/tab order on the results page? It used to be (from left to right) 1) All results 2) Photos 3) Videos or whatever. Now the order is sorted based on what the engine _thinks_ I want to find. It is usually wrong. This makes the UI really clumsy and irritating to use. I have to be constantly vigilant to not accidentally click on Maps or some other silly thing that takes forever to load and to get back from. Thanks (I know this is not Google support forum but there is no other place where one could realistically propose these kinds of changes)

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Tell HN: Raspberry Pi 4 8GB available again 5 by whiskers | 3 comments on Hacker News. There has been a lot of discussion about Raspberry Pi availability over the past year. I've indicated in the comments that supply chain issues were close to being resolved - so here's an update... We've just had our first substantial drop of 8GB units (in addition to our recent top ups of the 4GB amd 2GB models) and can offer up to 10 units per customer. If you have needs above 10 units then we may be able support your use case if you drop me a line. I believe the shortage is now over and I don't expect any issues for us restocking going forward. Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Pimoroni

Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit? 3 by actinium226 | 3 comments on Hacker News. The more detailed your answer the better!

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Show off your LLM Agents 2 by dimitrit | 0 comments on Hacker News. What type of agents are you building? Do you have a project to show off?

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Ask HN: Why do archive.ph/is link to a page with endless captchas? 4 by vfclists | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Design IoT Dashboards with MQTT Studio: Quick and Easy Visualization 2 by berkaycubuk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey there! Just launched MQTT Studio – a tool to make cool dashboards for IoT stuff. It's easy and fast. Check it out https://mqtt.studio/. Tell me what you think!

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Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to find a lead investor? 2 by defencetechhn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! This might be somewhat EU-specific, but I feel like I'm going insane here. Currently fundraising for a seed round in an "attractive" sector (defence and AI) and we're finding it very hard to get any VCs to commit to being lead investors. VCs are super excited/optimistic about our company and willing to immediately jump on board as soon as a term sheet is signed by a lead investor. Trouble is that absolutely everyone is taking that position - leaving us in quite a pickle. I've gone through fundraising cycles before and never encountered something like this before, hearing the same from a bunch of other companies as well. I understand that the macroeconomic situation has made many more cautions, but this is just odd. Would really appreciate insight from both VCs and/or other founders currently raising.

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Ask HN: Suggest features my Ngrok alternative that doesn't require downloads 2 by ghoshbishakh | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am building Pinggy (https://pinggy.io) which is a tunnelling tool similar to Ngrok. But unlike Ngrok and its alternatives, you do not need to download it to use it. You can start an HTTP tunnel to localhost and selfhost any app by using this command: ssh -p 443 -R0:localhost:8000 a.pinggy.io (Change port `8000` to your port) I am looking for feedbacks and suggestions to help me in deciding the future roadmap of the product. Features - It supports almost all features of ngrok such as: * TCP / TLS tunnels * Inspecting HTTP requests through the web debugger * Basic auth (Bearer token auth coming soon) * Live header modifications * Custom domain We have tried to make the terminal self sufficient by including a basic HTTP traffic inspection tool. The terminal also shows a QR code to make it easy to quickly check a webpage on your phone. Infrastructure - Currentl...

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Article URL: https://blog.chromium.org/2023/08/towards-https-by-default.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150550 Points: 22 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/PBragdW via IFTTT

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Ask HN: Creating mental space for startup while contracting 2 by b20000 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am doing some contracting work which is uninteresting but pays fairly well. At the same time I continue working on my bootstrapped company. I find it hard to create "mental space" to work on what matters to me because the contracting gig is consuming mental bandwidth even when not working on it. On top of that there is the idea in the back of my mind I have to "farm" to get the next gig. I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and how you've dealt with it?

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Ask HN: Do you successfully manage the browser tabs? If so, how? 3 by pedrodelfino | 1 comments on Hacker News. I used to be happy around "tabs" while using Nyxt browser in a linux machine (even though Nyxt works with buffers, closer to the Emacs definition, not conventional browser tabs). Now, I am using macOS and Brave/Chrome for professional reasons most of the time. Holy cow, I really miss Nyxt's UX.

Should I Emabled Enhanced Safe Browsing in Gmail? 3 by avg_dev | 1 comments on Hacker News. Gmail has been asking me - and some people I know - for some time if we want to enable "Enhanced Safe Browsing" to "Get additional protection against phishing". I'm not really clear on what this is - is it something you would enable? I like to use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and typically I advise people who I know to do the same. I also recommend Firefox over Chrome (and use FF myself). Thanks for your help. Screenshot snippet: https://ift.tt/eSdxQlF Google's documentation on the feature: https://ift.tt/4eUfAzr

Tell HN: Google Maps is again requiring Wi-Fi scanning to enable navigation 3 by causality0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As far as I can tell it's an exact copy of the behavior they exhibited last year and discussed in this thread: https://ift.tt/UbmN9vM Personally when I turn off my Wi-Fi I want it to be off, period.

