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Ask HN: Slimvoice Alternative? 3 by epoca | 1 comments on Hacker News. Slimvoice is shutting down on April 1, 2023. Since 2016 Slimvoice has been my favorite site to create invoices, is there an alternative that keeps it simple and efficient to create invoices?

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Ask HN: What's going on with Amazon Prime shipping times? 4 by lukev | 5 comments on Hacker News. It used to be that in my area (NC Triangle), most items on Prime were available with 2-day shipping, and often same-day or overnight. As of the last month or so, the minimum time seems to be 5 days, with a large number of items in the 10-15 day range. I'm no Amazon lover; I view them much the same way I did Walmart 10-15 years ago. They've recently had a lot of quality issues and the prices aren't as compelling as they used to be. If they can't even offer fast shipping anymore, I can't think of a compelling reason to use them over ordering directly from manufacturers or more niche retailers.

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Ask HN: Would a tech recession vindicate calls for tech unionization? 18 by Apocryphon | 25 comments on Hacker News. For years, the idea of unionizing software engineers and other tech workers has been mostly a fringe idea. While there have been some high-profile examples such as the Kickstarter union and organizing in the notoriously cutthroat video games industry, the idea has been largely scoffed at. The idea is that because SWEs are in such hot demand, it is one of the very few examples where employment relations benefit workers greatly. Now with large scale layoffs already and who knows what else on the horizon, it seems like that leverage, once present during the low interest rates environment of the pandemic bubble, is fast disappearing. So does that vindicate the idea that tech workers should have codified the benefits they enjoyed during the good times, through unionizing?

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Ask HN: Is a generic or specialist degree title more valuable? 2 by hashim | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a UK-based web dev finally going to university in order to round out my knowledge with a degree in CompSci, trying to decide between London and Birmingham. During my extensive research I've noticed that many universities seem to repackage what's essentially the same course - identical or mostly identical lists of modules - under different degree titles. For example, a few of the University of Birmingham's Computer Science courses are named as follows: - Computer Science BSc - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science BSc - Computer Science/Software Engineering MEng But comparing each degree on the UoB website shows the list of modules is identical apart from one extra module that is removed or added depending on the "specialism". In the case of these courses by London's University of Greenwich: - Computer Science BSc - Computer Science (Artific...

Stripe is holding over $400k of mine with no explanation 116 by eeemmmooo | 45 comments on Hacker News. Stripe is holding over $400,000 in deposits over multiple of my accounts with no explanation. I’ve spent hours on the phone or chat with support and they can’t give me any information. We are still able to sell but can’t get the money out. Support has asked for 2 receipts for each account to review, I have sent them. Then I reach back out and they ask for the same receipts again. It’s crazy. Luckily I have other accounts that are able to cover payroll for now, but they won’t last much longer. Support has been horrible and have not given me any reason why this has happened. The accounts that are restricted are all 5+ years old and have been used nonstop in that time. Anyone know a better way to get this resolved because regular support hasn’t been able to do anything to help or explain what happened.

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Ask HN: Birthday present for a soon to graduate CS student? 5 by kmerroll | 8 comments on Hacker News. My son is, thankfully, close to completing a CS/CE degree and I wanted to ask for advice or suggestions for a useful / meaningful birthday present to help him get started? He does have a nice Windows laptop, but wondering about those of you having gone into industry and what tools, references, books, etc. that you wished you had getting started? No, not getting the gaming console he asked for. Thanks!

Tell HN: Can someone build a proxy that removes all Musk news? Myb MuteMusk.com? 4 by somid3 | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is nuts, every news page I go there is a Musk story. It's like their PR department's budget is billions of dollars. Can someone please make MuteMusk.com as a proxy? I'd love to pay for this service. Then you can expand into other Mute services, like select your least favorite celebrities, billionaires, etc.

Ask HN: dealing with weirdly-named degrees 4 by hashim | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm a UK-based web dev finally going to university in order to round out my knowledge with a degree in CompSci, trying to decide between London and Birmingham. Imperial College London generally seems to rank as the best computer science degree in the UK after Cambridge and Oxford, but for some reason I can't fathom they've called this degree "Computing", which tbh sounds closer to something in IT support and seems highly likely to be understood as such by most clients/employers. What's ICL's motivation for naming their CompSci degree in this way, and if I were to apply for it, is there anything to stop me from calling it Computer Science on my CV?

Ask HN: Where to find meaty RSS feeds? 2 by PaulHoule | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am making a feed reader that (i) would like to show you a significant amount of text in the feed and (ii) builds models to cluster and classify the text In terms of length I like the abstracts of scientific papers on sites like arxiv.org. I have more scientific papers now than I can stand, so I am looking for high volume RSS feeds of a huge paragraph or a few small paragraphs on any topics: the subject could be sports or javascript programming, product reviews, any kind of journalism or other non-fiction. Good length is the first qualification but to feed this beast I would love feeds that get 10, 20 or 50 articles a day. Any suggestions?

