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How Did G.M. Create Tesla’s Dream Car First? - CapitalistCartr http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/technology/how-did-gm-create-teslas-dream-car-first.html ====== davidf18 "Finally, G.M. enjoys the regulatory advantage of producing a fleet. Because the high-mileage, zero-emission Bolt helps the company stay under the fe...
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How to Use WordPress Cron to Schedule Events - ibenic http://www.ibenic.com/use-wordpress-cron-schedule-events/ ====== NicoJuicy Or use real cron outside WordPress for faster performance ;)
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JSON Resume – Getting started [video] - thomasfromcdnjs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxpHgNM0clE?t=0 ====== epscylonb I'd heard of JSON resume before, but it's interesting to hear the history and motivation.
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Essentials of complexity-theoretic stand-up comedy - revorad http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=414 ====== jamesbritt " ...or the actual flesh-and-blood hairless apes who are dozing off in the seminar room while you speak." Wow. I can understand wanting to keep the audience attentive, but the solution might be, "Don't ...
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ITC Conversations Network done and finished, turning off Dec 1st - lsh http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2012/09/16/cn-mission-accomplished/ ====== samyxp17 ITC Conversation's podcasts have had an enormous influence on my career. Started listening to them in grad school (CS Major). In the early days IT ...
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1486/60 in Chrome Omnibar – Bug - coreymgilmore Type in 1486/60 in the Chrome Omnibar. Instead of doing the division it redirects to an IP: 0.0.5.206/60. Also works for other numbers as well. ====== tehabe Maybe you should file a bug with Chrome. Usually those get fixed. If they can reproduce it. I could...
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Facebook the Devourer - hellosmithy http://awardwinningfjords.com/2012/10/04/facebook-the-devourer.html ====== tptacek I have 340 Facebook friends (I feel like this is on the middle-lower end of typical). I scrolled down several "pages" on my timeline and saw zero evidence of any those people --- who are predominantly...
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C#'s Greatest Mistakes by Jon Skeet - adambyrtek http://oredev.org/2010/sessions/c-s-greatest-mistakes ====== acabal I really wish people would include transcripts if they're going to post a 48-minute long video. There's no way I'm going to sit through something like that without at least a bullet-point text summary...
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America's Innovation Engine Is Slowing - tekdude https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/americas-innovation-engine-slowing/614320/ ====== bediger4000 I'm shocked! We've made patent and copyright laws more restrictive and punitive, and in the case of copyright, we grant them for much longer times, and make i...
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Largest South-Korean Blockchain. Live Panel Discussion [video] - Nanocurrency https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90V8VzxgXmc ====== Nanocurrency Do we have any Koreans here, to share how ICON is actually seen in their country?
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Baldur’s Gate expansion: Negative reviews because of transgender Character - doener http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/972903-gamers-flood-baldurs-gate-expansion-negative-reviews-introduces-transsexual-character ====== c0l0 That's actually not how I read and perceive _most_ of the negative reviews - sure, people...
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Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust - gbrown_ https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox ====== nudpiedo I will be a bit harsh with the project since I understand it aims to be a technology to be used in production and not just a pet project... (not "Show HN" tag was present.) I only see...
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Ask HN: Why do I exist as a sysadmin? - vortex_panda I am currently a Linux administrator at a state university in the US. I do the standard variety of administrative things that one would expect: provision servers and VMs, manage storage pools, use monitoring tools to keep track of systems, use configuration manageme...
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Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome–and it might wake up - sprucely http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/ancient-virus-found-hibernating-in-the-human-genome-and-it-might-wake-up/ ====== ChuckMcM This was a fun story, I found the paper impenetrable though :-) I am sure that somewhere a writing team ha...
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Father and son film outer space, do-it-yourself style - mjfern http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/73/father-and-son-film-outer-space-do-it-yourself-style.html ====== dennisgorelik How did they know that the balloon reached 19 feet in diameter?
