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Ask HN: Is a non-profit selling at cost drugs using True Pill possible? 2 by samemail88 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in starting website similar to Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs. From what I've gather, his website sells drugs with a 15% markup and shipping. The actual drugs are white labeled and shipped by True Pill. His site mainly does the marketing and maintains the customer relationship. I want to launch a similar venture but sell the drugs at cost (no mark up). This would be a non-profit with the goal of helping people reduce their drug cost. I applied to True Pill to get access to their API but I don't get any response from them. I've tried calling their 800 number but it tells me to send an email to their sales/support email address. Does True Pill only work with large, established players? Does anybody work for True Pill that can help?

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Ask HN: Who Is Jamstack Aimed At? 2 by aosaigh | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've recently taken on my first project that's fully "Jamstack" [1] and I'm finding it very hard to understand who exactly these statically generated sites builders are aimed at? The project is using Gatsby Cloud and Contentful. The key problems they have encountered are a) build times being painfully slow (+5 minutes per content change) and therefore b) the authoring/publishing experience is really poor as you can't easily see previews. These seem to be common complaints of static site generators (I'm also skipping over the general complexity required to get a website up and running with so many moving parts) In order to tackle this problem, Gatsby offers a rendering feature called "DSG" (Deferred Static Generation) [2]. When enabled, instead of building all of your content up-front (the entire point of a statically generated site), only your core pages are generated

Keeping your team on the same page when they work from anywhere 2 by runwai | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was the sole remote member of my team years ago when remote was "a very special arrangement." These days my team is 100% remote. I remember how painful it was for me to stay up at 1:30AM for a meeting, so I don't ask it from other people. I also won't produce extra hours at the end of the day to watch recordings, so I don't tell others to "just watch the recording" either. As company founder and manager of a great team of responsible people, I need my team looped in with information they need to do their jobs, whether or not they make it to a call. Conversely, I also expect them to keep on top of their action items , whether or not they make it to a call. Enter Neo, our trusty AI teammate, whom we count on to keep ourselves in the loop, whatever time zone or schedule we have that week. He documents action items automatically, breaks out conversat

Tell HN: Netlify changing Starter plan 4 by HarveyKandola | 2 comments on Hacker News. In a nutshell.. In 30 days, our Starter plan will require that GitHub repositories connected to your Netlify account are either linked to Personal GitHub accounts or set for public visibility. If you have repositories using an Organization-owned GitHub account set to private visibility, you will need to move to the Netlify Pro plan or above.

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Ask HN: What is your development strategy? 2 by thowerawayer | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, what is your development strategy? I am a relatively experienced hobby developer who recently joined the workforce. In one of my recent projects, which as a small solo project, I noticed that I was not putting in my best effort when it came to the quality of my code and work. I was so focused on the hand-off that I forgot some parts of the main feature, which ended up not working. My question is: how can I prevent this from happening again? Do you use lists or mental models to remember the main objectives? And how do you assess your own work to ensure that you didn't miss anything?

Ask HN: As an URM where are the hand out jobs people mention all the time here 3 by trwayurm | 15 comments on Hacker News. Not trying to bait, I've lurked here enough and I'm trying to have a good faith discussion. As an URM who grew up in what would be considered the hood and went on to get a non-CS STEM degree (think eng/math/phys/chem,which is where my programming experience comes from) where are these jobs that people mention in anecdotal stories that URM are handed despite not being qualified? For all the diversity companies seem to signal, and everyone seems to complain about people being given jobs unfairly, my job search has not reflected that. Might be despite my STEM degree I'm not good enough, but the lack of interviews I'm landing means I'm being filtered out from the start. The way people make it out to be here, those jobs are handed out. So are companies BSing? HN comments BSing? or who is getting these URM jobs? Does anyone have any advice or willi

