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Explore Bluesky social network without invitation 2 by skopf | 0 comments on Hacker News. Bluesky recently gained a lot of media attention, but is still invite only. If you want to already explore the network while sitting on the waitlist, here is a small trick: The SPXP bridge is already handling the AT protocol! You can use it to explore the network via SPXP, for example Jack's account: https://ift.tt/iaLhF2K You can either hop through the json data in a web browser (Firefox works best) or use a mobile client like the https://heyfolks.app. It even suggests a couple of Bluesky accounts to follow on initial setup. If you want to learn more about the SPXP protocol: https://ift.tt/7lEodkc

Tell HN: Considering legal action against Stripe 13 by gurgunday | 14 comments on Hacker News. Like many others, they just permanently damaged our platform by closing our account without notice. It's plain sad considering how much we've worked on it — for more than 2 years as a team of 2 college students. Despite seeing these kinds of posts on HN every week, we mistakingly thought taking extra care of our account and forming our company under Stripe Atlas would at least help us survive until we got big enough. Also, some part of us thought – "Clearly, these people must have done something wrong. Stripe wouldn't be this aggressive. They are terrific for entrepreneurs after all!" We were dead wrong. The truly insane part about it is that we had no issues with *anyone*: no complaints, no chargebacks, no anything. We went further by regularly checking purchases and manually refunding suspicious sales, which happened once when someone started card testing and we sto

Tell HN: In my entire life, I have never enjoyed a scrolljacking website 34 by swidi | 3 comments on Hacker News. Not once. I don't care how hard you worked on it, I don't care how many web technologies you abused to get it working, I don't care how many hits or views or conversions or whatchamacallits it got for you. If I visit your website and I see a scrolljacking, window-breaking, bandwidth hogging accessibility nightmare, I'm either going to force it to open in Safari Reader or leave entirely. No content is worth this crap.

Ask HN: How much do you work, what's your salary and how experienced are you? 3 by throwawayadvsec | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I have a really chill job at the moment, but I'm underpaid. I know I could make twice as more, I was even recently contacted for a job paying 3 times more.(I would have tried if it didn't require relocation) I'm looking for a new job, but I don't know if I should aim for a really high salary, depending on how much more work I'll have to put in. So I'm wondering about your experience, how many hours do you put in weekly or monthly/salary after of before taxes/location/job title/experience?

Cheapest Source of x86 Cores? 13 by mlthrowaway1953 | 11 comments on Hacker News. I'm doing embarrassingly parallel simulations (think Monte Carlo runs of a legacy scientific binary) and am trying to find the cheapest possible host source of x86 compute, at scale. These are jobs that are single-threaded, use maybe 2-4GB of ram, last an hour, and can be checkpointed if necessary. A c5.18xlarge on AWS has 36 physical (real) cores and on the spot market is $0.74/hr which works out to $0.02/core-hour. Does anyone know of cheaper options?

Ask HN: Following founders who have found success at an early age, and retired 3 by greenranger14 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm in the process of selling a business for a decent chunk of cash, and under 40. I'm looking forward to an early retirement. I want to find people I can follow online who are in a similar situation in their lives. People who have sold startups or made a ton of money on some venture, are relatively young, healthy & active, and are now spending their time traveling, doing adventures, and trying to live the rest of their life in a meaningful way (whatever that means). I'm curious as to how these startup or business 'role models' approach a new life of financial independence - my thinking is, if these individuals were able to be so successful at their work, especially at an early age, they are likely also very good at being retired at a young age. They don't post often, but two good examples are Tom Anderson who sold myspace (https:

Ask HN: Stock Android phone free of bloatware? 5 by miki_tyler | 6 comments on Hacker News. Is there an Android phone available that comes without any pre-installed bloatware, offers long-term support, and ensures access to the latest Android versions?

Ask HN: Which job boards are you using? 3 by blueridge | 0 comments on Hacker News. https://startup.jobs https://ift.tt/XlNi4UG https://ift.tt/kUruLCY https://builtin.com https://ift.tt/rd2Z8FR https://ift.tt/jgvtHxr https://justremote.co/ https://ift.tt/qzDgh1O List of VC job boards: https://ift.tt/U2y3JsZ

Why does Slack have a dolphin effect? 2 by CMatheus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who runs conspicuous spambots on HN comments and for what reason? 3 by davikr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Best Resources and Books for a Soon-to-Be-Dad? 2 by xyos | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello Hacker News community! I've recently received the great news that I'm about to become a father. While this is an exciting time, it is also a little bit daunting. I'm turning to this community because I trust in the wisdom and diverse experiences you all can provide. I'm looking for any recommendations on books, blogs, online resources, or other materials that could help prepare me for this new chapter of my life. I'm particularly interested in resources that touch on: * Basic care for newborns (feeding, sleep patterns, etc.) * Understanding developmental stages and what to expect as my child grows. * Tips for supporting my partner during the pregnancy and postpartum periods. * Navigating work-life balance as a new parent in the tech industry. * Practical advice on creating a safe and stimulating environment for cognitive development. * Any resources that discuss mo

Tell HN: Yahoo Mail deletes all emails due to inactivity 4 by adhvaryu | 0 comments on Hacker News. A few days back, I logged into my 2 year old Yahoo Mail account, which I hadn't opened in the last 1.5 years. Today, my account was "reactivated" and I was greeted by the following email: > Dear USER, > We’re so glad to see you’re back! Due to inactivity, your mailbox entered an inactive state. This means we stopped accepting your incoming emails. If your period of inactivity was long enough, we also deleted all of your emails. Now that you’ve signed back in, your mailbox has been reactivated and you will start receiving new emails again shortly. For more information, please visit the Yahoo Mail policy page at: https://ift.tt/nvbhjfd Rest of my inbox was empty and I've lost some important emails (I only used this email for some legal matters 2 years ago). A word of caution to all, set up a reminder to logon to your dormant email addresses every few weeks.

Furious with Stripe's Unfair Action 4 by genellihair | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm writing this review with a great deal of anger. Stripe, a service we trusted, just turned our world upside down, and it's not okay! Our business sells perfectly legal products that aren't even close to Stripe's 'no-go' list. We've always played by the rules, made sure we were transparent and fair with our customers. But what do we get for it? Stripe just closes our account without any warning! And here's the kicker – we only had TWO disputes in the last couple of months. Just two! You would think we were running some sort of scam with the way Stripe treated us. But nope, we were just trying to run our business and make our customers happy. Now, with our account shut, Stripe wants to return our customers' payments. But guess what? We've already shipped all the products! So, we're left out of pocket, and it feels like Stripe doesn't even care. The w

Ask HN: Why do VCS see market opportunity in dev tools? 6 by as90 | 2 comments on Hacker News. This trend has no stopping it seems. Every dev tool startups are getting funded. Some of these startups are simple clones of existing proprietary services offered by AWS and other providers. (Like Cognito / Auth0) Why VCs are betting on this market? What is the opportunity to build a huge business here for a new startup, beating reputed players like AWS, Auth0 etc? What is the conviction of VCs here that these new startups will build a $100M business? I'm confused. Also, despite getting a lot of pessimistic comments on the future of such startups here in HN, they seem to raise further rounds (Series A, B) and even building a stable business. I feel like VCs are better at spotting something huge in this space, than the actual users (I mean developers) who feel pessimistic. Lol.

