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Ask HN: Is there a way to get back to the web we lost? 5 by headmelted | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been thinking for a long time about the web that I came of age with, which I’m sure will likely be different from the web that many of you came of age with, given how wide the community is here. My first introduction to the Internet was circa 1998, by way of an Acer Aspire very similar (if not identical, it’s been 25 years and the memory has faded) to this: https://ift.tt/adxcNHS When I first got to spend time on that machine (it was shared with the rest of the family, so time was limited) I was immediately drawn to the open web and how I could (in my own small way) be a part of something very new and incredibly big. I created a website, several actually, hosted on members.xoom.com (I don’t remember why not geocities, I just remember that there was a reason at the time). I met (and made friends) with people in countries around the world, and I was fascinated that in any direction...

Tell HN: We take LLMs and Diffusion models for granted 4 by behnamoh | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just 3 years ago, the state of the art image generation models were mostly academic papers that would work in specific scenarios, but nowhere near the capabilities of DALL-E 3, Midjourney, SD, etc. Just 3 years ago, the state of the art chatbots were so crappy that no one thought soon they'd easily pass the Turing test. Nowadays we talk to ChatGPT, download a variety of open-source LLMs, talk about some LLMs being better than the others. But just remember: 3 years ago we didn't even have something like Llama 7b!

Ask HN: Do you prefer to search for a job in a job board or trough a recruiter? 2 by rrmdp | 0 comments on Hacker News. With the actual competitive market and so many layoffs, do you think is better to go to a recruitment agency or doing yourself searching and applying via a job board?

Ask HN: What’s the most interesting job that’s not on your résumé? Why? 3 by blueridge | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What tool do you want me to build? 2 by john_96 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys, I have a ras pi that isn't doing anything. comment your idea for a simple tool you'd like access to. I'll code up the top voted idea as an SPA web app and host it for everybody to access for free. Thanks.

Tell HN: DoorDash does not refund fees or tip 3 by hysan | 0 comments on Hacker News. If part of your order does not arrive, support will continually push you to take a refund and suggest that you can apply it on a re-order yourself. However, do not accept that. If you pay close attention, that refund total does not take into account any of their fees or the tip that you placed on the original order! If you refuse, they will keep telling you that they are unable to put in the re-order for you. If you refuse for long enough (over 15 min), then they will suddenly be able to put in the re-order at no cost. But they won’t expedite it. If you look over that new order receipt, you’ll see that it comes in below the offered refund and they don’t tip whoever is assigned your order.

Should have a black bar today for Netflix DVDs 4 by WalterBright | 2 comments on Hacker News. My DVD queue just disappeared. :-(

Ask HN: Which role in software engineering is the best for average person? 3 by throwaway1183 | 3 comments on Hacker News. In your opinion, which role is the best to be average at? From compensation, work/life balance, fulfillment, career opportunities, etc? 1. Frontend Engineer 2. Backend Engineer 3. Applied Research Engineer 4. Research Engineer 5. Graphics Engineer 6. Game developer 7. Enterprise SE 8. Fintech Engineer (esp. in trading/algos) 9. Cloud Engineer 10. DevOps 11. System Engineer (compiler, os, browser) 12. Consumer Application Engineer (macos/linux/windows) 13. Machine Learning Engineer 14. Data Engineer It’s always good to be best. I got told best ML engineer would earn a lot compared to best Frontend Engineer. (ofc, it might be wrong). But which role is good to be average at? It would also be awesome to know barrier of entry vs reward. For example entering graphics engineering is extremely hard and reward is also average compared to average frontend roles. Once the ...

Ask HN: What entities out there provide open-source grants/funding? 2 by jviotti | 0 comments on Hacker News. In the lines of the Mozilla Technology Fund, and others.

Need advise on job hunting after a long career gap 5 by g_murad | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN Community, I have been suggested to bug you all for career advice since this community has been extremely helpful to several friends of mine. I have been struggling to re-enter the workforce after a long gap in my career. I have a highly analytical background having finished bachelors degree in Petroleum Engineering and then working few years for prominent energy companies including British Petroleum. My duties involved heavy data operations such as gathering data from sensors, evaluating well performance and generating reports. After a few years in the industry I decided to go back to school for a masters degree. I obtained my Master's Degree from USC in Petroleum Engineering and spent a year after graduating to work for the university as a Research Assistant and a resource employee. As a resource employee we looked into how technology and more specifically AI and Machine Learning...

Ask HN: Are startups still operating in 'default alive' mode? 4 by neilfrndes | 0 comments on Hacker News. Last year in May, YC sent an email[0] to its startups asking them to "plan for the worst" and try to be 'default alive' for 24 months. We took that advice seriously and drastically reduced our spend, which extended our runway at the expense of growth. I was wondering if other founders are still running their companies in 'economic uncertainty' mode, or things are relatively back to normal? Anecdotally, from talking to other founders in the Bay Area, it seems like early stage fundraising hasn't reduced as drastically as predicted, albeit at lower valuations. [0] https://ift.tt/LsowuEK

Ask HN: HN How to Get Feedback on Software Design Docs 2 by 8ta4 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on a voice transcription tool and I wrote a software design document. It's all text, no diagrams. It covers the technical architecture and functionality. - Where can I share it to get some constructive feedback? - How can I avoid sounding like I'm just promoting my work? I'm all for constructive feedback, but the internet's version of "constructive" can sometimes feel like a sledgehammer to the ego.

Ask HN: What movie about entrepreneurship would you recommend? 3 by ricoche | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm not just looking to be entertained, I would like to learn cool stuff about business and get inspired along the way.

Ask HN: Effective Biohacks for Long Covid? 2 by nikolay | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been having palpitation, hair loss, headaches, and elevated BP since April when I had asymptomatic COVID-19 (I found out later with a antibody test, which showed declining BAUs). I'm eating well and I've been following a normal anti-inflammation supplementation for years. I've seen a cardiologist and there's nothing particularly wrong with my heart and there's been no dietary or lifestyle changes for years, yet, based on the symptoms and antibody tests, it fits into the symptomatic of long covid. I would like to hear things that worked for others and the labs done to confirm and see the main culprit of this unpleasant disorder.

Ask HN: Is Docker Registry Down? 2 by champagnepapi | 4 comments on Hacker News. registry-1.docker.io can't be reached

Ask HN: How to find potentials users for my startup 2 by sanjogg | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am currently working on a startup idea, and I would like to get some user feedback by people who have the problem I am trying to solve. How do I find people with a specific problem? (Apart from friends of friends or acquaintances). For example: If I was working on a solution for learning a language, how do I find people who are trying to learn a language?

