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Ask HN: Anyone at Google have a way to help this former MIT physics prof out? 4 by antiviral | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Full text search engine in JavaScript for English and Chinese? 3 by graderjs | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in providing the full text search capability for product 22120 which has a web archive capability. I've investigated a few such as those based on solr but my concern is that they do not handle multiple human languages with minimal configuration. Ideally something that has the stemming and tokenization for multiple languages including East Asian languages such as Chinese Japanese Korean and ideally South Asian languages like Hindi and Urdu as well. Unfortunately a great many search engines out there seem to have a stemming and tokenization available for romance languages such as Latin derived or Germanic languages. People from everywhere like to archive web content that they browse and the content is in multiple human languages so to provide a good full text search I need something that can handle multiple human languages. I considered maybe writing

Ask HN: What are remote startups doing for Holiday Events? 3 by gunnr15 | 0 comments on Hacker News. With the holidays around the corner, how other remote-first founders thinking about company events?

Blockchain vs. Becoming a Better Person 2 by ruckadub | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been coding and designing since 1997 and I've followed every internet iteration for 3 decades. I'm the founder of a company that is in position to change a culture based industry, and throughout my decade plus of building this platform, I have determined that building opinionated software with "old tech" operated by highly ethically individuals or gatekeepers, is the middle ground to an equitable future for the Internet. We're all exhausted with big tech's monopolized hold of the Internet, similar to how we're also tired of corporations on wall street, or over hearing about people killed by guns. As much as decentralizing big tech and replacing corporation with DeFi and confiscating all guns might seem like a great idea to some, the solution to all of this is simply becoming a better person. The blockchain not only suffers from insurmountable scaling issues, but

Ask HN: Did you ever travel or live in a country with different culture? 2 by ayumu722 | 1 comments on Hacker News. If you ever traveled or lived in a country with a culture completely different than yours, can you share how did this experience change your perspective? any interesting anecdotes?

Ask HN: How do you develop internal tools for your organization? 3 by siscia | 3 comments on Hacker News. We are considering creating few internal tools to speed up the work of a few departments in our organization, but before starting development heads on, I would love to gather some wisdom from HN. First, what tools are you developing? How do you handle user authentication? Do you develop one single big application for everything in your organization, or few distinct applications, each with its own specific goal? Any specific thing to watch out for? Thanks!

Ask HN: How do you tackle your own negativity? 4 by c7DJTLrn | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've noticed that the majority of my own comments here on HN have a negative spin on them and a lot of my blog posts unfortunately are very ranty. I guess to others this can make me look obnoxious. At the same time, I struggle to suppress my own negativity and feel like I need to get it out. Does anybody else feel this way? How do (or don't) you tackle it?

Ask HN: How do you plan a sabbatical? 3 by Raed667 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm feeling a little burnt and a little bored. I have enough savings for an extended sabbatical. Yet, I'm worried that if I just quit. I'll just be a slob, sleep until noon and do nothing for months. Do you have any advice on how to plan a successful sabbatical leave?

Ask HN: Will there ever be a vendor agnostic GPU interface? 2 by slmjkdbtl | 0 comments on Hacker News. We moved from almost write once run anywhere OpenGL to vendor-dependent Vulkan / D3D11 / Metal / WebGPU, which is kinda impossible to support all without heavy abstraction layers and shader transpilers. Is there any possibility that we'll have easy cross platform in graphics realm in the future?

Ask HN: How to Grow My Money? 4 by rschachte | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m 26 years old and I write software for big corp. My goal is to be smart early to allow my wealth to compound so I’m in a good position in my 30s and 40s and maybe seek to early retirement. I currently have a net worth of $550k all cash. 500k is invested in a mix of 401k and various low expense ratio index funds (large, mid, small and international). 50k I have in cash and plan on investing. My salary is > $200k. How should I consider diversifying my portfolio? Should I be more into crypto? Is index funds a safe bet?

Ask HN: Network Topology visualization UI libraries for Web? 2 by cfrover | 0 comments on Hacker News. Ask: Is anyone familiar with any network topology visualizer libraries for the web? About: I am software engineer looking for a UI library to help visualize network topologies / company infrastructure? This seems like a very niche space understandably, so looking to hear more from the community. What I've found so far (Open Source) - Skydive: https://skydive.network (best I've seen) - Netjson: https://netjson.org/ a long list of other open source but old & unmaintained: https://ift.tt/3GFiEqA What I've found so far (Paid, but quite expensive) - Cisco NeXtUi https://ift.tt/3boOBFc (no longer maintained, old, poor docs) - regraph: https://ift.tt/2NhyYWS - Auvik: https://ift.tt/3EuhDj6 - Yfiles: https://ift.tt/3w8tH5P - Linkurious: https://ift.tt/3CAa0XP

Ask HN: How is Netflix able to prevent screenshots on Chrome? 5 by the42thdoctor | 1 comments on Hacker News. The other day I tried to screenshot a funny frame in a Netflix video to show to a friend and the image came out black. I tried both the `prtsc key` and the `Snipping Tool`. This got me wondering is JavaScript able to interfere with the built-in OS printscreen function ? I was using Chrome on a Windows 10 machine, and in the end, strangely enough, I was able to take the screenshot on the Netflix Android app.

Ask HN: What new technology is about to become big? 6 by FridayoLeary | 6 comments on Hacker News. I wonder, what will replace traditional devices. If sci fi movies are right, the future will be holographic displays. Meta seems to think it's the metaverse, which sounds to me like it could be VR (They couldn't possibly be so pathetic as to imagine a simple super app could pass as a "metaverse"). The 1970's vision of a space age and major advancements in biology and nuclear tech, while computer tech seems to stagnate doesn't seem to be happening. So what particular area(s) do you think will see major breakthroughs over the next few decades?

Perfect time for Apple to license the mac? 2 by fedbook | 4 comments on Hacker News. Back in the 90's we had several mac clones - computers running mac hardware and mac os, yet not made by apple. do you think now that we have the M1 chip, there is any chance apple will license out the M1 to manufacturers? After all, they can't satisfy everyone with one model and system builders would be happy to have an M1 to play with. Only makes sense to me.

