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Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use on your Linux desktop? 2 by hidden-spyder | 1 comments on Hacker News. I already use Feedly but am looking to switch to a native alternative. Part of the reason for me considering this switch is that I can't use RSS feed generators with Feedly. Feedly offers a paid option to make this possible, but I'd rather switch to an offline app.

Initial thoughts on internal design of server-less Redshift (announced today) 2 by MaxGanzII | 0 comments on Hacker News. Historically, RS has nodes and slices. One node made of a given number of slices (varies by node type). Data is distributed over slices, and only the slice holding a block can access that block. These days, you have RA3. RA3 has data slices and compute slices. The “data slice” I think is a group of one or more network attached SSDs, and each compute slice is an EC2 instance. Data is still distributed over slices, but I empirically see now that any slice on a node can access any block which is on that node - that’s definitely not how it used to be. So I think what happens now is SSD is on the network, which is now a notional “data slice”, but there’s only one data slice per “node” (you don’t really have nodes any more - it’s more of a legacy billing concept), and you have a cloud of EC2 instances, but they’re each tied to one of the network attached SSD groups. So...

Ask HN: What charities are you donating to this year? 7 by jazzdev | 3 comments on Hacker News. Since it's Giving Tuesday, I'm curious what you all are donating to this year?

Ask HN: Interesting mathematics blogs? 4 by armona | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am familiar with this one: https://ift.tt/3AW0v4F. Any other suggestions?

Ask HN: As an outsider, how could I publish a white paper? 4 by eezurr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN TL;DR: I probably created the fastest "find all K simple paths" algorithm for a weighted or unweighted, directed or undirected graph. How would I, as an outsider, publish the results? If I'm right, I'd like to benefit from this discovery to open doors to more interesting work/careers. (I fear, in my 30s, I am at a huge disadvantage for not having any big co. or university to list on my resume) Background: I am outside of the tech "scene" and have no tech/academia connections (self taught, no time spent in university). That being said, I've been programming and managing operations (working as the sole dev at small co.) for 10+ years. I recently quit my job to reevaluate my career path and for fun, started working on a city builder video game. The first big problem I had to solve was "how can I efficiently simulate people/cars utilizing ALL ...

Ask HN: Integrate Software Solution with Competitor's? 7 by temp088773 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm involved in a merger between two competing organisations. We're in the same market segment, but our software solutions differentiate themselves slightly differently. The stakeholders are obviously interested in seeing an integrated software solution that provides the strengths of the two existing solutions in one service. Obviously, there are technical challenges with this: the two existing solutions use extremely different tech stacks, where neither of which is appropriate for "plugging in" the other one. The technical people involved also want to take the opportunity to fix some long-standing scalability problems when it seems like they have to restructure the top-level architecture anyway. But I'm more concerned with organisational problems. I feel like most of these integrations easily turn out wrong or inferior to either original service. Do you have...

Tell HN: Use i.reddit.com on mobile to avoid annoying modal app nags 3 by miles | 1 comments on Hacker News. Have seen more and more modals on reddit's mobile site: "Continue in App", "VIEW IN APP", "This page looks better in the app | Open", etc. https://i.reddit.com avoids all of that and works better than https://old.reddit.com on mobile devices.

Ask HN: Anime Recommendations 2021 4 by AlexanderTheGr8 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am genuinely surprised by lack of recommendation threads in HN. Since most of us here are technical people, we are very likely to have similar interests in entertainment. So what animes do you think are interesting/must-watch?

I Am Boycotting YouTube's Like Button 6 by AHappyCamper | 9 comments on Hacker News. Google recently castrated the Dislike Button, and now you can press it, but it essentially does nothing. Because no-one can see any effect, no-one will really use it, and eventually, Google will remove it altogether. Once again, Google is following in Facebook's guidebook on how to implement 1984. By removing even this meagre ability to dissent, you take away people's ability to think about dissenting (1984). This is morally wrong, and it should offend the senses of any true engineer. Engineers (and other critical thinkers) make observations on the world based on the data they perceive. If the data is corrupted, skewed, or biased, then our observations are equally so. By removing a critical piece of data - people's dislike of a video, Google has corrupted the observations of their viewers, and in doing so, has made the world less honest. E.g. imagine you see a video on remedies for a...

