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Opinion: We should reject take-home interview assignment if no feedback is given 2 by kitari | 3 comments on Hacker News. Just a thought. I have been through FANG-style interviews and also some that screen with a take-home assignment. Generally I found the screening rounds of FANG to be less time intensive than take-home. If you are going to reject me after the take-home. Given my time investment wouldn't it be reasonable to ask for feedback? At the very least I can work on it and improve my skills. We should reject companies with take-home assignments if they do not provide take-home assignments. What do you guys think?

Ask HN: What's an API that you wish existed recently? 2 by conqrr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Have the itch to build something useful and low effort, like minimum frontend. Curious what's an API that you needed but couldn't find easily available.

Why does Craigslist censor rental postings containing gender keywords 2 by hui-zheng | 0 comments on Hacker News. One my friend wanted to post a rental listing last week on craigslist. In it, there is a description like this: "One of the rooms is rented to a 4th-year male student, and we look for a respectful tenant to rent the other room." however, the system doesn't allow the posting to be published, citing the reason that the keyword "male" is used. It's an automatic block. No human review or flagging. It seems craigslist blocks rental posting with gender keyword regardless of the intention of the word's usage. Why does Craigslist does that? Is it to comply with some law? or is it because of some potential legal liability as the host of classified advertisements? Is it a technical reason?

Ask HN: Hacker News page width broken on mobile 6 by valine | 6 comments on Hacker News. The hacker news homepage is flowing off the screen on mobile today. Anyone else seeing this? The previous style sheet was practically perfect, hoping it isn’t a permanent change.

Why is Apple Maps saying “sawjootee” instead of “south”? 3 by furrowedbrow | 1 comments on Hacker News. As in, “turn left onto sawjootee-west 4th street” instead of “turn left onto southwest 4th street”. Anyone else experiencing this?

Ask HN: What’s the cheapest stack you have supported millions of users on? 2 by launchiterate | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is anyone using Neuromorphic algorithms/chips? 3 by jakobov | 0 comments on Hacker News. I noticed Intel released the Lohi2 Neuromorphic chip. I am wondering what tasks neuromorphic chips/algos are good for? Are they being using in production anywhere?

Excluded from cryptocurrency airdrop, a lot of money, what recourse 2 by applesapl | 1 comments on Hacker News. In 2020 Flare announced an airdrop more info: https://ift.tt/2SOtgiO My address was eligible for the airdrop and I had completed all the necessary steps to claim it A second airdrop, songbird, was unveiled., which dropped 2 weeks ago. https://ift.tt/3zfcokK I saw that I did not get any songbird. After contacting support, a week later I eventually learn that my XRP address was added to an exclusion list. This means I get nothing. The total amount that I am owed is easily in the thousands of dollars (tens of thousands of dollars, possibly even $100k depending on price) over the duration of the airdrop (which is over a three-year period): https://ift.tt/2SQGvPP It says: Other than Ripple inc and the non-participating exchanges, there are a few groups that are completely excluded from the distribution. These are Jed McCaleb and accounts that are known to have received XRP as a

Slack Is Down 9 by jimmyechan | 2 comments on Hacker News. Ironically, status.slack.com is down too. Confirmed on their Twitter account: https://twitter.com/SlackStatus/status/1443612591406780424

Request for Unusual Search Tools 2 by xx511134bz | 0 comments on Hacker News. What's out there for searching that's not google/bing/ddg? I'm thinking answers could be Lexis-Nexus, shodan.io, worldcat.org

Multiple Slack Workspaces 2 by gfragin | 1 comments on Hacker News. is this still a frustration having to go into workspaces one by one or is there a solution for it?

Why don't more companies offer equity as an incentive to early adopters? 2 by atlasunshrugged | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was just reading about Marc Lore's new planned city Telosa (which is a fascinating take on Georgism) and was thinking about Jet and how they gave away stock to early adopters. Why hasn't this become more popular? https://ift.tt/39U7teg

Tell HN: You can block YouTube ads on iOS 15 using Safari Extensions 3 by busymom0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just upgraded my 7 year old iPhone 6S to iOS 15 and discovered that Safari Extensions now lets you block YouTube ads if you use YouTube via safari. This is one of the things I used android as my media consumption device and glad to see iOS allowing it too. I used “Adblock Pro” which I got for free from App Store (I am not affiliated with them). Other adblocker should work too.

Ask HN: Video Doorbell Without Subscription? 5 by user568439 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've found the Eufy option with local storage and it looks great, but still I have some privacy concerns. Also some people is complaining about delay with the notifications. If possible I would like it to run with battery but I guess I could install a cable one. Another feature that I find interesting is to be able to switch off the internet access and only allow within the local network when I'm at home. In the future I would like to setup more home automation devices like the thermostat and an alarm system. So I guess I should go for an open source approach. The problem I see too many options out there and the hardware part is even more confusing to me. That's why I was looking in ready to use products. My developer skills are also very limited but I think I could learn this part. But for now I would like to start with a good choice for my first device since my regular doorbell st

Ask HN: Why do companies take 2 months to send job rejection letter? 2 by going_ham | 1 comments on Hacker News. Of all concern, when they know I am going to be rejected, why do they take 2 months to send that generic rejection letter? They aren't even looking at my thing. Can't they just do it immediately? And why should they put "careful consideration" when they know they are going to reject as soon as they see my CV? It would be lot easier if they can reject within 30 minutes. Companies pretending to review documents just wants to make me puke.

Ask HN: My Mac is governed by MDM from my employer, is there any privacy issue? 3 by shabirgilkar | 2 comments on Hacker News. My official MacBook is governed by MDM(Mobile Device Management) by my employer using Intune. If I configure my personal Apple ID to my MacBook would there be any privacy issue,

Ask HN: Remote co-founders, yay or nay? 3 by momentum_j | 1 comments on Hacker News. Looks like the rise of remote, and hybrid workplaces is here to stay. Thoughts on remote co-founders? Can it work? Have any of you experienced it? Or know someone who has? Looking for the good, bad and ugly here.