Ask HN: Lightweight Authentication 5 by scoresmoke | 2 comments on Hacker News. I want to let users log in to my proof-of-concept Web app. However, I don't want to maintain a fully-fledged authentication solution, managing logins, passwords, OAuth tokens, and their recovery. Ideally, I'd like to receive a unique user token and allow one to log in back if they decide to return. I don't need any user metadata. OpenID requires quite an effort and a provider like Google or Okta. The most-matching concept was Mozilla Persona, but it was shut down in 2016. What is the better way to implement this? Should I stick to the plain old login-password combination?

Ask HN: Why haven't bookmarks been re-invented? 24 by douge1 | 75 comments on Hacker News. Perhaps I'm not in the know, but I find it hard to imagine that we encounter a site, we bookmark it into what's often a poorly self-curated / organized taxonomy, and then rarely ever go back to it, what do other people do to manage their bookmarks, or to even share them? I love "awesome lists" as well, which are often just a bunch of well organized bookmarks anyways, so what do people do that's better than this?

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Ask HN: How to get back into tech after two years of absence because of burnout? 2 by tabs_or_spaces | 2 comments on Hacker News. So I did not do anything coding or technical for the past two years because of severe burnout. Instead, I chose to become an engineering manager because it was a much different career path and this was really helping me get over the coding burnout that I've accumulated over the years. I feel that I'm at a stage of my life where I can code again and move back to the IC path. Not that I dislike management, I just like being an IC more. My technical skills are very rusty, like I can probably system design my way through but will struggle initially writing code again. But since that's my goal, I need a bit of advice in terms of how to "get back" into the industry after effectively being gone for 2 years as an IC? My current strategy is to do what I did before (choose a language, do leetcode, do sideprojects, join community, read books, e...

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Ask HN: The ISP has a competing product so has decided to block my domain 14 by qerim | 6 comments on Hacker News. The ISP in my hometown (Albania + Kosovo) has decided to block my whole domain to my free legal streaming website because they also happen to offer IPTV services. I only found out after trying to access my site from Albania today, it just comes up with a “bad URL” request. The streams I serve on my site are public freely available TV channels, combined into a single page. Since EU laws do not apply to neither of these countries, is there any course of action I can take to prevent this sort of monopoly going on?

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Ask HN: Best Uses for Old iPads? 3 by evo_9 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Wondering what is the best use of an old iPad? Like a gen 1 & gen 2 iPad Mini, and a similar age full iPad... https://ipadlinux.org/ ? Other options, better options?

Ask HN: Managing Aging Parents Finances? 2 by ksj2114 | 1 comments on Hacker News. My father has dementia and I have had to step in to manage his financial life, and there are a bunch of inconveniences with this process (nothing major, but certainly a hassle). Would love to hear if anyone is facing similar problems and what they've found works well Problem 1 - He lives across the country, so I am not in person with him / don't have access to his computer Problem 2 - He's constantly forgetting user ids and passwords and changing them (and increasingly accounts have 2FA), so if I want to monitor his accounts its very difficult / sometimes impossible to log in, and many services don't have "view only" access. I have joint access to some services / accounts but not others. Problem 3 - He's increasingly naive to scams (email, phone etc), which means that he either should not have access to all his accounts or I should be monitoring them closely (probably the...

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Ash HN: Why are “rented” eBooks at the library a thing? 2 by fmitchell0 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've never understood the concept of "renting" or "borrowing" an eBook from the library. What is it's purpose? What problem does it solve? I get that eBooks may need to expired access after a given amount of time, but I'm not sure why.

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Tell HN: Thanks and hats off to all the non software engineers 3 by firstfewshells | 1 comments on Hacker News. It's amazing what civil, mechanical, structural, electrical and all other "real world" engineers have built for us. They need to be paid way more than software engineers IMO considering how critical their work is. Yes, I know it's a pipe dream, cause supply and demand. "Have you seen how much big tech makes?". Whenever my mind wanders off and lands on a video of practical engineering, it boggles my mind how complex real world systems are put in place. Big hats off to those engineering these systems so us pampered folks can whine about RTO vs WFH and Rust vs Go.

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Ask HN: Protecting Family Computers 5 by NikolaNovak | 1 comments on Hacker News. I live a conservative online life - I have separate emails for friends, for business, and for crap; I don't open strange emails or download attachments; and I have spare computers if I really want to touch a potentially wonky website. I use Keepass and try to pay attention what I'm doing. So on my Windows computer, Windows defender has been sufficient. I can't claim I'm 100% certain my computer is not compromised (can anybody these days?) but have not had any issues. My family... is different :-). I'm constantly cleaning up weird browser extensions, strange software, cancelling subscription, etc; and their email inbox makes me cry. Should be paying and installing something like Norton or Kaspersky or McAffee? Is there a point? Do they create privacy / nagware / ads / performance issues of their own? How do you set them up for backup? Backblaze or sync.com? Or is there a simple utili...

