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Machine Learning Crash Course | Looking through the topics covered, the standard AI-course caveats (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16247629) apply.Yes, AI/ML MOOCs teach the corresponding tools well, and the creation of new tools like Keras make the field much more accessible. The obsolete gatekeeping by the AI/ML elites who say "you can't use ... |
Pockit: A tiny, powerful, modular computer [video] | As far as I can tell, this is a single individual that has done all of this work. I am floored at the design and intricacy of this project.Really, truly blown away. I'm sure there are plenty of edge cases to correct for but I haven't gotten so excited by a demo in a long time. I've obviously signed up to learn more. |
Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls | Look at the cockpit of any modern airliner and you will see screens, but they are never interactive. There are hardware buttons, dials and lights all over the place. A tactile interface is both more obvious, sturdy and more stable, and therefore safer. The problem that touch interfaces solve, ever since the advent of t... |
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me | The blame for this sits squarely on the w3c for their efforts in trying to replace flash by letting the content companies dictate standards for encrypted playback.If they had held fast, we could have forced the companies to do their key management in something like WebAssembly and avoided this gatekeeping mess. |
Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension | Uh, yikes:> As I looked at the permissions and what our extension actually needs to operate, I noticed a great opportunity to reduce our permissions requests. We do not need to request access to data on https://*/* and http://*/*. Instead, we can simply request data access for https://*.pushbullet.com/*, http://*.pushb... |
IoT hacking and rickrolling my high school district | Someone I know did something similar, was arrested in their college dorm, and at the sentencing hearing in federal court was fined and sentenced to 5 years probation, and now has a criminal record.This kid is very very lucky. Obviously they violated the CFAA which carries severe criminal penalties. They engaged in actu... |
Same-Sex Marriage Is a Right, Supreme Court Rules | Well, I know I'm probably a minority in saying this, but I'm disappointed - not because I don't think everyone should have access to the government rights attached to marriage, but because it seems our country doesn't actually want to fix problems at the root.What is the root problem? People on both sides of the debate... |
Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair | Can someone help me stop playing the world's smallest violin here?Spotify knowingly built a low margin business living in the pocket of the labels (who force Spotify towards razor thin margins) and Apple/Google (who have, since before Spotify launched, operated app stores for their platforms which are to some extent cu... |
Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? | I have a rail line right under my apartment, so I built a small computer vision app running on a Rasperry Pi which records each train passing, and tries to stitch an image of it.It has a frontend at https://trains.jo-m.ch/.Edit: it's currently raining and the rain drops are disturbing the images a bit. |
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer | So I wonder, why disclose this?This will just prompt Cellebrite to improve its security process and sandbox the entire tool.If they wanted to destroy the credibility of the tool, using the vulnerabilities to silently tamper with the collected data or even leaking it online would be a much better option and hit them wit... |
1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service | $ ping 1.1.1.1PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=214.866 ms64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=173.416 ms64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=45 time=256.007 ms64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=45 time=196.638 ms64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=45 time... |
Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% protection | Good:+ ~90% of individuals achieve immunity.+ no significant side-effects.Not so good:- two doses needed, 3 weeks apart, immunity after one month from first dose. Slow rollout.- -80C storage and transport needed. Challenging, but doable in developed countries, but still may slow down mass rollout. Not feasible in many ... |
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel | The sweet spot for having control over your email while simultaneously minimizing unforseen headaches is to simply own your domain name and point the MX record to whatever hosting provider you want instead of self-hosting a server at home.Same philosophy for exposing a your personal blog of html files or content like m... |
Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in name of research | Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670. |
We lost 54k GitHub stars | I really like this post.While the author clearly feels bad about the fact that they've lost his community and that GitHub didn't restore it (which is honestly what any of us would've felt under similar circumstances), they're also focusing towards the future and using their personal experience as a parable all of us ca... |
Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records | Former career criminal here. Spent 19 years of my adult life in a combination of jail and prison. Longest stint was for 14 consecutive years. Been working in IT for the last 17 years, mostly as a developer. Had a very hard time getting my foot in the door; was denied employment more than once because of my record. Not ... |
