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Show HN: Error Page Relaunch (The Silent Sound Of Error) - masswerk
http://www.masswerk.at/404v2
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masswerk
Heavily inspired by Lucas Vieira's marvelous "Fourier Toy" (credits included).
Invaders no more.
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Ask HN: Can operating systems be browsers? - behnamoh
As a heavy user, I basically <i>live</i> in my browser. However, extensions do slow down the browser, which makes me think there's gotta be a better way. I believe it's high time we had an operating system which is fully optimized as a browser. Extensions... | {
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HN NY: Come hack.a.bit at the bit.ly hackathon 9/15 from 6:00pm to midnight - aditya
http://hackabit.com/
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agconway
Great things happen at hack.a.bit
[http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/visualizing-the-
wik...](http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/18/visualizing-the-wikileaks-
war-logs/)
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dzohrob
... | {
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Amazon and Union Airlines - unionemployee
Multiple pickets have been conducted (and even a small strike) by the pilots of airlines contracted to perform Amazon Prime flying. I came across this informational site this morning as well - http://canamazondeliver.com/. Amazon is anti-union, but they need the... | {
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Chat is Google's next big fix for Android's messaging mess - OberstKrueger
https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17252486/google-android-messages-chat-rcs-anil-sabharwal-imessage-texting
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FreeKill
Fool me twice google! I won't get fooled again?
In all seriousness, how can anyone advocate for the adoption of this n... | {
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Can I Email: ‘Can I Use’ for email - heidijavi
https://www.caniemail.com/
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ktpsns
It would be really nice to have a small and simple markup language, say some
markdown standard, to be the layouting language for E-Mails. No (external)
images, just links, lists, headings, basic formatting.
HTML E-Mails are a secu... | {
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Don’t go to art school (2013) - Tomte
https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-go-to-art-school-138c5efd45e9#.87guodhbv
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justinator
I graduated from art school.
I didn't go to art school to pursue a career in art. The art school I went to
basically said, "don't" \- it's a lottery anyways. The people who can make a
livin... | {
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Uber - not a great experience at peak times (eg: New Year's Eve) - Roedou
http://venturebeat.com/2012/01/03/car-service-uber-passes-economics-test-fails-marketing/
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tomjen3
This is just yet another example of why taxis should be deregulated.
The reason Uber is as expensive as it is is that it there are too fe... | {
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Gopherpedia: The Gopher Interface to Wikipedia - vmorgulis
http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?a=gopher%3A%2F%2Fgopherpedia.com%2F
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vmorgulis
GitHub:
[https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000](https://github.com/muffinista/gopher2000)
From a previous thread:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280749](http... | {
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Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens - jkaljundi
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40326544
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sctb
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577828](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14577828).
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CyberThijs
Another big recent achievement of the European Parliament is t... | {
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US military leak exposes “holy grail” of security clearance files - r721
http://www.zdnet.com/article/leaked-us-military-files-exposed/
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mtgx
It doesn't seem to be any worse than the OPM hack, as it's on a much smaller
scale. It's still bad for the 4,000 military employees, though, but their SF86
forms were prob... | {
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Google's Schmidt 'outraged' by NSA snooping - detcader
http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/04/technology/google-nsa-snowden/index.html
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a3n
> "The fact of the matter is that citizens have a right to privacy in
> democracies," [Schmidt] said.
Ahem.
[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/12/google-ceo-eric-
schmid...](h... | {
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Python vs. R: The battle for data scientist mind share - okket
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3187550/data-science/python-vs-r-the-battle-for-data-scientist-mind-share.html
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geebee
Wow, people here are being pretty hard on this article. I'm sure everyone here
on HN has read their share of programming language ... | {
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VVatch – Stop searching, start VVatching - taher101
http://vvatch.tv
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jackwild
Sound&Vision <= fave channel :)
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The Aussie gurus selling 200 million ads a day - bootload
http://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-cant-fight-assanges-extradition-20120805-23ne1.html
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slater
Wrong destination URL?
