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Ask HN: Anyone else here using the "free forever" Oracle Cloud servers? 4 by andrewstuart | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm using one of these servers and it frankly it's pretty incredible that they give these for free forever. The server seems fine but it seems quite slow. Anyone else using these free servers? What has your experience been with performance?

Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today? 58 by sjr1 | 59 comments on Hacker News. After a frantic scramble this morning, our billing team has finished patching a bug which erroneously was charging our monthly subscribers for an extra day. All test suites are passing now, and SRE has scheduled a postmortem after the QA confirms the fix in 2028.

Ask HN: Learning your Nth programming language? 2 by n8ta | 0 comments on Hacker News. What resources do you use to learn the details of using a new language when you are competent in many other languages? Not the basics like class hierarchy, syntax, and loops, but more language unique stuff. Eg: - Compilation model: bytecode/native/whatever - Are there multiple implementations which are most used and why? - Package management and versioning - Common build tools - Concurrency/io model (async, os threads, green threads, etc) - Language-specific/more-common data structures - Sources of UB to aware of All the "Java for experienced developers" pages I find start by teaching me HelloWorld, move on to declaring variables, loops.... and never get to anything interesting.

Ask HN: Storing Images in PostgreSQL vs. Object Storage for Large Datasets 3 by atif089 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is it advisable to store images directly in PostgreSQL for a dataset of 100 million records, each with a 200KB image, or should I use object storage with references from the start? My primary and only use case involves creating multimodal embeddings for search and relevance purposes.

Tell HN: Alt+Ctrl+Shift+Windows+L Opens LinkedIn on Windows 7 by bradwood | 4 comments on Hacker News. Really.

Gemini 1.5 Pro model Access 2 by kernel_kid | 1 comments on Hacker News. Does Google provide early access for devs to Gemini 1.5 Pro model beta?

Ask HN: Should we (devs) sue Google? 3 by withinboredom | 9 comments on Hacker News. Google will now require a D-U-Ns number to list an app on the play store. This is only free for US organizations. Other countries may or may not have to pay a (sometimes large) amount to get their own number. This feels remarkably like some sort of discrimination. Apple at least allows looking up your own number completely for free, if and only if you are equivalent to a US LLC or corporation (other business structures aren't needed).

Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it? 2 by ashu1461 | 0 comments on Hacker News. How was your experience in switching from GPT to a custom model for a production use case ?

Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity? 3 by faanghacker | 2 comments on Hacker News. Why is this even a thing, people wondering about who Satoshi really is? What good would it do for the rest of us to find out his real identity? Bitcoin has already taken off without him publicly revealing himself. There are plenty of cryptocurrency experts out there commenting on it. Is this just a case of celebrity worship? Or is there something practical that I'm missing? I have searched this question online and haven't found any threads discussing it. The only results I've found were threads discussing whom he might be, or why he might have chosen to stay anonymous.

Tell HN: Google search no longer supports filetype 6 by santiagobasulto | 0 comments on Hacker News. Bummer, I used it a lot. The "view cached" option seems to be missing as well. Duck Duck Go still support filetype.

Tell HN: Amazon claims "Zero tolerance for fake reviews" 2 by leobg | 0 comments on Hacker News. Noticed this for the first time today on Amazon.de: > Zero Tolerance for Fake Reviews > Our goal is to ensure that every review is trustworthy and useful. For this reason, we use both technology and human investigators to block fake reviews before customers ever see them. > We lock Amazon accounts that violate our community guidelines. We also block sellers who purchase reviews and take legal action against parties that offer these reviews. Learn how you can report. [0] [0] https://ift.tt/qWO2Hl0

Ask HN: Fighting back against Roku's forced arbitration? 3 by mtlynch | 0 comments on Hacker News. I received an email a few days ago from Roku telling me that they've updated their dispute resolution terms to require forced arbitration: https://ift.tt/Gwhrtp4 The new terms are obviously skewed entirely in Roku's favor. They say that consumers can't sue Roku in court and can't participate in class-action lawsuits. You can opt-out, a detail they conveniently omitted in the notification email, but it has to be in writing within 30 days. It irritates me that Roku and other corporations are allowed to force millions of customers into spending an hour or so to read these new terms and send a letter in the mail. Are there things that I can do as a consumer to fight back against this bad behavior by Roku? In the long term, I'll support candidates and federal bills that make forced arbitration illegal, but in the short term, what can I do to discourage this behavior

Ask HN: How to access files in /tmp in a HF space (GUI)? 2 by spacetimeuser5 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm building a simple ML python app with Gradio on a Huggingface space. My main function should return a .txt file (actuallly - file.name which is a path to file) filled with text using a tempfile module. The "outputs" parameter in gradio.Interface is set to "textbox". After the compeltion of the processing there is "/tmp/tmp0m22k8nw.txt" displayed in the outputs textbox in the app. How can I access this .txt file in the HF space? HF spaces seem not to have access to file system?

Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)? 3 by krowfooten | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been looking for a job/contract for 6+ months but last week I was evicted and lost mostly everything I own except my laptop, a few pairs of clothes, and a few Raspberry Pis. I was working at a nice company but I got "poached" after one saw my AGPL project, I decided to leave the nice place since new place looked like a better fit. Turns out they wanted to take advantage of my open-source work that I've poured my free-time into for 3+ years + seen interest from investors/VC firms. They tried to build their product from it and I wasn't able to tolerate that so I screwed myself by not continuing work with them + not having anything else lined up... I've been trying to get "social support" through Alberta's online social services for over a month now and I even went so far as to walk 5 hours (round-trip, I have no car/licen

Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that—macOS 14.4 deems us unfit to kickstart 3 by luckman212 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Anyone who's been working with macOS (OS X) for a while is probably familiar with the Terminal command to control launchd Agents and Daemons (launchctl). I was saddened after installing macOS Sonoma 14.4 that it's apparently been decided that users are unqualified to control these daemons. A simple example: to fix all sorts of random audio issues, it used to be possible to restart coreaudiod with: sudo launchctl kickstart -kp system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod But that command now returns: Could not kickstart service "com.apple.audio.coreaudiod": 1: Operation not permitted I've reported this to Apple via FB13601345. So far I've not received any response. [0] https://ift.tt/Y6SsvWN [1] https://ift.tt/GHrpwyf

Ask HN: Is QA outsourced to India more than other tech roles? If so, why? 3 by bazil376 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: TurboTax Dark Patterns 5 by alemanek | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just ran into something new and extra scummy this last week when doing my taxes with TurboTax. I have been using TurboTax for several years so am used to avoiding the normal upsell dark patterns. This was something new. So, when going through the data entra process it prompts you towards the beginning to authorize sharing of your data. This page has a big “Skip for now” button. No big deal; I click that and it goes to the next step. I think to myself good on you Inuit. You made your pitch, I said no, and you respected that and moved on. Then almost at the end of the whole process in the Review step just before File it asks again. Prompting me to sign and authorize Intuit to share my data with other parts of the business and third parties. Only this time there is no skip button. The only way to move on visible way to move on is to review and sign; authorizing data sharing. The way to skip this is to click the

Ask HN: What would you want to ask Gemini 1.5 with 1T tokens? 2 by amrrs | 1 comments on Hacker News. Gemini 1.5 pro has been impressing people with text. Video. Audio. I'm curious if you want to ask what would you ask? Any book? Any long video ? What else!

Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns 4 by PopAlongKid | 0 comments on Hacker News. For years, I have been obtaining free annual credit reports (annualcreditreport.com) which must be provided by law. Recently, for the first time, when I tried to obtain my Equifax report, I was prompted for an email address and a mobile phone number, a new requirement that apparently cannot be bypassed. The other two bureaus, and Equifax previously, confirmed identity by asking knowledge based questions. They do not need my phone or email for anything. Next, trying to obtain the report by phone instead of web site per instructions, I got to the point where I entered my ZIP code on the phone keypad, the voice menu system correctly repeated the number back to me, but every time I press 1 to indicate it is correct, the system acts like it got an invalid response and only gives me the option to enter further information by voice, not by the phone keypad. Just as with my phone number and email

Has anyone gotten out of daily 8:30am stand-up meetings? 2 by TurkishPoptart | 9 comments on Hacker News. These have been killing me lately because I haven't been able to get to sleep before 12:30am and I'm always half an hour - 1 hour sleep deprived. It seems easier at this point to fake a weekly Friday appointment ("physical therapy") or to encourage our manager to change the schedule. Otherwise I could move to the east coast and start later. Any tips? I'm struggling with these useless meetings destroying my sleep.

Ask HN: Best way to make side money 500 euros per month 3 by stefanos82 | 6 comments on Hacker News. How can a generalist make side money no less than 500 euros per month? Can anyone recommend anything? I would like to test this as a PoC, if plausible.

Ask HN: SSH – authorized_keys comment field format (best practices)? 3 by vaporup | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I know about SSH certificates and we use them primarily but we still have systems which use classic pubkeys managed in authorized_keys From authorized_keys (5) Public keys consist of the following space-separated fields: options keytype base64-encoded-key comment The options field is optional The comment field is not used for anything (but may be convenient for the user to identify the key) What I often find is something like this ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIN5EYh69EeIDiVYxgy6O4fUWoxiT4cRxb8JkLdikE27a user@host which makes it hard to find out how to contact that key owner. So I often use this format: ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIN5EYh69EeIDiVYxgy6O4fUWoxiT4cRxb8JkLdikE27a user@domain.com Currently I am thinking about a more generic format with more info which can be parsed later by Bash, Go or something else. Something like this: ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1

