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Show HN: Markdown Navigator - neilellis https://vladsch.com/product/markdown-navigator ====== neilellis This isn't my product (no affiliation), but it so awesomely good that I had to share it with everyone.
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Coffee drinking linked to lower mortality risk again - colund http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/coffee-drinking-linked-to-lower-mortality-risk-again/ ====== parasight I fight nasty withdrawal symptoms like severe headache, fatigue, and rheumatic pains right now after not drinking coffee for two days. It feels lik...
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Bravo now casting Silicon Valley reality show - jamesjyu http://gigaom.com/2011/10/06/bravo-now-casting-silicon-valley-reality-show/ ====== rdl This kind of thing never goes well for the companies profiled. Earth Class Mail, a Seattle-based postal to digital mail interface, did another reality show ("Start-Up Junkies...
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Microsoft Sucks at Naming Products - wolfgke https://www.howtogeek.com/338120/microsoft-sucks-at-naming-products/ ====== at-fates-hands This is a huge pet peeve of mine since I've had several windows phones. Trying to find the "windows mobile app store" or "windows phone app store" online was nearly impossible since t...
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WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal - jcamou https://wtfutil.com ====== cptnapalm I've been wanting something sort of like this for my login screen. Little box for the login, of course and a whole bunch of scary-to-everyone-but-me looking output, like hollywood ([https://github.com/dustinkirkland/...
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Ask HN: How can DigitalOcean be so cheap? - jorgeecardona I've been trying to understand how can they offer for 10USD: 1Core, 1GB 20GB disk. I've been looking for massive dedicated servers in different providers but their prices are not even close. Even the spec of servers does not fit the needs for DigitalOcean ser...
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402: Payment Required - nmcfarl https://medium.com/@humphd/402-payment-required-95bc72f06fcd ====== nmcfarl Here's an old hacker news discussion about the 402 code in the spec which is fairly interesting: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857236](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7857236)
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Dimer – simplest way to write and publish beautiful docs - jmedwards http://dimerapp.com/ ====== adamrogersuk Wow. This app looks beautiful and so simple to use! Can't believe this was missing from my technical writing app arsenal.
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Why we are excited about Elixir - dynjo http://blog.oozou.com/why-we-are-excited-about-elixir/ ====== lectrick It's a great language that deserves more attention!
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Show HN: Day of the Dead website with 12 Free illustrations - Calebbarclay https://dayofthedead.holiday/design-kit/ ====== jordigh "Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muerto...
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Drone crashes into Space Needle - Animats http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-pilot-who-crashed-a-drone-into-the-space-needle-cou-1791160751 ====== Animats Some clown crashed a small drone into the Space Needle. At the time, workers were setting up a fireworks display there. The drone missed a fireworks array by about ...
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The Plague of Entropy - yarapavan http://googletesting.blogspot.com/2009/09/plague-of-entropy.html ====== yarapavan From the article: " When developers are writing code, entropy is low. When we submit bugs, we increase entropy. Bugs divert their attention from coding. They must now progress in parallel on creating a...
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Why does Google Hangouts still not work in Firefox? - fletchowns It seems a little ridiculous that Google Hangouts video calling still does not work in Firefox 57. Why is it still not supported? ====== ungzd AFAIK, it uses NPAPI plugin. Chrome stopped supporting NPAPI plugins, but that only means user can't install th...
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Ask HN: Books That Should Be Read - kiba I realize that I was not the only one who have a favorite book that I think everybody should read.<p>So, what books do you think that everyone should read, or at least should know about? ====== hga Ah, that turned out to be easier than I expected, after I remember that I alwa...
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Survivorship bias: understanding the case studies that make everything look easy - KevinEldon https://alexdenning.com/survivorship-case-studies-easy/ ====== StijinM This is interesting. The obvious problem is it's natural to ask successful people how they became successful. That said, taking advice with a larger grain...
