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Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/business/training-repayment-agreement-debt.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37718230 Points: 8 # Comments: 5 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/jYxTBMC via IFTTT

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Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-farm-robots-ant-brains.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37706353 Points: 3 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/xAKWPYV via IFTTT

Code less sounds great for toy projects. People who aren't in tech aren't building no colde solutions beyond basic excel ones. So they end up hiring consultants to build them for them which costs at least 3-10x more if the solution were to be made with code. Ms powerapps for an example needs connector license for many basic things that costs a lot as well. This is from my experience as a consultant in many enterprises over last 3yrs watching code less explode in front my eyes. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37689282 Points: 79 # Comments: 47 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/GH3FVya via IFTTT

Article URL: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/27741/how-were-the-signs-for-logical-and-arithmetic-operators-decided Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37693766 Points: 17 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/skePhO8 via IFTTT

Twilio SMS Incident 3 by nathanyz | 1 comments on Hacker News. Looks like there is a currently a major Twilio SMS issue ongoing: https://ift.tt/13hfGMt

Ask HN: How do your ML teams version datasets and models? 5 by skadamat | 2 comments on Hacker News. Git worked until we hit a few gigabytes. S3 scales super well but version control, documentation, and change management isn't great (we just did lots of "v1" or "vsep28_2023" names). DVC felt very clunky (now I need git AND s3 AND dvc) by the team. What best practices and patterns have you seen work or have you implemented yourself?

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-medieval-french-skeleton-is-rewriting-the-history-of-syphilis/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37690372 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/yRGde1h via IFTTT

Insomnia's update locks out prev user data, forces account creation w/o warning 10 by huy-nguyen | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a long time user of Insomnia API client (https://insomnia.rest) without an account and was prompted to update the app an hour ago. I thought this was a regular feature update and accepted. After the app relaunches, it gives me the option to create an account with them or use without an account. When I choose the latter, my data is gone. Many others are reporting the same problem (https://ift.tt/XK6Mhcl). It's actually a good app but this strong-arming behavior is simply unacceptable to me. What other choices do I have? Postman for Mac?

Article URL: https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1707101465922453701?s=20 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37679955 Points: 31 # Comments: 7 from Hacker News: Front Page https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1707101465922453701?s=20 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Do high refresh rate monitors make it hard to go back? 2 by hypertexthero | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m considering getting a high refresh rate (up to 165Hz) 27in screen as a primary monitor to take center-stage away from my 75Hz one, which would become the secondary screen for gaming and streaming, and primary screen for graphic design. A concern is whether I’d become ‘spoiled’ by playing games at higher refresh rates and thereafter perceive 60fps in games as ‘slow’, thus ’creating’ more of my own graphics performance issues. Any thoughts on this?

Article URL: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/selection-of-whisk-ferns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675644 Points: 4 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/tMcIZfL via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do you set up a SaaS as a solopreneur? 2 by coreyp_1 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have the MVP, I have it validated, and now I want to build it into a full-grown SAAS. 1. How do you manage the SAAS part? From credit card processing to managing the subscriptions, to integrating it into the project? Any suggestions? 2. What about taxes? How do you collect and remit them to the state? (I'm in the USA.) This is a huge hole in my knowledge, and I would appreciate any information or guidance that you can offer! Thank you!

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/st/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37662655 Points: 11 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/EL6XjiD via IFTTT

Ask HN: How to market a macOS app distributed outside the AppStore 2 by longnguyen | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN I’ve developed a couple of macOS apps but I’m using the Accessibility Framework and could not distribute them on the Apple AppStore. Do you have any tips or advice on how to promote them? As an indie developer I find it quite challenging to get traffic. Unlike the AppStore where I could focus on AppStore Optimization (ASO).

Article URL: https://mikaei.github.io/mouthful/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37646257 Points: 8 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/82gcXmd via IFTTT

Ask HN: Anyone from Meta? 3 by bedobi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Since it's so hard to get bug reports looked at figured I might try here though I realize it's grasping at straws It seems like a not uncommon bug (~30 million hits on google) is for your insta account to get into a state where it no longer plays music added to stories, instead displaying an error "This song is currently unavailable" (even though it plays for literally everyone else and it used to play for you just fine) STEPS Using the instagram app, open a story that has music added (ie not music from the recording itself) (could be your story or someone elses) EXPECTED Music plays ACTUAL "This song is currently unavailable" (even for stories with music you know for a fact was playing fine for you before, and you know for a fact the music is playing for literally everyone else) MISC My hypothesis is that this happens because insta has somehow decided the account is in a region where the ri...

