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Ask HN: What is the state of OSS voice cloning? 2 by dmckinno | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am super impressed by the quality of voice cloning offered by Eleven Labs and Play.ai. I feel like I see impressive OSS demos on social frequently, but last weekend I took a few popular ones for a spin and quality wasn't even close to the proprietary models. https://ift.tt/t3zvSZx https://ift.tt/ipoAgs3 https://ift.tt/TACZ8pS https://ift.tt/8n6hUa9 https://ift.tt/XhW48aH https://ift.tt/tsJjAT9 Has anyone else had success with these? Are there other projects I should look at?

Brutal Startup Failure 4 by theHolyTrynity | 2 comments on Hacker News. My first (vc backed) startep failed after three years. We started in 2021, working in crypto. Looking back to the time we got started, I made some serious foundational errors: - Selling 40% of the company at preseed for 1.2mln and signing a predatory shareholder agreement - Trusting a co-founder relationship which never really worked, hoping to fix it along time But 1.2mln$ in the bank made me forget about these issues. Started to work on the business heads down. After 18 months of iterating, things were finally moving. Our vision became clearer, and we got into a well-known accelerator. But that’s when everything started to unravel. My relationship with my co-founder began to deteriorate rapidly. I felt like I was doing everything—closing clients, managing product, handling content, brand, fundraising—you name it. My co-founder, on the other hand, wasn’t pulling his weight. His network and skills weren’t contri...

Ask HN: How can I mail snailmail online cheaply? Receiving? 3 by b8 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Even in $year I still have to send snailmail sometimes, and it's annoying having to buy stamps, print the PDF etc. What do y'all use to send snailmail which is easier? Also is there any service y'all would recommend about receiving snail mail that will open it and email me the contents? I'm using the USPS informed delivery which is nice, but have to call my fam to open and read it to me.

Ask HN: Are new AI code editors adding superficial value? 3 by dcreater | 1 comments on Hacker News. Specifically referring to Cursor and Melt. It seems to be the rage among the bay area AI community but they're basically just VS Code skins. Im pretty happy with VS Code both features-wise and UX, but I think now is the golden opportunity to fundamentally rethink the craft & work of human coding and build a new UI/App from scratch. Including NOT building on Electron..

Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? 1 by david927 | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Ask HN: Unpopular ideas that you believe in and why? 4 by galfarragem | 3 comments on Hacker News. Sunday is a good day to challenge your assumptions. So I ask you unpopular ideas that you believe in and why do you believe them. HN is full of smart people, I start... I believe in the idea of secession. When the spectrum of beliefs becomes too wide, reaching a consensus can be impossible or established through force. A division of 80% versus 20% is fundamentally different from a close call like 52% versus 48%. In such cases, secession — whether literal or figurative — should be considered. It allows competing ideas to thrive independently, even if the "logistics" of a secession are scary. A classic example is the division of East and West Germany, though the scale can vary. edit: You can generalise and/or use a throw away account.

Tell HN: Is this AI doom loop? I thought o1-preview was amazing, until it wasn't 6 by moomoo11 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I get that we expect more from the tools we use. But honestly.. I'm so fed up with AI at this point. Every new model I've used, I thought it was amazing for a few days. Until... it stopped being useful and hallucinating and giving me non-working and terrible code. I feel like I always start giving it simple/rote problems, and when I'm fed up with something difficult I really wish I could turn to an AI and have it help me.. The latest of this fad is o1-preview. At first, I thought wow. This thing is amazing. It could "come up" with answers for me, and for the first time in many months I felt like I was going to use AI tools again. Until... Yesterday I was struggling with some event handler hell-mode (lots of event synchronization on a very complex UI) on a web app I'm working on. It is pretty complex, and one thing I do appreciate a...

Ask HN: What are engineering meetings with Elon Musk like? 5 by Cold_Brew | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How are you using Advanced Voice Mode? 3 by pizza | 0 comments on Hacker News. Would be curious to hear what people have come up with.

Ask HN: Why not verify users by making THEM send emails? 4 by popcalc | 4 comments on Hacker News. Email delivery (if you don't want to end up in the spam folder) costs $ these days. So why not turn the tables and generate a random string and put it into a mailto: link that the user is prompted to open? If your email server picks up the string anywhere in the body it confirms the user registration. Bounce rates would go up but depending on your CLV and CAC this could be highly economical.

Ask HN: What do you use to backup your VMs? 12 by bykof | 5 comments on Hacker News. How do you backup VMs with installed Postgres, MariaDB instances and local files?

Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code 5 by ilrwbwrkhv | 4 comments on Hacker News. So this is something for my fellow hackers. I run a successful tech business and I also consult others who want to start their own businesses. Now this is a problem I'm seeing other tech CEOs start doing which is use AI to have the code written for them by either using some sort of editor plugin or by using something like Cursor. The problem is that the code that is generated is usually humongous. There is just huge amounts of types and indirection and functions, calling functions and doing all sorts of nonsense which can be done manually, much simpler with fewer lines of code. This is creating huge amounts of AI-generated slop. Now when I come in to consult some of these tech architectures it takes me a really long time to figure out how to improve things because there is so much of indirection in the code base and the more troubling thing is that there are errors hidden in the archit...