Tell HN: Please don't print –help to stderr in your CLI tools 35 by RicoElectrico | 20 comments on Hacker News. Imagine you get a lengthy help description which then you pipe to less.. and you only get (END) in your terminal. Turns out the author decided to print help message to stderr instead of stdout. I assume newcomers will be as confused as I was when it happened to me for the first time. GNU utils use stdout for help texts, and so should you.

Ask HN: How much to believe Glassdoor and Blind reviews of a company? 3 by alfnki | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am interviewing with a small company and am growing concerned based on reviews of the company I have been reading. The reviews of said company on Glassdoor and Blind all have a common theme that the company hires great people, but the executives and leadership in general are just not good at all. The reviews range from "all in all its pretty good, management could use some work though" to "the company and product are going to implode this is so bad" so I'm not sure how bad it is there. I think it's impossible to know how true this until you work there, but I'm wondering how much stock I should put in these reviews and if I should just disengage from the interview process because of it or not.

Ask HN: What are thoughts on Walter Isaacson's new biography of Elon Musk? 4 by iwant2endmyself | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Insomnia's update locks out prev user data, forces account creation w/o warning 10 by huy-nguyen | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a long time user of Insomnia API client (https://insomnia.rest) without an account and was prompted to update the app an hour ago. I thought this was a regular feature update and accepted. After the app relaunches, it gives me the option to create an account with them or use without an account. When I choose the latter, my data is gone. Many others are reporting the same problem (https://ift.tt/EoxLBs1). It's actually a good app but this strong-arming behavior is simply unacceptable to me. What other choices do I have? Postman for Mac?

Ask HN: Do high refresh rate monitors make it hard to go back? 2 by hypertexthero | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m considering getting a high refresh rate (up to 165Hz) 27in screen as a primary monitor to take center-stage away from my 75Hz one, which would become the secondary screen for gaming and streaming, and primary screen for graphic design. A concern is whether I’d become ‘spoiled’ by playing games at higher refresh rates and thereafter perceive 60fps in games as ‘slow’, thus ’creating’ more of my own graphics performance issues. Any thoughts on this?

Ask HN: Are there positions that an autistic software engineer can hold? 6 by big_question | 7 comments on Hacker News. I've been in the industry a bit less than a decade. I consider myself decent on the technical side, but interacting with people is extremely draining. For example, if I know I have a meeting the next day, I often can barely sleep through the night. During the meeting, I need to expend a massive amount of effort to collaborate. This obviously affects my work life, but more importantly my personal life. I have never gotten negative feedback for my work and have steadily climbed up the ladder, but ultimately I feel like I can't continue in a regular agile/scrum/other process-driven company. Mentally it's not sustainable for me. Where could I find a job where I can focus on my strong sides, i.e. technical expertise, good written communication and ability to work alone? Or maybe there is some other tech-adjacent industry that I could go into instead? Any rec...

Ask HN: Can you help me find a blog that has been linked here before? 3 by spott | 0 comments on Hacker News. It is a machine learning blog that has been posted here before, and possibly referenced in a comment as well. There were a few posts of note: * A post that broke down the training costs of a human vs a LLM in terms of the information density of experiences that humans have to have to match an LLM. * a post about his deep learning rig, which was a massive 8 gpu behemoth in an open case. Some other things I remember: * he recently accepted a position at openAI working as a machine learning engineer on their audio team. * he lives in Colorado. If you can help find it, I would appreciate it immensely!

Ask HN: How do you set up a SaaS as a solopreneur? 2 by coreyp_1 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have the MVP, I have it validated, and now I want to build it into a full-grown SAAS. 1. How do you manage the SAAS part? From credit card processing to managing the subscriptions, to integrating it into the project? Any suggestions? 2. What about taxes? How do you collect and remit them to the state? (I'm in the USA.) This is a huge hole in my knowledge, and I would appreciate any information or guidance that you can offer! Thank you!

Ask HN: How to market a macOS app distributed outside the AppStore 2 by longnguyen | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN I’ve developed a couple of macOS apps but I’m using the Accessibility Framework and could not distribute them on the Apple AppStore. Do you have any tips or advice on how to promote them? As an indie developer I find it quite challenging to get traffic. Unlike the AppStore where I could focus on AppStore Optimization (ASO).

Ask HN: How to find papers with technologies that have potential for products? 3 by Eric_BB | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I am interested in a structured way to find papers that may lead to innovative products. The idea is to look into the CS Stanford syllabus and read papers in the reading material. Any other ideas? Does anyone else also have this need?

Final Reminder: Send to Kindle Will No Longer Support MOBI File Formats 3 by djha-skin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Dear Kindle Customer, Thank you for using the Send to Kindle service to send your documents to your Kindle. This is a final reminder that on November 1, 2023, we will start winding down support for sending MOBI (.mobi, .azw, .prc) files through Send to Kindle. This change will impact sending MOBI files through Send to Kindle for Email, Kindle apps on iOS and Android, and Send to Kindle apps for Windows and Mac. We will end all Send to Kindle support for MOBI files by December 20, 2023. MOBI documents already in your Kindle library and other document formats will not be affected by this change. MOBI is an older file format and does not support the latest Kindle features for documents. If you wish to enjoy our most up-to-date document features, please re-send files in a compatible format. EPUB (.epub) is one such compatible format, and you can send it to your library fro...

Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? 2 by asmy | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is a question that is asked every few years. Some past iterations: - https://ift.tt/6sF04ve by mdoliwa - https://ift.tt/RA5BJos by kewball - https://ift.tt/TLAK9Nm by pyeu - https://ift.tt/3JTm6Ow by codester news Just like in past iterations I am very curious to see the results, and maybe there have been a few surprises since ChatGPT last appeared almost a year ago. The original text: > How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started? > Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.

Ask HN: Hit a wall with my ongoing game project because of patents 4 by AndrewPGameDev | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've been working on a custom renderer that uses compute shaders to do pathtracing. The idea was to use Rust/WASM/WebGPU so I could upload a demo directly to the web, so people could play it as easily as clicking a link. Additionally I thought that I could achieve acceptable performance with a combination of new techniques and algorithms as well as using lower-fidelity textures+meshes. Over the past 1.5 years I've basically read every single raytracing paper published in the past 10 years, and have been slowly working to implement relevant papers into this renderer. Recently I found out that one of those papers was patented, and there's no way to use the ideas inside it[1]. This by itself is not a huge issue as I can avoid using the technique and I don't think it will have a massive impact on performance. The bigger issue is that I don't know what o...

Ask HN: Does anyone know of any textbooks on infinity? 2 by leg_knocks_door | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was just wondering if anyone knows any good textbooks on infinity. I saw a post on HN (or maybe it was lobste.rs) a long time ago about a textbook on the same subject and I can't seem to find it anymore.

