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Show HN: A curated list of awesome web apps - vasanthv
https://github.com/vasanthv/awesome-web-apps
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bradknowles
It’s not a curated list of awesome anything if you don’t annotate each entry
and tell us what it does and why it is awesome at doing it.
IMO, of course.
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vasanthv
Makesense, renamed it to [https:... | {
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TSMC and OIP Deliver Industry’s First Complete Design Infrastructure 5nm Process - ytch
https://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&newsid=THPGWQTHTH&language=E
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doe88
As an outsider I would never had anticipated Intel being leapfroged like that
in such a short window of time. As side ef... | {
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Announcing the Second Edition of Infrastructure as Code - mooreds
https://infrastructure-as-code.com/book/2019/12/10/announcing-second-edition.html
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santoriv
I really hope this book has some discussion regarding Pulumi in addition to
the normal Terraform discussion. My team switched over to Pulumi recently
after... | {
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Ask HN: Bootstrap alternatives? - mkrecny
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beat
I've started using Foundation, and like it so far. It's less prescriptive
visually than Bootstrap.
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razvvan
Zurb Foundation
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gustavomx
Foundation
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The likely end of DownThemAll - deltaprotocol
http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/
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tptacek
There is no piece of software in the world harder to secure than a browser.
There's almost no other piece of software where compromises have higher
stakes. Further, the verdict is probably in on wheth... | {
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} |
Indian PSLV successfully lofts multiple satellites - swatkat
http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/02/pslv-launch-multi-sats/
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teeboy
Go ISRO! I wish the Indian Govt did one less scam a year and granted a 10X
increase in ISRO budget. But you are doing some amazing work on an operating
budget less than a big Amer... | {
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} |
Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain - davidbarker
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/11165823451/filmmaker-finally-aims-to-get-court-to-admit-that-happy-birthday-is-public-domain.shtml
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dang
A dupe of
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8092864](https://news.ycombinator.com/... | {
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Coronavirus: How the UK government failed to develop a contact-tracing app - davidbarker
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-the-inside-story-of-how-government-failed-to-develop-a-contact-tracing-app-12031282
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quattrofan
It's pretty clear the time is fast approaching for big tech to be dealt with
and ideally ... | {
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Show HN: New SEO tool for content and technical SEO analysis - gregory90
https://seodity.com
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gregory90
Hello!
For the last few months we’ve been working on a new tool for analyzing
websites.
In the first iteration we’ve focused on the analysis of the content and
technical aspects. While entering one address o... | {
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Photogenic Alchemy - Photo developed in Absinthe? - cheeyoonlee
http://www.synapseshots.com/photogenicalchemy/#prettyPhoto
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cheeyoonlee
Just mesmerized by the results...chemical explanations of occurrences to each
effect would be extremely interesting!
| {
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Introducing Tectonic – A Kubernetes and CoreOS Platform - lucasjans
https://tectonic.com/blog/announcing-tectonic/
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mackwic
> Tectonic is a commercial distribution of the combined Kubernetes and CoreOS
> stack.
> Tectonic pre-packages all of the open source components required to build a
> Google-style infrastr... | {
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Introducing the Internet.org App - djug
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/07/introducing-the-internet-org-app/
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quink
> The Internet.org app will be available first to Airtel subscribers in Zambia
> and we’ll continue to improve the experience and roll it out to other parts
> of the world.
And by coincidence thi... | {
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Half-Life HeadCrab Zombie Rendered in WebGL w/ animation - darien
http://www.webgl.com/2012/04/webgl-demo-half-life-zombie-model/
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zrgiu_
While this doesn't really show anything we haven't seen before done in WebGL,
it's good to have because it shrinks the perception of the gap between browser
and native apps/... | {
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} |
Smartphone app recognizes stress and depression - matthijs_
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530876/this-phone-app-knows-if-youre-depressed/
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matthijs_
The Dartmouth research this article mentions:
Authors: Rui Wang, Fanglin Chen, Zhenyu Chen, Tianxing Li, Gabriella Harari,
Stefanie Tignor, Xia Zhou, Dror... | {
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P5.js: Processing for today’s web - bpierre
http://p5js.org
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html5web
Holy shit! This is great presentation
[http://hello.p5js.org/](http://hello.p5js.org/)
~~~
nfoz
> Your browser doesn't support all of the features required for this demo.
