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Israel to Get Electric Car Battery Swap Stations - srl http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/37982/ ====== smtf There is a very informative overview (video presentation) of this model at Ted: <http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html> by the Better Place CEO Shai Agassi. ------ typicalrunt Exc...
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Is there a smooth path to migrate from Xtext to Racket? - senshu https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61622912/domain-specific-languages-in-racket-compared-to-model-driven-frameworks-such-as ====== senshu I am the author of the question at stackoverflow. The racket topic on SO does not seem very active, so I thought I...
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Why Google can't search for words prefixed with '--'? - ronbeltran Why Google can't search for words prefixed with '--' ? Try searching for "--enable-thread" https://twitter.com/#!/ronbeltran/status/117457491176071168 ====== Argorak It can. Try to quote the term: "--enable-thread" (with quotes) will yield results...
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UI designer looking for full-time in BayArea - martinkarasek http://www.karimartin.cz UI/UX designer based in Europe looking for full-time gig in BayArea. Skilled in UI for mobile and web.<p>www.karimartin.cz ====== kunle I'm running flicsy.com, and based in new york. willing to move or work remotely? Also run a ser...
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This CTO learned how to build websites in Chinese internet cafes - williswee https://www.techinasia.com/liu-yi-profile-cto-1ke ====== arthur2e5 As mentioned in this article, Chinese programming education is weird. Middle/high school students are usually learning outdated stuff like Visual Basic 6, while college studen...
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FotoFest Pays Tribute to Russian Photography - kuchbi http://manojmunna.blogspot.in/2012/04/fotofest-pays-tribute-to-russian.html ====== kuchbi gud work dude
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Ask HN: Should I delete passwords/email addresses for inactive users? - StartupTree I run a website with circa 100,000 users. Most have not logged-in for over a year.<p>For security, should I delete the password and email address of inactive accounts, in case I get hacked? I want to keep the account usernames and the ...
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High-Speed Traders Profit at Expense of Ordinary Investors, a Study Says - HockeyPlayer http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/business/high-speed-trades-hurt-investors-a-study-says.html?hp&pagewanted=all&_r=0 ====== HockeyPlayer Several interesting points here: \+ there are different types of high-frequency traders, so...
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Remembering the Egyptian martyrs - michaelfairley http://1000memories.com/egypt ====== mhashim I'm Mahmoud, the guys at 1000memories are referring to. I think that Rudy, Jonathan, and Brett had the right intentions with this post, but it backfired without having provided the proper context (which they tried to add ...
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Completely Silent Computer - signa11 https://tp69.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/completely-silent-computer/ ====== biztos Am I the only one who thinks of smartphones and tablets as silent computers? Granted, they can't do what this person's high-spec workstation can do, but they do most of the computing tasks most people ...
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The draft Bill for upcoming $2.x trillion stimulus package [pdf] - guru4consulting https://www.majorityleader.gov/sites/democraticwhip.house.gov/files/COVIDSUPP3_xml.pdf ====== guru4consulting I guess this will go down as the biggest heist in the history. It's 1404 pages long and likely co-authored by lobbyists. I'm h...
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Steve Mann physicaly assaulted by McDonald's staff for wearing Digital Eye Glass - Leynos http://eyetap.blogspot.com/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcdonalds-for.html ====== ColinWright <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252955>
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Ask HN: What are some good free Jira alternatives for a team under 10 devs? - tn_ ====== tavoris Here's a oldie; [https://trac.edgewall.org/](https://trac.edgewall.org/) ------ vaceletm If you look for strong tracking possibilities, you might want to consider Tuleap: [https://tuleap.org](https://tuleap.org) ------ vg...
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Can you do binary under pressure? - pearjuice http://toys.usvsth3m.com/binary// ====== bpicolo Pretty simple when you can just check the last bit for odd vs even, but otherwise fun enough for a binary guessing game ~~~ tiagobraw its simple, but not that simple... As you advance through later levels you are prompted...