Ask HN: Why does it feel like MMO server tech hasn't changed? 2 by Daegalus | 1 comments on Hacker News. So this comes from the recent Release of New World from Amazon. They have a hard cap of 2k players and 2-3x that per server I'm queues. They are adding more servers often but usually not enough. Now, I love the MMO genre and have been through many MMO launches, and this isn't new to me. But as a DevOps engineer, I wonder how we haven't improved server tech to minimize or remove this? I don't know much about MMO servers out outside of the one I'm building for an old MMO, but I feel like a new modern MMO should have some innovations to solve server capacities or so many servers. Why does it feel we have made no progress towards limitless servers, or single world games where you have fleets of servers handling 1 world? Why are we still separating players by servers and not employing phasing to help with clutter of people seen. Or move characters to be disconn

Ask HN: Do you think Scrum is a sham? 7 by wizardofmysore | 5 comments on Hacker News. I have used scrum and I dont see it really helps people build the right product. There is so much jargon and cruft around it; planning poker, story points, scrum master etc.. Software quality of what is built in the scrum way seems poor as it does local optimization and doesnt focus on long term.. seems like some thing that would work for consultancies the best? Simple Kanban seems more effective, do you feel the same way? Am I doing scrum wrong? Is scrum built to ensure that program managers / product managers have something to do?

Ask HN: Will many small businesses be interested in this? 2 by JoshuaWisdom | 1 comments on Hacker News. So I recently launched a new startup called Wavestack. The idea is that rather than paying $3000+ to an agency or freelancer to get a decent website for your small business or early-stage startup, you pay only $79/mo to us for a very good website. It's not a website builder. We're a team of senior developers who help small businesses get their business online in an efficient but affordable manner. But do you think many small businesses will be interested in this, though? *For those who will like to check it out, here is the link to the website: www.usewavestack.com

Ask HN: Best data source for Covid outcome by vaccination status? 4 by TechBro8615 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m looking for time series data that I can use to model vax and unvax as separate populations to calculate the rates of case/hospitalizations/death within each. Does such a data source exist? Basically looking for data similar to that used in this study: https://ift.tt/3A4UVMG

Ask HN: How did Capcom go from fallen giant to premier gaming studio again? 2 by sergiotapia | 0 comments on Hacker News. I played a lot of Capcom games back in the day. Then there was a time where they produced nothing but stinkers. Recently they have been hitting nothing but 10's for me. RE2 remake, RE3 remake, RE Village, RE 7, devil may cry 5, these are all solid games with great innovative mechanics. Not to mention their engine is so premium and incomparable to anything else out there, even Unreal. So how did they turn it around? How did they come back so hard with such fire?

AWS Lambda now supports ARM64 architecture 8 by cateof | 1 comments on Hacker News. The developer guide has been updated with details [1], and you can select the new architecture when creating a Lambda function through the AWS Console. We'll likely see an official statement from AWS soon. [1]: https://ift.tt/3DcHrzR

Ask HN: Is Elon Musk on Hacker News? 2 by earth2mars | 0 comments on Hacker News. If so, what's the handle. Just want to see what comments he made.

Ask HN: Accessible resources on making a modern static type system? 2 by brundolf | 0 comments on Hacker News. Crafting Interpreters was a great resource for parsing, but working on the static type system for my language project I'm mostly feeling my way around in the dark and making stuff up as I go. That's going better than expected, but I still feel I would benefit from something at around the same level as CI but for type systems (checking and inference; mostly inference, but also things like generic types and refinement). Something practical and light on formal theory, with insight from industry, that lays a foundation from which to keep learning. I tried reading about Hindley-Milner etc directly, and it went way over my head.

Amplitude (YC W12) just went public. AMA 5 by sskates | 3 comments on Hacker News. HN- you are the community that convinced me to get into startups. I wanted to come back and share what the experience of building a company has been like from inception to public listing. I'll be here for a couple hours to answer your questions. Ask me anything.

Ask HN: When was the last time you were involved in a physical altercation? 5 by GDC7 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Best Tip for Landing Pages? 6 by tmaly | 8 comments on Hacker News. I have really not put much effort into my landing page because I have been working head down on the project. I think I have lost a lot of potential opportunity to collect an email from interested people. I know I should probably have: a headline, maybe a sub headline, a call to action, some features, some testimonials, and a second call to action at the bottom. I am curious if there is one thing that would make a real difference on a landing page. What is your best tip based on your own experience with landing pages?

Ask HN: What happens in your social bubble that is not visible from the outside? 3 by spython | 0 comments on Hacker News. Has your hobby got an interesting new way of doing things? Has a company imploded after following the mantra 'fake it till you make it' for too long? Is there a new release of some software you are excited about?

Ask HN: Are you colour blind? If so, how does this affect your work? 3 by pachico | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am colour blind myself (Deuteranopia) and it mostly affect me when I have to digest charts and diagrams using colours I can't distinguish. Also, I tend to see how people use emerald green and fire red to signal OK/KO which are two colours I really confuse. This is the case of all the alerts being fired, in general.

Ask HN: How much could fixing a MacBook loose contact possibly cost? 3 by schleck8 | 0 comments on Hacker News. The Apple support informed me fixing a screen lose contact would be 700+ €. The panel still works, it doesn't need to be replaced. A week ago another supporter said exchanging the entire panel for a new retina one would be 350 € or less. This sounds totally off. Does anyone here have experience with MacBook repairs?

