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Ask HN: How would you raise $600k for a boring software co? 20 by leetrout | 18 comments on Hacker News. I want to do my own thing and I don't want to do it alone. I am happy to write boring business software with boring tech. The not wanting to work alone for a year to bootstrap makes me want to find about $600k so I can pay a designer and two other devs to work on the software with me for 12-18 months. I project I can be to 300k ARR in 3 years so 600k to kick this off doesnt seem to risky. I am certain I can find $100k with friends and family but I want the full amount to make the hires and take the leap. I explicitly don't want to build a "unicorn" I just want a healthy business building clean, safe, secure software that is doing something positive in the world (even if it is just boring business admin problems). Thoughts or ideas or how to find an angel (or two) or other avenues?

Ask HN: Do you do something else while you work? 4 by Pooge | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm talking about listening to music, listening to a podcast, or hell even watching a series or livestream. I mostly listen to music and "watch" livestreams but the former is very repetitive. So I'm wondering about what you guys do, if anything at all? Looking to make the most out of dull times.

Ask HN: Simple MySQL admin tool that can import CSV? 2 by fuckgoogleplay | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi. I'm basically looking for Adminer for MySQL, which looks and feels more modern and can run from Docker (which is why phpmyadmin doesn't fit). Don't need schema, just need to be able to add/edit/delete rows, and import them from CSV. I've tried: * Get Motor Admin: No CSV import * Busibase: This one is the best of what I've tried. But when there is any issue with the CSV it just gives you a generic "Something went wrong", and you have to fish for the actual reason in dev console, which isn't very user-friendly. * Nocodb: Doesn't connect to an existing DB * Directus: Doesn't connect to an existing DB * AppSmith: Doesn't import CSV * OpenBlocks: Doesn't import CSV There's definitely 2-3 more that I forgot about and I'm a bit of a mess rn after trying this for the entire day so the issues I've specified might be a little o

Stripe Shutdown Our Nonprofit's Account, Holding $12k in Donations Hostage 4 by nickwelsh | 1 comments on Hacker News. Our founder woke up to a gut-wrenching email from Stripe today, reading "We're writing to you because, after conducting a routine review of your Stripe account for Integrate for Good (account ID: [**]), we've found that it presents a high level of risk for customer disputes." We're a very small, hyper local nonprofit and have been using Stripe without any significant issues for over four years. Radar has flagged only one charge in the past year, and we've had just a single dispute since opening our account. We requested further review of our account and supplied Stripe with further information in the dashboard. Just 45 minutes later, we received a second email confirming their decision to close our account. I find it hard to believe that Stripe was able to "conduct another review of [our] account" in such a short span of time.

Tell HN: UC Berkeley's CS61A/B/C are the best courses to learn CS and coding 17 by ggr2342 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I have dabbled with many resources before in hope of learning to program and learn basics of CS. I have looked at intro course sequences of schools like MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc. Most have partial resources locked down. I have dabbled with books and they felt like shit. Even the book Think Python by Allen Downey was all over the place. The books and blogs at least taught me basic syntax constructs like variables, function definition, loops, etc. But I couldn't understand how to package them up (compose) to use them in solving problems. Then I started studying through Berkeley's 3 course intro CS61A, CS61B, CS61C. They have all materials in the open and if you are following the most current iteration of the course, they even post solutions to the problems. It was godsend for me. Now, I am confident to learn more CS topics using courses from CMU, MIT, Berk

Ask HN: At what age did your cognition start to decline? 4 by counterpartyrsk | 6 comments on Hacker News. I'm 46 and I feel as tho I'm in a fog most of the day. I'm struggling to learn the latest tech, which used to be my passion. I didn't feel this way 1 to 2 years ago. Is this par for the course? What's your experience, old timers?

Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces 8 by evolve2k | 18 comments on Hacker News. Our app is designed to be used across the Asia Pacific. We have members who follow western naming conventions as well as members following common asian naming conventions. Turns out there can be alot of variation on what is the convention. https://ift.tt/Y1iuost How would you handle different naming conventions, so users see their name in the order they would like? Family, Given Given, Family

Why doesn't UPS/FedEx have Parcel Locker as a delivery option? 2 by Racing0461 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I mean there is obviously the default reason being they haven't updated the app yet but parcel lockers have been a thing for a while now. Putting on our PM hat for a second, is there a hidden reason for them not adding it to the app/web as a delivery option? it's all stuff like (front door which could mean front of building or front of apt, back door etc). Could it just be a liabiity thing? Does delivering it to a locker count as someone having signed for it or not? and if no maybe thats why. Or a time issue. Might add 2-3 mins per delivery.

Ask HN: What, if anything, were the consequences to Reddit for the API shutdown? 5 by voisin | 4 comments on Hacker News. I was a huge Apollo user and once Reddit locked down the API, I simply stopped using Reddit. Wondering if there are any public, objective metrics for whether the API changes had a meaningful impact?

Ask HN: Why Not Kanban? 5 by baal80spam | 3 comments on Hacker News. Yet another submission denigrating Scrum on the front page, and yet again people saying to try Kanban instead. So let me ask you this: why is Kanban not as popular as Scrum? Why do managers seem to fight tooth and nail* not to try it? *my own experience in at least 2 orgs

Ask HN: Is it possible to measure developers productivity? 3 by donnie12345 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've interacted with older developers and according to them you can't measure developers productivity. There is always a way to 'game' the system.

Ask HN: What's the best CLI installation experience you've ever seen? 4 by caprock | 5 comments on Hacker News. Imagine any application, server, or system that requires installation from a command line. It could use shell scripts, custom programs, or whatever. What's the best experience and tooling you've ever seen?

the US Air Force wants $5.8B to build 1k AI-driven unmanned combat aircraft 3 by bhanu_n | 0 comments on Hacker News. Stealth (2005) will reapeat in real world. https://ift.tt/hm5oeyi

Google thinks opt-in is something you need to opt out of 4 by yencabulator | 1 comments on Hacker News. I got an email from Google Fi yesterday: > Notice about your CPNI settings > [...] Starting today, we will opt you into the sharing with and use of your CPNI by Alphabet affiliates to receive this information. Your opt in will go into effect 30 days from the date you receive this email. > You’re not required to stay opted in. It’s your right and our duty under federal law to protect the confidentiality of your CPNI. If you prefer to opt out of letting Fi use and share your CPNI with Alphabet and Google services, you can do so by replying here or via Fi’s privacy and security settings at any time (instructions here). Opting out of CPNI sharing won’t affect your account or your ability to use any of Google Fi Wireless’ services. If you do not choose to opt-out within 30 days of receiving this notice, Fi will assume your approval to share your CPNI with other Google services

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise – the death of more startups 2 by bhanu_n | 0 comments on Hacker News. Source: https://ift.tt/4hbBAZz

Ask HN: What is the best way too keep up without using Reddit and Twitter? 2 by 0xDEF | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm fascinated by what is happening in the world of LLMs and multi-modal models but it seems like you have to he permanently glued to reddit and twitter to follow along. But I have promised myself to cut down on my online time and reddit and twitter were the first to be blocked. What is a better way to keep up?

