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Steve Jobs explains ban on Flash - inovica http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10092298 ====== chris_j This article is pretty old (April 2010). Apple has loosened some of its restrictions in the meantime: <http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20015954-264.html> ------ moomba Wow. This is pretty funny considering how old the ne...
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Google tests scripting feature for online apps - abennett http://itworld.com/development/68497/google-tests-scripting-feature-online-apps ====== mcav Direct link from Google: [http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/05/old- tool-new-tr...](http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2009/05/old-tool-new- tricks.html) ----...
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Weird Is Good: What Portland's Economy Can Teach Every City in the World - hawkw http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/weird-is-good-what-portlands-economy-can-teach-every-city-in-the-world/277477/ ====== joshuaellinger Hey Austin is weird too....
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Ask HN: Are there any good alternatives to Mozilla Thunderbird? - gsivil ====== atgm Not being snarky here, but how about gmail? If you want pop3 or IMAP, you can do that in gmail. You can also tag/color e-mails based on which address they're coming from, set up reply-to, have a huge amount of space for archiving, ...
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New Runtime Data Mapper for MongoDB - Amiga64 https://www.syssurge.com/Products/Slazure/Home.aspx ====== dulcinea Very nice
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Bret Victor to join Microsoft as CEO - GuiA https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/371050632309796864 ====== JacksonGariety This tweet was a joke, why did this get up voted?
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Show HN: Routine Checklists for iOS - mdrachuk https://drach.uk/everyplan/ ====== mdrachuk Hi HN! I wanted to thank the community for everything you‘ve taught me over the years. If you want to try the apps, but are hesitant to pay — send me an email (mention Show HN) and I’ll give you a free App Store promo code.
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Trump Administration Releases Transparency Rule in Hospital Pricing - siberianbear https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-releases-transparency-rule-in-hospital-pricing-11573825649?mod=rsswn ====== jakeogh HHS Press release: [https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2018/08/01/trump- administrati...](https://www.hhs....
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Commons Clause Is a Legal Minefield and a Very Bad Idea - vmbrasseur http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2018/09/10/commons-clause-is-a-legal-minefield-and-a-very-bad-idea/ ====== the_xenu_story I think we still need to see how it plays out in the real world. But just like a new software release, it is possible that t...
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Trump’s Latest Pick for the Fed Is No Fan of Paper Money - euvitudo https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/trump-s-latest-pick-for-the-fed-is-no-fan-of-paper-money ====== mindcrime Wow. I just suddenly become a _lot_ more interested in Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. Sorry, but I am _not_ interested i...
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Snapchat Snaps Up $80M From IVP At An $800M Valuation - chucknthem http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/22/source-snapchat-snaps-up-80m-from-ivp-at-a-800m-valuation/ ====== maneesh Does anyone here have any idea how snapchat intends to make money? Or will it try to sell itself to Facebook/Google eventually a la Instagram? ...
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A giant 360 LED clock - mathieupassenau https://www.mathieupassenaud.fr/ledclock/ ====== elFarto I really like the Equinox Clock[1], which was made before easily available addressable RGB LED strips, so each LED is individually placed. [1] [http://www.bramknaapen.com/equinox- clock/](http://www.bramknaapen.com/equino...
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Is there a demand for a start-up technical assistant? - sgibson12 Are you looking for a quality technical person to help get your start-up going? I'd like to introduce myself. I've been working with a couple business partners in an attempt to launch a successful web based application. We made some progress but never...
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Intel’s Tiger Lake 11th Gen Core I7-1185G7 Review and Deep Dive - rbanffy https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review-deep-dive-core-11th-gen ====== jeffbee Some pretty spectacular performance on important single-threaded workloads. With a Speedometer 2 score of 113, this laptop is the fastest machine...
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Ask HN: Are you still employable after being a founder? - dear Starting a business is risky. Most people would rather choose to have a comfortable life by working for an established company, taking a salary and enjoying life after work hours. For entrepreneurs who make no salary, do all the work ourselves and live...