Ask HN: Been in the IT Industry for 10 Years with Nothing to Show For 2 by OulaX | 1 comments on Hacker News. PRE-DESCLAIMER: I apologize if posting such rants and discussion threads is against the rules of HN. DESCLAIMER: This post can be quite long for some people, and I get it if no one wants to read it, but I would be grateful if you don't downvote me, maybe someone who's actually willing to help might see and answer me, because quite honestly I've been stuck in a terrible rut and I need some professional help. Some Information About Me, I am 25 years old, and I live in a third world country (Iraq to be specific), the city I live in almost has no software-based startups / companies, also goverment work in IT is very very very difficult to get due to the amount of corruption there is, what I am currently doing is some freelance work, sometimes a client comes and wants a very basic static website, and I build it for them (Using a premade template from ThemeForest, beca

Ask HN: How to start learning about investments 2 by DeathArrow | 0 comments on Hacker News. I know basically zero about investing and stocks, mutual funds, XFDs, ETFs and FOREX seems most accessible investment vehicles. I want to start investing some money and before doing it I want to learn how to do it. I don't plan to get super rich by doing this but to improve my financial situation. What I want is to learn how not to lose money and being able to correctly asses the risks and rewards. There are sites like investopedia but they seem generic and articles aren't well connected with each other. I don't expect to have a learning path or certificates or nanodegrees or even complete tutorials like on Udemy, Coursera or Udacity. But I want a way to have some structured information. So where do you suggest I can start? How to find good materials that I can learn from? How to structure the information and do a learning plan?

Ask HN: Advice for generating and reading from a picture (similar to a qr code) 2 by 07121941 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm trying to design something similar to a qr code from scratch. I've got some ideas on how I can anchor and fill in binary data into the graphic design but I'm a bit unsure as to how I should approach the reading/decoding part (with a camera). Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask this. QR codes have been around for a while. I like the way facebook messanger or snapcodes approach the task of human-friendly and machine readable designs, but I'd like to experiment with something new. It doesn't need to encode too much information anyway. I've been reading into AR with unity. I don't mind learning some c# but I'd ideally want to write a solution in python or javascript. Thanks again

Ask HN: Where are secular source of crypto space knowledge? 3 by Existenceblinks | 3 comments on Hacker News. As history record shows that a bunch of religions have been survived for thousand years, a lot of church and temple, along with modern technology and government of secular and non-secular states. So, I am adjusting my attitude to live with cryptocurrency stuff because I think it is not going anywhere and could still exist for my lifespan. Cryptocurrency/blockchain knowledge like religions, there are good concept applicable and useful in life, there are also tons of bullshit, scam, even violence. I would like to collect sources of knowledge that is not related to any cult non-sense. Knowledge in crypto/blockchain stuff I would like to know, for example, what's top 5 coins, overall promising regarding transaction rate, fee, market cap, suitable for application (e.g. dapp), technical and philosophical limitation. I have pretty good exploring skills, read a lot of data, but

Ask HN: What userscripts do you use to enhance your browsing experience? 5 by hidden-spyder | 0 comments on Hacker News. Also, what userscript manager do you use and why do you prefer it over the others?

Ask HN: The Expected Style for Tech Résumés 4 by xook | 1 comments on Hacker News. The recent Reddit thread posted here about buzzword-filled resumes getting more results got me wondering: What does HN consider a decent résumé when it comes to font choice and graphics? There are many different styles, and presumably, some are better than others for different career paths. However, I wonder what the technology- and engineering-focused groups think is a "stand-out" résumé. For example: While at college, we were informed that a resume should be–aside from consistent–bare bones without any unexpected fonts (only Times New Roman or a basic Sans), styles, or coloration. It should be black text on a white background, no pictures, no styling outside of headings, and so forth. On one hand, it wouldn't be distracting, but would it not be wise to stand out in some way than to "blend in," as it were?

Ask HN: If the Internet were redesigned today, what changes would you make? 9 by flerovium | 6 comments on Hacker News. I mean the protocols, networking, connectivity. I don't mean the content of the internet. Is DNS really a perfect protocol? How can it be improved?

Ask HN: Another job board? Need feedback on the idea 3 by techsin101 | 4 comments on Hacker News. So It's not ready yet, but I'm creating a new job board for developers. I'm looking to get feedback on idea itself.... So my hypothesis is that as a dev, I'd love to do some gigs on the side. But I'm not really in the mood to search for them, apply to 1000s of them and do all back and forth. I literally want small jobs, that I can knock out in a day or two, and get paid $100-$1k. Another extension to this idea I've thought about is, to have an expert dev on call. Got stuck in your day to day work? Call in expert. The expert does screen share, fixes the problem hopefully. But it could be like a service that companies could subscribe for monthly N hours. (SQL expert, Wordpress, React, etc) Which one do you think has more potential?

Ask HN: Has anyone been able to grow side project bought on Flippa or similar? 3 by trashtestcrash | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a software engineer looking for a side hustle as a solo. I'm considering buying a project from Flippa or similar platform, which has some traction already. My budget will be <$2500. Preferable SaaS or App. Has anyone here been able to buy side project like this and grow it successfully? Would you be able to share some tips on what to watch out for. What was your story?

Ask HN: DuckDuckGo or StartPage or other? Which one do you use and why? 4 by busymom0 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I recently switched from DDG to StartPage and am seeing better search results imo but I have only been using it for couple days. I am curious what everyone else uses and how they find it?

Ask HN: HTTP request headers to facilitate better UX on web sites? 2 by mactavish88 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are there any, or can we maybe come up with (i.e. suggestions please if it seems like a good idea), HTTP headers that browsers can send to sites that automatically instruct them in terms of: 1. The kinds of cookies I'm willing to accept (e.g. strictly necessary). For example, `X-Prefer-Cookies: strictly-necessary` or `X-Prefer-Cookies: all`. 2. The fact that I don't, and probably never will, care about your newsletter. (If your content really interests me, I'll find a way through your UI to subscribe.) For example: `X-Offer-Newsletter: no`, or `X-Offer-Newsletter: yes`. If you wanted to facilitate more general UX preference indications from the client side, you could potentially come up with a scheme like `X-UX-Preferences: strictly-necessary-cookies; no-newsletters`. This way I can set these preferences once in my browser and be done with your annoying cookie

Ask HN: Do you care about IP protection on deployment on client's site? 4 by blingojames | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, When deploying software that runs on the client's site, from classic compiled software, to Python and Neural Networks, do you care to protect your IP with obfuscation, encryption or some other solution, or it's not something worth your time? Personally I didn't find many solutions to this, did you?

