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Ask HN: I have received a Cease And Desist letter. What to do? 6 by robbiejs | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I am Robbert, creator of JavaScript Excel-like data table library DataGridXL (https://datagridxl.com). I made this component since similar products are quite slow & unreliable. I just released version 2 of the product and decided to add a few "Comparison Pages" to my website, to show visitors why my product is better (when it comes to performance & reliability). Now, the most well known JavaScript Excel-like data table libary has sent me a Cease And Desist Letter by email (twice) demanding that I take this Compare page (https://ift.tt/aKk1mwl) offline. I am not much of a legal rights expert, but so far I have ignored it. I can publish whatever I want, right? Freedom of speech? So far I have just laughed it off and considered it very childish for a 20 person company to try to pressure me into taking this page offline. However, I could use the advice of the H

Ask HN: What has been your biggest IT security fuck-up? 2 by hubraumhugo | 0 comments on Hacker News. Curious to hear your stories, I'm sure others can learn from it!

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Ask HN: How can we pay Ukrainians to work for us? 7 by dgreisen | 5 comments on Hacker News. Our US-based non-profit, Open Law Library, would like to offer positions to Ukrainian developers. We would ideally like to pay for services weekly in advance, rather than arrears, to assist with immediate cash flow needs. Does anybody have suggestions on the best way to provide payment? I understand Ukrainian banks are still up for now, so are wire transfers the most reliable, or should we use visa/master card e-gift cards? Something else? Aside from the "who is hiring" posts tomorrow, are there any boards or services we should be posting to? Thank you! David Greisen dgreisen@openlawlib.org

Ask HN: Curious about Ansible but afraid or blocked on getting started? 2 by MaknMoreGtnLess | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are you curious about Ansible [0] for your CM, IaC needs but afraid or blocked on getting started? 1. What are some of the blockers 2. What will (significantly) improve for you if you became proficient in Ansible? 3. Are there some things that you just can't do right not but would be easuer if you became proficient in Ansible? [0] https://ift.tt/UL5JaWf

Ask HN: Anything an ordinary person can do to support civilians in the Ukraine? 4 by _jae_ | 15 comments on Hacker News. Obviously, whats happening in the Ukraine right now sucks - reading about civilians being killed just leaves me incredibly scared, angry, sad and most of all helpless. It feels hypocritical to me to continue my daily life as before while there is a war going on in Europe. But is there anything that we - 'normal' people - can/should do? Should I donate a part of my income? Any other ideas? Sidenote: I don't want to support Ukrainian government but ordinary civilians. Judging from all I know, Russia are the 'bad guys' but all my information comes from western media so it is likely biased. Thus, I do not want to support any kind of war actions in itself, I rather want to help people that have to suffer from the consequences.

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Ask HN: Is there a free Zapier that works with Facebook Leads and TikTok Leads? 3 by somid3 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Zapier is a great tool, but for what it does for Facebook and TikTok leads, the price seems excessive. Is there a free tool (or less expensive) way to capture the form leads from Facebook and TikTok? I feel Zapier has become a swiss-army knife product "to do all things integration" when most marketers just need it to integrate the form leads data. Thank you.

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Ask HN: Has there been a change in the troll activity on the internet? 2 by edge17 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Just curious if anyone has seen a change in the trolling, memes, etc on the internet/twitter etc since the Russian actions in Ukraine? Are we seeing a drop in areas of US/Western politics as those resources are directed towards a different offensive front?

Ask HN: What messaging tool should I use for a local affinity group? 4 by subpixel | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been invited to join a couple dozen non-technical people who live in the same area who have started a group for events and meetups and want a better messaging solution than email. Facebook not an option, I’ve been told. I’m tempted to suggest free Slack, we don’t need a searchable archive that goes back long. But honesty I haven’t tried half of the currently popular messaging tools, and don’t have time to try them all to form an opinion. What do or would you use for this type of thing?

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Ask HN: Stripe subscription vs. chargebee? What to choose and why? 2 by zaphodq42 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I want to integrate subscription payments in my app. We are bootstrapped and around 10K MRR. What should we integrate for subscription payments? 2 popular options are stripe subscriptions and charge bee. Stripe subscriptions API looks fairly simple to add. Should I just go ahead with that?

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Winter on Fire – Ukraine's fight for freedom (2015) 4 by abridgett | 0 comments on Hacker News. The brutality of the previous regime on Ukrainians is eye opening. This film covers the 2013-2014 protests leading up to the https://ift.tt/WYfqaNA. Netflix: https://ift.tt/Q1zP35p

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Ask HN: How do we know Russians aren't influencing HN? 9 by dmarchand90 | 8 comments on Hacker News. With all the recent talk of a massive cyberattacks from Russia, and in particular, the recent story of Russian bots reporting viewers of Ukrainian livestreams, how do we know HN is not under external threat or influence?