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/mind-boggling-sea-creature-spotted-japan-has-finally-been-identified Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37631252 Points: 24 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/TBkORfA via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is anyone pursuing longshot tech for recycling / remediating landfills? 3 by in_vestor | 3 comments on Hacker News. I have had a lifelong interest in cleaning up trash—-something that’s probably rooted in deep-seated aesthetics and maybe a bit of OCD. My first career was in standard finance/tech and left me with enough flexibility to try to do something I’m really passionate about. I have rigorously followed the academic literature and commercial development of recycling tech. It has been a disheartening journey. Recycling doesn’t work as well as people think. Promising solutions like plasma gasification had lots of engineering and economic challenges. A recent push in Europe for landfill mining went nowhere. What is really needed is a single stream solution where almost any material can go in the front end, and out the back end comes useful elemental products or inert products. Is anyone working on long-shot technology that would do this? If so, I would like to network. I’m n...

Article URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/mercenary-intellexa-predator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37634194 Points: 8 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/oiverZ7 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Small Developer Attempting to Verifying Large Corp Stats 4 by araes | 1 comments on Hacker News. General Question: Being a small app developer (like 1-5), how do you verify anything Google (or any FAANG frankly) tells you? Bgd: Made a few apps. Tried them out on the store. Found that the stats looked "suspicious." People do not even accidentally find my apps. Back in 2021, humans apparently download 111.3 billion mobile apps. Not mine. At least based on the stats Google shows me. Google says I had ~10 downloads over the last 3 years, and ~100 looks ever (mostly spike on release and then no looks ever again). Honestly, maybe the app store situation is just horrible, and with 3500 apps a day, there's no reason to ever waste months making anything unless you've got deep advertising pockets or an already known brand. I have already mostly gotten out because of the "Update Your Target API" issue. However, had a similar issue with YouTube. Made videos in ...

Article URL: https://www.genengnews.com/topics/genome-editing/crispr-silkworms-make-spider-silk-that-defies-scientific-constraints/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37623314 Points: 16 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/6SUWRh9 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://unity.com/pricing-updates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37624128 Points: 21 # Comments: 10 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/IrqoQH9 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://melodicambient.substack.com/p/i-open-sourced-even-the-ocean-2016 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37626025 Points: 26 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/DkiOJCI via IFTTT

Article URL: https://theweek.com/us/46535/when-half-million-americans-died-and-nobody-noticed Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37615638 Points: 74 # Comments: 17 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/dZKigJq via IFTTT

Tell HN: TIL: GNU Make .DELETE_ON_ERROR 6 by kazinator | 0 comments on Hacker News. If you have a make recipe which creates the target file, or modifies the timestamp of the existing out-or-date target, and that recipe fails, make will not delete the target. Thus it looks up-to-date, even though the recipe failed. The manual says: "So generally the right thing to do is to delete the target file if the recipe fails after beginning to change the file. make will do this if .DELETE_ON_ERROR appears as a target. This is almost always what you want make to do, but it is not historical practice; so for compatibility, you must explicitly request it." So, hidden in the manual is the recommendation that, it's good practice to have .DELETE_ON_ERROR: somewhere in every GNU Makefile. An example where this is relevant: foo: bar generate bar > foo # redirection is used redirection will create the file or touch the timestamp of the existing one before the generate command is run. Wha...

Ask HN: What are your favorite RSS feeds? 2 by Pooge | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are some communities like HN? 7 by jrberendt | 3 comments on Hacker News. I really love Hacker News and the content I have discovered on here, but the content is mainly focused around technology and programming. As a programmer, I don’t mind this, but are there other independent sites like HN that focus mainly around politics? Architecture? Music?

Article URL: https://www.influxdata.com/blog/the-plan-for-influxdb-3-0-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614611 Points: 8 # Comments: 8 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UeswlXv via IFTTT

Article URL: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/0-days-exploited-by-commercial-surveillance-vendor-in-egypt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816 Points: 80 # Comments: 25 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/KSuyYnm via IFTTT

Article URL: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-113 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602239 Points: 42 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/D9ELF4i via IFTTT

Article URL: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-09-poisoning-death-iq-loss-thought.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37599542 Points: 61 # Comments: 30 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Zcig0El via IFTTT

Tell HN: Enable smoother scrolling for Firefox 2 by khobragade | 0 comments on Hacker News. Set 'general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled' to true in about:config

Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO? 6 by ingoaf | 3 comments on Hacker News. MinIO has got some heavy licensing costs for commercial use. I was wondering if there is any object storage with an S3 API - ideally with a UI and something that could be run easily in a container.