Zoom Acquires Keybase | For years people have been begging Keybase to allow them to pay them for the service and Chris Coyne always refused.Now they've lost their independence and they're owned by a communication company that has [edit: the majority of] its dev team in China.I use Keybase to talk to my friend in China since it's one of the fe... |
Factorio 1.0 | It's the game to teach people what technical debt and refactoring is.When you start building your factory, you think about how to get first steps just done (ship it!). Over time complexity and scope of your factory increases, but old code, I mean old machines, are still there, getting in the way.You can choose to ignor... |
Request For Research: Basic Income | Things that would help everyone, regardless of income, without depending on a radical restructuring of entitlement spending, that seem like things startups could actually do:* Equally credible alternatives to university education for professions that don't involve students shouldering $100k-$200k in debt based on decis... |
Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone | The people losing their marbles over this being some kind of Turing Test passing distopian stuff are missing the point at how limited this domain is.People who answer phones to take bookings perform an extremely limited set of questions and responses, that’s why they can even be replaced by dumb voice response systems ... |
Just Be Rich | A lot of people who are just as smart and motived as Elon Musk or Steve Jobs will never be able to start their own companies and get rich.Because they have family obligations that take priority.Because they live outside high-income countries.Because they have no access to support network, so when they fail, they fall a... |
John Carmack Leaves Meta | ”It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I'm evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill... |
ChatGPT Plugins | I have some odd feelings about this. It took less than a year to go from "of course it isn't hooked up to the internet in any way, silly!" to "ok.... so we hooked up up to the internet..."First is your API calls, then your chatgpt-jailbreak-turns-into-a-bank-DDOS-attack, then your "today it somehow executed several hu... |
Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for future Macs | Commenters here seem dubious. I’ll take the contra-position. This feels to me like it’s going to be great; a big win for consumers and developers.Current A12z chips are highly performant; Apple is roughly one chip cycle ahead on perfomance/watt from any other manufacturer. I presume their consumer hardware will launch ... |
Google’s GDPR Workaround | It's really funny to see that yesterday, I was branded as a 'privacy nut' after the release of Android 10 as I was concerned about the privacy issues that are in Android. Then the Go modules proxy issue around the Go Programming language that raised suspicions about tracking usage statistics around downloading modules ... |
A Most Peculiar Test Drive | Wow. I was as skeptical of the wisdom of Tesla attacking NYT's journalist for their Model S review as all the other HNers - but this is incredible.First: I realize the fact that what the hardware logs show and what the user was shown may not be one and the same (i.e. hardware sensors may indicate charge at 28% but due ... |
Willingness to look stupid | This has happened to me frequently at my current company. I get pulled into a meeting about something that I have no context on because it touches my area of expertise, and the discussions have apparently been stalling out.I brace myself to be the idiot. I'm going to waste everyone's time asking questions that everyone... |
Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle | (author here)Great feedback! Yes, I am the "Land of Lisp" guySorry about the potential epilepsy trigger- that was the fastest way I could think of to code a quick "reward effect", I will do something different in the next version. I didn't really expect anyone to care enough to solve the puzzle lol.Now that I know peop... |
Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices | Palmer Luckey, the original creator had this to say over on /r/oculus: I am already getting heat from users and media outlets who say this policy change proves I was lying when I consistently said this wouldn't happen, or at least that it was a guarantee I wasn't in a position to make. I want to make clear that those ... |
Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M | This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck. |
Why I’m Suing the US Government | I studied section 1201 thoroughly during law school and I think this post doesn't give a fair characterization of it. The reason this statute exists is because companies were unable to devise protection for copyrighted works that hackers were not able to immediately circumvent. As a result, the government stepped in an... |
Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.” | A lot of people trying to defend being a jerk as necessary in these circumstances. I think Google culture proves the opposite: Googley code and peer reviews, blameless postmortems, and a host of other mechanisms that de-escalate and de-personalize things.The Meltdown work at Google probably didn't begin with a rant abo... |
Master Plan, Part Deux | > "When used correctly, [partially autonomous driving] is already significantly safer than a person driving by themselves"If you're an American, you're twice as likely to die with a steering wheel in your hands as you are to die at the hands of a murderer. Human-driven vehicle deaths cause grave second-order suffering ... |