Ask HN: Resources for building reliable and maintainable software? 3 by desertraven | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: If asked for years of experience, how do you include part-time work? 3 by jawns | 1 comments on Hacker News. Suppose you have some number of years of full-time experience in software development, and some other number of years where you were writing code part-time. Maybe you had a job that involved some dev work but some unrelated work as well. Or maybe you had an unrelated day job but did freelance dev work as a side hustle. If you had to quantify that into a single number that represented your years of dev experience (e.g. on a job application), how would you come up with that number?

Ask HN: Dealing with an Incompetent Boss 2 by throwarayes | 0 comments on Hacker News. I want to ask how people have dealt with a manager who is just bad at managing people. Not someone that’s a jerk, but rather someone with poor ability to delegate and not well attuned to interpersonal dynamics? How have you managed up in the past?

Ask HN: Complete Deepfake Nudes – The Future? 9 by blunte | 3 comments on Hacker News. This might be a bit controversial for HN, but it's safe to assume that some HN readers have been on the internet before. For those who are familiar with some of the Reddit groups, you may have noticed a shift from simple sharing of photos to promotional sharing which leads to an OnlyF* type site where there is an economic goal. Nothing wrong with this, and not judging; just an observation. So the question is, if we can generate incredibly detailed and believable faces, why not entire bodies with faces? This must exist already. Who is working on a system to build adult content, made to order, that doesn't involve actual humans? We can already produce very believable landscapes, structures, and moving objects. How long until the carnal content is algorithmically produced?

Ask HN: Photography Hacks 2 by parentheses | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have always known about the rule of thirds [0] and golden ratio [1]. I recently learned of rabatment of the rectangle [2], lead room [3] and head room [4]. What other "rules" of photography or modern hacks do you find worthy of adding to your repertoire? [0] https://ift.tt/3wwN2Nw [1] https://ift.tt/3wHWfD1 [2] https://ift.tt/3CW3LNK [3] https://ift.tt/39KrmEu [4] https://ift.tt/3APYMOd

Ask HN: Procrastination, What's Up with That? 2 by SMAAART | 1 comments on Hacker News. Why is it that I know exactly what to do, what it takes, what I should do… and yet… I don’t do it? Is my Anxiety an alien creature that has taken over my decision-making process, Invasion of the Body Snatchers' style? How do I do what I mean to do that is good for me, and avoid procrastination and doing things that are useless or detrimental? P.S.: this is a follow-up to: https://ift.tt/3m0fxA0

Ask HN: Is the push for diversity in tech just an American thing? 4 by liorben-david | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm an american working at a company in the EU and not sure the extent to which diversity is something they think about. No judgement on whether diversity is in of itself good or bad, just wondering whether its something that people think about culturally

Ask HN: What is the most frustrating in web extension development? 3 by proszkinasenne2 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is a good alternative to Notify17? 2 by geocrasher | 0 comments on Hacker News. Notify17.net is a push notification service that has mobile apps and can be called via an API. I'm currently using it for a simple homegrown server monitor setup. Notify17 is going away on 9/30/21. Does the HN community have any recommendations, not for a monitoring solution, but for a push notification service that could slide in in Notify17's place?

Ask HN: Is every restaurant going to have a digital menu? 5 by kirillrogovoy | 3 comments on Hacker News. What's your best guess? Are digital (so called "QR menus") a temporary thing, and one year down the road we all will be using paper menus? Or is it just the first step, and every restaurant will have a slick online menu 3-5 years from now? Anything in between?

Admin dashboard builder for any MySQL database 3 by gillesmigliori | 1 comments on Hacker News. PHP CRUD Generator is designed to build your bootstrap admin dashboard with the help of a GUI

Ask HN: How do you keep documentation? 2 by codazoda | 0 comments on Hacker News. I use GitHub wiki's, but they have a few problems... - They are in an odd separate git repo (.wiki) - They have to be tied to another ropo - They can't be published as a website with a URL like ghpages can - They can't be IP restricted to an organization (maybe this is asking for too much) What do you use and is it working?

Tell HN: Starting a tech blog, pitch your SaaS product to get feature for free 2 by thescribbblr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks ! I am starting a tech blog to cover saas, no-code products. Please mention your SaaS, no code product in the following format I would be happy to write about you. Format: Product/company name Website 250 lines description Founders Problem you're solving with your product. Pricing Any discount coupon for the readers.

Ask HN: Is it possible the “extra value” in Bitcoin is brand equity? 2 by sharemywin | 0 comments on Hacker News. Most brands are worth more than the value of the thing they sell, hence the high profit margins. Is it possible the same kind of phenomenon is happening with bitcoin?

Ask HN: How did you recover from burnout? 2 by newby | 0 comments on Hacker News. Specifically, how did you delete the connection your brain made between activity and failure? Years ago, I tried to create my own little business. I failed. I tried to be persistent and worked till fatigue, depression, and anxiety attacks stopped me. I got into therapy, slowly rebuilt my life, feel pretty good now. I would even say it was a valuable experience. However, it seems that the connection between writing/coding/building something and failure persists. I think I am not without creativity. I would love to try some side projects. But whenever I get excited about some idea and sit to work on it, my brain treats it like poison. The resistance is so strong I never make any progress. I remember working on something all night and enjoying it so that when I finally went to bed, I was looking forward to continuing in the morning. How do I get this back?

Ask HN: Is there a site for Hacker News filtered by my topics? 3 by karussell | 0 comments on Hacker News. Often, topics that interest me either don't get any attention at all or get too little attention (on the main page). So I would like to curate the newest feed and filter it by my keywords like e.g. "open source" OR linux to avoid getting overwhelmed. The filter should work against the HN and original title. Is there a website with something like this already or would a modified RSS reader work too? Preferable with some kind of notification inbuilt so I can join discussion.