Article URL: https://www.tri.global/news/toyota-research-institute-unveils-breakthrough-teaching-robots-new-behaviors Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37586264 Points: 37 # Comments: 13 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/60km5Iz via IFTTT

hi hn, hydra ceo here hydra is an open-source extension that adds columnar tables to Postgres for efficient analytical reporting. With Hydra, you can analyze billions of rows instantly without changing code. demo video (5 min): https://youtu.be/1yzxgb0Oyrw github repo: https://github.com/hydradatabase/hydra For 1.0 GA release, aggregate queries are over *60% faster* than Hydra beta due to aggregate vectorization. Spatial indexes (gin, gist, spgist, and rum indexes) and pg_hint_plan are now enabled for performance optimization. postgres is great, but aggregates can take minutes to hours to return results on large data sets. long-running analytical queries hog database resources and degrade performance. use hydra to run much faster analytics on postgres without changing code. for testing, try the hydra free tier to create a column postgres instance on the cloud. https://dashboard.hydra.so/signup Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37571974 Points: 40 # Comments: 5 from Ha...

Copyright Holders in Italy Granted Power to Block IPs Without Judicial Oversight 10 by andrew-ld | 0 comments on Hacker News. in Italy after the unanimous approval of law 93/2023 (https://ift.tt/6cs8Bbz), copyright holders will be able to force all Italian internet providers to block access to a certain ip and/or internet domain, the penalty to those who refuse is a hefty fine, all internet providers within 30 minutes of the blocking request will have to confirm that they have blocked the resource to avoid more hefty fines. This law will give enormous power to private companies, since all blocking requests ARE NOT SUPERVISED BY HUMANS, no judge or law enforcement will have to confirm the blocking, anyone who owns copyrighted content will be able to access a ticket platform (https://ift.tt/gBkYAFH) and enter a new ip and/or domain to be blocked (all internet providers will have to handle the ticket in maximum 30 minutes and confirm the blocking). There is currently no whitelisting syst...

Article URL: https://pressprogress.ca/facebook-is-blocking-canadians-posts-about-the-assassination-of-a-bc-sikh-leader-their-posts-were-targeted-by-indias-government/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37570022 Points: 82 # Comments: 48 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/6pIwGsL via IFTTT

Ask HN: How serious is the WebP bug? 3 by skilled | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have not seen any in-depth coverage of this so I thought I would ask HN and perhaps people with more expertise can provide clarity. For starters, the context: https://ift.tt/ThjyoMX https://ift.tt/WDsy67i https://ift.tt/MUx83mG https://ift.tt/H40So7g —————— Google themselves said in their update that they found the vulnerability thanks to Citizen Lab, does this mean that the CVE affects and can be exploited in more than just browsers - realistically speaking. The CVE was assigned specifically to Chrome and it says “through a maliciously crafted HTML page”, but wasn’t the iOS bug specific to iMessage? That is also the part I don’t understand fully. Quite a few software/projects have pushed an update for their libwebp versions now, so that’s why I am curious.

Ask HN: What do you think about Apple's report to the “Mother Nature”? 3 by amrrs | 1 comments on Hacker News. During the iPhone launch event, Apple had a dedicated section on a meeting with Mother Nature. I personally know people who liked it and someone who hated. So curious what's HN crowd felt about it?

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/steamos-35-benchmarks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37559133 Points: 37 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/SzvM84t via IFTTT

Tell HN: AWS outage in us-west-2 AND us-east-1 13 by ceejayoz | 13 comments on Hacker News. Last ~40 mins or so we've been getting intermittent internal DNS failures in us-west-2 in our Lambda-hosted app. AWS status board now shows "Lambda invoke issue: We are investigating increased invoke error rates in the us-west-2 Region." arn:aws:health:us-west-2::event/LAMBDA/AWS_LAMBDA_INVOKE_ISSUE/AWS_LAMBDA_INVOKE_ISSUE_ab21a726-de18-5a2f-b2ac-5cefd2794db9 on https://ift.tt/96a0Dg7 edit: Status page now says "Operational issue - Multiple services (Oregon)" and "Operational issue - Multiple services (N. Virginia)"

Article URL: https://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2023/09/OCI-Planet-Wreckers-Report-Final.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37548252 Points: 7 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/3rSsfcg via IFTTT

Ask HN: Resources to keep up with developments in AI 2 by fictor_vrankl | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are good resources / newsletters that aggregate developments in AI? Specifically looking for a one stop shop to understand the latest developments and inform decisions on "what's possible", for example, if trying to formulate a roadmap to evaluate and take advantage of new technologies.