EU copyright law proposal rejected | It is extremely important not to lose focus on the problem because they're going to try again and again to pass it, one way or another. They'll never stop: it's about profit both for the corporations bribing for those laws and the politicians being bribed to push for them, so they'll just keep pushing until they find t... |
iOS14 reveals that TikTok may snoop clipboard contents every few keystrokes | It seems like a ton of apps are abusing this feature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRSWdtoUAjoI categorize this as another reason why "just trust us," just isn't acceptable enough when it comes to data privacy and ownership. Companies just cannot be trusted to treat their users' data with respect given the option o... |
GitHub Copilot investigation | What do people think the future looks like where publicly available resources on the Internet (art, code, etc) aren't fair use for training ML models? Where you have to opt into models or can opt out (and many wind up doing so)?OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, et al will STILL train such models that can do all the same thing... |
The Cloud Computer | I am CTO of a large global data center provider posting with throwaway account.As a technologist, I really appreciate what they have done. Impressive work, high quality, however I don't understand who this is for.The meaningful market for Data Center hardware is pretty well defined in two clusters. People that build/ma... |
The Cloud Computer | I am CTO of a large global data center provider posting with throwaway account.As a technologist, I really appreciate what they have done. Impressive work, high quality, however I don't understand who this is for.The meaningful market for Data Center hardware is pretty well defined in two clusters. People that build/ma... |
GitHub lets staff own IP developed for personal projects using company resources | Once upon a time, I was looking for a job, in straightened circumstances. I found a so-so match, and since I was in danger of missing a mortgage payment, I decided to accept their offer. Pragmatism and all that.Well, I went in and picked up the documents, and told them I needed to read them before signing and returning... |
16-inch MacBook Pro | I'm astonished and pleased to see they walked back the two worst things about the original Touch Bar MBPs - the lack of a physical Escape key, and the full-size left and right arrow keys.The lack of physical function keys remains regrettable, and the Touch Bar is still no worthy substitute, but perhaps this is a sign t... |
My students cheated... a lot | Threads like these are always frustrating, because as usual people (programmers in this case) freely air their opinions on how schools are broken with phrases like “we need to fix the system”.As someone who studied pedagogy for years and quit due to an immense frustration with exactly this — how broken the system is — ... |
Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour | These are the statutory fair use factors the jury was required to consider (17 U.S.C. 107):(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used ... |
Lavabit abruptly shuts down | For the unfamiliar: Lavabit was a webmail service, that (claimed to) encrypt emails in such a way that they literally did not have access to the content stored on their own servers. The linked email would lend some credence to those claims. It was originally designed in contrast to gmail scanning your email for targete... |
Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News | HN is lightweight in some ways, but also quite bad in others. For example, every single time you vote on anything, the site sends back a 302 redirect and then a copy of the entire page's HTML in response. This means that every vote results in a response that's usually around 10KB gzipped.As of right now, for me, voting... |
A guide to difficult conversations | I’m generally a good conversation participant, but this week has made me second guess myself.My father-in-law is currently hospitalized after his heart stopped this weekend. He’s currently in an induced coma. Brain damage is a foregone conclusion at this point and they’re unsure if he will ever regain consciousness.My ... |
NPM Is Joining GitHub | Microsoftie here — throwaway for obvious reasons.Microsoft doesn’t do everything right but the GitHub acquisition has honestly gone better than I ever expected. Rather than forcing GitHub to adopt Microsoft centric policies, Microsoft has adopted more GitHub stuff, especially from a product POV. GitHub still runs as a ... |
Swift is Open Source | Github repo is live now. https://github.com/apple/swiftFirst ever commit found here https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/afc81c1855bf711315b8e5... |
Boot a linux kernel right inside your browser. | This is demonstrative of the advantages of the new low-level APIs being added to JavaScript to work efficiently with binary data.Fabrice uses this to implement an x86 interpreter -- it could not be done efficiently without typed arrays. However, it is still slow -- imagine what kind of advances could be made if a commo... |
It’s Time to Build | I'm in the process of reading _Why Nation Fails_. The central thesis is that the rich and poor countries are separated by inclusive vs extractive institutions. The extractive institutions are characterised by elites that attempt to defend their own wealth and status by maintaining the status quo and resisting the creat... |
Dall-E 2 | Preventing Harmful Generations
We’ve limited the ability for DALL·E 2 to generate violent,
hate, or adult images. By removing the most explicit content
from the training data, we minimized DALL·E 2’s exposure to
these concepts. We also used advanced techniques to prevent
photorealistic generations of r... |
