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Ask HN: Why did Google Maps turn ugly? 7 by NikolaNovak | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've always enjoyed Google Maps having a light-feeling interface. In the last few weeks though, it started feeling very heavy and ugly. I am not sure why? I think a lot more areas are now shaded in various grays instead of plain white, which adds to feeling of heaviness and mental distraction of colours... Meanwhile roads have moved from bright, easily seen high-contrast yellow with thin outline, to blah-gray , which blends with new shadings, so they've thickened the outline to try to compensate. It feels significantly worse, to me at least, and I'm not sure why/when changes were made (note: Firefox and Chrome on Windows 10 and 11. My iOS app seems to still be OK, Android app seems to slowly be switching over).

Ask HN: Imminent demotion, what to do? 5 by throwawaypqpq | 3 comments on Hacker News. I was promoted to tech lead 2 months ago. Everything was going great until the company announced a reorg. Things are still up in the air but I asked my boss what are the plans for my team and he confessed it's likely we will be split apart and each one will be allocated in different teams. All the possible teams mentioned already have tech leads do my position would be made redundant. I'll likely go back to IC if I agree to stay. The idea of getting demoted so soon after getting promoted feels bad. It killed my enthusiasm today. Have you ever gone through a similar reorg? Any advice?

Ask HN: After Charles Petzold's Code and Nand2Tetris, What Next? 4 by gautamsomani | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm half way through the 2nd edition of CODE book, and will then go through Nand2Tetris, since these 2 have been recommended a lot here on HN. May be its a little early to ask, but still, from learning computers (and software) more deeply, what should be the next step? Am open to anything and everything. I want to understand computers even more better, assuming (and sincerely believing) it will make me better in my career path to be an SRE/Distributed-Systems Architect. I'll also be reading DDIA and SICP for sure, will take me own sweet time to go through them since they actually demand time and patience. But would love to get guidance from you all here at HN.

Ask HN: Tech stack for small SaaS side projects as a solo developer? 5 by poushkar | 4 comments on Hacker News. What tech stack would you choose for building SaaS side projects as a single developer if these were your priorities: - build it once, deploy and forget for months or years; - adding new features is easy (once it's needed once a year or even less frequently). "Easy" here means little time spent reminding yourself how the app works and where to add new features; - deploying is simple and can be done with little to no setup; - language/platform/dependencies updates are infrequent, easy to do, unlikely to break the app; - open source and developed by a community, no dependency on an enterprise.

Ask HN: How do you think your job will change in the next 2-5 years? 2 by mbm | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are your experiences with Apple Card? 3 by hoten | 3 comments on Hacker News. General inquiry about how people are finding this new card service. Do people use it for more than just purchasing Apple products for the 3% cash back? Can Android users load the card into their digital wallets (seems you can't - yikes). Does anyone regret getting the card?

Ask HN: What software do you pay for monthly? 4 by mbm | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Tutorial on LLM / already grasp neural nets 4 by lcuff | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've watched the 4 videos from 3blue1brown on neural nets. The web and youtube are awash with mediocre videos on Large Language Models. I'm looking for a good one.

Ask HN: How do you find experts? 2 by Fiely | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in people's experience with finding experts in any field or subject. Often when there is an event or subject that dominates the "feeds" I read things like "You should find the experts on both sides" or "go read from the subject matter experts" but I struggle with this given the vast amount of information available. I find myself in a bit of paralysis when learning about new fields in which I focus a lot on finding the "right" source. How do you find experts and how do you verify their expertise?

Ask HN: What gifts are you giving to loved ones this holiday season? 5 by sbolt | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you go about planning your code? 4 by rewgs | 0 comments on Hacker News. An oft-repeated phrase I see on HN from time to time is something to the effect of "one should spend more time planning/designing/architecting/etc than writing code." The more experience I've gained, the more I've come to appreciate the wisdom in this. My planning/designing/architecting is all pretty much pencil and paper. That's perfectly fine, but I'm wondering if I'm missing out better tools and workflows. So, those who follow the above quote: How do you go about doing it? What tools do you use? What's your workflow like?

Ask HN: Direct report is a senior beginner 6 by throwawayMnbv2 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I was hired to manage a software development team that was said to be in deep trouble (lots of rework, bugs, production outages due to new releases, complete unknown backlog, etc). This team is small and one member has been working at this company for 7 years. He was transferred from a few areas and ended up in this team, where management mostly left him alone. On one hand, he requires a lot of handholding if you want to ensure good deliveries. You have to communicate extremely well or the tiniest uncertainty will push him into creating a really complex solution (this happened a few times in a couple of months). In this regard, he displays the knowledge of a junior engineer. On the other hand, he has many years of experience and the "senior" title. The problem is he doesn't know what he doesn't know and just assumed things. Often, he will figuratively go into his cave and co

Ask HN: I'm thinking of writing a book – Why would you want a book? 2 by iamflimflam1 | 4 comments on Hacker News. As the title says - I’m thinking of writing a book. I’m targeting a quite specific niche - Arduino on the ESP32-S3. I want to take the reader on a journey from the basic blink sketch to designing a custom PCB. This could just work as a series of YouTube videos or blog posts. But it would be nice to turn this into a physical book. What would make you actually want the book version? What value can a book have above and beyond something online? Or is a book just a nice to have thing? Should I just focus on creating the content and making sure it’s useful/valuable and treat the book as just another method of presentation?