Ask HN: How can I make Mail/Messages links open in Incognito by default? 6 by gnicholas | 3 comments on Hacker News. Whenever I click a link on my computer (e.g, from email or Messages), it opens by default in my browser of choice, but never in an Incognito window. Nearly 100% of the time, I want it to open in Incognito, which I use whenever I'm visiting a site that I don't need to be logged into. My current workaround is to right-click the link, copy link, switch to my browser, open a new Incognito window, paste in the link and hit return. While this doesn't seem like that big a deal, it's actually a lot of clicks (11 key presses) — compared to just one click to open a link normally. Additionally, it puts the pasted link into my pasteboard manager, which is unnecessary and annoying when I go to retrieve a snippet that is now further down in the stack. What's the best way to handle this? I've considered switching my default browser to a different browser that

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Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement? 12 by assemblylang | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, who here doesn't use a phone and what do you use as a replacement? I've been using my phone less and less these days, and it feels like a chore to use a modern phone now. Touch interface is slow and imprecise, apps and webapps are slow, bloated, and keep removing useful features, adblock on some systems are clunky or non-existent, VoIP and SMS are basically dead, the interface changes nearly every year (on android at least), and many other small grievances. I can get things done so much quicker on a computer with a keyboard compared to the touch interface on a phone, using a keyboard and a full desktop environment is so precise, quick, and just enjoyable to use. However, I am still hanging onto my phone for a few legacy uses, what are some good replacements for these: * Mobile wifi * VoIP * SMS Also, I am still interested in mobile computing as a concep

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Ask HN: Where to Read Proofs? 7 by tines | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm attempting to self-study mathematics, and I'm having a very hard time with proofs. My formal maths education goes up to calculus II. I've never taken linear algebra, for example, and trying to learn it with a textbook like Linear Algebra Done Right is very difficult. I have a terrible time even making it through the first set of exercises once proofs come into the picture. I've heard many many times that you can only learn math by doing it, which is certainly true, and is akin to saying that you can only learn a language by attempting to speak it. But to begin to learn to speak well, one must hear tons and tons of speech. Similarly, to begin to learn to write well, one must read tons and tons of writings. Are there any resources for people who just want to read proofs? Preferably well-commented ones suited for beginners like myself who are trying more to get a feel for proof as an activity rath

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Ask HN: CI in 2022 4 by parentheses | 1 comments on Hacker News. What would you use for CI in 2022? Why? Is there some killer feature you like/want/whatever? I've heard some praise for Buildkite and Cirrus CI.

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Ask HN: Any viable alternatives to Google News? 7 by metadat | 3 comments on Hacker News. I hate how unclear the degree of echo chamber is with Google News. It also keeps showing me the same articles for days or weeks after I've already seen and read them. Are ther any real contenders out there? Ideally it'd aggregate all news across the globe and let me browse by region, perhaps with automatic translation for non-english articles. The idea of a global, non country-centric front page is highly appealing to me (I want to deprogram myself from the western slant, it possible).

Snorkel AI is looking for core front end engineers 2 by guharakesh | 0 comments on Hacker News. Snorkel AI | https://snorkel.ai/ | Senior Frontend Engineer | Full-time | ONSITE | SF Bay Area Just a quick bit about Snorkel. We're backed by top tier investors (https://ift.tt/PFol4OM) and just raised our Series C last year, putting us in a really well strong position to continue building Snorkel Flow and our business. Our customers include some of the world's largest enterprises — top US banks, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Chubb, F500 biotechs, and more (https://ift.tt/lDJyFUV) — and we're empowering their data science teams to build high quality models in just hours or days instead of weeks or months. But we're really just getting started on our journey, and there are so many diverse opportunities for having impact across the company. As a senior front-end engineer, you'll build amazing interfaces that will empower developers and non-developers alike to

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Ask HN: Are Emojis valid CSS selectors? 2 by asciiresort | 0 comments on Hacker News. Browsers seem to support it fine, but the W3C CSS validator ( https://ift.tt/yGcfOaC) fails. The W3C HTML validator is also fine with emojis.

Ask HN: Where can I find open source icons for my apps? 5 by moomoo11 | 8 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, Short of hiring a designer (I don't have the $$$ at the moment) or learning how to make icons (I've never even used photoshop..), what would you recommend me for finding open source icons? I'm trying to find suitable icons for broader "topics", such as: - Nature - Sports - Pets - Arts Much love, thanks!