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Lost city of Atlantis found on Google Earth? - transburgh http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/02/20/lost-city-of-atlantis-found-on-google-earth/ ====== CalmQuiet Absolutely. "The Sun" is word of God in my book, too. But speaking of the Divine, my personal revelations have disclosed that image to be an RJ-45 fossil - an ...
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Rising rural BMI is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults - tokai https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1171-x ====== shadowtree As the article states, once automation hits a rural area, people there spend less energy than in cities. Very much observable in the US, where rural and suburban pop...
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What happened at Canonical - bigpotatoe http://www.techradar.com/news/what-happened-at-canonical ====== alrs Pushing yearly bonuses back to May so that they can do layoffs in April is a hugely dick move. If it isn't salary, don't budget for it. ------ vfclists Nothing happened at Canonical, just what the top executi...
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Show HN: Declutter your inbox by combining your newsletters into ONE email - jevin https://subscriptionzero.com/?ref=hackernews ====== leshokunin Looks interesting. Is this open source? How can we contact you? ~~~ jevin It’s not open source for now. You can contact me on Twitter @jevinsew
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BMI: one person listening to his own music via the cloud is public performance - grellas http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110506/18425714192/bmi-says-single-person-listening-to-his-own-music-via-cloud-is-public-performance.shtml ====== grellas A few observations: 1\. There _are_ well-settled copyright principles th...
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Throwing cats out of windows - SandB0x http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3974077/throwing-cats-out-of-windows ====== Jun8 This, of course, is a popular interview question, albeit asked with eggs (or bowling balls) instead of cats. Here's a discussion and a solution: [http://20bits.com/articles/interview-questions-two...
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Pakistan blocks Tinder, Grindr and other apps - sbmthakur https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/02/pakistan-blocks-immoral-tinder-grinder-and-other-apps ====== nakodari Pakistani here, I gave Tinder a try once and it was awful. The majority of Pakistanis don't date the way Americans do due to the conservative val...
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Show HN: Find Startups nearby - veermanhas https://headism.com/ ====== Simorgh I love the loading UI: background and the spinner. ------ aguggs Is this founded by Elon's long lost brother, Roy?
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Mailgun is now charging for email validation - ascom http://blog.mailgun.com/mailgun-rolls-out-changes-to-email-validation-api-including-new-pricing-model-and-features/ ====== homero This really sucks and very expensive, ridiculous
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Show HN: a weekly email about what's hot in your favourite languages - scottjackson http://cccode.cc ====== oschrenk Good idea. Would you consider adding it as an rss feed? I think it would be nice to be able to subscribe to something like <http://cccode.cc/shell+java- script+java.rss> ------ adambratt Cool idea al...
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Ask HN: Taking over after contractors jump ship - bartmcpherson I was brought in to a company to build their own internal development team. They have a few projects in active development with a couple of contracting firms. The plan was to slowly wean the projects away from the outside firms to internal development.<p>...
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Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters - mpweiher https://www.infoworld.com/article/3322120/kubernetes/sorry-linux-kubernetes-is-now-the-os-that-matters.html ====== true_tuna Wat. Kubernetes is not an OS. It’s an orchestration system. It orchestrates docker containers which run... Linux. This article was ...
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Fatal Tesla crash and battery pack issues for First Responders [video] - 6stringmerc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrT5MA_iTXs ====== dogma1138 Heh... >Another important difference between batteries and gas is that emergency workers (and anyone who's involved in the accident) can identify when the gas is leaking ou...
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What to create for a novice back end programmer? - SuperDe Perhaps the question is not the topic of what to create for a novice backend programmer? What would you take to work and pump skills? ====== duiker101 Think of something you do lately. Think of a problem you have with it and about how you can fix it. Then crea...
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Dig this OIDC Primer I wrote – feedback welcome - afitnerd https://developer.okta.com/blog/2017/07/25/oidc-primer-part-1 ====== chayesfss Awesome stuff
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Using select(2) the right way - aivarsk http://aivarsk.github.io/2017/04/06/select/ ====== ts4z I have worked on servers that had this problem with select(2). poll was better but kqueue was much much better (from near-100% utilization with a few thousand open fds to < 1% cpu utilization; please forgive the vague numbe...