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Make the Metric system the standard in the United States - ovechtrick https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-metric-system-standard-united-states-instead-imperial-system/FndsKXLh ====== veidr It's obviously a great idea, and obviously (to Americans) unlikely to happen in the lifetime of anybody reading this fo...
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The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware - bangonkeyboard https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/02/17/the-paywalled-garden-ios-is-adware/ ====== anko I think it's probably worse for people in the US, but I am certainly getting sick of news promoting articles that i can't see unless I pay for news+. Quite often the article headlines...
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Smartwatch hack could send fake pill reminders to patients - rbanffy https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53333633 ====== vanous Just use Gadgetbridge wherever possible. One could use broadcasts for further automation... [https://gadgetbridge.org/](https://gadgetbridge.org/)
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Sea Pirates Hacked Shipping Company to Plan Attacks, Find Valuable Cargo - dredmorbius http://news.softpedia.com/news/sea-pirates-hacked-shipping-company-to-find-valuable-cargo-501268.shtml ====== lawless123 "The hacker lacked talent, was easily discovered Fortunately, the hacker wasn't that skilled. Verizon says that...
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Live Justin.tv feed of YC Q&A Session in Boston with Alexis and Harj - Harj http://www.justin.tv/harj#/w/459029824 ====== mahmud Is there a conference line to dial into? I am looking at the video but there is no way to interact. Am I missing some kind of chat widget that's hidden somewhere on screen? ~~~ dkasper It's...
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If The X-Men Worked In IT - nickoakland http://www.zetta.net/blog/xmen-worked/ ====== hyuuu I really disagree with wolverine's position as a customer facing role. Because, you know, he's wolverine.
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Facebook Is Building a 394-Unit Housing Community Near Its Offices - aashaykumar92 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303492504579111792834660448.html#! ====== joonix Eh, not really. They are "working with" a real estate developer. Sounds like they just made a deal, mostly for the marketing aspect, to promo...
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The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction - boredandroid http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what-every-software-engineer-should-know-about-real-time-datas-unifying ====== justinsb The idea of the log goes well beyond just real-time data (as the blog post describes, although the title does not...
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Show HN: HereBy = photos nearby - bobsil1 Made an iOS app which lets you share and see photos taken nearby, with radius from a block to 500 miles. It&#x27;s visual place discovery for beaches, trails, food, events (comedy shows, weddings, games) and news (downed trees, accidents). Hosts, doesn&#x27;t scrape, and it&...
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LiShield Is a Smart LED Bulb Prevents Photos by Confusing Cameras - chriskanan https://petapixel.com/2017/11/03/led-light-bulb-protects-privacy-confusing-cameras/ ====== cvwright Very cool. Does it work against HDR? Or can you remove the noise by combining multiple exposures? ~~~ anotheryou Would be a pain in the ass...
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Generalizing the inverse FFT off the unit circle - gok https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50234-9 ====== lawrenceyan Very cool. This should have a great deal of application in many signal processing tasks.
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The Ugly Truth of Ugly Produce - yoloswagins http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org/uglyproduce/ ====== DoreenMichele I spent nearly six years homeless. I ate at soup kitchens and got food from food banks for a small portion of that time. I grew up with a garden in the back yard. My dad hunted and some of the meat on our ta...
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Elon Musk says Mark Zuckerberg's understanding of AI is 'limited' - mcone http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/25/technology/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-ai-artificial-intelligence/index.html ====== fossuser They're talking past each other because "AI" has become a useless term. Musk's comments are about a potential (maybe cons...
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Google Earth API Set for Execution - umeboshi http://www.programmableweb.com/news/google-earth-api-set-execution/2014/12/12 ====== wendell78 Since Google doesn't have a replacement ready, what are the best available options out there?
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Requesting feedback on automated spreadsheet triggers for Google Sheets - jporras Hi all, I&#x27;m an early stage CEO building a &quot;Zapier for spreadsheets&quot; that basically enables the automated workflow to be triggered by changes in spreadsheet cells. Right now we&#x27;ve built support for Factivate and Google...