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In case you haven't seen it before: Star Trek's PADD - swernli http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/PADD ====== philwelch My girlfriend and I watch Deep Space Nine DVD's from Netflix with dinner every night. Wednesday, after the iPad announcement, I remember watching them use their PADD's on DS9 and thinking, "yes, I get...
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Missing (from) Links: great idea for the expansion of HTML syntax - gabrielroth http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=273 ====== gojomo In addition to a search string, XPath or CSS selector syntax could be nice. (Think: JQuery.) Should be easy to implement as a Greasemonkey script or FF add-on.
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Parallelism as a First Class Citizen in C and C++ - fogus http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2011/08/09/parallelism-as-a-first-class-citizen-in-c-and-c-the-time-has-come/ ====== cabacon He's totally right, but people have wanted this, and tried to implement it, several times. There's UPC (<http://upc.lbl.gov/>), Co...
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"Learn To Code, Get a Job" According To CNN - pauljonas http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/01/12/2339202/learn-to-code-get-a-job-according-to-cnn ====== gamechangr Catch 22 We want and need innovative programs to train the technically illiterate. Yet we're critical of any "learn to code in 30 days". There is plenty of...
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Ask HN: Google Search spam solutions - Trindaz After reading http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/search-still-sucks/ I couldn't help think up a quick fix Google could try, so I'm interested in why this wouldn't work / hasn't been tried yet:<p>GMail has a 'Report Spam' button, why shouldn't Google search? I'd be happy t...
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On-Chip Network Topology for High Energy Efficiency and Scalability [pdf] - Katydid http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~rausavar/pubs/sn-asplos18.pdf ====== godelmachine @Katydid - Don't know if this is the right place to say, but I like all of your submissions related to hardware architectures. Are you on LinkedIn/ Quora/ pers...
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Born to Build, Not to Play: an Entrepreneur's 'Curse' - garbowza http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/business/28invent-side.html?ref=business ====== pg Build = play. ------ nextmoveone I hope I am 'cursed' with Entrepreneurship.
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Ask HN: What should I do if I don't get a summer internship? - nargawharg Next year I&#x27;ll be a senior (majoring in CS). I am currently studying abroad, so unfortunately I won&#x27;t even be back in the US until mid June (and then have about two months left until uni starts again). I have a meh GPA (3.0) but a co...
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Strava fitness tracker reveals military base - ksajadi http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42853072 ====== baxtr This was already discussed yesterday ~~~ mici Here is the post from yesterday if someone (like me) missed it: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955)...
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Show HN: The Definitive Guide to GTFS-Realtime - qzervaas http://gumroad.com/l/gtfsrt ====== qzervaas Author here. I self-published this book as a sequel to my previous book, The Definitive Guide to GTFS. The first one is all about public transit schedules in GTFS format (used by Google, Apple and most public trans...
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Y Combinator Diaries Week 5 - dkasper http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080609.wgtYcombo_1_0606/BNStory/Technology/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080609.wgtYcombo_1_0606 ====== ph0rque > In that time-span we've been able to create the core product in terms of > basic functionality: this includes the functio...
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TOXIC STARTUP CREDITS – AZURE/RACKSPACE - movielala ====== movielala In Turkish, we have two sayings about free. "Free vinegar is sweeter then expensive honey." "I'm Not Rich Enough to Buy Cheap Things" (prob global) We were lucky and got a lot credits from rackspace and azure and we used them for our services and ser...
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Finally: Street View in Canada - ekarisor http://maps.google.ca/intl/en_ca/help/maps/streetview/#utm_campaign=en&utm_medium=hpp&utm_source=en-hpp-na-ca-gns-svn ====== eswat They've updated Halifax, but not Winnipeg? :( ------ cb33 Finally! I can see ice! ------ pwmanagerdied Finally! I can see my house!
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Bezos shares profanity-laced email from customer angry about Black Lives Matter - tech-historian https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-instagram-angry-customer-email-black-lives-matter-support-2020-6 ====== Bostonian The customer is a bigot, as evidenced by his use of racial epithets, but BLM has likely cost blac...
