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Ask HN: Outfit Generation App 3 by vojtech_richter | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey there, it would mean the world to me if you could leave a quick opinion on this app idea. The application would let you provide photos of your closet items, and depending on your target look/style of the outfit, it would recommend few outfit ideas based on your items. Would you be willing to pay money for this? Or do you know someone, or a group of people who would be interested in using this product? Thank you for your time, have a lovely day!

How to hide used ports? [cybersecurity] 2 by ihaveone_401 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Let's say, I live in a country, where I want to play Minecraft. I also know, that my government has officially banned Minecraft, and I will get in troubles by trying to play it. I could try to install Minecraft over Tails OS, so all my traffic would be routed through Tor, but my friend has told me that I still could be caught because of the the port: Minecraft uses port 25565, and by analyzing my internet-traffic government can find the port, and thus the app used. Is that true? If so, how can I hide/change/fake a port, used by an app?

Ask HN: AI hackday at work – what shall I work on? 2 by Tmkly | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m a software engineer (typescript/react (and react native)/lua/bash scripting skills). At work this week we’re having an “AI hackday”; we can work or anything we want, as long as it utilises AI in some way (doesn’t have to be work related). An app, proof-of-concept, etc. work will pay for chatgpt or similar API keys (for a limited time). I’m really struggling to come with a unique and fun idea. Does anyone have any ideas for a useful, fun thing to work on for 24 hours?

Immune response study explains why some people don't get Covid-19 2 by susiecambria | 0 comments on Hacker News. > Using single-cell sequencing, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University College London (UCL), Imperial College London, the Netherlands Cancer Institute and their collaborators, studied immune responses against SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthy adult volunteers, as part of the world's first COVID-19 human challenge study. Link: https://ift.tt/Md4RwXC And link to paper in Nature: https://ift.tt/cTkOjNq

Ask HN: I am Software Engineer 30yo and I feel purposeless 3 by driftingaway | 1 comments on Hacker News. Lately I am not feeling well, I don’t care about anything, I feel like I do nothing. Doing simple chores has become difficult. I've been trying to get a haircut for the last 2 weeks and I am unable to go to the barber shop. I don’t feel like cleaning anything, I don’t feel like doing groceries, I’ve even started to get dirty while eating, it’s embarrassing, but I think it is because I am not paying attention to anything, I am constantly drifting away somewhere, I feel disappointed about life. Even in my worst moments I honestly question myself if it is even worth it to live, don't get me wrong I don't want to stop living and I do love my wife and family, but is more like I feel like there will not be much difference between me existing or not, and I do not know why I feel like that, that same thing would probably apply for anybody in the planet, but I cannot stop tha

Why Cloudflare Is a Threat to the Internet Privacy 22 by aguysomewhere | 8 comments on Hacker News. 1. Cloudflare handles approximately 20% of all the traffic on the internet. And it's growing fast. In 2017, it was 10%. [1], [2] 2. It's impossible to use Cloudflare proxy without giving up encryption of data. They are a man-in-the-middle that has access to unencrypted information of all the traffic they proxy. (Yes, even with Full-Strict/Keyless SSL) 3. Of the remaining 80% of internet traffic, 43% comes from Netflix, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, none of which seems to be using Cloudflare, which makes Cloudflare the ultimate tool to break encryption on distributed servers. Only 37% of the internet traffic is routed outside these major tech companies. [3] 4. In July 2021, a random guy discovered a vulnerability on Cloudflare's cdnjs that allowed a complete takeover of the CDN, which is estimated to be used by 12.7% of websites. The NSA has a whole divisi

Ask HN: How to find a new job when I'm not good at networking? 5 by rrgok | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm not a genius, nor do I believe I'm the absolute best at what I do. It took me 30 years to realize that, no matter how good I am, networking often determines success. I'm in a career I don't enjoy, unable to move up or change, while others get jobs through connections. About 80% of my colleagues were hired this way, while a few of us got in by luck. Networking seems to drive career advancement. I'm naturally a loner and find it hard to feign interest in others' lives. I prefer spending time alone and struggle to genuinely connect with people. Emotional intimacy drains me, and I dread future interactions, even though I know this is normal. While I'm okay being alone, I feel that relationships are crucial for progress after a certain point. I even broke up with my partner because I can't handle constant companionship. It was so draining that I s

Ask HN: What purposes of interpersonal communication are the most difficult? 3 by hto_tam | 1 comments on Hacker News. Here are a few examples of purposes of interpersonal communication: explain something, convince someone of something, give feedback, propose something, encourage someone, motivate and so on.

Ask HN: Best books/courses to learn Java core+advanced? 3 by shivajikobardan | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is my first time teaching. I just graduated in 2020 and have been working as a production support engineer. These are the subjects that I am assigned to teach(each in odd and even semesters) - Java(object oriented concepts+core java+advanced java) This is a 2 semester course Sample contents with reference books here: https://ift.tt/kI7Zuvy - Data Structures and Algorithms(with practical labs in java) This is also a 2 semester courses, this is not "java"ic, but I am going to make them do the labs in java as per the syllabus. I am going through couple of books: - Y. Daniel Liang - Herbert Schildt - Car S. Horstmann, Core Java Volume I and II – Advanced Features, 8th Edition, 2008, Prentice Hall. - Y. Daniel Liang, Introduction to Java Programming, 9th Edition, Comprehensive Version, Pearson/ Prentice Hall. - H. Deitel, P. Deitel. Java How to Program. 7th Edition, 20

Ask HN: Stripe Atlas messed up my 83B election what do I do? 5 by nickls | 2 comments on Hacker News. Formed my new startup with Stripe Atlas which had worked well in the past. I used their auto 83b feature to mail in our 83b elections, the UI updated and said everything was good. I received an email update > Great news! Your 83(b) election was filed on time. I go to get a copy of my EIN letter and notice that the atlas UI has updated to: > Your IRS 83(b) election deadline has passed. > We’ve noticed it’s taking longer than normal for USPS to deliver your 83(b) election. Not to worry, you’ve successfully filed on time (it’s based on the postmark date, not delivery date). The Proof of Timely Election letter and USPS tracking site both say the letter is "In Transit To Next Facility, Arriving Late". This letter was sent over a month ago. What are my options now? * Contact the IRS to see if it was delivered * Continue with my equity in a non-tax advantaged status * Di