How does anyone learn advanced math. so hard 4 by paulpauper | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am trying to read papers and answer on stack overflow and despite many years of education and other learning, still find it immensely hard to follow most of the stuff. Beyond basic calculus and linear algebra, it's close to impossible to understand anything. The main problem is that mathematicians tend to omit a lot of steps, as those are taken for granted, which means days or even weeks spent trying to recreate the results, even with my background knowledge and the internet it's very hard to do, if not impossible in some cases. Sometimes the most important steps are omitted that are the entire crux of the problem yet trivial steps are included in detail. All these viral posts about "how to learn math" and I don't think anyone quite grasps what this entails if you plan to go beyond calculus or linear algebra. Basically you're stuck, and maybe 2-3 people can help you

Tell HN: To be honest.. GPT copilots aren't that great for programming 21 by swman | 3 comments on Hacker News. For context, I'm a experienced SWE working on some fairly complex things. I've been using programming GPT copilots for 6-8 months now and lately I've been using them less and less. I think for complete beginners or casual programmers, GPT might be mind-blowing and cool because it can create a for loop or recommend some solution to a common problem. However, for most of my tasks, it usually has ended up being a total waste of time and leads to frustration. Don't get me wrong, it is useful for those basic tasks for which in the past I'd do the google -> Stack Overflow route. However, for anything more complex, it falls flat. Just a recent example from last week - I was working on some dynamic SQL generation. To be fair, it was a really complex task and it was 5pm so I didn't feel like whiteboarding (when in doubt, always whiteboard and skip gpt

Ask HN: Is there a GitHub observability tool/platform? 2 by michidk | 1 comments on Hacker News. At the company I'm working at, we have various repositories, with different configuration (branch protection rules, dependabot, repo setttings, ...). It does not help that every org memeber is able to create repos. Is there a way to run some checks (e.g. are branch protection rules correctly setup? is everybody using `main` as their master branch?)? Might build something like this based on OPA... But I cannot imagine something like this not already existing. Or is this just not needed?

Ask HN: Digital Nomad Guide for International Phone Numbers 6 by doorknobguy | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’m looking for advice on how to select a phone number that works for someone who moves a lot. *Current state* - I move to a different country every 3-4 years & travel a lot - I have a UK phone number - I’ll move away from UK to somewhere else *Wants* - Single phone number - have it for rest of my life - Receive International SMS - need for banks + application login + 2-factor) - Works with Whatsapp & Telegram - Cost is cheap end (less than $15 per month) *Other Info* - Don’t need any data plans. I use AirAlo and buy eSim or Local Sim whenever I move/travel *Current Solution* *Pros* - I’m using a VOIP provider called Hushed - It says it doesn’t guarantee 2 factor, but it has worked with literally every single application & non North American bank. (My main bank is not in NA so doesn’t effect me) - I can get international SMS and calls - Cheap $7/mo - I can extend it

Ask HN: I plan to relocate to Europe 5 by egesabanci | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a software engineer with about 5+ years of experience. I am about to graduate with a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Mathematics. At the beginning of my career, I worked on AI for about 1 year, but after realizing that this field was not for me, I focused on backend development and system design. During the transition period of this career change, I worked on backend development in relatively smaller companies. Then the Fintech sector caught my interest. I have been in the Fintech sector for the last 3+ years. At that time, Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies were on the rise, and the Fintech companies I worked with were generally developing solutions centered on blockchain technologies. I live in Turkey and here, especially in the last 3 years, the financial market regulations and national economic management are very strict. In the last month, interest rates have reached up to 45%

Ask HN: How do you document complex software systems? 4 by el_benhameen | 0 comments on Hacker News. We have a codebase that’s fairly well documented. But the infrastructure it’s deployed to and the deployment process itself are not as well documented, and it interacts with other systems in ways that are not well documented or well understood by all of the dev team. Developers who join the project can struggle to understand the full implications of their changes, and developing an understanding of the system as a whole is some combination of reading the code, poking around the infrastructure, finding possibly-outdated documentation that might live in various places, and asking the right people. If someone changes something or someone leaves the team, that makes discoverability even more difficult. So: 1. Where do you document system architecture and the interactions between systems? 2. What does the documentation look like? Diagrams? Text? A combination of the two, or something else

Tell HN: I'm Disillusioned 5 by throwmenow | 4 comments on Hacker News. You know when we find out something bad that was hidden, like right now on the front page: "Microsoft Is Spying on Users of Its AI Tools" You know how I feel? I feel "No surprise there. And now that we know about it, will someone do something about it? Of course not." That's all. Just wanted to talk about that. Counterexamples or not, the reality is justice rarely prevails, and that is horrible. Thanks for reading.

Why it is so hard to build a AI Video Editor? 3 by asaayushii | 3 comments on Hacker News. Now Sora is in town but still I can't find any platform that converts raw clips to edited,engaging clip with B-Rolls,transitions and subtitles in single click and no manual intervention. Should I think about building one?? IS IT WORTH IT? What say?