Ask HN: Book Recommendations 2021 2 by AlexanderTheGr8 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022? 8 by tmaly | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am looking to learn more about 3d printing and how to create things for my place. I also would like to learn a little about Unity 3d programming. I am curious what skill you want to learn in the coming year?

Ask HN: What are the major open source alternatives to Auth0? 4 by eatonphil | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm trying to get more familiar with the options that exist for open source auth providers that provide similar service to Auth0 or Google Accounts (so, more focused on OIDC than older protocols like LDAP). I'm aware of Keycloak, Kanidm, SuperTokens, Ory, FusionAuth. Are there any other open source auth providers I should look into?

Ask HN: How can leave my comfortable old job for a new one? 2 by peregren | 0 comments on Hacker News. Like many other devs where I work, I am staying in my current job for 3 reasons: 1. RSUs 2. Inertia 3. Limited experience in the current in vogue tools/technologies Reasons 1 and 2 are not good reasons to stay, but reasons 3 requires a bit more prep/work to rectify. I would really appreciate any advice HN can provide about how I can use the next 4-5 months to upskill and get interview fit?

Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? 2 by itchyjunk | 0 comments on Hacker News. I used to have better time googling in the past. I struggle to find things I remember finding in the past using google. I think I might be stuck in some old habits of googling and I've lost touch with modern google. For example, google seems to want full sentences instead of just keywords now. "How do I do X?" seems to get me better(?) results then "X + some relevant keyword". But I can't seem to get past this "most popular responses" google things I need. I do appreciate youtube videos marked at certain times but watching video isn't always what I want to do. Tangentially, has youtube search been integrated to youtube search or something now? I used to be able to search obscure music in youtube. "Sal dulu a" would both recommend "Sal dulu antasma" and list it but now unless i search for that particularly, it doesn't sho...

Better to open a crypto account or savings account for my children? 3 by rose_daniel | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I am a young dad who starting to save for my kids. I was wondering whats the smarter play - Should I set up recurring payments into a tax-sheltered savings account (e.g. junior ISA in the UK) or get a crypto wallet and start saving Bitcoin? The idea is that I can get them a head start about learning about the space as they get older and have an initial investment. On the other side, there is a natural downside risk of the volatility of the asset. Curious to hear your thoughts!

Ask HN: How do you recruit beta testers for your SaaS? 6 by clmntrg | 1 comments on Hacker News. I work full-time at slite.com. We've been around for 5 years and done well. For a number of reasons, we recently decided to pivot. We're developing a unique product for a small, growing, market we love: async-first communication (understand documentation + discussions). Our success will massively rely on growing our (free) beta waitlist: 1. Bringing design partners on board and iterate with them on new releases 2. Hoping this will lead to a big public launch → Do any of you have experience building beta waitlists? How would you approach that in our context? Thanks, and looking forward to reading your thoughts! @clementrog

What do you do when you are bored? 3 by BarkerOswin | 1 comments on Hacker News. What do you do when you are bored?

Ask HN: Are Indeed, LinkedIn the go-to places for exploring new jobs? 19 by brayhite | 10 comments on Hacker News. I've worked at my current company since my college internship in 2012, and have not sought a new gig in all of that time. The company was a travel tech startup that I joined as an early employee, and it was acquired a few years ago. The app is still active and supported, but it feels time to start exploring what else is out there. In case it matters, my background is largely in various QA and product roles, most recently transitioning from project management to product management. Are the traditional places like Linkedin and Indeed the best places to upload resumes, update skills, etc.? Do I need to fully dive into the job-hunting waters and network with recruiters to get a good idea of where I "stack" so to speak?