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Common problems when translating games into Japanese - NicoJuicy http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/328996/Common_problems_when_translating_games_into_Japanese.php ====== baud147258 The problem with this article: pictures with text on it.
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Columbus blamed for Little Ice Age - pwg http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335168/title/Columbus_blamed_for_Little_Ice_Age ====== zeteo The must-read book for the context is _1491_ , by Charles C. Mann [1]. The main point is that pre-Columbian America was much more densely populated than previously thought, ...
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The Rise and Fall of Atlantic City - stickfigure http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_4_atlantic-city.html ====== gist "A long experiment with legalized gambling, launched in 1976, has failed to reenergize this once-iconic locale" It didn't fail exactly in the way this sentence seems to want to imply. It did work (and...
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Ask HN: Review my startup, LivingPlug - NatWilde LivingPlug &#x2F; http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livingplug.com&#x2F;<p>The INLET is a device that you plug into the common electrical outlet, that will modify it in a variety of ways: Child safety (removes the receptacles from eyeline, and can be anchored securely to the wall), Ad...
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Oracle sued by Strip club over employee's unpaid tab - X4 http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Strip-club-sues-Oracle-over-employee-s-unpaid-tab-4834821.php ====== brubaker "New Century's attorney David Cook wasn't talking either, telling us only that the lawsuit speaks for itself." Is that Saul Goodma...
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Software aims to whack drive-by malware threat - coondoggie http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/67104 ====== david_shaw From the article: _BLADE "thwarts the ability of browser-based exploits to surreptitiously download and execute malicious content by remapping to the filesystem only those browser download...
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SMS Relay in 99 Lines of Code - alain94040 http://blog.letslunch.com/2011/02/14/sms-relay-for-letslunch-in-only-99-lines-of-code/ ====== geoffc Neat use of an SMS anonymous relay, very cool! Ditto on Twilio, we use it at GroupFlier.com and love it, definitely an enabling platform. ~~~ alain94040 Twilio is great. I ...
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Jeff Dean: Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems [PDF slides] - ntoshev http://carbon.videolectures.net/2009/other/wsdm09_barcelona/dean_cblirs/wsdm09_dean_cblirs_01.pdf ====== ntoshev Actual talk recording: <http://videolectures.net/wsdm09_dean_cblirs/> Summary: [http://glinden.blogspot.co...
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Judge orders arrest of Defense Distributed founder for alleged sex crime - anigbrowl https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/judge-orders-cody-wilsons-arrest-demands-pictures-of-his-upper-legs/ ====== savethefuture I'm sure this investigation had nothing to do with his 3d gun printing business.
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Usability Ain’t Everything – A Response to Jakob Nielsen’s iPad Usability Study - fun2have http://johnnyholland.org/2010/05/26/usability-ain%E2%80%99t-everything-a-response-to-jakob-nielsen%E2%80%99s-ipad-usability-study/ ====== Nekojoe I used to read a lot of Jakob Nielsen's writing, on his website and books. I don...
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Ask HN: Home office advice. - zerohp In a few weeks I start my first job as a full time telecommuter. In preparation I'm moving to a new home with an extra bedroom so I can separate my work area from other personal space.<p>Does anyone have other suggestions for finding maximum productivity and focus while working ...
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Visual 6502 in JavaScript - kijduse http://visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html ====== flohofwoe I recently wrote a "remix" of visual6502 (just for fun), with C (and a bit of C++), compiled to WASM to see whether the rendering performance of the chip visualization can be improved while still running in browsers, and also t...
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How current loops and solenoids curve space-time - johnchristopher http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.00333 ====== brudgers First version on arxiv.org: April 1, 2015
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Is There a Bot to Generate StackOverflow Answer from IRC Channel Logs? - onetimePete I&#x27;m in a very small software community- we have a wiki, which is eternally outdated, because we are understaffed. We tryied to run a Answers page, and it failed due to maintenance- all we have is IRC, with someone who can answer-...
