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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: At what point do you have 2 pages in your resume?

Ask HN: At what point do you have 2 pages in your resume? 13 by lampshades | 17 comments on Hacker News. Is it ever ok to have more than 1 page?

A team from the International Red Cross prepares to try to enter Mariupol.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Any recommendations for an inexpensive developer machine?

Ask HN: Any recommendations for an inexpensive developer machine? 2 by canyonero | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm looking to help a close friend that is low-income break into web development. I'm so used to working with a high-powered (and expensive) macbook , and I'm not sure what options are good for developing when the budget is tight. Any recommendations for a good inexpensive dev setup?

A European bank forecasts that Ukraine’s economic output will contract by 20 percent in 2022.

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Biden orders the largest release from the U.S. oil reserve since it was created.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you switching to from G Suite legacy free tier?

Ask HN: What are you switching to from G Suite legacy free tier? 4 by parski | 2 comments on Hacker News. Google Apps Engine, later G Suite, later Google Workspace, used to have a free tier where you could have a custom domain connected to Google hosted services such as email, drive, calendar, etc, for free. Google have nudged us for years, prompting an upgrade to one of their paid tiers but now they are sunsetting the free tier for good. My question is: what are you switching to, what does it cost and how many users do you have? I'm looking at ProtonMail, Tutanota, Outlook, iCloud and just staying at Google. We have to switch or pay within a month so I'm curious to see if you've landed on anything and if so, why.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is a new router worth it?

Ask HN: Is a new router worth it? 10 by gwbas1c | 6 comments on Hacker News. I have an Apple Airport Express router that I bought in 2015. It works great, but no longer receives security updates. I'm mostly afraid that some unpatched bug will leave my home network vulnerable; or that I'll wake up one day and find that my router turned into a paperweight because of an unpatched vulnerability. Better reception would be nice, but, except for one problem spot, I have great reception throughout my home. Thoughts? Should I replace my router just because it's old and unsupported?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Google Places API is expensive – what is your spend, or alternatives?

Ask HN: Google Places API is expensive – what is your spend, or alternatives? 2 by me_me_mu_mu | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm using Google Places API, and the pricing is quite extravagant. Granted, it seems to have much better (accurate, relevant) results compared to TomTom's API. For those who are using it: How much do you spend? For those who switched to something else: What do you use now, and what are your thoughts on it?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What symbols would you like to add to the standard keyboard?

Ask HN: What symbols would you like to add to the standard keyboard? 3 by acadapter | 8 comments on Hacker News. I'm aware that there are different sets of special characters for different languages, and that some have a menu system (such as the Japanese input). What would you like to be commonplace on most people's keyboards? I'll start with ≈.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to move away from Google

Ask HN: How to move away from Google 10 by rocode2 | 4 comments on Hacker News. A big chunk of my personal software suite comes from Google, mostly Gmail, Gdrive and Android. I want to eventually move away, especially gmail and drive. What are the alternatives that can be used with expectation that they will remain active for at least a decade ?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to land a SE Manager position without formal experience?

Ask HN: How to land a SE Manager position without formal experience? 4 by recvonline | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am a software engineer with 12+ years experience! I am freelancing for the past 4-5 years and now looking, for several reasons, for a permanent position again! I basically stopped fulltime coding in my projects as a freelancer and mentored, advised and setup processes! Now I am applying for Software Engineering Manager positions, but with no success. 8/10 companies don’t even answer and 2/10 told me after 4 rounds of interviews that they chose the candidate with more experience! I feel like I am “done” with fulltime hands on coding but it seems companies want you to go through their internal career ladder to become a manager! What are recommendations here? If you are a company, I am looking ;)

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you find peers in your field who care about their craft?

Ask HN: How do you find peers in your field who care about their craft? 13 by natpalmer1776 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I am asking specifically from the Software Engineering / Development field fo work, but it can likely be applied to a great many other fields. I would like to know how others go about finding peers to discuss the more abstract or theoretical aspects of their craft/trade/field to a degree that a "9-to-5er" would typically just not care about. In my work life I find it difficult to engage others in discussions about computer science theories, or even obtain advice about perceived best practices. Those who have the knowledge and experience seem too burnt out with the industry to care, and those without are usually in the industry for the status & pay. So how / where do you find people who care?