Has anyone here worked with Sam Altman? What's he like? 3 by hilux | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How to Improve Memory? 4 by fragmenter | 5 comments on Hacker News. What is the best way to improve memory? I know note-taking is important and relevant, but I am more interested in what wetware tricks I can learn. Ideally I want to remember more context when coding, more about the tasks relevant to me, and be able to remember the entertainment I read and watch. Note: I have aphantasia which means memory palaces don't work for me. I have discovered it is a sliding scale however, as I practice with visualizing and have noticed getting better at it.

Tell HN: DigitalOcean locks your account for KYC 7 by Mystery-Machine | 0 comments on Hacker News. Disclaimer: I might not have any Droplet or other service (or anything) running on DO at the time. But I cannot check because my account is locked. I've received an email from DigitalOcean with the subject: > [DigitalOcean] Ticket #xxx: Verify Your Account: ref:!xxx.!xxx:ref Great subject BTW! (op.ed.) (replaced real references with xxx) I logged into my DO account and found that my account is locked and I cannot access anything but their ticketing service. I think this practice of lock first ask questions later is terrible and I hope they change it. Here's the full email body (references replaced with xxx): Hi there, We're excited to have you as a customer of DigitalOcean and we would like to verify your account. Because your recent account activity is atypical, we’d like to better understand your product needs. To help us in restoring access to the account, please resp...

Ask HN: Is it possible to avoid Bandwidth DDoS attacks without Cloudflare? 6 by theanonymousone | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi. If I implement IP-based rate-limiting in my web application hosted on a VPS, it can help in preventing over-usage of paid API etc. But what if someone tries to exhaust the bandwidth that the VPS host allocates to my box, by simply making HTTP requests en masse? Even if I return 429 for all of them, my bandwidth is still gone, right? Is there any solution for this apart from seeking protection of Cloudflare and the like? Thanks

Ask HN: Resources for Learning Graphics Programming 9 by dbetteridge | 11 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN I've predominantly always worked in Web dev but always had an interest in 3D graphics, modelling and games. What are your best resources for me to go from 0 to being able to write my own (basic) graphics renderer, eventually I'd like to get to the point of rendering scenes but understand that might be a long haul.

Ask HN: How will you try to observe/photograph the comet in October? 2 by acadapter | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Hetzner just launched object storage in beta 4 by figassis | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is a game changer, since this keeps me form having to roll my own Minio. I was considering moving from S3 to R2, but if I can keep all traffic away from the internet until it needs to leave, that is ideal to me. Hopefully they add a CDN too. Beta is limited access and will run until November 1. Hopefully next are managed databases and cache.

Ask HN: Recommended Way to Setup Colocated Kubernetes? 2 by skeptrune | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, our Cloud Hosting costs seem pretty out of hand and we are looking to migrate to colocation. We have a good Kubernetes setup and I am curious if anyone recommends a particular way to setup a Kube backbone on colocated servers.

Ask HN: Going to tech interviews for a 3rd party shop? 3 by tompark | 3 comments on Hacker News. My LinkedIn profile has my contact info, so it's not uncommon that I get contacted for random things. Recently I received an email from a dev shop, complimenting me on specifics about my work experience. Their proposal is that I perform in tech interviews to help land projects for them. They handle all the client prospecting, and do all the project management and coding. Beyond the interviews, I can be involved with the actual work as much or little as I want. We'd split any profits 50-50. It seemed like the kind of thing that could be legit, unethical, or possibly a scam. - If there's full transparency with the hiring employer, then ok, it's legit. - But why would I be involved in the first place? If the employer/client thinks I'm overseeing the project, then there's some deception involved. - Also you've probably heard of developers working as full-time empl...

Ask HN: Ever hit a professional goal but felt surprised by your reaction? 2 by calflegal | 0 comments on Hacker News. Like a lot of us, I think about trying to work for myself, but then I wonder if I'd be happier running marketing AND software dev? Sometimes I think I'd rather be an in-person worker rather than a remote one. I'm interested in hearing some stories of people making big changes and being surprised in both negative and / or positive directions.

Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games? 22 by IgorPartola | 45 comments on Hacker News. My 11 year old has a lot of interest in creating games. They are a very creative kid currently experimenting with using Power Point/Google Presentations to create a crafting and turn based combat style game but is running into the obvious limitations of this setup. They have some very rudimentary understanding of coding (together we recently created a command line version of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock from scratch in Python and they were able to follow along the whole way), but I don’t think their best bet is to start with a code first platform just yet. Maybe something with scripting capabilities when they need them but mostly with the ability to create a point and click interface with something specific happening on each click. Does anyone know what’s out there that would work for them in this case? FWIW I don’t know Lua but anything with JavaScript or Python built in woul...

Ask HN: Sci-fi recommendations by non-western authors? 8 by elric | 9 comments on Hacker News. While talking with a friend about books, I realised that 99% of the sci-fi I've read was written by western authors. Mostly white men at that. When reading Cixin Lui's Three Body Problem I was pleasantly surprised by the (to my mind) different perspective that his background brought to the telling of the story. I'd love to hear some sci-fi recommendations featuring authors with different backgrounds. Anything goes: non-westerners, refugees, deeply religious cultists who live in a hidden paradise underneath antarctica, whatever.

Ask HN: Cheap way to run a small newsletter? 2 by tombot | 1 comments on Hacker News. For a newsletter of around 1,500 subscribers mailchimp wants £34 a month. What cheaper / better alternatives are out there for less than 2,000 subscribers? Are we using Amazon SES + an open source tool, what’s good?

