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Show HN: HN Notify.xyz – Subscribe to Your HN Replies - jermaustin1 https://hnnotify.xyz/ ====== udkl At this point it feels like notifications for reply activity should be a default feature of HN. Not having notifications causes abrupt ends of discussions because the author didn't realize a reply was posted. Reply ...
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PyPy.js Update: A Proof-of-Concept JIT - philipn http://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-poc-jit/ ====== philipn If an admin could update the URL to point to [http://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-poc- jit/](http://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/pypy-js-poc-jit/) (w/o the anchor) that would be awesome! ------ Twirrim ...
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It’s OK to Feel Ambivalent About Your Children - jkuria https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-okay-to-feel-ambivalent-about-your-children-11561109407?mod=rsswn ====== oblib Wow... I cannot imagine feeling like I didn't want my children around so I could be having more fun, or "children that he feels he likes better". It's...
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HTML5 video needs DRM - jasonshah1233 http://www.jasonshah.com/html5-video-needs-drm/ ====== lmm Dumb argument. With SSL the bank has control of its own key, and can keep it secret or publish it, and you have control of your own key. You both conform to the open SSL standard, you both control your own software, and ...
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Screedbot - make your own scrolling typewriter text (powered by Common Lisp) - tomh http://wigflip.com/screedbot/ ====== zachbeane For the curious, this is Common Lisp from end to end. Web serving by Hunchentoot. TrueType font parsing/loading by ZPB-TTF. Curve rasterization by Vecto (which uses CL-VECTORS). GIF ...
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PolyBrowser, a new way to browse the web - X-combinator https://polybrowser.com/ ====== maxharris This is interesting, but these guys need to hire a designer!
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Browser performance comparison (2009) - haxplorer http://sixrevisions.com/infographs/browser-performance/ ====== niyazpk Keep in mind that this is from Oct 2009. ~~~ steadicat Yeah. A lot has changed since then. Opera 10.5 has a new JavaScript engine said to be as fast as V8, plus other performance improvements. -...
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Linux 5.2 Is Introducing the Fieldbus Subsystem - eaguyhn https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.2-Fieldbus-Subsystem ====== neals Did a computer write this "article"? ~~~ unmole Welcome to Phoronix!
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The 11 (inch MacBook Air that is) - showngo http://brooksreview.net/2010/10/the-11/ ====== iuguy I couldn't understand why the iPad would be so popular. It always seemed to be ideal for some use cases but perhaps 70-80% of the way there for the majority. The 11" Macbook Airs initially I thought, "Wait, you want me to...
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Images to Text – Toronto Deep Learning Demos - benanne http://deeplearning.cs.toronto.edu/i2t ====== JacobEdelman Looks amazing. The fact that its just returns the "Cannot connect to server of image2text models" makes me very sad. ------ YoukaiCountry So far I keep getting the error "Cannot connect to server of ima...
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Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client - djmashko2 https://dev-blog.apollodata.com/apollo-client-1-0-a-flexible-community-focused-javascript-graphql-client-2253b90e6c84 ====== brentvatne We use Apollo for the [http://expo.io/](http://expo.io/) client and have found it to be extremel...
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Drip Acquired by Leadpages - charlieirish https://www.getdrip.com/blog/tips-and-tactics/drip-joining-forces-leadpages/ ====== robodale Is this Rob Walling's venture? ~~~ frankacter Yes [https://www.getdrip.com/about](https://www.getdrip.com/about)
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Thieves reportedly used car-sharing app to steal 100 cars in Chicago - lnguyen https://mashable.com/article/thieves-use-car2go-to-steal-100-cars/ ====== theaccordance I'm curious what the hack ends up being
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Ask HN: Writing an 80App - zeynel1 Hello,<p>I've been trying to use 80legs to crawl about 120,000 pages to extract lawyer bios from the websites of 200 top US law firms. I created a simple app in Django with about 400 lawyers in the database (SQLite). The app pretends to be a who-knows-who database by matching schoo...