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Never accept a counter-offer - vtorosyan
https://vtorosyan.github.io/never-accept-counter-offer/
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fecak
Recruiter here, almost 20 years. Do a search for articles warning about
counteroffers and you'll find almost all are written by agency recruiters. Why
is that?
It's because agency recruiters lose probably mil... | {
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Visa question - grillmaster
what kind of visa i should get? if i get the interview? there will be trouble with my application since i've got a moslem name. any advice?
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sinamdar
You need to provide more specifics. Visa for which country? Interview for
what? Advice on what?
The only reason I have not flagged t... | {
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What It's Like On Day One As An Apple Employee - evo_9
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/26/businessinsiderwhat-its-like-on-day.DTL&type=jobs
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tomdale
This story is very sensational and pretty wildly inaccurate. Like many
companies, your experience at Apple will vary based on which group y... | {
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} |
Y Combinator Unloads Massive New Batch of Start-Ups - dbul
http://allthingsd.com/20110823/y-combinator-unloads-massive-new-batch-of-start-ups/
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pg
"The other distinction is that Y Combinator didn’t let investors snag any
participants early, as it previously has."
We don't have any power to stop companies from... | {
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Reconsidering whether Prohibition was a failure - jasonhansel
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/6/5/18518005/prohibition-alcohol-public-health-crime-benefits
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baudehlo
Are there statistics that compare other countries? I have found in my personal
experience that countries that actually have lower minimum dr... | {
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Congress Hates You, Votes To Bring Back Glory Days Of Opaque Airfare Pricing - wolfgke
http://consumerist.com/2014/07/28/congress-hates-you-votes-to-bring-back-glory-days-of-opaque-airfare-pricing/
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PhantomGremlin
Much of what Congress does proves that they "hate" us, or more precisely that
are more beholden t... | {
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Contact your representatives about the 50+ active cryptocurrency bills - mmabb
https://www.supportcrypto.org/
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mmabb
Hey I’m a crypto enthusiast and engineer at FiscalNote, and I’ve seen a lot of
buzz about policy relating to crypto on this subreddit. I did a quick search
on our platform, and saw that right now ... | {
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Show HN: Given a pastebin URL, return the raw text - neosilky_
https://reversepaste.com/
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TekMol
What is the use case?
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applecrazy
my guess is that it's so you can directly pipe the text using to another
command in the terminal.
also may be useful for bypassing censorship of these types of sites.
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When hermit crabs confuse plastic trash for shells, ‘avalanche’ of death happens - vo2maxer
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/12/05/what-happens-when-hermit-crabs-confuse-plastic-trash-shells-an-avalanche-death/
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halkcyon
That is atrocious. I know in some communities, there is an effort to clean up
bea... | {
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A-Frame v1.0.0 – WebXR Support, AR Mode - raybb
https://aframe.io/blog/aframe-v1.0.0/
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raybb
This is a little older but still pretty cool. Has anyone here used this for a
project before?
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Promises in JavaScript - q library design rationale - grn
https://github.com/kriskowal/q/blob/master/design/README.js
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paulbaumgart
Plain text link (more readable IMO):
<https://raw.github.com/kriskowal/q/master/design/README.js>
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Google Wallet Announced: Use Your Phone for Mobile Payments - engr_haseeb
http://www.technobolt.com/2011/05/26/google-wallet-announced-use-your-phone-for-mobile-payments/
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phlux
One thing that would be interesting with NFC & mobile payments, is that as
there will no longer be any privacy surrounding payment ac... | {
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Validate your startup idea by asking 3 simple questions - paraschopra
http://paraschopra.com/blog/entrepreneurship/validate-startup-idea.htm
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DanielBMarkham
I didn't like this, and I'm struggling with how to explain it. After all,
these are excellent and insightful questions.