Article URL: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n18/john-lanchester/get-a-rabbit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546397 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/gfPm6XD via IFTTT

Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source? 3 by gorenb | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'll probably rewrite it in Rust, but I would like some ideas on software to rewrite and make open source.

Article URL: https://nlopes.dev/writing/dont-be-afraid-to-be-wrong Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37537443 Points: 27 # Comments: 24 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/EtdnkQG via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6207336/pdf/pone.0206489.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37536503 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/GdUvE32 via IFTTT

Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? 3 by amts | 6 comments on Hacker News. I may get to work for a small translation agency to build a website for them plus a bit of marketing stuff, and maybe a remote desktop and a platform for invoicing for their personnel. I am self-teaching myself web-design and the related stuff (Python mainly for everything, but HTML/CSS, C++, SQL and databases also) and a few years ago I also administered a Wordpress site for a while, so am a bit familiar with themes/addons etc. But for a few recent months it seems I've seen some news on HN as about once per month that someone's Wordpress site was hacked. Which web framework may be better for a small agency (or in a general business case): Wordpress or Django/Flask? Can you describe a typical workflow and which other tools/frameworks/keywords/etc (like REST) I need to use for this? As I am a bit nervous that I am self-taught in this field, though have tons of materials on that, but this job may provide ...

Article URL: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/venus-morning-star-2023 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37522321 Points: 3 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/jfWuSvP via IFTTT

What would you do differently if you decided to start a blog again? 2 by ismailsevik | 0 comments on Hacker News. If you were to start a new blog with your current knowledge, what would you do differently than what you did at first?

Article URL: https://www.g1a55er.net/Android-14-Still-Allows-Modification-of-System-Certificates Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37521931 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/nsifIoL via IFTTT

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/wait-is-unity-allowed-to-just-change-its-fee-structure-like-that/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37527060 Points: 39 # Comments: 23 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/8AB5Riu via IFTTT

Ask HN: What do startups look for in a resume? 2 by fvrghl | 2 comments on Hacker News. How differently should a resume be formatted when applying to a startup vs FAANG?

Article URL: https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37511223 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/062Hy7f via IFTTT

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/ducks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512216 Points: 37 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/gAsio9a via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/14/23873628/unity-death-threats-john-riccitiello Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37512512 Points: 25 # Comments: 20 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/GmVlrYu via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is cell phone radiation still a concern in 2023? 4 by _air | 1 comments on Hacker News. In the early days of mobile technology, there were numerous discussions and studies concerning the radiation emitted by cell phones and potential health risks, including cancer. Phones are closer to us than ever — sometimes even under our pillows while we sleep. Has technology evolved to significantly reduce these risks, or are the concerns as relevant as ever?

Article URL: https://github.com/Zylann/unity_to_godot_converter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37499743 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/grknwUx via IFTTT

Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall 6 by wanqu | 1 comments on Hacker News. Contexts - Relying on Cloudflare to be the gateway of all of our production traffics is scary. Currently we are on Enterprise plan, but we don't know if phone support is possible and email support is very slow - typically takes a few days for one reply. We have an open ticket opened ~1 month ago and they still can't answer some basic questions. Can't imagine what to do if there's big outage on their end or mistakes made by their human operators. Ideally, there's a good Cloudflare alternative, and we can easily update our dns customer server to point to that alternative when Cloudflare has outage (or caused by their human operators mistakes).

Article URL: https://go.dev/blog/wasi Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498820 Points: 45 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/KDQNmE0 via IFTTT

Do you use NixOS on production servers? 3 by overbytecode | 0 comments on Hacker News. What is your experience like? Any lessons or best practices you’ve discovered.

Any Mullvad Alternative? 3 by Pooge | 1 comments on Hacker News. Been a while since Mullvad removed port forwarding. I'm looking for a VPN that has that too, but also no-log policy and no email address storage.