Ask HN: Private companies with no outside investment? 2 by Ilasky | 0 comments on Hacker News. The last kind of thread I found was from 2017: https://ift.tt/NEDjwC1 I'd love to learn about some other similar companies out there and maybe give them some visibility. For example, a couple I like are Plausible (plausible.io) and Remoteok (remoteok.com).

ask HN: What tech advice are you giving to those around you for 2023? 5 by heresie-dabord | 4 comments on Hacker News. You have probably given advice to the vulnerable young and older people (as well as to self-declared "technotwits") about technology in the coming year. What are your top 5 tips for the coming year? I'm advising: * Do upgrade any device that doesn't receive OS updates (mobile devices are a particular concern) * On mobile, do use an encrypted chat app (e.g. Messages with RCS, Signal, &c) * Don't use identifying information as a password and don't re-use passwords * Don't answer phone calls from unknown sources * End any communication where someone asks you to do something insecure (e.g. "give me your password so I can check your account")

Ask HN: Have You Tried Homesteading? 8 by Phileosopher | 9 comments on Hacker News. I've been kicking around the idea of living comparatively off-grid for a while, and my family is on board with the idea. Have you ever done this, or started researching into it? With a steady-enough income stream via remote work and reliable internet, is a "fully remote" existence a good idea? Or are there downsides to the approach? I'm not exactly a "hang out with people" type, and I'm racking my brain trying to talk myself out of the thought, but every risk seems to come with opportunities. Am I missing something?

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Ask HN: Browser setting/extension to stop page from changing layout as it loads? 3 by AdmiralAsshat | 1 comments on Hacker News. I get incredibly frustrated when I'm trying to interact with a page and try to click on something, only to have a box appear and push down the thing I wanted as I'm clicking on it. Sometimes this is because the page is still loading; more often the page builds dynamically as you scroll, and so it's impossible to fully load the page at the outset. I have adblockers installed, but this doesn't always prevent this scenario. I just want an internet-1.0 webpage where the "skeleton" of the page builds first and I can clearly see a carved out placeholder where an image/ad/whatever will be when it's done loading, so that it safely leaves the rest of the page alone. Any suggestions?

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Ask HN: Is there a better model than flagging? 6 by mactavish88 | 35 comments on Hacker News. I submitted a link today that got flagged pretty quickly. My original intention was to make people aware of the fact that it seems as though a large number of scientists have signed a declaration claiming that “there is no climate emergency”. I make no claim as to the accuracy of their declaration, and neither support nor deny their claim. I’m not a climate scientist. It seems like a really bad idea though to immediately suppress this kind of information as opposed to being able to have a conversation about it. In general, if any contrarian opinions arise and are immediately flagged and suppressed, does that not just turn HN into an echo chamber? Is there not a better model than flag/suppress? EDIT: My concern with this particular question and submission is not about the content of the articles themselves. (Beyond the fact that they're being linked all over Twitter atm and, if this is a...

Ask HN: Stripe alternative (We got blocked before starting) 5 by qocial | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HackerNews, Stripe blocked our account even before we could start using them, citing terms of service issue. We are SuperApp with a marketplace where we allow buyers and sellers of permitted businesses to buy and sell physical products, physical/digital services (exact matching stripe with stripe supported company) Yet we got blocked; I have emailed Patrick (Founder of the stripe) for help as well. Not sure if he would be available to answer anytime soon during the holidays. Do we have any alternative that matches the stripe fees, pricing and community around? Thanks

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Ask HN: Search engines for finding open source projects 2 by arboles | 1 comments on Hacker News. If I want the computer do to something, before starting to write myself the program that does that, I like to search on GitHub for projects that already do what I want. Github search is not always great but with the right keywords... Finding a ready-made project saves my time, and I can still build on that project for the benefit of everyone. But what good is improving on that if no one can find it, and another one 'reinvents the wheel again' just as I was about to? Open source is great because it's great at combining the efforts of interested people. The thing is, searching GitHub misses a lot. A lot of great projects started or have moved to more Free source forges like sr.ht, gitlab, codeberg, self-hosted stuff... How do I search all of those at once? Surely some exceedingly cool HNer has a search engine that aggregates all of that?