Ask HN: any horror stories about CentOS Stream breaking updates? 4 by khaled_ismaeel | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am planning to move to CentOS Stream and everywhere I read about it they mention how it is "unstable" and "prone to breaking changes" etc, though they never gave specific examples. I would like to hear some real world stories about CentOS breaking changes. upd: typos

PayPal “Buy Now” buttons have been broken for a week 4 by davisr | 3 comments on Hacker News. Eight days ago, PayPal broke their Buy Now buttons ^[1] for customers who sell electronic goods (i.e. who don't collect shipping addresses). The error is because they use `eval()` in their JavaScript, which browsers block. So far, they have been unable to fix the issue. If you are a PayPal merchant using a payment button who sells digital goods, this might be why your payments stopped over a week ago. PayPal support is mostly unhelpful. A workaround purported in the community forum is to start collecting a shipping address, and set the shipping rate to 0.00. [1]: https://ift.tt/7QfzjEd

As a female or an older engineer,will you work for Tesla/SpaceX? 2 by donnie12345 | 0 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/fFZruqX "A few weeks later, the aforementioned manufacturing engineer said he’d now been assigned to “shadow me” to learn all aspects of optical metrology over the following two weeks. When I asked why, he answered that his Starlink manager had said I “might retire or die.” I was 61, with six more years to the standard retirement age, even if I was considering retiring—which I was not. I wasn’t sick or overweight, and am generally quite healthy. I responded that surely my age couldn’t be a legal reason for a job assignment. The engineer, realizing the egregiousness of the situation, reported it to HR just minutes later. I discussed the incident with my manager, and in a phone meeting, HR said an investigation would be performed. But nothing was done to remedy my situation or restore my job duties; and a few months later, that Starlink manager was promote

Ask HN: I want a list of the labels firms use to refer to their workers 4 by dougSF70 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have a beef with these labels especially when used in layoff announcements. For example tacklers work at tackle.io, wazers at Waze, googlers at google. Tweeps work at Twitter. Can we crowd source a list please.

Amazon lens keeps running camera in background (Amazon iOS app) 3 by sweetrobot2k | 0 comments on Hacker News. noticed that the 'amazon lens' feature keeps running in the background until you open another app, even after you exit the mode - i noticed this because you cannot launch the flashlight until you switch apps. not sure if the camera is actually running or some flag is not reset, but ios seems to think so as well.

Ask HN: Home Energy Monitor Recommendations? 4 by voisin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, Wondering if you have any other recommendations or thoughts on the below. Use case: I have a solar array and want to track in one spot all the energy produced, energy imported, energy exported, and where energy is being used. Both of the following seem to do what I want with some nuances. I am looking at: 1) Sense [0], which identifies energy use patterns of different devices to determine what devices are on different circuits (apparently even multiple devices on a single circuit) and how much energy each device is using. It is the most expensive option, uses proprietary tech that I am concerned means the company either goes belly up and I’m left with a brick, or forces everyone to switch to a SaaS model and I get held hostage if I want to continue using it in the same way. The other concern is that reviews are massively split - either it’s the greatest thing ever or it simply doesn’t manag

The Testimony Before the US Congress of Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face 2 by AnhTho_FR | 0 comments on Hacker News. AI innovation especially for popular AI systems today such as ChatGPT has been heavily influenced by open research, from the foundational work on the transformers architecture to open releases of some of the most popular language models today. Making AI more open and accessible, including not only machine learning models but also the datasets used for training and the research breakthroughs, cultivates safe innovation. Broadening access to artifacts such as models and training datasets allows researchers and users to better understand systems, conduct audits, mitigate risks, and find high value applications. The tensions of whether to fully open or fully close an AI system grapples with risks on either end; fully closed systems are often inaccessible to researchers, auditors, and democratic institutions and can therefore obscure necessary information or illegal and

Is there anyone interested in funding a Reddit alternative? 3 by subbed | 0 comments on Hacker News. Design Preview: https://ift.tt/fZkQm2l As many of you know, Reddit has had some issues with their 3PA developers by raising API prices. This has sparked alot of interest in an alternative. I recently spoke with someone who offered to help with the project, and I think right now the biggest hurdle is the figma design (courtesy of setproduct) still needs to be implemented into the old reddit source code, and a .com domain is needed, but this is a start at least. The figma design was purchased from Setproduct, and the source code is coming from the reddit archive, but more specifically saidit github repo. Both elements will need to be worked on, but its a slow and steady progress. Hosting costs also seem like a concern. The old reddit source code will need to be refactored and the dependencies updated as well as stripe implementation to get it all to work for subscriptions. All these th

Ask HN: How would you make an additional $500k in 1 year? 3 by smarri | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Has anyone worked as an Engineer while living in a van? 4 by KenArrari | 4 comments on Hacker News. Kind of out there I know but I'm just curious if anyone has managed to pull this off while still being productive. It seems doable as long as you have a small desk, and starlink for wifi. Would be cool to just drive yourself to a new city every week. Hunch down and work during the day and do something new after.

Best no code tools for beginners 4 by sneha1995 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Best no code tools for beginners 1. Softr - Softr turns your spreadsheets (Airtable or Google Sheets) into customer portals, internal tools, and any other custom app. Pick a template or start from scratch. 2. Webflow - Webflow is the most powerful web design and development platform that allows users to create responsive websites without coding. With a drag-and-drop interface and CMS functionality, Webflow enables designers to create professional and dynamic websites quickly and easily. 3. Framer - Start your dream site with AI. Zero code, maximum speed. 4. Zapier - Easy automation for busy people. Zapier empowers you to automate your work across 5,000+ apps—so you can move forward, faster. 5. Bubble - Bubble introduces a new way to build a web application. It’s a point-and-click programming tool, entirely without code. Bubble hosts all applications on its cloud platform. 6. Makerpad - The easiest way to bu

Locally hosted LLM use cases? 2 by donji | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m curious what interesting use cases people on here have thought of for locally hosted llms. I’m also curious what form factor will need to be supported to make you use case. I think because of the large amount of ram that’s needed, something phone sized could not be that useful. But I could be wrong, maybe there is a use case for a really dumb small model that can be used to great effect. Thoughts?!

Ask HN: How small startups deal with long security questionnaires from clients? 2 by make_it_sure | 0 comments on Hacker News. Whenever we get a client with around 100+ head count, they ask to fill their own security assessment. It takes a lot of time as it has sometimes 100+ questions. We can't also deny them, but we're getting tired. We're too small to hire someone for this and as a founder, my time can surely be used better somewhere else. How do small startups handle this without getting SOC2?