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03272 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37486307 Points: 11 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/UylwdvR via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-unveils-iphone-15-pro-and-iphone-15-pro-max/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485271 Points: 81 # Comments: 95 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/IBPgWV2 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/09/apple-debuts-iphone-15-and-iphone-15-plus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485290 Points: 193 # Comments: 371 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/CS3YhFR via IFTTT

Ask HN: Getting excited about new Apple iPhones is so 2010s. What went wrong? 7 by behnamoh | 6 comments on Hacker News. I used to get so excited every time Apple would announce a new device. But in the past 6-7 years, Apple looks like milking its successful products (mainly iPhone) w/o a clear vision.

Ask HN: What's Your Desktop Background? 3 by DiggyJohnson | 6 comments on Hacker News. I have a small collection of images: "Earth in the Background". It's currently only four images, each different photographs from spacecraft and landers that includes the Earth. The real obvious ones include the original and revisited (2020) Pale Blue Dot photos from the Voyager 1 mission. Closer to home, there is Blue Marble (Apollo 17) and Earthrise (Apollo 8). My favorites are a view of the horizon on Mars night with Earth and the moon faintly visible in the sky (Curiosity). There's also a good one from Cassini that includes Saturn's rings and Earth, but it makes the screen look cracked. Anyways, I never really think much about this collection, and throw one on whenever I get a new machine. I prefer quiet backgrounds, nothing too noisy or flashy - I've even had solid colored backgrounds for many years. What do you use for your desktop background / wallpaper?

Article URL: https://antimatter15.com/splat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37470611 Points: 36 # Comments: 11 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/Mfxsk7g via IFTTT

Ask HN: Why Did Yelp Fail? 4 by michaelteter | 3 comments on Hacker News. Yelp was once _the_ source for reviews and sometimes photos (for restaurants). Then something happened, and then it seemed to just fall away. ? Was it Google Maps (with reviews)? ? Was it disputes about reviews, or questions of financial influences or censorship of reviews? It's been long enought that perhaps some insiders can share details without risk...

Hi, I created loopy, a website to share and discover music you love. A former coworker answered an ice breaker question saying his superpower would be to know every language fluently since he travels a lot. Mine would be to hear every song I would fall in love with. I realized that I will die without hearing every song that I will fall in love with. So many of my all-time favorite songs I randomly have heard at a club, coffee shop, traveling, walking by a store, etc. There is a high chance that I would have never heard those songs. Loopy aims to fix this. You can post your all-time favorite songs. If someone else love this song, there is a chance you will too :). Here is my profile: https://loopy.fm/kyle Happy listening :) - Kyle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37466045 Points: 8 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://www.loopy.fm/ via IFTTT

Ask HN: Charging a Client for On-Call Time 4 by undefined_user6 | 3 comments on Hacker News. The company I freelance as a developer for recently lost the main on-call developer and now I've become the person available 24/7 if anything happens. It rarely does, but it's still a bit of a burden on me to always have that in the back of my head. I've been on-call in this way for about three months now. I charge by the hour. I am thinking of charging the client $1000/month in addition to my billable hours for my 24/7 availability. One more thing to consider: I am the _only_ developer. The bus factor here is 1. If they lose me, they are going to be in serious trouble to keep their business running long-term. I mention this because I want to make sure I'm not extorting them (i.e. "pay me more money or I'm leaving and you're screwed") and also so it doesn't _appear_ that I'm extorting them. My questions: * Is $1,000/month a reasonable amount to bill fo...

Article URL: https://henrikwarne.com/2023/09/10/what-i-have-changed-my-mind-about-in-software-development/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457208 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/fLP3rKC via IFTTT

Ask HN: How do you relate rendered HTML to the TypeScript file it came from? 2 by jztan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Let's say we have a any web app (React, Next, whatevr framework. It has a App.tsx file and Button.tsx file. We start the local development server and use puppeteer to extract the content. You can use whatever frameworks, source maps, tools, etc. How would you take that string input and figure out the line number where the typescript actually occurred?

erlmacs automatically configures and updates your .emacs file with support for the emacs mode that is included with Erlang/OTP. It frees you from having to locate the installation directory of Erlang/OTP and its bundled emacs mode. It is an escript that only depends upon Erlang/OTP and Emacs. Note: There is not much in the way of error checking at this moment, but it does make a backup of your .emacs files before any destructive operations. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37457609 Points: 13 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/XBqwCkv via IFTTT