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Ask HN: Learning to Have Tough Conversations 2 by vkurjsnnw | 1 comments on Hacker News. I think I’m generally a good conversationalist and speaker, but I’m terrible when it comes to really tough conversations both professionally and in personal life. I’ve always struggled terribly to break off unhealthy relationships or tell employees that they need to get their act together. Whenever I have to do have a tough conversation like that, I end up wanting to downplay things and finish the conversation more positively. I’ve read lots of general advice on this and know that dragging/downplaying things is usually worse for the receiver as well, but I haven’t been able to get better. How do I learn to have tough conversations?

Ask HN: Is Life Short? 4 by psikomanjak | 6 comments on Hacker News. Young[21] self-taught and working a Senior position (getting paid really good). Do I continue working for companies getting paid better and saving/investing the money? Or do I quit and take bigger risks like try to build my own thing/startup because I can get back to a job later?

Ask HN: Is anybody tracking Teslas self-driving progress over time? 2 by MrThoughtful | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have been googling a bit, but not found anything: Is somebody out there driving the same route again and again , tracking the number of disengagements over time?

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Ask HN: How do you future-proof yourself? 6 by behnamoh | 8 comments on Hacker News. Been using proprietary OSs (Windows, macOS) and I think fundamentally they're rock solid. But I also fear the day that Apple and MS either go bankrupt or just stop supporting their OSs. It happens all the time at a smaller scale, like, each version of macOS breaks some features/apps that I'm used to, and MS stops supporting Windows versions after a few years. I always thought Linux would be the most future-proof OS, but choosing something like Fedora entails the same problems as above (something being maintained by a corporation), and other distros seem too distracted that I don't know if most of them will be around in a few years anyway. Same thing with my tools. Atom was dropped in favor of VSC and Zed, despite having millions of users. Again, it seems something like Vim or Emacs would be the most future-proof alternative. Sure, VSCode is supposedly open-source, but I don't think p

Ask HN: How on earth are you using your Apple computer with external displays? 19 by n42 | 19 comments on Hacker News. I own four different Apple computers -- a 2017 MacBook Pro, an M1 MacBook Air, an M1 MacBook Pro, and most recently a maxed out Mac Studio. I also have had in that timespan three different Windows desktops that I have built and a ThinkPad running Windows or Linux depending on the mood. I have spent countless dollars on cables and adapters in an attempt to find the magic combination. I have read DisplayPort specs, I know every brand of certified cable. I now know way more than I would ever care to know about DisplayPort and HDMI protocols. I have tried 4 different brands and models of monitor. For one of those models, I had three of the exact same model. All combinations work flawlessly with anything that is not one of the Apple devices. I have all but eliminated any of these components being the problem. Depending on the device and the day I will get: - Visual artif

Ask HN: Getting a Handle on Debt 2 by iJohnDoe | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi Everyone, I have around 100k in debt. It’s various credit cards or small loans with the usual companies we all get junk mail from. My credit is fine, other than just the high balances bringing the score down. Doing a refi or HELOC isn’t an option. My specific questions: Has anyone been through this and figured out a way to consolidate? Anyone find a loan company that is willing to consolidate, even if it’s a high interest rate? I’m basically treading water and not making a dent at anything. Consolidating and getting it somewhat more manageable would help. Haven't had any luck with LendingTree, SoFi, etc. despite their advertisements. I could give them a try again though. Anyone have luck negotiating down balances? Looking for a company that understands the situation and not just running a credit report and denying it. Need a company that understands its for consolidation. I know about the snowball met

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Ask HN: Autocurrying Syntax Sugar? 2 by danhab99 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Full disclosure: I'm not a computer scientist, I'm just a programmer who uses these tools. Also I mainly use javascript and go, I need to spread out more but these two tools fulfill 99% of all my needs. I had a 2am idea and when I looked it up I couldn't find any mention of someone else thinking of it. Here it is: Function currying is a method for saving arguments on the callstack so they don't have to be copied in memory between calls. Here's a javascript example of currying: ```js const add = (leftOp) => (rightOp) => leftOp + rightOp; const addThree = add(3); console.log(addThree(4)); // 7 console.log(addThree(-2)); // 1 ``` I think all PL that support the "putting-functions-in-variables" paradime can do this. BUT. If you try to call a normal function that requires all of its arguments up front without all the arguments it will throw an error. So what if it didn't?