Ask HN: How to restart a project when competition has grown a ton? 2 by sankalpdomore | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a Product designer for 11+ years now and have been building side projects for long. All my previous project were passion projects and I never focused to monetize them. 2 years ago, I got a domain to build a link in bio tool. I was excited and wanted to focus on this product to make money. I started well. Build a website. Started talking about the project in public and got some initial praise & signups too. I was still in the process of designing & building the tool but I switched my full-time job and got busy there. It's been 2 years now and I see a lot of link in bio tools out there. I am now unsure whether I should still pick up the project and launch it. Or I should just let it be and let the domain expire. I am not sure what should be my differentiator now so when I launch, it gets used and so I can charge for a better feature or product. If you'

Weave Tech Archives (l-system design articles) 2 by sargstuff | 0 comments on Hacker News. missing url link: https://ift.tt/e7UmSvc Specific submitter items of interest were sequnece of articles covering 'Designing with L-Systems' -- files gre_ls[01-10] specifically address L-Systems[0]. Non-math take with links to visualizing/designing weaving patterns -- the original manual computational design. aka fabric as the spreadsheet/plane. [0] : https://ift.tt/9rkHd8c

Ask HN: Anyone having problems accessing their Mercury account? 3 by cowpig | 0 comments on Hacker News. Everyone at my company with access to the bank account is getting the following message when they try to log in: It looks like you don’t currently have access to any Mercury accounts. If you believe this is a mistake, contact an account admin or email help@mercury.com. And their help@ is replying with a form email: "Our Customer Support team is currently receiving a higher volume of inquiries than usual. Please anticipate that general inquiries will receive a response within 2–3 business days..." Is this a bug that a lot of people are experiencing? Does anyone know someone who can help quicker than 2-3 business days?

Ask HN: Any AI-based Code Assistants for web CRUD apps? 3 by endorphine | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for something to help me faster code CRUD endpoints for a Rails side project. Is there something more integrated than ChatGPT4? Like, I give it access to my codebase, it parses it and understands the models etc. and can then crank simple features?

Ask HN: ChatGPT servers locations and energy sources 2 by roschdal | 1 comments on Hacker News. Where are the ChatGPT servers located in the world? How is the energy generated to power these servers? Eg. Hydroelectric, Nuclear, Oil, Gas?

Tell HN: Spotify now inserts Ads to premium users as well 23 by methou | 10 comments on Hacker News. Was listening to podcast and got two ads that has buttons to download the advertised app(with gambling related disclaimer) as well as in-app pop ups. I think it’s time to use my Apple Music included in family sub that I’m already paying for.

Ask HN: What Are You Thankful For? 3 by AlphaWeaver | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think I remember seeing a thread like this last year, and it seems like a nice opportunity to reflect today (on US Thanksgiving.) I myself am thankful for this website, for thoughtful discussion and for the interesting and smart people who frequent it. Here's to another year!

Ask HN: Is there a non smart 4K TV? 2 by estebandalelr | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Personal History from Account Data? 3 by DoingSomeThings | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on a personal project to log what I did each day of the past year. I'm looking for a tool to pick a random date and see "you traveled here, talked to these people, and took these pictures/screenshots." A combination of Google Maps Location History, Photos/screenshots by date, and messages sent. Google Location history is a great start, however iMessage seemingly has no way to search by date. Any thoughts on how to approach this task?

Ask HN: Best Alternatives to OpenAI ChatGPT? 20 by danielovichdk | 13 comments on Hacker News. With the last days exposure of OpenAIs bow down to being a for profit company (imo) I would like to hear what else I can use for chatting with an assistant just as good as chatgpt? Anything as good ?

Ask HN: I've spent $1M+ building a fitness app. Now what? 8 by ptwobrussell | 3 comments on Hacker News. # I've spent $1mm+ building a fitness app. Now what? ## Situation Report: - I've been bootstrapping a consumer-grade (native iOS + Apple Watch) fitness app for the past few years, and I've spent over $1mm (not including my own time; that's real post-tax cash money) getting to this point. - I'm a solo founder with a ~20 year professional background in building + shipping enterprise software products, and the vast majority of my focus has been on building the app itself (with the help of a lean team of contractors and freelancers.) - The app itself is fairly polished and perfectly usable. It's in the App Store right now, I use it daily, and there's a small trickle of users. However, there's no clear signs of PMF or traction yet -- and that's essentially the problem to be solved. - If time and money were no object, I would love to continue wor