I think the reason is that people a... | {
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} |
Stay home science project: Enlarge gummy bears to reveal the secrets of osmosis - WaitWaitWha
https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/osmosis-gummy-bears/
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tlarkworthy
My wife made a whole YouTube series on fun experiments you can do with young
kids. This one creates beautiful art by utilizing syphoning and chromatogra... | {
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} |
Scaling: Ethereum’s make or break challenge [video] - dsr12
https://techcrunch.com/video/in-conversation-with-vitalik-buterin-justin-drake-and-karl-floersch-ethereum-foundation/
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Egidius
Great to see these young guys attempting to tackle these huge problems out of
their believe that they can make "the world a be... | {
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Demystifying Secret - coloneltcb
https://medium.com/p/12ab82fda29f
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cwb71
"First, your data is stored on Google servers — essentially the same servers
as Gmail. This means your secrets are as safe as your email."
Well, if David says so…
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Ask HN: opinion on the landing page of my startup - needleme
Hello,<p>it's still in a test page<p>http://test.bluetouchdev.com/<p>We're about to officially launch the app at the end of June, with press release, video and everything - we're actually already in the App Store, without any ... | {
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Ask HN: Why/how Pornhub is free? - novaRom
Really, they have millions of 'incognito' users every single day. How is it possible you pay Netflix but not Pornhub?
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angersock
Netflix doesn't really have ads. Also, the viewing patterns and infra needs
are totally different.
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Eridrus
Copyright infrin... | {
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Tactical Motifs in Chess: A List - lionhearted
http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2012/04/tactical-motifs-list.html
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lionhearted
Came across this when looking for some inspiration on concretizing abstract
skills. Found it interesting. Deep game, eh?
| {
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Are there any good cloud-based email clients? - stefek99
In need for #cloud #email #client --> https://www.google.com/search?q=cloud+email+client<p>Think "ThunderBird for the cloud" --> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=11509055&sid=4f36eacd9f9262efa238ca... | {
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"The time has passed for the Twitter API" -Mullenweg - jolie
http://ma.tt/2010/05/twitter-api/
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pkulak
Wow, that's one hell of a header!
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A book about Git, hosted on Github - raganwald
http://github.com/progit/progit
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Another1
<http://progit.org/book/>
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duck
Dup - <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726023>
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d0m
I've read this book last summer to learn git and I pretty enjoyed it. Mainly
because it's succinct and because the author ... | {
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Paul Graham and his "no asshole" rule (Interview) - zeedotme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacbJ72dluU&feature=channel
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Estragon
It's actually Bob Sutton's rule.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule>
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pg
Incidentally, we don't call it a "no asshole rule." I think what I originally
said to Robe... | {
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DeBroglie – Generate tile-based maps using wave function collapse - tobr
https://boristhebrave.github.io/DeBroglie/
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hesdeadjim
Oh also here is the original creator of the algorithm that this implementation
is based on:
[https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse](https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollaps... | {
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Internal Disclosure Boring - wglb
http://flaked.sockpuppet.org/2018/10/09/internal-disclosure-boring.html
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tptacek
This is funny; the site this is posted on is where I generally throw stuff
that I don't really want to promote or anything, and accidentally copying the
word "Boring" from my subhed does a nice job ... | {
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The dark side of .io: How UK makes DNS profits from a shady Cold War land deal - mleonhard
https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-k-is-making-web-domain-profits-from-a-shady-cold-war-land-deal/
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jsjddbbwj
Might is right. This is senseless crying. You live in a land that enjoys
security and p... | {
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Ask HN: How to monetize a game and not make a pay to win? - Fr33maan
Dear HN, I'm making a game, a mmo based on fast paced fight. I'm looking for ideas to how to not make a pay 2 win but monetize the game in an interesting way. For now there is only fighting between knights.<p>Cheers
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spartan7500
Follo... | {
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Tina Fey chats with Eric Schmidt - abennett
http://www.itworld.com/offbeat/159785/tina-fey-chats-eric-schmidt
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rayvega
I like the mention of the improvisation concept of "yes and" as being a huge
influence on her professionally. She describes how this can take good ideas
from two people and create something newe... | {
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} |
Adobe: HTML5 Will Throw the Web 'Back to the Dark Ages of Video' - profquail
http://seekingalpha.com/article/186064-adobe-html5-will-throw-the-web-back-to-the-dark-ages-of-video
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Locke1689
I'm not so sure about things like vector graphics animations, but I'd be
willing to bet that Flash has lost online video w... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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China is on track to beat its peak-emissions pledge - bryanrasmussen
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/china-is-on-track-to-beat-its-peak-emissions-pledge/
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ei8htyfi5e
I've lived there and can say from experience China just makes stuff up. The
local governments are responsible for reporting to higher ups a... | {
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The Tech Talent Shortage Is a Lie - bpolania
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/the-tech-talent-shortage-is-a-lie/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook#.avliqr:5ahD
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rm_-rf_slash
I have said it a million times before ... | {
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Is Instagram Ruining Architecture? - fortran77
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/instagram-architecture-design.html
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xhgdvjky
maybe it's just me but this article seems terribly written. the topic had so
much potential...