> Please consider using the latest version of Chrome.
I guess "today's... | {
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Tobacco industry generates highest net income per employee - qwerty2020
http://erikrood.com/Posts/NIPE.html
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jmarbach
One reason for this is because the Tobacco industry benefits enormously from
manufacturing economies of scale. Take for example Reynolds American's
(mentioned in the article) largest manufacturin... | {
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} |
The $1,632 Copy Of Microsoft Vista - nreece
http://consumerist.com/tag/windows/?i=5010868&t=microsoft-and-the-1632-copy-of-vista
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sriramk
Its probably a bad thing to reveal which company I work for here :).
The right people at MSFT are on the case (on a Sunday morning during Memorial
Day weekend no less) and ar... | {
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Awesome Ssh Tricks - mds
http://criticalfutures.com/2011/03/9-awesome-ssh-tricks/
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benawabe896
These have been good to me. Nice way to preserve permissions as well.
tar czf - files/ | ssh whatever.com "cd /path/to/; tar xzvf - "
ssh whatever.com "cd /path/to/; tar czf - files/" | tar xzvf -
| {
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Wisee uses wi-fi signals to recognise body gestures - jamesbritt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22780640
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Eduardo3rd
Even though the article does not go into a large amount of detail about it,
the actual paper [0] does a fairly good job addressing the issue of
interference with the signal. I'm still skepti... | {
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Lua 5.2.0 (work1) now available - silentbicycle
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2010-01/msg00260.html
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twrensch
There's some information in the readme.html file included with the
distribution, and a bit more in the manual.
Work versions are aimed at the active lua community as a way to get feedback
on featur... | {
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Show HN: Messagify - a private Disqus for web apps. Feedback? - alabut
http://messagify.com
Hey HN, I'm a longtime reader and this is my first Show HN (exciting!) It's a collaboration between me and two friends, and we're building this upon another app we made called EmailYak, an API to receive email. We're trying so... | {
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ReactOS 0.3.17 is about to be released - userulluipeste
http://community.reactos.org/index.php/news/reactos-0-3-17-is-about-to-be-released
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jeditobe
[http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-
reactos-...](http://reboot.pro/topic/20149-ntfs-now-supported-in-reactos-
livecd/)
| {
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Shadow banned by fingerprint? - justintestin
My old account "get" is shadow banned. I have no idea why. So I tried to make a new one "GetMeAway". I used a new IP and deleted cookies. Yet the new one was immediately shadowbanned too. Does HN use fingerprinting for this? Writing this via a proxy and ... | {
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Project 5050 [video] - spking
http://www.project5050.org/
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goodroot
Woohoo!
I once heard a metaphor on HN for the growth of software products. Building
technology as War.
Start-up: Your initial core of members make up the ELITE team. They are the
ones that storm the enemy lines, cutting the throats of the enem... | {
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It's impossible to opt out of unsolicited emails from Heroku? “That is correct” - rickymetz2
https://imgur.com/a/96yoKrq
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m-p-3
That would be a violation of the Anti-Spam Legislation in Canada.
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eesmith
Would that be a GDPR violation?
~~~
throwaway73629
My understanding is that it would be a GDPR violati... | {
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Facebook suspended the account of whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica - rock57
https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-suspended-account-whistleblower-exposed-221429183.html
======
JumpCrisscross
The arrogance of Facebook's response to this breach, quibbling over what to
call it and now this, is mind-blowing. Th... | {
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} |
JointJS 0.8 Released - filters, gradients and ports - durman
http://jointjs.com/blog/jointjs-0-8-released.html
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flipchart
How does this library compare to d3?
| {
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I was partially deaf for the last couple of years - comet
http://bycomet.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/ear-wax-i-was-partially-deaf-for-the-last-couple-of-years/
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sambeau
A taxi driver once told me great story about an old man in his local bar. *
_pushes light gently to provide suitable on-boat ambiance_ *
'Gunner... | {
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Show HN: 12 Days of Christmas for Techies - alexellisuk
https://blog.alexellis.io/your-12-days-of-tech-christmas/
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lowpro
Honestly I hope most techies actually use the holidays for... holiday things.
