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Ask HN: What was your most successful project invented under the shower? - modinfo ====== modinfo 10 years ago, in the shower, I made a project to create own user badges on one Polish portal, even the portal administrator helped me to create better design. At that time my MySQL database had more than 600 mb :D, which ...
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Ask HN:Opinions on Hashicorp Nomad vs. Kubernetes? - rapphil I love Hashicorp products/tools. They are simple and intuitive to use/configure and they do one thing very well. I love the fact that each product is usually a single binary that is the client/server and command line tool. What change are the ...
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U.S. FAA proposes requiring key Boeing 737 MAX design changes - rbanffy https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boeing-737max-idUSKCN24Z2HK ====== Nacdor Given the option, would anyone choose to book a trip on one of these new Boeing aircraft rather than anything else? I know I wouldn't, my family wouldn't, and none of the...
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Flyte: A Cloud Native Machine Learning and Data Processing Platform - mgrover https://eng.lyft.com/introducing-flyte-cloud-native-machine-learning-and-data-processing-platform-fb2bb3046a59 ====== minimaxir How does this differ from Airflow? [https://airflow.apache.org/](https://airflow.apache.org/) Looking at the doc...
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Ask HN: Best ways to spread the word about your web app - bfig Hi everyone. I built a beautiful project and task management tool and am now struggling to spread the word about it. Would be interesting to know from who went the same path if you have any pointers for me. Seems to be incredibly hard to push through all...
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NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests - danso http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-sometimes-spy-on-love-interests ====== mehwoot _NSA said in a statement Friday that there have been "very rare" instances of willful violations of any kind in the past decade, and none have violated key surveil...
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Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book - AJ007 http://online.wsj.com/articles/bill-gatess-favorite-business-book-1405088228 ====== caster_cp It's available since July 8th 2014 in Amazon... I see what you did there with your marketing ingeniousness, Mr. WSJ || Bill Gates. The problem is that I'm easy, all too easy, and I...
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Remove anti-privacy, anti-security, and general nuisance “features” from Win 10 - luu https://github.com/dfkt/win10-unfuck ====== shocks I unfucked Windows 10 by installing Fedora instead. This is the first time in probably four years that I'm using Linux on my main desktop again, and it's been a pleasure. Things lik...
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Ask HN: How fast should space-wifi be? - syedkarim I'm in the early stages of developing, with others, a space-based wifi system. It's a store-and-forward broadcast network that uses wifi multicast to provide content directly to mobile devices anywhere on Earth. One of way of thinking of it is GPS (50 bps)...
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Building a Regex Search Engine for DNA - joshma http://benchling.engineering/dna-regex-search/?hn ====== lambda I don't know if there was any strict requirement to use Python, but you mention the difficulty in finding a library to parse regular expressions. One of the many great features of the Rust regex crate ([htt...
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Teaching Machines to Understand Us (2015) - r_singh http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/540001/teaching-machines-to-understand-us/ ====== r_singh Being a Machine Learning noob, this article leaves me fantasizing about a future that would make my life a lot more exciting. Based on this article, I would love ...
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Python-Daemon - Library to implement a well-behaved Unix daemon process. - rams http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon ====== tow21 I tend to think this is the wrong way to go about daemonizing a process; it does the relatively easy but fiddly stuff for you, leaving you still to manage process monitoring. Better...
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Journalists and the free press are under attack around the world - burnaway https://theprivacyissue.com/privacy-and-society/countries-attack-free-press ====== skitout There are some problems in France too.. With legal problems for journalist releasing information about French arms in Yemen for example, police officer ...
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The startup pitch generatr. - shabda http://startuppitch.appspot.com/ ====== redorb I think the ideas are good, now for the execution. As the years go by (only 23 of them) - I find people can make an average idea fabulous; although the wrong people can make a good idea bad; ------ chrisbroadfoot | p2p IM infrastruc...