U.S. intelligence suggests that Putin’s advisers misinformed him on Ukraine.

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New ask Hacker News story: Re-use cell phone as a computer?

Re-use cell phone as a computer? 2 by daly | 1 comments on Hacker News. My 3G cell phone no longer makes calls. But it contains a useful computer. This is such a waste. Is there a good way to use a cell phone as a laptop-ish computer? A USB-C port can do HDMI. A keyboard/mouse could be attached through Bluetooth. Has anyone managed to use an old cell phone as a portable computer?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Did Stripe forget to turn off their grid before pushing?

Ask HN: Did Stripe forget to turn off their grid before pushing? 3 by philip1209 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I see vertical lines on a few of the new Stripe landing pages now that go from the header to the footer, e.g.: https://ift.tt/zGwZcH7 It could conceivably be an intentional design decision - but it really looks to me like a developer tool didn't get turned off for aligning items on the page. Screenshot here: https://ift.tt/BiLKUs5

Russia Says It Will Ease Bombing of a Ukrainian City Near Kyiv

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What made the 80s so pleasant?

Ask HN: What made the 80s so pleasant? 3 by ElectronShak | 11 comments on Hacker News. Watching Stranger things, and Wow, the 80's, so colourful! What a time to be alive! I was born in 1995, but I wish I'd experienced the 80's. I'd like to know was it like for HN'ers who were there at the time.

Hopes for a peace deal center on negotiators at a palace in Istanbul.

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Britain detains a Russian superyacht in London.

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Honduran Supreme Court Ratifies U.S. Extradition Request of ex-President

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How We Verified Russian Radio Chatter

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to Combat Propaganda?

Ask HN: How to Combat Propaganda? 5 by baxtr | 7 comments on Hacker News. Fellow HN reader. I recently talked to a Russian friend living in the West who is married to a Ukrainian. My friend told me he couldn't talk to his relatives back home anymore. He is sending them videos and images from the war in Ukraine, and nothing won't change their minds and conviction that Ukraine needs to be liberated from the Nazis. Now I wonder: Is there any clever way to combat Propaganda in such a situation? How can you establish at least doubt in the other person's mind?

Irpin’s mayor says the town has been ‘liberated,’ but others say fighting continues.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you solving internal integration?

Ask HN: How are you solving internal integration? 2 by martypitt | 0 comments on Hacker News. Between microservices / lambdas / databases and streaming topics, there's a huge number of internal data sources we're stitching together. OpenAPI etc help, but there's a discovery phase of tracking down the right sources, and building out the integration, which can be labor intensive, and repetitive as APIs gain consumers. Worse, these tools can result in tight couplings between producer & consumer that make future changes hard. Is this a problem that resonates at your orgs? How are you solving this issue?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How does Levels handle so much negative PR for NomadList?

Ask HN: How does Levels handle so much negative PR for NomadList? 2 by buf | 2 comments on Hacker News. Recently, I've stepped out of the shadow of being a W2 employee into being a one-man entrepreneur like Pieter Levels. He runs super popular remotelist and remoteok. At first I thought he just made a great product and that was it, but at closer inspection, I'm having doubts. 1. Earlier today, a reddit thread on the digitalnomad subreddit completely bashed nomadlist. Hundreds of upvotes saying nomadlist wasn't worth it, with dozens of comments agreeing. Only one person raised defense for it. 2. When looking at the nomadlist product itself, it's kind of ...rough. Not that I care about that sort of thing, but it's riddled with bugs, design flaws, etc. 3. He publishes his refund rate, which is just above 10%. This seems really high. Is this a case to where he got lucky and owned the digital nomand / remote work market early enough that the product actually doesn'

Arab Gunmen Kill 2 in Northern Israel, on Eve of Historic Summit

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Zelensky, whose career started in show business, presses Hollywood for an appearance at the Oscars.

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The U.N. says 1,119 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since the war began.