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Muzzik: Find and listen to any song, anytime, anywhere - appmuzzik
Get millions of songs instantly, top charts, trending songs by all country...<p>Available for more than 30 countries including;
Arabian, Bulgarian, Chinesee (China), Chinesee (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English
Finnish, French, German, Greek, H... | {
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1TB SSD - helwr
http://www.slashgear.com/ocz-colossus-1tb-ssd-gets-official-1863745/
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jrockway
I am not sure if there is a consumer market for SSDs this big. If you have a
high-performance online transaction processing app, then this could be great.
But if you just have a terabyte of porn, you are wasting your... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
When to Mock - vkhorikov
https://enterprisecraftsmanship.com/posts/when-to-mock/
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mabbo
What bothers me about this article is that it doesn't really present
alternatives or real-world examples of how to do what the author is saying.
> Use real instances of managed dependencies in tests.
Is the author suggestin... | {
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How many people will actually die this week because of Daylight Savings Time? - foob
http://sangaline.com/post/deaths-caused-by-daylight-savings-time/
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psj9
I agree that standard time sucks.
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Show HN: Quotable, an ios app to remember quotes written entirely with meteor - adn
http://quotableapp.io/
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jcr
The background image on your site is just excellent. I had a bit of fun trying
to figure out where it was taken. I noticed the UK style cab first, then the
"Superdry" company name with "*gent Street"... | {
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OpenSSH now supports certified/signed keys for users and hosts - there
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=126721648405075&w=2
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hannibalhorn
Good to have the option, I know I'd prefer it to distributing and maintaining
a known_hosts file to a whole network.
That said, I really prefer the idea of using DNSSEC wi... | {
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} |
Moving Calm to Microservices - tekmaven
https://medium.com/calm-engineering/moving-calm-to-microservices-ed9e3615fd6c
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meditator18
This article is great!
| {
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Show HN: A faster, cleaner YouTube built on Angular.js and Foundation - mcrittenden
http://toogl.es
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emilioolivares
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! Why is it so fast? Is it angular???
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mcrittenden
Angular + the fact that YouTube serves up JSONP requests really really fast
:). The code is at <http://gi... | {
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Indian call centres selling your credit card details and medical records - dazbradbury
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116649/Indian-centres-selling-YOUR-credit-card-details-medical-records-just-2p.html
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nitinthewiz
This is a scenario that I have expected to hear about since a long time.
Places like I... | {
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Hadoop on IPFS [pdf] - usgroup
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~hpaik/thesis/showcases/16s2/scott_brisbane.pdf
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imrehg
I think this highlights the insight that IPFS is more of a "decentralized
transfer" tool rather than "decentralized storage" tool necessarily. Storage
is part of the caching, but the discovery of the... | {
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} |
What's the next product that will disrupt the smartphone industry? - cyrusradfar
http://kapuno.com/conversation/apu6f4yabslga
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MSM
A little bit of a side story about something that really opened my eyes last
week.