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Goby – Inherits from Ruby, Extended with Golang - st0012 https://github.com/goby-lang/goby ====== st0012 Hello, I'm Stan, the project's creator. A few months ago Goby(Rooby) was posted on Hacker News. I got many feedbacks and said that this language is aim at help developing microservices. To achieve the goal I also s...
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Reddit Advertising: Results of a 1-Week Campaign - tyler-b http://blogwriterswanted.com/reddit-advertising-1-week-campaign/ ====== grimtrigger Not sure if this problem is fixed, but Reddit requires each day of the campaign to have the same numbner of impressions. So if monday has 100 impressions available, tuesday ha...
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Tell HN: Calling UK Hackers. We're looking for an intern this summer - pclark I'm the co-founder, spec below. Drop me an email if any questions. peter [at] broadersheet.com<p>Broadersheet is looking for an enthusiastic developer who likes the idea of mixing up the news industry.<p>You'll have a background in compute...
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Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts V and VI Released - BooneJS https://www.nin.com/ ====== sleibrock Came here to mention that these are two follow-up albums to Nine Inch Nail's original release of Ghosts I-IV, almost 12 years ago. The Ghosts album marks the first time Nine Inch Nails released an album under Creative Commons, ...
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Pixelbox: Make 2D retro games with JavaScript - polm23 https://pixwlk.itch.io/pixelbox ====== polm23 I first heard of this a few years ago, when it was something the author had whipped up for a weekend game jam or something. I played around with it a bit and it never seemed to be updated so I was afraid it had died, b...
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Microsoft launches VM Depot to ease Linux deployment on Azure - whelps http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-launches-vm-depot-to-ease-linux-deployment-on-azure-7000009666/ ====== pgambling It cracks me up every time I see a Microsoft+Linux headline. Are most Azure users running Linux rather than Windows servers?
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Can hundreds of unrelated satellites create a GPS backup? - throw0101a https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/c2-comms/2019/11/29/can-hundreds-of-unrelated-satellites-create-a-gps-backup/ ====== toomuchtodo Will be cool to prototype out a version for StarLink considering the number of satellites that will be visibl...
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Show HN: Transform insecure passwords to secure passwords - cpb2948 http://unlimited-labs.com/tools/ ====== krapp No one is going to touch this unless you provide some source code. ~~~ cpb2948 I guess that makes sense. Is there anything else i can do because i wouldn't like to disclose the source for the reason of it...
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Pebble Time – Times Up - mirceasoaica http://www.soft32.com/blog/platforms/pebble-time-times-up/ ====== phlyingpenguin Sounds like somebody expected a watch to cook him waffles in the morning? I don't get this review at all. It argues that there are no massive changes to the Pebble, but as far as I can tell, it deta...
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Ask HN: Is it ever okay for a physically healthy person to self terminate? - hsienmaneja Strictly on the merit of having final say over one’s existence (presuming no appeal to religious authority), if someone can be selfish enough to consider their own needs above hurting others, shouldn’t anyone be allowed to self te...
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Generating Music (with an algorithm) - bozho http://techblog.bozho.net/?p=1021 ====== b1daly There are at least two major areas of music composition which the algorythmic attempts fall vastly short of humans. One is that real music composition is never done where the timbres are separated from the composition. Classi...
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Ask HN: Idea HN? - username3 I get ideas reading comments on HN. More like, I see features applications should have, but they don’t. I’m never going to make the app, so take the idea and do it before they do. Maybe my idea is just bad. Maybe you can make it better. Criticize it before I spend months to Show HN for cri...
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GitHub: Minor Service Outage - forlorn Drops error code 500 (Server Error) here and there. Hope it gets resolved soon. ====== forlorn [https://status.github.com/](https://status.github.com/) ------ neuronexmachina """ 12:00 PDT: Minor service outage. 12:10 PDT: Major service outage. """
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USPTO Shutting Down Bulk Data Services - big_chungus https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/ ====== floatingatoll Certain services are marked for termination. Others don’t seem to be.
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Ask HN: Why Programmer Is One of the Jobs That Are Disappearing? - jslakro Some days ago Inc magazine published an article showing jobs that will disappear from today to 10 years. Apparently it&#x27;s based in projections made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Any idea why this will happen? ====== tiredwired [https...