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the U.S. | It is possible to view this as an isolated event or a trend. Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend.The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. A bunch of elites decided to create their own trans-national utopia unchecked by borders and dismissed all criticism as racist or ... |
Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster | Over high latency links this would be virtually unusable. Why not just download the entire database into memory over XHR on page load? SQLite databases of pure data usually aren’t over 10MB in size. |
Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it | Imagine having a business model so fragile that your only line of defense is to obscure the cancellation process through these tactics. Do they really think that they can curve their churn this way?I mean best you’re doing is getting maybe another month or so of revenue from a customer who is just pushing the pain of ... |
Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview | I met/had a similar experience with Google ATAP in 2013 (was Motorala ATAP then; Google recently bought them) though not for a job interview but to discuss working together to build our tech SpeakerBlast into the Moto X.They asked if we ever thought about selling our technology to them before the meeting and at the mee... |
I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka | Wow this is such a beautiful read. Has anything like this been done before for some other topic?P.S. This sentence is hard to grasp for me
"This Unawareness helps Decouple systems that produce events from otters that read events." https://www.gentlydownthe.stream/#/20 |
Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows | This is incredibly bad.In general I have a positive opinion about what MS is doing lately, but Windows is a glaring exception, it’s getting worse and worse at an alarming rate.In the last two months we had two consecutive updates that broke basic functionality for users who disabled web results in Windows Search (which... |
Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend | There was a freakonomics podcast recently about advertising (online and traditional).No one can actually prove it has any ROI at all. No one is willing to run the experiments necessary. In the few cases of natural experiments, where ads got turned off for some people by accident, there was no change in buying behavior.... |
Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone | Does anyone notice the irony of it being partly repairable, while offering just three years of security updates, after which you basically have to throw the thing away? The repairability sounds nice, but it is very irrelevant compared to the limited software updates. Imagine buying a Windows laptop and only receiving t... |
Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed] | Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned.Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter. |
If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed | I'm so sick of modern businesses and their vampire approach on creativity and intelligent property.I see a lot of comments in this thread with what about-isms or "I don't care, we wouldn't miss anything", but these people are short-sighted. And to be honest the hacker news community is frequently the community I loathe... |
Serverless: slower and more expensive | PSA: porting an existing application one-to-one to serverless almost never goes as expected. Couple of points that stand out from the article:1. Don’t use .NET, it has terrible startup time. Lambda is all about zero-cost horizontal scaling, but that doesn’t work if your runtime takes 100 ms+ to initialize. The only val... |
Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube | I think a more fundamental problem is a single private company having a near-monopoly on various public communication channels, and having financial interests in various global dictatorships.The Founding Fathers could not have predicted this.Google's "We're a private company" get-out-jail-free card cannot continue to a... |
Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study | I conducted a couple hundred interviews for my first FAANG employer, and I was constantly amazed at the percentage of candidates with years of Microsoft or Facebook experience on the resumes who apparently did not know how to program. I always thought, 'huh, guess I know why they quit after 3 years, amazing that they a... |
Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources | In their attempt to make this extra private by scanning 'on device', I think they've managed to make it feel worse.If they scan my iCloud photos in iCloud, well lots of companies scan stuff when you upload it. It's on their servers, they're responsible for it. They don't want to be hosting CSAM.It feels much worse them... |
YC Research | > I’m going to personally donate $10 millionStatements like this always turn me off. I guess it's because it breaks the illusion that Sam and everyone else at YC are normal people like most of us. They're not. They're INSANELY wealthy by any reasonable standard. |
Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private | Smelled this one coming miles away.Next, they'll hand over fan-built communities to the entities that own the IPs they're dedicated to. Eg. r/starwars to Disney, r/startrek to Viacom/Paramount, etc.Then, old.reddit.com will stop working spontaneously, just like how they toyed with killing mobile browser access to force... |
GitHub Codespaces | Must be fun for @sytse to watch these GitHub announcements every year, where they consistently release the same thing GitLab rolled out two years prior.Codespaces -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/web_ide/Insights -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/insights/GH Actions -> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/e... |