Ask HN: What Internet decentralization techniques do you think are promising? 5 by kertoip_1 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for a topic for my master's thesis. I am mainly interested in networks and the concept of decentralization of the Internet. Do you think of any techniques, besides blockchain and DHT, that are worth exploring in this area? Has anything in this topic particularly caught your attention recently?

Ask HN: Why do developers blog on Medium while it's paywalled? 4 by behnamoh | 1 comments on Hacker News. Unfortunately, there's so much good content on Medium that appears at the top of Google search as well, but non-subscribers are deprived of such content. At the same time, I see lots of discussion here on HN about how many developers care for the free and open internet. How is it then, that many developers write and contribute to such paywall websites? And it's not just Medium. Many websites are built on top of Medium and they too get paywalled.

Ask HN: What financial tool do you use to manage personal finance 2 by conqrr | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for something like Personal Capital or Mint but would prefer open source, offline first version instead. Curious what the HN crowd uses

Ask HN: Do you find your companies yearly review process useful? 3 by omosubi | 0 comments on Hacker News. What do you do for your review process and is it useful?

Ask HN: Does Z suffix on a timestamp stand for Zulu, Zero, or both? 2 by johnnyApplePRNG | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just trying to learn a bit about timestamp formatting. Found some articles that claim Z is for Zero, and some that claim Z is for Zulu. They're the same Zs, right?

Ask HN: How far away are we from mass-deployed self-driving vehicles? 3 by hidden-spyder | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What does HN think about the future of psychedelics? 2 by lambdaba | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in your experiences with psychedelics wrt. mental health, and whether you consider / are pursuing working in the field (wondering about opportunities as a coder).

Ask HN: Why is Google paying Apple to be default search engine on iPhones? 3 by mrkramer | 5 comments on Hacker News. I don't understand why Google pays Apple to be default search engine on Iphone when Google's market share and brand is so big that no way any other search engine hurts it anytime soon? Allegedly Google pays between $8 billion and $12 billion each year to be default search engine on Iphones and Ipads[1]. They could stop paying Apple and save $12 billion every year. My only reasoning is if Google doesn't pay some other search engine will for example Bing but then again Google is the most searched word on Bing[2]. So Google is entrapped in a situation where they are afraid not to be default search engine on Apple devices because Microsoft could jump in or even Apple itself with its future search engine. I don't see how this decision is reasonable because let's say Google pays $100bn in 10 years that's a lot of money that could've been investe

Ask HN: How do I find a mentor outside my company about software web programming 4 by philonoist | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: If I disable JavaScript, am I worth less to advertisers? 4 by chrischapman | 1 comments on Hacker News. The question was prompted by this HN post today (Browser Fingerprinting Without JavaScript)[1]. The article suggests I could still be tracked so I started wondering about the effects of JavaScript (JS) on advertisers. Hypothesis: Tracking primarily benefits advertisers. Adverts are primarily delivered in the browser by JS. By disabling JS, my value to advertisers is diminished. As data collectors can't sell my data at a profit, they should stop collecting my data. Is that hypothesis valid? My own motivation for disabling JavaScript was simply to avoid experimental DHTML stuff (like wierd mouse effects) back in the day - not privacy or tracking - but I'm still really happy with that choice - I get to browse a quieter web. But has it made me less worth while to track? If it was just me as a NoJS user, advertisers wouldn't bother about it. But imagine if Halloween

Ask HN: Would Google still kill Google+ If they new about Facebook’s problems? 3 by p2t2p | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Will I have to pay both US and Canadian taxes if I work from Canada? 2 by nassimsoftware | 2 comments on Hacker News. Let's say I work for a US company remotely from Canada. Will I have to pay both US taxes and Canadian taxes?

Ask HN: Favorite Parenting Podcasts? 2 by aalhour | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are your favorite parenting podcasts and why? I am looking for recommendations but also looking to explore things I may not come across.

Ask HN: Foreign Language Technical Forums? 2 by Hasz | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, For people fluent in two or more languages, what technical forums do you read that are not available in English? I'm mainly interested in sites like Hackaday, HN, or Habr. I'm specifically looking for Chinese (Mandarin) language forums on embedded software and hardware. I know they must exist, I'm just not sure how to find them.

Ask HN: Economics of Bitcoin Mining? 2 by mitchbob | 2 comments on Hacker News. My brother, a semiretired hydropower engineer, has a client with 750 kW of generating capacity that because of regulatory snags he can't connect to the grid. He's interested in whether it makes economic sense to use the power to mine bitcoins and what the total lifecycle costs would be. Are there good resources for exploring options--which I imagine run from to full DIY to turnkey solutions to mining as a service--and costs?

Tell HN: Framework should build a VR headset 4 by alexfromapex | 0 comments on Hacker News. The framework laptop (https://frame.work/) is awesome The same concept, when applied to VR headsets, would help to prevent Facebook or other companies from taking a proprietary hold over VR tech

Ask HN: As a new SaaS business, how do you find your first 10 paying clients? 5 by vicpara | 1 comments on Hacker News. * you don't have SOC2 certification; * actually you don't have any security certification * you can hardly pass the financial or IT security questionnaires with big ticket companies * you have two employees. How do you get your 10 paying clients? Greateful for your thoughts.

Ask HN: Is there a simple and minimal language like C but without its footguns? 4 by apoorvagk | 6 comments on Hacker News. I want to pick a new programming language that is simple and minimal like C but does not have the type of footguns C has (segmentation faults, double-free issues, etc.) C++, Java, Rust are far from minimal. Go feels minimal but it too has a lot of features compared to C and it has a garbage collector too. Here are some things I am looking for: * Compiles down to machine code. * Does not have the footguns of C. * Simple like C. * Implementations available for all major OSes, at least, Linux, Mac, Windows, *BSDs. After extensive search I got the feeling that it is difficult to find such a language. If I am willing to let go "simple like C", then it provides a lot of options like Rust, Nim, and all. Just asking here to see if I missed something during my search.