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Show HN : Review my startup : Risely – Filtering your social news - c_schmitt Link: www.rise.ly<p>Hey guys,<p>We just finished building our site, and would be very grateful if some of you guys could test it out.<p>Basically, Risely is curation platform that filters the noise from your social stream and only shows yo...
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Two Russian Spies Charged in Massive Yahoo Hack - tedsuo https://www.wsj.com/articles/four-men-charged-in-connection-with-yahoo-breach-1489592862 ====== existencebox To try and be a good citizen alongside the requisite paywall gripe, here is a link to a comparable article without paywall. [http://www.nbcnews.com/tech...
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Show HN: Clout Report – A crowdsourced database of upcoming rappers - patwalls https://www.clout.report ====== patwalls Hey HN, I compiled a list of over one hundred upcoming rappers and used APIs and scrapers to get over 3,000 total data points. Sort, filter, and search by: \- Gender, age, location, record label, ...
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Ed Snowden posts an interesting answer as "TheTrueHooha" in 2006 - erper http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=6726096 ====== w_t_payne Given that M$ was the first to collaborate ... _cough_ ... err ... I mean "cooperate" with the NSA, then I guess we should consider the possibility that xbox 360 hardware has...
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Mark Cuban, Facebook, and OpenSocial - Dauntless http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/facebook_google_opensocial_mark_cuban.html ====== joshwa Tim is really getting it right here-- and the analogy drawn here between the withdrawal of the Google SOAP API's in favor of the AJAX widgets is spot on. Google/OpenSoc...
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Show HN (again): OpenCirclez - kapilkaisare You gave us some feedback on OpenCirclez (http://www.opencirclez.com/) about a fortnight earlier(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059407), and we heard you!<p>1. We differentiate from FB, MySpace by allowing you to connect to people outside your social circle. Also, th...
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Embrace all your users, even the pirates arrgh - jewgonewild http://www.davidedicillo.com/iphone/embrace-all-your-users-even-the-pirates-arrgh/ ====== houseabsolute Eh, this may not be true. Users gain something from your attention. At the margin, they may be willing to pay for it. Giving it freely, whether the user...
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They Sold Their Stock. They could've made a difference, but they made a profit - patrickdevivo https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/burr-loeffler-stocks-coronavirus.html` ====== hkmurakami Burr's actions look bad. Meanwhile Matt Levine rebuts It for Loeffler: """ Similarly Loeffler sold as much as $3.1 million...
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Criminalizing journalism? CNN interviews Glenn Greenwald [video] - detcader http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2014/02/09/criminalizing-journalism/ ====== codex Will Greenwald profit financially from Snowden data in his new venture? I have not heard many details. BTW, at least in the US, journalists have never be...
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Contextual Identities on the Web - ronjouch https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06/16/contextual-identities-on-the-web/ ====== amluto If we can get Tor Browser's first party origin feature in as well, this will be fantastic! I would _love_ to have the ability to type www.facebook.com and get a context that isn't linke...
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LinkedIn employees use forum about diversity to defend racism - tech-historian https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21279739/linkedin-employees-racist-comments-george-floyd-protest ====== AdmiralAsshat Ostensibly the "anonymous" questions are used on BlueJeans/Zoom meetings so that employees can ask a question on an earn...
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SEO for Non-dicks - joshuacc http://mattgemmell.com/2011/09/20/seo-for-non-dicks/ ====== sambeau The message is “write something fucking interesting”
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From Megaflops to Total Solutions: Cray and Supercomputing History [pdf] - poindontcare http://ethw.org/images/7/76/Elzen_%26_MacKenzie,_From_Megaflops_to_Total_Solutions.pdf ====== trsohmers If you enjoyed this article, I highly recommend the book "The Supermen: The story of Seymour Cray and the technical wizards beh...
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Contributing os.scandir() to Python - benhoyt http://benhoyt.com/writings/scandir/ ====== raymondh Thanks for the write-up. It does a good job of communicating: * the joys of contributing to Python * how time and labor intensive the process can be * the complexities of dealing with multiple operating systems * wha...
