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Reddit Robin cheating - bigfatcheater https://jsfiddle.net/8nLrycp1/2/ ====== apahwa A+ completely illegal
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Redesigning for Readability - a Retrospective - sudojosh http://joshmcarthur.com/2012/09/25/redesigning-for-readability-a-retrospective.html ====== jonwag Nice write up Josh. I always enjoy seeing the process of decision making.
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Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology - pseudolus https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/declassified-u-2-spy-plane-photos-are-boon-aerial-archaeology ====== saagarjha Desert kites: they're mentioned in passing in the article and I was curious so I looked them up. Apparently they're 5000...
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Is fiat money to blame for the Iraq war, police brutality, and the war on drugs? - jpkoning https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2020/06/is-fiat-money-to-blame-for-iraq-war.html ====== onyva Shouldn’t we call it The USA war on Iraq, or the USA invasion of Iraq etc? It is a war the USA and its allies started on false pretense...
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Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language - mihau https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/ ====== eranation Very interesting. One of my favorite aspects of scala is the ease of buildig DSLs with it. On a side note, Scala seems popular at Berkley. (Amplab developed spark using scala) Was that a spontaneous decisi...
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Advice about taking advice. Jason Cohen video & transcript. - marklittlewood http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2011/08/jason-cohen-on-working-out-when-to-break-the-rules-ignore-advice-video-transcript.html ====== marklittlewood Jason Cohen's Business of Software talk in 2010 was a cracker. As someone who has consis...
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Diaspora's Proposed Social Media Model - mhunter http://www.joindiaspora.com/images/Diaspora_ISOC_Presentation.pdf ====== logic I think it's important to mention that this PDF pre-dates their Kickstarter campaign, lest anyone think this is a new architecture discussion. I really want these guys to succeed for a var...
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Introducing: Autocap - vincecima https://medium.com/unpacking-trunk-club/introducing-autocap-f33701f3264a#.hie33gflx ====== messysaurus I wrote the Autocap post and helped work on the project — shout if you have any questions! ------ dsfreed Awesome, love it!
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One-Bit Computing at 60 Hertz - Tomte http://laughtonelectronics.com/Arcana/One-bit%20computer/One-bit%20computer.html ====== floatingatoll If you find this circuit appealing to consider, Shenzhen I/O may be of interest. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12660253](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12660253) [h...
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Ask HN: What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? - matthodan What are the best free and pay web charting libraries? ====== yish Protovis out of stanford (<http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/>) seems to be incredibly comprehensive while also being really slick and interactive. Haven't had the chance to us...
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Node-Qt: Build native apps using Node.js + Qt (Windows, Mac, Linux) - arturadib https://github.com/arturadib/node-qt ====== arturadib Hi, OP here. For folks who prefer HTML5 APIs, I'm also working on a layer that translates these Qt APIs into HTML5 primitives (like Canvas and AudioContext): <http://news.ycombinator.c...
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The Xbox Story, Part 1: The Birth of a Console - Phoenix26 http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/02/the-xbox-story-part-1-the-birth-of-a-console/ ====== dstein The original Xbox was the best product Microsoft ever made. Hacked with modchip, XBMC, and emulators, the Xbox was basically my dream entertainment system come true. ...
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The Most Frequently Used ConnectrixCommands for Cisco and Brocade SAN switch - Top_geek https://community.emc.com/thread/180494 ====== artil good reference as a handbook ------ threestones Very useful, I use Brocade in my company.
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Inside Russian Troll Farm, the Internet Research Agency (2015) - joering2 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html ====== sschueller Is this the same firm that was just indicated by the Justice department? ~~~ gandhium Don't think so, those trolls are working on Brexit, Germany, Ukraine and other a...
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Flaming the Victim - Why you should care that NimbleBit got ripped off - xonder http://www.pocketnext.com/stories/flaming-the-victim/ ====== dojogrant Isn't that what copyrighting the written word is? ------ rdg Enough with trying to copyright ideas...