Ask HN: Does anyone else having issues with M1 MacBook Pro screen? 2 by nyc111 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have no problems with my old Macbook Air, but cannot look M1’s screen a few minutes without eye strain even though the screen is dimmed to lowest possible.

GraphQL and PostgreSQL as a managed back end? 3 by niolap | 0 comments on Hacker News. Graphql is amazing but can be complicated to setup. Postgraphile, give you a Graphql server ready to go but still complicated to understand and maintain. What if you could just have a managed backend backed by Postgraphile and Postgresql that allows you to quick start applications with Graphql, managed authentication, sessions and asynchronous tasks?

How to select the most appropriate DB for your project? 2 by udanisaloni | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi This is the most basic question which all of us face when we design a new application. Which database to select. What are some of the points/trade offs to consider while finalizing DB? Also when to consider SQl vs NoSql DB? How do you know if your application requires graph DB and what are trade offs while selecting Graph DB?

Real-World Cryptography 2 by baby | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks. I wrote a book on applied cryptography during the last two years and published it a few months back. It’s brand new, it’s the first crypto book with a chapter on cryptocurrencies (if that’s your thing), and it packs all the types of cryptography I had to work on during my career. It’s made to be the most approachable book for people who want to know more about crypto basics, as well as designs used by large companies at scale, think end to end encryption with the signal protocol, SSL/TLS, HSMs, and others. If you’re thinking “did we really need another cryptography book?” I wrote something for you a while back: https://ift.tt/3dZyKMc That’s it! A good book to expense for christmas if you ask me! https://ift.tt/3o3DFnx

Ask HN: Is it bad that smartphones are becoming our primary computing devices? 5 by slategruen | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Companies Offering Summer Internships? 2 by willmorrison | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems like internship applications in the US have started for this coming summer. Does anyone know of companies that are taking interns for software development? Also, do companies typically allow college interns to start over winter break or during the semester or do roles only really start in the summer? Looking online it’s easy to find information on internships at huge companies, but the number of applicants is intimidating and many want interns further along in college (juniors and seniors). Thank you.

How many here have gotten a splitting headache after the vaccines? 2 by hbarka | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m not that guy but I got my booster recently and I am still having headaches. In-law got a mild ischemic stroke about 2 weeks after. Again, I’m not that kind of guy but what says HN family? https://ift.tt/3D7wcrU

Ask HN: Videos that changed your life or how you think 2 by gls2ro | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe 55 by danrocks | 13 comments on Hacker News. Recently I interviewed with Stripe for an engineering MoM (Manager of Managers) for one of their teams. I interview regularly, so I am used to many types of processes, feedback mechanisms, and so on. I won't go into details about the questions because there's nothing special about them, but I wanted to share some details of my experience for people thinking of interviewing there. 1) About 35-40% of the interviewers started their questioning by saying "I will only need 20 minutes for this", while emphasizing it is an important leadership position that they are hiring for. So 20 minutes is all needed to identify "important, critical leaders"? What a strange thing to say - also a GREAT way to make candidates feel important and wanted! 2) There is significant shuffling of interviewers and schedules. One almost has to be on-call to be able to rea...

Ask HN: What code should be included in humanity's Foundation? 2 by respectthepeace | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been watching the Foundation recently and got me thinking. What code or project should make it in humanity's Foundation? If you're not familiar here is a short summary of what the Foundation is: Foundation is set in the future, when the world is barely remembered, and humans have colonized the galaxy. The book introduces Hari Seldon, a brilliant visionary and psychohistorian whose job is to use mathematics and probability to predict the future. Seldon does not have the ability to prevent the decline of humanity that he predicts. Instead, he gathers together the galaxy’s top scientists and scholars on a bleak outer planet and sets out to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind, and begin a new civilization based on art, science, and technology. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation and designs it to withstand a dark age of ignorance, barbarism,...