Tell HN: Service Workers === Browser Background Tasks 3 by cushpush | 1 comments on Hacker News. The term "service worker" has confused me for a while, now I see it to be bad jargon selection. You can use "service workers" to send push notifications, load things from cache, and allow for offline behavior of your application (turn off your wifi and load twitter, for example). I think the term "browser background task" is more apt, I am sad another much more confusing and less relevant term was chosen years ago.

Ask HN: Is finding a dev job getting difficult in 2023? 6 by mr_o47 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, Why finding a job in 2023 getting hard. I remember two years ago you would apply for a job and hear back within a week but nowadays you don’t even hear back

Ask HN: Police use of drones and the 4th Amendment? 2 by samstave | 1 comments on Hacker News. I saw a post where police used a drone catching some kids up to some mischief, which sent them running... It got me thinking about local PDs using drones for whatever, and the 4th amendement: - > Fourth Amendment The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. - >> and particularly describing the place to be searched Seems like a drone use is a warrantless search? I am just curious on the interpretation here - as I am sure we will see police drone use en-mass in the next few years... And then there will be prosecutions against others who use drones to take out police drones, or anyone destroying a pol

Ask HN: My mother is slowly looking her eyesight, how to prepare? 3 by BrandoElFollito | 2 comments on Hacker News. Note: this is different from a few previous Ask HN posts where the impacted person was technically apt (if not a geek). Here this is for a typical older person whose technical capacities are small. My mother has a degenerative illness that is slowly going to lower here eyesight (starting from the center of the retina). We are not sure how far this is going to go. She is an avid reader (several books every month) and this is what I would like to address in the first place. Then there are the other aspects that are less technical but are very much welcome as well. She reads on a Kobo (or similar device) and the fact that she can make the fonts bigger is already a good thing. She will probably continue to do so (hopefully to get to the point where she will have to spell each word...). She also solves quite a lot of "literature oriented" quizzes (similar to cross

Ask HN: Recommend Tech Companies in San Diego 2 by TNWin | 0 comments on Hacker News. We will be moving to San Diego next year. Besides large companies like Intuit, Qualcomm, FAANG, what tech companies do you recommend? thanks!

Ask HN: Is it possible to get a conversation with a CEO from here? 10 by Madmallard | 13 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in having a conversation one on one with a reasonably successful CEO--preferably one that doesn't feel they got into their position out of mostly luck. I'm in a position where I feel stuck. I have so many projects that people tell me I can "make a lot of money" off of them. Many of these are just things I've made because I couldn't easily find something to do what I wanted and I was able to just put it together myself. I already know I lack marketing and maybe even some social acumen and it could be just as simple as that. Or it could be that these things are so far away from being actually sellable that I'm overhyping myself for no reason. In terms of experience I used to work at FAANG, a game company, and in a couple other industries, so I have a wide breadth of experience in my field. I've also been a hobbyist devel

Ask HN: Do we need to revisit Agile/Scrum? 7 by paperplaneflyr | 17 comments on Hacker News. Everybody is using Agile/Scrum in one way or other. But at times this in on paper in agreements. Do you think if a new process is need in this new age. Do we need to sketch out new framework.

Ask HN: Tech stack advice for a new website 4 by thookipodu | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, I have a budding idea to build a website in edtech space. my daughter will be the first user. If it works, I want to make it public. I have these questions 1) Should I have the website running in cloud from day one ? If yes, any thoughts/recommendations ? If no, what I can do now, make that change (which I think is eventual) seamless? 2) What is the recommended tech stack ? I am looking for an option that I can stick with (mostly) and not make and future drastic changes Context I am not trying to learn any new technology/framework. I am quite comfortable with Python/Java/Clojure/Javascript stack If you have read so far, thank you ! EDIT (1) Below are considerations in decreasing order 1. Running cost of the setup 2. My time - I want to spend time on value creation.

Ask HN: How long does the brain take to start thinking around a skills basis? 2 by anon115 | 0 comments on Hacker News. whether it be guitar,programming,sculpting, or coming up with ways to start generating lets say organic body rejuvenation methods but are still feasible and somewhat within the basis of understanding.

Ask HN: Why paywalled content is not banned yet? 4 by niksmac | 8 comments on Hacker News. Why is HN not banning paywalled contents from medium and similar?

Idea Fountain Request 2 by data-capt | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, If you had 7 months to build and sell something. What would it be?

Ask HN: What GNOME Shell extensions do you use? 2 by mdwalters | 0 comments on Hacker News. I personally use Blur my Shell and Ubuntu AppIndicator, I use BmS mostly for asthetics, and Ubuntu AppIndicator because `pkill`ing Discord has the tendency to not start at all.

Ask HN: How to Contact Stripe Directly? 26 by andrea28 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hello, my Stripe account got banned almost 1 week ago, i posted it here: https://ift.tt/9YN0cmn, and i tried to contact the support several times. Everytime they tell me that someone will contact me via email. I tried to contact also the email heretohelp@ but nothing. Does anyone know a way to get an answer? It seems as if they don't care

Ask HN: With FAANG turnover-why don't we know about actual recommendation algos? 2 by RicoElectrico | 13 comments on Hacker News. Recommendation algorithms of Facebook, Google, YouTube are still a black box to us. We don't know what exact features are the input, how much are they weighted and so on. But the turnover of software engineers is quite substantial, they come and go from these companies. How is it even possible to keep this stuff secret, then? For most folks outside of the above companies I can understand why know-how would be kept secret after people are gone from the employer: it's quite boring and of little interest to anyone, really. No benefit or thrill if you divulge anything.

Tell HN: Easy and Effective Gmail Cleanup 3 by jinct | 0 comments on Hacker News. My Gmail was nearing the 15GB free tier limit. I tried a few things to try to pinpoint the largest emails to delete, from searching for large attachments to writing code to count emails by sender. The problem was there were no large emails, just many thousands of often daily marketing emails. Identifying and deleting emails from frequent senders proved quite labor intensive. In the end, the simplest solution was the most effective. I searched for the word "unsubscribe", selected all results across all result pages, and deleted them. I searched my Trash for a few senders I wanted to make sure not to delete email from, moved them back to the inbox, and I was done. Easy.

What are some good books on sector rotation in stocks 2 by sameer_startup | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for good resources on sectoral analysis to better understand sectoral rotation. Any recommendations would be appreciated!