Ask HN: Product Hunt or Paid Ads? 4 by cloudguruab | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm trying to determine the best channel for a soft launch, I've been working on https://ift.tt/UcNiFVL - I'm currently on the fence with Product Hunt, a lot of outbound to date has been through LinkedIn so I'm wondering how I should quantify my approach here. For those who've done PH launches what are some early tips/tricks? For those running LinkedIn ads, anything useful I should know before diving in?

Ask HN: How to export photos from iPhone to non Mac computers 4 by ustad | 10 comments on Hacker News. OK - I am getting abit stressed in not finding a way to export a large number photos and videos from my iphone 14 to ANY computer that is not running the latest Mac OS or using the cloud. How can I transfer my camera filea to a linux or windows machine? I have tried copying from explorer (failed with “catastrophic failure”) and with itunes (have a backup but no actual files anywhere). Does anyone have a simple solution to do this? Without buying an Apple computer ….

Ask HN: Create an app that sends an email with some text 2 by thr0waway1 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I want to create an app that runs on a batch job. Say at 4am every morning, this app should start. It should take a snippet from a database/data store and email it to a set of people in a list/DB. I am a technical non-programming PM. So I understand technology but its been many years since I actually coded something. I dont want to integrate with Twilio or something for an enterprise grade feature. This is just to create a quick POC to evaluate product/market fit. Like I said above, its been a while, and I would like to do this myself. Any guidance on where I could start? Is the O-1 model good enough now where it can create this entire app for me, and deploy it? :) Looking for tips that are not, simply said, too hard.

If AI is helping people code better, why aren't products getting better? 7 by thisismytest | 0 comments on Hacker News. If AI is helping people code a lot faster and better, why aren’t the products I regularly use getting way better? Source: https://ift.tt/WzPit8U

Ask HN: Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups? 16 by walterfreedom | 11 comments on Hacker News. I was wondering how easy and reliable it is to work with NextCloud in any professional setting. Does it put too much maintenance work on DevOps to a level that makes just using things like dropbox the standard way? I read that German government uses nextcloud because it offers better control over data. Do the companies care about this matter too? or should I just learn big cloud alternatives?

Ask HN: What's your personal hardware EOL policy? 2 by CoreSet | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm very much in the "if it's not broke, don't fix it" camp, which means I have several long-lived devices, including a 2015-era MacBook Pro and an even older Mac Mini. Despite this, I'm realizing I want to make the move before these old systems break down, especially so I can make sure the old files are transferred over and old passwords synced to new devices. Is 10 years enough to call it quits on a laptop? Especially now that we've all weathered the MacBook touch bar fiasco.

Ask HN: 1000+ visitors but 1 customer, how to get more conversions on your SaaS? 4 by sanjogg | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have a saas, and I seem to gotten the hang of getting traffic to my site. However, the conversions remain low. Over 1000 people have viewed the website, ~400 users, 1 paying customer. How do I make this rate better? Any generalized tip that could apply here? For reference, my saas is a AI tool that assists in video production. I have been not paying for marketing yet. I wanted to exhaust my options with free marketing on reddit, directories, etc., and optimize the conversion rate before I shell out money. Thank you in advance!

Ask HN: Could Qualcomm Buy Intel? 3 by gigatexal | 4 comments on Hacker News. I saw this floating around. Unsure if it’s serious. Seems like it would be a huge win for Qualcomm: they’d get fabs, all the x86 IP (or maybe that’d have to be spun out), system integrator know how for use with Qualcomm’s ARM stuff, networking, etc etc. all of this would help them with their VMWare side: maybe they go the HP route with green lake and ship the hardware with the software a la Sun Microsystems? What do the VCs say? The lawyers say? Does it even make sense?

Ask HN: Is it ok to price your SaaS higher at the start? 2 by Marius_Manola | 3 comments on Hacker News. How do you price your SaaS at the beginning? I have the fear of charging too much because the product isn't fully ready yet (although it gets the job done), it has only a short list of features... How do you go about charging for your SaaS?

Ask HN: How to market a tool built for B2B? 2 by wondersoft | 0 comments on Hacker News. It’s a simple tool targeted towards B2B. I am reaching out to directors and VPs of marketing but I see lackluster response. How can I get these people’s attention and sell them the tool? I would love to get ideas for selling to marketing folks.

Ask HN: Kodak, VW, Intel – Why big companies fail? 2 by wg0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Understandable for startups - product isn't something anybody needs or not enough cash but why big companies with a proven product would fail? Your observations?

Ask HN: Anyone else get depressed when you're not actively digging into a topic? 2 by samh748 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Sometimes I'll be "done" exploring a topic/project, but haven't yet found another one to dig into (or just run into some sort of a break/gap in mental activity), and I'll basically get depressed (not technically, just temporary low mood) without having something keeping my brain engaged. I wonder if any of you have advice on managing these gaps. Or maybe strategies you've adopted to always have something keeping you engaged?

Ask HN: Phone Behavior 4 by jrs235 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have Google Fi and live in an area with spotty cell coverage. There are two locations that seem to exhibit the following behvaior on my phone: my phone (which is set to English) will suddenly switch to the Spanish sites in Chrome. Instead of resolving to the standard English Google site it will go to the Spanish site. Same with Yahoo and others. I'm not sure what the issue is or where the problem exists. I suspect the phone is connecting to a particular cell tower and somehow my session is getting mixed up with another phone? My service and signal strength is very weak in the area where this happens often downgrading from 5G to LTE. I am in an area with a large Spanish speaking population. Is this a phone issue, Google Fi issue, cell tower / service carrier (Google Fi uses a few carriers IIRC) issue? Anyone else experience something like this before? I'm trying to debug and figure out what's going on. If a...