Do You Have a Name For 4 by bado | 4 comments on Hacker News. ...when you go to look at someone's computer/device/app and it magically is working perfectly when they go to show you? Like when the person is "Oh sure NOW it works..." simply by your presence? (Sorta like how the car stops making The Noise when the mechanic is nearby) I've always called it "I.T. Person Proximity Location Rectification" and was just wondering if we have a better name for the phenomenon

Ask HN: HIPAA compliant scheduling vendor? 2 by healthcare-sch | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, The healthcare startup I work at currently uses Acuity Scheduling to enable patients to schedule appointments with zoom calls with our providers. It has decent APIs, so we've been able to build a fair amount to make it work for us, e.g. syncing to our EHR (athena), custom handlers for notifications / appointment confirmations. No doubt it has gotten us pretty far (google calendar integration is nice!), but we find it lacking in several ways: - no localization support - no concept of licensing for our clinicians / more complex scheduling algorithms dependent on patient attributes - no support for multiple provider appointments (e.g. when 2 providers share an appointment, one taking the intake portion, the other the provider taking the rest of the appointment) - subpar support for class appointments, e.g. patients can't add themselves to a class after the first session has occurr

Ask HN: Advice for Imminent Pip? 2 by giantg2 | 2 comments on Hacker News. What advice do you have for a midlevel dev who might get PIP'd? The market is crap, so I can't easily move out of the company, although I am looking. I'm also looking internally, but there are no dev jobs posted at my level internally (in a tech divison of over 5k!). My manager says the department head wants to PIP me. The reason is supposedly that my throughput is too low and inconsistent (stories completed per sprint). However, a quick JIRA analysis shows I have completed roughly the same number of points as another dev at my level on my team. I have valid reasons for the inconsistency and it's common for others on the team to be inconsistent too - stories often hit major issues with the environment, confounding existing bugs, or even missing/incorrect requirements. It's not uncommon for our team bug fix/rework stories to consume 20-25% of our sprint capacity. I also have a disability. S

Open-Source, Language-Agnostic Mutation Testing Tool Using LLM Agents 2 by coderinsan | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, Check out our open-source, language-agnostic mutation testing tool using LLM agents here: https://ift.tt/KjNSEQI Mutation testing is a way to verify the effectiveness of your test cases. It involves creating small changes, or “mutants,” in the code and checking if the test cases can catch these changes. Unlike line coverage, which only tells you how much of the code has been executed, mutation testing tells you how well it’s been tested. We all know line coverage is BS. That’s where Mutahunter comes in. We leverage LLM models to inject context-aware faults into your codebase. As the first AI-based mutation testing tool, Mutahunter surpasses traditional “dumb” AST-based methods. Our AI-driven approach provides a full contextual understanding of the entire codebase, enabling it to identify and inject mutations that closely resemble real vulnerabilities. This ensur

Ask HN: What's Wrong with IRC? 22 by imgabe | 29 comments on Hacker News. With the proliferation of chat apps like Slack, Discord, Teams, etc. why don't more companies just set up their own IRC server? The pricing for Slack seems insane for something that was essentially a solved problem 30 years ago. Admittedly, I haven't used IRC much and I know the UI/UX isn't the best, but that could probably be fixed pretty easily and tacked on to the existing messaging infrastructure?

Ask HN: Does your local Windows taskbar sometimes cover your RDP taskbar? 2 by windows2020 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why is HN often talking about PDF files? 3 by ldenoue | 0 comments on Hacker News. I noticed quite a few posts about PDFs (last today was about pdfscale) and wonder why they receive so many comments here on HN. Are there problems with PDFs that are somehow making us all passionate about?

Ask HN: What is the most painful developer setup guide you've experienced? 2 by takehomes | 1 comments on Hacker News. We all have our horror stories for painful setup guides. I'm curious if you had a magic wand to turn a painful quickstart guide into a 1-click sandbox, what tool or product that would be?

Ask HN: What brought back the joy of programming for you? 14 by endorphine | 11 comments on Hacker News. Question goes to those who fell in love with programming, then lost their love for it because of reasons, and then they rediscovered it.

Ask HN: What are some cheaper Herman Miller alternatives? 5 by petargyurov | 4 comments on Hacker News. Is it possible to get the comfort and looks of a HM chair, but for less? Testimonials (especially from people with sciatica) appreciated!

Thank HN: Achieved MSc in Software Development 5 by smarri | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've just earn a masters degree in software development which I've been studying part time in the evenings and weekends for the last 3 years. I largely undertook the course after years of reading HN and being inspired by the depth of knowledge people here have, and for the ability to turn my software ideas into reality. No longer will I need to say "I'm not technical, but...", or be that person saying, "I have a great idea, if only someone could build it...". If course higher education is not a prerequisite for a software career for everyone, but it was right for me. Thanks HN.

Ask HN: AI Image Organizing App 4 by ax0ar | 1 comments on Hacker News. I take lots of photos but have a very hard time organizing them. Are there any good desktop apps that solve this problem with AI? Ideally, I would like my photos to be tagged, sorted and the ability to search individuals. I use Google and Apple Photos but I don't want to upload every single image on the cloud, so I'm looking for an alternative that works on device ideally.

I want to understand how do guys manage your cloud infra and deployments 5 by sohanh | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi Folks, I could use your help, I want to understand how you guys manage cloud infra & deployments at your companies I am currently working on setting up the infra tooling and just need your guidance What type of infrastructure are you primarily using? Kubernetes clusters Standalone machines (EC2) How do you manage deployments? Configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) Manual deployments GitHub Actions What Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools do you use, if any? Terraform CloudFormation Pulumi Please go in as many details as you can want to understand what kind of setup is the most popular among the community?