Ask HN: Have we reached the point that anti-monopoly people were warning of? 4 by moose_man | 2 comments on Hacker News. With the loss of APIs from major companies, are we in the endgame that we were warned about for a decade? Is tech now so powerful that we are totally captured? The whole argument that it wasn't hurting consumers is that they gave away so many services for free, what is the justification now?

Ask HN: What's a not so famous software company that makes a lot of money 4 by mr_o47 | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hello, We all have heard of big name software companies but what are some unusual software companies that makes millions every year which we might not have heard of?

Ask HN: What do you use for an authenication/authorization solution 3 by durron | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m working at an early pre seed startup and building out the product. Every time I visit implementing Identity, I struggle with a good solution. Building it in house is costly and fraught with potential errors, but platforms like Auth0 charge an exorbitant amount per user that’s difficult to do at an early stage of a company. I’m curious to what other people are using in their products.

Do you still subscribe to newsletters? 4 by a_kaay | 8 comments on Hacker News. Personally, I find it hard to subscribe to newsletters these days because reading them get too burdensome and my mailbox is overcrowded at this point. Is it just me? What will make you subscribe to a newsletter today?

Ask HN: As a web developer, how do you land a job? 2 by roramigator | 1 comments on Hacker News. So far, all my jobs have been from people around my environment (work, community, etc); this types of jobs, however, are not long term and I'm looking for something more stable. I have applied online for remote jobs through every site I can get my hands on, so far nothing (or scams). Does anyone have any advice?

Tell HN: Coinbase discontinues services to accounts, blocks access 5 by estebarb | 2 comments on Hacker News. Today I received an email from Coinbase regarding them discontinuing all services to some accounts: Hello, This is regarding your account linked to xxxxx. We are reaching out to inform you that we will be discontinuing all services to your above-mentioned account, as we will be disabling access for the accounts that no longer meet our updated standards for these services. Please note that you will be able to access Coinbase.com or the Coinbase app until 25th September 2023 and should withdraw any funds held in your account by such date. Your funds remain secure with us, and you are able to send funds to other crypto wallets or services (subject to standard network and transaction fees), including Coinbase Wallet. Coinbase Wallet is our self-custody wallet, giving you complete control of your crypto. Coinbase Wallet supports hundreds of thousands of tokens and decentralized a

Reddit has disabled copy/paste on right click 18 by viridian | 7 comments on Hacker News. ...completely breaking accessibility for people who primarily, or solely use a mouse. As of about a day ago they decided to hijack the right click to take focus away from whatever you selected, possibly to support this new "Embed" feature that overlays a button that opens a new tab, any time you select new text. I wonder what the hell the end goal is for them? I can't imagine this could have any sort of positive business outcome associated with it.

Ask HN: How have you changed your choice of tech stack in recent years? 2 by andrewstuart | 0 comments on Hacker News. Presumably everyone's choice of database/back end/front end development stack changes over time. Has yours changed? From what to what and why?

Ask HN: Why are Reddit's webpage elements so slow to load? 4 by behnamoh | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have tried several browsers and I keep getting the same subpar UX. Everything is slow. I click on the Chats icon and it takes several seconds to load. Switching between chats also takes a couple seconds. When I send a message, it takes 3-4 seconds to show up in the chat. With each update to the website, they've just broken more and more things. The legacy chat UI was much better and it allowed for deleting chats as well. Now you can just "hide" them.

When was '2 weeks ago' and did it come before or after '2 weeks ago'? 2 by qwery | 0 comments on Hacker News. Why are timestamps increasingly being replaced by vaguely worded junk? This has been happening for a long time, but today Github told me that when filtering issues based on creation time, "Date formatting must follow the ISO8601 standard". This is the hill they die on, I guess... Except, the reason I was looking up the syntax for this in the first place was because the creation times are displayed in such a useless manner. I don't know, it just seems like for anything older than a day it's easier to think about when things happened, not how long ago something happened. And then the resolution degrades to useless levels for anything older than 'today' anyway.

No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years 3 by adrianvoica | 2 comments on Hacker News. Why does Google not (want to?) support the full Markdown experience in Google Drive? I'm not talking about the limited, mostly useless support in Docs, but supporting opening, reading / editing real (.MD extension) files. Just, why?

Ask HN: Have any of you had success trading the stock market? 3 by WheelsAtLarge | 4 comments on Hacker News. We hear about people being successful trading the markets. But I have never heard of anyone being able to do it long term. Specially after a down turn like the one we've had over the last 2 years. I'm one that believes that the only way to be successful is to be in it for the long term, 10+ years, and in a winning ETF or mutual fund. Am I wrong?

Ask HN: What OTCs / supplements do you take and why? 2 by b20000 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just wondering what the community is taking in terms of supplements, over the counter stuff, and perhaps also stuff that is not over the counter but easy to get, to help with focus and to maximally support brain function and help with fatigue. This is all in addition to reasonably regular excercise and healthy food intake. Personally I walk 45 min per day or more and cook food at home as much as I can.

Ask HN: Is GNU pass and Yubikey (via NFC) supported on iPhone? 3 by jehteh | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I am considering moving from Android to iPhone in the near future. I think the only thing I can't really evaluate easily is whether or not there is support for GNU pass where the GPG key is stored on a Yubikey. My Android password manager workflow is: Need password -> Android pass app requests Yubikey Pin -> App requests NFC tap -> password decrypted. Can I replicate this UX on iPhone today?

Did studying proof based math topics e.g. analysis make you a better programmer? 3 by jobhdez | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, Hope all is well. I love math but haven’t studied much of it. I have only studied up to real analysis. But definitely not a whole semester worth; my experience with analysis has been analogous to Poor performance in a quarter based analysis course. I did some exercises but not many. I have heard from an mit professor[1] that math is the way to learn to think rigorously. So I’m curious about this and I’d like to improve my thinking skills in the hope that I will become a better programmer. In an article a math professor said that there was some evidence that math improved logical skills[2]. So I’m wondering if any of you noticed that your thinking skills improved thereby making you a better programmer after studying analysis or topology or some other proof based math course. Also which math other than the math required in CS programs should one study to be

Ask HN: Anyone Using Rust for Web Development? 5 by max_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. My understanding is that Rust's memory safety is useful for project like cryptography where security is paramount. I was wondering if there is anyone here that us using Rust as their primary language for web development? How is it? I am having a look at Actix and its looking great.[0] [0]: https://actix.rs

Ask HN: Why Python? 4 by itsmefaz | 9 comments on Hacker News. I am not looking to be controversial. It is something I have been genuinely thinking for sometime. I don't understand the need for Python as a general-purpose programming language. How are organizations using Python at scale? I understand that it is a good scripting language but other than does it offer anything substantial compared to other general-purpose languages like - Node, Go, C# or even Java? These languages can also be used at scale without worrying about the low-level details, however, I cannot say the same for Python. Apart from AI / ML, where Python is heavily used by interfacing with C/C++/CUDA libraries is there any place where Python stands out on its own without merely acts as a frontend to other languages? Am I missing something here?