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Announcing Confluent, a Company for Apache Kafka and Realtime Data - jermo https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141106180403-2945786-announcing-confluent-a-company-for-apache-kafka-and-realtime-data ====== jermo Interesting that LinkedIn is an investor in a startup consisting of its former employees. [http://co...
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Ask HN: Cleaning a MacBook by submerging it in distilled water? - palish Someone spilled alcohol into my fiancee's running MacBook. It's quite sticky.<p>I believe the logic board is fried because people stupidly tried to turn it on several times with no success. But I'm going to assume it's not, and hope for the bes...
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Abnormally warm December killing of the world gas market - vasiapupkin http://teknoblog.ru/2015/12/18/52538 ====== brudgers Cited Bloomberg Story: [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/when-s- win...](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-12-18/when-s-winter- coming-balmy-december-sinks-global-energ...
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Resonance - janober http://www.edelman.com/news/resonance/ ====== DrScump (video)
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The company behind the adorably doomed robot Kuri is shutting down - evo_9 https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/21/17765330/mayfield-robotics-kuri-robot-shutting-down ====== derekdahmer I got a demo of Kuri at CES from one of the founders and loved it, it’s kind of like a friendly Alexa on wheels. The killer...
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Ask HN: How does a small team of freelancers approach large companies? - prattbhatt Few days back, there was a Ask HN &#x27;How to move beyond “freelancer”?&#x27; : https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=9289500<p>Some comments mentioned about getting projects from large companies:<p>pauletienney (https...
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Hacking with private APIs on iPad - ingve https://rambo.codes/ios/2019/01/11/hacking-with-private-apis-on-ipad.html ====== walterbell JSBox source code: [https://github.com/cyanzhong/xteko](https://github.com/cyanzhong/xteko) _> JSBox is not only a full-fledged environment for standard JavaScript, but also provides ...
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Think Twice Before Installing Any Chrome Extension - arpitnext http://blog.arpitnext.com/2011/08/chrome-extension-awesome-screenshot.html ====== joel_liu Hi, This is Joel, the developer of awesome screenshot the article mentioned. First of all, I apologize for what I did for it in the last version a day ago. I'd like...
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Facebook: Simplifying the Stream - ivankirigin http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=321 ====== jgilliam It's great we don't have to use the templates anymore, but the frequency of the API changes to something as basic as posting to the stream is really getting annoying. ~~~ goodside "Move fast and b...
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Git client for Windows - brlnwest https://www.git-tower.com/blog/tower-for-windows-launch/ ====== BoorishBears Really glad to see this coming to Windows. To me Tower is the perfect combination of a coherent UI and a powerful tool. If only more software I used could follow that theme...
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Ask HN: Best uses for spaced-repetition software? - kcovia Other than foreign languages, what are the best uses for SRS software, such as Anki? At the moment I&#x27;m using Anki for:<p>- terminal commands (I&#x27;m fairly new to coding)<p>- high-level English vocabulary (already a native speaker)<p>- Spanish, Polish, ...
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5 Reasons Why Google Hired a Person Like Me - amays_me https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-reasons-why-google-hired-person-like-me-anthony-mays ====== ljk Any way people without linkedin account can view the article?
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Unreal: The Backstory - bane https://www.facebook.com/AlexanderBrandonMusic/posts/10153814555037621 ====== rocky1138 CC'd my response here: Living in Waterloo now. I was walking home from work with my friend when we met a guy flying a drone. After briefly talking, my friend mentioned that he was a developer #2 on Unr...
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Secure email provider Tutanota launches free encrypted calendar - Down_n_Out https://www.tutanota.com/blog/posts/free-encrypted-calendar/ ====== Down_n_Out After what seems a very long wait Tutanota now provides a free encrypted calendar along their secure email, a most requested feature. It's still beta for now but u...