Tell HN: Was HN Just Down? 2 by gorenb | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone from Meta? 3 by bedobi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Since it's so hard to get bug reports looked at figured I might try here though I realize it's grasping at straws It seems like a not uncommon bug (~30 million hits on google) is for your insta account to get into a state where it no longer plays music added to stories, instead displaying an error "This song is currently unavailable" (even though it plays for literally everyone else and it used to play for you just fine) STEPS Using the instagram app, open a story that has music added (ie not music from the recording itself) (could be your story or someone elses) EXPECTED Music plays ACTUAL "This song is currently unavailable" (even for stories with music you know for a fact was playing fine for you before, and you know for a fact the music is playing for literally everyone else) MISC My hypothesis is that this happens because insta has somehow decided the account is in a region where the ...

Ask HN: What should I use for “recovery email” for main personal Gmail account? 2 by sneakerdadbod | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why are HN comments so cynical? 11 by aarondf | 9 comments on Hacker News. I've been on HN a long time and the comments have always been my favorite part, but recently it seems like the comments have skewed far more cynical or negative. Yesterday's post where the indie hacker was making 45k a month is a good example. So many comments deriding his businesses, his revenue, or suggesting he was lying (???). Have things changed or do I remember the past with rosy glasses?

Ask HN: Why does Apple want me to expose my iPhone password to repair my screen? 7 by dsrtslnd23 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I went to the Apple "Genius Bar" today to get my iphone screen repaired (it shows only a white screen). They told me I need to disable the "find my iphone feature" before they can start the repair. This requires me to confirm it on the phone itself - which does not work due to the broken screen. So the apple staff handed me a "Showcase iPhone" of the apple store which had a "apple support" app on which I need to enter the password of my phone. I have no idea what this apple support app is doing or if it is legitimate at all (ass this is a show phone where many people have access to). I ended up leaving without repairing the phone and now consider to go to an unofficial screen repair shop. From a security point of view that does not look like a very good approach. Any thought on this?

Ask HN: Where to buy second hand server/computer parts? 2 by Pooge | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm buying off a local site in my country but considering how small it is there's not that many offers. I'm wondering if there's such a website that ships internationally (I live in Europe).

Beta Testers Needed for StockTwits Alternative 2 by Afrah123 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey traders and investors, I'm launching a new microblogging platform focused on discovering top performing traders (Verified). The platform allows users to subscribe to you and see what you're buying and/or selling. We need beta testers to help shape our platform's future. Why beta test with us? - Early access to our platform. - Influence the development of a tool for traders and investors. - Connect with like-minded individuals in the trading/investing community. - A chance to make a difference and shape the future of financial trading/investing. So if you buy or sell U.S stocks, we need you! Oh and it's free! Interested? Email: ishipcode@gmailcom Twitter: @afrahtweets

Ask HN: How do you adapt after early retirement? 5 by ishiz | 1 comments on Hacker News. I wonder how many people here have retired early and have found it hard to relate people who are still working? I have had three different jobs since the start of COVID-19 due to the ebbs and flows of the tech industry and economy. The transition to working remotely was also difficult for me, and I wanted to return to the office. That sometimes requires moving, and this is challenging when both spouses are working. Around 18 months ago my spouse and I agreed that we would experiment with her retiring. Her new "job" would be taking a larger proportion of the household chores, and helping me with administrative chores I used to do alone like budgeting, financial planning, house repairs. We don't have children so she has time to pursue her hobbies nearly full time. In some ways this has been great. She regularly says she feels lucky to have the opportunity to do this. She has more tim...

Ask HN: Is there a technology you loved but had to abandon? 3 by bicx | 1 comments on Hacker News. I recently started my own software development agency after 14 years in startups. Because I’m now in a position to set the technical direction for many small businesses who have no established engineering team, my technical choices have a long-term impact for their future ability to hire engineers with relevant knowledge. I’m also someone who deeply enjoys working with Elixir and Phoenix. However, I’ve quit investing in that stack and I don’t plan on recommending it for my clients. I think Elixir is a fantastic language and I’m highly productive with Phoenix, but I can no longer justify my personal investment in that stack due to the small pool of engineers who have relevant knowledge. The ecosystem is also quite weak in comparison to JS or Python, and that can have a major impact on productivity. Now I’m doubling down on TypeScript with Python as a secondary choice. No niche framework...

Ask HN: Long Form DevOps/PE/SRE RSS Feeds? 3 by aliasxneo | 1 comments on Hacker News. I would love it if a few people could share some of the long form DevOps/Platform Engineering/SRE RSS feeds they are consuming, even if it's your own personal blog.

Ask HN: Is Threads dead? 13 by thiht | 2 comments on Hacker News. Threads was the next big thing, but after a few months I don’t hear anything about it anymore. Is it already dead?

Tell HN: Patreon is adding public member profiles, and they'll be on by default 6 by tikkun | 0 comments on Hacker News. My understanding is that if you have patreon subscriptions, they'll go from being private on your profile, to being shown on your profile, as of Oct 4 2023. I really wish companies would always do opt-in instead of opt-out for things that involve taking information that was assumed to be private and making it public. If you have patreon subscriptions and you don't want them to be private, you'll need to go and cancel this.

Ask HN: Who is using the D language and likes/doesn't like it? Why? 2 by fuzztester | 0 comments on Hacker News. dlang.org

Dunning Kruger Founder 3 by DKDKJB | 1 comments on Hacker News. Technical founder who has multiple startup failures due to dunning kruger keeps failing. How do I tell him he is failing because he is making bad decisions in other functions

Ask HN: What has made structs and interfaces popular nowadays (e.g., SwiftUI)? 3 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. Did the hardware change to make structs preferable to classes in more case?

Ask HN: Anyone Selling on Intellij Marketplace? 3 by Copenjin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, today I've noticed for the first time that Intellij supports paid IDE plugins from external developers on their marketplace, they take only a 15% cut and already support recurring subscription. There are just a few plugins but they have a good number of downloads, nothing huge, but considering that plugins seems to be sold mainly through subscription it could be an interesting side income stream. Does anyone sell something on the marketplace, or know someone that does, and want to share their experience with it?

Ask HN: Are there any easy Rust tutorials out there? 2 by mdwalters | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've not been able to grasp Rust, and I've looked through the Rust book, and Learn X in Y minutes, and still having difficulty confidentially learning Rust. Are there any easy tutorials out there for Rust that you've used in the past?

Ask HN: Are there any uses of sorting algorithms in real life? 3 by mdwalters | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Philips confirms that Hue account will be needed on the bulb level 4 by poisonborz | 0 comments on Hacker News. Upon the news, I asked their official account to verify this, they wrote: Hi there, thanks for reaching out. We are sorry you feel this way and value your feedback. We will be sure to pass this along to the relevant department. However, we do want to mention that eventually, it will be essential to have a Hue account to control the Bridge and/or bulbs themselves.