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MapKnitter can make maps from any image source - URfejk https://mapknitter.org/ ====== MichaelZuo I wonder what the hosting costs of mapping is. The site says the average map has 24 cm/pixel resolution, assuming a 100 000 x 100 000 pixel average ‘knitted’ map that would be 10 gigapixels per map. With 100 000 maps that...
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Ask HN: The cost of incorporating and drafting safe notes, $15k? - somid3 Hello,<p>We have an early startup and we need to incorporate as a C-corp and draft safe notes to raise a sum of $1M in funding. We came across a law firm that is willing to defer payments but they say all of that will cost some $15k.<p>Does anyo...
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Standing Desk Do It Yourself (DIY) - couac http://williamdurand.fr/2014/03/17/standing-desk-do-it-yourself/ ====== trhaynes The "Standdesk 2200" [1] is similar and seems easier to make, if you have access to an IKEA. [1] [http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk- for-22-dolla...](http://iamnotaprogrammer.com...
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Seesmic: Blogging the launch of a company - shayan http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c6a3192-a2d5-11dc-81c4-0000779fd2ac.html ====== iamelgringo I can't believe that he got press in the Financial Times after just 45 days. He's developing buzz. It'll be interesting to see if he can carry that through to developing software...
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This startup can make you invisible to mosquitoes. But it's not stopping there - rachelp http://www.techiatric.com/latest/2014/9/25/this-startup-can-make-you-invisible-to-mosquitoes#.VCXMZCtdU6c= ====== wlesieutre Link is broken for me, try this: [http://www.techiatric.com/latest/2014/9/25/xvm3tujxg82bsa063...](http...
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Introduction to data science - felipellrocha http://datascienc.es/spring-2011-course/ ====== shaanwastaken Anybody have a code for the vimeo lectures? Thanks for the post! ~~~ felipellrocha Sorry. I forgot that detail. Lol. It's 'datascience'.
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Fitbit acquisition by Google is a major privacy risk, says EU - rvz https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/20/google-gobbling-fitbit-is-a-major-privacy-risk-warns-eu-data-protection-advisor/ ====== DyslexicAtheist sale of fitbit devices should be banned in Europe.
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The Audacity of the iBooks Author EULA - pooriaazimi http://venomousporridge.com/post/16126436616/ibooks-author-eula-audacity ====== tstegart I think this guy is wrong. He's mixing apples and oranges when it comes to who owns what. Apple is requiring people who use its software to create an e-book to give Apple a cut ...
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Energy harvesting chips: The next big thing for a connected world - WardPlunet http://gigaom.com/2013/11/21/energy-harvesting-chips-the-next-big-thing-for-a-connected-world/ ====== Ellipsis753 I really like the idea of these. Particularly the idea of getting energy from radio waves or Wifi. Sadly it's really had to ...
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Introducing SthgNw - bckmn http://www.sthgnw.com/about ====== bckmn The reasoning behind why I built this platform: <http://bckmn.com/releasing- sthgnw/> And it's official home page: <http://sthgnw.com>
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Ask HN: Do you take anti-depressants? - septerr If you take anti-depressants, what has their biggest impact been on your life? Have they made you more productive? Have you experienced any drawbacks?<p>(I am considering seeing a doctor about depression. I am not sure if what I experience is really depression. I have be...
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$250 Million For A 14-Year-Old's Big Idea: Origami Owl - edw519 http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/250-million-14-olds-big-idea-origami-owl-185200844.html ====== iand Wow, the comments are so heavy and downbeat on this story. There seem to be 2 main arguments: Various people are saying it's a pyramid scheme and t...
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ADSF-install is obsolete - laex http://www.cliki.net/asdf-install ====== Grue3 It's been for years. Why is this news? ASDF-install != ASDF by the way. ~~~ eslaught The edit history shows that this notice was put up in 2006: [http://www.cliki.net/site/history?article=asdf- install](http://www.cliki.net/site/history...