Ask HN: What's the Situation with YouTube-Dl? 3 by tjrgergw | 4 comments on Hacker News. I wanted to download some lectures [1] off youtube as I'm going to be without internet or a long period, and but A) just apt install get me a version which is too old, and I get ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://ift.tt/geZS945 on how to update. and B) going to the update url I see Access denied; Due to a ruling of the Hamburg Regional Court, access to this website is blocked. So, what's the situation with youtube-dl? How do I get it working? As a separate question, how else can I download something off youtube? I guess last resort I'll have to dig into the python to figure out why that regex is failing and what else I can do about it, but that's not sustainable. [1] if anyone is curious, just discovered this from HN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNOu-SEacNU&l

Ask HN: Do you think there is internet bloat? Will it continue? 3 by talbo888 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Anecdotally I have been experiencing more and more friction when it comes to accessing corporate and goverment online services. The general trend of the internet making things easier to access seems to be reversing. I'll give three examples: 1. To log into my bank I need to do username, password, a few digits of a special codeword, and MFA. This is not in itself a problem as your bank account should very secure; but every time I make an online transaction with my card I need to log into my bank account to confirm it adding lots of hassle for small purchases. 2. Everyone has added MFA, even for small utility sites like our municiapl transport authority's website. Not only does everyone now collect my phone number, but now for basic administrative tasks I need multiple emails, an easily accessible and secure password manager, my phone to be on me and have signal. 3. The U

Ask HN: What are some interesting tools or code repos you discovered recently 3 by mr_o47 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Care plan template for elderly parents – can you suggest improvements? 4 by jph | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, my elderly parents have dementia and cancer, and I'm learning about how to write a care plan template for my family members and caregivers. I'm sharing a first draft, and I'm seeking constructive advice about what to add, to make it more helpful, thorough, and easy to use for more people. https://ift.tt/hGZKkTj So far, each item in the plan is because of an actual communication breakdown or problem-- what I'm learning is elder care is challenging. I'm hoping this free open source care plan template may help people. AMA & thank you!

Ask HN: I Am Looking for a Cofounder 2 by alexander2002 | 0 comments on Hacker News. The general concept is to create an AI-first company that creates "instant apps"/"streaming apps" on the fly.It uses the users location and other metrics to create a personalized experience. Brief example:(this example is just to explain and our startup is for general purpose scenarios) Suppose,you enter into a restaurant and based on your location data and context,a mobile application is generated and you are able to view menu ,order stuff,chat with staff about your queries,see waiting time, give reviews etc.The restaurant staff will also have a application that the owner of the restaurant has assigned permissions/roles(like a discord server) and they are able to interact with customers. Current Focus for idea evaluation:(eventually to consumers) Conferences,Enterprise Clients on a small scale to evaluate if the idea is feasible or not. Goal: Use sophisticated algorithms aka &qu

Windows popup to change competing browser search engine to Bing anticompetitive? 3 by aijoe | 1 comments on Hacker News. I had no browsers open. I was minding my own business. Windows 11 gave me an unsolicited toaster popup, with the default action being to change Chrome's default search engine to Bing. This is an atrocious dark pattern and a huge overreach for an operating system, whose job it should be to stay out of my way and run what I tell it to. But more than that, this strikes me as directly anti-competitive behavior. I would appreciate views on this by people having more educated opinions on this than myself.

The AI Reproducibility Crisis 2 by ocolegro | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've really been struggling of late to replicate recent findings in research that has built on top of GPT-3.5/GPT-4. This leads me to believe there is growing yet largely unnoticed issue is taking root in recent AI research. I've termed this the "AI Reproducibility Crisis". The principle is simple, if accessible private models are silently changing in time, then previous results cannot be replicated. *Key Issues*: 1. Users have reported significant performance shifts post the May release. 2. Beyond community discussions, academic studies are showing differences in performance across time https://ift.tt/RdVaPcu. 3. It appears difficult to replicate previous benchmark evals, see our effort here - https://ift.tt/FX4LyA8. 4. The centralized approach of major providers amplifies these concerns, underscoring the essential need for research autonomy. *Proposed Solutions*: - Lean towards open-source f

Any third party GPU providers where I can deploy on multiple GPU clusters 2 by smandava | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Should we start primarily reporting Heat Index instead of other stuff? 3 by readonthegoapp | 0 comments on Hacker News. The other stuff might be temperature, relative humidity, sun, wind, etc. With more people suffering and dying from direct heat-related global warming conditions, I feel like we need a simpler way to talk about whether or not it is safe for people to go outside, for how long, etc., and I feel like the current reporting regime does not accomplish that.

Ask HN: Have you ever tried working in a VR office? 3 by muzani | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have a fairly cramped home office. I realise I'm much more productive in large open areas despite no monitors or mechanical keyboards. I don't actually move into these areas, I just sit/stand at my desk much of the time. I'm wondering if there might be a lifehack of going into a virtual space to get more space. Has anyone tried this?

Ask HN: Report company sending out marketing emails without unsubscribe link? 3 by cloogshicer | 3 comments on Hacker News. A VC backed company (I don't want to name them because they don't deserve the exposure) is sending out emails without an unsubscribe link that are clearly marketing. Support tells me "they're part of onboarding" so you can't unsub. Any way to report them somehow as spam?

Ask HN: Why isn't US sport fond of pyramidal structure with promoton/relegation? 2 by JumpinJack_Cash | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone Feel Reddit Style Forums Are Soulless? 3 by CM30 | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is a weird thought I know, especially given Hacker News uses the same sort of format. But I feel like the format of forums like that really dehumanise the folks posting there, and feel almost nothing like a community due to their design. I suspect part of it is because the lack of identifiers for accounts make it hard to tell anyone apart, and the strict separation of 'communities' about a particular topic mean you never really get to know anyone in particular, they're just names that occasionally crop up when you're reading threads about something or another. It feels like a system designed to treat members like interchangable content producers, where no one would notice if any one user left or was kicked out. Anyone else feel this way?

Impossible to cancel AWS – must pay them forever for zombie services? 3 by v3rt3x | 1 comments on Hacker News. I had a business that used AWS which shutdown over two years ago. I am NOT a developer. I've tried repeatedly to shutdown services on AWS and stop the bleeding. I've contacted support and they give me the run-around. One of the key issues is that there is a sub-organization linked to my account which has some invalid user email addresses linked to it. However, AWS policy is that I must migrate these accounts and provide a valid credit card for them! This is impossible because they aren't real addresses. AWS under no circumstances will shut down my account on my behalf, but it is impossible to satisfy the conditions of cancelability... I asked the support rep then if I must pay monthly charges forever and got the standard BS response. This seems like a criminal racket... Anyway, I canceled my credit card and am wiping my hands of it. The monthly bill is down to $

Ask HN: Why isn't there a Node.js SQL core module? 2 by hliyan | 0 comments on Hacker News. I understand that database drivers need to be installed as dependencies, but I'm wondering why basic relational database connectivity, querying and other mechanisms such as transactions are not part of core modules. E.g. java.sql.*, database/sql in Go.