Wearable device that records your voice for legal defense 3 by MrBigplan | 0 comments on Hacker News. It is illegal, in most places, to record a conversation without the other person's consent, but via definition, that doesn't include a recording of only your own voice during said conversation. I suspect this is possible via similar tech to "invisible" hearing aids that go inside the ear canal, except that our concept right here would possibly use a contact microphone instead of a regular one. Next step on our legal defense enterprise is to store the recorded voice alongside time information in an archival and unalterable medium, such as a blockchain. Before someone asks, audio can be faked well enough to fool human ears, but it is pretty damn hard to tamper with or falsify well enough to fool sound analysis. To add an even better wealth of protective evidence, we could couple this device with biological and GPS data from stuff such as Fitbit or Oura rings, also st

Mullvad VPN removed port forwarding likely due to users sharing CSAM 4 by ginfit | 0 comments on Hacker News. The normal uses for port forwarding when using a VPN could be hosting a local Minecraft server for example, and using port forwarding to hide your real IP address from other people. However, visiting https://ift.tt/rC193po will also show what has been torrented from your IP address. Using Mullvad VPN, if visiting this link when using the VPN it can either just be normal pirated content like movies or music - or something much worse. A Reddit comment that explains the real problem: "This fucking sucks. I always choose a Mullvad server in the region closest to me when torrenting. I just visited IKnowWhatYouDownload while connected to said region, and sure enough, right at the top, it says, 'Distributes c____ pornography'. Makes me feel sick now knowing I'm using an IP address that's used for this." https://ift.tt/EVqTmkI

Tell HN: If you live in Africa you're free of Roku TV ads 3 by figassis | 2 comments on Hacker News. I’ve had Roku tvs for about 8 years, and the screen saver was always a mystery/spooky city, invaded by monsters. Then, while in the US, I turned on a Roku tv at an Airbnb, and the screensaver was riddled with ads and I was like oh…this is why it loops sideways, unlimited ad space. Just go to Africa, no piHole needed.

Ask HN: How is it possible to shop on Walmart.com? Everything is out of stock 3 by triyambakam | 3 comments on Hacker News. What am I missing? I am looking for a sofa and every item that looks nice shows that it is out of stock. Is it not possible to filter for out of stock items? I already selected "Show available items only"

How to escape meeting hell as an engineer? 23 by sinwise | 24 comments on Hacker News. I am working for a large tech scale up - joined them 2 years ago. Pace is intense and I find myself attending 15-20 hours a week in "important" meetings. To the point where I can't find any proper focus time to do meaningful engineering work. Am I the only one in the situation? Almost thinking to change jobs for a smaller tech firm hoping this provides a better control on my calendar... Curious to hear your thoughts.

Ask HN: How did the AI community react to the Transformer Model back in 2017? 3 by TheCaptain4815 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As the title states, when the transformer model was first introduced, what were the reactions? Did Ai work shift overnight? Obvi took about 4-5 years for production stuff to really make a difference (GPT3/ChatGPT), but how did the Ai community respond to its release?

Ask HN: What is the most enlightening concept that changed how you program? 3 by newsoul | 2 comments on Hacker News. Assuming that you are still learning and you learn from new experiences or concepts, what was the most mind blowing concept you learnt that totally changed how you approached programming problems? Edit: Provide pointers to where others can learn about those concepts

Why do we need hedge funds and traders? 3 by bordemje | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hi. My question is related to the stock market. Warren Buffett argues that active investing doesn't make sense because it loses out to passive investing in the long run. I agree with this. I also agree that there are profitable strategies based on arbitrage, but this requires ultra-fast computer bots. (I assume that this is the main strategy of James Simons). This strategy requires very serious competence, so it also does not make sense for an ordinary investor. But the question arises: why do hedge funds and traders exist if active investing does not make sense? What is their meaning, if it is much more profitable for any player to deposit money in SPY (S&P500)? Is this some kind of big scam, or am I missing something? Or the top hedge funds just manipulate the market for profit?

Ask HN: Anyone else notice Google flagging email from its own services as spam? 3 by 8organicbits | 0 comments on Hacker News. Over the last couple weeks I've been noticing legitimate Google Docs messages across multiple Google accounts landing in my spam folder. Stuff where someone in my own org sends me a doc and Google Workspace flags it as spam. It seems strange, we're in the same Google Workspace org and it's a Google to Google message.

Ask HN: What tool(s) do you use to prioritize R&D projects in your company? 2 by lllllll0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Trying to figure out if there are any off-the-shelf online tools that ranks or prioritizes R&D projects (software and/or hardware), based on some business case (e.g., ROI, alignment to overall company strategy, and so on). We've been using Excel, which is great, but becoming quite unwieldy. Any suggestions?

Ask HN: What will the impact of AI be on Engineering Management? 4 by ehsanziya | 2 comments on Hacker News. People have discussed at length how they think AI will change software engineering as a profession. But what do folks think the impact of AI will be on the Engineering Manager's role?

Ask HN: How usable is Asahi Linux 2 by huijzer | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve read a lot of good things about Apple Silicon, but preferably run Linux. What are the experiences here on running Asahi Linux? Or maybe a related question, are any laptop manufacturers getting close to Apple Silicon in terms of energy usage and performance?

Ask HN: Which book has had the most meaningful contribution in your life? 3 by curious16 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Your life is yours. There are many sectors to it. So you decide what meaningful actually means and which sector it belongs to.

On-call problems – here are mine. Do you feel the same way? 3 by on-call_guy | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi Folks, Being on-call has been one of the most painful part of my job as a software engineer now a days. There were a lot of stressful weeks I had spend with completely demotivated about how much time I have been spending on these issues which can be spent on the innovation. So I have listed my top issues in below ranks. I was wondering if others feel the same pain? I also wonder why can there be a solution built for these? 1. I do not have enough information in alert to jump right on the resolution 2. It’s not easy to find similar alerts triggered recently so that I can go back and find how they were fixed? 3. I don’t find runbooks useful most of the times as they are not up to date 4. I don’t know if there were any recently merged changes which caused these alerts/incidents 5. A lot of the time, I don’t know whom to reach out to if this alert is from other team. 6. I have to

Ask HN: Why is new Reddit so bad? 2 by fnfjfk | 0 comments on Hacker News. New Reddit is so bad that it's a meme at this point. Why is it this way? I'm not asking about why the growth-hacking features exist - recommendations, larger images, looking like TikTok, steering people towards the mobile app. I don't like those, but I can understand why they do them (they want more money). I'm just asking why the implementation is so terrible: - The video player is so bad that it itself is a meme. - Loading more comments often just doesn't work, the loading state disappears and no comments appear. - The back button is totally broken, the entire page resets when going back. - On mobile there are multiple "use the app" upsells, and clicking them takes me to the App Store. I already have the app installed! I wouldn't even be mad if these would just properly link me to the matching post in the actual app! - Really bad memory usage and general performance, and so

Stripe is holding over $200k of mine with no explanation 7 by RE88 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Posted this before and didn't have anyone comment, hoping someone sees this and can assist. Stripe is holding over $200,000 in deposits on my account and I have spent hours trying to get a hold of someone higher up to release the funds. If I don't receive a large portion of the funds back by next week, I will not be able to make payroll for the employees and contractors that work for me and they will not be able to feed their families and pay rent. I've tried numerous emails and contacts at Stripe but NO ONE has been responsive or willing to let me speak to someone higher up who has the authority to release the funds. This is criminal as my business will have to shut down unless I receive a large portion of those funds, asap.