Ask HN: Have you ever spend days unable to do *any* work? 4 by tnuoccanrub | 1 comments on Hacker News. For the past couple of weeks, I've been suffering an absolute inability to be productive at work. I mean spending the whole day staring at the screen not writing a single line of code. At first I thought it was a problem of attention, since I was being distracted by literally anything, from a text to street noise. But even removing all distractions and putting on some noise cancelling headphones won't do the trick. I just feel... unable to start. It's a feeling that's really difficult to explain. Like the feeling that keeps you from jumping into a swimming pool when you're at the edge. I don't find work unpleasant, not the tasks that I have in front of me difficult, and I'm not particularly bored, or tense, or anything. I just can't do it. Is this normal? Any of you have any idea about how to deal with this problem?

Ask HN: Where are all the Show HNs? 29 by behnamoh | 10 comments on Hacker News. Searching for "Show HN" posts (using hn.algolia.com) reveals a sad story: Many of them are gone. I wonder what happens to Shown HNs, esp. the ones that are featured on HN, but then end up not existing anymore. Is it the server costs? Do they sell to other companies? Did the developer pass away and so did the link?

Ask HN: Most employable programming languages for 2022 and beyond? 4 by hermitsings | 1 comments on Hacker News. Preferably for freshers

Ask HN: What are some of the most interesting articles that you've read? 4 by alex_munroe | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking to start reading more blogs and articles (in addition to books), but I don't have a lot of interesting stuff on my reading list, and I was hoping you guys could help me to discover more things to read. I'm familiar with some rationalist blogs and some startups/tech blogs (HN, IndieHackers, LessWrong, SSC, etc). I'm interested in insightful stuff on these topics, but also in discovering more things I'm not familiar with that are outside of my "bubble". Ideally something not too technical, accessible to the layman. Any recommendations?

Ask HN: Why WhatsApp allows anyone in the world to know whether I'm online 6 by 28194608 | 1 comments on Hacker News. This haunts me and many websites selling services to monitor users. * I'm not talking about "last seen" feature.

Ask HN: How much Slack do you give a recruiter? 4 by throwaway97531 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I’m (almost) at the offer stage with a company that I really like. The engineers that I’ve spoken with are great, the work sounds interesting, and the industry is exciting. My experience with the recruiter (from the company) has been wanting. They had email problems, it takes a long time to get responses, and they told me an offer was coming more than a week ago. I had to reach out to find out what was going on with the offer (it’s still coming) I feel like once I get in the engineering group, things will be fine, but the delays with the recruiter are making me have second thoughts about what otherwise was a very exciting prospect. Is slow communication indicative of bad communication throughout the company, or just a fluke? Should I be worried?

Accounting for SAFEs as an Investor 2 by jpbray | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been personally investing in startups through SAFEs for a while but I just decided to incorporate a holding company. Now that I will be investing through my holdco, how will I account for investments done through SAFEs on Quickbooks or other software?

Ask HN: How can I get better at original thinking and being creative? 5 by MikeLumos | 5 comments on Hacker News. I've never felt like I'm good at being creative, coming up with original ideas, my own unique independent thoughts. Even though I have spent years practicing "creative" skills - traditional and digital art, writing, gamedev, programming. I've made a lot of things, I'm pretty proud of some of my projects. But "creativity" still feels like a mystery to me. I've had a few good ideas over the years, but they happened by accident, and I can't make them happen deliberately. Sometimes I can go months without an original thought. If I want to intentionally invent a new idea for an app, or a game, or a story, or a business - I feel like I can't, no matter how hard I try. And generally speaking, in life, I feel like I'm pretty bad at having my own unique take/opinion on things, even though I'm trying. Most of my "controv

Ask HN: Retaking Failed Technical Interviews 3 by dlivingston | 2 comments on Hacker News. About a month ago, I went through a round of interviews at both Apple and Microsoft. I received very positive feedback on my background and experience, but ultimately failed the technical interviews. Since then, I’ve studied and “grinded” LeetCode obsessively and feel confident that I would pass most technical interviews. Can I email the recruiters from those failed interviews, asking to be reinterviewed for similar positions now that I’m more prepared?

Ask HN: Why did Dropbox fail to dominate the market? 2 by ent101 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do you plan your life? 4 by psikomanjak | 0 comments on Hacker News. I want to know how do you plan your life, health and career for the next 6 months, 1 year, 5 years. Any template or anything?

Ask HN: Is it possible to execute options but then sell the shares to employees? 2 by Calamity | 3 comments on Hacker News. More specifically, is it possible to leave a startup, buy the equity available to me through my vested stock options and then sell part of it back to current employees of the same startup? I don't see a reason why not, but maybe I'm missing something. At the end of the day, once you trigger the stock options, you receive a physical stock certificate that you should be able to do as you please with...

Ask HN: Good Independent Blogs for News about China 3 by jppope | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looking for a good news source w/ deep analysis so I can stay informed. Any recommendations?

Ask HN: How to Learn About Philosophy 2 by sheepybloke | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, What's the best way to learn philosophy out of college? One big caveat is that I learn better through being taught the concepts, rather than through just reading a bunch of books. What are resources I could use to help grow my knowledge of philosophy?

Ask HN: What makes Chrome use so much memory? 2 by whitepoplar | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Do you also alternate between super productive and slow days? 15 by ali92hm | 9 comments on Hacker News. I've realized that when I have a super productive day the next day or two after that I'm not as energetic and can't do as much. Is this something that other people face? If so is it because you exhaust yourself on your energetic day and need rest? or is it just random and some days you have a great night sleep and are well rested therefore you have a lot of energy? I have nothing against incorporating rest in my schedule to be more productive, but I'm wondering if going all out and then resting and recharging is better or worse than limiting yourself on your energetic day to not exhaust yourself (kinda amortizing your energy). I'm also not sure if the amortization strategy has the same effect. Maybe I need to try it and see.