HTTPS website+API, confusion about best practices? 2 by epimetheus2 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Let's say we have a site www.coolstore.com that accesses api.coolstore.com What is the best practice and possible attack vectors when not sticking to them? It seems that www.coolstore.com should be under https://ift.tt/3rgqIJ2. What about assets? Let's say we force a redirect to https:// on the site itself, but not on assets. e.g. you copy the request and change it to http you can access some javascript files. Would that be a problem? How about API ? Is it neccesary that also api.coolstore.com requires https, even though it's only used by the website? Should it have http:// completely turned off? Is there some manual of best practices with deploying react site + api ?

Ask HN: Are managed DB so important? 2 by juanse | 1 comments on Hacker News. In the past I've been deploying everything (application + DB) in the same server for small projects. I didn't have the need to split the DB into another server, but I think it wouldn't be a big issue. The think is that I will start something that I hope it will become a SME -I know for sure it won't be Internet Scale-, but people tell that using a managed database is a must. My question is: Given that I am already proficient with Linux, and my cloud service makes automatic snapshots (besides other rsync backup I do), Is it really such a big deal?

Ask HN: What's your startup's BI tool/setup? 4 by corrius | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am a software/data engineer who is stepping up as the responsible of data in a 30-person startup and one of the first assignments is to choose and get up and running a BI tool so people that don't know SQL can explore data, create/look at dashboards and export data. Now that I am looking into this problem I am curious what are other startups solutions to this. - Is the CTO or one of the engineers taking requests and running queries and sending csv/excel files back? - Do business people at your company know SQL so they can run their own? - Do you run your own BI tool? If that's the case, which one? I guess most startups at this level don't need a BI tool but we have do as we have a strong business side and no-one knows SQL outside the engineering team.

Ask HN: When and why did HN comment scores go away? I found value in them. 9 by domador | 0 comments on Hacker News. I recently noticed that comment scores on HN discussions are no longer visible. When and why did that happen? I found a certain level of value in knowing how popular an opinion was or how much it had seemingly been engaged with, and now miss that feature. I can understand the existence of certain problematic dynamics that arise from paying too much attention to upvotes on social media, but I would have hoped that wasn't a problem on HN, at least not enough to remove an otherwise helpful feature.

What are some cool holiday gifts for techies? 2 by cgranier | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are some things you'd like to get this holiday season? What are you getting for the techie/nerdy/hn people in your life?

Ask HN: Igniting cool conversations from incoming LinkedIn connection requests 3 by pog92 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I often receive Linkedin connection requests from interesting people I don't know. I use to send a welcome message, but I've seen it doesn't work (almost no cool conversation starts). My current message sounds like "glad to connect, how can I help you?" Any idea on how to make it better? I've searched online and found a bunch of "how to spam connection requests without sound spammy" but it's not what I'm looking for :)

Ask HN: To those who bought a 2021 M1 MacBook Pro, how do you like it so far? 5 by thih9 | 2 comments on Hacker News. The 2021 MacBook Pro models have been pretty much universally praised by the reviewers. Some time has passed and I assume more people had a chance to work with them for a couple of weeks. I'd like to hear your thoughts. How do you like them in your daily work? Do you see a big difference? Did you notice any problems?

Ask HN: How to support Firefox / Mozilla as a small business? 2 by sirwitti | 1 comments on Hacker News. So I run a small web design shop in Austria and am a long time Firefox and Thunderbird user. I would love to spend some money to help make Firefox and Thunderbird stay open, trustworthy and most importantly relevant. Since only some donations are deductable in Austria I'm looking for a service or product to buy to put company money to good use. I am vaguely aware of some questionable decisions / events regarding mozilla and firefox. Ideally spending money would also help nudge things into a good direction and help firefox start becoming more independent of google. I already looked into Mozilla vpn (I don't need it), Firefox Enterprise - which is not a thing on linux and the features don't help me either. How to you guys support mozilla and firefox?