Ask HN: What was it like when dot-com bubble collapsed during 2000-2002? 4 by RGBCube | 0 comments on Hacker News. Would you mind sharing your stories? Repost of https://ift.tt/FXuRmSE as that was a long time ago.

Ask HN: How to deal with memory/cognition slowing down as an engineering leader? 10 by cogthrow | 5 comments on Hacker News. I work in engineering management. In recent years I've noticed my memory has become a bit worse, and I'm feeling generally less sharp cognitively than I once was. I don't think this is anything pathological; it's not that severe - I think it's largely due to a combination of ageing and a chronic lack of sleep during this time. Due to this, I'm finding myself in situations where my memory just fails me, in discussions where I really need to be on top of the details. And, while I've never been great at making decisions quickly, nowadays it's taking longer than ever. Given some more time, I still have the knowledge and judgement to be make good decisions. But it is affecting how I do my job, and (I believe) how people perceive me in my role. I wonder if anyone else here has experience with problems like this, and if so, whether any

Web Pages via Email – Syntax? 3 by graycat | 2 comments on Hacker News. A problem, a solution that is at least partially complete, some documentation of the solution, and a question -- is there more to the problem and more needed for a complete solution? The situation and problem: Received some email that contained a Web page. I.e., used Web browser Firefox to go to the Web site of my email provider, got their Web page that contained some email sent to me, in that Web page read the email, and in that email read a Web page (e.g., from Goldman-Sachs, but similarly from Macy's, a university, a symphony orchestra, ...). So the email (SMTP, simple mail transfer protocol) made use of MIME (multi-media internet mail extensions), and the HTML from Goldman-Sachs was in a MIME Part. The results looked fine -- Firefox, my email provider, and Goldman-Sachs all did fine. But I would like to have the Web page I received, the one from Goldman-Sachs, in a file, say, A.HTM, and that I could give

Ask HN: What's the oldest file on your computer? 8 by closetkantian | 15 comments on Hacker News. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that mine is rtest.mf, part of the MiKTeX package by the venerable Donald Knuth.

My New App for Parents to Buy and Sell Gently Used Baby and Kids' Gear 3 by jungyubl | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello there - I’m built and launched a new app called Growr - it's a marketplace for baby & kids stuff. As a parent myself, I’ve experienced firsthand how quickly our little ones outgrow their clothes, toys, and gear. It’s tough on the wallet and contributes to unnecessary waste. That’s why I created Growr, a marketplace specifically designed for buying and selling gently used baby and kids' items. My goal is to make parenting more affordable and sustainable for everyone. The way it works is simple - as a seller, you list your baby's or kid's item and wait for the buyer to contact you. As a buyer, you look for what you want and start chatting with the seller. It's all local based, which will help with community building as well. We're working on building various functionalities such as rating system, payments, and options to deliver so tha

Ask HN: AI impact on future developer career 2 by alismayilov | 2 comments on Hacker News. My friend (who is not in technical field) was asking me if it is good idea that his son chooses a software development career. If he asked me this question two years ago, I could definitely say that there will be always opportunities for him. Now it looks like it is not that easy to answer this question. We see that the coding performance of LLMs are getting better and better. If your non-technical friend asks you and what would you suggest? Do you see in your circle that the demand for junior developers are decreasing?

Ask HN: Alternatives to Gumroad for "Software Licenses"? 2 by grodriguez100 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for alternatives to Gumroad to sell “software licenses” / “activation codes” / “serial numbers” online. I have seen several similar platforms that focus on selling digital assets (files) but not activation codes. I could either upload a list of pregenerated codes to the platform, or have the platform generate the codes with an API to validate them. Both would be fine. I need that the platform acts as a merchant of record (to handle VAT in different countries). This basically means that the platform would be invoicing users, and I would be invoicing the platform. I would also need to be able to translate the product description to different languages (this is something that Gumroad cannot do — they force you to create different products) and also support EUR as a currency. What solutions have you worked with?

Ask HN: Is data privacy just all talk or does it affect your decisions? 3 by kleiba | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Google's "Find My Device" network – The upcoming assault on user's privacy 4 by pyeri | 3 comments on Hacker News. My post relates very much to this one[1] which is a month old. Like their Samsung device, this feature is now coming to my Redmi device also. Today only I received the email with subject, "Your Android devices will soon join the Find My Device network" . As always, the *real* privacy nightmare stuff is always hidden in between the large boring paragraphs or the fine print as they say. Here is the part which I think is the most problematic: > How it works > > Devices in the network use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. If other devices detect your items, they’ll securely send the locations where the items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will do the same to help others find their offline items when detected nearby. So, your devices are also supposed to co-operate by sending data to other devices which may want t

Ask HN: What to do with my defunct startup's domain? 2 by presidentender | 1 comments on Hacker News. I shut down my company (Stage, heystage.com) back in December. It feels silly to keep renewing the domain, but it also feels silly to let it lapse; since only one of those decisions is reversible, I'm paying to renew it. What should I do with the .com of a now-shuttered business?

Ask HN: Why is it so hard for devices to determine WiFi network health? 3 by jc_811 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I routinely run into the below scenarios: - As I’m leaving a zone with WiFi, the signal drops to 1 WiFi bar for way too much time and tries to remain on the network even though it no longer serves. Forces me to toggle WiFi off so my phone switches to celular data - It connects to a public WiFi I’ve used before, has full WiFi signal strength, but in reality there’s no service because to actually use the network I have to login, accept terms, or something along those lines. And if I don’t do that I’m unknowingly without service because my phone can’t tell this network isn’t actually working - Similar to point 1, my phone will pick up a WiFi network that’s far away (eg my home network while I’m at my neighbor’s house) and grasp to that weak unusable 1 bar of WiFi signal forcing me to toggle WiFi off (or just forget the network if it’s one I don’t commonly use) So, I’m wonder

Ask HN: How do you organize your expertise? 3 by waynesonfire | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was just thinking about this today and wanted to see what the community thought. How do you, as a life-long professional, organize or catalog your accumulated domain expertise to effectively leverage it throughout your career?

Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to bootstrap. How did it go? 2 by florida_man | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am very interested in bootstrapping as at least from the outside it looks a lot more like what I want to do compared to what I am currently doing (Software Engineering for FANG). I have no aspirations of becoming a Software Architect/Director etc; and Bootstrapping just feels nice. 1. Did you already have revenue before you quit? 2. How many pivots did it take for you to get the 1st dollar? 3. How was revenue growth like? 4. Did you/ do you want to go back to Software Engineering? 5. Did you do it Solo or with a friend? 6. What's your story?

Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev? 10 by pta2002 | 4 comments on Hacker News. When working with a team, I've found that Scrum-like short-term goals and organized task backlogs really help keep me focused and on track with the work I have to do. For solo development, however, I've never really found any approach that sticks and often end up getting sidetracked and losing track of my objectives. So my question to all of you is, what tools and techniques have you used to ensure you stick to your objectives?

Why is Android Development so difficult/complex? (compared to Web and Desktop) 2 by pyeri | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is as much a philosophical question as it's a pragmatic one. I've developed all kinds of apps in my life including Visual Basic GUI programs, Windows Forms Apps with Visual Studio, web apps using PHP and Flask, console scripts in bash, python, etc. In terms of layers of complexity, none of that experience even comes close to Android Development though. To be honest, even Swing GUI in Netbeans/Eclipse wasn't that byzantine! (in fairness, I hardly ever went beyond Hello World there). To begin with, we are absolutely married to the Android Studio IDE and even though developing a project without AS is theoretically possible, the number of hooves you must jump though are probably too many for the average programmer to comprehend. Honestly, I still don't know how exactly the actual APK/AAB is built or compiled! On other systems, compilation is a strai

Ask HN: Why does SQLite (in production) have such a bad rep? 3 by rrmdp | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Any programmers here also play instruments? 3 by torbet | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How the heck do you go from freelance dev to mid-senior level dev? 2 by gremlinsinc | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm struggling to get back on my feet following divorce (18 years), depression, losing 2 parents my mom and the grandma who actually raised me - all in a 3 month period, well mom died the first month after separation in March, Grandma died a week after the divorce was final in June... (see: https://ift.tt/QRoy9Je). I've revamped my resume 100 different ways, and it actually seems since i broke off my clients into their own jobs basically it is worse, but it looks more professional according to mine and Claude's opinion lol. I'm 44, I've been using Laravel for 11 years, I'm full-stack. I've played with go, rust, and built small projects in python for clients. Of course JS ecosystem (react, vue, svelte, nextjs, prisma, etc). I'd like a job that actually pays me what I'm worth, or well better than I get freelancing ($40). I haven&#

Ask HN: How come watching 4k and 1080p still hard to come by in 2024? 2 by anon115 | 0 comments on Hacker News. i pay 92$ dollars for internet. I dont get it. Is it a commodity premium thing?

Ask HN: Can CPUs etc. be made from just graphene and/or other carbon forms? 2 by westurner | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is Dark Mode ever coming to HN? 3 by unkeen | 4 comments on Hacker News. It's been more than four years since Dark Mode was last proposed. I wonder if it will ever happen? https://ift.tt/zC6NfuX

Ask HN: Is this the best way to build Google alternative? 3 by blindprogrammer | 1 comments on Hacker News. The website would be an open-sourced version of Google search, with sections for tech sites, news sites, forums, finance sites, and so forth, similar to Craigslist. The site will be website-only, with no apps and no boosted JavaScript, using only the bare minimum. The website will be run on donations like Wikipedia, and the links will be edited by users. If a certain website is full of spam and low-quality content, users will downvote it. When the vote reaches a certain threshold, that link will be delisted, similar to the stock market. We will call this site "The Great Filter" or "The Open Source Search Engine." There will be no venture capitalists, no shady algorithms; everything will be transparent, and the filtering will be entirely done by users. Unlike videos, which take a lot of bandwidth, this site will be all text and links, which is relatively che

Ask HN: Boss thinks I'm dumb, now what? 4 by imustbedumb | 6 comments on Hacker News. I have two decades of experience in programming and my boss treats me as a junior when I ask questions. He will explain like I'm either very junior or a 5-year old. It feels a bit disrespectful that he thinks he needs do dumb down anything he says to me. If I were talking to someone experienced in that way, I'd surely be behaving in a passive-aggresive way. I wonder if he's extremely annoyed at me and this is his way to show it.

Ask HN: Home monitoring solution without subscription 2 by Rizu | 1 comments on Hacker News. Could anyone suggest a customizable home monitoring system that allows for additional components like CCTV cameras, door sensors (Ring Doorbell seems to offer API integration), motion sensors, etc.? I’m considering using an old PC or a Raspberry Pi as the central hub. also the cheaper the better :)

Ask HN: How can I effectively restart my dev career? 9 by nathanaldensr | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi, HN. I wanted to share my unique experience with you all and hopefully get some good advice on what I should do next in my career. I was laid off from my most recent position in 2022. I had originally been hired in 2018 as a software dev but quickly transitioned into more of a leadership role, and then finally into digital transformation. I knew the transition was a risk and I was counting on being in that role for several years, or even the rest of my career. Sadly, things didn't work out that way. I haven't written code for a business in several years now, although I do have more recent contributions to open-source, especially my hobby game engine, and I have many years of experience in programming, architecture, DevSecOps, and leadership. After being laid off, I went through some personal life issues that prevented me from working, including taking care of a parent with

Robots: The Library Book Problem 2 by daly | 0 comments on Hacker News. Back in the last century my University research involved finding a book in a library (using an 8x8 pixel camera). I called it the "Steamed Glasses Problem" as virtually everything was fuzzy. You had to trace the edge of letters to read them or trace the edge of a book to recognize that it was a book and not the shelf. These days I think that the "Library Book Problem" is a useful generalization. I have several thousand books on 19 3x6 shelves. I would like the robot to be able to perform various tasks, each one of which could be done in isolation. 0) Manipulate a book. Some are soft, some are heavy, some are fragile. Books are generally oriented so titles read in the same direction. Some books have titles in other languages. Sizes, colors, and fonts vary widely. Some information is covered by bookstore stickers. Some can stand on edge, others fall. Stacks and rows need to be stable. (Physics