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Show HN: Find samosas near me (try on mobile) - lappet https://samosasnearme.com ====== slantyyz I kinda had doubts clicking on the link, but the results are pretty accurate for me. I live in a suburb outside of Toronto, Canada that has a lot of east Asian food options. I assumed that the search would be US-centric. ...
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A Complete Replication of FiveThirtyEight's Bechdel Test Analysis - brianckeegan http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/brianckeegan/Bechdel/blob/master/Bechdel_test.ipynb ====== yebyen I am not going to pretend to have already read all of this, but from skimming/reading down in "The Hook" and on to "Start your kernels"...
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Language Design: Use 'ident: Type' not 'Type ident' - pcr910303 https://soc.me/languages/type-annotations ====== TazeTSchnitzel A more practical reason as a language designer is that C and C++-style type- before-name syntax is a nightmare to lex and parse, as you can't tell whether A * B; is a m...
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Game Oldies: Play Retro Games Online - doppp http://game-oldies.com/ ====== sjuut Just a heads up, visiting this page resulted in a Segfault on my rMBP 2014 using Safari on El Capitan 10.11.5 beta
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Issue 62938 – Barometer driver hangs and kills accelerometer on its way - cryptoz https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62938 ====== simias Aaaah I2C, one of the simplest protocols there is and also probably the one that gave me the most debugging time. If someone wants to look into it and is willing to ...
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Printing Money - saadalem https://neal.fun/printing-money/ ====== tptacek This is fun, but Amazon and Walmart's revenue are sort of misleading, since they obviously don't get to keep most of it. ~~~ TimTheTinker One could argue that personal income is also a kind of "revenue", since much of it is spent on taxes, cost...
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Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you? - bradhoffman I am currently working for a startup and am one of 3 developers. Most of my work revolves around building the API in Node + Express as well as some small projects with MongoDB. The other developers don&#x27;t really assist me since th...
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Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad - edw519 http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/13/sleep.gadgets.ipad/index.html?hpt=Sbin ====== heseltine The light in your fridge goes off when you shut the door anyway
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Prenda Law's Trip To San Francisco Turns Out Badly - greenyoda http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/23/prenda-law-trip-to-san-francisco-turns-out-badly ====== tzaman It would be nice to have some TL;DR on popehat, I don't always have the time for the full _Law and order_ episode :) ~~~ eridius It would be nice to have a ...
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I’ve started building with paper – Haverzine - derfbwh http://haverzine.com/2014/08/06/ive-started-building-paper/ ====== notduncansmith This is really interesting. I think I'm part of the generation immediately preceding the "digital natives", but I use paper so rarely that I still identify with the symptoms. I fe...
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Boost VC Welcomes Bitcoin - Sindrome http://adamdraper.com/post/44563343164/boost-vc-welcomes-bitcoin ====== Sindrome Boost (<http://www.boost.vc>) is getting ready to incubate their 2nd class this Summer. For this class hey have a strong preference for accepting companies revolving around Bitcoins.
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Intel’s Core M Strategy - msh http://www.anandtech.com/show/8475/intels-core-m-strategy-cpu-specifications-for-9mm-fanless-tablets ====== rasz_pl Intels mobile strategy is to bleed $2Bill a year by engaging in anticompetitive behaviour by giving away chips nobody wants [http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186367-intel...
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The era of "Developers First" has begun but somehow servers got left behind - BenfromOz https://codemason.io/blog/developers-first/ ====== ericpauley This is a poor attempt at blogspam. Article complains about hosting being challenging and cites raw compute providers. Plenty of companies (Heroku, App Engine, Elastic ...