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The Internet Archive is waging war on misinformation - praveenscience https://www.ft.com/content/5be1f2ee-d60b-11e9-a0bd-ab8ec6435630 ====== ineedasername I like that the internet archive exists, but I don't like how they implement their opt-out policy. Sites can opt-out at any time, which I suppose is the correct thi...
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Tim Berners-Lee: No Snooping on the Internet (2009) - jliechti1 http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/NoSnooping.html ====== arh68 I was a little shocked to see this! > The access by an ISP of information within an internet packet, other than > that information used for routing, is equivalent to wirtetapping a phone or > ...
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Enable Push Notifications in the Google chrome desktop browser - katietaylor https://www.pushmaze.com/how-to-turn-on-push-notifications/ ====== Trustworthy143 Where can I get the code to integrate push notifications into my website...
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The impact of Hacker News on my web site - szabgab http://szabgab.com/the-impact-of-hacker-news-on-my-website.html ====== scottshea It is amazing the bump in traffic you can get from here ~~~ Mz It depends on the site (and possibly other factors -- title, who submitted it, etc). I submitted something from my own si...
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Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for - ChristianKletzl https://www.shelfflip.com ====== martingordon When you sign up, your Amazon email and password are sent to server using GET and so are visible in the URL. While the request is done over HTTPS (and traffic snoopers can't s...
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Authless-First Movement - redraw Make ideas that can survive without logging in.<p>Only offer the user to sign up if they want to keep it saved in the cloud.<p>Stop asking the user to login at the splash screen.<p>- Authless-First Movement ====== trenchgun This is a good example: [https://maebert.github.io/themostdang...
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Ask HN: Could we sue Microsoft for IE and wasting our time? - trebor I'm taking the idea of my co-worker and running with it a bit further.<p>Could we put together a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft for their line of browsers? Lets face it, anyone to ever develop or design something for a browser has had to de...
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On Wearable Computing - shadesandcolour http://bringel.github.com/blog/2013/01/16/on-wearable-computing/ ====== vitovito > _The answer already exists. Chorded, handheld keyboards._ This answer has existed for over a decade; the fact that it hasn't come to pass means it's not the _right answer_. I had a Frogpad with...
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V-Mail - mzs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-mail ====== rubyn00bie I think this is awesome... I can't even imagine the overhead of unpacking and then "scanning" each of those letters by hand and yet, and this was still: higher bandwidth, lower latency, and a more secure transmission method. Also a big reminder of ju...
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Anonymous – War on Pedaphiles - christianbryant http://pastebin.com/rXYfrTKf ====== xxxmadraxxx "pedaphiles"? What have you got against lovers of Indian sweets?
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Does being bored make us more creative? (2014) - mgdo https://fermatslibrary.com/s/does-being-bored-make-us-more-creative ====== cowpewter I feel like I experience two types of boredom. Regular boredom, which can foster creativity through daydreaming and finding new projects to work on, and what I usually call ennui, ...
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A straight talk about btrfs - cyphar https://www.suse.com/communities/blog/butter-bei-die-fische/ ====== jacknews A data-point of one, and I only have a few TB spread over a handful of disks, but I lost an entire 1TB btrfs volume recently because of a single disk sector gone bad (of course, I have backups, but it's a ...
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Reeling from algorithm glitch, Instacart institutes $3 minimum fee for drivers - seancaptain https://www.fastcompany.com/90300962/reeling-from-algorithm-glitch-instacart-institutes-3-minimum-fee-for-drivers ====== dahdum How on earth was this an "algorithm glitch" or anything close to "black box"? It's how they calcul...
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Sergey Aleynikov Sues FBI Agents Who Arrested Him - bko http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-12/goldman-sachs-ex-programmer-sues-fbi-agents-who-arrested-him ====== blackbagboys I read Michael Lewis's article in Vanity Fair about this case back in 2013, and I remember being struck by this excerpt in particula...