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Ask HN: Russian and Ukrainians living in the west, how have you gotten along? 3 by phenkdo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've worked and work with several Russian & Ukrainian immigrants to US/Canada. In the past, from what I could see, there was bonhomie. Also from an outsider's perspective, they were indistinguishable. How are you Russian/Ukrainian Americans/Canadians/Britons/Germans getting along in these parlous times? For obvious reasons, I cannot directly ask my work colleagues.

Ask HN: As a long-time unofficial developer, how do I level set for SWE jobs? 3 by throwawaytuary | 0 comments on Hacker News. While my job title is “Actuary”, software development and management have been my bread and butter for a number of years now. I had a hand in creating most of the systems and tools that my team uses today, but lately there have been some obstacles to building cool new things or making quality of life improvements in our existing tools. I also see some career limitations if I keep going down this hybrid path. I’m considering a career change to focus on being a developer or an engineering manager. I think I can find positives to focus on and be happy in either role. I’m not sure which level of jobs I should be applying for though. Telling people that I have 5+ years of professional development experience feels iffy with a resume that isn’t very clean cut. I also assume that I might have some knowledge gaps, but I don’t think I’m a junior either. In 2022, how w

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Remind HN: Russian people did not vote for it's government 7 by asats | 1 comments on Hacker News. Reading the comments about the recent events I see and understand the frustration and the desire to blame "the russians" for the things that it's government is doing. Given that I'd like for you all to understand and remember that the vast majority of the russian population has never voted for this government and it's actions do not represent the will of the russian people. This is not a conjecture, it's a mathematical fact, you can explore the results of the recent elections yourself and see the scale of the perpetrated fraud: https://ift.tt/XUEZ19Q Most trusted russian election analyst Sergey Shpilkin estimates that without the "election anomalies", the current government has likely received around 31–33% of the votes with an estimated real election turnout of around 38%. Considering that turnout that comes out to around 12.8% of all eligible r

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Ask HN: I don't know text editing shortcuts. Should I learn Vim/Emacs/My IDE? 7 by skwee357 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I live most of the time inside JetBrains IDEs. I occasionally edit random files, mainly in terminal using Vim. I also write a blog (with different tools, mainly Obsidian and Typora). In Firefox and Chrome, I use Vimium for years. Recently, I've realized that I don't really master any editing shortcuts. I'm able to navigate char by char, word by word, end and beginning of the line, as well as selecting text. But nothing more complex. For any complex file editing, I resort to mouse. I know that JetBrains have tons of shortcuts to help with text editing, Vim has its own as well as Emacs. Few years ago, I've switched to 60% keyboard (so my arrow keys are on CapsLock+ijkl) and I feel like my typing speed did increase. I'm looking to make a similar improvement in regards to text editing and I'm wondering what should I invest it. I know that E

Ask HN: How to scale a multi tenant app that uses a db per tenant 6 by aszen | 2 comments on Hacker News. We have a multi tenant application which uses a db for each tenant, how do scale it to support 1000s of tenants. Managing dbs for each tenant seems a lot of work. MySQL server has a limit on how many databases you can create on a single server. Also how to make sure each tenants load stays balanced, and one tenants worse performance does not affect another.

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Ask HN: How do I build payment integration for in-app currency 2 by runkinrun | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems Stripe and others consider it a risk and don't allow it. I am trying to add in-app currency to my web app - to allow some users to buy the currency and send to others who can then get a pay out.

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Ask HN: How do I help my elderly grandmother remotely? 2 by emptysongglass | 5 comments on Hacker News. My grandmother has a Windows 10 PC that looks like it was set up by Geek Squad. We used the built-in Quick Assist app and while I was in I saw a new browser, "Wave Browser" [1], it looks like snuck into her AppData directory. There's also an anti-virus, Webroot, I believe was installed by Geek Squad, which is now out-of-license. She's called me a few times since, complaining of not remembering her passwords and other small things. I'm worried she's going to have her identity stolen with passwords that are literally her username plus a symbol. How can I best help in 2022? I've looked at Alexa Together [2], which provides everything but remote access. I'm considering getting her to use a password manager but I'm doubtful she'll remember how it works or that her passwords were generated by the built-in password generator if Chrome. Sometimes

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Ask HN: What is something exciting you're working on? 4 by Link- | 2 comments on Hacker News. The more I advance in my career, the more frequent are the phases when all novelty and excitement about software development, and tech in general, starts to fade away. I'm looking for inspiration, so what's something really exciting that you're working on? (day job, hobby project, whatever...)

Seasonality in Google Searches for “USSR”, “Soviet”, and “Cold War” 2 by IAmGraydon | 2 comments on Hacker News. Any guesses as to why there is strong seasonality in searches for "USSR", "Soviet", and "Cold War"? https://ift.tt/Btf8rlK Delete the "Cold War" item to rescale for a better look.