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Ask HN: Do developers have positive experiences with Scrum? 2 by moongloow | 1 comments on Hacker News. Anecdotally, I've observed that when discussing Scrum the people who will defend it tend to be POs, Scrum Masters, managers and the like. I can certainly understand why even a poorly implemented Scrum would be a positive thing in their world given their responsibilities. What I rarely observe are developers, engineers, QA, and other actual "boots on the ground" workers providing a defense of the methodology. It doesn't necessarily follow that just because I haven't seen it that there aren't developers, and adjacent peers, who feel Scrum benefits them. Are there individual contributors here who have had positive experiences? What were the conditions that allowed it to function well, or what proactive things did you do to make it work?

Ask HN: What are the “lost arts” of our field? 5 by Gabrielfair | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been thinking a lot of the good old simple days of the internet and programming. Lots of technology and tools are killed now right out of the gate b/c of how powerful established players have gotten. Your hobby project to track bots on twitter, killed by an overnight API change. So I'm looking for a list of the "lost arts". For example, its near impossible to find documentation related to reverse engineering Widevine DRM. Anything published is scrubbed from the internet search results lighting fast.

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Ask HN: Share a shell script you like 4 by yu3zhou4 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'd like to ask what are the shell scripts you enjoy using or find useful? It might be something you incorporated to your terminal-based workflow. Or maybe some specific scripts that you often reuse. Or you have used it once, but it might be useful to other people. Or maybe you just have a script that is fun to use? Please share My (not anymore) hidden intention is to gather your recommendations to build an open-source shell script registry https://ift.tt/ETYxK0y Source code is here for you if you want to self host or fork it https://ift.tt/fMWr5Y8 A script I sometimes use is a commands repeater https://ift.tt/DIkS4lb You can specify an interval and a flag to reset/keep the terminal's content after a script invocation Thanks!

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Ask HN: Where can I have good, technical discussion on random topics? 4 by server_man3000 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Stack exchange usually bans random discussion and Reddit is usually pretty service level. I have had some decent conversation on HN, but the medium is semi poor for convo. I’m wanting to get into studying DB implementation, btree optimizations, parsers, etc. Whats a good place for hackers to just passionately chat and learn from each other? Open source is cool, but I’m speaking more generally

Article URL: https://news.play.ht/post/introducing-playht2-0-the-state-of-the-art-generative-voice-ai-model-for-conversational-speech Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37091221 Points: 9 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xAVQhY5 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Micro investment capital (~$50k) for a solo bootstrapped SaaS? 3 by igammarays | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a bootstrapped solo founder in Kyiv, Ukraine running a profitable SaaS that is about 2 years old and shows solid steady (slow) growth. I need a small capital injection for equipment upgrades (still using an old iPhone 7!) and moving expenses. $50k would be a life changing sum of money for me, enabling me to move to a safer area (e.g. rural Western Ukraine) and set up a productive work environment. Any idea where I can find a small investment? Happy to trade some equity or something. Incorporated as a Delaware C-Corp using Stripe Atlas. Business loans (Pipe, TinySeed, etc.) aren't an option for a business of my size and location, and YC isn't interested in a solo founder in a warzone, I guess.

Article URL: https://graphite.dev/blog/how-an-aws-aurora-feature-cut-db-costs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37079909 Points: 26 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/MIuGCbk via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.gosecure.net/blog/2023/08/09/how-unparalleled-rdp-monitoring-reveal-attackers-tradecraft/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37078460 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/21ZSlk6 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2023/08/07/review-beepy-a-palm-sized-linux-hacking-playground/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37061127 Points: 45 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/9ACOd6K via IFTTT

Ask HN: How can Kagi be so fast and customizable? 3 by completeshock | 0 comments on Hacker News. Each customization I do to Kagi means the next search query has to be totally different. That might mean the UI also has to change to add/remove things that certainly require an index/DB search. And yet, I always get sub 200ms first-byte responses. How is that even possible? Is that edge computing? How would you architect such a thing?

Ask HN: ChatGPT – How many people live in Newcastle, Englad? 3 by p0d | 4 comments on Hacker News. Why does ChatGPT give my students different answers to this prompt when asked at the same time? Answers ranged from 165 - 300,000.