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Article URL: https://sec.cyou/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37448445 Points: 4 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://sec.cyou/ via IFTTT

Article URL: https://iahwrites.substack.com/p/existing-in-an-un-simulated-reality Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37447810 Points: 10 # Comments: 4 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/eIPw1MQ via IFTTT

Hello HN! I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this! I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can train the model (using QLoRA) to respond in a way that's eerily similar to your own texting style. What I've figured out so far: Quick Learning: The model quickly adapts to personal nuances, emoji usage, and phrases that you use. I've trained just 1 epoch on a P100 GPU using QLoRA and 4 bit quantization, and its already captured my mannerisms Turing Tests: As an experiment, I asked...

Ask HN: Online Reservation scams: what’s the worst you’ve seen? 3 by tonymet | 0 comments on Hacker News. We did a road trip around Washington and ran into a number of reservation scams. Online hotel booking specified $47/ night in “taxes and recovery fees” – actual taxes per night were only $11. Online hotel reservation charged $15 / night for parking – but upon arrival we discovered parking was free and un-ticketed . $15 charge for nothing. USFS campsites offer 50% discount for America The Beautiful pass holders when paying in person, but reservations.gov does not honor the discount. Also reservations.gov charges a 10% booking fee. A $13 campsite in person costs $30 /night booked online. When visiting a popular tourist town, public parking was $6 / day. Using the recommended app to book daily parking rates were charging $20 — a > 300% increase. In the end we booked in person to avoid the scam. We saved over 50% on the hotel and 75% on daily parking. This was just a single 5 day t...

Article URL: https://www.enricobassetti.it/2023/09/cve-2023-4809-freebsd-pf-bypass-when-using-ipv6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437530 Points: 25 # Comments: 9 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/X8gifFP via IFTTT

Article URL: https://jalopnik.com/safety-inspector-fired-for-finding-too-many-defects-cou-1850817520 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37437764 Points: 57 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/L68suiF via IFTTT

End-of-Life of Fauna's GraphQL API 2 by Illniyar | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just got the following email from Fauna (Can't find a blog post or any other public announcement to link to). "Hello, We hope this message finds you well. We're writing to inform you about an upcoming change in our GraphQL API. As you may be aware, we recently released a major new update to Fauna's database language that provides a familiar, TypeScript inspired interface into the database. We have received very strong positive feedback from customers on the new FQL as being much more intuitive and powerful than previous versions of FQL or our GraphQL interface. In addition, many customers have also expressed confusion with our GraphQL API as it relates to the functionality available from broader GraphQL products like Apollo, Hasura, and Grafbase. As a result we have made the decision to stop investing in our GraphQL API. Instead we will focus on continuing to enhance FQL, adding function...

Article URL: https://together.ai/privacy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37436498 Points: 15 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/PFkWx2o via IFTTT

Article URL: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354609-atariage-atari/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421573 Points: 17 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/MTQKYuG via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alistaircharlton/2023/09/07/bmw-drops-controversial-heated-seats-subscription-to-refocus-on-software-services/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37421730 Points: 43 # Comments: 38 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2wGZtsR via IFTTT

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/05/more-than-half-of-dilapidated-english-schools-were-refused-rebuilding-money Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37423329 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/H9jnEyR via IFTTT

Ask HN: Where can you safely ask beginner-level questions online in 2023? 5 by whitfieldsdad | 5 comments on Hacker News. What are some of your favourite websites for asking beginner-level questions where you won't be laughed out of the room for being a beginner say, 30-50% of the time? Facebook seems hit or miss - some Facebook groups are okay with beginners, others hate them. Twitter is prone to the no-network effect where you can only really ask questions if you have a strong follower base that's open to answering your questions - nobody really uses hashtags, so, you have to be a "reply guy" if you want to ask questions. Reddit is nice, but I was banned from Reddit for life for saying that the new Harry Potter game looks good and probably isn't a call to arms for Nazis - trying to be a voice of reason, rather than a Nazi, or, whatever I got banned from the platform for life for - and haven't bothered setting up Tor yet. Quora seems interesting, but, I don...