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New CISPA Cybersecurity Bill Even Worse than SOPA - gcb http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/04/07/1928220/new-cispa-cybersecurity-bill-even-worse-than-sopa ====== incomethax Please link directly to the RT article mentioned on slashdot Here it is for easier access <http://rt.com/usa/news/cispa-bill-sopa- internet-175/>...
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Ask HN: Does a centralized supply coin like IOTA have any benefits at all? - robertAngst Maybe I cannot picture the usecase, but my understanding is that IOTA is used to track data that a company themselves submit.<p>There is the obvious issue of GIGO, and makes IOTA feel like its literally a write only database.<p>Am...
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9.5mm Firefox browsers use Adblock Plus Daily - darien https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/statistics/addon/1865 This means about 10% of all firefox browsers on any given day block online ads. (See http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/08/11/how-many-firefox-users-use-add-ons/) Is it right for mozilla to advocate adblock?...
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Wikipedia: Open-Source Ventilator - app4soft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Source_Ventilator ====== app4soft This article started[0] as result of related discussion on _r /engineering_[1]. [0] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open- Source_Venti...](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open- Sour...
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Apollo 11: Four lesser-known facts - pionerkotik https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48907836 ====== mkesper About "Hidden Figures": It's worth reading the book: Quite a detailled history lesson! ------ melling The podcast 13 Minutes to the Moon is full of details about the moon landing: [https://www.bbc.co...
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Why host and write a blog? - aangjie http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/08/18/Blogodammerung ====== lordlarm A trend I've been seeing on HN recently is a sixth reason: 6. Promotion This is especially from technology firms which wants to get their brand out to their target group and also...
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Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout - mlthoughts2018 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Normandy/PreferenceRollout ====== whym Relevant context: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973#c57](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973#c57) > Update: We have rolled out a partial fix for this issue....
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Truck Drivers: How Many Will Lose Jobs to Automation? - deegles http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/009691.html ====== byoung2 _A skilled driver could move the truck to a freeway, get out, and then let automation take over. Then at the other end the truck could stop and let a driver climb in and drive off the freeway...
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Police seized $10,000 of a couple’s cash. They couldn’t get it back - dankohn1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/01/police-seized-couples-cash-they-couldnt-get-it-back-until-they-went-public/ ====== celias John Oliver did a piece on civil forfeiture in 2014 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks](htt...
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Weilos (YC S13) Wants To Pair You With An Online Weight Loss Coach - rwu721 http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/07/weilos-wants-to-pair-you-with-an-online-weight-loss-coach-who-has-shed-pounds-themselves/ ====== rwu721 Hey everyone, I'm Ray, one of the founders of Weilos. We just got started, but early signals are promisin...
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Apple in antitrust crosshairs over e-book pricing - dazbradbury http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2012/03/apple-in-antitrust-crosshairs-over-e-book-pricing.ars ====== gamble The underlying problem with the ebook market is the way publishers mandate the use of DRM. Under the old model, Amazon was free to sell ebook...
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Jupyter Notebooks Can't Fix the Scientific Paper - Vaslo https://www.oliversherouse.com/2018/04/17/notebooks_arent_papers.html ====== artwr I tend to agree with the overall sentiment of the article. Jupyter is doing a tremendous job for reproducibility and easeof sharing. It does not feel as good for writing though. ...
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Pingdom offer free subscription and then lose their site - piers I would have posted the url above but there's no point. Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) started an offer that if you registered whilst using Firefox then you would get a year's free subscription. Unfortunately it seems that this was a very attractive offer a...
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CloudSwipe - A whole new way to do WordPress e-commerce - joeybeninghove http://cloudswipe.com ====== benjaminprojas This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! ------ erdnapc Sweet
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Show HN: a simple webapp to save time doing something on the way - wisechengyi http://swingit.us Hi HNers, I recently started this project and want to test the water on the demands, and your feedback will be highly appreciated. Thank you! ====== wisechengyi Hi HNers, I recently started this project and want to test t...