Article URL: https://citizenlab.ca/2023/08/vulnerabilities-in-sogou-keyboard-encryption/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37063568 Points: 20 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xjOhVHL via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why do companies typically provide APIs but not clients or specs? 2 by whitfieldsdad | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've noticed that the bulk of my time as a software developer these days is spent reverse engineering third-party REST APIs that don't already have a publicly available API client or publicly available API specification (e.g. OpenAPI). Why don't more companies publish either a specification for their API or an API client on a website like GitHub? For small shops with a few engineers, this makes sense, but for companies that we're paying > $100,000/yr. for access to their APIs, it seems like they should also provide an API client for interacting with it - or at the very least, API documentation. What are the main barriers preventing more companies from releasing either a specification for their APIs or an API client? Are APIs easier to reverse engineer these days, and therefore it's not really necessary to release a client or specification? On...

Article URL: https://www.iflscience.com/life-has-been-found-beneath-hydrothermal-vents-for-the-first-time-70178 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37052710 Points: 22 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xNlADaL via IFTTT

Bleatr: A full blockchain based Twitter like service 2 by bleatr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi folks, I'm working on a full blockchain based twitter like service. Everything will be store on-chain: followers/following, posts, etc. Medias will be stored on IPFS. The current landing page: https://bleatr.com/ Don't hesitate to tell me what do you think about this idea, or which features would you like to have on this service. The smart contract is almost ready, i'm just thinking about creating a token dedicated for this, or using an existing crypto (MATIC/POL, SOL, TRON ...) The fact that the blockchain will be used to store everything means: - no censorship - no spam (fees) - easy to remunerate other people - and more to imaginate Thx for your feedbacks

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/08/01/news-avoid-depressing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37050960 Points: 85 # Comments: 107 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/AELDTI5 via IFTTT

Ask HN: How long does it take to find a job? 4 by Akcium | 5 comments on Hacker News. I know it highly depends. It depends on the country, technology, and current situation. But let's assume an average job position Middle Frontend Developer. Remote job. You can share your experience whether you use React, Vue, or other frameworks. I'm asking for a purpose. My GF is looking for a job as a VueJS developer. And she can't find a decent job. But the period of time she's been looking for a job is less than a month. In my understanding, it's totally fine and you can spend a few months before you find your "dream job". Also, RUMOUR HAS IT that there is a huuuge decrease in demand in the IT sector. Which I personally don't believe (or even if it is, it's not that significant). What is your experience here?

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-true-lithium-revealed.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37040205 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/RhNKas9 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37037196 Points: 25 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/tCvzhFx via IFTTT

Ask HN: What cool software utilities have you created? 2 by fuzztester | 1 comments on Hacker News. Question inspired by this recent thread: Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made? https://ift.tt/sM45L2J

Article URL: https://www.symmetricds.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37025027 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/KaxWGdg via IFTTT

Ask HN: What do you do to prevent runaway billing cloud costs from bugs? 2 by tikkun | 4 comments on Hacker News. Had an error on vercel recently that caused unexpected costs and had the same on gcp. (Not saying it's the platform's fault) What do you use/do to prevent unexpected costs and runaway billing issues? e.g. what kinds of manual scripts, or any purpose-designed tools

Article URL: https://blog.medium.com/new-partner-program-incentives-focus-on-high-quality-human-writing-7335f8557f6e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37024680 Points: 12 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/a6milyV via IFTTT

Article URL: https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37025393 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/pePkh6z via IFTTT

The most difficult thing about working in the big tech is managers 7 by cjstkfpdlel | 5 comments on Hacker News. The amont of mental health issues I have developed and the stress that exists because of the corporate politics and the existence of the manager class is unbearable. The absolute worst thing about working in the big tech is not the obscure problem solving or crazy bugs and SEVs.. its managers. No matter how much they like to embellish their roles with statements like 1. Google also tried to get rid of managers but failed (which was 20 years ago when the tech and the people process were much more primitive) 2. Good manager shields you from politics 3. You've only had bad managers. 4. Managers are needed to set scope, hire, and mentor. It doesn't change the fundamental fact that the fundamental nature of the manager class is that 1. you take credit for the work your reports do 2. your job entails "cracking the whip" - managing people out, sometimes in really...

Ask HN: Why doesn't zoom and Google Meet “ring” the other party? 3 by andrewfromx | 1 comments on Hacker News. Remember the old days of calendar invites and the location was just a phone number? And it would say "Party A to call Party B" so you knew at 10am wait for a call and Party B would either call right on time or be a little late but when Party B started "the call" it would RING and they would hear a ringing sound, and they could let it ring over and over until it went to voicemail knowing Party A should have been hearing the rings. Vs. today I show up right on time to a zoom or google meet and wait. And wait. And many times the other party flakes. But I never get that satisfaction of 10 rings and that feeling of they are being notified of this call right now. Yes I could txt them or email but that's so awkward. It's like getting stood up for a date. You have to play it cool and just wait for them to notice they missed the meet.