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/05/councils-in-england-in-crisis-as-birmingham-declares-itself-bankrupt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408139 Points: 27 # Comments: 31 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/gBmDUZ1 via IFTTT

Article URL: https://jacobin.com/2023/09/disco-elysium-intellectual-property-video-game-industry-creative-workers-collective-action Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37409723 Points: 10 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/kP2TJD1 via IFTTT

I wrote this silly thing a couple of weeks ago. It's absolutely useless but it's a fun tech demo for my web server library. Enjoy! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37408150 Points: 32 # Comments: 12 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/2VPwYWI via IFTTT

Amazon and Uber Eats Drivers Capturing Residents in Photos: Invasion of Privacy? 5 by notinthegovt | 8 comments on Hacker News. hi, i’ve been staying at a friend’s apartment for a few days, working from the couch which faces the windows. nearly every day, an Amazon or Uber Eats driver rushes up the stairs, peering through the window as they look for the right apartment. we often lock eyes, creating an awkward moment. then they place the delivery down, step back, and snap a photo. i find this extremely unsettling. i’m in a private residence, yet the chance of me appearing in a photo has significantly increased. considering how Live Photos work on smartphones, the camera is essentially recording everything it sees until the photo is taken. also to note nefarious use and wide angle lenses… does anyone else find this invasive? how and why are Amazon and Uber Eats allowed to carry out such practices?

Hello! This is Jeane and Samuel and we’re building RecipeUI. RecipeUI is an open source Postman alternative that uses TypeScript to statically type and autocomplete requests. We built this because current API tools don’t deal with the fact that some APIs are just painful to work with. For us, it’s usually error after error as we try to figure out how to properly form the first request. We recorded a demo to show you how TypeScript helps us autocomplete a request correctly. https://youtu.be/O_Mly_p-g5s How does our platform improve the developer experience? The analogy is similar to using a statically typed language vs dynamically typed. Most API tools are dynamically typed. You’re guessing the params and relying on the request to magically work at runtime, only for you to go back to stack overflow or the docs when it doesn’t. We take the approach of defining parameters and the schema first. When you add a new parameter, you need to mention upfront if it’s required and what type it is (...

Ask HN: Looking for an Alternative to Stripe 5 by fuckgoogleplay | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi. We're using Stripe and we got hit by a bunch of friendly fraud where we see an easy solution how to prevent this from happening - blocking a specific bank. But Stripe does not give you the BIN of the cards, and will not allow you to block by card issuer name. BIN databases cost like $2.500 per year and I'm not sure how accurate they are. Why on Earth Stripe wouldn't let us see the BINs/block by issuer names is beyond me. So I'm looking for an alternative that: 1) Supports 3DS 2) Lets you block by issuer name 3) Shows you the BIN (not really needed if #2 is available, but nice to have an shows that the processor cares about the merchant) Is there a good option? Thanks

Article URL: https://deno.com/blog/kv-open-beta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37394219 Points: 22 # Comments: 6 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/RwJoyIM via IFTTT

Ask HN: Will Amazon experience a significant brain drain due to RTO? 4 by softwaredoug | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Article URL: https://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug23/airbnb-bubble8-23.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382534 Points: 10 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/9NfF4Mo via IFTTT

Ask HN: Those with ADHD. What's a hobby that never gets boring? 5 by adhdcrazy | 9 comments on Hacker News. Those who have ADHD, self diagnosed or diagnosed by a psychologist. 1. What is your hobby that never gets boring? 2. Does it help you control your thrill seeking?

Article URL: https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news-environment/news/article/5391/extreme-el-ni-o-weather-switched-off-south-american-s-carbon-sink Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382995 Points: 41 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/CVw0egr via IFTTT

Just got a MacBook Pro for work; what are your tips? 7 by Pooge | 5 comments on Hacker News. Any tips welcome. I turned on the Function keys, and the "3-finger double-tap for zoom" setting. I'm really new and am eager to know how to make the most out of it. I'm still not used to the Ctrl, Option keys. And some special characters are not on the same place at all, which is disturbing because I sometimes minimize a window...

Article URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.106767 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37372914 Points: 15 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/LYE49Fo via IFTTT

Ask HN: Computing Side Project Ideas? 3 by zerojames | 1 comments on Hacker News. This year, I have been striving toward one of my long-term goals: to build a programming language. This has been a great way to exercise my technical muscles. I wonder what other "computing"-type side project ideas are out there in which one would refine their programming skills (as opposed to interest-based projects like an app to do X or projects with monetization potential). Examples off the top of my head: - Make a programming language - Build a database or query language - Build a kernel module - Implement a protocol (TCP, HTTP, UDP) - Write code in a functional language - Implement Git What other ideas fall into this category?