Ask HN: How do I find a mentor outside my company? 9 by philonoist | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Has anyone use YugabyteDB or CockroachDB in production? 2 by bennyp101 | 4 comments on Hacker News. We are currently looking at deploying a CockroachDB or YugabyteDB cluster for some applications, and I was wondering if anyone had used it in anger? Not a lot of detailed comparisons between the 2 (that aren't written by the companies in question)

Ask HN: Does gamification work in long term? 4 by atulatul | 1 comments on Hacker News. For example, I have a good stack overflow score. And I keep going back there. But I am curios whether the user's interest or any other purpose of gamification wanes over time?

Ask HN: Who else sees life getting progressively worse from now on, even in US? 4 by readonthegoapp | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Our product name is Meta too. What would you do? 6 by alanchan_tw | 4 comments on Hacker News. Our company is building projectmeta.app, a note-taking tool for visual learning, and our users call it Meta. Should we rename the company/product to avoid the name collision with Facebook?

HN Dark Mode 4 by barcoder | 1 comments on Hacker News. There's apps, but I love reading HN from a browser. Please can we have a dark button?

Ask HN: What roles can you pursue besides web development? 2 by mr_o47 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, I’m stuck in between choosing roles and having a hard time in figuring out where should I specialized Long story short what other roles can I pursue besides web development

How can an English teacher transition into web-development? 3 by aaron5 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I'm Aaron. I hold a BS in ChemE, but my day-job is teaching English in China - I think I do a good job. Also I write fiction at my website. For several years, I've made little projects on the web, mostly in PHP and JavaScript, for example: a game where people "invest" in subreddits like stocks [1], a reddit-like-commenting system [2], my own website [3], etc. How could I transition to a remote web-developer job most effectively? Coding boot-camp? Crank through job-boards and applications? Go through an online MS in CS? My coding is not strong, but I can get stuff to work in PHP and JavaScript, and I can use web APIs fairly well. I'm lacking in skill and knowledge, but I hope to remedy that. So, if you have a suggestion for how I might most effectively improve and hopefully even be remunerated, I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts. Thank you. [1] paar

Ask HN: Advice dealing with Insurance denying Oncologist's recommendations? 4 by glitcher | 1 comments on Hacker News. My apologies for this not being directly tech related, but I know there are many people here on HN with domain expertise in a broad array of industries. A family member is experiencing new symptoms that were the precursor to discovering their cancer originally. Unfortunately at diagnosis, they were already stage 4. The oncologist ordered a specific scan, the insurance company denied it, and then required a "peer to peer" meeting with the doctor. They forced the doctor's hand to accept a different type of scan, which at an earlier point of treatment had returned a false negative for us. And the process is also causing, and has caused in the past, delays to treatment in an extremely time sensitive situation. What can I possibly do about this peer to peer theater? There is absolutely no way the insurance companies' "peer" knows the lates

Ask HN: Do you know uninteresting but useful scientific discoveries? 4 by wamo | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm having mixed feelings about the starting assumption of the article "That's interesting!" by sociologist Murray S. Davis. The starting assumption is that it is desirable for scientists to produce interesting theories. Is it really? The article goes on to analyze what makes a proposition interesting and what makes one non-interesting. Do you have examples that contradict the assumption that interesting is necessarily desirable in science? Can you think of non-interesting scientific propositions that were very useful?

Ask HN: Relearning mathematics after high school? 6 by type4 | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN. Wanted to see what people think the "best" way to become reacquainted with math is. My situation: Haven't taken a math class in 10+ years. Highest level I've taken was statistics (which I didn't receive good grades in). Capable programmer. Don't really have a goal of doing anything with math, just want to orient myself more towards math and see if that changes how I think about things.

Ask HN: Is anyone else annoyed by the bug in the comments links? 7 by speps | 3 comments on Hacker News. Between Oct 27th and Oct 28th the HTML code for HN's front page changed from: Oct 27th: hide | 18 comments Oct 28th: hide | 31 comments The space and vertical bar between "hide" and the "XXX comments" is now part of the link for the comments. Could it be fixed please? Thanks!

According to the BLS, are you a “computer programmer” or a “software developer”? 2 by codesections | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am a bit surprised by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics definitions of "computer programmer" and "software developer" and don't know which one applies to most developers I know. Here are the definitions: 15-1251 Computer Programmers Create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow computer applications to run. Work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals. May develop and write computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information. Illustrative examples: Applications Programmer, Computer Language Coder, IT Programmer, Systems Programmer. -- 15-1252 Software Developers Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of c

Ask HN: What are the problems that are willing to pay more than $1000 to solve? 10 by max93 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Same as Title.

Ask HN: Anyone Here Using Stenography 2 by lemonade5117 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I just discovered what steno is and it seems really cool. Right now I am just blown away by how fast some stenographers can type. I am thinking of buying a Uni v3 but wondering if the amount of effort it’ll take to learn steno will be worth it. Does anyone here use steno for programming or just writing in general? If you do, do you have any tips on how to learn stenography faster? Thanks in advance.

Ask HN: Strategies to get reviews for a new app 2 by skreenr | 1 comments on Hacker News. I wanted to hear What is the current thinking on Getting reviews for your app' for an up-and-coming developer like myself? There is a relevant Quora thread https://ift.tt/2CJ8bf6 which features two dueling camps: one side extols the virtues of select Pay-for-Reviews sites, while the other takes the opposing view of Don't do that! - A sure way to get banned and/or banished; –and Yes, the Refill feature offered by some of those mentioned makes you wonder: What's the reason this is being offered, as in a "good reason" -?

Ask HN: HTTPS and SSL Proxy security question 3 by fakeElonMusk | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm not a security expert but I always thought that HTTPS was secure and that if my code was calling an API (for example) with HTTPS/SSL Cert that it was encrypted end to end. Rephrase, I know it's encrypted but I'm aware that MIM or SSL Proxy methods can be used to expose that traffic by spoofing client/server keys. So I assume that someone has to be on your network to use a tool like Charles Proxy. Is the combination of securing your network plus HTTPS "enough" security to keep web and app traffic safe? What are other aspects I'm missing? Would love to learn more if anyone is willing to share some good resources. TIA.