Ask HN: How to start a software development agency? 3 by nikasakana | 0 comments on Hacker News. If you have founded a software development agency, what was your first steps like? Would love to hear a story/journey (Especially how did you get the first project? What were the specifics, etc)?

Is anyone deploying GraphRAG in prod? 4 by cbrizz00 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been seeing a lot of buzz around GraphRAG and its potential, but many implementations seem to encounter issues, often with Neo4j. Has anyone managed to set up a reliable and cost-effective GraphRAG system in production? I'm curious about real-world experiences and practical solutions.

Ask HN: What do you do when you're stuck in a job and overworked? 3 by 0x3444ac53 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I work in an entry level position as a call taker at a Bank. I was given a small project to work on that would involve creating a database and VBA form that would allow our managers to select weekend schedules. It quickly ballooned into an entire application as more and more things were asked to be added, and I spent 3 months working on it. During this time I asked about raises, or if there was a different position I could be moved to since this had become a full-time project, and I was told that I was being a "Team Player" and that "Goes a long way". I would like to note here that any time I spend working on this instead of taking phone calls reflects on my call statistics, and how those look affects everything from the schedules I am allowed to work to the opportunities I am offered. I talked to a few colleagues about how I could begin to step away...

Ask HN: What reasonable person would work as a founding engineer? 7 by atleastoptimal | 7 comments on Hacker News. Esp for a non-technical founder. You are signing up for 80 hour work-weeks to help bring to fruition the dream of someone else who will reap far more of the benefits. "Able to wear many hats", "High agency", "Ability to go above and beyond". If you really had these attributes you'd be much better off starting your own company.

Ask HN: Is it possible to work and play at the same time? 3 by hypertexthero | 6 comments on Hacker News. Or are “work” and “play” terms for the left (analytical, procedural) and right (creative, random) sides of the brain so we’re balancing both all the time? What books about this have you read and recommend? Which companies have the best balance of work and play? Consider: Creativity - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g Flow - https://ift.tt/QfeOUwR

Is ARC challenge the next ImageNet challenge? 2 by gpt4o | 0 comments on Hacker News. I guess the Imagenet challenge helped progress the Computer Vision research. In the same way, the ARC challenge will be the next important challenge that tests the LLMs. What are your opinions?

Auto brewer gut syndrome and goldfish crackers 2 by peterweyand38 | 1 comments on Hacker News. So I've been having mysterious headaches and I don't know why. The cause may be auto brewer gut syndrome where your gut creates ethanol. Pure boost energy drinks and goldfish crackers may both be contributing factors - ones a fizzy drink mix and the other has yeast extract. Does anyone know the solution?

Ask HN: Why do centers of international power often have acute urban poverty? 3 by keepamovin | 0 comments on Hacker News. I guess the key examples are Brussels (EU HQ) and DC (center of US power globally). But there are more examples and details: - Washington, D.C. (U.S. Federal Government, World Bank, IMF) - Economic disparity between wealthy political districts and impoverished areas like Anacostia; aging infrastructure and high crime rates in some neighborhoods. - Brussels (European Union, NATO) - Neglect in neighborhoods like Molenbeek, characterized by poverty, unemployment, and social unrest, contrasting with the European Quarter. - New York City (United Nations) - Stark economic divide between Manhattan’s financial district and outer boroughs like the Bronx, which experience poverty, crime, and deteriorating infrastructure. - Paris (UNESCO, OECD) - The affluent city center contrasts with impoverished suburban banlieues, facing unemployment, crime, and lack of investment, esp...

Ask HN: How has Airbnb's decision to merge PMs with design panned out? 6 by trojanalert | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Is AI Winter coming again? 3 by gpt4o | 4 comments on Hacker News. I heard someone saying that most of the AI startups aren't getting funding. I know that the first AI winter started by not getting enough funding. So what's your opinion?

What are the best options for Amazon SDEs thinking about leaving over RTO policy 2 by aws_throwaway | 0 comments on Hacker News. Any SDEs who are thinking of leaving Amazon over the 5-day RTO announcement, what are the best options for WFH flexibility, interesting projects, quality of colleagues, and salary? I'm a DB-focused SDE3 in the Seattle area, but am open to general systems programming projects, with 0-2 days/week onsite.

Ask HN: Can solo entrepreneurs benefit from an AI with a cofounder personality? 3 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. Maybe it would be like having a startup with several cofounders even though only one of them is human?

Ask HN: Recommendations for Eye Tracking Hardware? 3 by FloatArtifact | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am supporting a disabled loved one who is going to lose control over their body do to multiple sclerosis complicated by a series of strokes. We have tried a tobii eye tracker c4. Unfortunately monitor mounted eye trackers are problematic for those with limited mobility and wheelchair-bound. From a positional standpoint there's a lot of variability relative to a monitor. - Muscle fatigue causing posture changes such as head droop or leaning torso - A person's position in the chair such as tilt or recline - Chair alignment to the monitor Tobii eye tracker c4 can't cope with this kind of environment. In addition Tobii does not really support the disabled community. Tobii restricts any other language besides C,C#,C++ via the Stream Engine or Interaction Library API. The creation of a wrapper to gather data to pipe to another language is prohibited in end-user license agreemen...