Ask HN: What have you done that mattered? 4 by 57844743385 | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Would you fund a world-wide-web without tracking? 4 by ThePhysicist | 0 comments on Hacker News. So, I'm working on a new idea to build a "friendly neighborhood" of the world wide web where websites respect the privacy of visitors and do not track them. Technologically I already know how to approach this, but I'm wondering about the funding model. I'm thinking about building a community where people donate money and we distribute that among the website publishers, following a model similar to Humble-Bundle where supporters can decide how much money should go to the publishers and how much should go to us (so that we can fund our work). Would you support something like that? I think even with a small community we could quickly help some folks that run great niche websites to switch to a more privacy-friendly funding model.

Ask HN: How Was the Calculus Discovered? 2 by __Admin__ | 1 comments on Hacker News. What kind of thinking could lead to the discovery of what (to me) looks like a wide variety of "tricks" to preform to an equation.

Ask HN: Why not just do Web Apps for iOS? 2 by komape | 2 comments on Hacker News. Over the last years more and more people complain that Apple has too much control about which apps are allowed in the App Store. That their reviews are bad. That they take too much from your money. And so on. In the very beginning of the iPhone Steve Jobs preferred Web Apps over installed apps. As we all know they changed their mind in favor of the App Store. But it’s still possible to develop and use Web Apps on iOS. So why there are so few? Apple can’t kick you out and they can’t take your money. Two keypoints of criticism so far. Are there other limitations?

Ask HN: How can I help my son with Epilepsy and Intellectual Disability 7 by kshacker | 3 comments on Hacker News. Saw this post : https://ift.tt/3aAhEX3 and that motivated me to post about our situation. My son is 23 years old. He has completed AA degree in liberal arts at a local community college. He has complex-partial epilepsy and intellectual disability. In my personal opinion, he is borderline for both conditions : his epilepsy is controlled by medications and his intellectual capacity is quite borderline - he will be on top of the list of disabled people, but will find himself struggling to compete with regular people. Social skills are bad with strangers, but otherwise he is quite communicative. His interests are technology - he can not program, I do not think he could write a for loop, but he can narrate the in-depth progression of technology of all iPhones, Androids, Samsungs and what not. Could he describe all features? Maybe not, but he knows quite a bit that he could b

Ask HN: Software design patterns for projects without a scope? 8 by rlayton2 | 1 comments on Hacker News. My work often involves starting with creating small prototypes that show a concept or solve a very specific problem. That prototype solves that problem, the client is happy and wants to extend it. The software grows from there, usually one feature at time. For these projects, the client usually doesn't know what comes next until they need it. This extension can sometimes be immediate, or could be years after the fact. "Common wisdom" states that the prototype should be thrown away when the concept is proved and the funds come in, but for me there is never a point at which that makes sense. As I mentioned, it's one feature at a time. I feel I do a good job at designing those prototypes in a decoupled, extensible way. I think about what direction the project could take, and try to put the right levels of abstraction in. Despite my best efforts, oftentimes I'm

Ask HN: Is Signal Down? 10 by oojuliuso | 6 comments on Hacker News. Messages not getting delivered and hanging on Mac and iPhone. Location: Pacific Northwest, US.

Ask HN: Good reference books on Azure? 3 by trilinearnz | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm one of those who prefers grabbing a physical book, especially when it comes to learning a completely new subject. Does anyone know of any (decent) books on Azure, or has the time for this type of media come and gone?

Ask HN: Life Lessons 7 by staccatomeasure | 3 comments on Hacker News. What are some big ones you live by?

Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021? 10 by buttonsmasher | 7 comments on Hacker News. For context, I am a manager at a medium sized enterprise software company, I worked as an engineer for 10+ years and took over managing the team. We have 80+ engineers in the entire org. broken down into smaller teams of 5-10. My team specifically has about 15 engineers broken down into teams of 3-5. We have a very challenging roadmap and often we end up delivering 20-30% of what's planned for the year. One thing that's often asked is how do we estimate, how do we predict when some feature will be done. We are close to 20+ years into the usage of Agile methods, there is the school of thought who prefer to use time based estimates, some try story points and then there is the No Estimates movement. I am trying to see what's considered as a best practice to start something for the team in 2021.

Ask HN: How do you validate your business idea? 3 by kashnikov2 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've read about creating landing pages and advertising them to validate a business idea, is there any other method?

Ask HN: On what terms US companies hire overseas developer (individual)? 3 by bhu1st | 0 comments on Hacker News. Remote hiring is increasing these days. Do US companies hire overseas developer (individual)? Or is it companies they contract with? Since W-2, 1099 do not apply on what term (in tax term) do they hire them?

Ask HN: Did you buy Etheria tiles in 2015? You are likely rich 5 by fivedogit | 0 comments on Hacker News. (Note: I emailed dang about this first, and he suggested an Ask HN. For openness and simplicity, I'll simply paste that email here with an additional note below.) Hi. I hope this email still reaches Dan. I'm trying to reach a user that went by the handle "makaronin" in 2015-2018 on Hacker News (and elsewhere around the web). https://ift.tt/2Y5J03k This user bought several tiles in Etheria (the first NFT project on Ethereum) which are now worth several million USD , but I can't reach them bc I don't have their email address and they've deleted their Reddit account. You can see that they purchased the tiles here: https://ift.tt/3o8Nh0F I don't need their email directly. A simple email from you, to them, saying "Hi. Did you buy Etheria tiles in 2015? You might want to look into that, if so. If not, please disregard" would suffice. etheri