Ask HN: Has anyone successfully recovered photos from a broken Android phone? 10 by mahathu | 14 comments on Hacker News. The topic of data recovery from broken phones seems to be a prime target from SEO optimised blogspam so I'm posting here in hopes that someone had a similar issue in the past and may be able to help me out. I am tasked with restoring some photos from a Huawei P30 that has a broken screen/touchpad. The photos were stored on the device directly, unfortunately not on an SD card or on a cloud provider. The phone does still turn on (it vibrates when plugged into a power outlet and shows up on Windows). However, it's only showing an installer for HiSuite (which did not help), not the file system. USB debugging is enabled. Things I tried so far and didn't work: - shining a flashlight at the screen to see if only the backlight is broken (it seems the whole screen is done for) - eyeballing it and trying to blindly enter the passcode - connecting phone to exter...

Ask HN: What is your favorite front end state management solution? 2 by manx | 0 comments on Hacker News. Did you already build nontrivial applications with it? Where does it shine? What are the cons? What did you try before, which didn't work for you?

Ask HN: How do you take notes when reading pdf textbooks not in your field? 5 by markus_zhang | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi experts, Happy holidays! Context: My field is data engineering and the pdf textbook I'm reading is of Microcomputer Architecture (the Mick Bit slice book) from my laptop. Issues: I'll list the two issues below. *Issue 1*: How to effectively take notes when read from *pdf sources*? I feel the best way is to insert a *BLANK* page after each *TEXT* page (by saying text page simply means any page with texts), use an e-pen to hand-write in the BLANK page while circling/labelling contents in the TEXT page. I can probably insert the blank pages using a Python script but I'm not sure which e-pen and writing board I should purchase for my laptop (Lenovo T-460S). I believe handwriting is the only fast, reliable way to take long notes. *Issue 2*: How to effectively take notes for *technical textbooks not in my field*? I just completed the nand2tetris hardwar...

Ask HN: Who else is working/on call over Christmas? 55 by deathgripsss | 21 comments on Hacker News. I volunteered this year to be the on call over Christmas and currently I'm dealing with a generator fire. Merry Christmas. Who else is working through the 25th this year?

Tell HN: Everyone should have a holiday dinner this year 3 by atdrummond | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just wanted to let any HN users who are alone for the holidays - maybe even without a place to stay - that I want to make sure you have a good meal in your stomach tomorrow night and that you know that there are others who do care. HN has been an incredible resource for me. I have met friends, cofounders, and business partners on this site. My intellectual curiousity has been somewhat sated and my social circle made richer by this site’s very existence. I myself have gone through tough times and spent multiple holiday seasons on the street. I want you to know there are people out there who care about you and believe in you. If you need food to celebrate the holidays (or another resource, such as housing help for the night) please email me at the address in my bio. You may remain as anonymous as you wish, so long as I have enough information to get you the assistance you desire. Me...

Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT struggle so much with counting? 4 by logicallee | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've been playing with ChatGPT and am impressed by its ability to produce code and, to a certain extent, seem to reason about novel questions and situations and seem to engage in abstract analysis even on totally novel subjects. However, it really struggles with basic counting compared with most people. For example, I tested it asking about primes between certain intervals, first I asked "Are there more prime numbers between 1 and 10 or between 10 and 20?" and after it answered correctly I asked "Are there more prime numbers between 10 and 20 or between 20 and 30?". It answered: "There are four prime numbers between 10 and 20: 11, 13, 17, and 19. There are also six prime numbers between 20 and 30: 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, and 43. So there are more prime numbers between 20 and 30 than between 10 and 20." The middle sentence clearly contains an error. Why ...

Ask HN: Good Fitness Band? 7 by mustachionut | 2 comments on Hacker News. I recently got the flu and was thinking it would be interesting to have a graph of my body temperature, which made me consider buying a fitness band. Are there any that HN likes? Factors I care about: - Slim design and good battery life - No subscription required to unlock any features - Lots of interesting sensors (heart rate, SpO2, skin temp, others?) - Open data access, reverse engineered APIs, 3rd party data analysis apps Thanks and happy holidays!

Merry Christmas, HN 8 by Thorentis | 2 comments on Hacker News. Just wanted to wish everybody here a Merry Christmas. HN is one of those Internet communities which I would be the saddest to see go, even looking back on other communities in which I've participated over the years. I see many posts here about loneliness, nihilism, friendships (or lack thereof) and just wanted to let everybody here know that life is never hopeless, and there are always people who care, even if they're thousands of miles away. Please reach out to loved ones this season and let them know you love them. Life is short, and you never know when the last time you'll be wishing somebody a Merry Christmas will be. I wish you all the very best for 2023.