Ask HN: Did HN just get hacked and leak passwords? 15 by gt565k | 2 comments on Hacker News. Got an email security alert from gmail about someone logging into an old forgotten gmail account with my actual password. Well, that gmail account was one I hadn't used in years as I was going to replace it with my HN profile contact email, but never did. I often create a burner gmail account for social media accounts and use the same password as the social media login. I've changed my passwords, but figured I'd ask here to warn others of a possible security breach.

Tell HN: DanBC has died 9 by in_memoriam | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am sorry to announce that long-time HN user DanBC died last month after a prolonged period of ill health. May his legacy continue to inspire, and his contributions to this place and the wider world be remembered. Rest in peace, Dan. https://ift.tt/ybpCVYN "Sadly Dan Beale Cocks, the wonderful Co-Chair of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board died on 21 August 2024 after a long illness. Dan made a fantastic contribution to improving mental health and coproduction in Gloucestershire for many years and he will be greatly missed. Before Dan died, we asked if we could plan an annual Dan Beale Cocks Celebration of Best Practice in Coproduction and he was delighted with the idea. It is intended to take this forward in collaboration with the other Partnership Boards." https://ift.tt/oQHIR5w https://twitter.com/DanBealeCocks

Algorithm 2 by BouaziziSam | 2 comments on Hacker News. Haw to sell an innovative Algorithm wich can be a solution of traveling Sales Problem(TSP)?

How to clone by commit found via commit referencing to different fork on GitHub? 2 by sdnews | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm sure everyone read an article "Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub" https://ift.tt/qvp5fGN. But how to clone the repository with found deleted commit pointing to different fork repository? Let me explain what I mean: I found the webpage-gui providing streaming of videos: https://ift.tt/56hSLKg which is based on deleted repository: https://ift.tt/iun7BRJ so I couldn't see the source code of this. But then I remembered this article and followed it's logic I found latest scraped version of that repository on github via archive.org and then navigating to latest commit there: https://ift.tt/1KaG9fv so I have a commit but I can't access it directly using github because it is deleted. But I could find via archive.org the forks of that repository: https://ift.tt/9Tx4NaP and then I went through the list and I...

HP blocks printing with non-HP inks 3 by ColinWright | 5 comments on Hacker News. From Joshua Weiner, replying to his friend Darin[0]: I was printing worksheets for my classes and ran out of colored ink. The printer had plenty of black ink. HP internet blocked my printer saying I purchased colored ink that was not HP brand. So what?? Anyway, I had reinstalled HP ink for black ($40 approx) but had no money to buy colored ink so I left the empty HP cartridges in the printer. I only needed to print black and white worksheets. HP blocked me from printing anyway, with a wireless message. I called customer support and told them I don’t need the colored ink. I need to get these worksheets to the students. They told me I violated the HP ink rule and had installed non-HP ink a few months ago. I told them well… yeah I did that purchase but HP printer rejected the cheaper brand and I threw them away. They said it is noted… I told them who cares all the HP ink is now in place and I need to use ...

Ask HN: Must-Read Books for Startups? 3 by dmazin | 0 comments on Hacker News. I recently read The Mom Test, and I learned something critical: before investing in your idea, talk to potential customers to see if anyone wants it or not. While this might seem obvious, it wasn’t to me. The first time I started something in my 20s, I was so enamored with the idea and its potential that I didn’t validate it! So, The Mom Test is obviously crucial reading. There are so many other books and resources out there. Which of them would you consider crucial? Which contain crucial lessons?

Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out? 2 by askHN2024 | 1 comments on Hacker News. For various life reasons, I developed depression, and I am autistic and have ADHD (diagnosed, treated). I didn’t get treatment for my ADHD till after college. The point of this Ask HN isn’t to start a pity party, but I am just getting some data on how others like me are doing. I have an ACE score of 6. Currently, I look accomplished to people, but I don’t feel accomplished. My estimated networth is maybe 300K or more with home equity. My biggest concern with my quality of life is I don’t feel safe (don’t ask). So what’s your ACE score, and how satisfied are you with your life? ACE quiz: https://ift.tt/yKFmu1E

Ask HN: What's the best documentation site you've come across? 2 by sawirricardo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think back then devs seems to praise Stripe's docs site. Is it still relevant right now?

Ask HN: How Are People Designing Apps in the Age of AI? 2 by hhimanshu | 1 comments on Hacker News. In the age of AI, I’m curious to know how people are designing apps, especially if they’re solo founders or small teams. Are there tools out there that can help design app workflows from end to end? What does the process look like for solopreneurs who are juggling both development and design? Specifically, with frameworks like TailwindUI, TailwindCSS, and ShadCN being mature and widely available, why does designing quickly and efficiently still feel like a challenge? Is there a gap between the tooling available and the ability to build great UX fast? Also, how do people handle UX variants when designing and iterating on their apps? Do tools exist that simplify managing and testing different versions of the UI? Would love to hear about how people are approaching app design, especially in small or one-person teams, and whether there are tools or processes that bridge this gap effectivel...

Ask HN: Where are you hosting your Postgres database in 2024? 3 by pier25 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are some good papers and textbooks about modern filesystems? 4 by craftsman | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested to learn about modern high-performance filesystems. Are there some good papers and textbooks that I should read? I'm interested in everything below the filesystem abstraction down to, and including, the physical storage.