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Ron Patrick's Street-Legal Jet Powered Volkswagen Beetle (2006) - panic http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com ====== stergios Ron is an old friend. He's a very sharp and funny guy too. Ron was on the David Letterman show and Dave was cracking up while interviewing Ron right before he ran his bug down the track at the old Alt...
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Attention, Startups: Move to New England. Your Gay Employees Will Thank You. - bbuderi http://www.xconomy.com/national/2008/11/14/attention-startups-move-to-new-england-your-gay-employees-will-thank-you/ ====== parenthesis I think there ought to be a clear separation made between religious/cultural marriage (marriag...
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The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly - laurex https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/respect-old/607864/ ====== 0xfaded I'd love to see a counter opinion about the elderly being cruel to the young by saddling them with debt, the climate crisis, social security, tax breaks for the retired, et...
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Show HN: Available: Seamlessly share your calendar availability inside of Gmail - shahed http://availableforgmail.com ====== shahed Available is a Chrome Extension that allows you to easily share your calendar availability inside of your Gmail compose/reply view. The best part––it pastes the times as plain text. I've...
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Forget about the "1%." Top "0.1% pulling ahead more - bokglobule http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2014/03/31/1-on-percent-rich/7108767/ ====== api Who are the top 0.1%? More importantly: what is it that they do that is that valuable? ~~~ caidan From paragraph 4 of the article: "Nearly a quarter of these...
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Solar storms expected to shake Earth in 2013 - wiradikusuma http://www.frontsidebus.net/2011/09/01/nasa-warns-solar-storms-expected-to-shake-earth-in-2013/ ====== sandroyong Since we are all wired and connected, this would wreak havoc to our overall communication systems and power grids. Solar storms cycle from Max ...
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Why I joined Microsoft - sharjeelsayed https://hackernoon.com/the-best-career-advice-ive-received-so-far-is-never-turn-down-an-interview-7586ca5b7ef8 ====== gaius _though I was getting daily emails from Microsoft recruiters_ Really? They were emailing every day? I call shenanigans, no-one wants to hire ANYONE that ba...
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Everything you need to know about Twitter. In one tweet. - jv2222 http://twitter.com/justinvincent/status/2155414693 ====== tdm911 @tdm911's guide to twitter: Use it as you wish. There is no right, wrong or otherwise. This is the best thing about twitter! Please note: This doesn't mean I will enjoy you spamming non...
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Baller Inc. - An Arc-based Sports News Aggregator - soundsop http://ballerinc.com/ ====== antiismist Hey that's my site! A while back I made pageonetimes.com, which was sort of a reddit for sports. I found out that it is hard to get people to submit sports stories. So I redid it as a Drudge Report for sports news. ...
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Hand Coded Assembly Beats Intrinsics in Speed and Simplicity - nkurz http://danluu.com/assembly-intrinsics/ ====== pandaman I wonder if it's already the time to put to rest the myth that the human-coded assembly for a modern CPU is slower than what a compiler generates? As far as I know it's been semi-true around Pen...
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Non-coder Hacker News - desaiguddu http://hubski.com/ ====== GrooveStomp Alright, that's done, now where's the all-code Hacker News? :)
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Ask HN: My former employer is harassing me for meeting with competitors - bonjour314 I quit my job. I grabbed coffee with founders of competing startups in our space to explore job opportunities with them. The former employer&#x27;s lawyers wrote letters to me, as well as to the competitors, threatening that I am viol...
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In-app rewards gaming network (Startup Weekend product - need feedback) - HectorRamos http://www.gameboost.me/ ====== patio11 I am confused by the choice to feature the number of devs you had and the abbreviated schedule as opposed to a vision for how you're going to make app developers more money. Aren't the key d...