Tell HN: AI legal contract review is already screwing up 2 by Kon-Peki | 1 comments on Hacker News. Sample Size of 1... I had lunch with a lawyer friend today, who told me that their morning was surreal. At their meeting to go over the latest contract draft, the client introduced new AI software they had purchased (who is selling this???) and its list of recommended changes. Every single recommendation was worse for the client, and after explaining the reasons, the call lasted longer than it normally would have, so the bill to the client was higher. The lawyer asked if AI was really that stupid, or if their contracts were really that amazing, because then they should be charging a lot more for them.

Ask HN: When denormalize is preferred instead normalization? 3 by iceporter | 0 comments on Hacker News. So I'm a solo developer and I have problem with my small product(saas 2 client) So this app is handling my client main business transaction like selling their services. I saved the transaction detail into a record, who is the client, how much the cost, what services is it. Then my client also want the app to have accounting feature Problem is I find it hard to design the system My current approach is on every transaction record it have a child record (the accounting journal postings) And I copying value and detail from the parent object to child object, that is needed for accounting task. every time the parent object is saved(rails callback) is it bad practices? Should I just refer the value instead copying it? But if I refer the value instead copying it I think I will meet with query complexity problem

Ask HN: How are you avoiding LLM anxiety with your side projects? 4 by candiddevmike | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm having a really hard time working on new, non-LLM related side projects due to anxiety that everything I'm doing is effectively worthless. LLMs have killed any enjoyment I had with programming and solving problems, as I keep jumping ahead and seeing everything being reduced to "folks will eventually just ask a LLM to do X, why bother creating something to do it".

Tell HN: Reddit Removes Multiple Moderator Teams of Large Subreddits 46 by MicropenisMike | 8 comments on Hacker News. Reddit has removed the entire moderator teams for several communities, includes: * /r/InterestingAsFuck (11.5 million subs) * /r/MildlyInteresting (22.3 million subs) * /r/TIHI (1.7 million subs) Plus many others. These were subreddits that held a community vote with tens of thousands of votes to decide what type of content to allow. NSFW content won, with the implication that NSFW subreddits cannot be monetized. These subreddits are now restricted and unmoderated, available for request to new moderators through /r/redditrequest.

Ask HN: What should I spend my money on after a decade of frugality? 5 by anonymous_sorry | 4 comments on Hacker News. For the first decade or so of my working life I scrimped and saved. Over the the last few years, my salary has increased around five-fold. (Whilst I certainly don't have millions in the bank, I am apparently now in the top 98th percentile in my country by taxable income). Recently I bought a robot vacuum in a sale, something I would previously have dismissed as an expensive toy. I was pleasantly surprised how much value I got from it. Really I should have got one sooner. It makes me wonder what else might I be missing out on due to hang-ups about spending that are no longer appropriate to my situation? I've thought a reasonable amount about pensions, savings, giving, property, etc, so I'm not really talking about that sort of thing. I'm more interested in (relatively) small purchases I might have overlooked due to a decade of frugality.

YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby 22 by stefanos82 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I was navigating around YouTube and found a channel I wanted to watch its most popular videos and have noticed they added back the oldest option!

Ask HN: I'm being pushed out of my job 6 by doomerdeveloper | 2 comments on Hacker News. I’m a backend engineer with ~10 years experience currently working at a fast growing startup with plenty of funding, good market fit and a product that I really believe in. I joined the company before the launch and architected, wrote and implemented all the critical parts of our backend. As an early employee I have a stock options plan. Things have been working almost perfect until a few months ago. In my last one-on-one review with my manager, he was very upset with me. Partly is because of some technical mistakes I had big responsibility (and fixed in record time), but mostly because he’s been hearing bad comments of my work from a co-worker. I came to the conclusion that this person wants my job hence why he’s trash talking to my manager, making the case I am messing things up and I’m not a good engineer. While I’ve done a few mistakes in the codebase, and failed to meet a few deadlines,

Ask HN: Is Deno Ready for Prime Time? 2 by talkingtab | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been trying to move from nodejs koa to Deno. Increasingly I just can't seem to get there from here. My problems are 1) Deno is not as well supported as Nodejs and 2) I can't figure out which {postgres or upload} modules to use. Deno does not work with managed Digital Ocean managed databases - not because of Deno but because the TLS module is strict. I want to handle file uploads in my Deno server and I can find 4 or 5 different implementations. Which should I use? There are two (at least) Postgres modules. I have found some other instances of people giving up on Deno. This is nothing about Deno, it just seems that Digital Ocean (for example) has made sure they work with Nodejs but not Deno. Looking for motivation to stick with Deno - what has been your experience?

Ask HN: E-crate motors, any interesting projects? 5 by uguuo_o | 6 comments on Hacker News. Two years after Ford unveiled their e-crate motors [0] and it being available for the public[1], are there any interesting ev conversions? Any plans to use these motors in the future? To me, it seems that this approach to converting ICE to EVs should be quite popular with privacy-minded individuals. Yes, the cost may be a bit prohibitive at this time but technology evolves and at some point it may be more tractable. I just can't seem to get past all of the connectivity in current EVs, I by far rather tackle one of these conversions. [0] https://ift.tt/sJtWhSZ [1] https://ift.tt/cRgFNHL

Ask HN: What is the best way to confirm that an AI is not a human being? 7 by schappim | 8 comments on Hacker News. I'm creating a service for Artificial Intelligences (AIs) and need to prevent human signups. What's the best way to identify if an intelligence is artificial?