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The “Vulgar Mechanick” and His Magical Oven - dang http://nautil.us/issue/12/feedback/the-vulgar-mechanic-and-his-magical-oven ====== speeder Sometimes I wonder, what magic still exists to be invented? I am glad for my world full of science, but sad that all my ideas have been done before, and better than I could do ...
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Ask HN: I'm at a crossroads, any input is appreciated - djsamson I’m a twenty year old from upstate New York and I’m thinking about moving to San Francisco/the Bay Area. I’m a business student and I took this spring semester off to launch a startup which wasn’t very successful. I dropped that idea and tried to land an...
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I never thought Skynet will attack the stock market first... - breiner http://www.oded.us/2012/08/skynet-attacks-stock-market.html ====== verelo Sadly the gif seems to just be a single image and never changes?
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Ask HN: Building a secure Linux distribution? - csomar I want to build a secure and very minimalist system&#x2F;OS. I&#x27;ll be buying a new Laptop for that purpose (thinking of Dell XPS). The purpose of the system is to:<p>- Read&#x2F;Write Emails<p>- Browse the Web (using Tor; and text-only is fine)<p>- VIM &#x2F...
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Would anyone use a charitable payments API? - jeremypshapiro Recently built a tool providing a real-time, direct link between donors and recipients (living on ~$2 a day or less). Donors can send cash to very low-income people and exchange messages (e.g., confirmation message, a SMS indicating how the gift was used). W...
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Show HN: Generate Rest API from JSON in Seconds - adrenalinerush6 https://github.com/singerbj/SinatraApiGenerator ====== adrenalinerush6 Code is a bit sloppy still, but i was surprised as to how easy it was to get it up and running...in less than 150 lines!
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Older iOS devices outselling newer Android devices - shawndumas http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/09/older-ios-devices-outselling-newer-android-devices/ ====== edw What I find interesting about this is what happens when the mythical iPhone 5 gets released and Verizon has a $50-100 iPhone 4 to sell. Until now (in the U.S.) t...
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PHP Dev wants to learn a framework Symphony or Rails? - scmc What framework is better what is the growth opportunity? Stick with PHP or move to Ruby/Rails ? ====== gexla Growth in which way? If you are referring to expanding your programming chops, then I would move onto something that's not a web scripting language...
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WikiLeaks publishing over half a million intercepted pages from 9/11/2001 - tlrobinson http://911.wikileaks.org/ ====== brown9-2 Am I the only one who feels a little ... wrong reading these? This isn't a leak in the usual "whisteblower" sense of the word. Instead it's a leak of communication between individuals th...
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Google developing a micropayment platform & pitching newspapers - dannyr http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/google-developing-a-micropayment-platform-and-pitching-newspapers-open-need-not-mean-free/ ====== jrwoodruff This would be serious competition for upstart Online Journalism, which is building a similar system: [...
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What Working at Facebook Has Taught Me About Design Critique - tannerc https://medium.com/@tannerc/critique-is-an-important-part-of-any-design-process-whether-you-work-as-part-of-a-team-or-solo-ef3dcb299ce3#.ie6x6ae4m ====== tkt Learning to give and receive feedback is one of the skills that will make you and your tea...
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Ask HN: Would you pay $10/month for this service? - ishener I have an idea for a service to help app developers, and I would love to hear your input.<p>It&#x27;s a service that let you manage all of your app&#x27;s strings in a nice and friendly interface. It allows you to change text easily without deploying code, ...
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Databot: High-performance Python data-driven programming framework - garygoog https://github.com/kkyon/databot ====== shoo I was staring at the example in the readme, and considering some of the features ("replayable"), and it sounds a bit like what a Makefile does. Well, if you had a single event to process, and deci...
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Debian drops redis non-systemd support - binaryapparatus http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php/?f=20&t=135039 ====== JdeBP That is only a true headline if one does not read the actual commit, but rather blindly accepts the incorrect descriptions posted on two discussion fora from a couple of people. What Chris Lamb ...