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Ask HN: Who's Investing in Startups? (February 2022) 3 by hubraumhugo | 0 comments on Hacker News. We regularly see the successful "Who's hiring" and "Who wants to be hired" threads here. As a founder who is currently raising a financing round, I thought it could be interesting to introduce "Who's investing" (and "Who's raising") threads. Please state what sectors you invest in and at what stage (check size and global/US only could be helpful). Commenters: please don't reply to posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. (copied from "Who's hiring")

Ask HN: Recommended books on blackholes for school-aged? 2 by ffhhj | 0 comments on Hacker News. My little daughter started drawing blackholes and asking about them, whether these are doors to other dimensions, and so on. When I was a kid I got fascinated by the concept of these "gravity wells", from a 1984's encyclopedia and Disney's black hole movie with AI and all. Even designed a spaceship inside an asteroid to withstand the travel. Now I know the topic is more complex than that, but I'm looking for kids oriented literature on BH, gravitational waves, etc. "The Science of Interstellar" looks good for her age due to the visuals.

Ask HN: How should I get started learning modern programming? 2 by FollowingTheDao | 2 comments on Hacker News. So, an introduction of sorts because I thin it matters. From 1985 to 1987 I was a computer science major and was doing really well. It was Fortran back then. I also grew up using a Sinclar ZX81 so programming is not really new to me. But the programming languages sure are as well as the things you can do with it. I make bash scripts al the time for my genetic research so, well, you get it. Also, I was a Network Engineer for Cisco Systems before my Bipolar Disorder made it impossible for me to work. That was in 1999 and I have been living on disability since 2003. I would like to try my hand at programming for Linux applications, possibly MacOS as well. I have a 5th get Thinkpad X1 Carbon running Ubuntu and an M1 MacBook Air. I am also homeless and live in a minivan. I am doing fine with this life but if I could get back into programming and make some extra money it might b

Ask HN: Best bank for US based startups? 2 by bkovacev | 0 comments on Hacker News. My Mercury Bank application was just denied due to the country where I’m located (Southeastern Europe). No extra information provided - bummer. So, I opened up an LLC in the US and I’m looking for a solid and reliable bank where I can easily integrate with Stripe / PayPal and do all things online (international wires / payments). I do not mind traveling to the US to open the account in person, as long as I can do majority of the upper mentioned things online.

Which blogging platform should I use? 5 by Ishini_Av | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am planning to start blogging but I'm still confused with choosing a blogging platform/CMS. A no code one or one which requires coding knowledge would be OK. What are you guys' suggestions. Need a hand with that. What about WordPress, Weebly, Webflow, Ghost, Medium? Is there anything other than that which you found cool?

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Ask HN: What is the killer app/library of your favorite language? 8 by lquenti | 2 comments on Hacker News. I liked the idea of [1] that many languages just get popular because they have killer apps. The prime examples are - Wordpress and PHP - Rails and Ruby What are the killer apps of your favorite language? You can go for any language if you want to as well. For me, Haskell has 3 great apps/libraries: - PostgREST: An awesome way to create a REST-API from PostgreSQL tables - Shellcheck: A static analysis tool for Shell scripts - Pandoc: A parser/converter for various formats How about you? [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJZzq0v7Z4

Ask HN: Best Gmail Alternative? 13 by reissbaker | 22 comments on Hacker News. I keep seeing threads on HN about people getting locked out of their Google accounts for automated errors like the .DS_Store issue, uploading blank text files, or even just mysteriously for no apparent reason — and of course, Google customer support is nonexistent and won't help you recover your account. Since losing email access would be pretty devastating for most online accounts, I'm wondering: what are the best alternative email hosts from a customer service perspective? (I do not want to host my own mail server.)

Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book? 2 by zerojames | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are many threads that discuss one’s favorite programming or technology or startup related books. I’d love to hear from the community what fiction books they enjoy!

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Ask HN: Quit caffeine? Before and after anecdotes 2 by rubicon33 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Have you completely cut caffeine out of your life? How did that affect your creativity, problem solving, programming skills, general mood, etc? Asking because I’ve noticed a trend over my years of software that the best developers don’t drink coffee and don’t appear to consume caffeine in any other forms (at least not at work). Just looking for anecdotes!

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Ask HN: Who is the most curious person you follow? 5 by sandes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: How would you displace Ticketmaster? 2 by alpha_squared | 5 comments on Hacker News. There are no shortage of frustrations with the business practices and illegal activity Ticketmaster utilizes to keep its dominance in the event ticketing space. I'm consistently baffled at how they remain so dominant, but I have little experience in this space. How would you go about displacing them?