Ask HN: Built an app for my university. Faculty loved it. Should I charge them? 5 by KhoiUna | 2 comments on Hacker News. I built an app for my university in the US. They love using it. Now I want to charge a subscription ($16 per month), but I am an international student with F1 Visa. Should I form an LLC or incorporate? If yes, how, should I find a US partner? Or, I shouldn’t charge them at all?

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Ask HN: What real innovation in CS can be attributed to Bitcoin? 2 by emadehsan | 2 comments on Hacker News. Not an expert in the field, my question is: Can some real ground breaking innovation in Computer Science be attributed to Bitcoin and its successors? People claim it to be: * Trustless, Proof of Work * Immutable append only ledger (Blockchain) * Smart Contracts Are any of them new concepts? While solving their problems, has the Crypto community invented any new general purpose Algorithms (or Data Structures) that could be used elsewhere? I'm curious to understand those Algorithms.

Ask HN: E2E Encrypted Period Trackers? 7 by krinn_silver | 7 comments on Hacker News. One sentiment from the recent Roe v Wade decision is that women should be careful about their data as law enforcement could use it to determine if they had an abortion. Period tracker apps are quite popular, and even a form of contraception [1]. They technically don't need to access the data (although they may wish to for analytics/monetisation), so it seems to me like a perfect candidate for E2E encryption. But I can't find any that advertise they use E2E encryption (just a vague "we encrypt your data" in their privacy statement). Is anyone working on this? [1]: https://ift.tt/h4ARkGK Disclaimer: I'm a man, and I don't live in the US. My wife and I are just concerned onlookers.

Ask HN: Why do devs feel CoPilot has stolen code but DALL-E is praised for ART? 3 by amrrs | 3 comments on Hacker News. Both DALL-E from OpenAI and Github CoPilot work on the same philosophy. While one receives a massive praise online the other is being criticised that it's working with copied code and just pastes copied code. Why is this difference in opinion?

Ask HN: Can a politically exposed person in middle age become a CS researcher? 2 by cs137 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been a programmer for about 20 years. I've long since outgrown business programming, but I also didn't like being a manager very much. As I wrap up a couple other projects, I'm pursuing a master's degree. So far, I enjoy it a lot and I'm doing well. I think I'd like to continue for a PhD, and see what lies beyond that. My problems are twofold. One is age. I don't think I'm too old to get into a PhD program, but by the time I would complete one, I'll be, best-case scenario, in my mid-40s. I don't think should matter at all, because what matters is how many productive years a person has left--a highly variable unknown, with a median low enough that my age is a complete non-issue--but, of course, I don't control perceptions. There is a possibility that getting a PhD will only make me more overqualified and unemployab

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Ask HN: If you could talk to a database in plain English, would you? 4 by brochington | 9 comments on Hacker News. For the past 6 months I’ve been working on a Natural Language Understanding (NLU) API. Essentially the request would contain a plain english sentence, and the response would include a breakdown of actions, entities, agents, location, temporal, logic, etc. My hope was that I could create a “Stripe/Twilio for NLU”, but recent feedback has been that it’s more a “technology”, and less a “product”. It would still require a lot of development work to create anything of value for an end user. While I see the value of an API, I also agree with their sentiment, and so I’ve begun exploring problems to apply my API to. One use case that tends to pop up frequently is “text-to-database”. Similar to text-to-SQL, but with my API I could target any DB regardless of query language. This would require a large amount of work, and I’m not convinced that it’s something that users even want.

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Ask HN: What is the best way to Upload Images to AWS S3? 3 by fuadnafiz98 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am building a full stack Nodejs, Express.js and React application with a file upload functionality. What will be the best approach to upload the file? 1. Upload the file from frontend to S3? 2. First upload the file to backend and then upload the file from backend to S3? What will be the best option? In my opinion the first approach is better as it doesn't require extra load on backend if the file is larger, but I am not sure about the security issues to keep the AWS credentials in the frontend code. Any suggestions are welcome :)

Ask HN: Alternatives to raspi or where to find one 3 by baremetal | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am having a hard time sourcing any raspberry pi's. Are there any alternatives that are available? I need it to be able to run headless debian. im designing a system for automation of watering of plants. Are there any places with raspi in stock or any alternatives?