Scam ran on YouTube last night – +$620k collected 5 by _boffin_ | 2 comments on Hacker News. Last night, I was on YouTube and on their main page, they had a channel called "[Twitter] - Tesla" with a live stream video (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxSUtFQHI3g -- no longer active). It looks like it was this video (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwx_7XAJ3p0) that was taken over a year ago. It included a QR Code with a link to https://2023tesla.io. It had the following: - Doge: https://ift.tt/awu4YsO - BTC: https://ift.tt/SvZJn0g - ETH: https://ift.tt/zLM0mUt As of right now, it looks like over $620k has been scammed. this is just an FYI

How did OpenAI train ChatGPT to be so (cloyingly) wholesome? 2 by logicallee | 4 comments on Hacker News. For anyone who's interacted at all with ChatGPT you will notice it always has a very wholesome message. Here someone asked it to write about rotten milk: https://ift.tt/X0BbpQI and it ends on the note "friendships, love and trust can too, be forgot / So let us be careful, in all that we do / To not let the milk of life turn rotten too." This is the end of a poem about rotten milk. How did OpenAI train ChatGPT to be so cloyingly wholesome in all its responses, always bringing it back to a positive message?

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Ask HN: What brick and mortar business would you start? 2 by conductr | 3 comments on Hacker News. Interested to hear ideas on what types of non-software businesses seem interesting to start in 2023? I’m open to all ideas but, for context, I have about 3 acres of undeveloped commercial land at a well trafficked intersection. It’s in a Dallas suburb and I have some capital to develop it but would like to do something other than be a strip center landlord which is the usual thing to do in this locale.

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3 days from idea to Product Hunt launch and $720/- in sales 3 by chandan_maruthi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Last Thursday my co-founder and I were traveling to a startup event in San Francisco. We had just missed an event earlier in the week and I would have totally missed this one if not for him reminding me. I told Harish how this was a pain for us and others like us. Others like us needed to be at these startup events to be part of the ecosystem of the customer, founders, and investors. Harish agreed that it was a pain and something we faced every day. We said why not "solve" it over it the weekend. Put it up on PH and see what happens. We put together a simple Airtable. Harish would update with events coming up, and I would automate this with the calendar. We spent last weekend on it. I read a ton of articles on "How to" do a PH launch. I learned that Tue-Thu are good days to launch. Most of them suggested a 2-3 month prep. But we had given ourselves just t...

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Ask HN: How do you overcome decision paralysis when shopping? 9 by behnamoh | 9 comments on Hacker News. In my home country (not the US), shopping was simple: Just go to a few stores and see what's available (they often carried similar items). Then make a purchase and go home. In the US, however, there aren't many shops where I live. Everyone I know buys things online, but there are many e-commerce websites and each has its own perks and quirks. Let's just consider Amazon. I fully experience the paradox of choice whenever I search for something on Amazon, because there are 100s or even 1000s of options that I don't know which one to choose. I spend hours and hours trying to buy even the simplest things (e.g., a butter dish, skillet, etc.) What are your strategies to deal with this situation? Are there better search engines than Amazon's builtin search that can help reduce the noise when shopping?

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Ask HN: How to start a public identity from scratch in late 2022? 9 by oliverjudge | 2 comments on Hacker News. For the past few years conventional wisdom would have said to spin up the the usual socials (Twitter for thought, Instagram for visuals, Short Video for younger audiences), but with the amount of turmoil in those spaces at the moment are they really the best places to start building an individual platform. I've seen a movement back to personal blogs and newsletters but do they provide enough discovery to help people find you? If you were starting from nothing today where would you put the focus for where your content lives and how you distribute it?

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Ask HN: Can you please help me support my tvguide project? 2 by tux | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi I'm Tux, creator of TVNFO (https://tvnfo.com) tvguide project, been around since may/2016. It's a curated and manually updated content. Currently I'm working on version 2 with more features, like Movies/Collages/Boxsets. It takes a lot of work, but I've been doing it mostly as a hobby. This is the first time ever I'm asking for donations publicly on HN. I could really use your help with donations. TVNFO never used any advertisments and most traffic is word of mouth users with little to no donations. With your help I can make public website more open to everyone to enjoy. If you are interested in this type of content please consider helping (https://ift.tt/4jI3QHD). By making a donation you will receive full account with more features :) Comments are welcome but please be kind, this is the first time I ask for help on HN like this ^_^ Private email comments (in my H...

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Ask HN: I'm enjoying Apple's ecosystem. Should I be worried? 3 by behnamoh | 5 comments on Hacker News. I own a few iDevices: MacBook Pro, Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. I don't necessarily use Apple's services (e.g., News, Music, Podcast, ...) but I find the tight integration of Apple's devices so enjoyable that I wonder why no other company has even tried to do that. I like the hands-off feature, the fact that Apple's devices are "aware" of each other, so I can put my Watch to sleep mode and it automatically tells that to my MBP, iPhone, and iPad too. I like the buttery smoothness of iOS and macOS, and the fact that Apple's design guidelines has resulted in a somewhat uniform UI experience across third-party apps, so I don't have to re-learn how to use new apps. I can talk a lot about why I'm so sold on Apple's ecosystem, but the cynic geek inside me gets worried sometimes. Is it all a perfectly designed trap? What's the catch?...