Ask HN: Any way on Linux to support OMTP or CTIA headphone remote? 3 by sandreas | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, on macOS systems with audio jack it is possible to use in-ear headsets with a remote to change volume but also use media key codes like play/pause, next, prev, etc. (similar to iPods) On my MacBook Pro 2015 with Apple Earpods I can control every playback action via this small headphone remote, e.g. Music, Youtube Videos, etc. Headsets from other brands with a remote (e.g. SoundMAGIC E11) are NOT supported. On Android devices with audio jack (e.g. Google Pixel 4a), Apple Earpods are NOT supported but SoundMAGIC E11 are working. After doing some research I found out the reason for this: Basically there are two different standards (CTIA and OMTP), both made for mobile devices. Both use an audio jack with 4 connectors (instead of the normal 3), also called TRRS. Apple uses CTIA standard, Android devices use OMTP standard where the pinouts switched the aux channel. In Bot...

Ask HN: When did wireless routers become so expensive? 2 by hnburnsy | 1 comments on Hacker News. Amazon released new WiFi7 routers today with eye watering prices: Eero routers, in packs of one ($599.99), two ($1,149.99), or three ($1,699.99).

Tell HN: Google Is Deploying Chrome-Like “Ad Privacy Features” on Android 2 by dazld | 0 comments on Hacker News. This morning, I woke up to a notification on my phone announcing that new "ad privacy features" were now available, similar to the ones added to Chrome recently. I haven't seen anything about this new tracking on Android recently, so I might have just gotten unlucky with an A/B test, but this does show that Google is really committed to deploying this new tracking technology across their products. I am curious if anyone else has gotten this yet, or if the current launch is limited to a few random devices. Screenshots from the phone: https://ift.tt/o2Pk9Qx https://ift.tt/zlv6udb In case it is relevant, this happened on a OnePlus 10 Pro running stable OxygenOS 13.1, with Google Play system being on the July 1, 2023 version.

Tell HN: Enable smoother scrolling for Firefox 2 by khobragade | 0 comments on Hacker News. Set 'general.smoothScroll.msdPhysics.enabled' to true in about:config

Ask HN: I'm a SWE without a CS degree. Will online certs help me get into FAANG? 6 by jdjdjdjdjdjd | 6 comments on Hacker News. I studied humanities in university. But I've been programming since I was a kid, so it was a natural career choice. I regret not doing CS. I work for a public sector org and have been promoted to a senior developer. But I still don't think this is enough for me to make the move to FAANG or other tech companies unless I stay here for a long time to rack up experience (I only have 2 years SWE experience at this point). Also, as the org I work for is not a tech company, I'm not sure how seriously recruiters will take my time here. I've studied data structures and algorithms, and I think I am a decent programmer. I could probably progress quite quickly through CS50 or some other online course. I just don't know if it's beneficial. This topic online is full of misinformation and people just trying to sell you a course. So this seemed ...

How does HN get away with not requiring users to verify with an email? 3 by syndicatedjelly | 2 comments on Hacker News. How does HN get away with not requiring users to verify their account with an email address? From what I understand, requiring users to verify accounts with an email address is to minimize the creation of spam accounts and reduce the likelihood of the user engaging in anti-social behavior. From what I can tell, HN never required me to use an email address when making an account. How are they able to avoid the above issues?

Ask HN: What's the best email client for Windows? 3 by rrmdp | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've been using Thunderbird for years but wonder if there is a better option.

Tell HN: ChatGPT Can Decode Base64 3 by Supply5411 | 10 comments on Hacker News. Some engine must hooking into the LLM to answer questions like these. Are there any details about this process? https://ift.tt/qrMGVaO EDIT: An even longer, more convincing test https://ift.tt/g1vk4D0

Ask HN: How can I gain some real distributed systems experience outside work? 6 by multiplied | 1 comments on Hacker News. Current work doesn't have such scale and all the challenges that go with it. I could cook up some projects I suppose, and flood it with dummy data. Just curious if there are any better ideas?

Ask HN: How to avoid social media enshitification, if no one pays for it? 11 by rglullis | 21 comments on Hacker News. During the time of "The Social Dilemma", the idea of "if you are not paying for the product, you are the product" was so often repeated that it became a cliche. Everyone was talking about how bad all of the tech companies were tracking you, how Big Tech was destroying small businesses with their practices, how it was responsible for destroying mental health of younger people and even how it was destroying civic debate by increasing polarization and deepening the political and ideological divide. Today, during an interview where Elon Musk merely suggests that Twitter could start charging from all users as a way to fight the spammers and to keep away people who do not actually bring value to the network [0], all of the reports are about how stupid the idea is and how such a move would kill Twitter. One could brush it off as mere "Musk derangem...

Ask HN: Anyone Using the Epson EcoTank or HP Smart Tank Printers? 2 by notadev | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are they the solution to the current printer ink scam or just more of the same?

Ask HN: Why don't datacenters have passive rooflines like Net Zero homes? 2 by westurner | 6 comments on Hacker News. E.g. the "shed roof" is a passive roofline?

Ask HN: Dear GitHub the browser memory sucks 3 by bojo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've gone through 3-4 Firefox upgrades in Linux over the last several months and have consistently watched GitHub tab memory balloon out from 1gb to 30gb+ each and every time. At first I thought it may have been a Firefox or distribution bug, but only GitHub blows things up so bad. Why is this so terrible? I don't use other browsers so perhaps a Firefox only bug? Do they check this? Have had a couple friends confirm, but HN community? Thoughts?

How are generative AI companies monitoring their systems in production? 5 by wujerry2000 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Companies with LLM-based products (specifically Retrieval-Augmented Generation)deployed in production - how are you monitoring outputs for hallucinations? What's your process?

Ask HN: What are some good resources to understand medical device cybersecurity? 4 by mriguy | 5 comments on Hacker News. Medical device cybersecurity has become a significant area of focus for the FDA. Starting Oct 1, 2023, the FDA will issue a 'Refuse To Accept' letters to 510K submissions that do not comply with the amended Section 524B of the FD&C Act. Most of the online resources related to medical device cybersecurity are from companies selling solutions. Are there examples of high-quality independent blogs, resources for medical device professionals to refer to educate themselves?

Ask HN: Is there is an sqlite3_expanded_SQL()'s equivalent for other DBMS? 3 by lfconsult | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm digging around in order to find a way to get back the SQL statement from a compiled statement with bound parameters (avoid SQLi) for others DBMS. I've found - with excitements- that the SQLite C interface have a sqlite3_expanded_sql()* function to get exactly what I needed. As I didn't found anything for SQLServer, I thought - at first - that it was just not possible at all because the SQL statement and parameters were sent separately (or, kind of, maybe the same compiled blob but without any chance to building back the raw SQL statement). For example, the raw SQL statement is : SELECT * FROM Genre WHERE Name = ? The bound parameter is : "Pop" I would like to get back : SELECT * FROM Genre WHERE Name = 'Pop' Maybe it's a profane question but I did spend a lot of time around in order to find what I need. If you ever wo...