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Mock-ups Show a Google Chrome OS Tablet - aadames http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/mockups-of-a-chrome-os-tablet/ ====== aadames Unlike most people, I'm very pleased with the ipad. Given that I'm a long time mac dissenter, I see the ipad as more of a muse for other companies to be inspired by than a legitimate...
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Don’t Design for Mobile - bpierre https://mattanddesign.com/dont-design-for-mobile/ ====== aliswe I'm making a cms that is kind of mobile first, which makes for a very habdy ability to make edits on your mobile when needed. [https://github.com/cloudy- cms/Cloudy.CMS/blob/master/screens...](https://github.com/cloudy- ...
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A hotspot finder app exposed 2M Wi-Fi network passwords - spac https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/22/hotspot-password-leak ====== spac For those who care the app is here [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.proofusion...](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.proofusion.wifi&hl=en_US)
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Apple will no longer terminate Epic’s usage of ‘Sign In with Apple’ - judge2020 https://9to5mac.com/2020/09/10/apple-no-longer-terminate-fortnite-sign-in/ ====== zxcvbn4038 Smart move on Apple’s part, they do this once and it raises the possibility with all app developers that it could happen to them without warning o...
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Increased frequency of travel may act to decrease the chance of global pandemic - evan_ https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/31/404871 ====== a-fried-egg I doubt it. It'll allow for the all diseases in one country to more easily spread to every country. This isn't just limited to human germs but also invasive...
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PacketQ: SQL queries for pcap files - chrissnell https://github.com/dotse/packetq/wiki ====== mh- _> THIS PROJECT IS AS OF NOV 2014 CLOSED AND WILL NO LONGER BE MAINTAINED!_ from [https://github.com/dotse/PacketQ](https://github.com/dotse/PacketQ) ~~~ voltagex_ You'd hope they'd point to an active fork but it's not ...
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Intro to Computer Science and Programming (no experience required) - fogus http://academicearth.org/courses/introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming ====== ccc3 If you're going to work your way through this, it's probably better to go to the MIT site for the class. In addition to the lecture videos, it has the...
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Show HN: Keep your data out of the wrong hands - jason_wang https://www.truevault.com/blog/keep-your-data-out-of-the-wrong-hands.html ====== hayden_gomes Interesting idea. How does TrueVault Keep work with systems that want to process user data in the background? Won't you need to give a single account access to all r...
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Why does HN timeout so fast? - kaushalc If I dont use HN for a few mins it expires and clicking on next link shows an error message saying link expired. Why is this? Its a pain that I need to go and reload the main page and the click next to come back to the page i was on. ====== pokoleo I believe that there was a p...
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Samoa switches to driving on left - bluesmoon http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8243110.stm ====== riklomas Just a warning, this article is from September 2009 ~~~ hugh3 It does seem a pretty random sort of subject, especially if it's actually "not news". ------ Rabidgremlin I was on holiday there at the start...
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The Best Overall Database - esaym http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/Trends-and-Applications/Best-Database-Overall%C2%AD-105362.aspx ====== nexys ilovepostgresql.com/best-overall-database/guess-what/its-postgresql
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Yes, you can now sue a 4-year-old for negligent bike riding - grellas http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/10/29/4-year-old-not-too-young-to-get-sued-manhattan-judge-rules/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes There's never such a thing as a coincidence, everything that happens is ordained and brought about by mystic forces. There's ne...
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What do you think about our Growth Hacking tool iogrow.com - MezianeHadjadj what do you think about our stratup iogrow.com who let you get new Customers, be Organized and Grow your Business. ====== gk1 It looks like you haven't figured out what ioGrow is yet, and that, in turn, makes it difficult for anyone else to ...
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Internet Explorer 10: "fast" and "native" has gone to other browsers - AshleysBrain http://www.scirra.com/blog/77/internet-explorer-10-fast-and-native-has-gone-to-other-browsers ====== read_wharf Has anyone implemented a browser inside Internet Explorer? Download some javascript file to "install" it, the javascript ...