The Heartbleed Bug | There was a discussion here a few years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2686580) about memory vulnerabilities in C. Some people tried to argue back then that various protections offered by modern OSs and runtimes, such as address space randomization, and the availability of tools like Valgrind for finding mem... |
Why I Quit Google to Work for Myself | > I drastically reduced the time developers spent repairing those failures, but there were no metrics that tracked developer time.For several jobs in a row, I've felt that helping others on a team is undervalued and under-recorded. I've been planning to implement the "assist" metric, similar to basketball, on my own te... |
Tesla Cybertruck | I feel like I am taking crazy pills with the amount of good sentiment to this design. This thing is absolutely fugly. The guys over at Rivian must be having a party right now. |
Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade | I'll be the begrudging devils advocate for a decision that is sure to have devastating consequences for poor women in red states.It is good for unelected bodies like the Supreme Court to allow such dividing issues be figured out democratically. The US house has bled power to the other 3 institutions and of them, the ju... |
Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test | I'm amazed he knew things in such detail. I mean who would know just how long a MAC address is? Or what the actual SYN/ACK etc tcp flags are? You just need to know what they're used for, and if you need the specifics, you'll find out with a single search. He seemed to know that as well though. Kernighan for bit twiddli... |
Heroku's Ugly Secret: The story of how the cloud-king turned its back on Rails | This is Oren Teich, I run Heroku.I've read through the OP, and all of the comments here. Our job at Heroku is to make you successful and we want every single customer to feel that Heroku is transparent and responsive. Getting to the bottom of this situation and giving you a clear understanding of what we’re going to do... |
A uBlock Origin update was rejected from the Chrome Web Store | It's time to switch to Firefox as my main web browser. It's faster and generally more efficient than Chrome plus it has the most important extensions.The most surprising thing is that the Android version of Firefox is excellent. So good that I switched from Chrome a few months ago when this expected news first dropped.... |
WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight | I'm an Alaska (relatively) frequent flyer. That airline offers a free "messaging" plan, that lets you send and receive messages on apps like iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp. Though, it somehow prevents images/attachments from coming through on those platforms.I've always wondered how this is implemented tec... |
Paper Airplane Designs | Imagine my surprise when I'm reading down the HN list like I do every day and I stumble upon my own website. Thats a pretty cool feeling! Im happy to answer any questions people may have. This was my Angular learning project back when Angular just came out. I think Angular ended up being the wrong choice for this proj... |
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization | I feel like instead of pushing for the companies to separate, congress should pass laws mandating [adversarial interoperability](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...). Then the data (including the social graph) really would belong to the users, and facebook would have to compete with multiple... |
Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza | Semi-related, the Great Pyramid was also scanned using muon radiography, by which a "big void" was discovered [0]. Muons can penetrate through a lot of material, so they can see through very large, thick things like the pyramids.Muon tomography was also used to scan the Fukushima reactors [1] and see where the fuel end... |
Facebook loses users for the first time | This is how the narrative of Facebook looks to me:Zuckerberg got lucky and then executed brilliantly, transitioned from nerd hacker to CEO amazingly well. He deserves a lot of credit for that.Since then, Facebook have innovated very little. Zuckerberg recognised this, and bought Instagram and Whatsapp in lieu of buildi... |
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month | Three years ago, I migrated from Gmail to FastMail because I was afraid of losing access to my digital life on Google's whim.Two years ago, I found out that my favorite Youtube creators were all on Nebula.One year ago, I switched my phone to LineageOS to get security updates a little longer.A month ago, I installed Ope... |
SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year | Wow. This sends so many thoughts cascading through my head that I'm dizzy.Some things to consider, China has been working up to getting a space capability to send people to the Moon with the full backing of the government funding, by 2035[1]. They started in 2003. SpaceX was founded in 2002 and they are saying they wil... |
Farewell, Google Maps | "Sudden change of policy by Google, which is directed specifically at startups (as smaller web sites should largely remain below even the new lower thresholds), is surely an unpleasant surprise for us and does not create much trust in Google as a vendor. In the future we would therefore keep our distance from Google Cl... |
Richard M. Stallman resigns | RMS was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accused of having sex with a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island.There is not a defense for what RMS was writing or how he was trying to defend Minsky.The prevalence of comments trying to turn this against "SJW"s or whatever "other" they can because ... |