Copyright Holders in Italy Granted Power to Block IPs Without Judicial Oversight 10 by andrew-ld | 0 comments on Hacker News. in Italy after the unanimous approval of law 93/2023 (https://ift.tt/0RwS5uI), copyright holders will be able to force all Italian internet providers to block access to a certain ip and/or internet domain, the penalty to those who refuse is a hefty fine, all internet providers within 30 minutes of the blocking request will have to confirm that they have blocked the resource to avoid more hefty fines. This law will give enormous power to private companies, since all blocking requests ARE NOT SUPERVISED BY HUMANS, no judge or law enforcement will have to confirm the blocking, anyone who owns copyrighted content will be able to access a ticket platform (https://ift.tt/QjugE1V) and enter a new ip and/or domain to be blocked (all internet providers will have to handle the ticket in maximum 30 minutes and confirm the blocking). There is currently no whitelisting sy...

Ask HN: Can I realistically build something that makes money in 6 months? 5 by c7DJTLrn | 2 comments on Hacker News. I realise variants of this question are often asked on HN, so I apologise in advance. I'm a DevOps/Software Engineer and I've just left my job at a large company you likely know of. In short, the project I was on imploded and management were sociopaths, so I've been in a depressive state for a while. Financially speaking I'm in a good position, so I'd like to allocate 6 months to see if I can build my own thing. I have a number of ideas, but I'm having a hard time separating the ideas I'd like to build from the ideas that will have paying customers. I don't have any prospective customers yet either. Frankly speaking, I have no experience getting people to hand over their wallet for something. Am I out of my mind or is this doable?

Ask HN: YouTube keeps suggesting vids I marked “not interested”. What can I do? 3 by MaxikCZ | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think it started about a month ago, but recently got out of control. I mark ALL videos on my homepage as not interested, refresh the page and see about 20% of videos I just marked suggested again. Or next day, or the day after. It seems Youtube just decided to ignore my "NOOO" signal. Anything I can do? Any tampermonkey scripts that will add the video to local blacklist database and hides it from suggestions?

Ask HN: How serious is the WebP bug? 3 by skilled | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have not seen any in-depth coverage of this so I thought I would ask HN and perhaps people with more expertise can provide clarity. For starters, the context: https://ift.tt/qiHYx42 https://ift.tt/xdy6IG9 https://ift.tt/P8Ejvtm https://ift.tt/np0rgGt —————— Google themselves said in their update that they found the vulnerability thanks to Citizen Lab, does this mean that the CVE affects and can be exploited in more than just browsers - realistically speaking. The CVE was assigned specifically to Chrome and it says “through a maliciously crafted HTML page”, but wasn’t the iOS bug specific to iMessage? That is also the part I don’t understand fully. Quite a few software/projects have pushed an update for their libwebp versions now, so that’s why I am curious.

Ask HN: What are some books or courses which had high ROI on your career? 2 by herdyderdy | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are some of the best books you’ve read about memory and the brain? 2 by matt_daemon | 0 comments on Hacker News. Like I’m sure a lot of people on here, I’m fascinated by the inner workings of the brain and in particular how memory works. Looking for solid scientific content without going full textbook.

Tell HN: Google Nest Wifi locks existing features under telemetry opt-in 4 by throwaway52730 | 0 comments on Hacker News. A few years ago, I bought a couple of Nest Wi-Fi routers for my home network. All was good until a couple of days ago when the routers got their firmware forcibly upgraded. I used to have a bunch of DHCP IP reservations set up which are now all gone. And guess what? You can't restore them unless you enable both following privacy settings: 1) Nest Wifi cloud services. Nest Wifi uses cloud services to provide peak performance, useful network insights and help when you need it. Nest Wifi stores and analyzes data about your entire network and devices. 2) Wifi router and point usage stats. Automatically send anonymous Wi-Fi feature related usage statistics and crash reports from all Wifi devices in your Wi-Fi network to Google in order to improve Google's Wifi products. Apparently, this is not exactly new, I found an amusing thread about this very issue from o...

Do you trust your dentist? 5 by curiousinternet | 4 comments on Hacker News. My father and I were shocked after hearing a story where a dentist literally told his assistant to treat healthy teeth just to hit their revenue goals. My father is also a dentist and gets many requests from his friends to check the diagnoses of their dentists and those are often so wrong. Most of them want to treat your teeth with the most expensive method and rarely showcase the alternatives. After some feedback my father and his colleague who have loads of experience now decided to help combat this problem with an independent online consultation: https://ift.tt/yiZNT1L Do you trust your dentist or are you consulting with several people?

Ask HN: Do You Use Recruiters? 4 by lopatin | 9 comments on Hacker News. In my experience, while never using them in the past, deciding to use a recruiter to find a new job was incredibly helpful. Pros: - Lots of interviews, quickly. - Great network of high quality companies. No need to network for yourself. - Negotiates one offer vs. another one for you, often increasing the initial offer by like 10k. No need to get out of your comfort zone and do this yourself. Cons: - Asked me to be exclusive. If I had branched out and used 3 at once, it would have probably gotten out, and don't know if I would have been dropped. - Takes a percentage of your salary. Which for me isn't bad, because in my mind I wouldn't have gotten the negotiated salary bump, or even the opportunity in the first place, if it wasn't for her. I just wanted to learn other peoples experience. Fwiw I'm in Chicago now, where I used the recruiter for finance type jobs. Before, I was in SF and just rel...

Ask HN: Resources to keep up with developments in AI 2 by fictor_vrankl | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are good resources / newsletters that aggregate developments in AI? Specifically looking for a one stop shop to understand the latest developments and inform decisions on "what's possible", for example, if trying to formulate a roadmap to evaluate and take advantage of new technologies.

Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source? 3 by gorenb | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'll probably rewrite it in Rust, but I would like some ideas on software to rewrite and make open source.

Ask HN: How to cope with constant fear of getting laid off? 3 by layoffdepressed | 5 comments on Hacker News. In last 18 months survived at least 3 layoffs, now mentally I am broke, can't focus on doing anything, constant fear of getting laid off, visa makes it even harder to think about. What do I do? how to cope with it?