Ask HN: Cyber Monday Deals? 14 by rwol | 0 comments on Hacker News. Any cyber monday deals you're shopping today? Tech, gifts, apparel, experiences, or otherwise?

Ask HN: iOS e-mail App with customizable “From” field? 3 by thewavelength | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm using a catch-all domain for all my e-mail communication. I'm also using iOS and currently have to log in to my web panel via Firefox/Safari when I want to write someone with a custom "From" address. It's really unpleasant. Is there software for iOS which allows me to set the the "From" field on the fly without complicated account/identity management? Thunderbird would be something which has this, but it's desktop only. The native Mail app only let's me allow to change the sender account but there's no way to modify the From address.

Ask HN: What are the signs that someone is intelligent? 3 by rayxi271828 | 4 comments on Hacker News. Came across this thread in Reddit, alas, most of the answers were really disappointing: instead of signs of being intelligent, the answers were "good qualities dumb people can very well have, but especially nice if displayed by someone intelligent" (Examples: "Not condescending", "Make YOU feel intelligent", "Dare to say I don't know", etc.). Wondering if I could learn from better quality answers here in HN.

Ask HN: How to pick a software tool? (e.g. MySQL vs. Postgres) 2 by joshlk | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am currently going through a process at work to choose a new software tool. I once read an article on HN that described well how to best make a decision on what product to pick and not fall for things like comparisons using feature matrices - however I can't find it. Does anyone have any good links to such articles? Example decisions are: MySQL vs Postgres, GitLab vs GitHub, Ubuntu vs RedHat

Ask HN: Did you find something to use your Raspberry Pi 400 for? 3 by dusted | 0 comments on Hacker News. It's so cute (to look at)! But it seems to be utterly useless for just about anything I thought I might be able to do with it.. This 4 gigabyte memory, almost 2 ghz quadcore machine seems unable to do much of anything, browsing the web is an utterly horrid experience.. Playing a game of Quake 3 is impossible. Doom can run, but only at 320x240 unless you don't mind terrible lags. I'm considering what I can do with it.. For once, I can run an IRC client on it, but what else? Have you found something to actually use this for?

Ask HN: Will there ever be a E Ink Photo Frame? 3 by laktak | 0 comments on Hacker News. The Kindle is 14 years old and yet there are still no color displays generally available. What is holding this technology back?

Ask HN: Those who went from a small/mid to a tech giant, how is the transition? 3 by slekker | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve worked all my life at small and medium size companies, startups and scaleups. Recently I’ve got an offer from GitHub (SWE). I enjoy my current job, but the prospects of working for a company of such scale, as well as total compensation seem very tempting. How is the transition? What are the big differences you’ve felt?

Ask HN: Low/no code sitebuilder/framework for medium CRUD web-app 2 by Cilvic | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, what low-code framework can you recommend for a medium complexity CRUD web-app? Bonus points for open-source/self-hosting. Background: after experiencing how far site builders have come, I'm trying to embrace low/no code into my prototypes. What I like about that: - better ownership by the non-devs/less dependence - reduce feedback cycles / let people make simple changes on their own <> lets devs/POs focus on harder problems

Ask HN: How to have a meaningful conversation with a date? 2 by rex_lupi | 0 comments on Hacker News. This might seem like an out of place question to ask here, but I'm sure there are folks here on HN who have experienced something like this at some point, and I believe the people who would understand my issues best and would be able to provide actually useful tips can be found here. I possess the typical hacker mindset with interests and passions that are not so "popular". I'm socially awkward and bad at talking, especially so when I don't have much in common with the other person. I don't think I have a good sense of humor and I tend to have a cynical and pessimistic outlook on things, i.e I'm not what one would call a "fun guy". So I run out of topics to talk about and the conversation quickly becomes boring for both of us, even though we're genuinely interested in each other. Please note: I won't be taking "Find someone else...