Ask HN: Best way to explore career trajectory as a mid level engineer 2 by Samisp | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I'm currently working in a medium-sized AI startup (which is picking up steam). I'm currently a mid-level engineer in one of the product teams and I find myself in a bit of a search for meaning situation. I've had a bit of an eclectic path: Degree in Economics -> Data Analyst -> Data Engineer -> Backend Engineer As a data analyst, I got bored of making dashboards and went into data engineering since it was a growing field and, I believed, more challenging, after a while however I found myself a bit bored of making the Nth data pipeline and decided to try my hand at backend software engineering which I like a lot, but lately, I've been feeling that all I ever do is implement CRUD endpoints (data pipelines all over again) because I came in into an existing code base and there was nothing really left to do, but maintain it. I have an odd challen

Ask HN: How do you cope with the Rapid Pace of AI/ML? 2 by QRe | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm grappling with the challenge of keeping up in the fast-paced AI/ML field. It feels like there's a new breakthrough or technique to learn daily, and I'm worried about falling behind. How do you manage to stay informed without getting overwhelmed? Are there specific strategies or resources you use to filter information and focus on what's most important?

Ask HN: Black Friday Discounts/Specials 6 by agent86 | 1 comments on Hacker News. It's that time of year, but I haven't seen a HN thread about it yet. I believe last year folks had some Github repos setup with information, and the thread comments had some additional great leads and special discounts for HN users from some places. What are you looking for, or what have you found this year?

Ask HN: How do you get started with adding voice commands to a computer system? 2 by calebjosue | 1 comments on Hacker News. Let's suppose you want to add support for voice commands to a Linux Distro. For simplicity's sake, let's say you want to be able to tell the computer (The terminal is running): "Create XY directory" and as a response the directory XY is created on the current directory. How do you implement such a feature? Will a Software developer first need to train a system over lots of people pronouncing "Create directory" phrases. And then perform inference on production? Are some corporations/start-ups already providing trained models for natural language - computer interaction? How do you get started these sort of tasks these days? And of course, for accessibility purposes, text-based interaction remains unchanged. Thanks!

Ask HN: What did you do or read this weekend that wasn't related to the OpenAI? 4 by ra0x3 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Title says it all. I understand OpenAI is a huge company, tons of smart people, super spicy gossip spreading around the tech circles. But honestly just super exhausted with the story (yes I spend to much time on HN). What did you do or read this weekend that wasn't OpenAI related? For me, I'm reading "Dark Side of Fortune: Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny" and loving it so far!

Ask HN: Is Google logging you out on Firefox? 2 by vincvinc | 0 comments on Hacker News. Starting some point in the last few months, my Google Account on Firefox on my desktop keeps being logged out every few hours. I had not changed any setting, used any VPN, etc. It’s very annoying, since it means constantly losing progress in any Gmail and Youtube tabs. It doesn’t happen in Chrome, on mobile apps, etc. I wonder if I’m the only one.

Ask HN: Childhood dream vs. your actual job 2 by sujayk_33 | 3 comments on Hacker News. When I was a kid, I dreamt of becoming a scientist. Years have passed. I'm 21 now. I'm on my path to become a data scientist. It wasn't exactly as I planned but I'll be some kind of scientist atleast. What was your dream and how different is your current work from it?

Ask HN: Convince me LLMs aren't just autocomplete with lookahead 2 by corn-dog | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’m a relative layman. I’ve used and paid for ChatGPT since day 0. My uninformed understanding is LLMs are trained on a substantial amount of data, and form token associations in a point cloud. Using this, some context, and some look-ahead kind of algorithms like a chess bot, they basically act like a contextual autocomplete on steroids. I’m not convinced they are, or will ever be more than this. Easy way to test is to prompt something stupid like: “Help I’m scared my dog is pointing a gun at me and he just reloaded” Try it - ChatGPT will legit think you are I about to be shot by your trigger happy dog. Open to changing my mind though

Why did Ilya fire Sam Altman? What are the exact reasons? 3 by noneoftheaboveu | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Friendster Tech Stack? 5 by originstory | 1 comments on Hacker News. What was the original tech stack used by Friendster? I understand it didn't scale for whatever reason but wondering why no data exist on this subject?

Ask HN: Are retailers raising prices ahead of Black Friday? 5 by gnicholas | 1 comments on Hacker News. Is it possible to gather data at a large scale on whether retailers have been raising prices in advance of Black Friday, so they can have big "sales"? I just noticed that a tshirt I was looking at on Woot went from $15 to $19. I had been watching the price to see how much it would be discounted next week (typically they can be had for $6 if you order a couple at a time), and was interested to see that the price went up in the last few days. I realized this is probably happening all over the place and wondered if it is possible to measure the prevalence on a macro level to see which stores/companies/sectors do this the most.