Project Gutenberg is no longer fully blocked in Germany 6 by Vespasian | 0 comments on Hacker News. They settled their 2015 lawsuit and will only be blocking these specific works. More information and Background: https://ift.tt/2tdLVXI

Ask HN: What tools did your employer buy for remote work during the pandemic? 3 by xz18r | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Should everyone get a university degree? 3 by bsldld | 3 comments on Hacker News. I was discussing my project idea[0] on an online political forum. One of the respondents on the form said that not everyone should get higher education. It makes students think that they are entitled for high-level jobs and that gives rise to shortage of workers for low-level jobs. Most people don't understand that "dirt and money go hand-in-hand". What do you think, is this view valid? [0] https://ift.tt/3fXeONN

Ask HN: Why do I think better while walking? 8 by SuboptimalEng | 6 comments on Hacker News. I get better ideas (about how to solve problems) while walking around my house talking to myself rather than when I'm sitting at my work desk. Does anyone else face this problem or know why this happens?

Is Doing a PhD Beneficial? 4 by yarandomguy | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a final year computer science student, currently wondering if I should do a PhD. Professors told me that it is useful to the career, suits my interest, and it is better done earlier than later. I'm interested in theories and I often read books and articles about them. However, I'm not sure if I am capable of producing quality research as I have no experience doing that. Also, from others comment on HN, it seems that research today is publish a lot -> optimize for H index -> get tenure and write grant proposals, which may not be something I would enjoy/capable of doing... I consider doing a grad study purely for the pursuit of knowledge, so I wonder if it would be better to just get a developer job instead of doing a grad study...

Ask HN: Why isn't there a better alternative to MS Outlook? 4 by digitcatphd | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Best privacy-centric, no-monthly-fee security camera recommendations? 2 by gleenn | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've lost more than a couple delivery packages so I've been looking to get a security camera with basic motion sensing image-taking features. I see a lot of recommendations for Ring cameras but think Amazon giving away my data to law enforcement without asking is repugnant. I also see Arlo as a decent option, but would prefer to avoid monthly fees.

Ask HN: What language to learn after Python? 3 by 8589934591 | 7 comments on Hacker News. I have been working with Python for quite a while now. Although I am very productive with it I feel I might have grown far too comfortable with the language where I have started noticing it having disadvantages for my work and my personal growth. I am able to program in any language given some time and google. So solving a problem doesn't seem to be where I am lacking. I have been able to scratch a little more than the surface but not deep enough to actually use the language for whatever its strengths are advertised for. These include C, Java, Rust, Go, Bash, Javascript, Powershell where I have written trivial but useful programs. There are too many to choose from and I do not know which and how to choose. Languages which have been recommended to me include C, C++, Java, Go, Scala, Javascript/Typescript, Assembly, Scheme, OCaml, Common Lisp, Clojure, Kotlin, Erlang, Elixir, Haskell Can anyo

2022 Good Developer Conferences/Events 3 by ZackSaibot | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, I am interested to attend a good devOps conference/event in 2022. Any recommendations and experiences (good/bad)? Thanks!

Ask HN: How do you deal with absolute failures? 3 by lifeplusplus | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm not talking about a situation when you had 5 things going and you lost top best 2, and ended up in not ideal but still manageable position. I'm talking about failures that will have life long consequences unless solution is found or miracle happens soon. When your last hope utterly shatters. When you have already tried multiple times and failed. When there is no space left behind you to retreat. When it's your fault too and lot of being unlucky. How do you deal with rejections and failures where everything was riding on it and you did 200% and hoped for the luck, but it still didn't work out just like last 10 times it before it. I guess I want to know how to rebound, how improve chances of success, how to not let every setback cause you to think back on last 1000 back to back failures. I've read all motivation quotes so don't cite them.

A better way to find and book guests to interview 3 by travischappelll | 1 comments on Hacker News. Guestio is an all-in-one tool designed to help you find, book, and manage the top-tier guests you want to interview.

Ask HN: Does anyone else code in bed? 7 by launchiterate | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Any Czech programmers out there? 3 by fairchilde | 1 comments on Hacker News. Specifically around Prague... Just wondering what the tech landscape is like there and what opportunities exist. What have your experiences been like seeking work and have you been able to do anything really interesting or cool? Is Prague (and the rest of CR) a good place to work in tech? I'd love to hear your stories.

Ask HN: Good resources to learn Variational Bayes method 3 by malshe | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I am looking for textbooks and/or online courses that go over the Variational Bayes method systematically based on math and probability theory. I'm less interested in coding so not too keen to know Python or R packages and tutorials involving them. I will really appreciate it if anyone who works in this area can suggest books or online courses. Even if the course is not free, that's all right. Thank you!

Ask HN: Parrot language copycat my Gravity source code. What can I do? 3 by marcobambini | 5 comments on Hacker News. I found out that the Parrot programming language (https://ift.tt/3mgadtv) did copycat line by line my Gravity programming language (https://ift.tt/3EhBmSU). I know that I used a very permissive license and that the project can be forked and modified by anyone but this is a theft more than a fork. What can I do in this situation?

Ask HN: How did you find inner peace? 8 by garritfra | 3 comments on Hacker News. As a software developer, I often struggle to find my inner peace. What are your tactics to keep a fresh mind?

Ask HN: Those who use self-hosted chat platforms, why not Slack? 6 by hasztagg | 5 comments on Hacker News. We’re currently using Mattermost as our self-hosted chat, but outside of cost savings, there doesn’t appear to be a good reason why we don’t switch to a SaaS like Slack which has more features, integrations, better app, etc. What are your reasons to use Mattermost/RocketChat/other tools instead of Slack?