Ask HN: AI APIs 2 by Rudgers | 0 comments on Hacker News. Ive seen several SDXL and SD1.5 APIs going for some pretty high rates, as high as .01/img. The lowest I have seen on the market is .0015/img, but I can get them created for under .0008 at scale. Would it be worth attempting to sell my own API or sell to existing APIs at cheap rates?

Don't Quit Your Job 8 by DhruvAtreja | 3 comments on Hacker News. If you're an SWE thinking about quitting your job to build your startup, do not do it in this economy. I used to read posts like this and scoff at them, especially since I had already founded and sold a semi-successful startup. VCs are super selective towards anything non AI at the moment which results in very lowball offers, b2b isn't viable as it used to be because businesses don't have that kind of money anymore, many of which are even laying off their employees. I had a sweet job at a NY based unicorn and I was among the highest paid in my country. I quit it thinking worst case scenario, I would just freelance till something works out, but alas, that market is flooded with layed of swe's which are driving the prices to the bottom. I can't believe just how fast things change when you're jobless and nothing works out. I finally gave in and applied to a few jobs but didn't get a call f

Ask HN: What API security tool you're using at your company in 2024? 2 by sankalpdomore | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am working with some enterprise customers and they have a need for API security tool. Their primary and foremost use case is API visibility to begin with. Before I design & build something for them, I want to research more and seeking market data around 3 questions right now: 1. How concerned companies generally are around their API security? 2. Is API visibility more important than running security tests on APIs? 3. Are you using any API security tool in your company? If yes, which one & why? If no & you're an enterprise business with lots of API, why not?

Apache HTTPd Server Developers Considered Harmful 4 by joesuf4 | 1 comments on Hacker News. For the past 25 years, I have been the lead developer of the libapreq2 subproject within the Apache HTTPd Server Parent Project. The original idea of libapreq as a safe/performant HTML form and Cookie parsing library came out of a collaboration between Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern in the late 90s. It was my vision back then to transform the library into a generic, non-Perl related C library that would support language bindings from other programming languages, which is why I pushed for the project to be homes under the HTTPd umbrella instead of the Apache-Perl project. While this vision was wildly successful, with language bindings available for several languages like Perl, TCL, R, etc, ever since about 2010 its proven tragic for the existing user community consisting of all of them, not just Perl. What happened? Philip Gollucci, a Perl/FreeBSD olleague of mine at the time, started agita

ChatGPT cannot produce a black image 2 by cprogrammer1994 | 2 comments on Hacker News. It seems no matter how hard you try, ChatGPT cannot produce a completely black image.

Ask HN: How can an artist avoid their work being weaponized? 5 by photoGrant | 27 comments on Hacker News. I'm not sure how comfortable I am not knowing the sources of these black boxes recently, and the bigger concern is that I cannot as a conscious and conflicted artist, sleep completely soundly not knowing whether I have had my work included in the training material for an AI model such as Sora/OpenAI. I never truly believed they would announce permission for military use, and now this is fact but their source are closed. Am I potentially contributing to the creation of future AI enabled war weapons, or how could I find out? The reality seems whether homegrown or otherwise, this is the future we accept, but I'd at least like to know. Thanks!

Ask HN: Is there a Product Hunt for no-profit side projects? 2 by labarilem | 1 comments on Hacker News.

What is the buying process for SME companies for consulting services? 2 by BenDevOps | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm new to HN, so I'm not fully aware of the etiquette here. For context I'm an owner of a new consulting agency providing consulting services in the IT. I'm trying to understand what is the buying process for companies below 200 employees when it comes to IT consulting services. Any insight on this topic would be helpful. Any articles or experts I could reach out to for consulting services would also be much appreciated. Edit: Maybe I formulated my question wrong, or I'm going about this the wrong way. If you have any insights about that it would also be appreciated.

Seeking OpenAPI Equivalent for Medication Data: Insights Needed 2 by Nishan_nb | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey hackers! We're diving into the realm of medication management software and are on the lookout for an OpenAPI similar to what's available for banking data. Our goal is to streamline the integration process and provide a seamless experience for pharmacies and their customers. But, here's the twist – we're also curious about the software distribution process specifically tailored for pharmacy tech. Our product aims to offer a universal medication log passbook, consolidating all past and present medication information into one convenient platform. So, fellow tech enthusiasts and industry insiders, we're turning to you! How do you approach the integration of software products within pharmacy settings? What does the flow look like from both the pharmacy's and customer's perspectives? Can everyone share insights on how other startups integrate their so

Ask HN: How to block ads while watching Facebook videos? 2 by jerawaj749 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Best way to build and run containers on Mac M1 2 by quintes | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey all I’ve just upgraded to Sonoma and have fallen out of touch with dev skills(I’m an Architect and been operating in the strategic sphere for a while but once was technical) Wanting to build Llm and other things, so expecting ollama but also containers and databases. I see myself running a container or 3 so want a good workflow and set of tooling. Are you running k3s, rancher desktop, or just Lima/Colima? Also I realised I’d broken my brew install - I had it running in my primary Mac user account but created a standard user to reduce privileges and installed brew again and it broke (multi user issues I get it now!) So I want to work as the standard user (adding account as sudoer) to seperate my user accounts. Is that what you do?