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Slow languages battle across time - jacquesm http://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html ====== SeoxyS Doesn't seem like a fair comparison of the language implementations, since Python is running on modern hardware, and BASIC isn't. It'd be more interesting to run a BASIC implementation from 80s on a modern CPU and compare tha...
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Hasselblad Ships 200 Megapixel Camera - peternorton http://www.conceivablytech.com/7678/products/hasselblad-ships-200-megapixel-camera ====== mashmac2 Not exactly for a photo that has any motion... it combines 6 50 megapixel shots into a single image by moving the sensor slightly for each shot. ------ petervandijck...
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Ask HN: Where can I get a phone number like *12345? - ManOwl Where can I get a phone number like *12345? I want to start a service where users can send data by text and I need a memorable phone number for it. Bonus points for any implementation details about receiving that data.<p>I figure it's by email. I could imp...
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Larry Ellison (2006): If an open source product gets good enough, we'll take it - bensummers http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto041820061306424713 ====== dasil003 Man is he a shark. Seriously, between him, Steve Jobs, and Eric Schmidt it's no wonder a glorified sales guy like Ballmer is lost in the w...
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Give in to Procrastination and Stop Prefetching (2013) [pdf] - lainon http://people.csail.mit.edu/lenin/papers/Procrastinator-Paper-HotNets13.pdf ====== wgjordan Abstract – Generations of computer programmers are taught to prefetch network objects in computer science classes. In practice, prefetching can be harmful to...
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Sam Altman “The days are long..” Slack notifier - seanarnold https://github.com/seanarnold/sam_altman_quotes ====== seanarnold I created a quick Rails app after Sam Altman posted his "The days are long but the decades are short" blog to send one of this 32 quotes to a Slack channel, everyday. If you haven't checked...
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Control Bootcamp – A lecture series on optimal and modern control - code_biologist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR20Mz-VpzgfQs5zrYi085m&index=2 ====== code_biologist I found this lecture series and I'm very much enjoying it, but the presenter's whole youtube channel is a gold mine for an...
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US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules - ETHisso2017 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-india-exclusive/exclusive-us-tells-india-it-is-mulling-caps-on-h-1b-visas-to-deter-data-rules-sources-idUSKCN1TK2LG ====== nilsocket Master Card and Visa are failing, because we have something bette...
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Trump to Order China's ByteDance to Sell TikTok U.S. Operations - cochne https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/trump-to-order-china-s-bytedance-to-sell-tiktok-u-s-operations-kdaib6eb ====== Firebrand Apparently Microsoft is in talks to purchase TikTok: [https://twitter.com/cgasparino/status/1289254703705...
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Web-based SVG Editor - jamesbritt http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/editor/svg-editor.html ====== stackTrase Bookmarked. This is really useful. ------ sidcool Awesome tool, bookmarked.
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V lang source code is released - aredirect https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vlang&#x2F;v<p>(I posted as Text because somehow github links are recognized as `dead links` on HN) ====== gus_massa The GitHub link has been posted a few times, but it never got traction: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20248950](http...
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How we built the prototype for Split by GroupMe in a weekend using Balanced - mahmoudimus http://blog.groupme.com/post/44797051373/how-we-built-the-prototype-for-split-by-groupme-in-a ====== Smudge > Not a programmer? It’s cool. Be good at something. If you’re awesome at > making pitch decks for your boss, spend a w...
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Microsoft Builds up Health IT Portfolio, Waits for Market to Materialize - ltimmerman http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/02/26/microsoft-fleshes-out-health-it-portfolio-waits-and-waits-for-market-to-materialize/ ====== altano Here's a cool video made by some nerds in this group: [https://tjackson.blob.core.windows....
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Remote Monitoring of Network Connections with Arduino and LEDs - legind http://www.inputoutput.io/remote-monitoring-network-connections-arduino-leds/ ====== creeble Just wondering if this guy got paid to do this. Not that I dislike fun, but... I'm glad it wasn't my dime.