Ask HN: I'm 10 years into CS career, but rarely code anymore. Is this normal? 42 by maxdoop | 25 comments on Hacker News. I graduated with CS degree in 2012. Worked as intern doing web dev, then moved to enterprise Java shop at large corp. Then, spent 4 years at consulting firm coding in variety of technologies. I now work at another large enterprise, and find myself being more "architect" than "developer". I spend time discussing vendors, high-level design, architectural decisions between domains, and just more overall "steering" strategy than coding. Is this normal? And further -- is this "OK"? Some more context: I enjoy my work; I especially enjoy being involved in the higher-level issues and strategy. I enjoy working with other decision makers, and might even enjoy it more than the hands-on coding work I used to do. However, I worry that I'm losing my edge. If I want to job switch, I'd be fucked on the LeetCode stuff. I could s

Ask HN: Programmers that got MBP 14, what are your thoughts? 3 by nowherebeen | 1 comments on Hacker News. Watching YT, it seems the new pros are significantly heavier. What are your thoughts on MBP 14 for coding?

Tell HN: YouTube refunded me after a complaint about ads 4 by atum47 | 0 comments on Hacker News. The other day I wrote a "get it off my chest" post about YouTube Premium showing me ads [1]. Yesterday when I was laying in bed waiting for the sleep to come, it happened again [2]. YouTube was back at showing ads to paying customers. I left a message on their support channel with the screenshot [2] but fearing that they would not respond me and dismiss the case like they did last time [1] (they told me that showing me an ad for an internal product does not count as an ad), I got in touch with Dang asking if it was OK for me to write another post about it, since the last one got flagged. Before I got my answer from him, YouTube contacted me with a refund and an apology (in portuguese) [3]. This time I'd like to thank the YouTube team for the fast response and the apology. It's not often that Big Tech take the time out to resolve an issue with a costumer in such short t

Ask HN: What is your biggest source of frustration with modern web development? 4 by VWWHFSfQ | 5 comments on Hacker News. There are many things about modern web development that frustrate and annoy people, but my two biggest issues: 1) A lot of SPA websites nowadays break my browser's Back button. I understand that this is "easy" to fix with push state/history APIs, etc. But it never used to be this way. Now you have to do all kinds of special stuff just to get the basic functionality of your web browser back. 2) SPA apps almost always have to be specially routed at the webserver level to the index.html. Again, it never used to be this way. Without any special server-side routing I now have to visit the main page and then follow a series of SPA links to get to the page I want. I can't just go directly there anymore because most likely the CDN or webserver will return a 404. Again, it never used to be this way. Fundamental aspects of the web have been broken. What

Ask HN: How to create privacy first self-hosted blog w/no prior dev experience? 2 by 9387367 | 2 comments on Hacker News. With all the love for self-hosted personal blogging. What’s the easiest/secure way to set up one? This is aimed at a 14 year old with no prior development experience apart from messing about with Wordpress, simple HTML and basic CSS that can follow tutorials well, specially video showing how it’s done. Alternative for Cloudflare CDN/Analytics free tier? Please consider the budget for a 14 year old with free and open-source stuff when possible.

Ask HN: State of PHP at Facebook 52 by emadehsan | 16 comments on Hacker News. Does Facebook continue to use Hack with HipHop Virtual Machine? Have there been considerations of using some open source langauge instead of internal built one?

Ask HN: If novels concern the human condition, what does their decline tell us? 4 by richardatlarge | 1 comments on Hacker News. I read this today and saw it as a harbinger of something... Literary Fiction. This genre focuses on the human condition and it is more concerned with the inner lives of characters and themes than plot. Literary fiction is difficult to sell and continues to decline in popularity https://ift.tt/3miiTiZ

Ask HN: Best neobank with great API / Marketplace 2 by qnsi | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am based in EU so bonus points for the ones operating in EU, but I guess we can share those globally. I can access my traditional banks data using Nordigen [0], but I am curious if anyone is going marketplace route. I guess if we could have sandboxed access to run our code on banks infrastructure, we could come up with some interesting use cases. One example: Read emails from gmail using their api, check amount due for my bills and automaticly pay them. Is this possible today anywhere in the world? [0] https://nordigen.com/

Ask HN: How much detail should I give new users during onboarding? 3 by AndrewSwift | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am launching a new macOS app that requires some computer experience for installation and the basic worfklow. Does anyone have any experience about how complete and idiot-proof program instructions should be? SIMPLE+ENCOURAGING VS COMPLETE+INTIMIDATING If the instructions are brief, the program looks simple, but some people will make mistakes. If the instructions are complete, people won't get stuck, but suddenly the process looks really complicated, even though it's not. I started out writing very complete documentation, but pages for even simple tasks got really long. Anyone glancing at them would assume that I'm describing something really difficult. ———————————————— To give a couple of examples: 1. install the synch app normally and launch it or: 1. open the DMG in one window 2. open your applications folder (cmd-shift-A) in a second window 3. drag the sy

Ask HN: Good Hacker New iOS Apps 3 by Xophmeister | 1 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone recommend any particular iOS app for Hacker News? I used to use "MiniHack", but it seems to have gone out of maintenance and no longer works. This was the best one by far, that I found when I searched last time. So far, I've tried HACK, Starling, and Hackers. I haven't been impressed by any of them. Octal looks like it might hit the spot, but I'm loathe to spend money on apps without much to go on...

Ask HN: Why are you not outraged at the capital gains tax proposal? 5 by greenail | 22 comments on Hacker News. Since unrealized capital gains would seem to impact founders disproportionately I wonder why there is not discussion of the proposal here?

Ask HN: Do you sleep better by the ocean? 8 by freshthought | 5 comments on Hacker News. I always sleep better by the ocean. My RHR drops 5-10 beats, and I wake up feeling much more relaxed. Am I alone? What causes this effect? Is it negative ions? Clean air? Ocean sound? I’ve tried with the windows closed, and the effect holds. I’ve tried it on and off vacation, and the effect holds. So I’m really at a loss for what it could be.

Ask HN: Should HN flaggers be public to users with X karma? 2 by throwawayfear | 5 comments on Hacker News. I saw a benign-but-valuable submission flagged. The submission was getting upvotes and there was discussion. It would be useful if respectable long-term users with high karma could see who flagged posts that get flagged, particularly when the submission is amassing upvotes and discussion. Otherwise, this place is no longer any better than reddit where astroturfing, gaslighting, and brigading are now the norm. These high-karma users would then be able to vet flags and remove flags that may be coordinated. We need to face the reality that there can be coordinated flagging that is designed to wedge an ideological bent into the flow of the conversation.