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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Make sure to configure DKIM/SPF with Fastmail

Tell HN: Make sure to configure DKIM/SPF with Fastmail 10 by whichdan | 5 comments on Hacker News. I've been using Fastmail since 2007, so I haven't touched the DNS of several of my domains in years. All of my email has been getting flagged as spam by GMail recently, and it's likely because I never added DKIM/SPF records to my older domains. I know there are a bunch of old Fastmail users here so figured I'd do a quick PSA

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to understand theory of infantry tactics

Ask HN: How to understand theory of infantry tactics 5 by 7402 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am neither a combat veteran, nor a military history buff, nor a wargamer. In trying to follow the news, I feel a lack of understanding of fundamentals of infantry warfare. I've found that the US Army publishes an amazing detailed manual, “Infantry Platoon and Squad Manual” ATP 3-21.8, that they (!) make freely available for download. It's more of a how-to handbook, or a set of instructions - not exactly what I'm looking for. There are many books on military history available, with titles like WWII / Vietnam /Civil War / Ancient Roman / Infantry Tactics, but they seem to be a lot of history and cataloguing of events and weapons, without as much big-picture philosophy. It seems there should be a textbook that covers fundamentals that apply largely across time, with an explanatory philosopy that covers general principles, but I haven't found it yet. (Maybe something like "

New ask Hacker News story: What technologies are more performant for web development than Nginx and PHP?

What technologies are more performant for web development than Nginx and PHP? 2 by bouldersharp | 5 comments on Hacker News. I would like to know if there is any way to make dynamic websites that perform better than NGINX and PHP, I accept any programming language, even C++ I have tried CGI and C++ but it is extremely slow compared to Apache and PHP. I understand that Node and Python are also slower than PHP.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Happened to Clubhouse?

Ask HN: What Happened to Clubhouse? 11 by shamoo | 6 comments on Hacker News. I've not been following its development. I do not hear about anymore. I guess the hype has died out. Is it still popular? Is it still gaining users? What went wrong? Have more viable competitors risen?

More places ease pandemic restrictions but promote vaccines: The week in Covid news.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve?

Ask HN: If you used to be socially awkward and shy, how did you improve? 49 by dondraper36 | 64 comments on Hacker News. Recently, I cannot help but notice how shy and socially awkward I might be at times, which is quite frustrating. To be fair to myself, I am not awful in social situations in that depending on the context I can be seemingly confident and calm, especially when I am among people I know and the context is familiar. When it comes to new people and places, everything changes dramatically. My voice changes, my posture changes, everything changes. I can start being awkward in all possible senses. The discomfort gets to the point where I blush and this physical state of vulnerability and self-doubt of course makes things even worse :) I understand that all of that relates to self-esteem and phychology in general therefore my question. It's common to advise hitting on the gym, which I just started doing last week. Funnily, the gym is the place where I last noticed my aw

A history of the tensions between Ukraine and Russia.

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Biden denounces Russian invasion, casting it as part of a decades-long attempt to crush democracies.

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In a Fiery Speech Rallying Allies, Biden Denounces Putin and Seemingly Calls for His Ouster

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Russia is ratcheting up the number of mercenaries to fight in Ukraine’s east.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why are there no easy-to-use highly-available open source databases?

Ask HN: Why are there no easy-to-use highly-available open source databases? 4 by database_guy | 12 comments on Hacker News. I'm a single engineer who wants to run a database by myself, no cloud vendors involved. I don't really care about scalability to a point, I don't really care about the API to interact with the database. I just want something that I can set up on multiple machines with minimal effort and have the loss of one of those nodes not cause catastrophic failures. I want the experience of something like etcd without being limited to a few gigabytes of data in the cluster (a Terabyte or maybe a couple hundred Gigabytes as a limit would probably be fine). I've spent a lot of time looking through the various options and wrote up my thoughts on why each of them wasn't a good fit. Postgres: A great database but HA options either have far too many moving parts, require manual intervention, are proprietary, or are Fake Open Source. Seems like there's la

Russian troops halted outside Kyiv as focus shifts to heavy fighting in Donbas.