Sir Clive Sinclair has died | RIP Sir.I was gifted the 48K when I was 6 yrs old - it changed my life. I am here because Sir Sinclair built a machine whose setup instructions said:Now that you have set up the computer, you will want to use it. The rest of this
booklet tells you how to do that; but in your impatience you will probably already
have st... |
Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located | This is the central problem with all programming today.You can think of everything as configuration. Parameters of a function are just configuration for that function.What we need is traceability of every value in a system, not just configuration. You click on any value and you see a graph/chain of all the transformati... |
UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access | One of the reasons you are probably seeing this happen are budget cuts. Major university systems have seen their funding be cut by state governments. Elsevier charges an obscene amount of money to access information that is often publicly funded.If money were no object, you'd probably see less university systems reject... |
The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam | Same story for various Wordpress plugins and widgety things that live in site footers.Google has turned into a cesspool. Half the time I find myself having to do ridiculous search contortions to get somewhat useful results - appending site: .edu or .gov to search strings, searching by time periods to eliminate new "art... |
Paul Graham: SOPA Supporting Companies No Longer Allowed At YC Demo Day | Am I the only one thinking that this is censorship too?edit: censorship |
Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? | There's a bus station across from my studio / coworking space. I can see people waiting for the bus and doing either: 1) staring into the void 2) looking at their watches 3) desperately glancing in the direction where the bus is coming from.I figured that it'd be nice to let people know when the bus is supposed to be t... |
Jessica Livingston | So, what's her secret?Is it something you can learn, is it experience, x-ray vision you either have or have not? Are women better suited for this job?What clues are you looking for while talking to founders?Is there something like a 'perfect' character or does she make a list of positive and negative traits?Are some tr... |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died | I think reading about Ruth and Antonin Scalia's friendship was the most wholesome political reading I've ever done. Hearing people divided in opinion, but not bitterly so, working together to figure out the best framework to construct American society from was inspirational. I hope the two halves of the political wor... |
EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ | >However, those backing these provisions say the arguments above are the result of scaremongering by big US tech companies, eager to keep control of the web’s biggest platforms.This is the most hilarious quote in the article. The only thing this will do is entrench massive players like Google and Facebook who already h... |
A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs | OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.One can only wonder what he was referring to. Such a well written piece. |
GitLab sees huge spike in project imports | For people wondering what makes GitLab any different, the answer is that GitLab is an open source product at its core. This means that anybody can run their own instance. If the company ends up moving in a direction that the community isn’t comfortable with, then it’s always possible to fork it.There’s also a proposal ... |
Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award | This goes to show how hard winning Turing award is. One would have expected someone who invented the most useful invention of the 20th century to have won this award long time ago. Maybe I am just overvaluing www because of the impact it had on people's lives.EDITED: 20th century, not 19th. |
Namecheap: Russia Service Termination | We haven't blocked the domains, we are asking people to move. There are plenty of other choices out there when it comes to infrastructure services so this isn't "deplatforming". I sympathize with people that are not pro regime but ultimately even those tax dollars they may generate go to the regime. We have people on t... |
Breaking down Amazon's mega dropdown | Hey all,I'm on the team that built this. We also built the redesign that launched last year. In fact, this was part of that. The article pretty much nails our implementation.Point of fact: Our team is recruiting. If you dig UX projects like this, shoot our manager Chad an email: chaddes at amazon dot com |
A first look at Unreal Engine 5 | In the past, I have always looked at Demos from Games and thought this is very good and getting close to movie quality. But that "close to" remained "close to" for quite some time. Even though It is improving every year but you can still tell it is gaming graphics. Even if some of the shots are not real time and pre re... |
GitHub is fully available in Iran | Github situation aside, as an Iranian (living in the US) I would like to use the opportunity to raise some awareness regarding Iranian sanctions by the US government.The US sanctions are part of a "maximum pressure" campaign on the Iranian government. The US government has banned the rest of the world from dealing with... |
NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program? | Holy moly-- is-positive-integer/index.js: var passAll = require('101/pass-all')
var isPositive = require('is-positive')
var isInteger = require('is-integer')
module.exports = passAll(isPositive, isInteger)
I retract my previous statements that Javascript programmers are going down the same enterprise-y mess th... |
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