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Hackers can steal your AppleID in 10 seconds - emilisto http://www.shootitlive.com/2012/10/hackers-can-steal-your-appleid-in-10-s/ ====== hetaali This is a huge security issue. I imagine that someone post this on Facebook and encourage others in the same school (on same wifi) to log in to their AppleID. In this way ...
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The Daily WTF goes white to "support" SOPA - anthuswilliams http://thedailywtf.com/ ====== sp332 Then write down the IPs, take a photo of the page on a wooden table, and share the photo on 68.142.214.24 (flickr.com)! ~~~ randomdata Being a non-American, maybe I'm just a little out of the loop, but what is blocking do...
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How Does Linux Start Up - ristem https://www.tutorialdocs.com/article/how-linux-start-up.html ====== devnonymous I upvoted this because I think these sort of tutorials are a good thing. I've learned many things with tutorials like this, which are a great starting point (I used to spend ages reading through tldp howtos...
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Code Coverage Best Practices - zdw https://testing.googleblog.com/2020/08/code-coverage-best-practices.html ====== just-juan-post Is it just me or are there no best practices listed here? I'm not seeing much substance in this paper.
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Company with the “World’s Least Powerful CEO” Makes $2.5 Million Every Day - smalter http://blog.idonethis.com/post/48277151394/least-powerful-ceo ====== Irregardless I'm not sure if this is more of a testament to their corporate strategy or the effectiveness of the freemium model for mobile games. It's amazing how d...
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A look at the 2014 Mac mini - mwexler http://blog.macminicolo.net/post/100240431773/a-look-at-the-2014-mac-mini ====== koralatov In the various laptops, soldered-on RAM is a trade-off for the increasing thinness of the machines. Whether it's worth it will depend on the individual's needs. In this case, the Mac mini i...
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VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks - etix https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2015-November/105002.html ====== iamthepieman I work with a Muslim and I'm a Christian. Since we are both very conservative, I actually have more in common with him than with my secular coworkers an...
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Just Scroll - koichi http://www2.nissan.co.jp/SP/NOTE/SPECIAL/ ====== se85 Interesting design concept - but a horrible implementation of it. You can't just go and load a thousand divs and not expect a wide variety of performance issues across all the different platforms. You need to have a tile manager or something ...
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Munich City Government to Dump Linux Desktop - eumoria http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Munich-City-Government-to-Dump-Linux-Desktop-84307.html ====== ncomputersorg why do they want to spend money on spyware?
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Moody's downgrades Tesla's corporate family rating to B3. Outlook is negative - ColinFCodeChef https://www.moodys.com/research/Moodys-downgrades-Teslas-corporate-family-rating-to-B3-senior-notes--PR_381481 ====== terragon This is the same Moody's that was fined $864 million for handing out fraudulent ratings for its o...
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Bombing Hasn’t Worked. Bombing Won’t Work. And Yet, We Will Bomb - mrzool http://www.thenation.com/article/bombs-over-brains/ ====== islandtech Actually, the right kind of bombing does work to great effect. Namely fuel/air bombing. It's also cheaper than conventional bombing. The bomb detonates at an altitude over th...
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Retrospection and Full PCAP Reveal Instances of XcodeGhost Dating Back to April - wslh https://www.protectwise.com/blog/retrospection-and-full-pcap-reveal-instances-of-xcodeghost-dating-back-to-april-2015/ ====== tlb It's an amusing trick to have the encryption key be "stringWithFormat", a common ObjC symbol that woul...
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How to build a full-scale quantum computer in silicon - jonbaer http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-build-a-full-scale-quantum-computer-in-silicon ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336675](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10336675)
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Show HN: Visualizing 'Silhouettes' of Programming Languages - lelandbatey http://lelandbatey.com/projects/code_silhouette/ ====== timpark Neat. I saw something like this recently in game form: Codeshapes [http://teropa.info/codeshapes/](http://teropa.info/codeshapes/) ~~~ runeks I'm getting the shape of a lot of lice...