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Excuse my French - webhiker http://profanity-service.appspot.com/ Interesting web service to allow you to check text for and profane words in multiple languages. Use it to test your swearing skills. ====== dClauzel Doesn't work for French: we have an "artistic" way of using words with implied profanity. Also, this to...
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A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100 - thunk http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/06/08/a-brief-history-of-the-corporation-1600-to-2100/ ====== randomwalker I just want to point out that this guy is also the author of The Gervais Principle[1], a 4-part saga that offers an incisive, brilliant and depressingly acc...
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Most Medical Imaging Devices Run Outdated Operating Systems - doener https://www.wired.com/story/most-medical-imaging-devices-run-outdated-operating-systems/ ====== simonblack That's mainly because it has been set up, it's been debugged and it works predictably. The relevant policy there is "If it works, don't fix it...
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Cloud with Me - giadaCWM https://cloudwith.me/ ====== giadaCWM Hi guys! What do you think about this product? [https://cloudwith.me/](https://cloudwith.me/)
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SoftBank Succeeds in Tender Offer for Large Stake in Uber - ashishgandhi https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbank-succeeds-in-tender-offer-for-large-stake-in-uber-1514483283 ====== jey Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023685](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16023685)
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Math Overflow (A StackExchange site for Maths) - swaroop http://mathoverflow.net/ (via http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/10/stackoverflow-shares-its-mojo.php) ====== kurtosis This is great but I must know: does stackexchange allow automatic rendering of latex formulas like wordpress? If not then I think...
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Hetzner Cloud - CSDude https://www.hetzner.com/cloud ====== logronoide Hetzner has an excellent reputation for rock-solid engineering and very good prices. While the cloud providers invested in innovation in software, they focused on optimizing the hardware and data center techniques and engineering (something very Ge...
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Man hacked his Alexa to speak out of a singing fish, and it's horrifying - xbryanx http://mashable.com/2016/11/04/big-mouth-billy-bass-alexa-/#mrpCYng7piq4 ====== bayonetz AFIK, Alexa doesn't have an API the gives speech timing info. I assume this must monitor the sound and trigger a mouth movement whenever the wave a...
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Are Index Funds Evil? - bezzi https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/are-index-funds-evil/534183/?utm_source=atlli&amp;single_page=true ====== Bucephalus355 As someone who invests in Index Funds this does worry me. Surely we can't all invest in Index Funds and still have everything work? I don't think i...
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Nokia Welcomes Increasing Windows Phone OEM Competition - gdltec http://ontechies.com/2014/01/13/nokia-welcomes-increasing-windows-phone-oem-competition/ ====== msh Is the year of windows phone predictions going to replace the year of desktop linux predictions?
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The Two Cultures - DanI-S http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures ====== rayiner > "Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of > them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: > it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific >...
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Microsoft-approved Windows Phone 7 unlocker goes live - mrpollo http://www.chevronwp7.com/ ====== cmer It's a "jailbreak" that allows homebrews, not a "carrier unlock". Unless I'm missing something... ~~~ Xuzz Even so, they (ChevronWP7) appear to be calling it an "unlock". Just to increase the confusion, I guess. ...
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Beautiful Progressive Web App for Finding Coastal Tides - bcardarella https://hightide.earth ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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Legal fees--start swearing now - mattculbreth http://www.burningdoor.com/askthewizard/2007/04/legal_fees_start_swearing_now.html ====== shsung I don't think price is necessarily a great indicator of quality - at the very largest firms, I'd say that most of the high price is because they're offsetting the cost of train...
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Jaws: The Serverless Framework - gamesbrainiac https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS/blob/master/README.md ====== ac360 Of interest: The following real life scenario below portrays an administrative API layer that runs in EC2, and how it compares to what the raw hardware costs would be in Lambda. It purposefully exc...