I ordered a package that was shipping through UPS and when I called I was
dismayed that there wa... | {
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Mysteries of avian migration at night are being solved with computational power - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/27/dark-matter/big-data-is-for-the-birds
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acqq
Are they being solved or are they researched?
"You can observe a lot by watching."
| {
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HN yellow pages (Google docs) - sdrinf
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0ArBfYaOI31DfdEo0TWRFN09QUHVjWHRKQUFLZGFEcnc&hl=en#gid=0
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tFgepUuuBHSgfeuKPKccxTA&hl=en&authkey=CIqAl7wO#gid=0
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kngspook
So, people keep vandalizing the publicly editable spreadsheet. Here... | {
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Noah: Bash on Ubuntu on macOS - prabirshrestha
https://github.com/linux-noah/noah
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oautholaf
This runs linux binaries on darwin. You know what would be awesome? Running
darwin binaries on linux so I can do iOS development without a Mac.
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peatmoss
Binary compatibility is one path, but another path is source /... | {
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Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle - gkanai
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/26/opinion/sunday/innovation-and-the-bell-labs-miracle.html
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larsberg
I was recently talking with Prof. Dave MacQueen about this (he ran a group at
Bell Labs for around 20 years before the Lucent debacle). The most amazing
thing was th... | {
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} |
Diffbot launches AI-powered knowledge graph of 1T facts - borisjabes
https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/30/diffbot-launches-ai-powered-knowledge-graph-of-1-trillion-people-places-and-things/
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d--b
It's incredible people still try and do things like this.
This is such an over ambitious problem...
1\. Webpages are ... | {
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Firefox Replay - nachtigall
https://firefox-replay.com/
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darshan
Mods: the link should perhaps be changed to:
[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/WebReplay)
This currently has 1215 points, and the link is no longer valid. ... | {
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Ask YC: market for small-ish profitable projects? - petervandijck
The recent 37sigs post made me think. I know there's a market for projects that are making, say, 1 or 2K a month, you can sell them for say, 10-30K.<p>But if you are making 20K, or even 5K a month with a project, is there a market for those? Are there... | {
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What mathematical function starts slow, explodes, and then plateaus? - pollster
http://www.wepolls.com/p/4618122/What-mathematical-function-starts-slow%2C-explodes%2C-and-then-plateaus
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billswift
This is a really bad web site. The page loaded, I saw the poll for a few
seconds then it (apparently) redirected my... | {
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} |
Watch as over 5,000 Eve Online pilots destroy a fully operational Death Star - fraqed
http://www.pcgamer.com/watch-as-over-5000-eve-online-pilots-destroy-a-fully-operational-death-star/
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dwe3000
This is probably reading way too much into things, but the videos made me
wonder what viewing modern battles might be ... | {
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Show HN: A really simple way to write BDD tests with NUnit - RokitSalad
https://github.com/RokitSalad/Helpful.BDD
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thom
Years ago when I did .NET stuff, I had a framework that implemented Given,
When, Then and And as properties on a 'Scenario' test superclass that just
returned this. I then created 'Steps' fil... | {
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Would You Recommend Us? - the only question that matters - Mistone
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20060901/handson-customer-service.html
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vlad
I just pulled some statistics on Monday while I was in San Francisco to help
me write a press release (for when I'm at the airport) to finally publicize my
product. Anyway,... | {
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EFF Asks Mass. High Court to Require Clear Limits for Searches of Devices - DiabloD3
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/eff-asks-massachusetts-high-court-require-clear-limits-allowing-searches-digital
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Drdrdrq
While the cause seems legit, I wonder if this case is appropriate for it? The
evidence seems pretty ... | {
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Facebook checks in - whereareyou
http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/facebook-places-check-in/
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novum
Advance notice of another enabled-by-default option to disable in privacy
settings.