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Tesla Roadster - franl https://www.tesla.com/roadster/ ====== wintermute2001 Am I the only one who's worried that Tesla is really starting to bite off more than they can chew? Right now their finances are a mess, they are publicly struggling to produce their most important car ever, their CEO is spending time figuring...
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JavaScript stack for startups, good idea? - omorhefere What are you thought on building a startup using just javascript: Node Js backend; React Website; React Native + Expo for mobile apps.<p>Is a maerketplace ====== x0hm There are plenty of products that are built using a similar stack. There's nothing wrong with it....
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China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale - sverige http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2143899/forget-facebook-leak-china-mining-data-directly-workers-brains ====== ggm How do people feel about 'dead mans switch' and AWS gear fitted in Locomotives since the 1920s? Because f...
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Why I changed my mind about #DeleteUber - tuxxy https://medium.com/@__Tux/why-i-changed-my-mind-about-deleteuber-3640c105ce45#.lt15vanjk ====== tiemand > The era of Union is over Maybe in the US, this is not the case in Europe. ~~~ tuxxy Ah, I meant to include "(at least in the US)". Thanks for catching that.
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Shazam is always listening – even when it's been switched 'off' - nitin_flanker http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/15/shazam_listening/ ====== chrisbolt Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12953368](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12953368)
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Practice Happiness with Yale University - jantomes https://sfree.life/happiness-course-positivity-free/?ref=google ====== throwawaylolx No wonder universities have no money if they spend their funding elevating self-help books to the status of science courses. Also the OP link has a ref parameter. ~~~ dntbnmpls That ...
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Show HN: Beautiful, free, and simple resume/cover letter creator - mitchas http://ineedaresu.me/#/ ====== mitchas Back in March I made version 1 of ineedaresu.me in about 5 hours between class (v1 can be seen at ineedaresu.me/old). I didn't even intend on posting it online until some people on Reddit encouraged me to....
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Ask HN: Review my web app - mootothemax Hi everyone :-)<p>I've had my Twitter webapp on the backburner for ages, but after taking a friend's advice, I've finally bought a couple of themes and redesigned the service around them.<p>It would be awesome to get your feedback:<p>-What other features would you like to see?...
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Mach7: Pattern Matching for C++ - adamnemecek https://github.com/solodon4/Mach7 ====== haberman Reading about this, I followed a link to this talk advocating pattern matching (using Mach7) over the Visitor pattern: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhJguzpZOrk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhJguzpZOrk) This was rea...
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Musk says Tesla two-factor authentication “embarrassingly late” but coming soon - theBashShell https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370140/musk-tesla-2fa-security-cars ====== toomuchtodo Please let them deploy OAuth tokens and permission scopes as well.
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Contactless cards fail to recognise foreign currency - eksith http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/contactless-cards-fail-to-recognise-foreign-currency ====== Someone1234 Contactless card transactions always struck me as bonkers. By the very nature of the system, there is nothing stopping an individu...
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The Top 100 most popular Google+ users - tilt http://socialstatistics.com/ ====== mpk What always surprises me about lists like this is that there are people who _follow_ thousands of others and they still get taken seriously. ~~~ ipince Why is that surprising? What's wrong about following thousands of people? ~~~...
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Shum or will the short audios replace text posts? - eye_dle https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voicerproject.myvoicer&hl=ru&ah=F8sEjvSULBeWxbCavshZe8Ihz7Q ====== eye_dle Hello, I'm co-founder of Shum, app to record and post 1-minute audio notes (Twitter for audio) We have MVP available, but there are fe...
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I measured hundreds of Levi's jeans and compared how every pair fits - cmogni1 https://www.tryfitfirst.com/home/every-levis-fit-number-compared ====== cehrlich Interesting article and a large amount of research into something that is often way more opaque than it should be. However I’d also like to point out that wit...
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YC Jobs - ycjobs https://ycjobs.org ====== devins I love the idea. Pretty tedious without the ability to search. ------ sharemywin could you build a map view?