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Fame Game Hopes To Make You Internet Famous for a Day - dclaysmith http://play-fame.com/ ====== Karunamon Really nifty idea. What I'd like to see is an option to not automatically unfollow the person after the day that you can set on this site - maybe the person who won that day is really interesting! ~~~ michael_f...
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Why the Film Industry Hasn't Been Disrupted Yet, Part 5 - iampliny http://endcrawl.com/blog/film-not-disrupted-yet-part-5/ ====== Keyframe It's a multi-tiered problem with each one with its own complexities. I don't want to write a long story now, but I want to emphasise one and one thing only. If you want to disrupt...
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Developing for the iPhone: The Fear - e1ven http://daringfireball.net/2008/10/the_fear ====== river_styx _The Phone and iPod apps are special, because at a fundamental level they perform tasks that cannot be duplicated in a web app. But there’s nothing any more special about Mail than there is about, say, Calendar._...
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A C++ library for solving second-quantized Hamiltonians - dafer45 https://github.com/dafer45/TBTK ====== billconan what's the application of this? I lack the background to understand it.
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What's happened to Webnotes? - ysoh Hi, who is using webnotes currently? I discovered their service was down since yesterday. WHY??<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.webnotes.net&#x2F; ====== ysoh It gets alive again.
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Injunction against Uber in Germany lifted - Tomte http://blog.uber.com/EntscheidungEN ====== Tomte Court believes that the decision was materially correct, but oral arguments have convinced it that the supposed urgency isn't there. Case to continue in regular court proceedings.
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Linux: Understanding File Descriptors and IO Redirection - symkat http://symkat.com/59/understanding-file-descriptors-and-io-redirection/ ====== klodolph "Although it is typically not important to know, it’s worth stating anyway that while you can access these file descriptors though the above paths they actually ex...
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GitHub Global Issue Search - bpierre https://github.com/blog/1408-global-issue-search ====== sry_not4sale This is GitHub code search all over again... [https://github.com/search?q=state%3Aopen+sql+injection&t...](https://github.com/search?q=state%3Aopen+sql+injection&type=Issues&ref=searchresults) ------ benatkin ...
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No neutral ground in a burning world - kro0ub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g&t=10h5m ====== kro0ub To whoever just voted on this, how could you have watched and approved of it in only 11 minutes? ~~~ jbaiter maybe by having attended the actual talk at 30c3 on friday? ~~~ kro0ub Point.
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Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in Wisconsin - mikek https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/business/foxconn-wisconsin-manufacturing.html ====== bilbo0s I have freely admitted for a while now that Wisconsin is a fairly corrupt place. (And WEDC, the guys who came up with this, has been among the organizatio...
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Holidays are good for workers and companies alike - edward https://www.economist.com/business/2019/08/08/holidays-are-good-for-workers-and-companies-alike ====== standardUser Thankfully, the trend seems to be towards a much greater tolerance of vacation time and an increased willingness to actually take vacation. I cr...
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Gondor - effortless production Django hosting - brisal http://gondor.io/ ====== unoti Things that may be interesting bullet points: * How load balancing is handled. Load balancing isn't just for ultra high volume sites that need multiple machines. The main use case I have for load balancing has to do with reliabili...
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Status of F-35 – Senate Armed Services Committee Statement [pdf] - protomyth http://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Gilmore_04-26-16.pdf ====== johngalt The F-35 is becoming the definitive example of how scope creep destroys a project. A system designed to do everything for everyone. When it should be desi...
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Monolith – muddying the waters of the digital copyright debate - mrkgnao http://monolith.sourceforge.net/ ====== pwg Another technical item attempting to handle the legalistic aspects of "What Colour are your bits?" [http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23](http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23)
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Health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period (2019) - xilefg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6314618/ ====== aszantu I saw this youtube, there is this vegan fruitarian named shawn. He feels like crap, he fasts and as soon as he starts eating, he feels like crap again. Some foods a...