Ask HN: Reddit Rolling Back Deletions? 2 by elisaado | 1 comments on Hacker News. I deleted all my posts and comments about a week ago using Reddit PowerDeleteSuite. All of the comments and posts were gone until today, when part of them returned. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Successful Founders – Did you/do you ever feel unemployable? 4 by Southworth | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, I’m finding myself at the crossroads of my life, I never really had a plan in life, but somehow stumbled into computers, then programming, then somehow managed to exit a business. I spent a few years “giving back” to the startup communities in the UK, NO & NL then a few years doing Government advisory work. I’m now finding myself with a CV that makes for interesting reading but is clearly utterly insane for anyone trying to understand “what do you do?”. I feel like I’ve spent so long solving any and all problems that I have to, that I really don’t know what it is people would pay me for. Have any of you found yourself in this situation, and have you any tips for me to help me get back in to the world of work? I don’t need much money, I want to get in to more climate/ethical work, but would take anything to have any structure and to not to be constantly dipping in the

I Automate Client Finding on Fiverr 2 by ngninja | 0 comments on Hacker News. Define what service are you offering? Define your target audience? ex: set up shopify shop for aspiring ecom brands/dropshippers Set up the best gig profile on Fiverr - optimize its SEO using Fiverr’s “Keyword Research” tool Set up Twitter alerts for keywords in your niche “dropshipping”, “ecom”, “products to sell”, “shopify set up” use tools like Zapier or IFTTT to automate this Create a standard pitch that highlights your value propositions Of course, customize it for each individual Offer free guides to help them get started Use hypefury to automate follow up messages

Ask HN: Startup scene / any HN in Dubai/UAE? 2 by jbverschoor | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m going to Dubai / UAE soon and was wondering who here lives over there or has some tips?

Ant Group's automated chaos engineering ChaosMeta is officially open source 4 by ChaosMeta | 0 comments on Hacker News. ChaosMeta is a chaos engineering platform designed for cloud-native and automated drills. It can inject k8s own faults and operator-related faults. ChaosMeta is designed to be a one-stop exercise comprehensive solution that includes a complete chaos engineering life cycle to help users quickly discover potential risks in business applications and systems. In addition, it also has a built-in "risk catalog" that condenses Ant Group's accumulation in the field of technical risks for many years. This is a summary of basic general risks in various technical fields. Welcome to click the link to view details: https://ift.tt/MIC6kgZ

Ask HN: What team tools do you use in your startup to organize information? 3 by kernelsoe | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, I'm a software engineer in a startup team where we have to use half a dozen tools for team collaboration and running the whole thing. - Notion for Project management & Documentation (feels messy) - Google Sheets for client facing documents like project deliverables - Google Docs for random stuffs like meeting minutes (which should be inside notion?) - Google workspace email - Google drive for pdf files - Slack for chat (chaotic can't find information easily chat is bad ux for information, easy to bug others for info) - Zoom, Meet for meetings (zoom's video quality is very nice but aren't they all face video panels with subtitles instead of collaboration) These tools are built by amazing teams and I respect them but they in total cause a lot of $$ubscriptions and still information is scattered in random places (partly because we need mo

Ask HN: How to Get Software Based Business Ideas? 2 by OulaX | 2 comments on Hacker News. I live in a developing country, where there's supposed to me lots of problems that I can solve with Software. But, I can't find any problems to solve! Don't get me wrong, I don't mean there are no problems around me, I just mean the problems that exist either a) Can't be solved by software, or b) Is not worth solving for multiple reasons. I want to build a side hustle (App/Website) that I can generate income from. Where should I look for ideas?

Ask HN: Have you been able to replace your smartphone with a smart watch? 3 by tlhunter | 0 comments on Hacker News. Specifically, have you been able to leave you smartphone at home and survive a normal day with a cellular-enabled smart watch? Both the Apple Watch and Pixel Watch come with cellular versions that support driving directions and phone calls and texting and on the surface provide many of the functions of a smartphone.

Ask HN: Does your home ISP use NAT/PAT or CGNAT? 2 by garbagecoder | 2 comments on Hacker News. I just upgraded from cable to fiber and while I was glad to finally get symmetric, I was shocked that not only do I even not have a public IP, I can't override their DHCP or DNS settings without adding my own double-NAT. Cable had a dynamically assigned public IP and let me use the modem as a bridge.

How do you guys get paid by clients? 4 by sa1ad | 5 comments on Hacker News. What are yall's go to way of getting paid by clients. I'm currently operating with Paypal but they recently started holding money and it has been getting quite annoying?

Ask HN: Why isn't bookmarking scroll position a thing? 4 by 12907835202 | 4 comments on Hacker News. A regular problem I have with the web is that I will find an interesting article and start reading only to later see how tiny the scroll bar is on the page and realise I don't have the time to finish in that moment. Now it seems like my only option is to bookmark the entire page and later scroll up and down trying to find my spot. This seems odd considering how ubiquitous the concept of bookmarks has been for centuries. It is common to be able to store locations in modern formats like video and music and be prompted whether to restore location or restart but not older formats like text. Bulletin boards often track the last page you visited but not which comments you've scrolled past. Although this is different to reading a single large body of text. It's made even worse by the fact that most pages load many trackers, some of which even track user scrolling, but that t

Tell HN: Don't use “Maybe later” in place of “No” 7 by agluszak | 10 comments on Hacker News. "Do you want to buy our product? Yes/Maybe later" Dear programmers and designers, please learn that NO means NO. Trying to subconsciously trick me into saying MAYBE when I mean NO makes me angry.

What’s a piece of software that doesn’t get enough coverage? 7 by steeler_train | 5 comments on Hacker News. Not sure if this is allowed: I’m in the process of scripting some videos for my YouTube channel. I began thinking, all these Linux and windows YouTubers show mostly the same software over and over. So I figured I’d go to the heart of everything: HN. What’s a piece of windows or Linux software that doesn’t get enough coverage?

Remembering Paul Fillinich and Licensing C++ from AT&T 3 by WalterBright | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was sad to hear that Paul Fillinich, an intellectual property lawyer for AT&T, passed away in 2020. I doubt many people are aware of his contribution to the success of C++. Back in 1987 or so, C++ and Objective-C were neck-and-neck in the race to create a better C. I was interested in gaining a competitive edge for my C compiler (Zortech), and wondered which horse to get on. Stepstone owned Objective-C, and had some onerous licensing terms for it. But C++? I made some phone calls, and finally discovered that Paul Fillinich was in charge of IP at AT&T. I contacted him and asked: 1. can I get a license to create a C++ compiler? 2. can I call it C++? Paul laughed. He said nobody had ever asked him a question like this in advance, they usually just went ahead and did things hoping nobody would notice. (Of course, being AT&T's IP lawyer, he did notice.) Paul said su

Ask HN: What does it take to be a CTO? 2 by applgo443 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, A friend of mine and I are thinking of starting a company together. My friend is a sales/marketing person (CEO), and I'm the (only) technical person (CTO). I want to know what it really takes to be a CTO. On one end, I see people starting companies directly after their college as a CTO. On the other end, I see people who were architects at FAANG, built massive open-source projects before starting their companies as CTO. I'm somewhere in between - I have a few years of experience at FAANG as a Senior ML Engineer, but most of my work has been on platform/ML research rather than things like full stack development, deployment, etc. I am trying to figure out if I'm capable enough to be a CTO. I understand there will be a lot of on-the-job learning, but my question is more about how much I should already know on day one. The question is deliberately a little vague as it's tough to convey