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The international Red Cross leader comes under fire for meeting with Russia’s foreign minister.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ukraine Evidence: open data and information verification project for Ukraine

Ukraine Evidence: open data and information verification project for Ukraine 2 by mikpanko | 0 comments on Hacker News. Many of us have been watching the horrifying developments in Ukraine over the past month and are wondering if and how we can help. Many are donating money to humanitarian causes but some are also wondering: can we help in a more scalable way through our tech skills? There is a major problem with getting accurate information about what is happening on the ground in Ukraine. In the world of the internet and smartphones, there is an abundance of video, image and text accounts coming out but they are overwhelming, unstructured and contain a significant number of fakes. This leads to proliferation of misinformation, confusion and the ability of malicious actors to spread their own fake narratives, prolonging the conflict and causing additional damage. Here is a prominent example (as of March 25). The city of Mariupol is surrounded by Russian forces with hundreds of thou

Yemeni Rebel Attack Sets Saudi Oil Facility Ablaze

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New ask Hacker News story: Any routes to part-time dev work?

Any routes to part-time dev work? 3 by barefootford | 0 comments on Hacker News. The job market seems great - unless you want to work less than 40-50 hours a week. I'm willing to take a pretty big pay cut (30% 40%?) just to have another day off, but I can't seem to find any companies willing to talk despite the current hot job market. Has anyone had luck finding less than full time work?

‘We are on the edge of survival’: A Mariupol neighborhood through the eyes of one of its residents.

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Ethiopia Declares ‘Humanitarian Truce’ in War-Ravaged Tigray Region

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Selling hardware company assets/IP

Ask HN: Selling hardware company assets/IP 2 by monological | 0 comments on Hacker News. I need some advice HN. I've been working on my hardware company for about 7 years (https://ift.tt/D2U8tXP). I developed a benchtop tester that can do functional verification of chips/electronics. I designed all the hardware (main board, test board) and software (lib, driver, compiler, RTL cores, on-board website, simulation) myself, most of which I have recently open-sourced (https://ift.tt/XgazHAf). I've had a few potential deals fall through and now I'm thinking real hard what to do next. I've tried to raise money from YC (interviewed twice). I didn't get in because I didn't have a cofounder and they wanted me to talk to potential customers, which I've now done. I know that what I need to do is raise like $10m and hire people that can do sales, part procurement, manufacturing and more. I'm just finding it difficult to get myself to do that. I also have a hunch t

Biden Says Russia Should be Ejected from G20

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Disable GitHub Mention/Resets

Ask HN: Disable GitHub Mention/Resets 2 by srvmshr | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have my first name as my GH username. Although it is a nice-to-have thing, since my name is common enough I get junk mentions to all sorts of repos, spam PR & constant password resets (attempt to break in?). It has locked me out of my account in the past as well. Is anything doable? Can anyone at GH chime in?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s?

Ask HN: What do you wish you had done/known in your 30s? 34 by yamrzou | 29 comments on Hacker News. I'm approaching my 30s, and I thought I could draw on the wisdom and experience of the HN community, particularly those of you who are 40+ years old. Thanks.

Julian Assange Marries Stella Moris in a British Prison

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Russia’s attacks on civilian targets have obliterated everyday life in Ukraine.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does research experience affect your performance as a software engineer?

Ask HN: Does research experience affect your performance as a software engineer? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. And if so, is it for the better?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How is it beneficial for Russia to only accept payments in rubles

Ask HN: How is it beneficial for Russia to only accept payments in rubles 3 by weinzierl | 3 comments on Hacker News. I cannot wrap my head around on why Russia is going to only accept payments in rubles for gas deliveries. I remember from the 80s that everyone in eastern Europe was keen on hard currency. How is the situation different now?