These are great and seem like a lot of fun! However, I can't imagine another
industry where people take twelve da... | {
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} |
Is your serverless system as good as you think? Are your sure? - rehemagi
https://medium.com/@rehemagi/is-your-serverless-as-good-as-you-think-it-is-2baa3d36b1de
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BoorishBears
Yes, because we use Cloudwatch and we monitor DLQ events.
That should be standard operating procedure.
| {
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Jim Rogers: I would urge anyone to buy a farm - cwan
http://www.smh.com.au/business/reserve-earns-praise-but-not-our-politicians-20100518-vc69.html
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hugh3
_The only disappointment I've had is that your politicians are as bad as the
ones in America. If the Australian government keeps running up such gigantic
de... | {
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iOS Backdoor Services Proof of Concept - taylorhalliday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5ymf0UsEuw
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owenwil
I'm tired of the misinformation around this - the requirements to do this mean
the user needs to know exactly what they're doing: 1) Unlock the phone 2)
Trust the connected PC on the prompt
Isn't it inh... | {
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Using Google Cloud AutoML to Classify Poisonous Australian Spiders - mattfrasernz
https://shinesolutions.com/2018/03/14/using-google-cloud-automl-vision-to-classify-poisonous-australian-spiders/
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michaelgreen
This is huge, and it's only an alpha. I begun reading about AutoML/Neural
Architecture searches around ~... | {
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} |
Judge tells copyright troll to put up or shut up on porn lawsuits - evo_9
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/judge-tells-copyright-troll-to-put-up-or-shut-up-on-porn-lawsuits/
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1simonsayz
"This summer, a California judge referred to Malibu's lawsuits in that state
as "essentially an extortion scheme." I... | {
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Show HN: With-React-Hooks - kesne
https://github.com/kesne/with-react-hooks
======
kesne
Author here.
React Hooks are kind of cool, but they're a bit too magic because you use them
in functions and functions don't have state. Classes have state, and we all
understand them, so I thought it'd be nice to bring the usefu... | {
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We're getting closer to the quantum internet, but what is it? - retpirato
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/future-tech/quantum-internet.htm
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retpirato
[https://youtu.be/jxZD2QdutEc](https://youtu.be/jxZD2QdutEc) also mentions
quantum internet
| {
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Never Hate. Only Ever Destroy. - baha_man
http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/never-hate-only-ever-destroy.html
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maxklein
This is how I see it: The startup scene is like a big mall where one quarter
have shops selling stuff that people are looking for, and the other 3/4 are
borrowing money to buy lottery ... | {
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jQuery 1.4.3 Released - nathanhammond
http://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/2d201873ff47b927a8c1efcee07191a47033744c
From the jQuery blog:
There are a few areas in jQuery that have seen extensive changes since 1.4.2 was released:
* .css() and related css-handling methods were all overhauled.
* Logic for dete... | {
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Into the Grey Zone - evilsimon
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2017/08/grey-zone-can-one-really-be-conscious-while-coma
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subroutine
Consciousness is a very interesting epiphenomenon. It piques intellectual
interest across the board, from first year psychology students, to Nobel
Laureates like Francis C... | {
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} |
This nasty new Android ransomware encrypts your phone – and changes your PIN - excalibur
http://www.zdnet.com/article/this-nasty-new-android-ransomware-encrypts-your-phone-and-changes-your-pin/
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excalibur
Better URL:
[https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/10/13/doublelocker-
innov...](https://www.welivesecurity.c... | {
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New apps designed to reduce depression and anxiety - upen
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2017/01/apps-to-reduce-depression-anxiety/
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innocentoldguy
The article doesn't mention what platforms these apps currently run on. This
may change in the future, but for now it looks like they are Android-only.
Here ... | {
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} |
Show HN: Shorty – A dead simple URL shortener service (with analytics) - Syncbo
https://github.com/shorty/
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gokaygurcan
[https://github.com/shorty/](https://github.com/shorty/) is a user with no
repository from UK. Are you sure that the url is correct?