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Ask HN: finding a laptop in 2011 with the whole set of ports? - guylhem Today while giving a hand to an friend who wants to regain access to some of his old data, I realized that I depended on various cables and peripherals to try to rescue his devices, that I could run into a similar problems because I no longer ha...
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Things from Python I'd miss in Go - smackay http://www.yosefk.com/blog/things-from-python-id-miss-in-go.html ====== jgrahamc Towards the end of the article there seems to be a confusion between servers and web servers. Yes, Go is nice for writing servers, no, web servers aren't the only things out there doing 'serving...
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Any iPhone can be hacked with a modified charger in under a minute - jvanderwal http://www.geek.com/apple/any-ios-device-can-be-hacked-with-a-modified-charger-in-under-a-minute-1557142/ ====== Centigonal It's interesting how the progress of iPhone hacks is mirroring that of the PSP homebrew scene 5 or 6 years ago. F...
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SwiftScrollViews – An approach for managing text field over scroll view in iOS - rajamohan_4U https://github.com/RAJAMOHAN-S/SwiftScrollViews ====== skadimoolam How does this library save time for a iOS developer.
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We Don't Need More Programmers, We Need Better Tools - mschoebel http://geekregator.com/2015-03-24-we_dont_need_more_programmers_we_need_better_tools.html ====== enkiv2 When people suggest teaching everyone in school to code, nobody (or at least nobody sensible) is suggesting that some large number of those people a...
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Key things to keep in mind when building a marketplace - antoniolc http://parkfy.io/key-things-to-keep-in-mind-when-building-a-marketplace ====== antoniolc Which other things would you add?
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Google Chrome Notebook Pilot Program (Cr-48) - panarky http://google.com/chromenotebook ====== SingAlong OK! cool! but whom do I report a bug to? The list of states in the form doesn't change even after changing the country. And there's no "other" option too in the state field. I ended up selecting a US state even ...
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A Micropreneur’s Perspective: Selling Physical Products vs. Digital Products - rwalling http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2009/05/04/selling-physical-products-vs-digital-products/ ====== herval "Though I haven’t acquired anything yet (I have my eye on a few), the return on those funds will be much higher with a software ...
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Show HN: Save notes + bookmarks while browsing - zerostar07 http://noteplz.com ====== webwanderings I have yet to find a similar service which would let me do the same but save my data on my own computer instead of their servers.....and at the same time, the data is compatible with multiple browsers. The standard b...
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Where does music come from? - dlokshin http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/where-does-music-come-from/63160/ ====== tommynazareth As a habitual tapper of things and singer of nonsensical syllables, I agree with the conjecture that music originates with the sound of people moving, but it also origin...
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Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars - ghosh http://rodneybrooks.com/unexpected-consequences-of-self-driving-cars/ ====== Daishiman Whenever people jump up enthusiastically about autonomous cars being right around the corner, I remember taking a cab in Lima, Peru, in the middle of some horrendously chaotic tra...
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How to Handle Big Git Repositories - brudgers http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/05/handle-big-repositories-git/ ====== yeukhon submodules is a curse IMO. I used submodules in the pass and I hate it. Some of our projects still use submodules and I am vocal about removing the reference. My reason disliking it is that 1) I...
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Show HN: Toasted Notes – flexible toast notifications for React - bmcmahen https://toasted-notes.netlify.com/ ====== infinitone How does this compare with the many other react notification impls? ~~~ bmcmahen The main difference is that it uses an imperative api and it accepts a render callback allowing you to custom...
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How the BBC News website has changed over the past 20 years - dberhane http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41890165 ====== andy_ppp How wonderful to see the BBC General Election site from 2010. Me and one other guy built the whole output because the World Cup was on and all the main staff were working on that. The other engi...
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Silicon Valley: Ironically Local - barisser http://www.barisser.com/silicon-valley-48cf02089424 ====== strict9 Not a good sign when the link to your company in the article doesn't work. Also not encouraging that there's no Apache rewrite rule from www to root for a production site.