Ask HN: Should I open source my licensing server? 4 by keepamovin | 7 comments on Hacker News. Recently developed an in-house "zero trust" license server based on PKI idea, blockchains, and proof-of-time, to convert a regular "vendor hosted" license server, into one that can be hosted on the buyer side. A lot of anti-piracy goes into obfuscation, and while I consider that defense-in-depth, I also consider obfuscating client-controlled code useless, and tried to make the system depend on cryptographic guarantees as much as possible. No such system where possibly adversarial clients control the license server, especially in an offline scenario, is perfect, but with immutable secure logs, and PKI chain of trust through a hierarchy of root authorities, I think we have a fairly solid approach. Open sourcing might lay bare some flaws which could be fixed. Or it might lay bare some flaws which could be exploited. This is mostly theoretical, we will probably not OSS it r...

Ask HN: Is a Masters in CS/Engineering worth it for a mid-career PM? 3 by deeptechdreamer | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m a PM & designer in his late 30s who is itching to get into deep tech (BCI, AI, aerospace, medtech, etc). I have no background in engineering and am considering pursuing a masters either in CS or similar. Has anyone here done this mid-career? Was it worth it?

How Should I Price a Python Module License for Major Banks? 5 by mafellows | 4 comments on Hacker News. I have an opportunity to license a Python module to several major banking institutions—some of the largest in the world. Typically, we offer this software as a web app, but these banks need a local module to run within their own environments. Here's the situation: - Product: A Python module that performs complex analysis on source code and generates a risk assessment. - Usage: It will be integrated into their CI/CD pipelines, and developers can also run it manually. - User Base: About 50 users per institution, mostly small, specialized teams. - Updates: We'll provide quarterly updates as we continue to develop the tool. I'm trying to figure out how to price this. I don't want to set a price that's either prohibitively expensive or too low, especially since I haven't licensed source code to clients of this scale before. For those with experience in this area...

Ideas to make money as solo dev 3 by rafbgarcia | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey ya! What struggles do y'all face that could be solved by a product that could be maintained by a solo dev? Not trying to make huge amounts of money, just want to build something that actually helps people, and could eventually give some money in return. I've been thinking about a unified API for file uploads for companies to easily integrate with S3, Azure blob, etc. using a single API. They could use multiple providers, migrate from one cloud to another, resumable uploads, maybe get insights about savings if they migrate to other providers, etc. I felt the need for something like that while developing a serverless product since functions have memory limitations and can't upload big files. What do y'all think, could that be useful? I appreciate any other insights or ideas. Thank you!

Ask HN: How many browser bookmarks do you have? What managers do you use for it? 2 by Al_Ptr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello. I'm making a browser extension that groups tabs and bookmarks with similar content. And I'm conducting some user research. Could you help with it?

Ask HN: Are Open Source Projects Products? 2 by richardjennings | 0 comments on Hacker News. I would like to know if Open Source Projects can or should be considered Products.

Ask HN: Does Tim Berners-Lee's vision for the Solid project hold up today? 3 by fallinditch | 0 comments on Hacker News. If you search for information about data sovereignty, privacy, data portability, digital identity standards, etc then you end up with Sir Tim's initiative called Solid [1] and it's commercial arm Inrupt. Solid received some criticism [2] around practical implementation and the difficulties of achieving widespread adoption. Has Sir Tim's vision for Web 3.0 turned out to be a dead duck or is it a viable and practical technology that app developers are adopting? If not Solid, then what are the best practices and technologies for building with data sovereignty and portability? [1] https://ift.tt/0mDx8zj [2] https://ift.tt/HxEp3mQ

Ask HN: How do you sync ongoing browser work between desktop and laptop? 5 by wtcactus | 9 comments on Hacker News. For a long time now, I have both a Work Desktop and a Work/Personal Laptop (both are company issued, but I have full control over both of them). The laptop runs macOS, the Desktop runs Linux (I can install whatever). Also, I'm mostly doing DevOps these days. When it comes to code, I just do the normal approach of using a git branch, and most of the time I just SSH into the Desktop and run it from there. So, that pain point is solved. My biggest, always ongoing problem, is to sync what I'm doing/researching in the browser. The best workflow I've found, is to have a mix of open tabs and spaces sync automatically. But it's a difficult setup to come by. Let me explain. Before, I used to use a Chrome (now Firefox as well) plugin, named workona [1]. This was great if it worked properly all the times. But it doesn't, it's quite buggy. Then, Edge added ...

Ask HN: Is there currently a Linux compatible kernel being written in Rust? 4 by John23832 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Given all the brouhaha surrounding the stonewalling of efforts to support rust in the Linux kernel, are there any alternatives being written in rust?

Ask HN: Any hope for removable, rechargable battery standards? 8 by candiddevmike | 10 comments on Hacker News. I have so many batteries for things like power tools, vacuum cleaners, and even some kid toys that all seem like they have similar volt/amps but are not interchangeable. None of the adapters are the same, and it's getting harder to find replacements online for the more niche battery types. Will we ever see something like B&Ds battery packs standardized so I can have a whole rack of them and use them with everything? Seems nuts to think about if we didn't have AA/AAA batteries and every company had their own standard...