Ask HN: What about designing a subluminal warpdrive 2 by JPLeRouzic | 0 comments on Hacker News. Dear HNners, I am a bit sad about the current state of space exploration. I am thinking of an online Website that would help design with great details a warp-drive à la Alcubierre. Recently Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire claimed that, in principle, a class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes can be constructed based on physical principles, such as positive energy. This website would be a cross thing between Kerbal Space Program and a CAD program dedicated to high-energy manufacturing, the kind they may have used to design the HLC. The goal would be to design a subliminal warpdrive that could reach a speed of 1/100 of C speed. That would enable to reach Jupiter in 3 days. This website would be a serious thing, destined to attract talented people and ultimately inspire them to attract funding and build such a warp drive. Do you have any suggestions, particularly a

Ask HN: What happened with Cyc now that we have LLMs 7 by mark_l_watson | 1 comments on Hacker News. Years ago, I enjoyed experimenting with OpenCyc, and followed what Cyc Corp was doing. To me it seems like their goal of developing common sense reasoning has been at least partly subsumed by the common sense knowledge contained by LLMs like ChatGPT, Llama models, Mistral, Anthropic, etc. The knowledge in LLMs, trained on what I think of as a ‘shadow’ representation of the world, the shadow being text, seems adequate to build some form of representation of the real world.

Ask HN: Engineers who quit careers and moved to South America, tell your stories 3 by b20000 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you personally measure the success of your open source projects? 4 by treebeard5440 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I been running an OSS project for almost a year now and I feel like it’s been fairly successful for a small project. We have had quite a few contributors - especially during hacktoberfest that have given us high qualilty PR’s. While the contributions have been better than ever expected we’re not as strong on some other “metrics” such as stars, forks, watchers, etc. Looking through discussions some people only value those things while others completely disregard them. I’m curious how other maintainers determine the success of their OSS projects. Outside of “metrics” and contributors is there anything else to consider?

Ask HN: can this be done? 3 by justo-rivera | 1 comments on Hacker News. If film grains are randomly or chaotically distributed, and fractal over enough orders of magnitude, grain might not be error but a medium which interprets and conveys information differently, with unique advantages. But now I'm afraid I sound like an audiophile who buys wooden amp knobs for performance. TeMPOraL on Nov 14, 2022 [–] You've stumbled on an actual, practical use case: encoding watermarks in the grain. I can imagine a watermark hidden in the grain, spread over long enough time (say couple seconds to a minute), so it can survive reencoding with heavy compression and containing enough bits to identify the source of the video on a per-copy/per-user basis.

Ask HN: What are the most interesting takes on Generative AI you've come across? 2 by ChaitanyaSai | 0 comments on Hacker News. We are tens of months into what looks like the AI age. (If you disagree, I'd love to see interesting takes on why that is). It is too early to tell how the landscape will evolve, because the landscape is vast and we do not know what parts are going to get terraformed. Would love to hear about interesting takes/predictions/uses that go beyond the usual breathless twitter/x listicles. Please do share!

Ask HN: Why Datadog succeed but New Relic failed? 3 by didip | 0 comments on Hacker News. The name New Relic seemed like a distant past. Everyone uses Datadog these days. What contributes to Datadog success?

Ask HN: Anyone at Facebook can help me unlock my mother's hacked account? 4 by cosbgn | 1 comments on Hacker News. Someone hacked my mother's FB account and change the email address. Now it's impossible to get it back, and support won't help since the email is changed. Anyone can help?

My open source project got stolen by a HN user 16 by AndreVitorio | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I've got a bit of a situation and could use some insight. So, I created this open-source project called Outstatic (https://outstatic.com), it's been my pet project for a while. But here's the twist: I just found out someone on HN (https://ift.tt/DlMjOZW) took my entire project, renamed it, and has been showing it off all over the internet as their own thing. I'm not usually one to call people out, but this is just too much. The only reason I found out was because this person was asking for help with my project on our Discord server, and I got curious. Turns out, they've been pretending to develop this 'new' project since April and have even been warned by the mods here for spamming about it. When I casually mentioned that I stumbled upon their project and that it looked cool, they went on and on about their 'original vision' and even had th

Ask HN: What do you want to see in a systems programming language? 2 by rpnx | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am working on a new systems programming language, similar to C++ with syntax that somewhat resembles Go or LLVM in some ways. While it isnt quite ready (at least a month away from alpha release), I am curious what features are the most desired in a systems programming language. I'd like to get inspiration for new language features. Pain points with C++, Rust, C, Zig etc.. What you like, don't like, etc.

Ask HN: Docker for a Mac App? 3 by gmzi | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi folks, I'm building a Mac utility to extract and process data from local PDF files. I use Python for crawling PDFs and Java for processing the data. I'd like to be able to share this program with other computers (mostly Macs and a couple with Windows) that don't have Python or Java installed. I've heard Docker might be a solution, but since I've never used it before, I'd like to ask you all if Docker is the right tool for this task or if there's a better one I should consider studying. In any case, it will be my first experience with containers. All hints are very welcome, and thanks!

Ask HN: Is there still ORM hate these days? 3 by kw123 | 0 comments on Hacker News. If you prefer SQL, what are the ideal features you wish to have? Like editing SQL in a SQL editor, having object-relational data transformation abstracted away, etc. If you don't like SQL, do you prefer to have only DAO/repository interface in your application and defer the implementation to backend or even to some other people? Overall, do you think that we need a "better" solution than ORM? For example, something that is simple but allows us to handle complex objects. I am working on a solution for relational database access and trying to get directions. Your comments are really appreciated.