Ask HN: Looking for a 24-7 Real-Time Voice Transcription Tool 3 by 8ta4 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm on the hunt for a voice transcription tool that can operate continuously, in real-time, 24/7, to enhance my workflow. I need something that doesn't require constant starting and stopping. I've looked into a few options, but none of them seem to provide the non-stop, real-time transcription I'm after: - Siri/Google Assistant: They're great for short dictations, but they don't offer continuous transcription. - Otter.ai: This tool provides real-time transcription for meetings and interviews, but using it 24/7 could get expensive. - Rev Voice Recorder: It lacks real-time capabilities and needs to be manually activated. - The NSA: I won't be able to pass their security clearance because of that "classified" recording of my ex in bed... snoring like a freight train all night. Before I decide to build or modify a tool myself, I thought I'd ask h...

Tell HN: Default app in AWS ElasticBeanstalk writes all POSTs to “/” to a file 2 by airstrike | 0 comments on Hacker News. Per the docs at https://ift.tt/tHBREXW "Launching an environment with a sample Java application Elastic Beanstalk provides single page sample applications for each platform as well as more complex examples that show the use of additional AWS resources such as Amazon RDS and language or platform-specific features and APIs. The single page samples are the same code that you get when you create an environment without supplying your own source code. The more complex examples are hosted on GitHub and may need to be compiled or built prior to deploying to an Elastic Beanstalk environment." Importantly, if you don't provide any code for your newly created environment -- REGARDLESS of the runtime you choose --, this sample Tomcat app gets loaded, and the index.jsp reads: /** Log POSTs at / to a file **/ if ("POST".equalsIgnoreCase(request.getMeth...

Ask HN: What is the purpose of the “press any key” screen in video games? 2 by notpachet | 1 comments on Hacker News. What is the purpose of the initial "press any key" screen that often displays before the main content of a game? I found some potential answers online, but I wasn't satisfied with them; they often sounded slightly apocryphal ("my brother knows a guy who works in games" sort of thing). I'm hoping there are some folks here from the gaming industry who have firsthand experience implementing these initial screens. The possible reasons I found included: - The screen functions as a "book cover" for your game, showing the player what the game is about - It allows for preloading without the user noticing - If multiple input devices are connected, this allows the game to infer which one the player wants to use - Some platforms may require user interaction within X seconds, and the initial screen enables this somehow (?? I am curious to kn...

Ask HN: Is there any Hacker News but for Biology 3 by minroot | 1 comments on Hacker News. And related matters?

Why were there never dot.com movies? 4 by nytesky | 3 comments on Hacker News. With Dumb Money coming out, and Big Short, Wall Street, Smartest Guys in the Room, Silicon Valley (yeah not a movie). Why did that heralded period when secretaries became millionaires, and economy was humming, and then it shattered so ridiculously and kinda of setup the housing bubble and ZIRP period.

Ask HN: WordPress vs. Django/Flask? 5 by amts | 14 comments on Hacker News. I may get to work for a small translation agency to build a website for them plus a bit of marketing stuff, and maybe a remote desktop and a platform for invoicing for their personnel. I am self-teaching myself web-design and the related stuff (Python mainly for everything, but HTML/CSS, C++, SQL and databases also) and a few years ago I also administered a Wordpress site for a while, so am a bit familiar with themes/addons etc. But for a few recent months it seems I've seen some news on HN as about once per month that someone's Wordpress site was hacked. Which web framework may be better for a small agency (or in a general business case): Wordpress or Django/Flask? Can you describe a typical workflow and which other tools/frameworks/keywords/etc (like REST) I need to use for this? As I am a bit nervous that I am self-taught in this field, though have tons of materials on that, but this job may provi...

Ask HN: What app do you use for book recommendations? 2 by bcherny | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve tried Goodreads and StoryGraph, but neither gives good recs. It seems like an easy problem to solve: just look at the authors I like, and recommend books that other people who have similar tastes also liked (ie. k-means matching). Is there an app that does this? For example, I like: - Greg Egan - Ted Chiang - Nabokov - Kerouac - Ishiguro - Vonnegut - Bukowski - Kundera - Joan Didion - Oliver Sacks Surely if you get a list of favorite authors like this from a few hundred people, you could trivially recommend new authors to people?

Ask HN: Interesting blue sky accounts to follow? 2 by max_ | 3 comments on Hacker News. I recently got my Blue Sky invite. I was wondering if you guys would recommend accounts to follow on Blue Sky that are compatable with the kind of content you may find on Hackers News. i.e accounts that that may have some intellectual value to a "Hacker".

Ask HN: What development related stuff do you pay for? 4 by andrewstuart | 3 comments on Hacker News. Me: * OpenAI * PyCharm * Clion * AWS Route53 * Ionos cloud hosting * Cloudflare DNS * Cloudflare R2 * Cloudflare Workers

Ask HN: Why is archive.is logged into GitHub as user “volth” 5 by preciousoo | 1 comments on Hacker News. I noticed this when trying to save a page on github. At first I thought my cookies were forwarded in the archive request, then I noticed that all requests [1] were "logged in" as this user. The profile pic is very uncanny too lol. Curious as to if anyone knows why, but I'll do my own digging too. User "volth" does not exist on github at the time of writing. edit: I'm not the only one that's noticed [2] edit2: They seemed to be a really prolific github user [3] [1] https://ift.tt/vh309yH [2] https://ift.tt/DdoqAC6 [3] https://ift.tt/j2EFG6P

What would you do differently if you decided to start a blog again? 3 by ismailsevik | 0 comments on Hacker News. If you were to start a new blog with your current knowledge, what would you do differently than what you did at first?

Ask HN: What do startups look for in a resume? 2 by fvrghl | 2 comments on Hacker News. How differently should a resume be formatted when applying to a startup vs FAANG?

Ask HN: Where can I promote my site and get traffic fast? 4 by cannibalXxx | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you manage your “family data warehouse”? 6 by coderatlarge | 1 comments on Hacker News. By "Family Data Warehouse" I refer to all the info and documents that one tracks over the years, perhaps for one's self, but then also potentially for spouses, kids, parents, siblings, relatives, etc. Some common categories: (1) Financial: account statements (pdf, paper, etc), transaction CSV/ofx/etc, insurance policies, financial institution correspondence (confirmations, T&Cs, etc), tax forms, deeds/titles, loans, debts, contemporaneous records, paystubs, employment letters, receipts, etc (2) Health: test results, diagnoses, medications used, doctor info/correspondence, vaccinations, hospital interactions, statements, bills, etc (3) Product and services info: products purchased, maintenance info, warranties, replacement parts, recall notices, class action events, professional used (CPAs, lawyers, contractors, plumbers, etc), etc (4) Personal legal and other docu...