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ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases - LinuxBender https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/07/icann_verisign_fees/ ====== Tepix This appears to be a fierce competition between ICANN, the IOC, and the reigning corruption champion: FIFA. ~~~ Balanceinfinity That's funny. ~~~ killjoywashere It...
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Going Down the Pipes (1996) - onemind https://www.topic.com/going-down-the-pipes ====== jeffrallen Reminds me of Pushing Tin, a 1999 movie. Wonder if they are related? eta: Wikipedia says yes, so it must be true. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Tin#cite_ref-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Tin#cite_ref...
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Interplanetary superhighway - mattknox https://medium.com/looking-up/8e3e734346ed ====== ColinWright It's really nice to see a write-up of the story behind this. The bare facts have been submitted many times[0][1][2][3][4], although never provoked discussion. It's a fascinating idea, and the math and physics are sub...
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Interactive NYT Census Map - kingkawn http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer?hp?hp ====== wlievens Nicely done. Too bad it's in Flash, I would have loved to check out the WMS service behind it.
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Ask HN:What are your daily reading sources? - karthiksk2012 Where do you read everyday about things you are interested in . Tech, startups etc? ====== kiloreux I have hacker news and the /r/programming /r/cpp also /r/netsec subreddits, That's all. ------ a3n HN, NYT, Python Weekly newsletter, Data Science Weekly news...
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United Airlines CEO considers United a Tech Company with Wings - raheemm http://www.itleaderstoday.com/management-and-data-culture-technology-insights-from-jeff-smisek/ ====== phlux They should focus on being a customer service company with wings. United sucks.
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Help! What should I call myself? - title_question I work with a number of clients developing social websites. I code with PHP and Python, Javascript and CSS. I've been known to design. I project manage from time to time. I have a computer science degree. I make $80k a year and could make more but prefer the lifestyl...
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A serious security vulnerability has been found in 7-Zip - doener https://www.pcgamer.com/a-serious-security-vulnerability-has-been-found-in-7-zip/ ====== stephengillie Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985460](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985460) ------ kbaker Release notes for v...
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Why we need another domain registrar - sammcd http://nameptr.com/2010/12/04/why-we-need-another-domain-registrar.html ====== kaerast I want a registrar to sell domains, not be a platform for marketing other services to me. I want one registrar which will sell me any tld, many of the nice-looking registrars don't sup...
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Show HN: Design your own thin wallet - devinmontgomery http://fabnik.com/products/bookbinder-thin-wallet-kit ====== fragmede It's not the most user-friendly design - I found myself start at the bottom of the page where the form was, and then scrolling up to the pictures/descriptions, and then back down to the form, ...
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Machine learning: the new competitive advantage - uyoakaoma https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2017/04/survey-says-machine-learning-happening-now-and-paying-off?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2017-May-GCP-newsletter-en ====== uyoakaoma Link to the pdf [https://lp.google- mkto.com/rs/248-TPC-28...
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Is it possible for a novice to build their own smartphone? - patientplatypus Hey guys-<p>I was wondering if anyone had any guides for a novice to build their own smartphone. I used to build my own desktop computers as a kid and I&#x27;m willing to do some basic soldering. I just am looking for some instructable guides...
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Ask HN: What are these cartoons called? - shashanoid https://www.hioscar.com/ ====== slater [https://twitter.com/humansofflat](https://twitter.com/humansofflat) ?
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Linux is 25 today - SpaceInvader https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RRrGA%5B1-25%5D ====== astrodust Being able to install a UNIX-type operating system on my personal computer, one that was _free_ , was a life-changing experience for me. At the time there were prohibitively expensive UNIX ope...
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Australian government unveils 'world-leading' regulation of tech giants - soroushjp https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-government-unveils-world-leading-privacy-competition-regulation-of-tech-giants-20191212-p53j8r.html ====== siquick > Under the direction of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, the unit's first pr...