Four Killed in Southern Israel in Latest in Spate of Attacks

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Google has locked me out of the account

Ask HN: Google has locked me out of the account 6 by nitn | 0 comments on Hacker News. I forgot the password to my account and I have been trying to reset the password. To reset the password, Google keeps sending a verification code to the same email of the account that I'm trying to reset the password for. I really do not get the point, I do not have the account logged in on any of my devices. I have tried all the previously used devices to reset the password from. It still keeps sending the code to the same email. It's an account I use for AdSense and I have unpaid revenue in there. I have literally tried 5 different devices that I have used the account on, I can verify the phone number but then it keeps asking me to verify a code that's sent on the same email. Now that I'm trying potential passwords, it asks me to solve a captcha everytime and I've tried so many times that it says I've entered the captcha wrong even though it's correct. We're 3 peo

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is this the platonic deal of an Ask HN question?

Ask HN: Is this the platonic deal of an Ask HN question? 2 by songeater | 0 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/Re6Hn09 What do you think is better?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Any tips on organizing a fun hackathon at work?

Ask HN: Any tips on organizing a fun hackathon at work? 2 by tagolli | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN. We are trying to organize a hackathon at my workplace. The main goal is to have fun and engage with others. The hackathon will happen during normal working hours and will be voluntary, so the goal is not to get some more work out of people. Do you have any positive/negative experiences you can share? Any tips on how to have a fun hackathon?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: No cynical answers, why do companies push their apps so hard?

Ask HN: No cynical answers, why do companies push their apps so hard? 4 by simonw | 7 comments on Hacker News. Medium and Reddit are two examples of sites that promote their mobile applications aggressively any time I visit their websites on my phone. I have my own theories as to why they do this, but I'd love to understand the genuine reasons for this. Is it about analytics? Push notifications for re-engagement? Asking for non-cynical answers here in the hope of getting to the truth... though maybe the truth here is pretty cynical?

Leaders of Israel, U.A.E. and Egypt Meet for Their First Summit

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What laptop should I get for development?

Ask HN: What laptop should I get for development? 3 by petargyurov | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN. I haven't shopped for laptops in a decade and I need some guidance. TLDR: * Daily use: VSCode Figma, Photoshop, Firefox, Slack * Currently use Pop!_OS and I really like it; would be nice to keep it * I love the look of Macbooks, but I don't know if I will like macOS * I don't really want to buy into the Apple ecosystem; will I struggle if I don't have an iPhone? * Light gaming is a nice bonus (but I should say I don't like the look of most gaming laptops) * I have a high budget * Looking for something light, slick and portable as I will be travelling a lot Any recommendations? So far I'm thinking a Dell XPS of some sort but not running Windows on it.

New ask Hacker News story: Only 0.3% of the world population are programmers

Only 0.3% of the world population are programmers 2 by ilrwbwrkhv | 2 comments on Hacker News. I just realized how small of a number (26.8 million) that is in comparison to the >7 billion people in the world. So much leverage created through technology by so few.

In Tunisia, an Authoritarian’s Reform Plan Meets With Skepticism

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How to avoid sharing misinformation on the war in Ukraine.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Tools to generate coverage of user documentation for code

Ask HN: Tools to generate coverage of user documentation for code 5 by tstack | 4 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone know of tools/techniques for generating a coverage report of user documentation over source code? In other words, I'd like to be able to automatically determine when there is documentation missing for an implemented feature or if there is documentation for a feature that was removed. I'm asking because I've been working on a tool for many years and it's grown large enough that I have a hard time keeping track of what all the parts do and what has and has not been documented. What I'm thinking I'd like to do is add a tag to a piece of source code (C++) and put the corresponding tag in the user docs (RST). Then, during the build, I'd like a report of untagged code, code/docs with matching tags, and code/docs with unmatched tags. I also feel like there should be at least two levels of documentation to be tracked: 1) the overall feature and 2

The Boeing 737-800 NG is widely used around the world.

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How to avoid sharing misinformation on the war in Ukraine.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you know of freelance dev work with text-only communication?