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Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down - ohjeez https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/10/10/dozens-of-suspicious-court-cases-with-missing-defendants-aim-at-getting-web-pages-taken-down-or-deindexed/?postshare=6791476107006382&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.0143e0970aee ...
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100 Days of Code – free, open-source VS Code extension - shreyshah33 https://www.software.com/100-days-of-code ====== shreyshah33 100 Days of Code is Software.com’s newest open-source plugin that helps you reach your goals and complete the #100DaysOfCode Challenge. Log your progress, earn milestones, and share to twit...
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The Lost History of Socialism’s DIY Computer - MindGods https://jacobinmag.com/2020/08/computer-yugoslavia-galaksija-voja-antonic/ ====== pinkskin My first computer was a commodore 64, I used to sit for hours typing line by line just to watch the screen do something dumb or to make the computer make a sound....aahhh t...
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Jeff Bezos' Vision: Trillion Humans in the Solar System - flinner https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/15/jeff-bezos-on-nuclear-reactors-in-space-the-lack-of-bacon-on-mars-and-humanitys-destiny-in-the-solar-system/?a=1 ====== kafkaesq _“I wish there were a trillion humans in the solar system. Thin...
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NH-based entrepreneurs to launch Bitcoin ATM this week - morisy http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2013/05/bitcoin-atm-lamassu-manchester-nh-this.html ====== malgorithms I wonder if it accepts counterfeit dollars. [edit:] to clarify, I don't mean this as a joke. It seems that they're not paying out cash...
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Ask HN: What to consider when deciding whether to go back to school? - jamesbrewer I've never been a great student and I'm not sure that I want to go back to school in the Fall. I've done two years at a university and I just don't think it's for me.<p>On Monday I will start a new full time job that could allow me to...
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Backblaze is building a 270 TB storage pod - LukeLambert https://www.backblaze.com/blog/why-now-is-the-time-for-backblaze-to-build-a-270-tb-storage-pod/ ====== vamega Man, I keep seeing awesome posts about Backblaze, and really would like to use them. However I run exclusively on linux these days, and they don't seem ...
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Forget Your GPA - SparksZilla http://refer.ly/forget-your-gpa/c/faf268f6885011e2bfbf22000a1db8fa ====== Spooky23 It depends on what you want to do with yourself. You also need to be able to be brutally honest with yourself. If your goal is to be a doctor, attorney, MBA, you need to sell your soul to get the best gr...
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Asteroid ice hints at rocky start to life on Earth - golwengaud http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100428/full/news.2010.207.html ====== golwengaud Original paper: [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/full/nature0...](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7293/full/nature09028.html#/)
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Show HN: SkillView.io – Online Interviewing Platform for Hiring Developers - razvanavram https://skillview.io ====== josh_carterPDX Super curious about how you came up with your pricing.
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The Netherlands went offline for a bit - janvdberg http://piks.nl/upload/upload/20150513%20amsix.png ====== janvdberg Ams-IX (one of the larger IX-s) had a large outage, causing an effect on almost all internet traffic in the country. More: [https://ams- ix.net/](https://ams-ix.net/) ------ ITWarrior I actually not...
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Skimming-as-a-Service: Anatomy of a Magecart Attack Toolkit - ccmpx https://www.perimeterx.com/resources/blog/2020/skimming-as-a-service-anatomy-of-a-magecart-attack-toolkit/ ====== badrabbit I've found plenty of magecart infections myself. I was surpised at how difficult it was to tell the site owners. Whois privacy,...
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Linuxbew - mycookie http://brew.sh/linuxbrew/ ====== tjohns This is actually exciting for users on corporate managed Linux systems where the built-in package manager may not be up to date anymore (e.g. Ubuntu LTS after a couple years). ------ Nzen tl;dr it's a linux&mac package manager. It promises to install to yo...
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WWW is dead (GDPR may cause splintered Internet?) - lioeters https://futuretodayinstitute.com/fti-newsletter-issue-104/ ====== WheelsAtLarge Yes, the borderless internet and www are coming to an end. GDPR is only the start but the splinter was/is bound to happen. Countries don't like to give up control and don't want ...