Ask HN: How to organize ideas when switching between brain-intensive projects? 2 by myth2018 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm able to work on multiple sorts of small tasks along a day. I usually organize them into related chunks, so that I can operate on them more efficiently, but I don't have too much trouble on doing the mental "context-switching" involved. However, everything changes when it comes to projects requiring substantial mental effort. It may be hard to begin but, when it gets momentum, it's hard to stop. I can work on a project for days, weeks, even months. But it gets really hard to concentrate on other tasks. And especially hard to work on another project of the same magnitude. I realized that for the first time when I took the huge mistakenly decision of starting a company during my masters. I could do a decent volume of work during those years, but my inability of working on them in parallel brought many sorts of problems to my life. Sometimes

Ask HN: Online History Courses? 2 by santiagobasulto | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN. This is a Sunday-heavy question. I love history and I usually learn it from sporadic books that I read. My knowledge end up being "spotty" (I can tell you everything about Cesar and Augustus but I know nothing about the Roman Republic). There are some things that have proved to be easy (or possible) to learn online: Data Science, programming, etc. Is there anybody doing the same for history courses? Anything to recommend?

Ask HN: Building a relational database system for educational purposes? 2 by debo_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. If I wanted to build a compiler for fun, I can think of several good, practical books that I could follow along with to do so. Can any of you recommend something similar for relational databases? I'm interested in writing some potentially restricted subset of SQL, with some query planning + optimization. If it ended up being a toy version of sqlite, I would be quite satisfied. Thank you!

Ask HN: Is Getting into Academia a Lottery? 2 by stereoradonc | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is it worth it? For those who have made it? I am curious to know, as i am trying to get into one!

As a software engineer, what is the biggest problem you face to land a job? 5 by sathish060799 | 5 comments on Hacker News. The demand for software engineers is ever growing, but many software engineers still face problems to land a job. What is the biggest problem here?

Ask HN: What is the best programming book you've read? 2 by cylde_frog | 1 comments on Hacker News. Whole language is an approach to, or attitude toward learning that sees language as a whole entity, and writing, speaking, reading, and listening should be integrated when learned.

Ask HN: Dynamic Interval Cron 2 by ed1ted | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have a need for calling a function hosted on aws lambda based on dynamic interval. The function usually needs to be called for few hours a day to do some data processing. Because I’m calling external services, sometimes I would call this function on 5 minute interval or could be longer if I run into rate limit issues. So I’m thinking of writing a service which would allow the endpoints to pass back the time (eg 5m or 1h) as a response header to define when to call the function again. I know it’s very specific use case but is this something that can be extended for other uses cases? Trying to figure out if it’s worth building a micro SaaS

Ask HN: How do you decide what non-fiction books to read? 5 by personjerry | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I find that I always have a long list of books to read, and to be honest I can only read one book at a time, and it takes me a week or two to read it. For this list I compile self-help, learning, entrepreneurship kind of books, not the fiction entertainment kind of book. Fiction I can consume much quicker. A good self-help book usually means actionable, concrete guidance with just a sprinkle of theory. The reviews from Goodreads or Amazon are inconsistent and often just false, and I've found the only reliable source of good books are my friends (and only a handful of them). What system are you currently using to narrow that book list down and find the truly helpful reads?

Ask HN: What do you think about deleting old irrelevant blog posts? 3 by iio7 | 4 comments on Hacker News. On personal blogs, what do you think about deleting old more or less irrelevant blog posts?

Ask HN: I am being pushed out. How do I handle? 8 by kpr21 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am an individual contributor in 40's. Have always been a top performer. A few months ago, I sensed that I am being pushed out. But I pretended that, I am unaware of it, since I wanted to focus my career. Now, this has started to impact my performance rating. I was under the impression, I was being targeted. Recently I realised that, its happening with a lot of other senior people too. Looks like they no longer value the senior people. This has really upset me, since I was very loyal to the team. I am not able to focus on anything. I am thinking about the possible options. One option is to continue, (by doing the minimum required) till they lay me off. But I dont know if they can also resort to the informal layoff, by asking me to look for a job. The advantage in this option is that, this gives me the time to explore building something on my own. But it will definitely hurt my self respect.

Ask HN: What do you enjoy about JavaScript? 3 by xupybd | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don't find JavaScript fun to work with. I love Chromes debugging tools and realize it a hugely valuable language but I don't find it fun. There are people that love JS and want to use it for everything. If you're one of them what makes it fun?

Ask HN: What is going wrong at Amazon? 3 by ent101 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I feel like for the past 2-3 years you can't really rely on Amaozn anymore. Reviews are mostly fake, many deliveries are either broken or counterfeit... What happened?

Ask HN: Worth shifting from banking to programming career? 6 by lakeshore | 19 comments on Hacker News. I know it's often asked here whether it's worth learning programming and the answer usually tends to be 'yes'. I've been giving this quite a bit of thought and even embarked on The Odin Project, but still not sure if it's a good idea for me. A bit about me: Mid-30s; based in US; established career in banking; upper/middle management earning $250-300K; enjoy my work and have been doing well; I have a type of a role where I can shift to other industries (in a similar role) Why I think learning programming is a good idea - Software is the future, there's talk of DeFi potentially disintermediating traditional banks so need a hedge by developing an alternative skillset - I took some programming classes in high school and enjoyed them Why I think learning programming is a bad idea - There's an opportunity cost to my time. I have a family. More importantly

I don't have crippling Anxiety, but Anxiety is crippling me 6 by SMAAART | 0 comments on Hacker News. From the outside in, people think that I've got it going on. I grew up poor, and I was an awkward shy kid, and - a few decades later - by any measure I am living the American dream. With hard work I put myself through college at night, survived divorce, lay-off, and more. When I was 18 almost as a joke I started a little FUN project that ended up as a mildly successful company with a small exit. Then I follow the college-job route, here and there thinkering with entrepreneurship, but while I was not longer socially shy/awkward my ventures often were relinquished to lists, or just acquiring a domain (at one point I owned >200 domains), or building a sucky web site, or filing a provisional patent, but I was "marketing shy", I never put myself out there, or at times I hid behind some excuse that I know now they were lame AF: "I need 20 million dollars in VC to

Stay away from Niceboard-co Olivier Breton 6 by grstnnn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Olivier Breton, the CEO of Niceboard.co himself abusively destroyed 10 of our websites and the data of around 8000 users, and we require that he restore our data and refund our $3750 paid to him upfront for lifetime access to his software. Furthermore, he refused to replies to multiple emails my partner or I sent to him and blocked us on his social media accounts.