Ask HN: Anybody enabled IOMMU on AWS metal servers? 3 by scrubs | 0 comments on Hacker News. As per: Section 17.9: https://ift.tt/3BoMlZe and https://ift.tt/3Civys1 Enabling IOMMU on i3 or c5 metal instances is as easy as adding "iommu=1 intel_iommu=on" to /etc/default/grub followed by update-grub, reboot. I can't get this to work. Every time I update grub and reboot I cannot reconnect via ssh. Also EC2 console fails to get good status. My config: * Ubuntu 20.04 stock AWS AMI x86 64-bit * i3.metal (spot) Less importantly but also of interest on IOMMU: If one is on bare metal is IOMMU really needed? Seems like no if one is not using HVM. Unsafe IOMMU mode could work. Are there any performance advantages to IOMMU? Again as far as I can see, no. Thank you

Ask HN: What is the best coding site to get hired? 3 by jcroll | 0 comments on Hacker News. Example sites: - HackerRank - LeetCode - Triplebyte - TopCoder - ...etc. As I understand it, companies actually hire off of these sites. If you're going to spend your time doing all these tests which sites offers the most opportunities? Why would you pick one over the other?

Ask HN: What’s your goto website for finding work? 3 by svavs | 0 comments on Hacker News. Unfortunately, my current company has an RTO plan I disagree with. During the pandemic, my home life has been switched around and need to be home for the kids as my wife finished her degree. Currently I’m in the process of updating my resume and such. What is your goto site for jobs? And if you don’t use a job board / site, what methods do you use to find employers?

Ask HN: Developers in the Blockchain industry: Why haven't you retired yet? 5 by recvonline | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have a hard time understanding how one can work for a Blockchain company/in the industry and hasn't made enough money for retirement? You probably work in this industry because you believe in it, and if you do, how can after 1-2 bullruns you bot have enough money? Or did you just not invest in the projects you are part of/interested in?

Ask HN: A specialized search engine to find domain name addresses 4 by ThinkBeat | 0 comments on Hacker News. As with most things of I presume this already exists. A majority of the start of my interaction with my browser is typing in something like "Nietzsche Cafe" because I want to go to their website and look at their menu. www.NietzscheCafe.fi So what I need is a hit to their Url: "www.NietzscheCafe.fi" Or I need look at the prices over at "Dostoevsky Used Cars" I search and what I want is the Url: https://ift.tt/3EkInCw I wish there was a "pre search engine" that could just find the Url. It could be implemented that if it failed to find a hit it would pass it on to Bing/Google etc. That would cut my traffic to Google quite a bit over time. So less tracking and less monetization

How do you handle 2FA? 5 by PranavBerry | 3 comments on Hacker News. What do you use to handle 2FA? Sms? Email? or an Authenticator app? What problems do you face with whatever 2FA you use? Are there security issues with any of them? In case you use a phone based 2FA, is the phone not having internet/network a frequent problem? PS - I am ideating on a 2FA method using cryptography where the user will not need internet on his phone. A QR code will be generated on the phone for each login attempt. The website/app where the user is logging in will scan that QR code and if the information in it is valid, the user will be logged in. Please let me know if you have any feedback on this and if this solution will solve any problems you have with 2FA.

Ask HN: Whatever Happened to “Exploring the Internet”? 11 by mickjagger | 12 comments on Hacker News. I seem to have collapsed down to checking 5 to 6 sites. Where would I even go to find other sites that might be of interest? I can’t even really think of any other sites to visit. Whatever happened to the idea of “exploring the Internet”?

University of Wisconsin hospitals have blocked the Gab social media platform 4 by all2 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm at the hospital today for an appointment and tried to access a link to a Gab post that a friend sent to me. After making a few attempts to access the post with the different browsers on my phone, I turned on my VPN and et voila, the post loaded.

Ask HN: Where does the attention economy end? 3 by mlac | 3 comments on Hacker News. I can see how one's attention is valuable but hits a point of diminishing returns. At the extreme, one's attention is not valuable if that person spends his or her entire day consuming apps and not creating value (or working). His or her ad revenue will be worth less than someone with a job, if it is worth anything at all. This person will also use a lot of the organization's resources and have a high amount of "engagement" with the application. This makes Facebook's shift to young adults [1] seem more clear - that group can spend as much time as they want on Facebook and consumption, and they can then spend their parents' income. It's a constant fresh source of income with buying power. I roughly equate attention to time and energy - once it is spent, it is gone. On the whole, as billions of people spend their time and energy scrolling through ad-supported applicat

Ask HN: Improving or even curing Myopia (Nearsightedness) 4 by JaggerJo | 4 comments on Hacker News. Myopia is a common eye problem for developers and other office workers. My personal issue is that it's getting worse over time - seemingly from wearing glasses for about 20 years now. My optician confirmed that and suggested special contract lenses that deform the lenses to temp improve focus. There are people claiming Myopia is treatable by training. Has anyone tried it? Is this bullshit? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Efg42-Qn0&feature=youtu.be https://ift.tt/3mibcJy

Why are there so many posts about Rust? 10 by instagraham | 4 comments on Hacker News. Non-programmer here, just curious about the general interest in this language, that ensures posts about it are on the front page every day.

Ask HN: Questions to ask a startup before taking their offer (new grad)? 2 by boooopnewgrad | 2 comments on Hacker News. Not sure if the new grad angle matters. I guess I can take a little more risk than somebody with a family and mortgage.

Ask HN: How to find a job in sustainability as a software engineer? 2 by jckahn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, a friend of mine is frustrated by their company's move towards NFT adoption. They are considering looking for jobs at companies whose mission might serve to counteract NFT technology's negative environmental effects. They're having a hard time finding interesting companies in the sustainability space, but surely there must be something out there? Are there any job boards or similar resources for software engineers who want to work in green tech? Please share them so that I can pass them along. Thank you in advance!