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Show HN: Visualization of US Flight Data - dvdt http://davetsao.com/flights-visualizer.html ====== jdeisenberg This is wonderful! Is there a GitHub link for the source code for the plotting tool you wrote? ~~~ dvdt Thanks =). I'm planning on putting it up on GitHub as soon as I clean the code up a bit.
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ODNI/DOJ statement on the Yahoo/PRISM document declassification - GabrielF00 http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/97251906083/statement-by-the-office-of-the-director-of ====== GabrielF00 I shortened the title because the actual tumblr post title is obscenely long.
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Ask HN: I signed a NDA non-compete, but declined the job - jimkri I have a question about an NDA which was also non-compete. It was for an internship, I signed it because I planned on working there, but I ended up declining the offer. I never did any work for them, I was involved with the start-up maybe 24 hours not...
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The WSJ cracked the adblocking code - vladiim http://www.heuro.net/blog/wjs-cracked-adblocking/ ====== stephengillie This article reads like a "submarine article" for one of the WSJ's articles. Is this a future for journalism - use an article-as-advertisement to promote your articles? ~~~ jerf Use your article-as-adv...
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Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research - te_ch https://klobie.com ====== rjeli Looks very nice. Relatedly, I wish I could automatically freeze and archive every single web page I visit, minus heavy media, possibly with very low quality images. I tried squid and the internet archive’...
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Startup dies after topping Product Hunt charts. Founder shares lessons learned - vmalu https://www.techinasia.com/music-app-lisn-shutdown-insights-from-failed-startups ====== foobarbazetc "Product Hunt doesn't matter"
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PHP 7 – What changed internally? – Nikita Popov(2015) - pknerd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zekEqhaPmag ====== tyingq Just the slides if you like that better than video: [http://www.slideshare.net/nikita_ppv/php-7-what-changed- inte...](http://www.slideshare.net/nikita_ppv/php-7-what-changed-internally)
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What happens in your body during a “cleanse” or “detox” - ValentineC http://lifehacker.com/what-happens-in-your-body-during-a-cleanse-or-detox-1669540259 ====== vixen99 Summing up - "Rather than worry about 'detoxing,' people would be better off thinking about eating nutritious, health-promoting foods on a daily ba...
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Moving Forward Boldly with Kin [Kik Shutting Down] - ga-vu https://medium.com/@tedlivingston/moving-forward-boldly-with-kin-ec6290a6453 ====== Deimorz Posts like this one make me hate HN's strict title requirements, which you've even broken with your clarification in brackets. The important story here is the shutdown...
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Building a Sophisticated Mobile App with Google Flutter - monmongel https://quire.io/blog/p/Quire-Building-a-Sophisticated-Mobile-App-with-Google-Flutter.html ====== karmakaze Should have 2018 in title--Apr 10, 2018. As such, some notes are out of date. e.g. There is now a scrollToIndex (but still not for varying hei...
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How to Recognize Article URLs from Regular Sites - massanishi https://medium.com/@Massanishi/how-kaffae-extension-recognizes-and-tracks-articles-2f477092b9d1 ====== massanishi Summary: \- Defining what constitutes an article is hard. \- Today, many article URLs follow similar structures thanks to Wordpress. \- A si...
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P2P Ajax over WebRTC - pfraze http://blog.grimwire.com/posts/grimwire0.4 ====== d1_mo Impressive. But what's the main use case? ~~~ pfraze Privacy. It'll be more obvious as I get more apps done, but you can replace remote services with pages in the browser and avoid sending data away.
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Ending coronavirus lockdowns will be a dangerous process of trial and error - sohkamyung https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/ending-coronavirus-lockdowns-will-be-dangerous-process-trial-and-error ====== undersuit I agree. Governor Bullock has Montana re-opening on the 24th. Why are we re- opening? It's the start o...