Ask HN: Is the Job Market That Bad? 6 by warkanlock | 2 comments on Hacker News. I haven’t been job hunting in a while, but I’ve noticed many of my friends and family struggling just to land interviews. Most are well-qualified and can easily pass initial phone screenings, yet they face challenges in progressing further or even securing a first meeting. Previously, my LinkedIn profile used to be flooded with job offers, but now it’s nearly silent. It seems this trend isn’t limited to software jobs alone. What are your thoughts on this?

Ask HN: Are you using a Gemini browser? Would you follow a link if posted on HN? 5 by urlwolf | 0 comments on Hacker News. Gemini is a new protocol, which acts as a replacement for HTTP. Its accompanying markup language, Gemtext, is an extremely stripped down version of markdown and acts as a replacement for HTML. Gemspace is in early days, but I find I like write there much more than in the open web. I've been using an http proxy so that I can post my writings here, and I wonder if I could, one day, just post a gemspace link. Would you follow it? Links look like this: gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/specification.gmi

Ask HN: Are Medium/PH/IndieHackers outdated for startups? 4 by stefanneculai | 1 comments on Hacker News. I believe cool tools of yesterday for startup (Medium, PH, Indihackers) became outdated and people are moving more and more towards X. What do you think?

Excalidraw's AI Tool – useful and underrated 2 by Olshansky | 0 comments on Hacker News. tl;dr Easy 10x on generating sequence diagrams, flow charts and system diagrams. I tweeted about using Excalidraw's AI tool recently: https://ift.tt/RP3gTQZ I have a hunch that because it's not a standalone tool or a GitHub repo, it didn't get the love it deserved. Aside from ChatGPT/Claude and Supermaven/Copilot, this has been one of the best AI tools I use on an almost daily basis. Anytime I need to build a diagram, the first 50% (if not more) is done with this tool. I even have the option of a mermaid diagram for our docs or a pretty diagram for marketing material. Like any AI tool, don't expect it to be perfect or get you 100% of the way there, but it will definitely save you some time and solve the blank page problem.

Ask HN: Running Linux on an Old MacBook 4 by rpastuszak | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have a 2016 MBP sitting in my living room plugged into my projector and audio receiver. I was thinking about a quick weekend project where I'd turn it into a home cinema Linux box + a basic NAS. I'm a compulsive yak-shaver/bike shed renovator so before I risk getting stuck tinkering -- what distro/setup do you recommend? Is the process as fiddly as it used to be a decade ago?

Tobacco Free Hiring Practice 2 by danielschreber | 0 comments on Hacker News. Today I saw a job description for a remote developer/analyst position that had the following statement: "Where permitted by applicable state law, [company name] will not hire any candidate who uses tobacco or any nicotine product." I don't know what to say except that minutes ago I was wavering in my decision to leave IT.

How can I make the whole web look like Hacker News? 3 by olaadeus1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I wish I could strip all websites of their css and just have it be links, text, buttons and images. While I can disable css using code in devtools, often it just breaks the site functionality. Is there a solution to my problem?

Ask HN: Why should I learn Rust? 2 by jdthedisciple | 0 comments on Hacker News. What would be a compelling reason to learn Rust for someone with a strong C# and MS Windows-oriented development background? And what would be a great introductory Rust project for me to immediately appreciate and understand its benefits over other programming languages?

Ask HN: How Can I Quickly Launch My Web Product and Attract Target Users? 2 by PeterHuber | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone, I’ve just finished developing my web software product, but as a solo developer without an existing fanbase, I’m starting from scratch. I’m looking for practical advice and guidance on how to effectively launch my product and attract my target audience. Specifically, I’d love insights on: (1) Marketing Strategies: What are the most effective ways to get my product in front of potential users? (2) Social Media & Community Engagement: Which platforms should I focus on for maximum reach? (3) Gathering User Feedback: What are the best methods to quickly gather user feedback for improvements? I appreciate any tips, resources, or personal experiences you can share. Thank you!

Ask HN: What and where are the new AI jobs? 2 by WheelsAtLarge | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in switching from coding to AI. Any suggestions on where to start? What's the career path? What are the jobs I should look into?

IBM Pushing Apache2 License onto all qiskit repositories on GitHub 2 by spicywasabi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Noticed this the other day, several users who appear to work for IBM have been pushing the Apache2 license onto users who have used a specific library. It appears automated and some of these repos haven't been worked on in years. Not sure what the end goal is for IBM to push this, but its very strange to see. It appears to be automated in some way because empty repos are even getting hit: https://ift.tt/etc4inQ. You can see the full list here https://ift.tt/4crNy0h where many repos are happily applying Apache2. Since Apache2 is pretty permissive doesn't this mean IBM can utilize these libraries as they see fit internally?

Ask HN: Why is working with contenteditable is so hard? 4 by raxrb | 2 comments on Hacker News. How to reliably insert text across input fields, contenteditable divs etc across various websites in the browser via a Chrome extension or a desktop app? I am working on an accessibility application, and that application should do two things: 1. When a user presses a certain button, the current location at which the cursor is, whatever the user is saying should be inserted. 2. If the user issues commands like "delete last line" certain parts of the text could be deleted. How can I build this? I have a few ideas in my mind: - First option is simulating keystrokes, but the problem with this is if the text is longer, it is going to take a longer time to insert, but modifying the text will be a problem. - Second, I was thinking of simulating selection and pasting using ctrl-A and ctrl v, It will work for the insertion for empty fields but the problem is if there is already some text...