Ask HN: What Is Your Take on Stephen Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science"? 3 by yu3zhou4 | 2 comments on Hacker News. There's online version of the book here: https://ift.tt/WaqpRQ3

Starting My Second Microsaas 3 by joaolandino | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi! John here This is my first post here in the community and I intend to share with you my experience developing a simple habit management application focused on bigger goals. The idea is for the user to launch which habits he will perform along with what goal he has with these habits. At the time of writing this post I'm updating my account on X, as I've never had much interest in browsing there, but as I want to do a #buildInPublic, I believe it will be a good post on this network since at first I will only make posts in text and image format. Who am I As I said, my name is João :) I've been working with web development for about 15 years and I'm currently a tech lead on the front-end team at a cool HR technology startup. I have two main goals building microsaas: It's an excellent opportunity to acquire knowledge in new technologies, things that are in the hype, good practices, products

Ask HN: What are the best resources about learning Ruby programming in 2023 2 by ibobev | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering what are the best resources for learning Ruby programming today. The book "The Ruby Programming Language"[1] by the language's author Yukihiro Matsumoto is from 2008 and I suspect that the language has changed a lot since that time. What is the definitive book or online tutorial about modern Ruby nowadays? Also, is the "Ruby on Rails Tutorial"[2] the definitive book about learning the Rails framework after learning the Ruby language? Could you suggest it or something else? [1] https://ift.tt/hXztcj7 [2] https://ift.tt/zSBMq2J

Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find a technical cofounder? 4 by fsndz | 2 comments on Hacker News. why is it so hard to find a technical cofounder, someone who can actually code ? I have tried YC cofounder matching and it is awful. People ghost you for no reason. People pretend to be technical but once you discuss with them you realise they can't code and just want someone to build their projects for them. I am Looking for someone to work with on interesting projects around open source LLMs, AI in EdTech or AI in Finance. Tech stack: ruby, rails, python, fastapi, javascript/React, PostgreSQL, heroku. Here are some projects I did alone: http://discute.co https://www.rimbaud.ai If you are in the same situation or would like to have a fellow coder to work with, drop me an email: ndzomgafs@gmail.com

Ask HN: "My GPT"s 2 by Tomte | 0 comments on Hacker News. Have you created "My GPT" instances ( https://ift.tt/y9TQzhm )? Please show them! And tell us how you customized them (for example showing the instructions under "Edit GPT"). I have just started to dabble in it, with mixed results. But I find it really remarkable. First, the split screen with "talking to the GPT model and customizing it" on the left and "previewing how it would answer questions" on the right just feels like programming with words. Like the right side is a debugger with variable watch window. Second, ChatGPT has started giving me two answers side by side and asking me which one I prefer.

Ask HN: Do companies validate their recruiting strategies? 4 by tangjurine | 1 comments on Hacker News. I think it's common to hear about companies with crazy hiring practices, or most companies copying the big tech companies in terms of what questions are asked. If companies want the most qualified people, and the current state of things isn't the best strategy, does that make sense with how hiring practices don't seem to have changed significantly for a while? I was wondering if people have heard of companies doings things like: Identifying which questions asked are good predictors of how an employee does at 90 days/1 year. Estimating how important each step of the interview process is, etc.

Ask HN: Ideal life insurance/yearly salary ratio? 3 by workfromspace | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am recently considering a life insurance, but I cannot decide how much sum I should go for. I thought perhaps "ratio of insurance sum to yearly salary or average house price" might be a good metric to start, but I couldn't find much info on the internet besides from insurance marketers. I'm aware that it depends on individual situation. My case is: living in Europe, single, 30s, no dependants, no health problems, no risk except travelling. I want my family/siblings to have some relief if I die sooner for any reason.

Ask HN: Do I need to reference Bing for the images it created? 2 by spacetimeuser5 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am managing social media for a small translation agency as a bureau coordinator and have created some images for social media posts with Bing (which uses DALL-E). Bing tells to mention that images were created with its AI. But I am not participating in any contests with these images, neither am selling them. I just try to differentiate my old-fashioned agency amongst competitors. Should I mention that images for our social media posts were created with AI? Generally I wouldn't care to mention or not to mention, but our competitors are not mentioning where did they get their images for their SM posts. Though mentioning this may create some interest.

Jhoo – A dart package to build websites 2 by ganxesh | 0 comments on Hacker News. jhoo, dart package can help you build websites using dart, provides flutter like developemnet experience and renders UI using HTML/CSS. jhoo is pure dart package and it's like a layer on top of dart:html library to create websites. Inspried by flutter, jhoo provides flutter like widget structure to create UI and renders it on web using HTML/CSS and DOM. Check out jhoo on github https://ift.tt/l8O9KDq

Ask HN: Best AI Communities? 3 by ed | 1 comments on Hacker News. I mostly read HN, but there are a lot of small AI projects that never show up on the radar here. I'd like to meet other people working on interesting things. (Folks thinking about what the future looks like 6+ months out.) I lurk on a few AI subreddits that are a bit meme-y. X has interesting content but can be low signal to noise. Have you found, or are you a part of, any good AI communities? (Discords, IRC channels, etc.) thanks!