Edit: To clarify, I signed up for facebook in 2004 because it offered simple
social planning and sharing. Today, I think FB's p... | {
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} |
Weinre - Debug Mobile Websites from your Desktop - daleharvey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaAI29UkVCc
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pmuellr
some links:
downloads - <https://github.com/pmuellr/weinre/downloads>
doc - <http://pmuellr.github.com/weinre/>
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slobirdrop
This and phonegap — up, up and away!
| {
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Ask YC: The site that let you mockup user flow / registration procedures? - Steve0
I know I've seen it here before, but didn't bookmark it and have been googling for a while now.<p>It had this flash based interface you could use to draw fancy diagrams of user sign up, invite friends, etc...<p>Does anyone recall it's... | {
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An open source, modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js, Git and Markdown - arikr
https://github.com/Requarks/wiki
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arikr
This looks really, really nice.
[https://github.com/Requarks/wiki](https://github.com/Requarks/wiki)
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mhd
If you’re using git as a backing store, why is there a need for MongoDB... | {
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How to frustrate developers and alienate teams - rafb3
http://anythingsoftware.posterous.com/how-to-frustrate-developers-and-alienate-team
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rafb3
What do you find are other Enterprise approaches to annihilate developers
motivation?
| {
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Scalability and Performance Best Practices - alrex021
http://highscalability.com/15-scalability-and-performance-best-practices
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chrisbolt
_It's not just you!<http://highscalability.com> looks down from here._
~~~
dryicerx
Ironic isn't it.
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dryicerx
Something that's missing from a lot of these is the pr... | {
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Quick introduction to SAT/SMT solvers and symbolic execution [pdf] - jaybosamiya
http://yurichev.com/tmp/SAT_SMT_DRAFT.pdf
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rurban
Oh, it's still missing cbmc or Saturn, which are IMHO the easiest way to
translate C problems to SMT problems, because it translates the symbolic C
problem automatically.
klee still... | {
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} |
Jeff Bezos Amazon Wishlist - he seems to like Lego Ninjago - hoodoof
https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/BUWBWH9K2H77
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hoodoof
It's what comes up when you put jeff@amazon.com into
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/search/](https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/search/)
Someone should buy him that Lego - ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How's your quarantine side project going? - robmerki
( An update to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170881 )<p>What have you been working on? How's it going?
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seanwilson
I've been working on a single player word game for web and mobile. :)
[https://seanwilson.itch... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Where to hate daylight saving time and where to love it - mmastrac
http://andywoodruff.com/blog/where-to-hate-daylight-saving-time-and-where-to-love-it/
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exDM69
I would have liked to see maps of the whole world. I live in Helsinki, 60
degrees North, and the sunrise today is 08:40 and the sunset is 15:33. It's
st... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Can you be sued for stealing an idea? - anon23
(This is a throwaway account)<p>I'm a software freelancer and I quote lots of small projects for random clients (maybe 4-5 a week). The vast majority of these (more than half) fall through, typically because I'm more expensive than outsourcing.<p>There have bee... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Homeboy: Accessible home security system - natch
https://www.homeboy.com/
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natch
Received the camera today. Designed in Australia, shipped from California.
Very well done packaging/unboxing.
More important is the software and the accessibility. It starts talking to you
as soon as you plug it in! Although I ha... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The cost of Linux's page fault handling - LaSombra
https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/YDKRFDwHwr6
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evmar
Linus wrote: 'Even a fully built kernel ("allmodconfig", so a pretty full
build) takes about half a minute on my normal desktop to say "I'm done, that
pull changed nothing I could compile".'
Since ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
OAuth2 in Python [pdf] - nmundar
http://goodcode.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/OAuth-edited.pdf
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est
Fun fact: python-oauth2 does not support oauth2. Despite its name (similar
names like httplib2, urllib3)
[https://github.com/simplegeo/python-
oauth2/issues/92](https://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2/issue... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve (video) - jamesbritt
http://www.ted.com/talks/david_byrne_how_architecture_helped_music_evolve.html
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jamesbritt
Something I've wondered about is whether people would craft music that either
exploits quirks of mp3 encoding (perhaps making the compression artifacts... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Extempore: Cyberphysical programming [video] - TheHydroImpulse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSGKEy8vHqg
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TheHydroImpulse
Note: The original youtube title gives little indication on what it is, so I
used the project's title.