Ask HN: Intro to Game Development path for a 12 year old? 3 by throwaway_switc | 0 comments on Hacker News. My 12 year old is certainly interested in tech. He's in a STEM school and interested in the curriculum. He's also quite interested in _playing_ video games, so I'd like to utilize that passion to get him more involved in software development. I'm an experienced software dev myself, but have zero knowledge of video game development. He has a Switch, and I'm trying to find an engaging online course that will ideally result in him creating a Switch game (to get him familiar with concepts of software development with a major focus on game dev). Not sure where to start, other than a Unity or Unreal course, but I'm not sure which engine is best for a Switch, or what course(s) are a good starting point for a 12 year old.

Tell HN: Burnout is bad to your brain, take care 6 by tuyguntn | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am depressed and burned out for quite some time already, unfortunately my brain still couldn't recover from it. If I summarize the impact of burnout to my brain: - Before: I could learn things pretty quickly, come up with solutions to the problems, even be able to see common patterns and see bigger underlying problems - After: can't learn, can't work, can't remember, can't see solutions for trivial problems (e.g. if your shirt is wet, you can change it, but I stare at it thinking when it is going to get dried up) Take care of your mental health

Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate (thread) – 5 Sep 2024 4 by purple-leafy | 3 comments on Hacker News. Want to find people to collaborate with on projects? Ask here. Share: 1) Skill/s 2) Area/s of interest 3) Medium/s 4) Timeline 5) Timezone 6) For: Fun | Profit | Learning 7) An idea/s (if you have one)

Ask HN: Do single people quickly get bored of being rich? 2 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. Maybe single people find that investing their money is more enjoyable than spending it on themselves?

OS for Secure Containers? 3 by nicecars | 1 comments on Hacker News. If I need to isolate containers, which is the best OS for containers when security is important: Bottle Rocket, Container Optimized OS or Flatcar and PhotonOS? And why is that? What features, for example, are they protected by?

Ask HN: Security risks when buying mini-PCs/PCs from unknown vendors? 3 by bmer | 1 comments on Hacker News. I was looking at [Low Cost Mini PCs](https://ift.tt/G1FyQcS) a few days ago, and saw comments recommending vendors such as Beelink or Minisforum. These companies are relatively unknown compared to companies like Lenovo, Dell, HP, etc. My guess as a layman would be that that Lenovo is not likely to try and "compromise" the hardware it sells (e.g. with additional chips that are meant to "phone home", or otherwise store data in some retrievable way) because that would damage their reputation and hence their business. But a relatively unknown vendor might not have such a concern? So I wonder: * are my concerns even realistic? * if so: how does one evaluate security risks that exist when buying PCs from "relatively unknown" vendors?

Tell HN: GitHub locked me out for not using 2FA 2 by GoblinSlayer | 3 comments on Hacker News. Effectively 2fa is now mandatory for all accounts, not only commiters. If you didn't configure 2fa yet, the time has come to do it. PS: I didn't see this news, so posting it, sorry if I'm slow

Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do? 6 by trwhite | 6 comments on Hacker News. To those who left software to do something else, what did you do?

Ask HN: Is fundamental CS about topics in which you can't make breakthroughs? 3 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. And if so, does that make it difficult to be interested in fundamental CS, since you wouldn't be able to improve the state of the art in any meaningful way?

Making progress on routing security: the new White House roadmap 2 by emot | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Does anyone integrate with their customers' DB directly? 2 by johnyeocx | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, integrations with third-party SaaS vendors are super common these days, especially with all the AI tools complementing and enriching SaaS platforms, but as the title states, I'm curious to hear if anyone integrates directly with their customers' data store like Supabase, Snowflake, etc. In my last startup, we were building a chargeback management tool for fintechs, and essentially whenever a chargeback came in, we'd only get the transaction ID, so we'd have to query the fintech's database to search for that transaction ID and pull additional data points like name of seller, email of seller, etc. Now, when we did this, it was more of a scrappy workaround to the fintech not being able to dedicate engineering resources to send data to an API endpoint of ours. However, after a while, I thought to myself, there's nothing wrong with querying the fintech...

Ask HN: Any Recommendations Around Programming on an iPad? 2 by lumBerry | 2 comments on Hacker News. In particular, trying to learn C and run basic code snippets/small programs on my iPad.

Ask HN: How do Indie makers and solopreneurs get back into 9 to 5 again? 3 by sarvpriy | 2 comments on Hacker News. I was working in a seed stage B2B startup. But it didn’t go well. Their potential customers lost interest in the product. And I was the one who did all the Product research and built the entire backend infra. Which gave me confidence to build my own SAAS. After doing some research about which Saas to build. I decided to go with a Social media manager. But very soon I realized that it is not a small project as I thought in the beginning. Then I built a simple feedback management tool that can be embedded in the site. In that process I read a lot of books on building a SAAS like Rework, the lean startup, Traction and many more. So I was aware of this developer’s hell. Questions like “Just one more feature, just one more change on the Home page, just one more line of code. Why would anyone use it. It can be built by anyone. What's so special about it.” came across my ...

Ask HN: Is it still a thing to receive payment via direct bank transfer in SaaS? 2 by sawirricardo | 3 comments on Hacker News. WordPress WooCommerce still provide this way to enable store owners receive payments like this. Is it still a thing?

Ask HN: Where do you subscribe to published journal topics? 2 by hhthrowaway1230 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey all trying to track all published journals. Is there something like a place or rss for all published journals? thank you!