Ask HN: Has AI/LLMs turned you off of tech? 8 by softirq | 8 comments on Hacker News. I have been a passionate programmer from high school to my mid-thirties and for the first time in my career I find myself pessimistic about the future of our field to the point that I have lost my spark. I have always loved correctness, cleanliness, and understanding how things work. Companies are racing to integrate tools that remove all of those attributes from my job. LLMs constantly spit out false information, poorly written and buggy code, and their inner workings are a black box of statistical knobs. They are a tool that encourages bloat and turns the job of the software engineer into a code checker watching over the shoulder of an intern. I’ve realized the age of discrete, deterministic computing is coming to a close. Due to the tantalizing notion that programming can be commoditized and outsources to a machine, I know corporations will continue to pursue this avenue in full force. It’s put

Worship of OpenAI Is Disgusting 5 by dodoer | 1 comments on Hacker News. There is nothing open about OpenAI. They have diverted from their mission and on a path to capture largest share of AI market by any means possible. Nitter was nuked by twitter. What do you think will happen when OpenAI gets all power and start interfering with your daily lives? Did you forget what happened during pandemic? People were holding calls for hours to get human contact. Embrace open source and support it. I will say legislate that every corporation must support Open Source efforts from their profit. They can certainly pay 0.01% capped at $XX M to good of Open Source.

Ask HN: What happens when AI starts 3D-printing sentient life? 2 by marjipan200 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Do People Like Medium? 3 by romafirst3 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I find it annoying that I am constantly asked to sign up and pay for articles that I find in search engines but I'd like to hear what everyone else things.

Ask HN: Are there any good reasons to use C++ over Rust for new projects today? 2 by therepl | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello! My go-to language to develop something that needs high performance has been C++. I do a lot of high frequency transactions, systems programming (implement tiny compilers/interpreters for domain specific problems and such), personal projects, etc. and I usually start my projects in C++. But it is increasingly looking like Rust can solve all the problems that C++ can without losing performance and while gaining better memory safety guarantees and better type invariance guarantees. The packaging story, Cargo, etc. of Rust are definitely very attractive! So that brings me to the question. Is there any point in starting new projects in C++ anymore? I don’t want this to turn into a language flame-war. My question is in good faith and I do want to learn from the wisdom of the folks who comment here. People who have been using Rust for much longer than I have can

Is Go fast enough for large computations? 3 by 999900000999 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Let's say I basically want to generate a series of random numbers billions of times. Would Go be a good choice for this? I keep trying to learn Rust, but it's very difficult for me.

Ask HN: A plugin/extension to add Amazon order info back to emails 2 by tempestn | 1 comments on Hacker News. I was recently reminded of how annoying it is that Amazon no longer includes order details in their confirmation emails. It got me thinking, maybe there exists (or could exist) some kind of tool that would scan for Amazon confirmation emails, and when found, would automatically reply to the thread with the details of your order (which would be pulled from your Amazon account, much like the shopify app does). And come to think of it, you could do this even without giving the tool access to your email, if you just set up an automated forwarder to forward any amazon emails to it, and then it could reply with the details. (Would still need amazon access though.) Is anyone aware of such a tool, or interested in creating it?

Ask HN: Good resources for learning about MLOps and AI infrastructure? 3 by Gooblebrai | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are some actual use cases of AI Agents right now? 9 by chenxi9649 | 1 comments on Hacker News. There are quite a few start ups/OSS working on making LLMs do things on your behalf and not just complete your words. These projects range from small atomic actions to web scrapers to more general ambitious assistants. That all makes sense to me and I think is the right direction to be headed. However, it's been a bit since the inception of some of these projects/cool demos but I haven't seen anyone who uses agents as a core/regular part of their workflow. I'm curious if you use these agents regularly or know someone that does. Or if you're working on one of these, I'd love to know what are some of the hidden challenges to making a useful product with agents? What's the main bottle neck? Any thoughts are welcome!

Ask HN: Which full stack framework (NextJS, Remix, SvelteKit) would you use? 8 by denismenace | 13 comments on Hacker News. And why? (Please do not answer with the usual "Use what you have most experience with" or "It depends on the use case") Also what libraries/services do you prefer to use in combination? For example: -Auth -ORM/Db connector -Email -Deployment (VPS/Container...)

Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024? 22 by nidnogg | 19 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone. For the longest time I've been wanting to get a few ideas of my own that I've written down actually built up and deployed. I wanted something that I could maybe make some beer money off being useful for people, and something that could use an actual back-end to improve my back-end skills. I wanted to consolidate my Rust (or Golang) skills as well. But whenever I write something down, I get a bit carried away when implementing it and never really finish much. I also discard a lot of ideas because they end up being too simple (and too front-end-ish overall). I'm starting to think the root of the issue could be the ideas themselves that are too lackluster. So I know this has been asked before (I've combed over those old threads countless times and they've been helpful), but I'm curious to hear more thoughts on the subject.