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Slog: Cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff - evanweaver http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/10/introducing-slog-cheating-low-latency.html ====== taldo How is Slog different (or better) than multiple asynchronously-replicated regional deployments of Spanner? Or, even simpler, a single Spanner d...
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Researchers capture footage of fluid behaving like a solid - bookofjoe https://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-events/news/2020/08/researchers-capture-footage-of-fluid-behaving-like-a-solid.php ====== bookofjoe [https://www.flickr.com/photos/swanseauniversity/50225688336/...](https://www.flickr.com/photos/swanseau...
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Google Chrome: Flash Usage Declines from 80% in 2014 to Under 8% Today - coloneltcb https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-chrome-flash-usage-declines-from-80-percent-in-2014-to-under-8-percent-today/ ====== ehfeng Testament to Google Finance's abandonment: still using Flash. ~~~ cjhanks Yeah, a real s...
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WebAssembly without the browser - pacificat0r https://alexene.dev/2020/08/17/webassembly-without-the-browser-part-1.html ====== tess0r Author of wasmex[1] here (an elixir package which allows runnung WASM). Next to the mentioned wasmtime, wasm3, and wamr, there is also wasmer[2] I would add to the list of capable WAS...
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Ask HN: Can I automate document gathering for research? - seanccox I conduct research into companies and individuals – due diligence, litigation support, public records checks, and media scans.<p>I find that I often need to repeat searches on the same individuals at different websites and news archives, only to rep...
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The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv - jmnicholson https://dx.doi.org/10.22541/au.149693987.70506124 ====== PaulHoule The DOI always struck me as a scam. Instead of just keeping the document available, you have to keep the document available AND keep the DOI pointed at it.
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Ask HN: Can machine learning be used to reduce lag in video calls? - arikr A friend of mine suggested that a generative model created at the start of a video call may be able to reduce audio and video lag during the call, particularly on a weak connection.<p>Do you agree?<p>Does Hangouts&#x2F;Zoom&#x2F;FaceTime&#x2F;S...
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Ask HN: How do I save the stories for future reference? - jestinjoy1 I use both Hacker News and Reddit equally. Reddit has a feature for saving stories. Whether something like that exist or hacker news has plans for it. I could see up-voted and commented stories in my settings ====== jamesbritt Up-vote a story, then...
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What it means to be an entrepreneur - cominatchu http://evbeard.com/posts/to-be-an-entrepreneur/ ====== donaq Let's not over romanticize or aggrandize what an entrepreneur is.
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Unsplash releases biggest tagged image dataset - alizhd https://github.com/unsplash/datasets ====== alizhd We are excited to launch this dataset to help with innovations that are on- going with ML research. The lite dataset contains 25k nature-themed Unsplash photos, 25k keywords, and 1M searches. The full dataset con...
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Hacker News Highlights, the Alan Kay Edition - craigcannon http://themacro.com/articles/2016/06/hn-highlights-june-4/ ====== nickpsecurity This was already useful with him saying that Barton was a brilliant engineer. I have one paper with his name on it, sent by pjmlp, that describes his design of modern computing: [...
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‘Star Citizen,’ a video game that raised $300M but may never be ready to play - pseudolus https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2019/05/01/exclusive-the-saga-of-star-citizen-a-video-game-that-raised-300-millionbut-may-never-be-ready-to-play/#3d3007b75ac9 ====== deadbunny Eh, I chucked them $50 or whatever it was for ...
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This. Is. Not. How. Email. Works - edward https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur/status/1205540917127471105 ====== zarkowsky Well, MS Exchange / Outlook has had this feature since a while so there's that.
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At Age 25 Mark Cuban Learned Lessons About Leadership That Changed His Life - timjahn http://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2013/03/28/at-age-25-mark-cuban-learned-lessons-about-leadership-that-changed-his-life/ ====== hello_newman I think Mark Cuban is a great inspiration. He is very humble, knows his roots, isn't...