Ask HN: What Are the Masterworks of Software? 4 by graderjs | 1 comments on Hacker News. https://twitter.com/adamthesherwood/status/1401308468263325698: A fundamental component of classical art training was copying works by masters. What are the masterworks of software engineering?

Ask HN: As a solo developer, how can I find a solid accountant? 5 by nullbytesmatter | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a solo developer with a SaaS product that makes a substantial amount of money ($500k+). I think it has gotten to the point where I could use more clever accounting to save money and leverage the income better. How can I find a solid accountant (preferably someone that works remote, and has experience with SaaS businesses)?

Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier? 3 by coopreme | 1 comments on Hacker News. I recently read a short piece about using Oracle’s always free as a VPN. What other cool projects have you run out of any cloud/hosting provider’s always free offerings? (Pour one out for Angelfire and Geocities)

Ask HN: Improving health despite working in a screen-based job 5 by BlackVanilla | 3 comments on Hacker News. The ideal would be to walk while working. This is simple if you're taking a phone call (although increasingly hard as people push for videoconferencing). Does anybody have good workflows for how they stay active (walking while working for instance)? See also: https://ift.tt/2XtTeGl 'Ask HN: Best options for wearable computing? How can I type and walk?' (2010) https://ift.tt/3u3luQj

Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly 4 by droyson | 0 comments on Hacker News. A little bit of backstory: Recently I read/listened to Make Time by Jake & JZ, in which they mentioned that daily news is overrated and only checking news once in a week should be sufficient. This has stuck with me. Now I'm looking for an app/site that will curate news weekly. All the apps that I've looked into (Google news, Apple news, NewsInShorts, etc.) serve the purpose of instant news. I can check the news once a week but that means only the most recent news is served up and I need to scroll way down for older relevant articles. Is there a site that curates news of 1 week and serves in level of relevance. Thanks for reading and any help is appreciated

Encourage Use of “Good” Mobile Apps 2 by knowmad | 0 comments on Hacker News. I would like an app that gamifies app usage to encourage the use of "good" apps like Ankidroid and discourages the use of "bad" apps like TikTok. So far I've only found apps that discourage app usage but none that allow you to select "good" apps that you're encouraged to use. I'm not really sure how to even phrase that in a way that could be understood by a search engine.

It's time recruiters start paying engineers directly to take their phone calls 2 by careerengineer | 1 comments on Hacker News. All engineers know what it's like to be bombarded by recruiters wanting some of their time. So pay us for our time to do your interviews.

Ask HN: What has happened with Dell XPS? 2 by Jugurtha | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is recent. My Dell XPS 15 9570 (Ubuntu) drains the battery like crazy and heats up when hibernating. Another conversation here: https://ift.tt/3u8jE0i Until recently, it hibernated fine. I suspect a firmware update. Is anyone else having this with this particular model, and have you managed to fix it?

Ask HN: What's the most “well-crafted“ piece of software you use? 5 by whitepoplar | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Are any of you still unvaccinated? If so, why? 4 by electrotype | 2 comments on Hacker News. We are an open minded community, right? We're curious. Let's listen to those who have chosen not to get vaccinated and what are their reasons.

Ask HN: What are good alternatives to Crashplan for personal backups? 3 by insta_anon | 0 comments on Hacker News. A couple of days ago I got the following mail: Hello, We’re sending this communication regarding backup and policy updates to CrashPlan for Small Business. Starting October 20, 2021, we will release a series of automatic updates to implement the following changes on all devices: - Minimum backup frequency and version retention settings of 30 minutes - Deleted files retention limited to 90 days - Additional file exclusions We are making these changes as part of our continued commitment to safeguarding backup integrity while keeping our service price competitive. These changes are mandatory and it is not possible to opt out. If you’ve deleted files from your computer that you would like to retain, you’ll need to restore them before October 20. So far I was able to keep my deleted files in my backups forever, which for instance allowed me to restore a Bitcoin wallet.dat fr

Ask HN: Which would you choose? Elixir/Phoenix or Crystal/Lucky? 2 by akudha | 1 comments on Hacker News. For a general purpose web application. For something that requires concurrency, Phoenix is probably an obvious choice? But for a general purpose, SaaS web app, which one would you choose?

Ask HN: How to make things more searchable? 2 by sandwichbop | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was reading a verge article [1], and this stood out to me. > But in STEM fields, directory structure remains crucially important. Astronomers, for example, may work with hundreds of thousands of files in the same format — which can be unwieldy to scale to a searchable system, Plavchan says. Anecdotally, I've found searchable systems to be lukewarm. Search engines like Google are good for out-of-the-blue questions, but when looking within local files or data inside programs, search systems struggle to get what I need quickly. If I remember a specific file name, Spotlight search on macOS usually tells me what I need, while the default search on Windows does more or less the same. But these search systems never really help me find things in-depth, perhaps some mathematical formula embedded somewhere in a PDF file compiled from LaTeX. Or these search systems are not as forgiving when I'