Ask HN: Do you know of freelance dev work with text-only communication? 5 by uhxvt | 4 comments on Hacker News. This may be kind of an odd question, but here I go anyway: Do you know of freelance dev work where I can communicate only through text like email/slack or similar? I really cannot talk over phone/zoom or in person. I absolutely cannot react to questions in an adequate way instantaneously, I just get complete blackouts and everything vanishes. It seems to be some mix of imposter syndrome and general anxiety. I am already getting professional help for it. I am no rockstar developer but I think I have a some decent skills. I know python, databases, micro services, docker, am starting to get experience in AWS and also have a some front-end experience. I built systems that are in use for more than five years reliably and have always been given projects from family members when I was in university. Right after university, I started to work for a startup but quit after a few mont

War Brings Out Solidarity and Defiance in Ukrainians Who Remain

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON

Ask HN: Local Tools for Viewing JSON 2 by slickrick216 | 6 comments on Hacker News. Looking for tools to view large varying JSONs. I know I could beautify or flatten them etc but wondering if anyone else has created a tool for this.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to find companies that build sustainably?

Ask HN: How to find companies that build sustainably? 9 by bckr | 8 comments on Hacker News. This is going to be a very cynical post. If you just want to sneer at me, please just save us both some time and skip it. My current position has left me questioning much of what I thought about my career, tech industry, and business. The philosophy here boils down to: "We need to move extremely fast. Why? Because there's no moat, and competitors will eat us alive, eventually. Therefore, we have to build the crappiest thing we can as fast as possible and make enumerable business promises that we don't have the human capacity to keep. Therefore, the only people who will survive at this company will be those who don't really care that what they're building is setting up the next person for a world of pain. Everyone who wants to do a truly good job will burn out and/or be pushed out. But we'll keep attracting starry-eyed talent by puffing ourselves up as this incredible

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are you using actors in production? Why/Why not?

Ask HN: Are you using actors in production? Why/Why not? 10 by lostintangent | 0 comments on Hacker News. In the realm of distributed computing, it seems like there are folks that believe very strongly in the actor pattern. However, they generally seem to be pretty niche? That said, this perspective could be entirely due to my bubble, and so I was curious to hear from folks that are using them in production, and how well they’ve worked out in practice. Or, if you’ve evaluated using them in production, but decided against it, I’d love to hear about that as well!

Religion-Fueled Mobs on the Rise Again in Pakistan

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to set up a 50/50 company with co-founder?

Ask HN: How to set up a 50/50 company with co-founder? 2 by antux | 1 comments on Hacker News. Me and my co-founder want to set up a company before we launch our product but we are not sure what is the best way. We do not want to take any investor funding so we are leaning toward LLC. What is the optimal way to structure the LLC so that we are protected and have equal ownership of the product?

Ukrainian orphans, evacuated to Poland, find sympathetic caretakers.

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In a New Constitution, the Pope Sets Out to Overhaul the Vatican

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Omicron’s BA.2 version is rising, complicating hopes of living with the virus: The week in Covid news.

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Russian Rocket Attack Turns Ukrainian Marine Base to Rubble, Killing Dozens

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Some U.S. states are reducing daily reporting of coronavirus data, raising fears of blind spots.

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Spain, Seeking Better Ties With Morocco, Shifts Stance on Western Sahara

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Defying China’s Censors to Urge Beijing to Denounce Russia’s War

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is there a program that can randomly text me reminders?

Ask HN: Is there a program that can randomly text me reminders? 3 by q_andrew | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and I'm finding ways to combat it. When someone tells me to do something I drop everything and do it. But I can't get myself to do anything without being prompted. SMS texts have a higher priority in my cellbrain and so I might listen to a chore bot.

Russian forces closed in on Kyiv. Millions of residents stayed.

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Ukrainian tennis stars trade rackets for rifles in the fight for their country.

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New ask Hacker News story: macOS 12.3 solves 2019 MacBook Pro 16“ overheating issue with external monitors

macOS 12.3 solves 2019 MacBook Pro 16“ overheating issue with external monitors 2 by seam_carver | 1 comments on Hacker News. For context, there’s a 231+ page thread on MacRumors of people complaining and troubleshooting the issue of excessive heat/fan noise when using specifically their 2019 16" MBP’s while plugged into external monitors of certain resolutions/frame rates, even at idle with nothing running. The root cause was a bad GPU driver. Throughout the years, people have tried various workarounds, like using the laptop in clamshell mode, force enabling HiDPI mode for the monitor, using Monterey's Low Power Mode. (Some solutions of which I discovered myself.) But now, this issue is fixed by Monday's macOS update, no workaround needed! People have been celebrating in the aforementioned MacRumors thread. In Big Sur and earlier, idle GPU usage was ~18W. This is insane power draw at idle. In earlier version of Monterey, ~14W. Using low power mode, ~6W, but this requir

As diplomacy drags on, peace seems far off in Ukraine.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Resources to Understand the Conflict?