Ask HN: What's the smallest dedicated Android audio player you know? 2 by sandreas | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, in the last few years I collected a few dedicated Android music players (also DAP or Hi-Res DAP), because I like enjoying my music and audio books without distraction and these devices are much smaller than most modern phones. The problem is, that they still are all quite bulky and all of them have some caveats. QUESTION: Is there anything smaller with a pretty recent android (>10), support for custom apps and best case earphone remote support via OMTP / Audio Jack? Here is my Top 3 so far: # Fiio M6 [Hi-Res DAP] (~120 bucks used) + Pretty small and lightweight + Custom app support + Decent audio quality + Earphone remote support (OMTP via TRRS Audio Jack) + Push buttons for volume, play + Hi-Res incl. Bluetooth Licensing + Affordable when buying used one o Acceptable battery life - Pretty old android (v7) - Pretty slow - discontinued # Sony NW-A306 [Hi-Res ...

Ask HN: Helpdesk/ticketing software for small SaaS company 2 by alex_suzuki | 5 comments on Hacker News. Dear HN crowd, I'm evaluating customer-facing helpdesk software for a small B2B SaaS company. Since we are hosting the code on Gitlab and it's included, I gave Gitlab Service Desk a try. It works well but there's some friction when creating a ticket, e.g. it's not possible to integrate it programmatically into a web app ("Submit issue" form). Also I would prefer to have support separated from the development aspects. So far I've tried Freshdesk, but was immediately turned off by the massively bloated user interface and gazillions of settings. Front looks polished from gazing at the landing page (haven't tried it yet), but seems to focus more on B2C with an emphasis on omni-channel messaging. Also the smallest plan is 2 seats at 19 USD/mo. which is a bit much for our current usage. Zendesk feels bloated. Freescout is OSS and allows self-hosting, b...

Ask HN: Have you started getting ads in YouTube? 2 by gustavus | 2 comments on Hacker News. So I have been using an adblocker (ublock origin) on youtube for a while now, basically since the ad time and video time became 1:1, and it's worked well. But now I am starting to see youtube ads pop back up. Anyone know why this is?

Ask HN: Is cell phone radiation still a concern in 2023? 4 by _air | 2 comments on Hacker News. In the early days of mobile technology, there were numerous discussions and studies concerning the radiation emitted by cell phones and potential health risks, including cancer. Phones are closer to us than ever — sometimes even under our pillows while we sleep. Has technology evolved to significantly reduce these risks, or are the concerns as relevant as ever?

Tell HN: Google says “AdBlock for YouTube” contains malware 5 by serial_dev | 2 comments on Hacker News. When I logged in this morning, I saw that Google Chrome now classifies one of the extensions I have installed, "AdBlock for YouTube", as malware: an info box now says "This extension contains malware." I didn't find any official info on the decision, and very little chatter online. Only thing I found is this screenshot here on Reddit: https://ift.tt/o8Mnwcm The decision might be related to some cheeky / deceptive fake YouTube Premium modal banner? https://ift.tt/wnbG0s3

Ask HN: Electricity Rate Arbitrage? 2 by pc2g4d | 1 comments on Hacker News. One issue with solar and wind is their intermittency. But (my economics / engineering mind thinks) if we have a market for electricity where the price of electricity depends on current moment supply and demand rather than a fixed rate (time variable pricing, I think is the term) then the market itself should, over time, address the intermittency. So, when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing and the price is negative, savvy operators of battery storage, pumped hydro, etc. stock up on energy for later. Then, when it's the middle of the night and the wind's not blowing, the price spikes, and those who stored energy ahead of time make a profit providing that energy when it's needed most. Of course this is an abstraction, and I'm not an expert, but... are there utilities whose rate structure enables execution of this kind of arbitrage business model?

Ask HN: Have you had any of your work falsely detected as being generated by AI? 4 by Quinzel | 5 comments on Hacker News. And also, if you have? What did you do? Did you have to prove your innocence? And if you did, how did you do that? I am particularly interested in this with regard to academic work, but also in general would be interested to hear people’s experiences!

Ask HN: Mid-career job assessment services? 2 by dirtybirdnj | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I am in the midst of a years long struggle to find appropriate work that actually uses my skills. I am in an administrative tech job and I absolutely hate it. I want to get back to writing code, queries, doing deploys, actually working on code but my "time between jobs" makes me too risky for employers. I don't fully understand my struggle but part of it is also discovering my neurodiversity struggles. Are there any reputable services out there that will help evaluate my skills and use this information for job placement purposes. Have you done something like this before? Was it worth it or a waste of time? I'm not willing to do 100 different coding tests but if some recruiter or agency could give me a test and help me understand my value or what I could meaningfully put my research and education efforts to I'd be willing to put a hell of a lot more effort in.

How to recover (digitally) when you are out of prison? 2 by pacman2 | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is not a joke. I have been in prison abroad for nearly two years. A total nightmare. I have nearly lost everything. Not made CC payments in 2 years etc. The US embassy was of little help, mainly because I am a dual citizen. Be assured that this is something that will change very soon. Some things would count as torture that I experienced in this prison (I was 5 month without any contact to my public defender, he never picked up his phone. I wanted to call the US embassy but was denied, finally they declared me crazy for claiming to be a US citizen and I was put in solitary confinement in a cell that was video monitored 24/7. All this is over now. I was released unexpected yesterday. Now I try to heal and recover. A friend of mine was able, to at least some extent, to pay for some of my domains. While my main email seems lost (he forgot to pay for email hosting), my main email/domain...

How do people send system messages to (human) clients these days? 2 by ryncewynd | 0 comments on Hacker News. When building apps/websites I often need to send messages to the business owner / admin. The messages range from almost logging type messages such as - "Payment failed for Order 123, please manually process the transaction" to generic contact forms on a website: - "FirstName LastName sent a message with the following text: something something something" My knowledge is rather old and currently I just send email via smtp. I'm finding email is becoming increasingly unreliable. Sometimes the smtp server gets marked as a spam server which can take a few days to resolve. Or the receiver implements a new mail filter, accidentally blocking all the messages. More and more things are happening that result in emails not sending or arriving. I've been looking at email api/services such as postmark, mailgun, sendgrid which seem a good idea, but I'm curiou...

Ask HN: What should I ask the VP of my company? 2 by thepuppet33r | 1 comments on Hacker News. I work in IT and have won a chance to sit down with the VP of IT for our company. What sort of questions should I ask?

Ask HN: If my LLM generates a script similar to a TV show, can I use it? 3 by matt3210 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Where to find co-founders for “lifestyle” business startups? 3 by sinman | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a software engineer with a decade of experience. I quit my previous job and am considering starting my own business. I've recently been browsing Y Combinator's Co-founder matching platform (https://ift.tt/HXDvYpR). This has many people who have a) impressive credentials and work experience, b) good ideas based on their real work experience and c) a desire to grow these ideas into a $100M+ business. Sadly, the last of these is where my interest wanes. I don't have dreams of being astonishingly rich or successful (why, I'd be happy with a measly $1M business - if it wasn't too much effort to run). I don't want to take on lots of funding and staff and the pressure that entails. I'm more interested in a "lifestyle business" - perhaps one that I can run part-time after an initial period, that doesn't have lots of deadlines, but still...