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Show HN: Helvetitee: Custom tee. No bullshit. (Our four-day startup) - tomcavill http://helvetitee.com/tee/%23HackerNews ====== antihero So £25 (fairly expensive) for a t-shirt based on a fairly dead meme that is available in one colour and can have no other details? Apple fans are going to _love_ it. In all serious,...
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Federated Learning - epsilon-greedy https://florian.github.io/federated-learning/ ====== ur-whale TL;DR : Compute the gradient of the error on the user's device and ship that to a server-side centralized model to update its weights. It's a very cool idea that has a lot of interesting applications (among which: learn...
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Ask HN: How safe is Google / Facebook sign in the long term? - quietthrow Given that almost every useful websites allows you to sign on using Google Plus or facebook its easy to sign up for various sites. But what happens to your data once you stop using the third party site and revoke access from Google plus or fac...
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FizzBuzz with Matlab and CVX. TensorFlow Version Had Bad Feature Engineering - siilats https://www.facebook.com/siilats/posts/10104962964136889 ====== siilats I made an actual solution
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Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction - cyrc https://www.newscientist.com/article/2253089-google-performed-the-first-quantum-simulation-of-a-chemical-reaction/ ====== alpineidyll3 The levels of hype in this announcement are astounding. The type of calculation they ran was literally run b...
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Curl Wttr.in - old-gregg https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in ====== rsapkf I use this all the time. I find this option pretty neat: curl wttr.in/Moon Shows current lunar phase. I use Termux[0] on my phone with curl installed. Pretty handy. Also, check out rate.sx[1] from the same author: ...
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Show HN: Sparser – A Multilanguage Parser - austincheney * <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparser.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sparser.io</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Unibeautify&#x2F;sparser" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;Unibeautify&#x2F;sparser</a><p>This is my attempt a...
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Using Parse for IoT to Create an Order Button - mattieuga http://blog.parse.com/2015/04/01/using-parse-for-iot-to-create-an-order-button/ ====== joezydeco Spark has some interesting stuff in this area. $19 for the upcoming Photon board, and $39 for the cellular-connected Electron. [https://store.spark.io/](https:/...
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Signs point to Apple abandoning OS X branding in favor of “MacOS” - OberstKrueger http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/04/signs-point-to-apple-abandoning-os-x-branding-in-favor-of-macos/ ====== dv_dt So soon we might be able to say MacOS goes to 11?
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Strangeness of Black Holes - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/68/context/the-strangeness-of-black-holes ====== ithkuil I found these lectures by Leonard Susskind very insightful: \- Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9t](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9t)) \- L...
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Translation from VC-Backed PR Jargon to English of Magic Leap CEO Statement - docdeek https://daringfireball.net/2020/05/abovitz_magic_leap_translation ====== ObsoleteNerd $2.4B wasted on this. They weren't smashing atoms together to discover world-changing new physics. They didn't send people to space or develop som...
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Show HN: Chattur. Wherever you are - rossmartin http://chattur.co ====== artiparty Why? ~~~ jaywunder Exactly what I'm thinking. There's no reason to have _another_ chatting app. Also, with so many competitors, their website lacks any description, making their product even more foreign. ~~~ rossmartin Thank you fo...
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Ask HN: Who is being paid for work on the night? - dotborg I work from 9am to 5pm, but in "good old days" I used to code on the night. 9pm-5am used to be my best time - it's difficult to explain, but I love to work at midnight and early morning - family sleeping, neighbourhood sleeping, city sleeping, addictive sile...
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WeddingInviteLove: A Comprehensive Wedding Invitation Designer Directory - limedaring http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/04/15/weddinginvitelove-a-comprehensive-wedding-invitation-designer-directory/ ====== iseff Looks nice. There's also OneWed (<http://www.onewed.com>) which has a directory of all types of wedding ve...