Ask HN: Best way to spend $25k in GCP 8 by soheil | 5 comments on Hacker News. I have $25k remaining credit from Google Cloud Platforms, which expires in about a month. I got the credit over 2 years ago and had hundreds of severs for various websites, database storage, elasticsearch instances, dedicated servers for random cron tasks, etc. But I still haven't been able to exhaust the credit. I even used it to train several models using multiple Tesla GPUs. But beyond a point I felt like I didn't know what I was doing with the models and stopped wasting GPU cycles on them. I feel like if I don't use it for something useful it'll be wasted. Any ideas?

Ask HN: How do you handle user license provisioning for a subscription product? 2 by Mertax | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m developing a B2B SaaS product that uses a subscription model. I’m looking at services like Okta/Auth0/Azure AD B2C for customer identity & user account management. To manage subscriptions I’m planning to use a service like Chargebee/Recurly/Chargify or maybe just Stripe. What I don’t see is a product that marries these 2 services. Is there a reason most SaaS companies end up developing their own licensing provisioning tools? It seems like this is another product/service that could be offered? I don’t feel my requirements are all that unique. I basically need a customer front end that allows subscription owners to assign licenses to specific user identities. My app would then just have to validate that the current user has an active/paid subscription. Am I overlooking a product or service that’s already out there? Or is this something I’m going to have to d...

Thoughts on selling source code (Shopify and Quickbooks style web app) 2 by brendaningram | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been working on this product in various forms for 20 years. It's never been a commercial product. It's effectively site building (e.g. Wix or Squarespace) plus e-commerce (e.g. Shopify or BigCommerce) plus accounting (e.g. Xero or Quickbooks) in the one app. Whenever I've run a business that required e-commerce and accounting I've been frustrated by having to use 2 different platforms and subscriptions, so I intended to write my own. Unfortunately I have lost interest in coding (20 years as a working software engineer) and I'd like to either sell the code or give it to someone that has the means and motivation to take it to market. I have no interest in any ongoing royalty or ownership. If anyone has thoughts on this, people that may be interested, advice... I'm all ears. Thanks :)

Tell HN: Canada has confirmed it’s first Omicron cases 3 by staccatomeasure | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately? 14 by bluehex | 8 comments on Hacker News. In the past couple of months I have noticed much more difficulty having my taps on links in Chrome iOS register. I'll tap the same link multiple times with no response whatsoever. When this happens scrolling the page a bit and retrying does seem to help. I would estimate that about a third of my initial taps fail to register. This is on the main article links as well as the harder to hit tiny links for comment, upvote, etc. I have no idea if this is an issue with recent updates to iOS, Chrome or this site. It has been quite frustrating. Has anyone else been experiencing this?

Ask HN: How do you get started in B2B consulting? 2 by mnholt | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey, curious to know if anyone has advice on how to break into business to business consulting. Is there a marketplace where white papers can get posted or companies post request for proposals?

Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too! 6 by GhettoComputers | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have not seen any love for the Cosmo's mobile linux hardware. It has much better specs than the Pine and Librem offerings, has a headphone jack unlike the Fairphone 4, and seems criminally unmentioned. https://ift.tt/2EbJvuZ https://ift.tt/30OutUY Older Android devices supported by PostMarketOS are also never mentioned, such as these Xiaomi devices, with better specs and will be better devices for general usage, I see GNU/Linux on Android as the natural response to my generally seen Linux usage (longevity of hardware and software support for devices you already own, rather than buying new hardware to run linux). https://ift.tt/3lfv27s https://ift.tt/3nZpUWM https://ift.tt/3ldhKsk I've used Ubuntu Touch with supported devices through Hallium ase well. If any of your old devices support these or you want to talk about other Linux mobile hardware, ple...