Ask HN: To Blog or Not? 4 by blogornot | 5 comments on Hacker News. I have a personal site. I blogged in the past and I used to use my site as a "portfolio" of sorts showcasing my projects, writing, etc. Several months ago I removed all blog posts and projects from my personal site. As it stands right now, my personal site is simply a "whois" for myself. Basically, a business card. I'm torn. On the one hand companies scrape up data from personal projects and blog posts for their LLMs. People dig up things you said in the past and cancel you according to whatever is trending that day. Why bother writing anymore? Why publish projects? What are your thoughts?

Ask HN: Does “Effort Deflation” Demotivate? Why Not Wait for Ever Easier Tech? 2 by simonmesmith | 5 comments on Hacker News. In economics, deflation causes people to delay spending, expecting future prices to be lower. I find myself experiencing a similar phenomenon with technological advancement, especially with generative AI. Considering the pace of progress, anything I think to create—whether code, imagery, videos, music, etc.—seems like it will be easier and better accomplished in 6-12 months. Unless there’s a current need (e.g., earning a paycheck), the logical choice seems to be: wait for even better technology. Does anyone relate? If so, how do you navigate it?

Ask HN: How bad is the GPU shortage for startups/researchers? 11 by amecon | 2 comments on Hacker News. Curious how folks are faring with GPU access for training / inference? (those of us outside of big contracts / commits with the big three) I've seen folks try to address the shortage through a number of mechanisms: - Co-op pool for recipients of a specific AI investment fund - Collating a transparent price book (Shadeform) - People putting a rack under their desks? (Full disclosure, I am thinking about renting out GPUs, trying to get a pulse on the market)

Ask HN: What are some older programming books that still hold up today? 3 by Decabytes | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is cheapest way to just receive (not send) email to a domain I own? 2 by andrewfromx | 3 comments on Hacker News. No $12 a month, I want 0 if possible. I just need to be able to use it as "work email" to sign up for stuff and get the code sent.

Buy, redecorate and sell property in Sweden 2 by RayKhalid | 0 comments on Hacker News. “I recently came across an apartment in the suburbs, and went for a viewing, its rather cheap and quite large. The apartment is old and needs redecoration (as the previous tenant died), I was wondering what’s the market in Sweden for buying such old, unfurnished and dilapidated apartments for cheap, refurbishing them new and selling it for a higher value? Has anybody done it, what’s the catch?@

Markmail.org has been shut down 3 by smarks | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems that the markmail.org open source email archiver/indexer has been shut down. Recently all web connection requests to markmail.org have failed. I can't find any public notice of this anywhere. The MarkLogic developer page for it is still up, but all the links to markmail.org are dead: https://ift.tt/OBlA9cg One of my colleagues sent MarkLogic an email asking about its status, and he received this reply: > I’m sorry to inform you, but with the acquisition of MarkLogic by Progress, it was decided to shut down MarkMail. (Sorry there's no attribution, but this was private email, and I didn't want to post names without an official public announcement.) The last time the Wayback Machine successfully indexed markmail.org (at least its home page) was Aug 1, 2023, so this seems to have happened sometime during the past few weeks. I don't think there's anything to be done about this, but I

Ask HN: Why can't you unsubscribe from Apple promotional emails? 7 by bcherny | 2 comments on Hacker News. Every week I get promotional emails from Apple: 3 months of free Apple TV, or a month of free Apple Arcade, or a month of Apple Music, etc. My impression was GDPR says you have to give people a way to unsubscribe from your emails. But it seems like Apple doesn't give this option (I don't see an "unsubscribe" link anywhere on the email). Is this legal?

Tell HN: Raspberry Pi 4 8GB available again 5 by whiskers | 3 comments on Hacker News. There has been a lot of discussion about Raspberry Pi availability over the past year. I've indicated in the comments that supply chain issues were close to being resolved - so here's an update... We've just had our first substantial drop of 8GB units (in addition to our recent top ups of the 4GB amd 2GB models) and can offer up to 10 units per customer. If you have needs above 10 units then we may be able support your use case if you drop me a line. I believe the shortage is now over and I don't expect any issues for us restocking going forward. Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of Pimoroni

Windows > Disk Utility 2 by manoftheisle | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was backing up my data on a newly bought seagate harddisk and after putting the macbook to sleep the harddisk wouldn't mount anymore. Disk Utility said to run "First Aid" but it would just return a 0 error. Booting up windows saved the date, the OS mentioned straightforward that the disk is damaged and needs repair. It repaired it.

Ask HN: Who practices humour as part of their software development? 4 by code_humo_u_r | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi! We are a group of scientists doing research on the importance of humor in serious software projects. We would love your insight into this phenomenon. Please share your experiences with humor in software through this short(ish) questionnaire: https://ift.tt/kLYCrc2

Ask HN: Co-Founder Conflicts of Interest 4 by throwaway922738 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, Had a random question for HN. About a year ago I started a business with my co-founder. He has taken the sales and CEO role of the company while I have taken the CTO and CFO role of the company. About 6 months ago we raised a small seed round from a prominent investor and speaker in our industry. At that time we decided we were going to take $X salary amount for the foreseeable future. During this time our business has grown substantially to about $1M a year in arr. Where the conflict arises is my cofounder has recently gotten the opportunity through our investor to do some paid speaking to help build his brand, and our company’s brand as well. Where thing get conflicting are it sounds like my co-founder wants to pocket these speaking engagements and not run them through our business. Is there some typically best practice here? On one hand I totally get going above and beyond and gett

Ask HN: Does anyone work at Xfinity? The Apple TV app has been broken since Jan 2 by LeoPanthera | 0 comments on Hacker News. Since at least January, and probably longer, the Xfinity Stream app for Apple TV has been unable to remember your login. You have to login fresh every single time you launch the app. There are a lot of unhappy users in this thread on the Xfinity forums: https://ift.tt/yhptdiM I'm hoping that complaining about it here might catch the attention of some Xfinity devs who can help fix it.

Ask HN: What do you do to reduce stress or keep work stress away from work life? 4 by new_learner | 4 comments on Hacker News. Recently got diagnosed with generalized anxiety just 2 years after getting promoted as a Eng. Manager. It seems that I am stuck in a vicious circle where my work woes keep me from being my best in the personal life (exercise, spending quality time with family, sleep) and resulting issues in physical and mental ealth means I slip up more at work and the cycle repeats. Wondering what are some goto behaviors/tactics I might be lacking to make it work.

Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit? 5 by actinium226 | 3 comments on Hacker News. The more detailed your answer the better!

Teams now prompts for work location 3 by backendanon | 1 comments on Hacker News. I noticed recently that Teams now asks for my work location, am I remote or in the office. I'm a permanent remote worker, never in the office. This feels kinda Orwellian to me. You know if they're asking that the information is being compiled somewhere for someone to monitor.

Show off your LLM Agents 2 by dimitrit | 0 comments on Hacker News. What type of agents are you building? Do you have a project to show off?

Ask HN: Favorite Educational Channels (For Kids)? 2 by ian0 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Ive noticed that the quality of individual creators on youtube is typically better (more entertaining & higher quality) than a lot of the videos teachers share as supplementary material in my kids school. For example, veritassium does some very easy to understand science and maths videos, periodic videos is a entertaining way to run through the periodic table and then a bunch of others for history depending on the period. Also mystery doug of course for younger kids. Does anyone have any favorites they have stumbled across?

Ask HN: Possible to go/live underground to cool off? 7 by readonthegoapp | 2 comments on Hacker News. I remember 40 years ago or so, underground or partially-underground houses were a thing - at least where I was occasionally in Pottsville (??), Pennsylvania. I don't really remember why it was a thing, but I think I remember that it was because having a house underground-ish -- say, with just one face of the house exposed -- kept the house at earth temperature, which was generally a good thing -- no need to heat, nor cool. I think at the time maybe people were talking about heating bills?? If all that makes sense, could we do it again? I always thought that it was awful to force humans underground -- like with subways -- but if it's a matter of survival...

Ask HN: Transitioning from game development to cybersecurity. Tips or advice? 2 by poutinepapi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN! I was let go from my gaming job a couple of months ago, and unfortunately nothing has come up yet. Thankfully, I was thinking of moving away from the industry anyway, so this is a great opportunity to do so. I've got some savings and have given myself a year to set-up a cybersecurity consultancy business. My main target will be start-ups, and small to medium tech companies, particularly gaming ones that don't yet have a cybersecurity division, but nonetheless need one, and don't see the point of hiring a full time cybersecurity professional. The field has always interested me, and most of my games experience is doing server side development, alongside DevOps, and then straight game dev. But server work has been the bulk, so at least I'm familiar with the basics of hardening a system against interference, mostly by players trying to che

Ask HN: What tool/product do you wish existed? 3 by janalsncm | 1 comments on Hacker News. Alternatively, what is a feature in an existing product that you wish existed/was better?

Ask HN: Switch to Ubuntu, or Stay with Fedora? 3 by mdwalters | 8 comments on Hacker News. I've heard Ubuntu has improved over the years, is it worth switching to from Fedora?

Low/no code signup/demo page for startup? 4 by jptboy | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have a few startup ideas that I just want to quickly create a Figma/smoke and mirrors demo video for. Slap that demo video onto the website with a sign up button and gauge the interest. Maybe something like a Jekyll page which stores the signup data into google forms? Ideas that I can directly identify and approach potential customers I am doing so. I am a fullstack developer and could obviously code this with react/flask/whatever etc... but what is the lowest code/no code solution so I can focus on moving fast rather than coding?

Ask HN: Will Google kill 1Password, LastPass and others? 4 by ajiriaefihe | 1 comments on Hacker News. Google is promoting Chrome's and Android's password management feature very heavily with the latest release. Are these companies doomed?

Ask HN: What is the skill worth investing for next 20 years? 5 by inconfident2021 | 6 comments on Hacker News. With uncertainty in the role of software engineering because of current market and it potentially being automated, which field of computing is worth investing upon? Are there even any field in software engineering/development where the core knowledge has remained true over the course of years? Designs and paradigm changes. For example, basics of graphics are same over 50 years. But the way things are built have changed multiple times. Apparently, no one pays for someone who knows only the fundamentals. People need experience in practical aspects too. Another example is AI is like a rat race going in circles and trying to catch up with the latest ideas. Contrary to hard engineering where basics remain true for a long time until we find new ways. But the basics of engineering a product or solutions translate no matter what. So what do you think are skills that are going to be

Memory Mapping Issue with M68k Virtual Computer 3 by mouhamed_ | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hey Hacker News community, I'm currently working on developing an emulator for a legacy computer using the m68k CPU architecture. I've encountered an interesting memory mapping challenge that I could use some advice on. In my virtual computer's memory map, the RAM is mapped before the ROM. This is causing a problem with the initial memory reads during boot-up, as they're fetching data from RAM instead of ROM, which is leading to unexpected behavior. Has anyone dealt with a similar situation or can provide some insights into how I might redirect those initial memory reads to the correct ROM location? Are there any best practices or techniques I should consider when working with memory mapping in the context of emulating legacy systems? Any guidance, code snippets, or references would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help! lang: c++. memory map: RAM_LOW 0x00000

Ask HN: Is propagation of BGP hijacks unavoidable? 2 by _nalply | 0 comments on Hacker News. This tells that Iraq blocks Telegram and that the BGP hijacks got propagation but damage was limited by the use of RPKI. https://ift.tt/J6D7eYw Now I wonder if the propagation of BGP hijacks is absolutely unavoidable? I realized, if a nation-state wants to hijack BGP they would need to disable RPKI inside the nation-state or find a different way to let the hijacked BGP rules apply. If they just disable RPKI then they would be vulnerable to other hijacks. Let's say a different nation-state blocks Twitter then Twitter would get blocked in Iraq too. This is an ironic twist: censors get censored themselves, too. (If I understood this correctly). Right?

Ask HN: What happened to Clubhouse? Anyone still actively using it? 4 by kwar13 | 1 comments on Hacker News. It blew up during the lockdown. Hardly hear about it anymore.

Ask HN: How would you re-design Hacker News? 7 by sh_tomer | 14 comments on Hacker News. HackerNews hasn't change for ages. Would you change its design? If so, how?

Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today? 9 by nanidin | 5 comments on Hacker News. I received communications about updated privacy policies and terms of service from Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal today (in that order, chronologically.) Was there a triggering event that caused them all to update at the same time?

Ask HK: How would a world where AI is able to write any software be? 3 by hexage1814 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I was just wondering, I always have a lot of ideas to write software, but never had any skills beyond writing some simple scripts in python. And I was wondering how would a world where you can just say to GPT 20 or so "Hey, port this software to linux" or "Hey write me a whole new OS in the style of Windows 7 but with dark mode" I have no idea about how hard would this be, or even if we would need an AGI to achieve this sort of capability, maybe it would be something so hard that, if we have such skill, the perspective of porting a little software to other OS would be child's play compared to what we would be able to do with that AI which is able to really understand human language and create any software just following a prompt. Anyway, I was just curious about your thoughts on this, how such scenario would look like?