Ask HN: How are account balances updated in a real bank? 3 by kul_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. To folks who worked with financial organisations, I wonder how accurate the Account Balance updated examples are with respect to transaction isolation and concurrent updates? Or do banks just updates ledger and balances in a literally serialized manner with one thead avoiding any complexity altogether?

Ask HN: Will GPT cause a TUI renaissance? 3 by patientzero | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looking at Chat-GPT and its clones, they do support some forms of markup, but they seem to make it all the more apparent that GUI advice is much harder to communicate or utilize than text.. Further many of the problems of using text, for example discoverability, are alleviated by such assistance. So is this going to swing the pendulum back, or is there another direction it will take?

Java EE or Python Django? 3 by ganeshdole | 3 comments on Hacker News. Considering the upcoming advancements in AI, which programming language would be more beneficial to learn for the next 10 years: Java EE or Django if you want to integrate AI into web development?

Ask HN: Alternatives to the Pomodoro Technique? 15 by Apocryphon | 7 comments on Hacker News. The Pomodoro is the default standard for productivity. It's certainly concise and low-overhead, but can still be scaled into elaborate systems. However, I wonder if anyone ever has problems following it. And if so, what are alternative methods to focused work and productivity? I've seen only one before- the Flowtime Technique, which is really just Pomodoro with no preset time blocks and with flexible breaks. https://ift.tt/qTKgpCY

Ask HN: What is the most amazing Awk program you've used 5 by AstroJetson | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been an AWK user since Unix Version 7, its been my Swiss Army Knife for decades (at times becoming a Swiss Army Hammer) I've used it to build a computer billing system. I worked at a company that gobbled smaller companies during the M&A boom times, AWK saved me merging cruft data into our master systems. I've even run an AWK webserver to do quick shares of data. The recent post of a AWK program that is a GIT CLI tool moved it into the most amazing AWK program for me. I know that Henry Spencer build a text processor and an assembler in AWK (30K lines). What is the most amazing AWK program you've heard about / used?

Ask HN: Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure Options? 2 by ai_influencer | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are a bunch of run-ai-in-the-cloud services like Replicate and RunPod, but what are my options if I have data compliance needs like HIPAA? If my data can't leave my network, what are my options to self-host AI models like fine-tuned LLama2? Is this a solved problem?

Ask HN: What stops the corps or the govs from running their Mastodon instance? 2 by srameshc | 2 comments on Hacker News. I don't understand if it's so important for the government to use social media as a PR tool, then what prevents them from running their own mastodon instance than having an account on X, Y or Z social network ?

Ask HN: Why is Google search unusable lately? 30 by davzie | 30 comments on Hacker News. It feels like for a year, maybe more now I’ve had to append basically every search with “Reddit” to get any meaningful content to my queries. Is Google struggling to fight SEO spam? Does it care? What’s the play here? I’m assuming internally they know of these issues in degradation of quality. Maybe it’s just me? Feels like the dead internet theory is more and more credible !

How much remote work the US is employing from abroad? 3 by flr001 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I haven't been able to locate any reports providing estimates on the number of non-US citizens who work remotely from abroad for US companies. I understand that this data may be inherently elusive, but I was hopeful of finding some rough estimates regarding the market size.

Ask HN: Whats your prediction for what 2030 will look like? 4 by topaztee | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Are there any reliable benchmarks for Machine Learning Model Serving? 2 by KuriousCat | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I am searching for benchmarks that compare the performance of various machine learning model serving frameworks. Some of the previous posts such as the following exist but they don't paint the full picture. Is there any reliable benchmark that gives a good snapshot of the state of art? 1. https://ift.tt/BJt0o4l 2. https://ift.tt/koZwimV

Tell HN: Square auto subscribes you to any merchant you visit unless you opt-out 4 by numbers | 0 comments on Hacker News. Here's the link to opt-out: https://ift.tt/WqDXN50

Ask HN: How to get presentation slots at vendor events? 2 by dizzydes | 0 comments on Hacker News. Figured getting on stage at vendor events would help with upcoming eng hiring push and even funding perhaps. We are pre-seed but are pushing the limits with some vendor tech/using it in ways they might find creative... just not at massive scale. - Is getting on the ticket at big vendor events possible as a pre-seed? - Considering we're not big enough to have CS or Account Manager, should I just reach out to their marketing? - Welcome any tips from those who have done this? Thanks

Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Twilio/Plivo? 4 by techlover14159 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am currently using Twilio for my service that needs voice calls (outgoing and incoming). It works well but the costs are quite high and I am looing at an alternate service that can provide programmatic Voice API. I tried to reach Plivo but it looks like they are either dead or not taking any new clients. I wasn't able to get any response from Plivo. What are you using other than Twilio for programmatic Voice API? Any recommendations/suggestions for programmatic Voice API other than Twilio/Plivo? Thanks in advance.

Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor? 3 by Exorust | 1 comments on Hacker News. Any awesome suggestions/tips/tricks for a ultrawide monitor?

Ask HN: Advice for a new father? 18 by CoreSet | 18 comments on Hacker News. I've long turned to HN for career and technological advice - but now I face a different hurdle. I'm a young father - my first. Is there anything the fathers of HN would tell a new father (or parent)?

Ask HN: Does anyone care about OpenPOWER? 15 by sandwichbop | 9 comments on Hacker News. I see a lot of energy around RISC-V but I never see anything similar for OpenPOWER, on paper it seems like the dream machine with actual performance like the Talos Workstations albeit a bit expensive but this sounds incredible https://ift.tt/bK3upyt >Designed with a fully owner-controlled CPU domain, you can audit and modify any portion of the open source firmware on the Talos™ II mainboard, all the way down to the CPU microcode. is there something I'm missing? why does no one seem to care about OpenPOWER

Ask HN: Best "entry tech" jobs to learn coding? 17 by Wazflame | 12 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, I'm curious as to which jobs (if any) someone would recommend if I'm learning how to code on the evenings and on weekends. At the moment I'm just doing it for fun, but it'd be nice if there was a potential route, long-term to get a job if I still enjoy it down the line. My current job is working as a Paralegal in a non-technical role. I've been applying for other positions in a variety of industries (currently have an offer for a remote SDR role selling a SaaS product, but debating whether I should take it because it's just for the money and feel it could get quite time-intensive if I have to hit targets consistently). Obviously I can't get "paid to learn" how to code but are there any entry-level jobs where I'd get general exposure that could aid/speed up my learning? (in any programming language) I guess working at a company with

Ask HN: Recommendation for Intermediate CSS Course? 5 by raasdnil | 0 comments on Hacker News. A co-worker asked for a recommendation for a good CSS course for them to learn further. They are not a total beginner and can do fairly complex styling and the like, however, they have been 100% self taught and so have picked up things that are just the wrong way of doing it. Most intermediate courses I've found focus on CSS frameworks or precompilers and the like, he doesn't want this as most of their work is landing pages etc so the CSS course needs to focus on plain CSS with HTML. Any recommendations?

Ask HN: Self-Improvement for the Pseudo-Religious? 3 by mkeedlinger | 5 comments on Hacker News. What resources do you find helpful for self improvement that aren't focused on a specific religious dogma? When I was more religious there were things like sermons and scripture to ponder which focused on moral quandaries and proclaimed personal qualities worth developing. Since becoming less religious this is something I find lacking and miss.

Ask HN: What are some non-LLM techs to look out for in 2024? 2 by behnamoh | 0 comments on Hacker News. Everyone keeps talking about LLMs, but I was wondering if there other interesting tech on the horizon that have got neglected under all the AI hype in the past two-three years.

Ask HN: Are developer tools startups fighting a losing battle? 5 by colesantiago | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’m asking this in light of Weaveworks closing up shop and the little investment into developer tools startups. I’m trying to understand this area since I don’t see developers paying for the tools they use (They use OSS software most of the time) and don’t like closed source software either. So it doesn’t seem to make sense to build a closed source dev tool for developers which will in a few years an open source competitor will copy all their features. Even if your strategy shifts to open source, I find it difficult that anyone would pay for ‘locked’ features. In any case I don’t see a moat nor a TAM in this sector and I am most likely going to see more developer tools startups folding up, getting acquired or just becoming stagnant and not growing. For any developer startup tool there will always be an open source competitor and usually open source wins in the long run. And

Ask HN: Best Preventative for Aging Parents? 7 by caddddr | 4 comments on Hacker News. Could people with aging parents / older people make recommendations for others? Just wondering if there any simple actions I could suggest to help them healthwise mentally / physically.

Ask HN: Anyone Working on On-Device LLM? 2 by bishal_saha_ | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: GitHub Requires 2FA – What For? 3 by megamix | 0 comments on Hacker News. Alright this is not specific to GitHub. But given their recent change I'm noticing I cannot use their site anymore. Why is it a good thing to couple your smart device like this? I specifically fear the day I cannot access any website with 2FA because I cannot restore from backup my device that has the original 2FA.

Ask HN: How did yall meet your SO? 15 by yfh | 14 comments on Hacker News. First of all, sorry if this is off-topic. I am pushing 30 and have been unable to find a partner. I just wanted to hear your stories (maybe some advices, too).