Ask HN: Favorite VS Code shortcuts, tips and tricks? 2 by overclk64 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I want to streamline my editing and I'm looking for some interesting keyboard shortcuts, tips and tricks, and features in general. I quite like how you can do a regex find/replace, for example. Feel free to share below the ones you find the most helpful, and also to point me towards some resources (I found the subreddit quite useless).

Ask HN: What's the best way to write a book in Markdown? 2 by JSLegendDev | 3 comments on Hacker News. What are the best available tools to use if I want to write a book in markdown and export it as a pdf primarly? It needs to handle displaying code well as I want to write a technical book.

Ask HN: What are good books on SW architecture that don't sell microservices? 3 by dondraper36 | 0 comments on Hacker News. There have been multiple discussions of how the microservices movement did more harm than good, how a modular monolith can be a much better option. I wish there was a comprehensive book (ideally) that is practical, pragmatic, doesn't advocate the use of microservices just because it is cool, etc. Some books that are often recommended have "microservices" in their names which is a pretty bad start. For example, I am thinking of how two services should communicate (I am unfortunately guilty of having more services that I really needed). There are multiple options and the choice depends on factors like synchronous vs asynchronous so I would like to read a detailed analysis of all tradeoffs and considerations. Ideally, from authors that really know what they're talking about.

Ask HN: A notebook-like LLM interface with customizable instruct/chat widgets? 2 by jstarfish | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for what I thought would be a very simple concept, but have never seen implemented. I've tried NovelAI, oobabooga, KoboldUI, KoboldUI United, koboldcpp, LMStudio(?), and chatbot-ui. And ChatGPT. Imagine a generic 2-column web layout, main and sidebar. Main houses a textbox or rich text editor. The sidebar contains a stack of widgets with editable prompts for discrete chat/instruct sessions that can (optionally) use the (optionally-vectorized) contents of Main as context. It'd be like having multiple terminal sessions open, only they share the context of the main panel. As I'm writing a document, maybe I need to ask a quick question about it ("does this sound too ___?"). Maybe I want it to continue writing it for me, to a specified conclusion. Or I need it to compile a table of all named entities, phone numbers and email addr

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT not allowed to browse Reddit? 3 by hubraumhugo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just noticed that ChatGPT is reluctant to access any Reddit information. It shows the Bing integration browsing "site:reddit.com r/BuyItForLife best backpacks" but then comes back saying: "I encountered difficulties accessing specific discussions or recommendations for backpacks on r/BuyItForLife via the browsing tool. The dynamic and user-generated content on Reddit can sometimes be challenging to navigate using external tools." https://ift.tt/2ygOCXr Is this related to the introduction of the paid Reddit API?

Ask HN: What purchase under $1000 has changed your life the most? 11 by mixeden | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Coolest thing you learned in 2023? 9 by mikekoscinski | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: YouTube app on Android disabled loop video option 2 by fuzztester | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Google will require devs to show a phone number for Google Play users 7 by kruuuder | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have just received an email about the upcoming Google Play account verification deadline. In the developer console, there was a message saying that I will need to provide "a contact phone number for Google Play users to contact you (organisations only)". I'm a solo developer, and my Android app has a few hundred thousand users. It's grown way beyond a hobby project, so now I’m in the "organization account" category. These changes have been discussed before [0], but as far as I can tell, it wasn't clear if that phone number was was just for Google to get in touch with us. The latest update clarifies that displaying a contact number for Google Play users is indeed mandatory. Does anyone know more about this? Are all developers that offer more than hobby projects now required to offer phone support for their apps? The idea of this i

Mr. Cooper says customer data exposed during cyberattack 2 by alibosworth | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Self-host small business stack for a brewery? 4 by levinb | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm nearing completion of a historical renovation to get a nano-brewery off the ground, where I would like to host hacker-friendly events. With both that in mind and personal preferences that reflect much of the caution found here on HN, I'd like to run as little customer data as possible through or to the major vendors' and marketing ecosystems. Anyone here have suggestions for a maintainable, self-hostable stack to cover typical brick-and-mortar SMB needs? I am a fairly proficient python programmer who's got a number of professional ML and personal RPi projects under my belt. I am not afraid to code, edit YAMLS, or write scripts to modify config files or a database - but have also learned the value of not reinventing the wheel. Here's some areas of interest: -Web presence (wordpress? pythonic alternative?) -Retail sales (just beer and schwag, no food) -Online sales (S

Ask HN: Did printing stop working for anyone else on Ubuntu 23.10? 2 by profwalkstr | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been using a network printer with Ubuntu for many years, many releases, without any problems, and since updating to 23.10 printing stopped working. It's broken. Won't print and will crash. I have other computers at home that were upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 and are having the same problem. I tested my printer with Fedora 39, Debian 12 and openSUSE Tumbleweed and it works flawlessly. It seems I'm not alone. I was browsing Canonical's bug tracker and came across this report https://ift.tt/jI27iF4 where they seem to be having the same problem as I do. But the bug hasn't even been acknowledged by Canonical yet. If I were to make a guess, this could be related to them trying to move the printing stack to snaps on the 23.10 (https://ift.tt/cvTuJ7h) and then backing off that idea (https://ift.tt/eIvzWVH). When they reverted the decision, the printing sy