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Ask HN: Does TypeScript live up to the hype? 3 by speedylight | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’ve only ever used vanilla JavaScript ever since I got into WebDev and while it can annoying to work with at times, it’s really well rounded overall in my opinion especially the current version of ECMAScript. Combined with svelte it’s absolutely delightful. Then I started hearing more about Typescript on Twitter and such and I got really curious because everyone had at least one good thing to say about it - mainly the data types aspect of it. Which is the only benefit that I can really wrap my head around.

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Ask HN: What are the tools you use for job search? 3 by digitalsanctum | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a software engineer and I use a combination of manual searches and a couple of bash scripts for doing things like getting reviews of prospective companies. I'm curious what others are doing in this space to separate the signal from noise.

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Ask HN: Are there valuable insights from the Twitter files? 8 by mind-blight | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've been reading the Twitter files, but I'm struggling to find anything that's much of a revelation in them. Twitter removes pictures of Hunter Biden's penis, and US three-letter agencies meet with top social media execs seem pretty weak. I'm fairly left-leaning though, so I may be glossing over something. Objectivity, are there details that are valuable outside of scoring political points?

Ask HN: Bet on the Success of OpenAI/ChatGPT 2 by smithcoin | 1 comments on Hacker News. A friend of mine and I were debating the likely "disruptions" that ChatGPT will have in the coming years and how it will alter various industries. The timeline he suggested was 2 years. The questions I have are this: - What do you think is a reasonable litmus-test for measuring this? (e.g number of employed workers in AI) - He was willing to and I quote "bet my career" on the outcome of this. I have no need for his career. In the spirit of the bet what would you think is a prize that is worthy of this? (e.g something tongue in cheek like dinner at an AI powered White Castle[0]) I will be posting the bet on Longbets.org. I have attempted to leave my position/bias out of this post in relation to the bet. [0] https://ift.tt/K3ULryE

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Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022? 5 by huseyinkeles | 1 comments on Hacker News. I started to listen to podcasts during my daily workouts and I quite enjoy the experience! Some of my favorites are Lex Fridman Podcast and Darknet Diaries. Any other suggestions? (Asked the same question 2 weeks ago but didn’t get any traction. Sorry if it’s against the rules to send again)

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Ask HN: Looking for a Programable Text Editor 4 by xcubic | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’m not sure if this exists, but I’m curious what would be the closest thing available to an “Event based programmable text editor”. Imagine this scenario: - Every monday at 10, the editor, would inject a checklist into your work log with some weekly checks you do at work. - Some of the checks are manual, some have inputs to accept extra data - Some are automated because you wrote a snippet of code for doing such check - On save, convert to json and send to someone via email - Every time you do this, you need to do a followup around 2days later with the person that received the checklist. They will provide a paragraph with some feedback that you need to save. To do so, your editor, already injected a form into your work log for doing so. This is just an example but could go very far I imagine.

Ask HN: Given its tech stack, why Mastodon? 2 by rcarr | 2 comments on Hacker News. So I spent the evening looking at what super simple blog applications were out there now (e.g Blot, Bear, if you know any similar give me a shout) and also started looking at all the microblogging options available (micro.blog, mastodon, pleroma etc). This lined up quite nicely given tonight's events and decided that running my own single user mastodon instance might be a good idea. I then started reading up on a comparison of mastodon and pleroma and how lightweight the latter is in comparison to mastodon which made me read up on mastodon's architecture some more. So my questions are as follows: - How does Pleroma's language and architecture achieve feature parity with Mastodon without the resource consumption? Are tradeoffs being made or is the Phoenix and Erlang language and tools just that much better than Ruby on Rails? - Why was Ruby on Rails selected for Mastodon and how has Mastod...

Ask HN: How much jobs are there in ML? 4 by never_commented | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was curious so I opened up stepstone.de (popular in Germany) and set the location to Munich which competes with Berlin to be the most popular techhub. I searched for pytorch as a competence and got 8 results. I searched for tensorflow as a competence and got 12 results. For some reference, C++ has 281 results. Delphi/Pascal has 4 results. Cobol has 8 results. Fortran has 3 results. Considering that there will be approximately a 100 graduates this year just from my university who have some ML experience, and considering that there are about 100 universities in Germany. And I am not even mentioning the Ph.ds and the disgrunted Postdocs who will be on the market soon. Are there any actual jobs in ML? For real? Or what am I missing?

Ask HN: What would make a great developer-first social network? 2 by dbish | 1 comments on Hacker News. With many people I admire and follow in the tech community moving off Twitter, and a lot of the alternatives being clones that have mostly worse UX (looking at you mastadon), what would a developer/tech-first social network look like that was actually awesome to use? Things I would personally like: -deeper integration with github, seeing metadata from your github profile on your social network profile -easily embed code and context in the tweet equivalent. Would be awesome to have formatted, maybe even runnable, code snippets -twitter spaces for developers that includes code or screen sharing and ways to bring people "on stage" to not just talk but multiplayer control or share another window to the space to show what they're working on or explain a concept together and answer questions (twitch streaming with more dev focused integrations) What would you add?

Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? 23 by CM30 | 14 comments on Hacker News. Not newspapers or media services (though those can be annoying too), but products in general? It feels like it's getting harder and harder to just buy something in the tech world, especially when it comes to running programs on my home computer. Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. Note taking app? SaaS. Image editor or office suite? SaaS (thanks Adobe...) This is especially annoying given I generally refuse to rent anything in life, and will go out of my way to buy something upfront simply so there's no risk of losing it if finances get worse in future (or the wrong billionaire buys the company). Yet it seems like it's getting harder to do so, especially when open source products don't exist for that domain. So yeah, why is that? And is anyone else tired of the constant barrage of subscriptions for things that should be one off purchases?

Ask HN: Should the downvote button exist in comments here? 2 by seydor | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am noticing a lot of emotionally-driven downvoting in the past 3-4 years. Do we really need another reddit?

Ask HN: Do OLED displays only save energy with absolute black? 3 by fortnum | 1 comments on Hacker News. It was always my understanding that OLED displays use less energy the darker the screen is. However I now came across some information that this is actually only true for absolute black (#000000). Is that correct? Does #010101 use the same energy as #FFFFFF or do darker shades still use less energy?

Don't Use StripE 43 by alienfemale | 1 comments on Hacker News. I used Stripe for about 2 years to run a fashion brand in the uk. In the case of my business, I never had an issue processing my small payments for dresses, ranging from a couple hundred dollars up to $1000. All of a sudden, we start getting attention we get payments of $3300 and more. We had around 50000$ dollars on stripe. Stripe flagged the account and is now holding the money from me for "at least 120 days" It is one thing to say this is a red flag, fine... I hear you... no problem. a transaction multiple times the size... sure. I get it. However, A normal payment processor would then query you for documents authorizing the charge, bank statements, financial statements, some sort of procedure to remedy the issue. Stripe provides NO SUCH METHOD TO RESOLVE these issues. There are reports of Stripe continuing to add "30 days" to the reserve hold past the initial 120 days, indefinitely. Stripe is...

Ask HN: Habits that have lasted the entire year? 2 by renaissance_tea | 0 comments on Hacker News. In a time of New Years resolutions, I like to bring up a question that reflects on not 2023 goals, but the goals you set in 2021 for the 2022 year. For those who stuck with them consistently the entire year, what are some mantras, tips or mottos for those entering 2023 with a “fresh slate”? What do you do to stay consistent despite family issues, work deadlines, sleep deprivation and general malaise? Asking for a friend ;) PS. Happy new year to HN and wishing you a healthy and satisfying year to whatever that entails

Ask HN: Is there evidence that layoffs work? 2 by absrd | 0 comments on Hacker News. layoffs are often presented as a cost-cutting measure to save the business. I'm curious what research has to say on the efficacy of this, as opposed to other methods

Tell HN: Google is correlating location data to your IP 2 by wereallterrrist | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, Is this a known thing? I'm pretty frustrated, and even given my near-complete disillusionment about capital-driven-tech these days, I can't believe Google is doing this. I just got home from being in Mexico where I used my VPN (because of course US financial apps panic if you access them outside the US). I fired up my LG TV running the YouTube app (which I'm not signed into) and every, single, ad is in Spanish. My Edge browser on my desktop computer gives results in Mexico and claims I'm in Quintanna Roo. In many places, I cannot override this, at least without signing in and/or apparently explicitly feeding it more accurate location data to "fix" it's perception. Is this expected/known? At one point, it even said "based on your IP address" despite the fact that my IP clearly looks up to a Washington State IP address. I just wish I ...

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Ask HN: How do you protect your children from internet addiction? 3 by Archipelagia | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm using "internet addiction" here in a loose sense. Think of all modern hyper-engaging online services: TikTok, MMORPGs, social media, video games, porn, etc. I think HN users might be especially aware of how addicting these can be, so do you take any precautions to help your children avoid falling prey to them?

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Ask HN: Anyone using proprietary Unix at work? 14 by wassenaar10 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I was born in the late 90s so by the time I got involved in technology, my introduction to Unix and Unix-flavored systems was limited to Linux and MacOS. However, I've read about the history of Unix at Bell Labs, the BSD systems derived from research Unix, and the eventual commercial releases of Unix System V from AT&T themselves. I also see that HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris are apparently still maintained and get releases, which suggests that they are still being used in production in some places. I'm curious if anyone here currently works (or has very recently worked) somewhere where proprietary Unix is still used for production. If so, can you tell me what they're used for and why those deployments haven't been moved to an appropriate Linux distribution? Not suggesting Linux is necessarily better for all use cases, just wondering what keeps these small number of entities c...