Article URL: https://dannyreviews.com/h/Earthsea.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014738 Points: 32 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/dscWZ7r via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.duckdns.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37014758 Points: 18 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/rWSAgvm via IFTTT

Ask HN: Those in smaller tech companies, what's your org chart? Is it working? 4 by vocoded | 0 comments on Hacker News. I manage engineering for a company that's grown from about a dozen people to around 70, more than half of which is in product and development. Our structure has evolved organically during that time, primarily centered on technology-based teams (mobile, web, backend, etc), however we recently pivoted to an interdisciplinary product-oriented model. In the course of evaluating this change I was surprised by the lack of available reference points - there are numerous opinion pieces on org design, but real world examples are few and far between. Those of you in companies of 50-200, how is engineering structured? Is it effective? What would you change?

Article URL: https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a44567428/the-gamification-of-reading-is-changing-how-we-approach-books/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37001820 Points: 18 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/anyEvYH via IFTTT

Ask HN: What are some reasonable black swan tech predictions for 2023? 6 by kbrannigan | 11 comments on Hacker News. One 1 hand we have "AI", promising chatbots that automate trival tasks, to the industry going back to old boring frameworks. What are some tech society predictions you have?

Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/why-early-modern-books-are-so-beautiful Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36988039 Points: 27 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/EghzYPf via IFTTT

Ask HN: Machine Learning System Design Resources 2 by sujayk_33 | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are the best books, blogs or any kind of resources to learn MLSD to be able to crack an interview? Everywhere modeling is all that's talked about but in interviews we are also asked about System Design and one must be prepared for this. I need to prepare for the interviews. So kindly help.

Hi guys, Hope everyone is well. This app was borne out of my own frustration. I thought that I was terrible at learning languages at school, since I didn't become conversational in French after 5 years of study. However, I later traveled with some French friends and, in just under 3 weeks, I was able to hold a reasonable conversation. I realized that there's no substitute for speaking to native speakers. I tried to adopt this approach for other languages, but it's much harder to find people to practise with when you aren't travelling. I started using iTalki to meet people from different countries and chat to them. It quickly became very expensive and time-consuming to schedule the calls, so I gave up. I made PrettyPolly so that anyone can easily practice speaking 26 languages orally. The app uses ChatGPT (amongst other tools) to allow you to practice speaking whenever you want. It also generates a fluency score for each conversation so that you have an objective way of ...

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/07/31/horrifying-numbers-of-americans-will-not-make-it-to-old-age Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36970467 Points: 34 # Comments: 32 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/LWOoKsw via IFTTT

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/15gechw/apple_just_stole_hundreds_of_dollars_from_me/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36974358 Points: 121 # Comments: 52 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/vE7X6tY via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do I get employee opportunities as a long term contractor? 3 by fwungy | 1 comments on Hacker News. For various reasons I've done a lot of contracting over the last 10 years. In the beginning it was because I needed to work remote and contract jobs were most available. But this had to led to a resume of jobs lasting three months to two years, with lots of sub-year engagements. This makes me appear to be either a job hopper or someone with performance issues, when in reality this is the nature of the beast with contracting and the fact that I've made a long career of contracting actually means I'm capable of jumping into new stacks and succeeding. Contracting has its benefits but now in a remote friendly world I'd like to have opportunities in employee roles.

Ask HN: Do you still use a hand held/desktop calculator? 3 by ycombinete | 2 comments on Hacker News. If so, which one?

Article URL: https://www.nbc.ca/about-us/news-media/press-release/2023/20230801-NBC-acquisition-silicon-valley-bank-canadian-portfolio.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36960421 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Bn0wFJL via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/08/pixar-adobe-apple-autodesk-and-nvidia-form-alliance-for-openusd/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36960625 Points: 13 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/YpjNbLx via IFTTT

Tell HN: Mailjet locked me out of my account with no explanation 3 by kashnote | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have a blog that adds emails to Mailjet whenever someone subscribes. I have a few hundred subscribers who I email whenever I publish a new blog post. After about a year of not writing, I decided to start back up. To my surprise, when I tried to log into my Mailjet account, I got a message saying "Account closed due to phishing attempts." I emailed support and all they would offer me was "Our decision is final. We cannot give you a reason for security reasons. We cannot let you export your list of subscribers." So, I guess I just lost a few hundred subscribers and there's no way for me to get them back. If my account was compromised (probably not), they should've let me know and helped protect my account. If their system actually detected a phishing attempt, it must be hilariously bad because I was sending a very basic email about a new blog post bei...

Article URL: https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/slowness-essence-knowledge Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958315 Points: 19 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SbtckJr via IFTTT

Article URL: https://jalopnik.com/electric-cars-arent-affordable-because-americas-workfor-1850695943 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36959791 Points: 51 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/WbKoyP2 via IFTTT