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Ourobotics releases completely open source Renegade 3D bioprinter - jarmitage http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160204-ourobotics-releases-completely-open-source-renegade-3d-bioprinter.html ====== mjwaz This seems cool, but a bit expensive.
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Angry iPhone Owners Twitition for Lower 3G S Upgrade Prices - transburgh http://mashable.com/2009/06/09/iphone-twitter-petitions/ ====== brk A) Online petitions are generally worthless B) Twitter and twit-[foo] words are becoming beyond fucking annoying C) This is no different than when Palm Treo's were hot and peop...
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Ask HN: Processing, the programming language. - iamgabeaudick Have any of you learned/used it? Those of you that have: how often do you use it and for what? ====== _delirium I used it in a computational-media class a few years ago, where it was the main language used for the examples and projects. Since I was a CS s...
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Where People Spend the Most and Least on Rent in America - emberdev https://priceonomics.com/where-people-spend-the-most-and-least-on-rent-in/ ====== bernardino I live in Irvine, CA, and per the article we are the sixth most expensive for a renter. I live with my parents and three sisters and we do pay $1950 for a two...
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Brain Management - mdemare http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/brain_management ====== shiny I've noticed this as well, although I don't think that programming and socializing use the same parts of the brain. It feels like programming directs all brain power toward the analytical/introspective aspect of my brain, during ...
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Document-level locking and compression come to MongoDB - IanWhalen http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/release-notes/2.8/ ====== endijs Keep in mind that document-level locking will be available only for WiredTiger storage engine and not default one (MMAPv1). MMAPv1 will support only collection level locking. The same st...
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Ask HN: What is something you do for clients that consistently blows them away? - fapi1974 ====== Zyst Most of these seem to be very on the side of "I'm a company", so as a sole developer what I like to do for clients is implementing sockets into their apps. Adding sockets for, say, the 3 newest logs they get in real ...
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I found Prezi's source code - psychboo http://blog.shubh.am/prezi-bug-bounty/ ====== sophacles My $.02 on this is that Prezi should have not awarded the researcher the cash under the bug bounty program, however they should have given him a reward anyway. Awarding the money as part of the bug bounty wouldn't be fair pl...
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A Democrat is running for president on a platform of Universal Basic Income - pixelmonkey https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/technology/his-2020-campaign-message-the-robots-are-coming.html ====== nodesocket How is he proposing to pay for UBI aged 18-64? The only way I would support a UBI is to completely eliminate ...
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UIDebuggingInformationOverlay - ryanipete http://ryanipete.com/blog/ios/swift/objective-c/uidebugginginformationoverlay/ ====== smilliken > be sure that the code doesn’t make it into your App Store build, else you’re > likely to get rejected. Doesn't appear to be the case! Here's a list of 611 apps using this class: ...
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Show HN: Monsiv – A lightweight alternative to Chess - monsiv https://monsiv.com/ ====== the_dave_santos Interesting game, I played against the AI. It's smart and not simply making random moves. Well done! ~~~ monsiv Thanks! It uses the minimax algorithm to a depth of 5. Beyond that, it starts making silly moves :D ...
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Ask HN: How to advocate for an open development process? - throwaway72391 I work for a company that has committed to open-sourcing a piece of software, and work is already under way to make an open-source release possible (IP review, code cleanup, etc.).<p>However, it looks like the development process is going to lar...
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Ask HN: How much can you charge per blog sponsorship? - ffjffsfr I&#x27;m running some blog, it&#x27;s not big by any means but it gets some organic search engine traffic around 5k users per month every month for past 12 months. It&#x27;s not huge, but I&#x27;d like to write more and I&#x27;m sure having some sponsors...
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How to get a B.S. in CS without BS - RafazZ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_kdHrT8izbROJNaxGflpcZm2ivsjRGF8j1hMzl3b8O0/edit?usp=sharing ====== RafazZ I didn't know Google Docs have a limit, so here is a GitHub link to it: [https://github.com/zafartahirov/OfficeDocs](https://github.com/zafartahirov/OfficeDoc...