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The nuclear reactor in your basement - fogus http://phys.org/news/2013-02-nuclear-reactor-basement.html ====== SlipperySlope What a wonderful description of the new theory behind Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, which used to be known as cold fusion. Essentially ... "We start by processing nickel so that it can hold hy...
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Polymer 1.0 Released - onestone http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2015/05/polymer-10-released.html ====== michaelsbradley I'm very happy to see that one-way binding is now supported within templates, with syntax that sets it apart from two-way binding: [https://www.polymer-project.org/1.0/docs/devguide/data- bin...
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Broken crawler behavior with my binary protofeed file - protomyth http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2013/04/14/protofeed/ ====== anonymouz Can one really blame the crawler for trying to parse URLs out of an, allegedly, text/plain document? I'd argue the MIME type starting with "text/" for binary data was wrong. One could s...
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Judge extends ban on 3D printed guns - RobertSmith http://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/403811-judge-extends-ban-on-3d-printed-guns ====== akvadrako My favourite quote from the ruling: _> First, it is not clear how available the nine files are: the possibility that a cybernaut with a BitTorrent protocol will ...
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2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought - sohkamyung https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xw4gwd/public-domain-drought ====== mratzloff In my opinion, the best solution for everyone involved is to allow companies to renew copyrights annually into perpetuity after an initial period, but charge a ...
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Ask HN: Any hacker houses in Dublin where I can stay for a week? - ben-gy ====== ShaneCurran I'm based in Dublin, send me over an e-mail (in my profile) and I'll see if I know anyone :) ------ coppolaemilio You should try being a member of couchsurfing ;)
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Show HN: A collection of the best apps, gadgets and products made for travelers - itsemi https://www.mytrapp.com/ ====== itsemi I made this page to collect all those great travel apps and gadgets out there. I think it's great to have blogposts like "the best travel apps in 2016" but with Mytrapp I want to create a las...
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HardCIDR will query ARIN and a pool of BGP route servers - crystalPalace https://github.com/trustedsec/hardcidr ====== natch Beware, this script will hose / clobber and then silently clean up (delete) a ton of various different files if files with those names happen to already exist. To see the exact file names you'll...
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Dead bodies on Mount Everest - jayeshsalvi http://imgur.com/gallery/rkRAk ====== lostlogin There is a great story about a team member getting sick of the slow progress Sir Edmond Hillary was making cutting steps on Everest at the early stages of the ascent. A team member went up to tell him to hurry up. The guy got ...
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The hardware it takes to handle 60 million hits a day - Readmore http://www.auctionads.com/blog/peek-at-auctionads-hardware/ ====== SwellJoe Amateurs. I could do it with a single Nintendo Wii.
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Uber is stubbornly refusing to apply for a $150 permit for its self-driving cars - ryan_j_naughton http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/16/13990318/uber-refusing-permit-self-driving-car-california-dmv ====== fludlight It's not about paying $150, but about agreeing to additional regulation, which businesses generally don't ...
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Mark Cuban: Here's how to fix America's crippling student debt crisis - ytNumbers http://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-heres-how-to-fix-the-student-debt-crisis-2015-3 ====== bko The focus on private student loan lenders seems odd considering that $1 trillion out of the $1.2 trillion of outstanding student debt ...
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An introduction to photography - wslh http://photo.net/learn/making-photographs/ ====== janeglendale For anyone looking to learn, definitely check out The Bastards Book of Photography: [http://photography.bastardsbook.com/](http://photography.bastardsbook.com/)
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The Apple / Google / Facebook Message War Starts Now - iProject http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/02/message-war/ ====== dirtyaura Author forgets Skype, which in my circles is used as much as FB and more than GChat for private chats. Anectodally, Skype is also the most popular of three in professional use. Microsoft's Mes...