GNU coreutils 9 is released 6 by pixelbeat__ | 0 comments on Hacker News. A new major release, with these significant changes: - cp has changed how it handles data - enables CoW by default (through FICLONE ioctl), - uses copy offload where available (through copy_file_range), - detects holes differently (though SEEK_HOLE) - This also applies to mv and install. - utilities are more tuned to the hardware available - wc uses avx2 instructions to count lines - cksum uses pclmul instructions for --algorithm=crc - Other digest tunings remain delegated to libcrypto - More amalgamation of utilities - cksum now supports the -a option to select any digest. - This is the preferred interface, rather than sha*sum etc. - This is similar to the amalgamation of encoding utilities introduced in the basenc command in v8.31. Details at https://ift.tt/3AHaDhd

Ask HN: Are the environmental concerns around Bitcoin serious? 2 by dinobones | 1 comments on Hacker News. HackerNews is the first place I’ve heard about this, every time Bitcoin is mentioned someone will say it uses as much energy as 1/10th of the world’s concrete production and therefore it is destroying the environment. I’ve only ever seen this view on HackerNews and some parts of Twitter. It’s interesting to me because Bitcoin seems very much like a “hacker” topic that HN would generally like. So how and why did opinions change? Every time Bitcoin is mentioned, every reply is someone very angrily posting about environmental concerns.

Ask HN: Whose using web based development environments? 5 by emeraldd | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've seen setups like: * https://ift.tt/35JCcYQ * https://ift.tt/2iskAMZ * https://coder.com/ * https://okteto.com/ and I can't help but wonder whose using these? and what their experiences are like? Personally, I have a very difficult time seeing how these tools are not extremely frustrating for the developers using them. Still, I keep seeing them pop up and wonder if there's something I'm fundamentally missing?

Ask HN: Buying house – any disruptors I can use? 3 by 100-xyz | 5 comments on Hacker News. We are starting to look at houses and are realizing how much we will be paying for services that IMO are quite mundane. 1) Mortgage broker - This lady will charge us 1% (10,000$) to find us a suitable loan. Basically, she will compare about 10 loans and choose the best one. Software systems can do this easily. 2) The buying agent - so far she has not come up with any houses on her own. She finds the same things we find on line. I dont need her to visit open houses. Legally, in SF I need an agent to be present during the inspections. I can use the selling agent for a fee. If I use her to place an offer, there is a bias problem. A buyer agent may be biased towards placing a "strong" offer. The "stronger" the offer, higher the probability that it will go through and higher her share. I have researched the areas enough and am comfortable coming up with a price. Are there any st

Ask HN: Does anyone have a system for preventing tribal knowledge? 3 by alexfromapex | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do I move up my career/life? 4 by anonymous567 | 3 comments on Hacker News. My background: I'm a 25 year old Indian software developer working in India. As for my education, I actually studied in the United States for my MS in Computer Science (from a large public university; not ivy league), and is one of the rare Indian students who actually returned to India immediately after I got my degree. I cannot pinpoint exactly why I returned; it was a combination of me being an introvert + I really felt like I didn't belong there. (Don't get me wrong here — all Americans (and non Americans, for that matter) I met in USA were wonderful nice kind people; it's just, I didn't belong there). After returning back to India, I got a software engineering job which I would've gotten anyway even if I never went to America (I try not to think too much about this). I have 2.5 years of work experience, and at work I do Laravel for the most part, with occasional Pytho

Ask HN: Do you know any ML object detection/classification as a service? 2 by kernelsoe | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why doesn't HN scrub this train emoji? 4 by isoprophlex | 3 comments on Hacker News. See: https://ift.tt/3kzAZMI I came across this post that accidentally contains a train emoji. Copy/pasting into a new post worked, even though I thought emoji were scrubbed from submitted text. And indeed when I select a train emoji on my phone keyboard... no trains! I can't figure out what makes the train in that post special, does anyone know what's going on here? User Zokier mentions "private area unicode" but I'm having a hard time grokking how that causes this issue. Train from post:  Train from my phone keyboard: Gets redacted

Ask HN: "Free if you know how to compile it" open source license? 2 by sam0x17 | 7 comments on Hacker News. Has anyone tried setting up an open source license oriented around the idea of "it's free if you are savvy enough to compile a binary, otherwise here you can pay for a pre-compiled binary"? I feel like this could be a very interesting option for solo developers who want to monetize their open source work but want to keep things free for other developers and/or people willing to spend 5 minutes reading documentation on how to build the project. This would also encourage non-developers to dip their toes in a development environment which would be an undeniably positive thing for the community. Anyway was just wondering if at any point someone tried to set something up like this. I've been toying with adopting a model like this for one of my popular open source projects that has a _lot_ of non-programmer users and would benefit from increased participa

Ask HN: When does serverless become more expensive than microservices? 3 by RapperWhoMadeIt | 0 comments on Hacker News. If it makes sense to deploy an application both as serverless as well as microservices, when will a serverless architecture start being more expensive economically, or in general having tradeoffs in comparison to microservices. Again, the question relates to cases in which both architectures would make sense for a particular application. Other than maybe vendor lock-in, and cold starts, what other drawbacks does serverless have in comparison to microservices?

Ask HN: Where are you moving to, due to climate emergency? 3 by readonthegoapp | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anybody working on personal data plumbing? 3 by pearsa | 1 comments on Hacker News. The majority of our online interactions with companies / institutions reduce to us filling out and posting forms. This is much better than doing the same thing with paper or email. But it can't be that way forever. Especially as the volume of data increases, types of data become more varied, and frequency of such interactions increases. My vision for how it should be is more like payments. I give the company / institution my card details, and they transact against it to get what they need. This transaction is facilitated by a clever broker company (i.e. the company I want to build) who knows how to fetch the data from me - but doesn't own or control said data - at some small latency. Why doesn't the VISA / MasterCard of personal data transactions exist yet? Is anyone working on this? Does anyone want to? I get that this sounds a bit crazy right now, but I think this is a huge busi