| {
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} |
Mike Pompeo Said the US Is Considering Banning TikTok - pseudolus
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/us-considering-banning-tiktok-according-to-mike-pompeo
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dang
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755863](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755863)
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jeffreyrogers
If you thought Russi... | {
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} |
10 Compelling Reasons for Microsoft to Buy RIM - felipemnoa
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Microsoft/10-Compelling-Reasons-for-Microsoft-to-Buy-RIM-824257/
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skimbrel
None of these are good reasons for Microsoft to buy the failing RIM. The
Playbook is a joke, the distinction between enterprise and consumer i... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Unwelcome Mat - How Not to Attract Tourists - fuzzix
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/the-unwelcome-mat.html
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cstross
I'm British. I visit the USA 2-3 times per year and travel elsewhere quite
frequently. I would rate the "welcome mat" as rather less welcoming than
Yugoslavia during the Cold War (a ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Field Play: a cool vector field visualisation - vulcan01
https://anvaka.github.io/fieldplay/
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h2odragon
v.x = -0.1 * p.x;
v.y = 0.1 * p.y;
... looks better
| {
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} |
Ask HN: Start-up friendly banks in San Francisco? - dnsworks
Who should I bank with in San Francisco? Square1 and SVB both seem to have forgotten that San Francisco represents a key start-up market. I don't want to spend an hour on Caltrain to deposit a check or get a sit-down with my account manager.<p>I am leaning... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Common business card mistakes - blewis
http://www.onesock.net/2010/05/14/10-common-business-card-mistakes/
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brolewis
The only purpose of a business card isn't to get scanned into a system and
stored away in a CRM. Another purpose of a business card is to extend the
brief encounter that started the process. A c... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
South Korea stops requiring ActiveX for online banking and shopping - quant18
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB30001424052748703964104575334742135824042.html
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hga
Try this for full text:
[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet+browser+market.+F...](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet+browser+market.+... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why is base 60 more precise for trigonometry, can you give an example? - virgilkf
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2405480/why-is-base-60-more-precise-for-trigonometry-can-you-give-an-example
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ordu
With decimal numbers we can write 1/3 as 3/10+3/100+3/1000+..., it is infinite
series converging to 1/3\. W... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Using ltrace to debug a memory leak - Dawny33
http://jvns.ca/blog/2016/06/15/using-ltrace-to-debug-a-memory-leak/
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scottlamb
Is there a convenient way to get a heap profile in Rust? I'd expect it
shouldn't be too hard. I'm used to using pprof with tcmalloc, jemalloc is
based on tcmalloc, and Rust uses jemalloc b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Startups worship the young. But research shows older people are most innovative - yarapavan
https://qz.com/954368/startups-worship-the-young-but-research-shows-people-are-most-innovative-when-theyre-older/
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saas_co_de
Interesting research but I am not sure how many people actually believe that
startups want youn... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Noise Reduction Machine using Fourier Transforms - sanjiv1994
https://github.com/sanjivsoni/reimagined-computing-machine
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sanjiv1994
Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to improve on this.
| {
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} |
What are you doing for Net Neutrality Day? - parametrek
Have you done something clever or creative for Net Neutrality Day? Let's share those here.<p>Personally I've re-compressed the jpegs on my site at quality level 1 and threw a banner on. It looks terrible!<p>Hopefully this won't become too much of... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: How to turn my voice into text data with as little friction as possible - tai_hn
I want to make a system to speak to my iPhone, make that audio file into texts, and import that to Evernote or Notes. How can I achieve this with as little friction as possible?
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afarrell
I've been using [https://otter.ai/](... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pat Robertson thinks marijuana should be legal - avichal
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/pat-robertson-backs-legalizing-marijuana.html
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guga31bb
> _“It’s completely out of control,” Mr. Robertson said. “Prisons are being
> overcrowded with juvenile offenders having to do with drugs. And the
> penalties, t... | {
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} |
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