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johnmurch
Correct URL -
[https://github.com/PadamSet... | {
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Inssist – Instagram Assistant - inssist
https://inssist.com
======
inssist
A free Chrome extension for Instagram that offers post scheduling, videos &
photos uploads from desktop, insights, account analytics, DMs and more.
| {
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I made a patch for Mozilla, and you can do it too - martius
http://marti.us/w/2014-07-19-Mozilla-BSP.html
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paulrouget
I've been working with new contributors for some years now. Here are some
advices:
\- find a mentor. It will helps a lot (use
[http://www.joshmatthews.net/bugsahoy/);](http://www.joshmatthews.ne... | {
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Offline Disk Import for Google Cloud Storage - ship your HDDs to Google - rasterizer
https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/early-access
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octo_t
For me to upload 3TB on my shoddy connection would take about 290 days or so.
If I ever needed to put that much data in the cloud, you can bet I'd use
something l... | {
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} |
Ask HN: Please review my startup: flashissue.com - eranation
We launched FlashIssue, a web app for curating newsletters quickly using existing web content about two months ago and got great reviews from users, but we would like to help convert more users to the point of sending the newsletter through us (or the mail... | {
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Ask HN: What are some cool ideas for a Chat Bot? - hugofonseca
I want to build bots as a side project, and would appreciate some ideas.
They could be just productivity increase ideas (e.g. solve human problems/needs in a office(?)), or just for fun.
I'm thinking about integrating with Slack, but not necessar... | {
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Empty-Stomach Intelligence - lbr
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/magazine/10section1C.t-1.html
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gpcz
This reminds me of a passage from Ben Franklin's "Autobiography" about
vegetarianism, but could be reinterpreted as a statement on the benefits of
being hungry:
"When about 16 years of age I happened to meet w... | {
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I was turned down for a job at a tech startup because I’m male - vs2
https://medium.com/@stigmapseudonym/i-was-turned-down-for-a-job-at-a-tech-startup-because-im-male-c1ea6dc87733
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andy_felsil
This article has already been submitted 1 hour earlier:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8172047](https://news.yc... | {
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Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices? - jmtame
Hi everyone,<p>I have scoured the YC forum for a post on great PHP tricks and best practices, but found nothing. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but I would appreciate it if anyone knows of great sites or tutorials. I use CodeIgniter (excellent classes, typical MV... | {
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Really clever augmented reality advertising - adriand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JT0Fs3JXM
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Dellort
Really impractical with current technology for augmented reality. Maybe with
an overlay on glasses or something, but this is stupid.
| {
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Falling in Love with the Dark - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/falling-in-love-with-the-dark?utm_source=tss&utm_medium=desktop&utm_campaign=linkfrom
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chrissnell
Once a year, some buddies from all over the country and I get together to
spend a week in the deserts of Southern Utah and the Colorado Plateau... | {
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Making the web faster with SPDY and HTTP/2 - cleverjake
http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/making-web-faster-with-spdy-and-http2.html
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cpg
SPDY is a common sense protocol in many ways. It seems simple but it has quite
a few wrinkles when implementing it properly.
As a way to learn Go I started a Go SPDY library[1... | {
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A Review of MVC - fcoury
http://mikepackdev.com/blog_posts/34-a-review-of-mvc
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azza-bazoo
"a program is without value before it is used by an end user for something
valuable"
Nice snippet of advice there. Also the rest of Trygve's original post is an
excellent reminder (and in simple terms) of MVC as an idea,... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Google is stalking me (iOS). Did I agree? - tomas789
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/timeline
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tomas789
I just found out, that Google has my history of visited places and they are
collecting it for quite long time. I'd never agreed to this consciously. Where
did they get my agreement from?
| {
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Blackstone Plans Orbitz IPO - rbc
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070510/orbitz_ipo.html?.v=1
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rbc
I'm curious how ITA Software will be affected by this.