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I'm looking for a partner or two (here are some of my ideas, feel free to add your own here) - amichail ====== amichail Anyone looking for a partner? My email: amichail@gmail.com. If you like, we can discuss startup ideas here. In fact, this social news forum might be a good way to throw ideas around to see which one...
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LIMBO Game for iPhone and iPad - felipebueno https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/limbo-game/id656951157?mt=8 ====== felipebueno It says "Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 6.0 ...
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Do you ever program while drinking? - badname Does it flow better when you are slightly drunk? ====== 0x420 The only time I willingly do that is when I'm browsing the Web while drunk, and something about the page's behavior or design annoys me, so I'll casually open up the inspector and work out a fix. This has hap...
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Whitelines - reitanqild http://whitelines.se/ ====== reitanqild Found the link from here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8640521](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8640521) (Moleskin X Adobe)
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2017 State of Global Tech Salaries - tifa2up https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017 ====== Stasis5001 Every article on salaries seems to really screw up two things. One is, salary is only a portion of total compensation. Which do they mean here? If you don't look at equity packages, my intuition is you're going to t...
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Credibility - revisit both side stories on #PyconIncident - alvinsj http://www.credibility.cc/topic/8 ====== alvinsj a recent side project i made, question about credibility of articles/posts. let the users see stories from the both sides, better understand what's going on, and why credibility is important. two peop...
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Google+ shuts down soon; Is the giant finally stumbling? - hgsyndrome https://medium.com/@lancengym/google-does-minus-not-plus-33a90ff11a7b ====== ggm Methinks doth protest too much. Simply quoting Caldwell doesn't make it profound. O365 is not replacing Google docs or sheets. Adding markdown to google docs would be a...
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How the Web Became Unreadable (2016) - PretzelFisch https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/ ====== kick Most web browsers allow you to override everything he's complaining about.
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Are Europeans Really Not Using Twitter? - nickoakland http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/11/24/arabic-is-the-fastest-growing-language-on-twitter-sees-2000-increase-in-12-months/ ====== felipemnoa >>Despite the fact that Arabic accounts for only 1.2% of all public tweets, the growth rate over the past year has been a...
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How Much Money I Made From Side Projects In 2010 - mattcurry http://pseudocoder.com/archives/how-much-money-i-made-from-side-projects-in-2010 ====== lylejohnson This is very inspiring! Matt, for your next post(s), in addition to the monetary costs I'd like to hear about how much time you put into maintaining and sup...
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Ask HN: Front End Dev Interview Questions - emilepetrone I have an interview next week, and have found a ton of questions through generic, interview-question searches. However I figure HN knows better... ====== meterplech Can you specify a little further? Are you interviewing for a job, or interviewing a candidate f...
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Police Riot - ashtonkem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_riot ====== dang Ok, between this one and [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23395852](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23395852), wikipedia submissions to HN have jumped the shark and we need to go back to penalizing them on HN. Generic repetition of...
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Goldman’s Blankfein on Skipping School Work, Wishing to Be Chinese - jimsojim http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/06/10/goldmans-blankfein-on-skipping-school-work-wishing-to-be-chinese/ ====== danielrpa It's sad to see how much of society's time and resources goes towards investment banking and the mindset that co...
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Show HN: Codelapse.com - itroot https://codelapse.com ====== itroot Hey, HN! I think that visualizing interview algorithms in that way can help lot of people to understand them, to form a "gut feeling" what's going on. What do you think? This particular example, linked list reversal, is a "medium" interview question...
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On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs - FuNe http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ ====== CarolineW The sheer volume of previous submissions of this item tells us that it has value - it wouldn't be submitted so often if it wasn't of interest. You might be interested in previous discussions: [https://news.ycombinator.com/...
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Samsung takes smartphone crown in Q3 as shipments top Apple, Nokia - gadgetsrule http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/20/samsung-takes-smartphone-crown-in-q3-as-shipments-top-apple-nokia/ ====== strandev The smartphone crown of shipments? What's that worth?