Ask HN: Any recommended fact-rich YouTube documentaries? 3 by I_am_tiberius | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Feedback on OpenAI cost tracking and optimization 2 by mattbrgr | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks, we are a usage based billing platform for startups. You can meter customer usage, create a custom plan (subscriptions, usage based or hybrid) plans very easily. We are tailoring our solutions towards AI companies and wanted to explore a few pain points below. Problem: Cost tracking and cost optimization for OpenAI (and other LLMs) We’re working on 2 things right now: · Simple python library that will automatically report OpenAI usage at a per customer level to our platform so we can offer detailed charts. · Serverless semantic cache for ChatGPT (and other LLM’s) to help reduce usage cost. Have anyone experienced pain when it comes to monitor cost and usage with OpenAI/ChatGPT or other LLMs? Curious to hear your feedback

Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to find a lead investor? 2 by defencetechhn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! This might be somewhat EU-specific, but I feel like I'm going insane here. Currently fundraising for a seed round in an "attractive" sector (defence and AI) and we're finding it very hard to get any VCs to commit to being lead investors. VCs are super excited/optimistic about our company and willing to immediately jump on board as soon as a term sheet is signed by a lead investor. Trouble is that absolutely everyone is taking that position - leaving us in quite a pickle. I've gone through fundraising cycles before and never encountered something like this before, hearing the same from a bunch of other companies as well. I understand that the macroeconomic situation has made many more cautions, but this is just odd. Would really appreciate insight from both VCs and/or other founders currently raising.

Ask HN: How much are baby boomers retiring having an effect on the economy 3 by sharemywin | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Terraform is getting a FOSS fork, what about other HashiCorp tools? 3 by jimkoen | 0 comments on Hacker News. The recent license change from MPL to a non-FOSS license was discussed to great extend on HN over the past week [0]. As a result, some companies with infrastructure/devops focused products announced that they plan to creating a FOSS fork of Terraform, as it is arguably the most popular tool in HashiCorps toolshed. [1] But I was wondering if anyone was interested in or is planning to fork some of the remaining tools in the HC stack. I'm personally interested in keeping Packer going, as it currently seems to be the only solution that can create what HC calls "golden images" in an user friendly way. An alternative to Packer would be shoehorning something with Ansible, which I think would be rather tedious. I was hoping that there maybe was some ongoing development already, but of which the greater HN community wasn't aware of, so maybe this post could

Ask HN: Have you ever been hired without an interview? 2 by legerdemain | 0 comments on Hacker News. Has a company ever courted you, instead of you applying to them or going through a standard interview? How did it work for you?

Ask HN: Is This a Viable Meta-Killer? 3 by dj_perl | 7 comments on Hacker News. How to kill Meta ================ Have you seen the movie "True Lies", starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Arnold Schwarzenegger? There's a scene where Arnold, who is being held hostage and interrogated under a Truth serum, tells his captors exactly how he plans to kill them in the next few seconds. He follows through. In the same spirit, I am disclosing the following to Mark Zuckerberg: 1. Legally, after what he did to FB users data, and appeared before Congress like a contrite little schoolboy, he is obligated to release a user's data to the user, if they so request. 2. I plan to create a migration path for users from FaceBook to the Fediverse. This migration path will be available at the click of a button. 3. I will take out ads, on FaceBook, to convince people to switch to the Fediverse, and offer them a one-click migration button. Pushing that button will take all your data and social ne

Apple Card Named Best Co-Branded Credit Card with No Annual Fee by J.D. Power 2 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Suggest features my Ngrok alternative that doesn't require downloads 2 by ghoshbishakh | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am building Pinggy (https://pinggy.io) which is a tunnelling tool similar to Ngrok. But unlike Ngrok and its alternatives, you do not need to download it to use it. You can start an HTTP tunnel to localhost and selfhost any app by using this command: ssh -p 443 -R0:localhost:8000 a.pinggy.io (Change port `8000` to your port) I am looking for feedbacks and suggestions to help me in deciding the future roadmap of the product. Features - It supports almost all features of ngrok such as: * TCP / TLS tunnels * Inspecting HTTP requests through the web debugger * Basic auth (Bearer token auth coming soon) * Live header modifications * Custom domain We have tried to make the terminal self sufficient by including a basic HTTP traffic inspection tool. The terminal also shows a QR code to make it easy to quickly check a webpage on your phone. Infrastructure - Curren

Conversational Trees for Chatbots 2 by codesiddu | 0 comments on Hacker News. Have seen lesser resources on how to build a chatbot system design from scratch (without external tools). Wrote this post about Adaface (I am a cofounder) chat bot design. Our chatbot conducts technical assessments and used by companies around the world. Would love to know your thoughts! siddg.com/conversational-trees

I’m Done with All These “Success Stories” Online 9 by bizflop | 4 comments on Hacker News. In 2023, everyone is a millionaire. Every single post online shares how this person started a million-dollar business, such as making $10K in a day selling buttons or how a 17-year-old made $50K selling a card game. Or better yet, how I made $30,000 in a single weekend dropshipping backpacks. However, what you don't hear are the people with multiple failed businesses struggling daily. You don't hear about people like me who have started various businesses, from reselling and Instagram theme pages to packing groceries for people (yes, I did this), creating a clothing brand, a dating app, selling water bottles, podcasting, newsletters, eBay flipping, curb painting, and offering SAT prep services. These failed ventures don't catch headlines, and I assure you, I have so many ideas and cool stories to share, but they'll never see the light of day. These stories fail to consider surv

Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately? 3 by mdwalters | 3 comments on Hacker News. Mine would be The Utopians trilogy[1], I recommend it to anyone looking for a good sci-fi read. [1]: https://ift.tt/eomAiCF

Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on 18 by abj | 17 comments on Hacker News. A lot of times with side projects I wished I had gotten feedback early on, before I spent a lot of time on an inefficient direction. I wonder if people wait too long to publish something before it is fully polished, then realized that the polishing wasn't needed. I'm interested to see things that people would have never published otherwise. I know a lot of my projects never make it to a published phase, but I still would have been interested in knowing the general reception. Please drop your projects here!