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Show HN: I built this SaaS app without code - skellystudios https://www.seedform.app ====== boeing767 Why can't I just build my own onboarding sequence? It's really not that hard. Plus it's free if I DIY, and I have full control over it. Data goes straight to my database instead of being collected through a third-part...
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Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box - stclaus https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/18/facebook-portal-tv/ ====== jannes I'm sure lots of smart people spent a lot of time and effort working on this, but unfortunately my answer is: Hell no! ~~~ keehun As someone in the same boat as you, it does seem li...
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Show HN: An app to cherry pick text from the real world - ajithimself http://autopick.co ====== supermdguy This looks great! There are so many times I want to quickly grab text from things. ~~~ ajithimself That's what I built it for, Please share it with your friends and colleagues that would mean a lot to me, Thanks...
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High end components fork of Raspberry Pi - efm http://www.bananapi.org/p/product.html ====== voltagex_ >Built with ARM Cortex-A7 Dual-core CPU and Mali400MP2 GPU (and 1GB of RAM) Doesn't really stack up against the Pi2, but I guess the lima driver may be better, video wise. ~~~ api The 1gbps Ethernet is better for n...
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It’s inheritance that is immoral, not inheritance tax - FabHK https://medium.com/@AbiWilks/it-s-inheritance-that-is-immoral-not-inheritance-tax-33ff91791f03 ====== DarkKomunalec "An accident of birth placed them in a wealthy family and they’ve benefited from that their whole life." Is this what our connection to our ...
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Show HN: Realtime TODO Lists without signup (Weekend Project) - Polarity http://todo.share.ac/ hi, i created (yet another) todo list web app with realtime capabilities. After adding a item you just created a list with a random url that you can share with others.<p>one drawback: its not offline available atm. because ...
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Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans - pappyo http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/health/death-rates-rising-for-middle-aged-white-americans-study-finds.html?_r=0 ====== artur_makly "Visit some formerly middle class suburbs of cities in the Midwest and you can see exactly why this is happening. No decent jo...
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Why is everyone so busy? (2014) - asoli https://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21636612-time-poverty-problem-partly-perception-and-partly-distribution-why ====== factsaresacred I recommend people watch Japan A story of love and hate ([http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56bwzc](http://www.dailymotion.com/vide...
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Greenpois0n on github - hasenj https://github.com/Chronic-Dev/syringe ====== gcb just syringe and others injectors lots of binary payloads. but i'm clueless of iStuff anyways.
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Top 5 Bugs of my Career - pembleton http://javadots.blogspot.com/2009/10/top-five-bugs-of-my-career.html ====== jrockway _At some point I decide that my new rules are complete and I put them to work on several real inputs: large zip files with > 100K classes. I notice that both the import and load commands run much ...
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Getting Your Kids Off the iPad Is Worth the Fight - jorganisak https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/getting-your-kids-off-the-ipad-is-worth-the-fight-191447400.html ====== domjbs The trick is not getting them on in the first place.
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Ask HN Parents: How do you handle working and kids? - barredo Do you work from home and/or in a small startup and have kids? Would you mind share some tips?<p>In my experience (father of a &#60;2 year old):<p>* work when the kids are sleep or in daycare * don't work all the other time (I usually check email, server ...
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Why Does Bureaucracy Exist? Here’s Why… - penfold http://expressiveegg.org/2016/08/29/bureaucracy/ ====== Safety1stClyde > It Digitises Uncivilisation is founded on ego which can only conceive of > reality in terms of that which can be isolated, measured, defined, > controlled and possessed; in other words, written do...
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Born to Spend (or Save): It’s All in Your Genes - wiradikusuma http://moneyland.time.com/2011/10/06/born-to-spend-or-save-its-all-in-your-genes/ ====== pedalpete I have trouble agreeing with this for a few reasons. First of all, I've gone through times in my life where I've saved and saved spending very little. I'v...
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Ask HN: Feedback on my startup - eljayuu Landing page is &gt; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;inventr.org<p>Hoping that over time the Inventr boards ask more complex questions especially around problem solving and better giveaways.<p>Each Inventr has their own publicly available profile which shows their Inventr status, each brand h...