How do you guys come up with such an algorithm 2 by Handsome2734 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I was on an Apple QA interview yesterday, and I was asked to design a stack, which can do push and pop, and should have O(1) complexity to find the minimum value. I couldn't solve the problem, so after the interview, I looked up Google and found this: https://ift.tt/fj1UQqw I wonder how you come up with such a solution when given the problem. It seems just incredible.

Ask HN: Is Hacker News a “Community?” 4 by laurex | 6 comments on Hacker News. 'What makes something a community?' is a question I ask myself frequently. I think HN tends to like to get meta about HN - but it leads me to wonder what people mean when they mention "the community." Do you consider yourself part of the "HN Community?" Why or why not?

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Ask HN: Do you still use Exposure Notifications? 3 by gnicholas | 1 comments on Hacker News. When checking my battery stats, I noticed that Exposure Notifications was around 5% of my recent battery usage. Although this isn't a lot, it seems like it's for a completely useless feature. Is anyone else still using this, or are there any reasons I shouldn't deactivate it?

Tell HN: Can we surface the M1 Mac laggy/choppy cursor and scroll bug? 27 by nwienert | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just want to surface this to see if anyone has it fixed or so anyone at Apple can give it a look. I remember finding a fix involving editing a cursor file a while back, but it must not work as I've been seeing it again (and can't find that fix searching anymore). There's a lot of reports: https://ift.tt/EDu9zHZ https://ift.tt/MJAckwa https://ift.tt/3kKY1Uc https://ift.tt/2KVkd0W https://ift.tt/GFlU4Zt https://ift.tt/WPhYbec https://ift.tt/PYTOsrU There's this one video with a fix, but I already have shake to locate off and it happens without using any bluetooth mouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPlbpbCiVI

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Ask HN: Pinboard Archiving Working for You? 3 by Tomte | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've had major Pinboard archiving trouble over months and months in the past, with no satifying resolution. So I had let the archival membership run out. Recently I resubscribed, but alas, archival is again not working. At 85% of my bookmarks archival seems to have stopped. Do all of you Pinboard users on HN not have any problems with it? Am I just the outlier?

DuckDuckGo, StartPage, Kagi, Brave Search and other alternatives search engines 5 by SkyLinx | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do you use a search engine other than Google? If yes which one and why? I would like to stop using Google because of their tracking but I am not sure of which one to use. I tried several and I can't figure out which one gives the best results average. Each of them seem to lose compared to Google :(

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Ask HN: Are you prepared for a recession? How would you prepare for it? 4 by llampx | 2 comments on Hacker News. The financial/economic news isn't all that rosy nowadays. If we are looking at a recession in the next 1-2 years, lasting 5-10 years, are you prepared and if not, how would you prepare?

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Tell HN: Use “Verbatim mode” to fix Google search 10 by eof | 2 comments on Hacker News. I, and it seems many others, have noticed a massive decline in quality of google search results. Really frustrating behavior like ignoring quoted strings, giving me results that omit the most important token for my search, etc. I see tons of discussion on this and very few people mentioning the verbatim mode which completely fixes all of this toxic search behavior. Among a tiny, informal survey of my nerdy/developer/tech friends literally none of them knew about this feature. So based on the discussion happening now, and extrapolation, I am assuming most of HN also doesn't know. After you do a search, choose `Tools -> All Results -> Verbatim`. This will give you the behavior that you used to get from google search.

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Ask HN: Software devs with 10 years experience, what do you still love about it? 11 by sergiotapia | 16 comments on Hacker News. There's always threads about burnout and woes about writing software. I'm curious: what are the things you still love about it after all these years? Let's show the youngsters what to look forward to.

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Ask HN: WebM or WebP for GIF Replacements? 3 by dangayle | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are benefits to either approach, but using an animated webp image has the benefit of using the same workflow, semantics and markup as a gif (aside from accessibility concerns). A webm video requires more changes to templates and partials and redoing a lot of work, but is [apparently much faster](https://ift.tt/43wNxDP). I've read that the underlying tech for these is the same thing, so if I wanted to do a replacement gifs, which one should I choose?

Ask HN: What remote work dreams didn't come true for you? 7 by lastofthemojito | 4 comments on Hacker News. I know some folks have worked remotely for years, but a vast number of us are coming up on 2 years of working remotely instead of being in the office 5 days a week. Life is different now, but not as I expected. And I also don't feel like I'm as good at it as I expected. Looking back to the days before I worked remotely, it sounded amazing - no commute, no dress code, no obnoxious cube neighbors, etc. And those aspects of remote work haven't disappointed. On the other hand, I always felt like if I was working from home I'd find ways to exercise while working and I'd work on language learning by immersing myself in foreign language audio (news, music, podcasts, whatever). Neither of these panned out. Maybe partially because my work projects have been extra-demanding, maybe partially because I don't multi-task/context-shift well. What remote work dream

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