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Ask HN: Staying in SF during TechCrunch, any advice? - EGreg Hey guys.<p>I'm the Founder+CEO of Qbix, Inc. We're based in NYC and this is the first time I'll be going to check out TechCrunch in San Francisco!<p>I was wondering if there way anyone here who could hook me up with some accommodations while I'm there. Ei...
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Automated to Death? - pieceofpeace http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/automated-to-death?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29 ====== Dav3xor I work on avionics. It's a great job, except you have no idea when or how things can go drastically wrong. We ha...
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Understand Docker step by step. A tutorial repo for beginners - championshuttle https://github.com/championshuttler/docker-basicLearning ====== championshuttle Hello Everyone, I wrote a simple beginner tutorial for Docker, you can read here [https://github.com/championshuttler/docker- basicLearning](https://github.com...
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Ask HN: How to get feedback? - mixmastamyk After submitting a pair of Show HN (SHN) stories I was a bit dismayed to see they received zero interest, particularly as I got up at 6am to post one. ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196039<p>I wonder what's wrong? Surely the site must suck (first release should be...
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Ask HN: I'm 28. Is it too late to get started with AI/Machine Learning? - thakobyan If no, what are the great resources for starters? Any tips before I get this journey going? Thank you. ====== matchmike1313 It's never too late. Maybe apart from some age bias in the field (but that most occurs closer to 40). I would s...
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What Happens When You Swear At Your Users - alexschiff http://blog.fetchnotes.com/post/17155558880/what-happens-when-you-swear-at-your-users ====== bradleyland This probably goes without saying, but your user demographic has a lot to do with how this kind of mishap will be received. Our product sells to Fortune 1000 c...
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How to disable all security checks for the login process to my Google account? - OrgNet Google keeps locking me out of my accounts because they don&#x27;t recognize the device (I don&#x27;t let them track me as much as they would like, I guess)... A login and password is sufficient for most of my accounts. ====== phil...
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Cloudflare drops support for Daily Stormer - MichaelGG https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/racist-daily-stormer-goes-down-again-as-cloudflare-drops-support/ ====== MichaelGG If this is accurate, it's a huge shift for Cloudflare and people will have to start questioning every site that CF decides to service. ~...
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Ask HN: Review my startup, conceptcupboard.com - AdamJBall I'm looking for feedback in to whether other entrepreneurs or startups would consider using a startup like Concept Cupboard. We've had moderate traction so far but I was wondering if there was anything glaringly obvious that is wrong.<p>Thanks in advance,<p>...
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Linus Torvalds Guided Tour of His Home Office [video] - Walkman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSgUPqygAww ====== cuong It's watching one of those hoarder shows on TLC.
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Ask HN: Interested in a hacker newser poker meetup in the Bay Area? - jpwagner I think this would be a good way to meet other hacker newsers, share ideas, and play some poker.<p>I'd be happy to host and order food, and hopefully we'll get a few more hosts in a rotation for an ongoing game.<p>See the link in my comme...
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Beat big businesses by owning your small size - lingben http://customer.io/blog/small-business-customer-satisfaction-strategy.html ====== matryoshka As a small business owner, I've been getting to know my customers really well. My business is focused on handcrafted cremation urns and urn like pieces, which can be dr...
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DEC System's Research Center Technical Memos - soundsop http://research.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/ ====== michael_dorfman Wow! Thanks for that. I feel like I've hit the motherlode. I'm going to start with "A functional specification of the Alpha AXP shared memory model" paper....
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Ask HN: Thoughts on GWT? - afshin I've been a little dismissive of GWT as a tool for creating complex front-end logic and interfaces mostly because I prefer writing JS code. But I am curious: where do other developers stand on JS vs GWT? Is anyone other than Google building major apps with it?<p>EDIT: left out "logi...