8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business 43 by hriis | 15 comments on Hacker News. Our website has been severely impacted for 8+ days because I can't add the R2 Subscription back to my account. The error is: "You cannot add or modify subscriptions or services until all invoices are paid. Download each "Unpaid" invoice on your Billing page and click the "Pay online" link within each invoice to fix your account" All my invoices are paid, I contacted Cloudflare support but literally no one is answering. I don't know what to do anymore. They closed my old ticket then opened a "report" where I had to verify my identity with Stripe. After I did that they didn't respond anymore. Ticket number: #17419451

Ask HN: Multiple LLM work together to give higher than gpt4o performance 3 by VictorPenJust | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am building a ChatGPT-like platform that, instead of asking one LLM a question, it will ask multiple LLMs all at the same time and create a final output by corroborate output from each mode. Model will work together to come up with the final answer and we see greatly improve performance and reduce hallucinations. Notably, on AlpacaEval 2.0, using solely open-source models, we achieved a margin of 7.6% absolute improvement from 57.5% (GPT-4 Omni) to 65.1% (Mix Model) and 65.7% using close source model. Is this something that people find to be useful? Not sure what are the use case, or is working with one LLM enough

Ask HN: Transitioning from web dev to more "impactful" tech 5 by hn_throwaway_99 | 1 comments on Hacker News. As I enter the latter half of my career, I'm interested in working on problems that I consider more societally impactful. The first half of my career was centered around enterprise software and e-commerce. Nothing wrong with that but at a personal level I certainly didn't get much personal fulfillment from the end goal of what I created. I'm curious if anyone with a background in general "web technologies" is either using their skills on more societally beneficial goals, or has transitioned to other skills in those areas. The kinds of things I'm talking about are anything related to decarbonization (e.g. renewable energy, storage, grid improvements, etc.), curing/treating disease and human ailments, scientific exploration, other environmental improvements, etc.

Ask HN: Who is growing? (June 2024) 3 by todsacerdoti | 1 comments on Hacker News. Given the popularity of "Who is hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?" I thought it would be interesting to learn more about projects that are growing fast. There are lots of projects, from side hustles and nights/weekends efforts to early and mid-stage startups, that are growing fast and would benefit from awareness, talent, and/or capital. Please use this format: - Project: (website, etc) - Description: (what problem is being solved?) - Location: (city, country, remote, etc) - Funding: (bootstrapped, venture, etc) - Is it growing?: (share what gets you excited) Don't miss these threads that inspired this effort: Who is hiring? https://ift.tt/6cwUyOz Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/hKWzvP6 Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/j173ztW

Ask HN: Do You Have a Copy of IBM "Logo: Programming with Turtle Graphics"? 2 by susam | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN! First a quick background of what I am trying to search. In 1983, Logo Computer Systems, Inc. (LCSI) published two popular versions of Logo. One was meant to be run on Atari systems and the other was meant to be run on IBM PCs. The manuals and documentation for the Atari LCSI Logo are very well archived on the world wide web. The two I am particularly interested in are here: * Atari Logo Reference Manual: https://ift.tt/Eco0NP9 * Atari Logo Introduction to Programming Through Turtle Graphics: https://ift.tt/JB8xztq On page 3 of the first document (9th page in the PDF), there is a reference to the second document: > First time Logo users should start with the companion manual Introduction to Programming Through Turtle Graphics . However, sadly, the manuals for IBM LCSI Logo does not seem to be easily available. I found the following: * IBM Personal

Should I fight a forced resignation? 5 by 0xtaj | 9 comments on Hacker News. I was offered a resignation today in my role with a State Government organization. Should I fight it? The facts: 1. The role is 5 hours away. I was commuting on a weekly basis to the office, every Tue-Thur and did 10 hours a day on site. 2. I was remote on Mondays, and off on Fridays. 3. I was still in my state-mandated probation of 1 year. 4. There has not been a documented issue. IE: there was never anything that I signed that said I was deficient in an area of my job. 5. There was one undocumented issue about 7 months in that I received a verbal counseling for. Again, nothing formal, and it was a personality conflict between myself and another manager/supervisor. I have already been interviewing for other roles and had a final interview that I thought went well, but am waiting for the offer. On one hand, it doesn’t really seem worth it to “fight” it, but on the other hand, I haven’t ever been formally co

Ask HN: What's the weirdest bug you ever had? 5 by martinbaun | 2 comments on Hacker News. What's the weirdest bug you have encountered? For me, it occurred during university on an assignment. We were supposed to create a SOAP C# integration, and I kept receiving the same error. I spent three days trying to resolve it, finding only two pages on the internet that detailed the bug—one in Russian and one in Chinese. When I finally asked my professor, he simply mentioned, "Oh, you just installed the wrong version." Yeah... the wrong version. I never figured out why this was a problem.

Browser extension that globally blocks vertical video? 5 by kradeelav | 1 comments on Hacker News. I dislike nearly everything about the recent vertical video format/medium that's taken over the internet since ~2018 or so. Is there an extension that globally blocks it across twitter/tumblr/youtube/anywhere embedded? Feels like it'd be pretty trivial to code if not, and I know there's a few other old web farts who would gladly use such an extension.

Ask HN: Where do you hire when scaling? 2 by MarkVenison | 1 comments on Hacker News. When you went from 1 to 5 employees, where did you find these people? And how do the best do this? How did the guy who started Coinbase went from 1 to 3 people? Where did he find them? Or the guy who started Airbnb where did he find employee number 2 and 3? Are they using Upwork to find talent? Or many of you guys here with successful businesses and agencies. Where are you hiring? How do the best tech entrepreneurs do this?