Ask HN: How do I make sure my mom's garage door is closed? 7 by xrd | 12 comments on Hacker News. My mom is in her 80s. She is still driving around and very active. Having moved far away from her, I worry that she will leave her garage door open and an intruder will see it and enter her house at night. I was back home last weekend and went to a concert while she went out to see the meteor shower with a friend. I got home earlier than she did and she got back around 1 am. When I got up in the morning, the garage door was wide open, the lights were on, and anyone could have walked in the house unfettered. I don't think this happened often, but it did this weekend when I was there, and it was really worrying. Does anyone have suggestions on how I can make sure her garage door is closed when I live 3000 miles away? I don't need to close it remotely, but having a solution that will notify me (or my brother) that the door is open would be really helpful. I can then ask her or

Ask HN: Help testing a World-building app IDEA 3 by 1mrjackdaw | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, If this is an inappropriate place (or manner of asking), please let me know [ or remove this with my implied apologies]. WHAT DO YOU WANT I'm hoping DMs, authors, and the scripturally- or TTRPG-inclined will describe any features they want/find most appealing. I'm going for a critique of the product offering itself, and will also accept that it has no value to any of the target audiences. https://ift.tt/sgeyvNW WHAT IS IT At its core, a "collaborative world-building tool." It is for people who build/use fictional worlds: for example, you can associate a character with a specific building in a specific world. Your data can be public or private. None of the uh... collaboration bits are in there yet, since I have been focused on the "world-building" part. WHO IS IT FOR Currently, three groups: - Dungeon masters (who want to plan out their worlds, locatio

Ask HN: Does sportchek.ca allow you to post a 1 star review? 2 by DinosaurShampoo | 0 comments on Hacker News. It didn't allow me, and didn't even have an error message.

Ask HN: Is making a self taught transition to AI/ML related fields possible? 16 by tayo42 | 7 comments on Hacker News. Graduate school looks to be like way to much of a time and money commitment right now. A ton of this academic content seems to be free online anyway. I got into software with free content and classes online. I'm wondering if anyone has had success moving into this field, for a generalist engineer? I'd imagine advanced degrees aren't required for everything? ML infra and stuff, perf/optimization work etc... Maybe learning materials, resume and interview advice etc? Thanks in advance if you have an interesting answer!

Ask HN: 2023 Lāhainā fire parallels to the 2018 Camp Fire 2 by 1letterunixname | 1 comments on Hacker News. Q. How many times is this scenario going to be allowed to repeat itself and how many more people have to die before reactive steps are taken to prevent these from recurring? Similarities of the two incidents: - Intense winds - Powerline-sparked fires - No mass notification alarm, e.g., didn't use the Amber alert system - Inadequate, chaotic evacuation - Mass casualties - Extreme property losses - Residents delayed and barred from returning to properties due to slow government procedures There was electric utility company negligence in 2018, e.g., not turning off power when they (PG&E) knew there was a problem with 100-year-old bare wire powerlines held by worn-out fasteners. I'm curious what the investigation in Hawaii reveals why the power wasn't cut to all but critical infrastructure. While I wasn't in Maui and can't imagine jumping in the ocean, I wa

Google just killed the Firebase stripe extension – zero warning 13 by justasking7000 | 6 comments on Hacker News. Why do they keep doing this? I noticed users of my product were complaining that they couldn't upgrade plans. I also noticed there were no new subscriptions all day which was unusual. So I log into firebase to figure out what's wrong. Lo and behold it reads "Firebase no longer supports stripe extension. This has been moved to invertase". The only mention of this is here: https://ift.tt/EgzA6pH Checking this out further I realised it was a barely supported open source alternative that didnt even work. What a joke?!! I genuinely don't understand why they have such contempt for businesses on their platforms. Why do they keep doing this?!!!

Ask HN: ChatGPT’s Impact on Headcount – What’s Your Experience? 2 by simonmesmith | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve found it interesting that ChatGPT sparked fresh concern about AI’s impact on jobs and yet many months later we have historically low unemployment in the US. Obviously, such impact wouldn’t be instantaneous, but I’ve wondered how companies are thinking about this in terms of headcount planning. From conversations with friends it seems that a common approach is attrition with non-replacement. Companies are using ChatGPT and similar tools to increase productivity, but don’t want to fire a lot of people due to the negative impact on morale on those that remain—and the fact, I assume, it’s not yet clear how much of a productivity gain will occur where, so they don’t even know exactly who to fire yet. I was wondering what others on HN are seeing. How are your companies approaching this? Is attrition with non-replacement a common strategy? If so, what might that mean for the

Ask HN: Need Advice/Help related to my situation 2 by throwaway45450 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, First and foremost this has been a very valuable forum and I have learned a lot from it. I will be posting from a throwaway account to remain anonymous. So here's my situation I recently switched my job from a reputable company I didn't really needed to but I decided to jump ship before I ended up being laid off so I tried to keep my self safe but now I am in totally different situation where I joined a new company in Fintech industry for a software developer role. Sadly the role says its software development on the paper but in reality its a role where you are mostly doing customer support and dealing with support issues working directly with the customers and I am already few months on the job and I haven't really learned much and things are pretty much disorganized. What should I do in that situation should I start looking else where? I would love to hear your t

Ask HN: Creating mental space for startup while contracting 2 by b20000 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am doing some contracting work which is uninteresting but pays fairly well. At the same time I continue working on my bootstrapped company. I find it hard to create "mental space" to work on what matters to me because the contracting gig is consuming mental bandwidth even when not working on it. On top of that there is the idea in the back of my mind I have to "farm" to get the next gig. I am wondering if anyone else has this issue and how you've dealt with it?

Ask HN: Do you successfully manage the browser tabs? If so, how? 3 by pedrodelfino | 1 comments on Hacker News. I used to be happy around "tabs" while using Nyxt browser in a linux machine (even though Nyxt works with buffers, closer to the Emacs definition, not conventional browser tabs). Now, I am using macOS and Brave/Chrome for professional reasons most of the time. Holy cow, I really miss Nyxt's UX.

Azure ChatGPT GitHub repo has been pulled down 4 by below43 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Not sure why, but the GitHub repo shows a 404 now https://ift.tt/0wfiXbZ https://ift.tt/b0IRJej

Ask HN: Favorite examples of publicly available Airflow repos? 3 by debo_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi folks, I'm just starting on an Airflow-powered project for what I imagine is a pretty standard ETL setup. The "L" is to an 3rd party service for analytics, rather than just to another database table. Regardless of how you may feel about that, I'd like to end up with something sane a year from now. Do you have any good public examples of good Airflow practices? I've read a lot of the docs and watched some more "advanced" Udemy coursework, but I'm particularly looking to get a feel for stuff like: Where do you put large intermediate results between tasks? How do you organize your DAGs? How much of your work is just blitting CSVs around? :) Any pointers would be welcomed, thanks.

Tell HN: Google Maps is again requiring Wi-Fi scanning to enable navigation 3 by causality0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As far as I can tell it's an exact copy of the behavior they exhibited last year and discussed in this thread: https://ift.tt/zxmNUFI Personally when I turn off my Wi-Fi I want it to be off, period.