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Twitter's community verification system will be a disaster - StuntPope https://easydns.com/blog/2020/02/24/bias-and-b-s-would-be-baked-into-twitters-proposed-community-verification-system/ ====== dijit The post goes into it but I just want to double assert that the blue check mark system is rather absurdly arbitrary. ...
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Biggest Data Leak in Sweden's History Punished with Half a Month's Paycheck - ColinWright https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/biggest-data-leak-in-swedens-history-punished-with-half-a-months-paycheck/ ====== stareatgoats This so called "scandal" was an incident that was milked to it's maximum potential by t...
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A former IE dev: Why I switched to Firefox - parenthesis http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2005/why-i-switched-to-firefox/ ====== Herring That post is worthless without discussing extensions. Really complaining about something that download statusbar fixes? FF is 90% extensions.
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Ask HN: Sunsetting Google Apps Accounts? - thebiglebrewski Google Apps accounts cost $5&#x2F;user&#x2F;month. We have a bunch of &quot;dead&quot; users since we have teachers that start and stop teaching, but occasionally we have to bring them back.<p>I&#x27;d love a tool that, for a small one-time fee, backups a us...
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I put together a list of resources for preparing for interviews - ansimionescu https://github.com/andreis/interview ====== minimaxir FYI, deleting and resubmitting links is against HN rules. This is the third time I've seen this one. ~~~ ansimionescu Thank you. I thought I was hellbanned or something. Will behave n...
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The finest machine: qphysics, materials science, and the microprocessor - evoxed http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nickblack/the-finest-machine ====== evoxed With preliminary contents found here: <http://dank.qemfd.net/the-finest- machine.pdf> More info in the description.
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A survival guide for Unix beginners - ColinWright http://matt.might.net/articles/basic-unix/ ====== dawnbreez I would actually recommend straight Debian, instead of Ubuntu. Ubuntu has supposedly done some questionable things before.
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European Spacecraft Prepares to Land on Mars Next Week - nedsma http://www.space.com/34341-european-spacecraft-mars-landing-next-week.html ====== mattlondon Kinda sad to see that it does not have any cameras apart from the landing camera. Rosetta just captured the imagination of loads of people, yet this one will be ...
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Ask HN: help alpha test our new dating site (it's based on books) - mwsherman http://alpha.alikewise.com/ ====== henrikschroder Are you really going to market this as a dating site? Because you will be steamrolled by actual dating sites that provide substantially more.. flesh.. Dating sites make money because people...
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ChocolateChip-UI - A Mobile Web App Framework - mufti http://blogfreakz.com/framework/chocolatechip-ui-a-mobile-web-app-framework/ ====== mef Disappointed by the lack of demo.
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Startup Lessons from StartupRiot - harrisreynolds http://www.simplifyingsoftware.com/2012/02/startup-lessons-from-startupriot.html ====== clayhebert Great post, Harris. Glad you liked the event. I had a blast as well. Were you still around for the last set? I demoed Spindows.com (the enterprise video speed-networkin...
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Fast Iterative Algorithms for the Tower of Hanoi Puzzle - kqr2 http://hanoitower.mkolar.org/algo.html ====== limmeau Before reading, I thought they had found a faster sequence of disk transfers (stop the press etc) -- but it turns out the article is just about generating the same sequence of moves in less time, given ...
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Where Bob Dole Stands on Technology and Internet Issues (1996) - joshavant http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm ====== lifeguard The whois info is suspicious, I think it is just a mirror.
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PySide: LGPL Python bindings for the Qt Framework - mace http://www.pyside.org/ ====== tuukkah Related work: "Although based on a different technology than the existing GPL- licensed PyQt bindings, PySide will initially be 100% API-compatible with them." Background: "Work on PySide was initiated within the Maemo di...
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Ask HN: How to find a good startup name? - trez I have never been too talented to find a good name. Which tool/technique did you use to find one? ====== mattquiros Here are the guidelines I personally like to follow. I wouldn't say they're the only way or the best way, but I'd like to share anyway. 1\. There are di...