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Microsoft Edge Lets Facebook Run Flash Code Behind Users' Backs - fbelzile https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-edge-lets-facebook-run-flash-code-behind-users-backs/ ====== zzo38computer You should be allowed to customize the whitelist; such whitelisting should not be hard-coded. ------ Piskvorrr And here we go ag...
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Humanae - sharp11 http://humanae.tumblr.com/ ====== brudgers _Humanæ is a chromatic inventory, a project that reflects on the colors beyond the borders of our codes by referencing the PANTONE® color scheme._ _The project development is based on a series of portraits whose background is dyed with the exact Pantone® t...
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Ask HN: An average developer's work seems meaningless? - duochrome I have been wondering what people need. Most people would love to have a better house, furniture, food, etc. They barely need a better software.<p>I was a developer for 8 years. I worked in some corporation and some startup, and it&#x27;s the same is...
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Show HN: Bolt – free email validation API powered by AI - eternal_virgin https://helloaiko.com/bolt ====== jamesarena Free???? ~~~ eternal_virgin Free for makers, 2000 validations per month. (We might increase the free tier limit, right now it's based on how many sockets we can connect to mail providers before our IP...
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What Is Going to Happen in 2017 - bakztfuture http://avc.com/2017/01/what-is-going-to-happen-in-2017/ ====== pyb For me this is the money quote : >Tech investors will start to adopt genomics as an additional “information technology” investment category
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$675,000 RIAA File Sharing Verdict Is ‘Unreasonable’ - phsr http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/riaa-verdict-is-unreasonable/ ====== bugs That is an insane amount for each song, it makes one wonder what punishment would come from stealing a dozen cds (a tangible item of similar nature). ~~~ bluedanieru The plain...
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Corona Virus Rumour - davidabcd Now it&#x27;s so tough to determine a news rumor or actual. Yesterday some people spread a news that one of my neighbors died due to covid-19. Lastly we got the update that he was suffering for serious heart problem for last 3 months and died for that.<p>Is there any authentic website w...
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Ceramic-bearing bicycle drive shaft (2018) - tomcam https://www.bikeradar.com/news/faster-than-any-chain-ceramicspeed-driven/?image=3&type=gallery&gallery=1&embedded_slideshow=1 ====== ben7799 Not sure why this is coming up again a year later. They put it out as a marketing thing. It had a bunch of impractical caveat...
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Russia eyes caves on moon for setting up a lunar base - evo_9 http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-russia-eyes-caves-moon-lunar.html ====== bediger Following in von Braun's footsteps again. In his book "The Conquest of the Moon" ([http://www.amazon.com/Conquest-Moon-Wernher-Von- Braun/dp/B00...](http://www.amazon.com/C...
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Broadband bills will have to increase to pay for snooper's charter - oneeyedpigeon http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/11/broadband-bills-increase-snoopers-charter-investigatory-powers-bill-mps-warned ====== oneeyedpigeon Great; now we have the privilege of paying for our government to abuse our privacy: wi...
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My Problem With Klout Scores: Beyonce Gets a 50 - Without Ever Sending A Tweet - danyork http://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2011/03/my-problem-with-klout-scores-beyonce-gets-a-50-without-ever-sending-a-tweet.html ====== nikcub Klout has me on a score of 56 and ranks me as a curator, which means "You highlight th...
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Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says - nurik http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-northwestern-als-breakthrough-20110822,0,6531848.story ====== linktylr My dad also died of ALS last year. Identifying the cellular mechanisms underlying ALS is crucial. At the same time I'm disheartened by the conc...
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Ask HN: Which HN android apps are the official unofficial ones? - DiabloD3 Type "hacker news" into Android Market's search, and it lists a bunch of apps. I have a tablet, which one should I be using? ====== lazugod This is one of those quintessential moments where someone can act like Eliza and force the questioner ...
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Repair Café - fredley https://repaircafe.org/en/ ====== bad_alloc I live in a small town in Germany and we have five of these in one year, with 20-30 devices coming in each time. We can fix most of them, even with fairly basic tools. Some observations: * One of the worst things to repair are electric shavers. It feel...