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Canada's new 25 cent coin features a dinosaur, glows in the dark and more - tersiag http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57412545-1/canadas-newest-coin-glows-in-the-dark/ ====== gamble This coin is cool, but it isn't intended for circulation so one wonders how durable the design is. I actually think the 'poppy quart...
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Ask HN: I called my cc company to renew my card.. - quantumpotato_ I hear staticy voices for a couple seconds, now I&#x27;m hearing a loop. eg I can hear the echo of me typing this going through the microphone, out their speakers and back through mine.<p>I&#x27;ll try calling them back.. and hope they aren&#x27;t co...
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Ask HN: How should we promote our web-based startup for as-free-as-possible. - Chirag Folks, We need your help with suggestions/feedback on how to spread word about our project. We are one month old startup based out of Bangalore and have a team of 4 people spread across India.<p>Thanks, cc ====== patio11 First, you...
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Ask HN: Easily reachable & predictable long term goals? - diminium I have this theory that one of the key success in obtaining joy is to create a script or a goal on the future that is easily reachable no matter what.<p>For example, when we were a kid we dreamt about going to school, going to college/joining militar...
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Weekend Project: Viral Marketing Done Right - alexrothenberg http://awesome-site-staging.heroku.com/ ====== elisee At first I was misled into thinking this was just a site making fun of contentless startup landing pages. It's actually about testing your email formatting / sending. The full article is located at: [h...
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Android now has 68% of the global smartphone market. - damian2000 http://www.businessinsider.com/android-is-crushing-apple-in-smartphone-shipments-worldwide-2012-8 ====== damian2000 Another interesting stat from the linked-to source article: "China accounted for 27% of the 158 million global smart phone shipments, c...
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Ask HN: How does HN make money? - bikamonki ====== byoung2 HN itself doesn't make any money, but it serves as a community that attracts people who apply for YC, and in turn generate returns (similar to the playground at a McDonalds). There are other startup accelerators that don't have a community like HN, and they mis...
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Show HN: CutCode: Double Click to Copy Code from Stack Overflow - amitness https://github.com/amitness/cutcode ====== mootzville Yes! Now I can bring down my production server even easier! Ha, joking. This is useful when toying around. Thanks.
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ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 Software Testing - cik http://www.softwaretestingstandard.org/ ====== cik Can we standardize software testing? Should we standardize software testing? At some point, are we looking at standardizing an artistic science? What happens to software development, architectural design, or even music? Doe...
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Converting Trashed Jets Into Exploding Drones - brk http://www.fastcompany.com/1805309/qf-4-qf-16-aerial-target-program-air-force-boeing ====== ethank This makes me sad for some reason. The turbine engine in an F-16 or F-4 is a beautiful piece of machinery. Design and functionality merged entirely really. And they ju...
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We don't sell saddles here - alexpopescu http://medium.com/p/4c59524d650d ====== alexpopescu Bragging aside, explaining the whole business from a (potential) customer experience is what differentiates good from bad companies (_nb_ I was tempted to write successful vs failing, but then I realized there are some very ...
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Examples of Bauhaus Graphic Design - at-fates-hands https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/5-examples-of-bauhaus-graphic-design-that-shaped-the-movement/ ====== Daub One oft ignored impact of Bahaus is the impact it had on how design taught. Amongst other things Bauhaus introduced the first cross disaplinary program (both appli...
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The UK Legalizes Eugenics (three parent in-vitro fertilization) - iwwr http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/parenting/uk-begins-three-parent-ivf-debate-1.1384671#.UFcnVkasj2g ====== TomasSedovic The submission's title is very misleading. According to the article (titled "UK begins three-parent IVF debate") they are start...
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Ask HN: How to finish projects, when you're multipotentialite? - zenobius Hello, I&#x27;m new here, but from what I saw it&#x27;s a good place to ask a question that&#x27;s been bothering me for quite some time.<p>I&#x27;m a multipotentialite. If I resolve a problem in my head, I&#x27;m bored with it. I can tell someo...