Ask HN: Tips for a 30 year old trying to switch to IT/software development? 5 by kindalost | 1 comments on Hacker News. Long time lurker here. Just quit my job and thinking about how I should go about it. Background: I have a degree in business administration, so not stem related at all. I have some money on side to live on for a around a year (more if I move back to my home 3rd world country). I consider myself tech-savvy (running Ubuntu then fedora for the last 10 years, build my own desktop). The goal: finding a REMOTE job in IT/software development as fast as possible. It does not have to pay much ($21k+ a year and I would sign), getting experience is the priority. Aiming for FAANG someday. What I do know: Harvard CS50 10-15h a day. After that I will probably follow a Reddit thread suggesting CS61A/CS61B/CS61C from University of California, Berkeley. And finally Full Stack Open 2021 by University of Helsinki (gives certification). As a hiring manager, would you hire me after all...

Ask HN: Refurbed) Machine to Use as Linux Remote Server 2 by baggiponte | 0 comments on Hacker News. Since Cyber Monday is coming, I wanted to find something like a desktop or a Intel-NUC equivalent to leave at home and use as remote machine to ssh into to run long code and play with Linux. Any suggestions? Thank you!

Ask HN: How to approach finding a relocation offer abroad? 2 by cursedclock | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm interested in hearing your experience and advice on how someone from outside the EU would go about finding an entry/junior level job with visa/relocation sponsorship in Europe. More specifically: - How much of an investment is a visa sponsorship from the company's standpoint? Is it something that is only really done for senior employees? - Is there a specific subset of companies that are more likely to be open to relocation? In terms of company size, country, area of work, etc... Any firsthand experience from a recruiter's point of view would also be greatly appreciated. A bit of background information about myself for those who would like to give more specific answers. - graduating with Associate's in CE this spring - about 1yr work experience mostly in devops/cloud and some in SE - interested in cloud/infrastructure and maybe shifting towards development in ...

Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation? 13 by bccdee | 3 comments on Hacker News. Here's a very plausible threat: Some developer with a left-pad package, some dependency-of-a-dependency, injects malware into their library. A developer (who is broadly trustworthy) updates their package's dependencies without auditing them properly, and the malware ends up in a VSCode plugin that you use. You open VSCode, your system is infected. We know this sort of malware is making its way onto package repositories [1]. We know people are falling for these attacks. How do we protect ourselves against this family of threats? [1]: https://ift.tt/3eIvIio We could trust nothing beyond our base system and our browser, and refuse to use any code we don't fully audit, but this would be an impossibly austere way to live. I expect most of us, when pressed, would admit that we're trusting much more code than we would like to. The alternative is sandboxing, using a lightwei...

Ask HN: Any interesting forks of TypeScript (or languages inspired by it)? 2 by prmph | 1 comments on Hacker News. What would typescript look like if it were freed from the shackles of JavaScript? Could it be a first class language compiled to machine code, .NET IL, or wasm, with runtime type checking, and cleaner and less bloated? Are there any forks of Typescript (or TypeScript-like languages) exploring these ideas? Rationale for Question: After using TypeScript for some years, I find C#, as good a language as it is, fairly clunky. C# lacks many things that make TypeScript so expressive: straightforward first-class functions and union types, for example. I think my ideal language would be something that marries the best parts of C# and TypeScript.

Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it? 2 by Winterflow3r | 0 comments on Hacker News. For however you choose to define "worth".

Ask HN: Jaded about the Internet? 5 by legrande | 1 comments on Hacker News. Are you jaded about The Internet? I've been online 20 years now and I feel like I've reached the pinnacle of what The Internet is about and have in a way reached the end of The Internet . I've seen just about everything you could want, and participated in many communities over the years, and I feel everything is just 'samey' now and follows the same pattern. It's hard for anything on The Internet to stand out and be unique (at least for me). YMMV on this. Now with Web3/NFTs/cryptocurrency people are building an abstraction layer on top of the web and want to decentralize all the things, which is good to see, but I want to see all that fleshed out properly before I dive into it and leverage it. This is the shiny thing I look forward to on the web, but it's still early days. Other than that, the web seems kinda boring lately. Are you jaded about the web too? I'd like to hear yo...