Ask HN: Always Learning Members of HN, How to Find the Time after Full-Time Job? 21 by __rito__ | 19 comments on Hacker News. Hi, HN is like a nerd heaven to me where I get to come across great learning resources and amazing projects. Also, so many great comments where people show amazing knowledge across multiple fields. There are many among us who keep learning new things, good at math, play a musical instrument, and manage to make truly insightful theoretical comment on an AI thread while having a full-time job ? My question is: where do you find the time? I worked as an independent consultant for about 2.5 years and I could find the time learn new things and delving deep into topics that I liked, beyond my need . Since I started working at a regular job in an office two months back, I don't get enough time to even watch YT videos off of the feed. With the commute, solid 8 hours at office, I barely have any cognitive or physical energy to do any mentally taxing work even if t

Ask HN: Will you use and pay for this? 2 by madsobel | 2 comments on Hacker News. Before Covid I worked for a startup in-office, but during lockdown and what have you, I switched to a remote job. At my old job we used to have an always on dashboard running with some simple indicators, such as uptime, daily orders, response times, loads etc. It was a very useful way to quickly get an overview of whether everything was “OK” or not, especially when someone would come by and ask why something might not be working or was running slow. Now that I work remote I don’t have this anymore, and I don’t think the current solutions out there are built for “personal” dashboards. They are built for shared dashboards that are meant to be looked at from afar, and looking pretty, thus also limiting the screen real estate they can take up. That got me thinking, what if I made a dashboard just for me, that is optimised for usage on a second screen? I have built that for myself now (at least a very crude

Ask HN: How do I start building useful stuff? 2 by Chiff0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. CS student here. In a couple of weeks, I am going to the next 6 months more or less free, and I want to spend the time building (or at least trying to) build something that would be useful to at least someone. Probably something I would learn a lot from and would be proud to have on GitHub. I have heard that the best way to build something useful is to scratch your own itch, but I can't think of anything that hasn't yet solved my problems. Do you have any suggestions as to how I could find a problem or have any interesting ones you are not planning on solving? I would appreciate any advice on the topic. Cheers!

Ask HN: Best books/courses to learn the theory behind strength training? 3 by labarilem | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How to Get Better at Arguing? 4 by divan | 3 comments on Hacker News. I want to get better at rhetoric and argumentation, but I find it hard to find good books/videos/resources to learn it, let alone practice. I find valuable insights in the Artistothle or Schopenhauer books, which is both fascinating and frustrating, as I'm expecting more modern books to be on the subject. Another discovery is the books for argumentation for lawyers – seem to be a decent mix of philosophical depth and practicality. I had hoped to find good books from the debating community, but most recommendations are paper-only from the 80s/90s, or overly focused on competitive debates. This search for good resources on the fundamentals of argumentation seems to be quite a challenge. Perhaps I can find some good recommendations from the HN community.

Burying plastics is a great way to sequester carbon 2 by morpheos137 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Use solar energy to convert CO2 into polyethylene. Throw it in a land fill. That carbon no longer contributes to global warming.

Ask HN: Do we still need `-6` for `IP` command? 2 by fernvenue | 2 comments on Hacker News. Seems now `ip` can do the same thing as `ip -6`, so is there any situation that we must use `-6` flag?

Ask HN: Is the Chip Shortage Over? 3 by andrewstuart | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone Tried Apple Vision Pro? 2 by herval | 3 comments on Hacker News. First impressions? Thoughts? Is this the future of computing?

Alto del Tejuelo cave system, now the longest in Spain 4 by pvaldes | 0 comments on Hacker News. Speleologists studying the Alto del Tejuelo cave (Cantabria. North of Spain) reported recently about 28 years of research exploring new areas in the cave complex. With an explored part comprising 206 Km of galleries in a 626 m deep cave; the report placed the cave system as the longest in Spain and third longest in Europe. Mammoth cave (USA), the longest in the world, has 685Km. The cave complex comprises 7 zones connected by the speleologists, spreads under four valleys and can be accessed by 20 different pits. Webpage of the speleologist club in Spanish with some photos and maps on pdf: https://ift.tt/XhBoDO8 See also https://ift.tt/6sCfNkU

Ask HN: What's with this ridiculous experience requirements these days? 4 by sujayk_33 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I know experienced folks are easy to work with but nearly everyone wants experienced candidates. How about giving a fresher a chance? How long will it take for the Job Market to bounce back? (probably just frustrated;)

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024) 20 by whoishiring | 51 comments on Hacker News. Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location, and whether remote work is a possibility. Please only post if you are personally looking to hire a freelancer or work as one. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024) 49 by whoishiring | 134 comments on Hacker News. Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.

Ask HN: Who Is Firing? (February 2024) 8 by riazrizvi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Visualize every Git changes to a file at once? 2 by danielovichdk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Given the discussion around commit messages I would like to know if there is any tool that can visualize every change to a file in one go? I want to vertically visualize the history of a given file over time and not simply by to different commits. Something like this: [Commit1] File.txt: hello world [Commit2] File.txt: world hello [Commit3] File.txt: hello wallo I dont want to use git blame to shuffle around all the changes, but I want all the changes and the whole file to be visualized in one big list. Does it make sense ?