Ask HN: Resources to Understand the Conflict? 2 by etamponi | 1 comments on Hacker News. Of course speaking about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. I'd be interested in understanding better what a diplomatic end of the war would look like. That is: what exactly both parties are likely to give up to end the conflict early? What does "early" likely mean? I know that the question is very broad and answers can only be guesses: instead of focusing on opinions, perhaps it might be useful to share sources, tweets and explanations from experts.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is the value of a one-person wiki?

Ask HN: What is the value of a one-person wiki? 4 by Phileosopher | 7 comments on Hacker News. I have a history of commonplacing (i.e., hoarding key ideas) that predates my tech career[0]. Now that I'm working with my passion, I've been curating content and distilling it into a legible output[1]. The problem, though, is that (like before) I've now collected and broadly categorized >5,000 articles, e-books, YouTube videos, talks, and walkthroughs about the potential domains I'll be working with. I've also been sidelining thousands of the elements into another "toolbox"[2]. My big question is whether this adds value to anyone else or if I'm simply building an elaborate hobby. I'm fine if this is a pet project, but I want a straight answer from someone I don't know. [0] https://adequate.life and https://gainedin.site [1] https://ift.tt/1w9pTOq [2] https://ift.tt/g57bNVD

In Russia-controlled cities, witnesses describe flames and ruins.

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New ask Hacker News story: Vintage Startup Employee Swag?

Vintage Startup Employee Swag? 23 by joshqharris | 21 comments on Hacker News. Any startups you know that have unique & cool employee gear? I'm looking to buy ($$$) Stripe, YC, Airbnb, Twitter, FAANG, etc (open to cool stuff from pretty much anywhere).

L.G.B.T.Q. activists in Ukraine share the fight against Russia’s invasion.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why does Windows still have “Troubleshooters” while they rarely work?

Ask HN: Why does Windows still have “Troubleshooters” while they rarely work? 6 by behnamoh | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Disaster struck a city near Fukushima in 2011. Now residents have evacuated again.

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NATO defense ministers vow to enhance deployments near Russia.

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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What do you use as your go-to source of world news?

Ask HN: What do you use as your go-to source of world news? 2 by tunnuz | 1 comments on Hacker News. I used to "trust" Google News to give me a reasonable picture of the state of the world, perhaps even with some bias towards things I'm interested in, but now I find it very difficult to navigate. Choosing a region biases the news loads, and I can't choose Europe as a region. I would like something which is as broad as possible, and reports on the important stuff. Nowadays I tend to use the Guardian because I'm fairly progressive-leaning and it seems good enough in terms of quality, and it's also free (I really don't want to have to pay for another subscription, but I understand that beggars can't be choosers). Is there anything else I should check out? With the recent invasion of Ukraine, I have relied more and more on Twitter, but I really struggle to get the signal out of the noise, it's just not proper journalism. What I noticed, however, is

A television satire starring Zelensky (as president of Ukraine) is back on Netflix.

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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: I Need Project Ideas

Tell HN: I Need Project Ideas 12 by eballci | 9 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone, I am Computer Science student which enthusiast about programming, software development techniques, project management and system design. I always read a lot of blog posts, cool stuff or techniques. Though, i can not find the way how to practise them. Sometimes i find an idea that i may accomplish. Afterwards next i'm thinking about the idea and i realize the idea is not fullfilled or not useful for humanity, community, at least for me. And i am here to discuss my issue. Every comment is welcome. Note: This is my first post on HN so if i violated some rules by (or the way) posting this i am so sorry. And also sorry for that i am not fluent in english.

New E.U. sanctions target Roman Abramovich, Russian steel exports and Moscow-bound luxury goods.

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