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How Music Hijacks Our Perception - JumpCrisscross http://nautil.us/issue/9/time/how-music-hijacks-our-perception-of-time?ftcamp=crm/email/201424/nbe/AlphavilleHongKong/product ====== jamesbritt Recently posted: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166908](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166908)
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Zo from Ameelio.org is doing an AMA on Reddit - jessehorne https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/hy70st/i_am_zo_orchingwa_a_yale_law_student_and/ ====== kruzerkc bump
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Raspberry "High" - rpi-powered vape - nvr219 http://raspberryhigh.wikia.com/wiki/Raspberryhigh_Wiki ====== bheklilr Well, that's certainly a use for an R-Pi I hadn't thought of. ------ tubbzor Takes the "MacGyver bong" game to a new and creative level.
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Ask HN: What do you use to digitize your paper records? - narak I&#x27;m looking at digitizing most of my personal paper records like tax files, large value receipts, important letters, legal documents etc. The plan is to scan them to PDF or TIFF using a feed scanner. I want a solution that encrypts and backs up to th...
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Automated config tool for Apache2, NGINX etc. - WilliamWonka Hello community.<p>As we all know spending time configuring apache2 for our favorite framework can be time consuming and tedious.<p>We are currently developing a basic web based configurator to speed up the set up of apache2 with mod_wsgi to serve python app...
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For $100 I Explain Why I Do Open Source (RailsApps Project) - DanielKehoe http://blog.railsapps.org/post/18499961991/for-100-i-explain-why-i-do-open-source ====== DanielKehoe Does this resonate for you? How much does appreciation play a role in motivating you to develop open source projects?
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Determining hot items with exponentially decaying likes - jules http://julesjacobs.github.io/2015/05/06/exponentially-decaying-likes.html ====== karmakaze This can also be achieved by giving newer likes more value than older ones. Equivalent with opportunity for efficiencies in precomputing older sums. Is it HN or r...
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Wavii - Not stealth enough - zemaj http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/21/time-to-meet-wavii-the-super-stealth-super-awesome-startup-based-in-seattle/#comment-1168811 ====== mark_l_watson Automatic generation of interesting thing to read? While I believe in the tech of statistical NLP, I question whether the quality of n...
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Million dollar gas hack. - humanlever http://greenwala.com/?p=83 ====== anthonyrubin I wonder how much fuel could be saved by avoiding unnecessary residential deliveries. How many delivery attempt notices does UPS leave every day? If shippers provided UPS with an email address for the recipient a notice could be sent...
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Dine Market Lays Off Staff - esgourmet Dine Market, a food tech start up in NYC, has run out of money and laid off virtually all its employees. Support for existing customers continues for the time being. Glassdoor reviews show issues across the board, but inability to raise money and crazy burn rate seems to have don...
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The Bloodbath of B-R5RB, Gaming's Most Destructive Battle Ever - teh_klev http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/the-bloodbath-of-b-r5rb/ ====== kjs3 So many spreadsheets, crumpled and thrown in the trash. ------ teh_klev Quote: _The Economic Impact 11 TRILLION ISK. According to some PLEX conversions tha...
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First thoughts on Node.js - MicahWedemeyer http://peachshake.com/2011/05/13/first-thoughts-on-node-js/ ====== MicahWedemeyer A few of the links use our new project, OilyApe. Click and enjoy ;)
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Betting Against Tesla? Be Prepared to Lose - flavmartins http://allthingsd.com/20130913/dont-bet-against-tesla-says-musk/ ====== lutusp I'm amazed when an article describes an odd price/earnings ratio without even suggesting the possibility that that might allow the company to expand rapidly with the resulting capit...
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A breakdown of a GIF decoder (2012) - userbinator http://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art011 ====== nineteen999 The first "serious" C program I wrote was a GIF87a decoder on Linux, using SVGAlib, back in 1998 or 1999. The reference implementation I had was written by somebody else, in QBASIC ...
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Show HN: A listing website fighting cutthroat prices for masks - breytex https://need-mask.com ====== breytex Author here. We have created this platform in 4 days during our Easter bank holidays. The main stack is React, NextJS, Hasura, Vercel now, Cloudflare Workers and Digital Ocean. We are positive that we can scal...
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