Article URL: https://theferret.scot/pesticide-safety-limit-industry-lobbying/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37370453 Points: 47 # Comments: 3 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/d5zRyP2 via IFTTT

This is a side project I've been working on for the last few months. I built an automated system to continuously mirror all the code on PyPI to a series of Github repositories. Mirroring PyPI code to Github enables: 1. Scanning of all new Python packages for accidentally published credentials 2. A browsable/searchable index of published code with a nice UI 3. Large-scale analysis of all published code to see how the language is evolving Using this project anyone is able to download the contents of PyPI to their personal machine and analyse every piece of code ever published in a matter of hours. I hope it enables people to do things with the worlds largest and oldest corpus of Python code that wasn't possible before, and while this is likely totally useless to most people I think that is kind of cool and unique. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364290 Points: 31 # Comments: 14 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/mSkcLWp via IFTTT

Ask HN: Please recommend me ebooks on Regex and Linux 2 by esquivalience | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, Can you recommend ebooks to read to introduce me to Regex and/or Linux? I'm currently paging though The Linux Commands Handbook by Flavio Copes which I'm finding good! But I don't want just one resource. I've been a windows user for a long time but have recently been fairly frustrated with it. Things like ads injected into system menus, and the absurd double-layer of settings configurations, are turning me off it, so I've decided to give Linux a try. I've opted for Kubuntu, for a small-step-first introduction and I'm very impressed with how smooth it is. In fact I'm pretty sure I could just use it casually barely noticing it wasn't windows based - an amazing thing when comparing a community project to the mainstay product of one of the world's largest corps. But that's not my aim. I'd prefer to understand the OS a bit more deeply ...

Article URL: https://oaklandlibrary.org/found-in-a-library-book/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37364388 Points: 27 # Comments: 2 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/lV4YaT3 via IFTTT

Ask HN: Alternative News Websites/Feeds 4 by ta988 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for news or feeds that would allow me to mark news as read, so I only get new things. Most news websites or aggregators like google news have really little change over a day or two. Something else related I was looking for would be something like delayed news where I would get the important news from like 7 days ago (so unverified or unsure information would be naturally reduced). I don't mind if it has a fee if that removes ads. And I don't want partisan sources.

Hello everyone! I've been working on this project for a few months as part of my thesis in Machine Learning. It's meant to be a library that provides an easy-to-use but flexible API to design and train Diffusion Models. I decided to make it because I wanted to quickly prototype a Diffusion Model but there were no good tools to do it with. I think it really can help people prototype their own Diffusion Models a lot faster and only in a few lines of code. The base idea is to have a Model class that takes different modules corresponding to the different aspects of the Diffusion Model process (noise schedule, noise type, denoising network, loss function, guidance, etc.) and allow the user to mix and match different modules to achieve different results. The library ships with a bunch of prebuilt modules and the plan is to add many more. I also made it super easy to implement your own modules, you just need to extend from one of the base classes available. Contrary to HuggingFace Dif...

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-behavior-male-fruit-flies-intense.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37361840 Points: 12 # Comments: 1 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/K8LhQeR via IFTTT

Article URL: https://tembo.io/blog/optimizing-postgres-auto-vacuum/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37352955 Points: 7 # Comments: 0 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/sw28KFY via IFTTT

Ask HN: Is “sign in with Facebook” dead for indie developers? 2 by santah | 11 comments on Hacker News. On my service - https://ift.tt/450dQAs - along with signing in with username and password, there is an option to sign in with Google and Facebook. 3 days ago, I get this email from Facebook "Complete business verification for Next Episode" which notifies me that my Facebook app (which handles the Facebook login functionality) now needs to be connected to a verified business account. This is where they announced this back in February: https://ift.tt/18OL6Ct... Now, going through the steps of filling out my name, address, phone number etc, I checked the "How we use your information" link and in it, it said "In certain cases, we'll update your publicly available Page Transparency information with some of the details you confirm during verification". In the Page Transparency information page: https://ift.tt/HcxRwmT it says the information about the owne...

Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37351665 Points: 39 # Comments: 99 from Hacker News: Front Page https://ift.tt/zTv3imJ via IFTTT

Ask HN: Twitter vs. Mastodon for tech (particularly AI) content? 3 by Michelangelo11 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I know it sounds kinda vague, but by "content" I mean relevant news and discussion of technical stuff. Between Twitter and Mastodon, which do you find better for that kind of thing, and why?