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SciFi Interfaces – Example from Black Mirror - Jun8 https://scifiinterfaces.com/category/black-mirror-2011/ ====== Jun8 Some of the posts that I liked: * _Her_ : [https://scifiinterfaces.com/2014/02/11/her-interface-compone...](https://scifiinterfaces.com/2014/02/11/her-interface-components/) * Enterprise combadge: ...
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Ask HN: Is the bear market on Cryptocurrencies already here? - concongo ====== fiiv It's been here since middle of January.
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Cybersecurity Visuals Challenge - baud147258 https://www.openideo.com/challenge-briefs/cybersecurity-visuals ====== f00zz Funny, as real-life "cybersecurity" work is not very visual (grepping through log files doesn't look very sexy). I'm half tempted to put together a ridiculous, Ghost In The Shell-like demo with 3D ...
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Validating UTF-8 strings using as little as 0.7 cycles per byte - akshat_h https://lemire.me/blog/2018/05/16/validating-utf-8-strings-using-as-little-as-0-7-cycles-per-byte/ ====== easytiger ha! [https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s- blog/...](https://github.com/lemire/Code-used-on-Daniel-Lemire-s- b...
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Welsh Climber on Anniversary with Wife Killed in 1,000-Tonne Yosemite Rock Fall - justboxing http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/yosemite-national-park-death-british-climber-killed-falling-rock-el-capitan-crushed-andrew-foster-a7973716.html ====== typemismatch Not trying to sound insensitive but does anyo...
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Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator? - chauhankiran I have tried Jekyll, Hexo and few other static blog generator but not happy with theme. I want to build something in which I have total control. Like I have few scss&#x2F;css files, few markup files and some other templates for design and based on th...
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Spammers profit despite getting one sale for every 12.5 million e-mails they send. - makimaki http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7719281.stm ====== endtwist This is actually fascinating. I'm not totally surprised by these numbers (350 million messages, only 28 sales), but I am glad to see that there are people out...
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Hidden opportunities in US (other than NYC and LA) - iamrafael8 https://news.crunchbase.com/news/why-one-vc-firm-moved-its-headquarters-from-nyc-to-austin/ ====== masonic Actual title: "Why One VC Firm Moved Its Headquarters From NYC to Austin" ~~~ iamrafael8 Yes, but the content was how overpopulated and expensive i...
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Oracle built a 1,060 node Raspberry Pi cluster - whalesalad https://www.servethehome.com/oracle-shows-1060-raspberry-pi-supercomputer-at-oow/ ====== NohatCoder Now load any piece of Oracle software onto it and get charged for running 1060 CPUs. Whoops. ~~~ walrus01 Whenever I see any technology news about Oracle, I m...
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PC OEM’s Refuse To Take The Blame For Soft Windows 8 Sales - justinbkerr http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/pc_oem%E2%80%99s_refuse_take_blame_soft_windows_8_sales123 ====== jimmthang Windows 7 > 8
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Help stop the spread of Covid-19 with contact tracing – Singapore gov app - joak https://www.tracetogether.gov.sg/ ====== systemvoltage From the video - it is exchanging encrypted IDs between 2 phones over bluetooth, this is potentially huge if adopted around the world. I wonder if other governments can get in touch w...
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Adaptive Preference Formation - sbolt https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27069 ====== totetsu "In the 1980s, the social and political philosopher Jon Elster brilliantly generalized the idea of adaptive preference in terms of the complementary phenomena of "sour grapes" and "sweet lemons": We tend to downgrade the va...
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Tech workers are downing tools and refusing to work on unethical projects - pmoriarty https://boingboing.net/2018/10/08/oppenheimer-moments.html ====== masonic "The work force is disgusted; downs tools, walks Innocence is injured; experience just talks" \- "Industrial Disease", Dire Straits, 1982
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GraphQL Cheat Sheet - charlieirish https://github.com/sogko/graphql-schema-language-cheat-sheet ====== tharr916 Extremely helpful. Printed it for all the devs in my office that are learning graphql for use in our meteor/react apps.