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Ask HN: I'm desperate. How can I overcome anxiety in interview situations? 2 by raydev | 6 comments on Hacker News. Apologies for the ramble, I feel like context is useful here. I've had a decade long career, with the latter half at some decently big name tech companies. I code, I ship, the features I've worked on and led development on are now in the hands of millions of users. Unfortunately I was recently laid off, not due to performance issues. My whole team was deleted, and I understand the motivations for it, it is what it is. Over the years, I've had an uncomfortably high interview failure rate despite my successes. I've only had success because my resume looks great; when I ship I do it well. But I succeeded in getting my last job because I passed one out of 7 interviews. The more I talk to my peers as I've moved up in the tech world I've learned they do not have similarly high failure rates. They often have competing offers. I am comfortable when ...

Ask HN: How to not be jealous of other people despite being a failure 3 by user-extended | 5 comments on Hacker News. Yes, I am objectively a failure. This might be hard to believe, but I am 23 now, and ever since I was 16, my life has been just failure after failure. At 16 my grades started to fail dramatically. I only made it through High School because of two teachers' "mercy". At 18 I went to college for Computer Science. I failed every single subject I had, even one that had nothing to do with CS. I blew all of my parent's money. At 19, I suffered a rare illness (still have it, in control now), which combined with depression made me into a very anxious person. At 20 I tried studying Robotics at a non-uni level institution, I failed at it, blew my parent's money again, less severely though. I couldn't handle programming and dealing with electricity IRL. At 21 I studied a non-uni level degree in Logistics, actually finished it, and now I'm working a ...

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Ask HN: How do you write integration tests for complex pipelines? 2 by dondraper36 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Apart from obvious unit tests and some mocks (no love for mocks, honestly speaking), there comes a point when you need to make sure that the end-to-end logic is correct in your application while it interacts with other services, the database, etc. To be more specific, let's say there is a service that has a few endpoints with tricky behaviors. For example, creating a resource might require: * Making a call to service A * Creating new records in table X * Creating new records in table Y ... * Making a call to service B You get the idea. Even writing mocks for such cases is tiresome, not to mention that it might say nothing about the real interactions in the wild. My current approach is using dockertest (I use Go for this project and Postgres), spinning PG in a Docker container and, well, testing each endpoint method completely. Having said that, I would be interested in...

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Ask HN: Why doesn't UPS show tracking history anymore? 2 by gnicholas | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been tracking packages recently and noticed that UPS only shows the most recent location of my packages. It used to show the entire history, which was useful because it was easier to tell when something went wrong. All other shippers we use (FedEx, DHL, Amazon) seem to still show full histories. Anyone have an idea why UPS would have changed this?

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Help, Pick a Business Name 3 by grANDr | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am developing a new website about freelancers job listing. Please help me pick a name from list below (or recommend any funny name):/ ferrylancer dot com / looselancer dot com / nonestaffs dot com / Thank you in advance.

Ask HN: Is Anyone in Industry Using Logic Programming? 4 by joeatwork | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do you use prolog or Clojure core.logic or Mercury or anything like that at your job? If so, what do you use and why?

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Ask HN: Any other Twitter users seeing an uptick in spam DMs? 4 by binarynate | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if this is a systemic thing or just me. I keep my DMs open so my customers can DM me with questions. It used to be rare for me to get spam messages (maybe once every few weeks?), but over the past few weeks it has become more frequent, and now I'm getting spam messages daily (3 so far today). Most of the spam messages are about hiring for part-time jobs and have the same basic message structure, so it seems like Twitter should be able to easily identify them as spam, since I've reported them.

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Salary by Location 3 by Oras | 0 comments on Hacker News. There was a recent post about YC companies not posting salary range on their job postings. One of the reasons might be not knowing what to offer for a particular job in a specific region. Multiple services provide salary info, and if you compare them, you will notice that salary data is inconsistent. I have created a simple search form to list the salary info from multiple vendors so you can compare them in one place. In addition, it will show you a link to each source if you're interested in learning more. Here is the link: https://ift.tt/WXp1TAV

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Ask HN: How do you feel about the search feature in Confluence? 6 by yuvalsteuer | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have used Confluence in multiple organizations and have always been disappointed by its search feature. Am I knit picking or is the search in Confluence just plain bad? My problems with it: 1. search terms need to be percise. 2. Complicated advanced search. 3. Slow How would you make it better?

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In what programming language would you write new OS? 3 by laxmymow | 4 comments on Hacker News. In your opinion what programming language should be used to write a new operating system for the 21 century?

Ask HN: What tools do you use for your personal knowledge management system? 6 by zvmaz | 2 comments on Hacker News.