Does your software package work on Arm? 3 by mojoe | 0 comments on Hacker News. We have a new dashboard project at Arm that we hope is a useful tool to help people figure out if particular software packages work in the Arm ecosystem. We have a project on github where anyone can contribute PRs: https://ift.tt/BOKj5ev. We're working to add packages ourselves, but we'd love help populating the dashboard. If you know about packages that should be on the dashboard, please create a PR and let us know! Once your PR is merged, you'll see your package here: https://ift.tt/aN3cl06

Ask HN: What is a good web/SaaS alternative to Adobe lightroom? 2 by ssahoo | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is there one that stores all photos on cloud and let you edit in browser. May be with 20% of most used functionalities of lightroom?

Ask HN: Widespread Apathy? 14 by throw_that_away | 2 comments on Hacker News. Not sure how to say this, but I've been developing code since 1999. Every company I've worked at everyone is super engaged until recently. I know it is easy to blame the pandemic, or remote work, threats of layoffs?... but lately nothing seems to be serious anymore. I'm not speaking for one company but the last 3 I've been at. Anyone else seeing this?

Ask HN: Why are ads the major stream of revenue in any kind of digital media? 3 by astennumero | 6 comments on Hacker News. Lately I've come to the realisation that practically all digital content that's out there depends on ad revenue as a major source of revenue. I feel like we've absolutely messed up the entire digital ecosystem with ads. Why aren't there other sustainable revenue models? What caused this in the first place? What can we do to make this better? Do ads actually work? Personally I rarely buy/subscribe to stuff I see on an ad. I keep dreaming of an internet that doesn't run on ad. I just can't stop thinking about how exciting that would be. No ads. No sponsorship. What do you have to say?

Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today? 2 by alvperez82 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am a developer with nearly 20 years of experience trying to find a new job to try new things and naturally to get a higher salary, but even though I haven't been seriously involved in selection processes before, I used to feel that recruiters would respond right away, like you had to fend them off, and now they don't. Do you get the same feeling?

Ask HN: Why is nobody manufacturing low tech electric cars in 2024? 4 by julienreszka | 5 comments on Hacker News. Just let me drive. I don't need fancy screens.

How Important Are Book Reviews for Success on KDP and How to Get Them? 2 by emotivondesigns | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've heard that book reviews are crucial for success on KDP, but I'm unsure how to effectively gather them, especially as a new author. What strategies have worked for you to get genuine and positive reviews without violating Amazon's guidelines?

Ask HN: What was your best interview experience? 2 by bazil376 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As an interviewee, regardless of whether you got the job or not.

Ask HN: What are your favorite parables, anecdotes, idioms, etc.? 12 by squircle | 32 comments on Hacker News. You can lead a horse to water... and what have you. Don't be shy about malapropisms either.

Ask HN: Multicast over UDP vs. Multicast Mellanox Infiniband 3 by scrubs | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on a pet project involving multi-cast. Unfortunately I don't know enough about how this scales. Consider a network of 50 Linux machines connected to 1 TOR switch. 10 processes in this network are multi-cast transmitting long lived streams of data. Other processes in the network may or may not elect to listen to these mcast packets forwarded by the switch. Is the following true? * If IPV4 UDP multi-cast is used, the switch is obliged to forward all mcast packets to all 50 machines. * If Mellanox Infinband mcast is used (and the TOR switch is infiniband compatible) the switch is not obliged to forward the mcast packets to all 50 machines. In fact, Mellanox Infiniband does mcast with subsciption. Receivers subscribe to a mcast channel (address). As such the switch only forwards mcast packets to subscribed receivers. All-in-all, the Mellanox mcast approach is net mor

Tell HN: Hacker News BigQuery dataset is updated daily again 6 by wietsevenema | 1 comments on Hacker News. As you might know, there's a Hacker News BigQuery dataset [1]. I recently noticed that the export was broken (since Nov 2022) and I worked with the team to help fix it. It'll now again run daily. SELECT timestamp FROM `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1 # 2024-06-09 09:12:55 UTC [1]: https://ift.tt/U80BXV6

Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you're interviewing at a company? 12 by bazil376 | 29 comments on Hacker News. The sort of stuff where if an employee interviewer says it you think to yourself “nope, this isn’t the place for me.”

Ask HN: Who'll take ownership of AI's mistakes? 2 by wg0 | 2 comments on Hacker News. A lot many companies are being formed with AI automation of Enterprise spcae, lots of optimism around chained together AI agents autonomously working together without much human intervention. Genuine question - if traditional software makes mistake, its usually deterministic, debugable, fixable and a blame can be assigned. What's the deal with these autonomous AI agents? Let's say analysing customes paperwork to schedule some shipments from overseas and it fails to let a shipment in because it misclassified or worse, lets it it but being it on the shores under certain conditions leads to heavy financial penalties? Who's responsible? The AI prompt automation engineer? Or the underlying platform? Or the company providing model? If the answer is that each outcome of such model should be double checked by a human while going through all that paperwork than what's the point of ha

Ask HN: Is there an impending stock market crash or world war? 3 by roschdal | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How to deal with the AI-pocalypse as a regular guy? 2 by elschneider | 6 comments on Hacker News. I feel like there is a huge elephant in the room, and I'm sure I can't be the only one thinking about this currently. However, in the web dev community, which I likely follow a bit too closely for my own good, there is a lot of business as usual. People argue about all kinds of things like AI had never happened. Sure, everyone is regularly confronted with the rapid advances made by Copilot and the likes, but influencers on YouTube and X, as well as the very companies developing all these novel solutions, keep telling us: "there will always be a need for good (whatever that means) developers," "the rising tide lifts all the boats," or "the ones who adapt will be the ones who survive." And it seems obvious why each of those are making these claims. I'm just increasingly having a hard time believing any of that. I think pretty much everyone

What are some of the best resources to learn Robotics? 2 by anupj | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Legitimate voting email from city clerk marked as spam 3 by Jupe | 1 comments on Hacker News. Today I was browsing my spam folder and there I found an email from our local Deputy City Clerk. The topic of the mail was how to go about voting by mail. (I promise this is not a political post). I unflagged the "spam" status, perused the email... everything was legitimate. Emails, phone numbers, attachments (yes, I did check in VM), etc. So, it has just occurred to me (I'm a little slow sometimes, getting old) that the sensitivity to one or a handful of "negative" reviews or judgements is enough to flag something potentially important as "spam". It only takes a few (how many, I don't know) "reports" for our automated systems to consider something it is not. (In fact, apparently, a single, probably false, comment suggesting improper jury sequestering could be enough to declare a mis-trial in a recent, high-visibility court case here

Ask HN: What type of applications is Golang best suited for? 3 by Gooblebrai | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm diving into Golang and I'm curious about its strengths, cons, and best use cases. While I know it's praised for its performance and simplicity, I'm looking for real-world examples and experiences.

Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend? 12 by 0bsolete | 9 comments on Hacker News. I'm converting my unused gaming PC into a NAS/Docker container server and my personal device will now be a MacBook Air. I've got Magnet for easier window management, otherwise not much else and looking for recommendations on other apps to check out. So, what applications do you use daily on MacOS and why do you love it?

Ask HN: DevOps Engineers, What Do You Do at Work? 3 by Smaointe | 0 comments on Hacker News. Inspired by: https://ift.tt/TeBCosP

Anyone else lurk and feel like they understand nothing? 5 by to-too-two | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m a hobbyist game developer and I’ve been on here for years. The content seems fascinating but honestly I understand almost nothing that’s being said here even though I’ve programmed on and off for years. Anyone else? Makes ya feel like a dumb-dumb.

Ask HN: Who Went Mac –> Linux? 7 by martinbaun | 3 comments on Hacker News. A lot of people do the switch from Something -> Mac, but who's going the other way? and why? I personally just bought a Macbook, worked like a charm for 3 months but then I figured out Apple hardware do not like tea, and all Apple shops just suggested me to buy a new Macbook - which seems a little crazy expensive to me. So I went back to Linux, and fell in love with Linux again. It seems much more productive for my work with Linux, except when I update and my drivers stop working again.

Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack? 5 by kirso | 6 comments on Hacker News. Most answers to tech stacks take into account "knowing what you know best". However, for people who are starting out, without the goal or aim becoming a software engineer and aside of the golden trio (html, css, javascript). What would you learn today to build web apps (both static content and interactive experiences)?

Ask HN: How to OCR a PDF and preserve whitespace? 3 by GirkovArpa | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have some rather large PDFs that need to be transcribed, but every service I try has some minor but deal-breaking flaw. Either they don't support PDFs this large (hundreds of pages), are just really bad at English OCR, or, most commonly, don't preserve whitespace correctly. The number one problem is whitespace when it comes to multiple columns (similar to newspapers). Either not putting any spaces between words, or when there are multiple columns of text, putting rows in the wrong order. If it was just a single page, this would still be useful, since I could fix it myself. But I have over 1000 pages. I tried so many free services and trials that I just got charged for forgetting to cancel one (thanks to smallpdf.com for refunding my $12). Is OCR technology just not there yet when it comes to multiple-column pages? Yet, this does not seem to be an issue with newspapers.com, based

Ask HN: Compiler speed-up or Build Caching tool. Hard to find? 2 by fatbrowndog | 1 comments on Hacker News. There's incredibuild, stashed.io, ccache, dcache , scache, FastBuild, BuildCache. There's one more that was highlighted by HN. Its used by game companies. I can't seem to find the link. It was mentioned here on HN. Anyone have any ideas?

Ask HN: Did Calico (googles life science) produce any results yet? 2 by butterboi | 1 comments on Hacker News. Couldn’t find much, wondering if the investments yielded any tangible results yet.

Ask HN: What is your best domain name? 5 by orenlindsey | 0 comments on Hacker News. What is your best/coolest/rarest/most valuable/most unique domain name? I only have one domain right now, lindsey.studio, but I think its pretty cool.

Ask HN: Using AI to repair spinal cord injury 3 by h_tbob | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is a tech forum, not a medical one, but I'll ask anyway. In the future, robots will obviously be doing surgery. Is it feasible to think that a robot with sufficient number of limbs and microscopes could actually repair a spinal cord injury, instead of doing something like neuralink to fix it?

Ask HN: Do you have any tips for overcoming presentation jitters? 4 by cebert | 7 comments on Hacker News. I wondered if anyone had any tips for overcoming jitters when presenting in front of an audience on short notice. I know I need to get better at public speaking. I am okay, but not great. I believe that one way to improve is to practice. With this mindset, I am speaking at a small one-day tech conference next week. This growth opportunity pushes me out of my comfort zone a bit, but it is a smaller conference and should be a lower-risk environment. I feel good about the content and am prepared. One of the areas I am less comfortable with is "the jitters" you get standing in front of a larger audience.

Tell HN: Fedora Dual Boot didn't work, back to Mint 3 by 999900000999 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I consider myself a fairly advanced computer user. I've set up numerous EC2 servers from scratch, I've used desktop linux for at least 12 years. But Fedora seriously doesn't want to play nice with Windows 11 on a single drive( not a lot of options on a laptop), I just got tired of fighting with it. I didn't take screenshots, but it kept complaining about a missing efi mount point or something. I'm sure a subject matter expert could tell me what happened. I tried setting aside 500gb of free space, the auto installer couldn't figure it out. But when I switched back to Mint( which is ultimately my go to distro), I just needed to manually create the partition and it just worked. I prefer Linux aside from music creation and gaming. Happy to run it.

Ask HN: Alternatives to Serverless Framework? 8 by Azeralthefallen | 1 comments on Hacker News. Looking for alternatives to the serverless framework, we have been using it heavily since V1, however with their new licensing changes it is no longer viable. V3 is EOL at the end of the year and we need to migrate to something else before that. We were quoted low 6 figures per year for our existing infrastructure which is actually more then we pay for AWS for our usage of API Gateway / Lambda. We also were told there is no way to automatically opt out of features such as traces/metrics, it must be done through their UI, which is extremely frustrating because it is a massive price hike and is worse then what AWS offers overall from what i saw.