Tell HN: €9.90 option to remove ads on Facebook in the EU now live 5 by marban | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Resources for woodworking fundamentals including design 2 by tmnvix | 0 comments on Hacker News. Woodworking seems to be a popular hobby amongst HN users so this seems like an appropriate place to ask. Hopefully if this question receives some good responses others will benefit too. I am looking for good introductory resources for basic woodworking. Ideally this would include the basics of design (e.g. different joints, etc). Ideally this would be a book - though suggestions of online resources would also be appreciated. For context, I have a nephew that has a lot of free time on his hands, hasn't fared well in the education system so isn't ready to move into tertiary education, but is very capable when it comes to working on anything mechanical/hands-on. I'd like to encourage him to get started on a productive path. I'm sure that if he were to make something that others appreciate enough to pay for it would be invaluable for his sense of self worth and - quit

Can someone explain the Maxeon deal to me? 2 by killjoywashere | 0 comments on Hacker News. As I understand it, SunPower spun out Maxeon, which was bought by a Singapore shell company in fact backed by the CCP, but CFIUS let it happen because Singapore. Now Maxeon, effectively a Chinese asset, is seeking US loans and incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act to build a plant in New Mexico. I have to be missing something, right?

Ask HN: What is the highest hourly billing rate that you have ever heard of? 6 by syedkarim | 5 comments on Hacker News. Doesn’t matter if it’s engineering, law, or cotton picking. The only requisite is that you must have first-hand knowledge that an unrelated entity (to the contractor) has paid this astronomical rate.

Ask HN: Fintech/Business Movie or Web Series Like "Silicon Valley" or Else 2 by sujayk_33 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Can you guys suggest some good movies or web series? It sometimes boosts the work by how it is displayed on the screen. Any good series will do. Thanks

Ask HN: Do You Program on Paper? 2 by mcmicah | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm increasingly tiring of sitting in front of a computer and typing all day, and frequently wish that it was more convenient to work while walking or outside. I also find thinking with pen and paper to be much more pleasant. I've been thinking about figuring out a way to do my actual programming work on paper, and only transcribing at the last moment, but using most computer languages isn't really optimized for that usage. I've strongly considered using APL for it, since it's much more like a conventional math notation and pretty suitable for paper usage, but converting the result at the end isn't very easy unless I actually want APL- which honestly has a lot of disadvantages in this era. Has anyone considered this problem before or made any tooling to make it more viable?

Ask HN: What was the purpose of the fence in Chesterton's Fence? 3 by will5421 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Or, if there isn’t one, is there a story where the “fence” has a purpose?

Ask HN: Best cold email practices for MVP-stage startups? 2 by michael45 | 1 comments on Hacker News. What have you found to work when sending cold emails to potential customers as a new, still incomplete product startup? I've found that taking the more humble, "hey we're still developing it but we'd love for you to try it" to have more success on Reddit & Twitter. We've been trying it on email but seems like it's not working. We're getting 30% open rate but no responses. We're going to test the more hard sell, value-prop based approach but I wanted to ask here to help further pinpoint if it's a messaging or lead-quality issue. Thanks

Ask HN: Am I Unhireable? 8 by 71a54xd | 7 comments on Hacker News. I've been working on a startup with a friend for about the past year and unfortunately after having to eject one of our co-founders we're starting to run low on funds and might need to wrap if we can't raise something in the next few weeks. This has been a great experience and I feel like I've grown and finally got a chance to apply my experience working at a number of startups (especially since I joined after being laid off by a crypto startup around 8 months ago). However since I've been backstopping and attempting to interview I'm starting to wonder if I've black balled myself by moving around a bit and not having a solid career at one company for more than three years? Basically I had around a year at Amazon followed by 2.4 years at a strong growth stage startup where I owned a few of my own projects. After that I jumped for a huge pay raise but unfortunately the role I jumped to wasn&

Ask HN: Are You Religious? 4 by bing_dai | 12 comments on Hacker News. A “Yes/No/Maybe” would do. If you’d like to: share what religion it is! For me: Maybe Christian.

Ask HN: How to maintain an identical "hot standby" Android phone 4 by rkagerer | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'd like to buy two identical devices (eg. latest Pixel) and set one up to mirror the other - so if I accidentally drop one down a volcano I can grab the other and keep on rolling. I want to keep everything on my own infrastructure, without relying on Google backup or the like. Sync needn't be realtime, nightly is fine. The devices should be kept as similar as possible - settings, apps, data etc. I'll only use one at a time (one "master"). In a perfect world my service provider, appstore platform, app publishers, etc. wouldn't be able to tell the difference (although I realize that might be asking too much). I don't mind using an alternate flavour of Android if needed eg. LineageOS, GrapheneOS, etc. Has anyone accomplished this and gotten it working smoothly in practice? Any tooling you can recommend to help?