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Show HN: Free Email Tracker for Gmail - willcheung https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/contextsmith-email-tracke/idihnnlkpfggfgjinfiodninabjggfop ====== willcheung Hey guys, I used to work in Sales, and my company usually paid for Email Tracking (like Yesware) and Contact Profile (LinkedIn) tools. These email f...
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New brand site for Sony uses rendered JPG frames for 3D parallax scrolling - danhon http://discover.store.sony.com/be-moved/ ====== TeeWEE Very nice and breathtaking. Just a superb experience, this is the most awesome site I have every visited. Seriously. Ok, it is big, it is huge. But c'mon, they are stretching crea...
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(Since 2016) Ongoing Amazon scam - esturk https://www.reddit.com/r/amazon/comments/59500l/psa_amazon_cloud_drive_i_just_got_charged_5999/ ====== em3rgent0rdr Wow, just wow. I really think a future payment system where _you_ are in charge of how much money is spent. Maybe you designate up front recurring payments that ...
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NaCL: Slides on DJB, Lange, Schwabe's High-Level Crypto Library - tptacek http://cr.yp.to/talks/2011.09.28/slides.pdf ====== tptacek Quick translation: Daniel Bernstein (DJB) is a renowned systems programmer and a serious academic cryptographer. Many of the SHA-3 candidates are partly derived from his work, and he ...
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Ask HN: Best service to find a therapist? - Regardsyjc Is there a service where you can easily find therapists that are covered by your insurance and schedule an appointment?<p>A friend needs help finding a therapist and I would love to know what would be the best way to help her. Zocdoc? ====== ajb413 [https://www.tw...
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Show HN: Chat Envy - Simple browser based video chat - jeffpalmer I decided to build Chat Envy this weekend to get a feel for the OpenTok API.<p>Chat Envy is a simple web based video chat platform that allows users to quickly setup a chatroom.<p>What do you think? Would you use it?<p>Any feedback is appreciated.<p>...
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Show HN: Cohortt – Find people whom a Twitter user frequently tweets to - gj0 https://cohortt.com/ ====== gj0 Hello Hacker News! Creator here, happy to answer any questions! :) I decided to build Cohortt to find accounts similar to a particular twitter account. Usually we tweet or interact with people who share simil...
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​Linus Torvalds reveals his favorite programming laptop - CrankyBear http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-reveals-his-favorite-programming-laptop/ ====== AdmiralAsshat Original G+ post might be better for the link: [https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/VZj8vxXdtfe](https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds...
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PyCon 2015 Channel - slashfoo https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgxzjK6GuOHVKR_08TT4hJQ/videos ====== slashfoo They are uploading next-day.
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Discuss on HN: The NSA Leaks Make Everyone Less Safe, Here's Why - samstave The NSA leaks have been defended by the NSA itself, politicians, and some members of the public as a measure to keep us safe.<p>This is a patently false statement. These programs have proven 100% beyond any doubt that every human on the plan...
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Show HN: Android virtualization on ARM processors - robot This is our MVP (took ~2 years to build): http://vimeo.com/21889466<p>We run virtualized instances of Android/Linux on multicore ARM processors.<p>I am the founder, 29, we are a small team. I would welcome any feedback, suggestions, improvements... A great he...
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React v0.12 - spicyj http://facebook.github.io/react/blog/2014/10/28/react-v0.12.html ====== jbhatab I don't know if I'm reading the changes wrong, but I'm not liking how I have to do an extra step if I don't use jsx. I want to use coffescript and not have to do extra stuff. I definitely feel this forced vibe around ...
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Choosing the “best software” - deafcalculus https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/01/24/choosing-the-best-thing/ ====== dsr_ This is a systems argument, not just software. It applies to choosing to do anything. I would rearrange these points, but they are essentially correct. You don't make changes for the sake of change or becau...
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Welcome to “Learning by Shipping” - aaronbrethorst http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/01/03/hello-world/ ====== aaronbrethorst Also, since it's not immediately obvious: this is Steven Sinofsky's new blog. Sinofsky was the guy in charge of Windows who just left Microsoft a few weeks ago. ~~~ krevis _I’m super exc...