Ask HN: Do developers have positive experiences with Scrum? 2 by moongloow | 1 comments on Hacker News. Anecdotally, I've observed that when discussing Scrum the people who will defend it tend to be POs, Scrum Masters, managers and the like. I can certainly understand why even a poorly implemented Scrum would be a positive thing in their world given their responsibilities. What I rarely observe are developers, engineers, QA, and other actual "boots on the ground" workers providing a defense of the methodology. It doesn't necessarily follow that just because I haven't seen it that there aren't developers, and adjacent peers, who feel Scrum benefits them. Are there individual contributors here who have had positive experiences? What were the conditions that allowed it to function well, or what proactive things did you do to make it work?

A lightweight Golang generics library that provides Map, Reduce and more 2 by suchen | 2 comments on Hacker News. 1. No reflect. 2. No third-party packages. 3. Time complexity of O(n). https://ift.tt/0kKlXQU

Who owns and manage product documentation in your OSS / dev tool startup? 3 by snork_alt | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm Matteo and co-founder of Dozer (https://ift.tt/07OIogf), a backend tool for building data products. Over the past few months we have done good progress with the product development but our documentation needs a lot of work. Myself, my co-founder and the entire team are juggling among many activities, and one of them is producing good documentation, and that is the part where we are bit struggling. We have tried to hire a couple of tech writers but it's really not working out as we wanted. Our product is a dev product, and it is very hard to find tech writers who have that depth to think what a developer need. At the same time, asking the dev team to write documentation produces low quality docs (obviously devs prefer to write code and they just to go back to that as fast they can). The result is that I end up writing most of documentation or refact

Ask HN: Is Twitter/X showing old posts in profiles for not logged users? 3 by rpgbr | 1 comments on Hacker News. I thought this was an issue in my Nitter instance, but even on `twitter.com` itself it shows old posts (~2020) when not logged. If I log in, it shows correctly. Did Elon break Twitter again?

Ask HN: Did you have a mentor when building your first startup and how was it? 3 by vince_liu | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Impact of LLM's/ChatGPT on Accessibility 2 by childintime | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'd like to know about stories of how chatgpt or even LLM's have impacted and helped better cope persons with a disability. It seems the potential is immense. I'm interested in successes and failures. Maybe you've tried to integrate chatgpt into your routine, but there were obstacles that would need to be resolved before it could become a daily driver. This is a broad question, feel free to share anything related, like new tools/apps you already use. Thank you.

Ask HN: How the h*** did Paul Allen write an 8080 emulator in 1974? 2 by andrewstuart | 1 comments on Hacker News. Listening to the audiobook of “The Innovators” (highly recommend) today and the story tells of how Bill Gates wrote Basic for the Altair on an 8080 emulator written by Paul Allen in 1974 . How is this feat of computer programming not a major legend in computing history? Surely Paul Allen writing this emulator is even more impressive than Bill writing basic?

Ask HN: How to Learn Drawing with Excalidraw? 2 by maksimur | 3 comments on Hacker News. Are there any resources like the book "Drawing on the right side of the brain" or maybe the more apt book "Drawing in the Digital Age" but for Excalidraw?

Render nuked my entire account with no notice 3 by 0xy | 0 comments on Hacker News. Recently I decided to migrate one of my side projects from AWS to Render for convenience and to manage some of my high ALB costs on AWS. This weekend I began the process to move some of my infra to Render, including a static website, Postgres database and Redis. I switched the static website over but had some issues restoring my database from SQL backups (Render's Postgres appears to timeout connections after a certain amount of time). After spending a few hours attempting to import all my data, I was logged out from dashboard and all my services were abruptly taken offline with no notice. When trying to login again, it just throws me back to the login screen and sleuthing the network requests I can see I am now getting "Unauthorized" responses. My production website was abruptly taken offline with the message "This service has been suspended by its owner." (I didn't suspe

Ask HN: How to Use Instagram? 2 by Espionage724 | 2 comments on Hacker News. My impression of IG is that you take pictures with your phone, upload them instantly to your IG profile, and thus share it with others. Does it have any way to categorize these pictures? Or is it meant to just have the pictures as-is without sorting? Kind of like just sharing the pictures in the moment? On FB I can organize pictures in Albums.

Ask HN: What is your preferred domain registrar? 2 by livinginfear | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'd really appreciate some recommendations for a good domain registrar. A few years ago I bought two domain names on Epik.com. I only chose them because a friend of mine had been using their services for a few years without issue, and had a referral code. Recently I've been really unimpressed with their lax security, poor management, and shady business practices. I'd like to move my domains to a new registrar, but I'm not sure who to choose. Any recommendations would be really appreciated!

Ask HN: Anyone using Linode to host large systems? 3 by gwnywg | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm about to start working on a side hustle and my pockets are not deep. The niche I aim for has speciffic understanding of data privacy and security, this will result in many vm's I'll have to deploy and maintain. Also I need to be able to deploy VM's in Sydney as well as in Europe, both in UK and in EU. My pockets are shallow and I have to save on hosting. Also each instance can be very small, I have conducted some tests and it seems I will be able to utilize $5 nanodes from Linode. I looked their API and also their Ansible collections- it looks promissing. Can you share your experience with Linode? Or maybe you have good experience with other provider you can vouch for? I'm happy Linode user since 2011, though to date I was only spinning 1 or 2 instances at a time.

Tell HN: Happy 11th birthday to ACPUL programming language and AnimationCPU OS 5 by ellis0n | 0 comments on Hacker News. 11 years ago I tried to make a better programming environment. I'm happy to welcome everyone who wants to join the Discord community https://ift.tt/rd6q9e7 What We Know About ACPUL and AnimationCPU OS: 90408 Commits Simple, minimalist and fun programming language Fast as C without JIT Fully translatable to any spoken language (for AI) Live coding Mobile first Real time Time Travel Debugger The first and independent programming language of Ukraine Demo video: https://ift.tt/EIkJrMm Demo app: https://ift.tt/iAaLMeK Pray for Ukraine

Ask HN: Is it still worth doing Red Hat certs? 2 by dextersgenius | 0 comments on Hacker News. With all of these recent developments, and even big companies like SuSE and Oracle reprimanding Red Hat, it sounds like Red Hat has become a blemish in the opensource world. But as a Windows sysadmin who's been struggling to break into the Linux sysadmin world (due to lack of opportunities), I've seen that most companies still seem to be asking for Red Hat certs. I know LFCA/LFCS exists but so far I haven't come across any adverts asking for these (at least, where I live). So the question for all you peeps is, is it worth feeding the devil and doing an RHCSA/RHCE? Or is all of this just political theater blown out of proportion, and Red Hat isn't really evil but just a regular business doing business-ey things, and nothings changed in the real world?