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SIXT (car rental) security breach 2 by traceroute66 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm sure you can guess how the email goes, so I will spare you most of the waffle and corporate-speak, I will just post the first paragraph. ============== Dear customer, we are writing to you today as a very valued customer of SIXT*. As you have probably read in the press, cyber-attacks on European businesses and authorities are currently on the rise. Our business has also been the target of a criminal cyberattack. Despite comprehensive security measures, these attacks unfortunately cannot always be completely prevented, but at best contained. In this context, we would like to inform you today about a data incident. ============

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Ask HN: Is there a GitHub analog for electronics? 5 by eimrine | 1 comments on Hacker News. Schematics and layout of a circuit design and binaries for digital components with ability of public developing.

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Ask HN: Group Mailing List for HOA? 2 by teeray | 0 comments on Hacker News. Our homeowners association is looking for a simple group email solution. Does anyone have any thoughts? Need to have: one email address that broadcasts to everyone signed up for the list. Basically an outlook d-list not tied to one email provider. Nice to have: Some permissions management: Board members should be able to send emails without impedance from the system. Other members should be able to send group messages with approval from a board member. We have some older folks in the community, so this has to be drop dead simple and reliable. I’m hesitant to suggest something like Discourse because of the unfamiliar UX. Same thing for FB Groups. Email is ubiquitous, so that’s where we have to start.

Reddit now requires login to access NSFW subreddits 3 by IMTDb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: How do professional artists feel about DALL-E? 8 by ratio11 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: I struggle to hire a UI/UX designer, can anyone help? 2 by s1k3s | 0 comments on Hacker News. For the past 2 months I've been struggling to hire a web designer to create a website for me. I wrote the entire product specification, all screens and app flows, and I want a designer to take that spec and turn it into a real product design. Attempt #1: Direct hire Posted a local job and hired a person based on their portfolio. We signed the contract, and they started the project. 2 weeks later I check in and all they have done is the color palette and fonts. I don't think I'm unreasonable when I say this is way too little work for 2 weeks booked at 8 hours / day. I closed the contract afterwards and I consider I simply got scammed. Am I being unreasonable here? Attempt #2: Upwork I posted my project on Upwork for a fixed price, estimated at 300 hours and with a price per hour that matches what Upwork says is their "top freelancers". I received more than 100 a

Ask HN: Google Tech News is usually about video games 7 by aruanavekar | 4 comments on Hacker News. Anyone frequent reader of Google News tech section? I feel, most news covered there is in gaming / AR-VR space. Does anyone know how Google decides its display? Is it most popular traffic based?

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Ask HN: Specialised GitHub Copilot for UI Development 2 by dennisy | 0 comments on Hacker News. As a developer who does not enjoy UI development, I was wondering if it is possible to use copilot or a similar AI powered tool that is specialised to build web UIs.

Ask HN: Anyone run a service with millions of users from one home computer? 3 by launchiterate | 2 comments on Hacker News. Reposted on Ask HN for visibility. With the advent of M1 Max and fast internet speeds is running a scaled up service from home more common ?

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Ask HN: What do technical co-founders look for and avoid when joining a startup? 4 by aaronaltamura | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, Curious what are top 3 things technical co-founders care about when joining a startup? Also equally import, what are the top 3 things they avoid? Thanks!