| {
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Success Breeds Success in Startups - quizbiz
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-028.pdf
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randomwalker
Summary: a previously successful entrepreneur is two-thirds more likely to
succeed in his next venture than a first-time entrepreneur. Part of this
difference is (obviously) attributable to skill, but the pape... | {
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} |
Huawei to offload undersea telecoms cable business - jmsflknr
https://www.ft.com/content/cb093112-85d1-11e9-a028-86cea8523dc2
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rurban
Non paywall: [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-
cable/chi...](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-usa-cable/chinas-
huawei-to-sell-undersea-cable-busi... | {
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Innovations For Poor Farmers - vicpara
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Innovation
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vicpara
I like the fact that it frames the term "innovative" in a space where maybe
very few expect it. My first intuition was toward some fancy tech or smart
materials. I was surprised to find out innovative for them mean... | {
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} |
Testing Database Transactions in Go - marvinblum
https://marvinblum.de/blog/testing-database-transactions-in-go-jEaOGXravM
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theptip
This covers one possible deadlock, but there are so many more ways to do this.
More common (IME) is a true logic deadlock, particularly if you are using
strict serialization (say, y... | {
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Concurrency vs. Parallelism and the Erlang Advantage - nathan_long
http://nathanmlong.com/2017/06/concurrency-vs-paralellism/
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ac2u
Funnily enough, I also employ lunchtime food prep scenarios to help explain
similar topics.
| {
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Datomic: The most innovative DB you've never heard of - nwjsmith
http://augustl.com/blog/2016/datomic_the_most_innovative_db_youve_never_heard_of/
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nickpsecurity
Great summary! Might have to check it out. Plus, even if they don't want to
grow, they could always partner with a company that handles the sales,
supp... | {
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Coming Soon: The Five Dollar ATM Fee - pbj
http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/03/16/its-coming-the-5-atm-fee/
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nanoanderson
In the UK, 97% of ATM transactions are done using free-to-use LINK-network
ATMs (<http://www.link.co.uk/> &
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_usage_fees#United_Kingdom>). I feel that
there a... | {
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} |
3D-printed skull simulates sensations of brain surgery - graeham
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24741-3dprinted-skull-simulates-sensations-of-brain-surgery.html#.UqpZa_RdV8E
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pramalin
Wow. It is one the best application of 3D printers I have seen.
One nitpick: The name of the professor is incorrectly s... | {
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} |
Recommended Readings in AI - a list by Russell and Norvig - fogus
http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/books.html
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Dn_Ab
Ever since Euclid listed (collected?) his axioms the march towards AI became
inevitable. People don't realize how much AI "failures" have contriubted to
computing, programming and society in general. S... | {
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} |
Google’s Stock-Split Plan Would Replace Stewardship With Dictatorship - cpeterso
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-wong-google-dividend/
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sirclueless
While I agree in principle with this article's point that non-voting stock
makes more likely the possibility of an iron-clad grip by irresponsible
d... | {
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} |
Always Connected PCs enable a new culture of work - benaadams
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/12/05/always-connected-pcs-enable-a-new-culture-of-work/
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benaadams
built in 4G LTE2/Gigabit LTE and week long battery life
| {
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American Express will give all parents 20 weeks of paid leave - codegeek
http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/12/pf/paid-parental-leave-american-express/index.html
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dharmon
This is a great step for what's really a sad state of affairs in the US.
My wife and I like to "joke" (it's not really funny) that we know enough t... | {
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} |
Show HN: Taking on the Freight Industry with Freightify - bluehat
http://www.freightify.com/
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pg_bot
I am the founder of freightify, if you have any questions feel free to ask me
here or send me an email.
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bluehat
every time he says "load" I snicker like a middle schooler
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Ask HN: What are your biggest time savers when building a SaaS? - philtar
What are some things you do when building a SaaS that save a ton of time?<p>Some that I can name:<p>* Use a web framework<p>* Customize a template instead of building from scratch (wrap bootstrap)<p>* outsource your billing (zuroa, chargify, etc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Show HN: Unreplied 2.0 for SMS/iMessage, now with CLI support - nexuist
https://unreplied.app
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nexuist
Hi HN!