Ask HN: I built a side project. How do I get people to use it? 2 by jrsutterfield | 2 comments on Hacker News. At the start of the pandemic, my girlfriend and I decided to work on a side project to keep ourselves busy. We ended up creating https://ift.tt/3EmJNwx. It's like a tinder for names. It's been a fun project to work on, and its accomplished the technical growth goals that I wanted to get out of it (I learned how to do more modern css, how to setup a FE build with webpack, some vue.js, how to dockerize and deploy a django application, how to use postgres instead of MySQL), but at this point it's been released for over a year and gets maybe 1-2 people a day. Those people are spending time on the site (avg time is 4 minutes, some spend up to 30-40 mins per session), but there just aren't very many of them. I'm not so much interested in trying to monetize it (although that would certainly be nice), but it'd be great if we could get more people using it. I

Ask HN: The current state of Mesh Networking? 2 by bloopernova | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a layman with very little knowledge about large scale and wide area mesh networking. I was hoping the good folks here at HN can explain to me what types of mesh networking exists, what problems and what successes they have. Is it possible to use a mesh network as an internet connection? Are there any large scale installations with documentation and stats? Are we forever "roughly 10 years away" from a good solution? Thank you for your time.

Ask HN: Nomads, what do you think about fully managed travel programs? 2 by a2x0 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've always had a desire to travel and just recently got a 100% remote job. Since I don't know much about the topic and want to travel outside my comfort zone (which - as a German citizen - is Europe) I've started to look into these fully managed programs like Remote Year. Does anyone have experience with them? How did you start your journey?

Ask HN: How do you find a doctor in the USA? 4 by amlozano | 1 comments on Hacker News. Finding a primary care physician is one of the most challenging things a "normal" adult has to deal with these days. They are supposed to get to know you as an individual and be a central point of care, but these days they often don't have time to do anything like that. So, what are normal people to do?

Go+ version 1.0, for engineering, STEM education, and data science 3 by qiniuyun | 0 comments on Hacker News. Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science Go+ officially released version 1.0 on October 15, 2021. Go+ developed by Qiniuyun CEO Xu Shiwei. There are many new contents have been updated in this version, including to faces Three areas, like the slogan of Go+: The Go+ language for engineering, STEM education, and data science. Go+' s vision is 3-in-1, which integrates Go in engineering development, Python in data science and Scratch in programming teaching, and combines the heart of Go in the form of Python, so that the threshold for beginners to learn programming and develop works is lower, and engineers do not need to learn a new development language to process data • Engineering - Working in the simplest language that can be mastered by children • STEM education - Studying an engineering language that can be used to work in the future • Data science

Ask HN: If Blazor is abandoned by Microsoft, will it live as a community fork? 2 by noseratio | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm a member of a team of C# developers and we're considering Blazor for modernizing a large enterprise ASP.NET MVC app. In the light of the recent overwhelming events in the .NET space, we'd be interested in opinions about what the future of Blazor could be, should Microsoft decide to stop maintaining it. I've created a Twitter poll (upd: the link is in the comments below), you could see the current results if you cast a vote: - Blazor is here to stay - An active community fork - A "life support" scenario - Use another framework now I'll update this post with the final results when the poll ends. Thanks!

Ask HN: Facebook is threatening me for owning facebookrebrand.com 4 by joshruby16 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Any advice? They say that if I sell it, they can sue me for 100K.

Is adblocking as we know it on the way out? 3 by rainandcoffee | 1 comments on Hacker News. I run Linux, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Decentraleyes, and ClearURLs. I also use a Pi-hole. I primarily use Chromium, but also Chrome and Firefox on occasion. In the last week or so, I've noticed a severe uptick in the amount of ads slipping through the cracks. I've verfied uBlock is working, up to date, and verified my traffic is passing through the Pi-hole. I've ensured the Pi-hole is working as regards FTL, blocklist subs up to date. I use Cloudflare for DNS so I don't think there are any DNS injections. Is Manifest V3 the culprit? At first I thought it was, but Firefox is seeing the same results. Any ideas?

Is my job search situation doomed? I'm losing hope and getting desperate 6 by 666b20753a29 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm a 20 y/o bootcamp grad with no college degree and 6 months of professional experience. I've been out of employment since May this year, and since mid-September I've been applying for software engineering positions across the US. Also I'm from Europe and I'm currently living in SF on a tourist visa, meaning I would need sponsorship for an H-1b work visa. Let's assume for a moment that I'm job searching correctly; I'm applying to places that I would actually want to work at with a relevant resume and a well-written cover letter, I'm networking on Linkedin and setting up phone calls with engineers and recruiters, I'm leveraging my existing network and reaching out to almost everyone I know, etc. So far I've had zero responses, despite me having referrals to a bunch of companies. After getting speedily rejected from F

Ask HN: Why does my camera turn on briefly when accessing google.com? 8 by devtailz | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Can you please add transcription to vocal messages in messaging apps? 3 by nassimsoftware | 0 comments on Hacker News. I know that there are employees of big tech companies lurking around here. I have a feature request. Can you please add the ability to see the transcript of a vocal message on messaging apps like Teams, Signal, Telegram, Messenger, Discord, Slack? I know that live transcription is already a thing so it must be feasible, right? This feature would be super useful to see what was said without having to playback a bunch of vocal messages.

Ask HN: How do you do notes for a project? 2 by davidwritesbugs | 0 comments on Hacker News. Sometimes for projects I need to keep a track of chatty things I'm wondering about, reminders of what I was thinking of about on project issues, or research done/needed, and lots of other diary type stuff for my projects. In the past I have just splattered comments in the code with all this in them, but that looks ugly amateurish and I'd be embarrassed to let other people or future collaborators see. I've taken to creating a diary.md file and sticking that in the .gitignore. What do people typically do?

Ask HN: Why doesn’t Apple make a standalone camera? 4 by bigyikes | 6 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been wondering this a lot lately. Apple’s photo processing is just phenomenal. (You could probably say the same about other high end smartphone makers too) Moreover, popular camera software and build quality is just solidly “okay” in my experience. My thought is that if Apple were to produce full-size cameras, they would be far better than anything else on the market. I would probably buy one immediately. I’m wondering why they haven’t done it. Maybe making cameras is really hard? Cameras are too much of a commodity and the market is really saturated? Full size lenses are hard? Not enough profit margins? Maybe it would cannibalize iPhone sales? I’m curious to know what others think about a full-size Apple camera.

Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? 3 by hidden-spyder | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is working/living in Japan like as a software engineer? 4 by Dracophoenix | 1 comments on Hacker News.