Ask HN: 30s and “senior” software engineer, but I suck at programming 2 by yamisobad | 8 comments on Hacker News. No I don't think its imposter syndrome. I got into tech a few years ago because I find building cool stuff, especially clone apps, to be really fun. It's like legos for me, and I build a bunch of projects using various technologies so I keep learning some new frameworks and languages. I feel good working on all sorts of applications, from backend to web and mobile apps. Unfortunately I tried to do some mock interviews (leetcode) and got demolished. I have been practicing for the last couple of months, but I just cannot solve a single medium problem on my own without looking at some help and even then it is hard for me. I think that I'm hitting my limits because I'm finding that I am not that good at actually "programming". I have a hard time thinking about some of these problems, because I can't comprehend the question itself. I can build UI

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Ask HN: How to develop React+Flask locally in a way that can easily be deployed? 3 by RSchaeffer | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a newcomer to fullstack development with no experience in infra. I want to make a web app based on a React frontend and Flask backend (with a Postgres database). What are people's recommendations for developing locally, in a way that can be easily & immediately deployed? A lot of the tutorials I can find either (a) don't mention deployment, or (b) treat it like a final step at the end, rather than something that needs to be done on a semi-frequent basis.

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Ask HN: What would you do if given a sabbatical? 6 by linsomniac | 2 comments on Hacker News. In academia it is more common to give a year for every 7 worked, to take time off work to do something of your choosing that ultimately enhances your employer in some way. Say, writing a book. If your employer offered you a sabbatical, what would you do with yourself? I work in operations, I'd want something like 3 months to experiment with some ideas related to the software release cycle: version control, building, testing, releasing, and deploying a complex application (~50 packages, 20 clusters, 5 environments).

What happens to the hardware (MacBooks, Monitors, Chairs) of failed startups? 3 by ck_one | 3 comments on Hacker News. Yesterday I saw a group of people in SF walking out of a building looking sad and carrying monitors. Now I am wondering what happens to the hardware? Bootstrapped founders (myself) or schools could make good use of it.

Ask HN: How should we design anti-shrinkflation laws? 6 by acadapter | 5 comments on Hacker News. Let's say there's an initiative against "shrinkflation", to avoid situations where the busy crowd is tricked by corporate tricks. The system should allow price changes, but only honest ones. Should we have sets of fixed package weights and volumes for food and beverages? VAT penalties for odd form factors? Or something else?

Is Nasdaq a stock exchange or Ads company? 2 by parth79 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I found it a bit strange to find the Nasdaq website filled with ads, mostly ads unrelated to stocks or even investments & financial planning. Maybe it's just me? Or maybe it makes sense since Nasdaq is also a marketplace where ads are part of their revenue model.

Ask HN: How can I be sure my work MacBook isn’t spying on me after work? 3 by throwawayxyziz | 4 comments on Hacker News. How can I be sure that the device actually shuts down and isn’t listening to collect information for my employer? Furthermore, how can I be sure that apps such as PagerDuty or other “on-call” apps aren’t relaying my location and other metadata to my employer?

Ask HN: Shouldn't an 8% inflation rate be synonymous to an economic recession? 5 by kovezd | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why Are Git Submodules So Bad? 15 by ghoward | 10 comments on Hacker News. I have been a git user for a long time, but I've never used Subversion or any other VCS more than a little. I also hardly use Git submodules, but when I do, I don't struggle. Yet people talk about Git submodules as though they are really hard. I presume I'm just not using them as much as other people, or that my use case for them happens to be on their happy path. So why are Git submodules so bad?

How to hack a hospital? Scada ICCShacking 3 by comaksemih | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone My name is Semih. I am an 18 year old hacker. Actually, it would be more accurate to say SCADA/ICS and OSINT hacker. Today I'm going to talk to you about hacking critical industrial control systems. When I first started this business, there were not many resources on the internet, so I decided to write this blog. I want to inspire you by writing an incident that happened to me First of all, I must say that scada hacking is not like other types of hacking. Thanks to the scada system you hacked, you can sometimes cut off the electricity of a city, and sometimes cause dozens of planes to crash at an airport. I was doing bug bounty when I was 16 years old. I suffered many injustices and did not receive any money. I wanted to focus on a more serious field. First, I targeted a sector (health sector). Then I chose a country and chose India. The reason they chose India was because they

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Ask HN: Whats the difference between cross-site cookies and third-party cookies? 2 by zagrebian | 1 comments on Hacker News. Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection uses both the terms “cross-site cookies” and “third-party cookies”. What’s the difference? Screenshot of Firefox’s settings: https://ift.tt/mXLMoHJ