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Ask HN: Suggest a Novel Robotics Project for PhD, Bio-inspired Direction - jmiseikis I&#x27;m just starting my PhD with focus on bio-inspired robotics. I&#x27;m lucky to have quite a lot of freedom to choose the project I want to work on, as long as it fits the focus of the lab. Currently, the focus is on evolutiona...
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SOPA vote is now December 21 - hsmyers http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57344536-503544/sopa-bill-to-stop-online-piracy-hits-minor-snag-in-house/ ====== ck2 There must be serious money to be made - or rather already made for the representatives plowing this through - there is simply no other explanation. Money...
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UK ruling makes Internet browsing a copyright risk - jamesbritt http://blog.meltwater.com/uk-ruling-makes-internet-browsing-a-copyright-risk-rendering-innocent-acts-of-millions-illegal ====== cHalgan The west is learning fast from the east (meaning east europe) :) The communist countries were setup in such way that e...
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Thousands to receive basic income in Finland - greifswalder http://www.demoshelsinki.fi/en/2016/08/30/thousands-to-receive-basic-income-in-finland-a-trial-that-could-lead-to-the-greatest-societal-transformation-of-our-time/ ====== randomThoughts9 I've been reading about these kind of experiments for years now and they...
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​Organic food worse for the climate - huntermeyer https://www.mynewsdesk.com/uk/chalmers/pressreleases/organic-food-worse-for-the-climate-2813280 ====== symlock This headline is incorrect for how little is actually measured in this study. It's like staying that rammed earth houses are bad for the environment because t...
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Cloudflare nearly killed us last night - johnfiles https://www.indiehackers.com/JohnFiles/post/23eab453d8 ====== capitalone I just tried uploading the file ([https://anonymousfiles.io/T6I22kgQ/](https://anonymousfiles.io/T6I22kgQ/)) to IO anonymousfiles, and everything is fine now. Even faster than before. Hopefully y...
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Defend PHP; convince me it isn't horrible - ryanwaggoner http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309300/defend-php-convince-me-it-isnt-horrible/ ====== zdw I wouldn't call it horrible... I'd say it has a lot of warts. There are some very solid bits of code out there in PHP - Wordpress and Drupal being the foremost ones I'...
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Show HN: Outro – Retrospectives, Re-Imagined - tbird24 https://outro.co ====== faeyanpiraat Scrolling the page takes up 100% CPU, and has like 1 FPS. You should do something about that. ~~~ tbird24 Thanks, what browser/OS are you on? I definitely don't have this experience. Sounds concerning though.
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Cleaning and Transforming Excel Data in the Browser With Data Janitor - martin_drapeau https://medium.com/@martindrapeau/cleaning-and-transforming-excel-data-in-your-browser-with-data-janitor-d7d6751214f5 ====== martin_drapeau An incarnation of Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will even...
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Samsung factory robbed at gunpoint, $36 million in devices stolen - hamburg http://9to5google.com/2014/07/07/samsung-fa… ====== abdelm Correct Link: [http://9to5google.com/2014/07/07/samsung-factory-robbed- at-g...](http://9to5google.com/2014/07/07/samsung-factory-robbed-at- gunpoint-36-million-in-smartphones-tablet...
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Benjamin Pierce – Software Foundations - mlitchard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKrD4JcfW90&list=PLGCr8P_YncjUT7gXUVJWSoefQ40gTOz89 ====== jcr His book, "Software Foundations" is here: [http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/) And there's a discussion about the book from a...
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The cult of design dictatorship (2012) - tapp https://alexcabal.com/the-cult-of-design-dictatorship/ ====== knowtheory This post is unfortunate. This post is so extremely unfortunate because first, it is wrong, and second, it highlights the wrong problem (and the post's author even admits it in the post). The problem...
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Snip2Code launches the new code snippets tool for Notepad++ - cghersi http://www.snip2code.com/Static/Downloads#notepadpp_plugin ====== sungminchokr I think storing and sharing code in snippets is a genuinely good idea. Looking forward to seeing the database grow further! ------ TexasH1931 Definitely +1 for Snip2Co...
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