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70’s TV game recreation using an Arduino - geocar http://searle.hostei.com/grant/AVRPong/index.html ====== n-gauge Reminds me of this project using a pic 16c84 I built in the 90's [http://320volt.com/en/pic16f84-video-tv-oyun-tetris-ve- pong-...](http://320volt.com/en/pic16f84-video-tv-oyun-tetris-ve-pong-joistik- ko...
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How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013) - danso https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing ====== musicale What's puzzling is that the IRS seems to calculate your taxes anyway; if there's a disparity, then they send you a correction a few weeks la...
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Tumblr has lost 30 percent of web traffic since December - jaredwiener https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18266013/tumblr-porn-ban-lost-users-down-traffic ====== alleyshack This doesn't surprise me at all. I run a reasonably popular non-porn, submissions-based blog and immediately after the ban was implemented, our nu...
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UI Testing Tutorial - ashitvora Can anybody suggest me good UI / Javascript testing framework tutorial.<p>I have heard of qunit and yui test but never used it before. ====== sr3d I've had success with Scriptaculous Unit test. You can find out more information here: [http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/tes...
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Show HN: Cross-Platform Apple IIe Emulator Written in Go - empressplay http://octalyzer.com/downloads/ ====== giovannibajo1 I've been working on and off on a Nintendo DS emulator 100% written in Go. You can have a look here: [https://github.com/rasky/ndsemu/](https://github.com/rasky/ndsemu/) It features both the 2D ...
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Show HN: HNView – Browser extension providing a better style for hacker news - Landish https://github.com/chenxsan/HNView#addon-link ====== ullarah I'm not sure how this is any different than using the browsers zooming tool? ------ drvortex Why is something an extension, that can just be a Greasemonkey script ? ~~~ ...
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Pin - an all-in-one payment system API for Australian devs - ChrisArchitect https://pin.net.au/ ====== chewxy awesome! A stripe for australia. Instantly signed up
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Forget Foreign Languages and Music. Teach Our Kids to Code - dsr12 http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/09/ap_code/ ====== jacquesm Why should there be a choice? Can't we teach them foreign languages, music and to code as well? Or maybe give the children some choice in the matter? ~~~ drivers99 It's a terrible headli...
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NUMA-aware scheduler for Go - signa11 https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1d3iI2QWURgDIsSR6G2275vMeQ_X7w-qxM2Vp7iGwwuM/pub ====== billhathaway There is a new small thread[0] on golang-dev about someone from Intel looking into this. It would be great to see the go scheduler be more aware of NUMA characteristics. [0...
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App Store Rejection as positive feedback - nonames http://www.codebykevin.com/blosxom.cgi/2011/04/03#rejection-as-positive-feedback ====== mattberg I have had similar experiences with apps before where someone from the App Store review team actually called me about an app rejection. Very surprising, but that sort of...
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Ban on discarding edible fish caught at sea has failed - howard941 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/16/ban-on-discarding-edible-fish-caught-at-sea-has-failed-lords-report ====== NikkiA The fishing industry is terribly maverick and I don't really know what the solution is other than fining the maverick ...
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The future of PHP 8 in jeopardy - velmu https://react-etc.net/entry/the-future-of-php-8 ====== otherflavors how is php "The first web native programming language"? ~~~ DerekL That probably means that PHP is the first programming language created specifically for web programming, as opposed to languages created before...
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Joe Armstrong - On Erlang, OO, Concurrency, Shared State and the Future (Channel 9 interview) - iamelgringo http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=351659 ====== gregwebs interesting how he gets flustered when asked if he is trying to model the real world, doesn't the real world have side effects? Don't people...
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The Light L16 – a multi-aperture computational camera - derwiki https://light.co/ ====== chaostheory Constructive feedback about the video and website (if the founders are reading)... I'm probably not the target demographic since I don't know much about cameras, but the video did not quickly explain to me why this cam...
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Ask HN: How to overcome “Marketer's block” - c1sc0 I find it really hard to go out &amp; actually promote my projects in social media, IRL, in emails. What do you do to stay motivated on the sales&#x2F;marketing front? ====== percept For motivational purposes you might try focusing on the other side of the relations...
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