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Ask HN: Best Dev Tool pitches of all time? 17 by swyx | 10 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks! I'm trying to actively get better at pitching developer tools. So I had the idea of collecting an inspiration list of the "best of all time". Would like to crowdsource this! The vibe I'm going for is pitches that left you with a clear "before" and "after" division in your life where you not only "got it" but also keep referring to it from that point onward. Obvious candidate for example is DHH's 15 minute Rails demo (and i've been told the Elixir Liveview demo is similar) and Solomon Hykes' Docker demo. What other pitch is like that? (or successfully pitches a developer tool in a different way, up to your interpretation)

Ask HN: How to make a photogenic server room 42 by focusedone | 21 comments on Hacker News. We are opening a new office and will have our network / server gear in a room with a large window facing a customer reception area. We’re told it’d be nice if the racks looked nice through the glass. Does anyone sell…decorative server equipment? Something useless with a bunch of blinky lights? This is one of the stranger requests we’ve dealt with.

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Tell HN: Triplebyte is, yet again, making user profiles public without consent 189 by teraflop | 21 comments on Hacker News. Triplebyte (YC S15) is a tech recruiting company that operates by getting developers to take skill tests, and then using the results to match them with employers. Back in 2020, they got in a lot of hot water by suddenly announcing that user profiles -- which had been collected with assurances that the data wouldn't be shared without consent -- would be made public, unless you opted out within a week[1]. This provoked a lot of backlash, especially since the CEO seemed totally oblivious to the privacy concerns[2]. After a lot of angry comments, he publicly apologized and reversed course[3]. Then in 2021, some users started once again being notified that their profiles were automatically being made public[4]. This time, it was explained away as an "oversight" related to the fact that previously, opt-outs weren't permanent but had a hidden expira

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Tell HN: Got an email titled “Important information about your GitHub account” 9 by herpderperator | 1 comments on Hacker News. We're writing to let you know that between 2022-02-25 18:28 UTC and 2022-03-02 20:47 UTC, due to a bug, GitHub Apps were able to generate new scoped installation tokens with elevated permissions. You are an owner of an organization on GitHub with GitHub Apps installed that generated at least one new token during this time period. While we do not have evidence that this bug was maliciously exploited, with our available data, we are not able to determine if a token was generated with elevated permissions. User privacy and security are essential for maintaining trust, and we want to remain as transparent as possible about events like these. GitHub itself did not experience a compromise or data breach that either created or resulted from this event. Read on for more information. * What happened? * GitHub learned via a customer support ticket that GitHub App

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Ask HN: How to Improve Documentation? 4 by shreythecray | 5 comments on Hacker News. What are some features or styles of documentation that make you want to read more vs. what are some characteristics that make you hate documentation?

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Are V8 isolates the future of computing? 12 by pranay01 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I was reading this article on Cloudflare workers https://ift.tt/1zxDvup and seemed like isolates have significant advantage over serverless technology like lambda etc. What are the downsides of v8? Is it poor security isolation?

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Ask HN: Which programming language for a first-time coder in 2022? 8 by headmelted | 20 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been asked recently by a buddy who’s kid (13) wants to learn programming but isn’t sure where is best to start. My gut feeling is something like Python might make the most sense, but wanted to ask the room. Criteria I’m working on are: 1) Ease to get to “Hello World”. 2) Kid-friendly, easily available learning resources. 3) Low setup complexity. It’s been so long since I’ve been there (VB6!) that it’s harder to know in 2022 what the right advice to give is for someone just starting out. I also thought about steering them to HTML first, but I don’t think the open web as the same excitement factor for someone starting out in 2022 that it did for me back in the day (which is a shame). What do you folks think?

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Could you recommend me a light web-stack for my web app? 4 by laxmymow | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm making a small free web app in Django with bootstrap for frontend for small-size farmers to exchange services in between each others, the app will have no more then a 1000 users. Along the way i stumbled with a lot of problems: * phone version * chat in with selected groups of users * deployment and security I tried making it in django-rest with vue or using uvicorn and django-chat and even implementing my own chat system but it complicated the whole project a whole lot. Is something like firebase or aws lambda with preact or petite-vue with ionic(for phone version) better for these kind of small apps ? I'm looking for a different web framework that will have all these things included with minimal code required. I just would like to get it shipped as fast as possible. Do you have any suggestions ? Thanks in advance

Ask HN: Gut feeling on North American economy for next 2 years? 2 by boringg | 3 comments on Hacker News. What is everyone else thinking out there? I know where I stand but am curious for other peoples intuition. Interested in global perspectives as well.