I hate CSS: how can I build UIs? 5 by Dansvidania | 3 comments on Hacker News. Backend developer with wishes of becoming a "company of 1". Trying to learn to develop simple UIs, but just keep hitting my head against CSS. It just does not click. Is there something out there that will just let me put things on the screen, where I won't need to care about padding, margins, overflow etc? I don't care if it's not very customisable. I just need something to test product ideas quickly.

Ask HN: Making a better world, how important is that to you? 21 by RetroTechie | 16 comments on Hacker News. I believe that if people really wanted, humanity could co-exist peacefully (or at least stable) with the natural environment. Such that resources would not be depleted for millenia - if ever. Or pollution getting everywhere - including places where people don't go. Or the climate being disturbed enough that a mass extinction event is underway. Even with the ~8B of us currently inhabiting this planet. I believe that most people would prefer such stable co-existence. If it were an easy choice. But it is not. Often, personal choices conflict with society's interests, or contribute to degradation of the natural environment. I believe that many HN users -more than average dude in the street- have power to influence these things. By picking sustainable options over non-sustainable ones. By striving for efficiency, rather than go for a wasteful but first-to-market approach.

T-Mobile SIM Cloned 5 by spacebacon | 0 comments on Hacker News. Heads up, my T-mobile users. My SIM has been cloned and there is a 30min customer care wait. Potential breach.

Ask HN: Is the AWS console developers friendly? 4 by CubeRoot27 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've been using AWS for nearly 10 years. Recently, I've noticed that developers often come to me with questions about basic operations, such as how to SSH into instances, configure security groups, and debug networking issues. Sometimes they also need guidance when trying to set up services like ECS or SES. Any thoughts on this? Was the AWS console designed to serve infrastructure engineers or DevOps professionals? Is it normal for developers to struggle with it? Thanks!

Ask HN: Any questionable WASM-only websites? 3 by bitzun | 0 comments on Hacker News. Like many, I have a hunch that as WASM proliferates, in addition to all the (legitimately) cool apps we will have abusive (intentionally or not) behavior like uninspectable canvas-only webpages. My ask is: does anyone have examples of sites that already use WASM unnecessarily, or as an obfuscation or DRM tactic? I ask because I want to look into the state of tooling to allow users to augment those sites to be more friendly.

Ask HN: Dealing with Java Upgrade Nightmares – Any Lifelines? 3 by _positive | 1 comments on Hacker News. Pretty much accepted Java upgrades are going to be the bane of my existence at this point. Anyone found any tools or processes to help speed up the migration? I've found a few dependency management tools, but for the scale of codebase I'm working with the dependency trees are just so large they're not really helpful.

Apple MixC Wenzhou opens for customers this Saturday, November 4, in China 2 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Submit comments on IRS guidance to SEC 174 expenses 2 by mNovak | 0 comments on Hacker News. Public comments can be submitted regarding IRS Notice 2023-63 "Guidance on Amortization of Specified Research or Experimental Expenditures under Section 174," here: https://ift.tt/PzuXbn9 The guidance in question can be found here: https://ift.tt/oIbtxHa There was previous discussion of these rules on HN here: https://ift.tt/NLb1k2h To very briefly summarize, these rules force certain research expenses to be treated under Section 174 and thus capitalized and amortized over a period of 5 years, instead of under Section 162 (ordinary and necessary business expenses) which are immediately deducted in the year they occur. Part of the issue is the extremely broad classification of "research expenses". Notably, it classifies virtually all software development as research, as well as the proportional share of all overhead/fringe expenses. It also changes the treatment o

Ask HN: How will software architecture change in light of LLMs? 2 by shaburn | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Why has your company not created a blog yet? 2 by pabloh03 | 0 comments on Hacker News. If your company hasn't started a blog to capture SEO traffic and generate leads, I'd like to hear what's stopping you from doing so? What downsides or blockers you see.

Ask HN: Profit from Raspberry Pi Development? 3 by a_lifters_life | 0 comments on Hacker News. has anyone here developed something with a rpi and made money from it? what did you make?

Tell HN: Revolut suspended my account for no reason 4 by acheong08 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I came to the UK a month ago and have yet to get a proper bank account. Revolut was a lifesaver when I first got here. Over the past month, I’ve bought my groceries from the same Tesco every single day. Today, out of the blue, my card got declined. Same Tesco, same time. I don’t hold any cash and have no backups. I don’t have any food in the fridge. Here is our conversation: “”” Support: Hi there! My name is Paul. Thanks for contacting us, I hope you are doing well. I appreciate the time you have been waiting, and I see that you are facing issues with your account. I will be glad to provide you with the instructions on how to get this sorted. Me: How do I get my card to work Support: I am really sorry for this situation Cheong, I have explained your case to the responsible verification team. We always aim to complete such issues as quickly as possible, however please be advised that it ma

Ask HN: Why are there such huge numbers of fake accounts "liking" on Twitter now 4 by candiodari | 0 comments on Hacker News. These days on twitter a lot of comments get insta-liked by accounts that invariably turn out to be "link in my profile, contact me for love" accounts?

Ask HN: Did anybody get a job from "Who is hiring"? 3 by vdfs | 1 comments on Hacker News.