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Show HN: Brave Clojure Jobs - Use the Language You Love - nonrecursive https://jobs.braveclojure.com/ ====== hellofunk title is misleading and does not actually appear on the page. there's been this for a while and many others: [https://remoteok.io/remote-clojure-jobs](https://remoteok.io/remote-clojure- jobs) ~~~ ...
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Ask HN: What is the reason behind the rise of cryptocurrency? - phoe17 I have been following the rise of value but I am still unsure about reason behind its rise.<p>Most of the discussions point on crypto sub-reddits are about buying and HODL-ing. I sort of understand that people are investing hoping someone (A greate...
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Adobe Flash Vulnerabilities Make Up 8 of the Top Security Exploits - werencole http://arc.applause.com/2015/11/10/popular-flash-vulnerabilities-in-exploit-kits/ ====== werencole We all know Flash is insecure. But the breadth is a bit surprising.
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Lodge: HTTP-to-Syslog Proxy w/node.js - claylo http://www.loggly.com/2010/09/http-to-syslog-proxy-with-node-js/ ====== Kripto Totally awesome! ------ lllegrand Way to go Kord! ~~~ kordless Thanks dude. Maybe you can log stuff out of that robot of yours: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyl3ABJMRv4>
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This is why software sucks - zdw http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/this-is-why-software-sucks ====== georgemcbay Another reason software sucks is that developers are sometimes so incredibly bad at communicating their ideas (which impacts documentation, development planning (especially in the age of distributed open ...
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Leaked documents point to cooperative European surveillance program - drone http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2013/1102/Europe-spies-too-Leaked-documents-point-to-cooperative-surveillance-program ====== cnahr Here's the original Guardian report: [http://www.theguardian.com/uk- news/2013/nov/01/gchq-eu...
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Ask HN: What do you think of the Dart language? - maremmano I don&#x27;t often see submissions related to this language with the exception of a few posts about FLUTTER. I am starting to use it now and would like to have a general opinion about the language. Especially if you have previous experience with similar more ...
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Hacker Scripts - progval https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts ====== ogig The kumar script is inspiring. ------ zlatan_todoric I LOLed on this story probably a bit too much. Also I am wondering if we are so much entangled in modern vision how we should work that we actually can make scripts for all people that we...
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Why is this username different on HN? - akhilrex http://imgur.com/m8H13 ====== dclaysmith New users are shown in green. ~~~ jcr Similarly, these links are also helpful to see new user activity: <http://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments> <http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories>
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Show HN: Colordrop 2 – advanced color analysis app - penguingeorge https://getcolordrop.com ====== penguingeorge Hi HN, I'm the developer of Colordrop - an advanced color analysis app for iOS. The app originally launched in 2015, and was featured with the launch of the App Watch. Colordrop 2 is a completely redesigned...
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Candor returns - indutny http://blog.indutny.com/2.candor-returns ====== ggchappell Sounds interesting. I wonder if you could explain this better: > No default runtime > Candor has no default APIs that are doing 'high-level' things with objects > and arrays. These routines should be implemented by embedder (like >...
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Ask HN: Convert any link(mostly blog articles) to a discussion thread - hackersway I am working on a small service where you can convert any blog link to a discussion thread and share annotations and comments etc. any thoughts, comments ? ====== brudgers If the service follows the link, fetches content, and redisplays...
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How We'll Power The U.S. In 2035 - spidaman http://www.fastcompany.com/1750005/what-will-our-energy-future-look-like ====== 1053r Anyone who thinks that solar will only double in install base by 2035 hasn't been paying attention. If it is, as the article says, up to 2% now, then by 2035 it should be up to a very lar...
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Can this cooler save kids from dying? - mhb https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/The-big-chill ====== thinkingkong Sounds like it works based on the same principles as a pot-in-pot cooler. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in- pot_refrigerator](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot-in-pot_refrigerator) ~~~ stephengill...
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