Tell HN: Amazon Music UX is embarrassingly unusable 5 by heartjudytenuta | 2 comments on Hacker News. I don't even know where to start with this, but the UI/UX of Amazon Music is so incomprehensibly bad it's hard to believe it wasn't put together by first year interns. We're led to believe that FAANG hires the best of the best minds but it's increasingly obvious this can't be the case anymore. A short list of my experiences: * Infinite scroll is broken in the desktop browser. I can't access songs in my library beyond the letter A. Why infinite scroll is needed here or anywhere for that matter is an entire discussion unto itself. * Random music I've purchased is unavailable for streaming and has been reassigned to "shuffle with other songs" as I don't subscribe to unlimited. I can still download the songs and listen to them locally however. To put it another way, some stuff I've purchased looks like I haven't, perhaps in an attemp

Non Fiction Book Websites 3 by MrVandemar | 0 comments on Hacker News. There's a couple of websites I keep tabs on that have reviews and previes of upcoming fiction books, like BookRiot, Tor.com, lithub, etc. Does anyone know a good site somewhere that does the same for non-fiction books - computing books, art & design books, film, etc?

I would liketo write an eBook on successfully quitting smoking,would you buy it? 2 by hkxw_xw | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I am 29 years old, I have quit smoking for 4 years, I want to write detailed things into an e-book, including all the causes and consequences, my goal of quitting smoking, motivation, and methods to fight smoking addiction in the first year of quitting smoking. I would like to know any thoughts on this

Ask HN: What do you put in a “in case of death” file? 4 by cjohnson318 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I recall seeing a guide on what to put in a text file so that surviving family have an easier time dealing with all of your loose ends, e.g., digital accounts, safe deposit boxes, utilities, etc. Do any of you have thoughts on what to put in a file like this? Here is a rough list of things: - Will - Living trust - Power of attorney - Life insurance policy - Birth certificate - Marriage license - Bank and credit card accounts - Loan documents - Automobile titles - Property deeds - Copies of keys to automobiles, safe deposit boxes, etc. - Account and device passwords

Ask HN: When and why did search engines start to only share top results? 3 by kkoncevicius | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am curious about this: Google: "cosmic rays". Says on top: "About 17,600,000 results (0.40 seconds)". But when scrolling through all these supposed results, at the 44th page, it displays: "Page 44 of about 433 results (1.87 seconds)". And that's it. No sign of 17 million hits advertised previously. Anybody knows why and when did this happen?

Ask HN: Email provider that doesn't lock you out and has good support? 3 by pdevr | 1 comments on Hacker News. Do not want to get locked out of my account. Heard too many scary stories recently. There must be quick support available, in case of locked account. Outlook, Gmail, Protonmail, Fastmail..?

Ask HN: How should we compensate forum moderators? 2 by viksit | 7 comments on Hacker News. Given what’s happening at Reddit - there are a lot of ideas in different comments across hn. I wrote this last week - thinking about some technological solutions. (https://ift.tt/Fr7JsVW) Trying to get a sense of how the community thinks about it from a product or policy perspective. How should we think about this?

Ask HN: Why do we need moderators at all? 5 by fnovd | 14 comments on Hacker News. Apologies for the title, it's the closest short question to the long one I'm about to ask. I understand that every message board needs some kind of content filter, both for ToS/legal reasons as well as for community norms. However, one question I have not been able to get out of my head, as Reddit loses favor and federated clones gain favor, is this: for what reason does a given community have only one set of moderators? For those of you who use Reddit frequently, imagine this: you subscribe to a large subreddit about a topic that interests you. You enjoy memes about the subject, but other users do not, and it has become a subreddit rule that no memes can be posted. Not happy with that reality, you go to the moderation tab and see the default moderator group at the top of the list. You hit unsubscribe. Now, everything posted to that subreddit is visible to you, with no evidence of moderator ac

Do you think writing backend with Python feels wrong? 5 by damacaner | 9 comments on Hacker News. Because I think like that. I tried Django, Flask, FastAPI till now, maybe there is other frameworks that is good enough, but I only had experience with "production-ready" frameworks. And it feels... wrong? I don't know why, but it feels like something is wrong. In Django, I barely ever feel like coding. It was just writing config files, like I didn't feel like I was coding. Same in Flask and FastAPI. Development is so quick that I literally don't feel like coding. I mainly worked with GoLang till now, reinvented so many wheels, ventured into so many libraries, it felt "fuck yeah I am codin we are ballin". Python seems... too easy? You barely ever reinvent wheels, you have something in your head? Some freak made it a feature of FastAPI. "hey caner, can we do th....", yes you fucking can I don't even need to hear your question because a dude c

Ask HN: How do you auto-moderate FUD? 4 by omniglottal | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've seen an increase in bad argumentation styles, with faulty/poor rhetoric and persistent what-about-ism here lately. Stuff like a purely cynical, hyperbolically dystopic, or selfish and nihilistic perception which fails to align with the moral community I previously witnessed on this site. I.e., in a conversation about the US or western democracies in general, there inevitably will be a new account asking simple, distracting questions for which the most appropriate gr retor is often something like "but, in this context, we actually don't want authoritarian governance..." Engaging with these accounts shows that they are unwilling (or else not employed to) engage in good-faith dialogue. Although this guideline applies to all, there's only one "dang" and he can only do so much. My question: are there tools/plugins/front-ends which you use to, i.e., share lists of known

Ask HN: Are AMP pages a good or bad thing? 3 by taubek | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've thought that when Google has ditched AMP from search results few years ago ( https://ift.tt/Fe0y7Dl) that sites will stop using AMP. But they didn't. What is the purpose of AMP pages this days? If you are developing web sites do clients ask you to implement AMP?

Ask HN: How to learn nftables? It's extremely complicated or it's just me? 3 by profwalkstr | 0 comments on Hacker News. I can understand and work well with firewalld, ufw and of course, iptables. I have a CCNA (Cisco network certification) so I know a thing or two about networking (although it's not my specialty). I'm interested in migrating to nftables but find it impossible to learn it. Even learning the Rust programming language is a walk in the park compared to learning nftables. A lot of people say that nftables syntax is easier than iptables. I can't understand how anyone could say that. To me, iptables syntax is a lot easier, logical, simple to understand. Nftables syntax on the other hand seems like an alien language with alien grammar. It's very hard to understand and comprehend its logic. I've tried the Arch Wiki, the Gentoo Wiki, the manpages and of course the official nftables wiki. I only get more confused the more I try to understand the nf

Scrollback on Linux TTY 5 by hexo | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, every time I use linux tty it is immense pain since they removed scrollback support in 5.9. I was wondering is there some brave soul who could bring us back this amazing feature that used to put linux upon any other system. p.s. tmux or screen is not a solution.