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ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video] - chrismccord http://www.chrismccord.com/blog/2015/05/09/elixirconfeu-keynote-phoenix-takes-flight/ ====== chrismccord Creator here. I'm happy to answer any questions. We had our first ElixirConf in Europe a couple weeks ago and I showed off our new features and what...
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Am I Being Tracked? - drefanzor http://amibeingtracked.com/ ====== drefanzor Supposedly checks for "supercookies" that track your every move on your phone. Anyone know anything else about this?
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How Optimizely Onboards New Users - samuelhulick http://www.useronboard.com/how-optimizely-onboards-new-users/ ====== samuelhulick Happy to answer any questions anyone might have!
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Docker was unavailable in Ubuntu/Debian repos - pi-squared https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203 ====== shykes Hi, I work at Docker. Here is my reply on the github thread: [https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203#issuecomment-2...](https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/23203#issuecomment-223326996) I ...
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Apple Developer Center still down - vinhnx http://www.marco.org/2013/07/21/adc-downtime ====== nwh My money is personally on massive, unrecoverable data loss. If you've ever poked around with the way that Apple's website works, you can see that the entire place is a huge mess. There's old servers running ancient (pre...
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Titanoboa – an open-source alternative to Zapier - newcrobuzon https://www.titanoboa.io/using-titanoboa-for-cloud-integration.html ====== hlesesne The title meta tag said “alternative to ansible” and I thought, “why in the world?!?”. Must have been a typo. ~~~ newcrobuzon Should be fixed by now, as a bonus here is th...
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Why I will never, ever, use an Instant Pot - bookofjoe http://ovens.reviewed.com/features/how-to-clean-an-instant-pot-electric-pressure-cooker ====== vhodges Here's a shocker: Things get dirty when you cook and need to be cleaned (sorry, a bit crabby this morning). ------ babygoat Do you use disposable cookware? ---...
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Team and Strategy - worldvoyageur http://avc.com/2016/09/team-and-strategy ====== raywu > I like to say that CEOs should do only three things; recruit and retain the > team, build and evolve the long term strategy and communicate it effectively > and broadly in the organization and externally, and make sure the compan...
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Ask HN: Can the Hacker News maintainers darken the user submission body text? - zappo2938 The text of the body of user submitted stories is very light and difficult to read. Is it possible to darken it a couple shades for legibility? ====== gus_massa It's on purpose to discourage that type of submissions. The links in...
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How a star explosion may have shaped life on Earth (2015) - dnetesn http://oceans.nautil.us/feature/562/the-secret-history-of-the-supernova-at-the-bottom-of-the-sea ====== ferros The more I read and learn the more I realise how little we know about everything that surrounds us and existence itself. It truly is humbli...
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All 40 Runners Fail at 100-Mile Tennessee Mountain Race - ph0rque http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-30/all-40-runners-fail-to-complete-100-mile-tennessee-mountain-race ====== error54 It's interesting to note that in every year that someone finishes, they add additional parts to the course making it more d...
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Botrnot: an R package for detecting Twitter bots - tysonzni https://mikewk.shinyapps.io/botornot/ ====== dexen I was surprised by the number of false positives reported here, went ahead and tested on several Twitter accounts of my friends, both professional and personal. 9 out of 25 tested were classified as 'bot' wit...
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What's Going On with Intel? - diskmuncher https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288911541207613440 ====== sxp [https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1294653961211752448](https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1294653961211752448) > Friends, at the request of the original author, I have deleted the thread > entitled "...
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The Slave of Seriousness - tintinnabula https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/sontag-benjamin-moser-biography-review.html ====== majos Since this article didn’t do it (or if it did, I missed it), can someone explain why Susan Sontag is considered an important American intellectual figure? I’ve read a few articles about he...
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