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Ask HN: How do we change things? - anthonycerra Members of this community are pretty good at changing the way we interact with the world on a daily basis. Some really cool things have come out of asking "How can this be better?". You already have changed the world for the better.<p>As I read the recent post about ne...
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Assembly Gems - aburan28 http://dflund.se/~john_e/fr_gems.html ====== psykotic Here's a little gem that I don't see mentioned on there. For bit unpacking in C, the natural inclination is to shift out the least significant bit with something like this: u1 getbit() { u1 lsb = x & 1; x >>= 1; return l...
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RiseShot – Free Mockup generator tool for 4k mockups - jessie_s https://www.riseshot.com/?showhn ====== jessie_s Hey HN! I rarely post here, mostly just looking at what others are building. Anyway, this is my 2nd side project - took me more than 6 months to build. Most of the mockups are taken from Unsplash. Let me ...
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Let’s get serious about ES6 generator functions - jamesgpearce http://facebook.github.io/regenerator/ ====== eldude Good stuff. This will come in handy if node.js 0.12 takes much longer. Watching the use of generators in JavaScript and especially node.js is going to be very exciting over the coming years. We're excit...
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Proof by Mask - there http://www.mondaynote.com/2011/10/30/proof-by-mask/ ====== dmboyd Youtube (<http://i.imgur.com/VIwYx.png>) doesn't fare too well. It's like they've never heard of the law of diminishing returns. Which is surprising seeing as though Google adwords was launched and is heavily based around an unobtr...
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Show HN: Skyscraper, a Clojure framework for structural scraping of whole sites - nathell https://github.com/nathell/skyscraper/ ====== nathell Hey HN! Skyscraper is not new, but I've just released a major rewrite that's been long in the making. Of this release features, I’m particularly happy about the database abil...
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F.C.C. to Change Program That Connects Schools to High-Speed Internet Service - digital55 http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/05/f-c-c-to-change-program-that-connects-schools-to-high-speed-internet-service/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Technology&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body ...
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Google Buzz Hacks for Users, Developers, and Haters - andre http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4_google_buzz_hacks_for_users_developers_and_haters.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+readwriteweb+(ReadWriteWeb) ====== andre this shows you how to gain access to Google Buzz NOW, if you don't...
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Chameleon Colour Converter Updated to Include Colour Schemes - MrJaba https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/chameleon-colour-converter/id901137716 ====== MrJaba I've just updated my colour converter/picker/swiss army knife to include colour schemes! I find it's hugely useful little tool when designing sites or apps rather...
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Journalists Are Reporting Their Colleagues to HR for Political Opinions - jseliger https://jessesingal.substack.com/p/journalists-are-reporting-their-colleagues ====== zelon88 I don't like this piece. It's so vague there's really no story here. "Employee A had a disagreement with Employee B who filed a complaint with...
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Turkey bans YouTube - semihyagcioglu ====== seanccox This is going to complicate my last-minute application to Y Combinator...
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Want to be better? The answer is simple - boyter http://nathanconyngham.com/want-to-be-better-the-answer-is-simple/ ====== xiaoma This was a bit painful to read. Aside from the 23px font size, it opened with 7 consecutive single-sentence "paragraphs". Actually that's not quite true. The fourth, sixth and seventh wer...
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Money & Affirmation - andrewfelix http://andrewsplastic.tumblr.com/post/20269735494/money-affirmation ====== yelongren I like what he is saying. Money is just one form of affirmation among many others. All of them respectable, money is just more tangible and conspicuous.
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Patreon as a Platform Is in Trouble - felix1996 https://little-noko.tumblr.com/post/625211319027679232/patreon-as-a-platform-is-in-trouble-important ====== dgellow The post is missing context. That's what I can find: \- Owen Benjamin has been removed from Patreon late 2019 \- His fans file suits against Patreon clai...
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