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To The People Who Copied Our Game: Good Luck - mrtnkl http://q42.nl/blog/post/88954895323/to-the-people-who-copied-our-game-good-luck ====== pertinhower No. No no no. Sue them. Sue them dead. Where product and brand robbery thrives, developers wither. What's the point in working hard in developing a game (or anything)...
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What gig workers can learn from romance writers - ohjeez http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180119-what-gig-workers-can-learn-from-romance-writers ====== keenerd > _Three practices set romance writers up for success: they welcome newcomers, > they share competitive information and they ask advice from newbies._ That ...
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Teracube: Smartphone with a 4 Year Warranty - oritron https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/teracube/teracube-the-sustainable-smartphone-with-a-4-year-warranty ====== oritron The basic idea of making a phone to last for longer than current contenders is appealing. No mention about the battery being replaceable though, ...
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Show HN: Workplace List – Find the best places to work from - petr-nagy https://workplacelist.com/#/at/-8.65406,115.13363/zoom/15/bearing/0/pitch/60/style/default/ ====== petr-nagy Hey HN! I made this crowdsourced map of possible workplaces around the world. Why? Because I've recently struggled to find a solid venue(...
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Ask HN: I think I've been scammed - what now? - jiganti Hey guys, I posted on HN back in August last year asking about meeting potential technical cofounders. After recently moving to San Francisco, I wanted to make a few of the ideas I was thinking about happen. I got a number of emails, including help from HN'er '...
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Using Go's interfaces at Clever – more than just easy collaboration - schimmy_changa http://engineering.clever.com/2015/04/17/using-gos-interfaces-at-clever---more-than-just-easy-collaboration/ ====== Denzel Go is an interesting language. I get it. But there is nothing unique to Go about their use of interfaces in S...
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Ask HN: Anyone in the Hong Kong / Shenzhen area for the spring festival? - siscia Hi HN,<p>Anybody in the Hong Kong &#x2F; Shenzhen area during the spring festival ?<p>I will be in HK and I would love to share a coffee and ideas ;) ====== mtmail Please don't post the same question multiple times. (duplicate of [http...
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Ask HN: Systems whose concepts spring from programming languages/paradigms? - journeeman The canonical example is that of MapReduce&#x2F;Hadoop which borrows from Functional Programming and LISP. Are there any others? ====== techno_modus The general idea that an existing module or component can be changed by _injectin...
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Firefox3 has too many bugs - 80% of 700 bugs marked as blockers will not be fixed in Firefox3 - nickb http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsid=10655 ====== rms It's still better than Firefox 2, I can't go back.
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Software Is Hard - nickb http://www.gamearchitect.net/Articles/SoftwareIsHard.html ====== alex_c I found this quote interesting: \--- I believe that the following statement is an axiom of software development: It is impossible, by examining any significant piece of completed code, to determine within a factor of tw...
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22 years in, Magic: The Gathering is the brainiest it’s ever been (2015) - Tomte http://www.avclub.com/article/22-years-magic-gathering-brainiest-its-ever-been-224197 ====== GarrisonPrime "The brainiest it's ever been" makes it sound like it's ramping up the intellect. I guess they're saying that because of the end of...
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Show HN: React Milkshake, a complete ReactJS boilerplate with authentication - jakeprins https://www.reactmilkshake.com/ ====== wolco Without any code samples there is too much left answered for a 29.00 template. ------ nerform Can it be used for open source projects? Also sample project would be nice where one can ...
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As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops - Osiris30 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-a-male-dominated-field-the-pay-drops.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all ====== WalterSear "The reverse was true when a job attracted more men. Computer programming, for instance, used to be a relativel...
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