Ask HN: Do we still need Electron? 2 by grumblingdev | 0 comments on Hacker News. Each platform has it's own webview control available as a shared library installed with the OS. MacOS has WKWebKit based on WebKit. Windows has WebView2 based on Edge/Chromium. Linux has webkit2gtk based on WebKit. Tools like Tauri use a simple cross-platform single-header abstraction called webview.h[1]. Electron no longer allows Node.js to be called from renderer processes, all communication with Node.js is done via IPC. In this case, why do we still need Electron? Why does it have to be tied to V8/Node.js? The fact that Chromium Embedded Framework exists and is third-party makes me think that Chromium wasn't designed for being embedded, and Electron is filling that gap. This is elucidated here further here https://ift.tt/bXWfB4Y > it's difficult to reuse their work...if another WebKit-based application or another port wanted to do multiprocess based on Chromium WebKit, it would be nec...

Ask HN: Any good school timetable apps for Linux? 3 by mdwalters | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for a timetable app for Linux to keep track of my school schedule (five days, 8 periods, including lunch breaks). Any suggestions?

Ask HN: Best place to sell old computers, Commodore PET e.g. 2 by NovemberLegend | 4 comments on Hacker News. I have a few machines that I'd like to sell, realized that I'm never going to get around to refurbishing them, replacing the electrolytic caps, etc. Searches mostly return eBay sellers, when I look for current prices. But it seems like I'm missing something. Is there such a thing as an online antique computer marketplace, the equivalent of the M.I.T. Flea Market, maybe ? I'd like to be more confident in the prices I'm putting on them, and it seems like eBay is the only thing being promoted by the search results. I'm near Boston, btw. Machines are: Apple II, Macintosh Plus, DECstation 5000/120, Commodore PET 4032, Amiga 1000

I am researching a man named Hew Draper. Any and all help is appreciated 3 by acolderentity | 8 comments on Hacker News. Hew Draper was an innkeeper that was accused of witchcraft in 1561. He was imprisoned for 2 years in the Tower of London, and there is no record of him after his sentence. He's probably dead, but any info about him is wanted.

AI and Hardware Engineering 2 by HWEngLOL | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am a hardware EE with a couple years experience. What are some areas I should be investing time into in regards to AI? What can I learn right now to position myself well in the future?

Ask HN: Tech that seems to have vanished 6 by araes | 3 comments on Hacker News. Main Question: What tech do you remember over the past years that seems to have withered or vanished from the public zeitgeist? (even if it's really just stealth). Motivation: Was reading "Ian Wilmut, Creator of Dolly the Sheep Dies" [1] today, and realized that Dolly was born back in 1996 (>1/4 century). Yet, I rarely, if ever, read about cloning of any kind until Dolly's creator dies. Notably, this appears to be a case where the tech is being used, yet not written about very much [2]. The list of species cloned is pages long, yet I have not read about any of these in major news. [3] Cloning hamburger (cattle)? Cloning housepets (canines)? Backup housepets in case Yeller falls in the well (Sooam Biotech, South Korea, was reported in 2015 to have cloned 700 dogs for their owners @ $100k / each)? Other examples from my own view: Graphene - First sighted 2004, still cannot buy graphen...

Ask HN: Why Did Yelp Fail? 4 by michaelteter | 3 comments on Hacker News. Yelp was once _the_ source for reviews and sometimes photos (for restaurants). Then something happened, and then it seemed to just fall away. ? Was it Google Maps (with reviews)? ? Was it disputes about reviews, or questions of financial influences or censorship of reviews? It's been long enought that perhaps some insiders can share details without risk...

Ask HN: How are you finding new LLM apps? 2 by chandler767 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Seems like everyone’s creating new AI powered apps these days. Projects are coming and going faster than I can keep up. How are you discovering apps like these?

Ask HN: Why are most LLM libraries dead projects now? 5 by behnamoh | 3 comments on Hacker News. Microsoft Guidance is not continued anymore (last commit = 1 month ago). Minimaxir/SimpleAIChat seems to be abandoned (last commit = 1 month ago). rogeriochaves/langstream was updated two weeks ago and has only two issues, both open. kyang6/llmparser was updated 5 months ago. Some other projects that seem abandoned due to no activity: young-geng/EasyLM 1rgs/jsonformer newhouseb/clownfish What's going on? Did people find that their secret weapon is the library they use, so they started building their own private libraries?

Ask HN: Why Python relative import is so fundamentally broken? 2 by akasakahakada | 2 comments on Hacker News. Seems that relative import is implemented as relative to where the python.exe executed instead of the place where the file is. So the nature is depending on where you run the doctest or where you put your jupyter notebook, all imports inside the project will break!

Ask HN: Pointers to resources for an internal security review 3 by aazo11 | 0 comments on Hacker News. We would like to do a comprehensive security review of our product and code pre-launch as we interact with user databases. While we are well aware of SOC 2 (and might eventually get certification), are interested to know if the community knows of good checklists or other materials they can share. Searching on Google is pretty useless as the SOC 2 companies flood the results with clickbait and SEO garbage.

FYI: Google Workspaces's High-Priority Security Events Take 4 Hours to Trigger 3 by apimade | 0 comments on Hacker News. Do not rely on Google Workspace's Security Alerts and Events for anything critical. If your organisation suffers a targeted phishing attack, you'll notice that alerts within your Security Centre don't trigger or fire very quickly. In fact, it might take several hours - which we found out a few weeks ago trying to monitor and test incident response on a VIP's account. I've attempted to ask Google on this several times - as well as asking simply, "should I rely on Google's Security Alert Centre for Incident Response", to which they respond each time with: --- Upon checking the following Help Center article [1], we can confirm that this is working as intended: “Note: Gmail alert notifications may arrive up to 4 hours after an alert rule is triggered.” [1] https://ift.tt/3duvk0t Kindly note that I'm just an email away if you h...

Ask HN: Which are the best newsletters to keep informed on AI development? 3 by asasidh | 1 comments on Hacker News. I get bombarded by ads on social media. Would like to get recommendations from the community. Topics of interest is applied AI in areas of marketing, development, technology.

Ask HN: How do you relate rendered HTML to the TypeScript file it came from? 2 by jztan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Let's say we have a any web app (React, Next, whatevr framework. It has a App.tsx file and Button.tsx file. We start the local development server and use puppeteer to extract the content. You can use whatever frameworks, source maps, tools, etc. How would you take that string input and figure out the line number where the typescript actually occurred?