Ask HN: What are you using for LLM response testing and benchmarking? 2 by tin7in | 1 comments on Hacker News. What are you using to test your LLM responses, benchmark them, maybe compare different versions? I've seen a few YC startups focusing on this but I haven't decided yet if we should build this internally or use an external tool.

Ask HN: Is federated / de-centralised ever going to make sense? 10 by dmje | 3 comments on Hacker News. With the obvious backdrop of The Reddit Thing going on, I've been poking properly into lemmy, kbin, mastodon, pixelfed, etc. I then had a quick look at nostr too. What strikes me quite forcibly is that although federation is obviously A Good Thing for content / control, and also A Good Thing for nerds who like the elegance of the protocols - it really, really isn't A Good Thing from a user point of view. Straw poll amongst my (non-nerd) friends reveals absolutely zero understanding of what federated might mean - but more importantly a total confusion when faced with a paradigm which is completely at odds with anything that has come before. Searching Site1 for content that happens to be on SiteN makes no sense to people who spend their time on Insta / Reddit / Twitter. It ultimately won't matter if a user doesn't actually know that their content is federated to/from

Ask HN: Discord account disabled, no response from support? 3 by programmeruser | 0 comments on Hacker News. I mostly just lurk around and only read HN, but I need some help with an issue that's been plaguing me for the last 2 weeks. I use my Discord mostly for talking in tech communities and messaging people. But somehow I got my account disabled on Discord for being involved in "malicious hacking, fraud, account or credit card cracking, and/or attempting to damage a computer network or machine". I've never done anything remotely close to that on Discord. However, contacting support just gives me an initial bot response and 0 follow-up replies. For some reason Discord also starts deleting these disabled accounts 14-30 days after they're disabled, and I can't find any way to download my account data. I would really appreciate any pointers from people who've dealt with these kinds situations before, whether it's on Discord or on some other platform t

Ask HN: No raises/promotions until next year. Is this a red flag? 3 by throwaway56623 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m a developer at a public software company. For the past 12 months, leadership has been pushing exceptionally hard to become profitable. To accomplish this, they've been reducing unnecessary expenses as much as possible (travel, events, etc). Last promotion cycle (January 2023), most developers did not receive a raise. Their explanation? To reduce spending as much as possible. Our latest earnings report shows that we are indeed profitable now. Our stock price has shot up, and is almost at a record high. That's great. Nevertheless, leadership just announced that our Summer promotion cycle will be canceled, and all raises/promotions will be postponed until next year. Their explanation? Same as before: reduce spending for profitability's sake. On one hand, I appreciate that we’re profitable. A lot of companies aren’t profitable and never will be. I also under

What is this advanced fee scam for sysadmin jobs? 3 by tomcam | 4 comments on Hacker News. An acquaintance has applied for a sysadmin job that supposedly advances $4,500 from a Wells Fargo account. For context, this person is 62 and has no sysadmin experience. Obviously a scam--but how does the scam work?

Ask HN: YouTube's website search isn't useful anymore, is there an alternative? 6 by aaronvg | 1 comments on Hacker News. I can't seem to get good answers -- YouTube just shows mostly suggestions or things "I may like". I was trying to find videos on specific IKEA furniture, but only got semi-related content. Interestingly enough, tiktok worked perfectly. Curious if anyone has tried some other video platforms or video search tools.

Ask HN: How is it likely for Hacker News to block its public API in the future? 3 by redbell | 1 comments on Hacker News. Following the "Reddit Vs. Apollo" saga, Reddit just joined the club of giants .. I mean locked-gates which includes: The Metas, YouTube and recently, Twitter. Reddit's decision to end the free API access to its data marks the end of the 3rd-party frontends as we know them. As far as I can tell, the only remaining player in the city is "Hacker News", with its free Firebase API [0]. With their statement as " we're making the public Hacker News data available in near real time ", I am wondering for how long this will remain true? What do you think? __________________________________ 0. https://ift.tt/Ov4hfAn

Ask HN: Who Started the Reddit Blackout? 6 by aio2 | 10 comments on Hacker News. I know why it happened, but who started it and how did they start it?

AWS us-east-1 down 24 by sionarancsle | 10 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Learning Modern Compilers? 10 by splines_tines | 2 comments on Hacker News. I recall reading a comment on here at some point in the last year where someone who worked on a team that wrote compilers lamented the difficulty in hiring qualified people because the practice of compiler construction differs so wildly from what is taught in university programs or even most recently published compiler books. Apparently modern compiler construction scarcely resembles what is taught in university courses based on the Dragon book or similar, both in the higher level architecture and the lower level techniques and patterns I know that one recent innovation is that compilers have adopted a more service-oriented architecture, kind of like the Roslyn compiler. This allows them to not only compile your code, but (for instance) inform your text editor and linter and similar tooling of syntax issues What are other differences? Is llvm still relevant outside of academia? Are there any books, p

Ask HN: Pecedent for all Reddit 3rd party apps redirecting to a competitor? 3 by m1sta_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are a few decent Reddit competitors out there. If all of the services impacted by the Reddit API changes switched to supporting a new singular alternative we might see enough traffic movement for something real to permanently result.

Ask HN: Have advancements in AI given you ideas for new side projects? 2 by arcadeparade | 0 comments on Hacker News. Given the massive advancements of late, have you had any ideas for improving software you currently use? Or ideas for new projects?

Ask HN: If you are building OpenAI apps, how do you store user's API key? 2 by huydotnet | 2 comments on Hacker News. This question has been around my mind lately. The context is, if you are building a web application that allows user to use their own OpenAI API key to interact with OpenAI, how would you store their API key? 1. Local storage, let them send your API key through your server 2. Local storage, and the API key is called right from the user's browser 3. On your server??? How to store it securely? Using a vault manager? #2 seems like a good choice, but in case you need to secure your prompt, then this is not feasible. I've been struggling to find a good way to handle this situation. Anyone have any idea or best practice on how to go about this scenario?

Ask HN: What are the best Reddit alternatives? 3 by anotherpaulg | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Intel Mac Pro Users with > 192GB of RAM, Views on New Machine? 5 by jmkni | 1 comments on Hacker News. The old Intel Mac Pro maxxed out at 1.5TB of RAM, the new one maxxes out at 192GB. I've been wondering recently about those with > 192GB of RAM in the Intel model, what are your views on the new Apple Silicon version? Is it still useful for you? Does the less RAM matter less because it's faster (as is the SSD when it comes to swapping etc)? Are you screwed because you need all of that RAM, are dependent on macOS specific software and now there is no upgrade path? Or are you going to move to a PC running Windows or Linux with all of the RAM you need? OR are you just sticking with the machine you have because the build quality is great and it does everything you need + will last for a long time to come? Also, what do you need all of that RAM for anyway? Cheers

Ask HN: Seamless sync of notes between Linux, macOS, iOS 3 by ParallelThread | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are there any services that provide syncing of notes between phones and computers (multiple os'es)? I use Notes app on my phone but cannot access it easily on my linux machine (I can via a web browser, but would like to edit natively).