I finally released version 2.0 of my Mac app, Unreplied!
it offers a status bar menu that shows you a list of messages you haven't
replied to. Even if you open the conversation, Unreplied will still ke... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How a Group of Heretical Thinkers Chipped Away at the Idea of ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ - hhs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/books/review-gods-of-upper-air-charles-king.html
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deogeo
> He started to put the word “race” in scare quotes, calling it a “dangerous
> fiction. [..] Boas and his circle confronted a bigotry tha... | {
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} |
Working in a Prison Goat Milk Farm - happy-go-lucky
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/07/20/538062911/whats-it-really-like-to-work-in-a-prison-goat-milk-farm-we-asked-inmates
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Lazare
Prison labour is deeply problematic for ethical reasons, but I think a lot of
commentators here are misunderstanding the ec... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: What are some great startup blogs? - hackathonguy
Hey fellas!<p>What are some startups that run fantastic blogs? Looking for some inspiration for http://blog.yalabot.com.<p>I enjoy https://blog.baremetrics.com and the marvelous https://signalvnoise.com. Would love to hear your fav... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ruby Developers Don't Scale - swombat
http://railsontherun.com/2008/8/27/ruby-developers-don-t-scale
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thomasmallen
Being from San Diego, it appears the writer has more than one thing in common
with Ron Burgundy:
"Anyways, I have been quite busy preparing courses for classes I gave to a
bunch a great Engineers... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
David Byrne: Don't Forget the Motor City - jericsinger
http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2010/09/092310-dont-forget-the-motor-city.html
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bryansum
Having lived in Michigan for almost all my life, I find Mr. Byrne's conclusion
and observations about Detroit to be pretty accurate. I want to point out that
not all par... | {
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} |
RFC7169 – No Secrecy Afforded X.509 extension silently published (on 2014-04-01) - mykhal
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7169
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HCIdivision17
The simplicity of the signal is refreshing: TRUE if the key is shared, FALSE
if the key is shared but the signer doesn't want to explicitly say so.
Elegant.
~~~
ealexhuds... | {
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} |
Metacrap: The problems of metadata and how to solve them - pcr910303
https://people.well.com/user/doctorow/metacrap.htm
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bryanrasmussen
It seems every few years I end up at a job/task where this essay is useful.
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sovok_x
In short: use unsupervised AIs and algorithms to generate metadata because
humans suc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Nevergrad: A Python library for performing derivative-free ML optimization - jimarcey
https://code.fb.com/ai-research/nevergrad/
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oteytaud
To the best of my knowledge, Hyperopt is limited to random search and Parzen
variants. We have more algorithms, and include test functions, deal with
noise. On the other hand... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Cognitive Style of Unix - adambyrtek
http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3339907908/the-cognitive-style-of-unix
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jaylevitt
In case you find the graphs as confusing as I did:
In the first graph (predicted results), the dotted line is "internalized"
(command line), the solid line is "externalized" (GUI), and the... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facts about Android - jaywalker
http://www.androided.me/5-interesting-facts-about-android/
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mda
He is playing with words.
"Fact 1: Android runs Linux. But it’s not “the Linux.”" No, It IS "the Linux".
A lot of distributions do not use vanilla Linux kernel. You are free to change
whatever part you want. It doe... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How Apple Almost Got Microsoft’s Kinect Game Controller - recoiledsnake
http://www.cultofmac.com/how-apple-almost-got-microsofts-kinect-game-controller/67951
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fname
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not quite sure I follow how they "almost" got it.
Perhaps if they were negotiating numbers and figures and it just fell ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
GNU SIP Witch 1.0 released for peer-to-peer next gen VoIP - Grauwolf
http://planet.gnu.org/gnutelephony/?p=18
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viraptor
Does anyone know why is it "next gen"? And how does "peer-to-peer" mean in
this case?
The only description of sip witch with some actual content (that I could find)
is here: <http://www.slides... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads - mightybyte
http://mightybyte.github.io/monad-challenges/
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LukeHoersten
Doug Beardsley (mightybyte) is a very prominent Haskeller. A maintainer of the
Snap Web Framework for Haskell and Co-organizer of the NYC Haskell group.