Ask HN: How do I stop flip-flopping an important decision? 4 by overclk64 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been indeterministically bouncing from one state to another (and back again) for longer than I would like to admit. Frankly, I'm in a while(1) loop, and I desperately need someone to hand me a 'break.' I would love to settle on the decision and act upon it. For context, I'm 28, a non-EU resident, and have been programming for five years. I have always wanted to get a degree in software engineering. However, when I first considered going to university, my math skills were far below the level required for passing the entrance exam. Despite not knowing how to add two fractions, I was determined to get into the study program I wanted in the future. Fast-forward a few years: I invested about 2K hours, scattered across three years, in mathematics only. Besides math, I read and programmed a lot. I was very disciplined and covered about 70% of the university curric

Ask HN: Which habit/system makes you an effective engineer? 2 by recvonline | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks! I am starting a new job and I basically know 0 about the technology I going to deal with. I know the language (Rust) but not the context I am working in. It’s a fairly new tech stack and the position is Senior/remote. I will have an onboarding buddy though. I will have to dig through a large codbase, and the codebase of the framework we are using. Besides that, the business part is also completely new to me. I wonder: What are your tools and habits you use to accomplish something, store gained knowledge, dig through codebases etc.

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Ask HN: What is the best book you have read with the greatest impact on you? 7 by newsoul | 6 comments on Hacker News. The book may be on any topic. Relating to your profession or not. A book that had a significant impact on you or your life in any manner possible. You can name multiple books though if that is the case with you.

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Ask HN: How to get street name onto Google Maps? 2 by tnjm | 0 comments on Hacker News. The road on which our house in rural France sits finally got a name two years ago. But still no-one can find us because Google Maps hasn't added it. UPS delivers parcels to an access point 10km away, and doesn't tell us. Other couriers leave our parcels randomly at a similarly named street hundreds of yards away. I've submitted the name through the Android app multiple times, including attaching a geotagged photo of the street sign, but no dice. My addition of the name for an adjacent street that was also missing was accepted within 24 hours, first attempt. I've submitted the new name to OpenStreetMap successfully. Is there anything else I can do? And why are they incapable of correctly evaluating contributions that match up with the official cadastral map?

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Ask HN: Can we increase max submission title length to more than 80 chars 2 by pizza | 0 comments on Hacker News. Often have to winnow down the title of a paper because it's slightly over 80 characters.

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Ask HN: Why does WWDC get 10x more views than Google I/O? 2 by carlycue | 2 comments on Hacker News. WWDC 2022 currently has 8.3M views and Google I/0 has 960K views. Both are developer conferences. Why does Apple get so much more engagement? Is it a failure on Google's leadership to put on a good show?

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Encouraging the NHS to build a small web service 32 by cs02rm0 | 6 comments on Hacker News. TL;DR I think the UK's National Health Service (NHS) should build [1] but I don't know how to persuade them, or even if I'm missing something and they shouldn't. --- My mum was diagnosed with an aggressive, stage 3, breast cancer recently. This isn't really about her case. In the UK, the NHS offer breast cancer screening every 3 years for women from the age of 50 until they turn 71. [2] Its stated purpose is to catch cancer early to reduce mortality. It's done via a fragmented set of regional IT systems that have evolved since the 80s with algorithms that are poorly understood by those using them let alone patients. And separate screening programmes for those with higher genetic risk, who've previously had breast cancer, trials looking at expanding the age range, etc. Mum moved house a few years ago, told her local GP (primary care physician?) practice that she was

Ask HN: Is there a TV on the market without “Smart TV” features? 94 by nborwankar | 90 comments on Hacker News. Or is there at least one where Smart mode can be turned off verifiably AND it doesn’t keep enticing you to turn it on by withholding ease of use or some convenience feature until you just give up?

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