Ask HN: How would you study Front End development from zero in 2024? 3 by dostoynikov | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How to find problem worth solving today? 3 by Biba1989 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I know how important it is to find the problem worth solving and that drives you to start a company, but since tech is evolving and we have new tools to use (like AI), what would be a good way to find problems worth solving today with the all new tech we have? I know there are many ways to find the problem worth solving and I believe its best to solve your own problems first, but just thinking how can I approach it now and if I can find it faster with new tech.

Ask HN: Python in the Browser Window? 2 by tmaly | 4 comments on Hacker News. I have been volunteering to teach middle school students about coding and robotics. Right now I have been using MS MakeCode that has blocks, Python, and JavaScript options. Some of the students keeps asking to learn Python. The Python option is not a full Python in MakeCode, but rather a limited set. The students have Chromebooks. Are there any options for a sandbox for coding in Python inside a browser window that would offer almost of a full experience? Some limitations would be fine.

Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2024) 26 by whoishiring | 60 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: Tech opportunities for neurodivergent people with learning difficulties 6 by CuriousRose | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I’m seeking advice on entry-level tech roles that are particularly well-suited for individuals with minor learning difficulties and/or autism. What roles or areas in tech have you found to be accommodating and supportive? Additionally, are there specific resources, tools, or communities that can help individuals with these challenges succeed in the tech industry? I'm asking on behalf of a family member that has just finished high school (18), with interest in tech. They are currently working through CompTIA A+ certification, with intention to get into a tech support role but we have concerns as they struggle with communication and that they take time to process complex requests or communicate clearly. As a result we are looking for some backup alternatives that play to their strengths like focus, structure, attention to detail and creativity. Thank

How to find and validate Cyber Security startup idea? 2 by ssbros | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello Community, ! I was previously a full stack developer in a company. I worked there for 3 years and eventually left the company. I took a year gap and in this one year I gathered Cyber Security, Ethical Hacking, PenTesting Skills. I would say I am somewhat good in these skills. I always wanted to start a startup. And currently I have decided to start my startup in cyber security space. I will not be providing services to the companies rather want to develop a product and start selling that product as B2B SaaS. But currently I am not able to gather enough data on which niche should I pursue. There are multiple niches in cybersec : - Cloud Security - Threat Intelligence, Detection - Endpoint Security - Network Security - IAM - Data Security ........... If you see big players in cybersec, some are capturing multiple niches as well. Ideally, I am considering picking a niche. And with enoug

Ask HN: Book Recommendations? 5 by smarm52 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I like to read on scientific topics. Some of my favorites include: Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press. De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson, R. M., & Morrow, J. D. (2005). The logic of political survival. MIT press. Axelrod, R., & Hamilton, W. D. (1981). The evolution of cooperation. science, 211(4489), 1390-1396. Tetlock, P. E. (2017). Expert political judgment: How good is it? How can we know?-New edition. In Expert Political Judgment. Princeton University Press. Diamond, J., & Renfrew, C. (1997). Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. Nature, 386(6623), 339-339. McGillivray, F., & Smith, A. (2008). Punishing the prince: a theory of interstate relations, political institutions, and leader change. Princeton University Press. Kuhn, T. S. (1997). The structure of scientific revolutions (Vol. 962). Chicago: University of Chicago press

Ask HN: Can dogs be made more intelligent by having them wear an AI headset? 2 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. Consider, for example, ChatGPT giving a dog advice whenever it needs it (e.g., on how to accomplish various tasks).

Ask HN: Most Interactive REPL for Python? 2 by mettamage | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm relearning Python, coming from JS (and having done Python in the past). I've watched a few videos, and it is coming back to me a bit. What I wonder, is there a very visually interactive REPL? Chrome/Safari/Firefox dev tools have such an interactive REPL it's crazy. It's how I nowadays teach programming to people that are only a little bit interested in programming since they only need to download a browser to start. For example, Chrome dev tools has a debugger + pretty good text editor in the sources > snippets section. I wonder if there's anything in Python that resembles that something as interactive. In many cases, you can also create a debugger type of environment in the JS console (e.g. type console.lg('hi'), the error will come up, click on VM set the breakpoint, rerun the statement in the console and now you are on your breakpoint).

Ask HN: Using mini PCs / NUC as (small/medium) business/production servers? 2 by hedgehog0 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Dear all, Recently I saw someone mentioned that [Miniforums MS-01](https://ift.tt/Nnt13bF) is one of the more powerful mini PCs available (with possibility of extensions). Many people also seem to use mini PCs, as well as SFF computers (e.g., Optiplex), as homelab servers? I personally have a Beelink SER-5 and Debian for this purpose. So this got me thinking, would it be possible/feasible to use mini PCs and/or SFF computers as business/production servers in serious settings, such as for small/medium business and/or (SaaS) startups? Or that even in these cases, a [HPE MicroServer](https://ift.tt/ZlWziaK) may be a better choices, due to the fact that it's more like an actual server? I guess in other words, what functionalities and/or features make a server server? Thank you!

Ask HN: How close is too close to live to a large fracking operation? 5 by MarketingJason | 1 comments on Hacker News. Auroa, Co. We've been fighting a proposed fracking operation (160 wells on 10 large pads) for a year since it was proposed shortly after our moving into the neighborhood. Ultimately, the application will likely pass and operations will commence. The nearest well will be just over a 1 mile away with most between 1-3 miles and it's likely some wells will drill under us. My wife is deeply concerned for our family's health - mostly about the VOCs. She's ready to move as soon as the plan is approved. I'm a bit more willing to wait it out a bit and judge the impacts before taking that step. I can accept a dip in home value, a bit of traffic, noise, risks to ground water, etc. However, when all we see is articles about respiratory issues, skin cancer, etc it's harder to justify staying. The issue is if I search for anything related to health and pro