Definitely worth reading ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Show HN: Kong – Physical Cryptocurrency - ccamrobertson
https://kong.cash/
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ccamrobertson
Hi folks, I’m one of the contributors at Kong —
[https://kong.cash/](https://kong.cash/). Kong is a physical cryptocurrency
that looks, feels and works like traditional cash. You can think of it as an
ultra-secure, time loc... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Powering the Cell, Mitochondria - stunning new animation - hfinney
http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/
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hfinney
Here is possibly a better link:
<http://biovisions.mcb.harvard.edu/anim_mitochondria.html>
This is a sequel to the Inner Life of a Cell animation that came out a few
years ago. It shows what happens... | {
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} |
A very creative 404 - zuu
http://www.nosh.me/404
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ColinWright
Discussion on an earlier submission:
<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2835820>
| {
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} |
DOS vulnerability in Silverlight 5s 3D (similar to WebGL DOS vulnerability) - patrickaljord
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/676134/dos-vulnerability-in-silverlight-5s-3d-similar-to-webgl-dos-vulnerability
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kkowalczyk
I'm glad that someone demonstrated Microsoft's FUD and their double... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Pirate Bay Founder Remains In Custody - w1ntermute
http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-remains-locked-up-without-charges-120930/
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Peer
Typical sensational TorrentFreak article. This is normal procedure in Swedish
courts. The Swedish legal system is different and what would be called
"charged" comes much... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
ValidatorJS/A quick validator implementation - pharzan
https://github.com/pharzan/validatorJS
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brudgers
If it meets the guidelines and want feedback, this might make a good "Show
HN".
Guidelines:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)
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UFO: A Drone/UAV Programming Library for Rust - formalsystem
https://github.com/ajmwagar/ufo
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bri3d
Is anyone working on flight controllers in Rust? Now that the STM targets are
maturing it seems like a perfect target. I can only find stub projects and
blog posts right now.
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blt
A low level flight controller... | {
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} |
New Zealand glaciers turn brown from Australian bushfires' smoke, ash and dust - DyslexicAtheist
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/02/new-zealand-glaciers-turn-brown-from-australian-bushfires-smoke-ash-and-dust
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rbanffy
Can they expect floods from the decreased albedo?
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} |
Ask HN: Best place for a professional to get a computer science degree? - alexrbarlow
I've been working professionally for about 6 years in Ruby, iOS and UNIX but I never attained a degree.<p>Recently I've been wondering if anywhere does good ones online that I could do in my spare time or whether it'... | {
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} |
Try node.js in the browser - MeProtozoan
http://jsapp.us/#!
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anatoly
I hope someone does "Try Javascript in the browser".
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tomjen3
anybody using node for their startup? I am not sure if it works for larger
projects, but that opinion may well be tainted by my dislike of javascript.
~~~
simonw
We have some... | {
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} |
This Doctor Diagnosed His Own Cancer with an iPhone Ultrasound - agrothberg
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609195/this-doctor-diagnosed-his-own-cancer-with-an-iphone-ultrasound/
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nicodjimenez
Congrats to the Butterfly team! Amazing team and amazing product. Really
excited to see the impact on the medical pro... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
17 Layouts Almost Used for Phone Buttons - shawkinaw
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/08/the-17-designs-that-bell-almost-used-for-the-layout-of-telephone-buttons/279237/
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CrunchyJams
A friend of mine recently brought up the idea of a curved smartphone design to
maximize thumb reach. My head n... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
How the Apple Watch Ejects Water in Slow Mo - vladoh
https://youtu.be/EIEwy8rPik4
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OtterGauze
I have reservations about Apple, but ill never deny that their product
engineering for both the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch continue to impress me.
Now if only they could get engineering like this into the Macbook lin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hunch Hasn't a Clue About My Intentions - cyunker
http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=556&doc_id=189349
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bhattisatish
To me hunch is not a recommendation system. To me it seems to be more of a
data collector. I have a strong feeling they are just collecting the data
generated by us and re-se... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
China Hints at Use of Force in Hong Kong and Says U.S. Is Undermining Stability - hker
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/world/asia/china-military-hong-kong-taiwan-protests.html
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geowwy
I always think it's better to go back to the original source material, so
here's the white paper mentioned:
[http://english.go... | {
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} |
Self-Feeding Robots: Robots that Plug Themselves Into Wall Outlets - pufuwozu
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/01/03/self-feeding-robots-robots-plug-themselves-wall-outlets
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pufuwozu
I am impressed that Intel has used the <http://ros.org/> stack to offload a
lot of the work. I think it shows that open-source in... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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