Ask HN: Product Owner lacking Numbers, problem? 3 by anotheryou | 0 comments on Hacker News. Throughout my career I had too little exposure to metrics. How do I change that? My current job: B2B2C with few but big customers, currently a merge happening with lots of integration work, no focus on metrics. I tried to push for them since a year now, but there is also slight feature creep and a general lack of focus causing various other priorities. How problematic is it for my career? With my last job search I already felt inadequately experienced in that topic, even though I'm generally good at numbers and would love to track some stats. What kept me away from metrics in my old jobs: - B2B2C Startup 1: feature creep (made me quit), boss did not want to implement tracking. Did at least do qualitative testing observing users. - B2B2C Startup 2 (freshly acquired): with low customer numbers, ever moving targets (ultimately made me quit again).

Ask HN: If OOP is about message passing, why not sender.send(receiver, message)? 2 by revskill | 0 comments on Hacker News. I learnt that (from Alan Kay), OOP is about message passing, but in most of OOP supported language, the syntax is always receiver.method(message). While i think it should be sender.message(receiver, params) or sender.send(receiver, message, params) Am i missing anything ?

Ask HN: Why would a city on Mars avoid Armageddon? War can happen on Mars also 5 by amichail | 3 comments on Hacker News. And a nuclear war could be multi-planetary, wiping out humanity everywhere.

Ask HN: Do FAANG and hire designer developers? 4 by thrawayUnicorn | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, For my entire career (15+ years) I’ve worked at startups as a designer who codes. I really enjoy the startup scene, wearing multiple hats, and shipping quickly. The older I get though, the more the opportunity cost of not joining a FAANG type is weighing on my mind financially. I’ve never applied to one of these companies, and while I know my skill set is incredibly valuable to startups where urgency and velocity are important, I’ve wondered if I could even be hired at a much larger company where urgency seems less critical, and roles seem more specialized… I’m sure I could apply as only a designer or front end dev, but I really enjoy both and would hate to give one up. If you work at one of these companies, have you ever worked with a colleague who does both? or do you? And if so, how was the experience? Thank you!

Ask HN: Horizon Worlds Development Studio? 2 by digitcatphd | 1 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone have thoughts on creating a development studio for Horizon Worlds to build experiences for brands?

Ask HN: Why don't we just stop Covid by 2 by universe42 | 2 comments on Hacker News. creating our own mutation that is highly contagious and extremely dominant. But harmless to humans...

Has anyone raised on a SAFE after doing a priced round? 3 by lukechch | 0 comments on Hacker News. SAFEs are becoming more and more common for early staged startups in my country (NZ), for good reasons of course. However, our startup has raised multiple small priced rounds and our investors have pre-emptive rights on new share issues. It's super confusing how pre-emptive rights apply to SAFE notes if investors don't waive their pre-emptive rights. I can't find any examples online explaining how pre-emptives are applied to SAFEs. Would love to hear about anyones experience in this area :)

Ask HN: What Do Good Technical Project Managers Do Well? 3 by elpakal | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Best current options for an FAQ site? 2 by dogweather | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm creating a new Q&A site, and wondering what the current good platforms would be. I could code this from scratch, but holy cow I'd really prefer not to. :-) My use case: I'm a domain expert for the content, and also a senior dev. I'm comfortable with most programming languages and tools. Is Discourse a good choice? I don't necessarily need the forum, although its forum support is fantastic. Does it have good support (maybe with an extension) for FAQs? The Ghost Blogging platform also looks like very high quality, but on the downside it's not really a collaborative platform out of the box. How about static site generators? Jekyll or something else? If the Q&A is GitHub based, then that'd work, but it wouldn't be very accessible to non-techie people. Anything else I should consider? I'm ok with for-pay in addition to hosting my own.

My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours 18 by k4runa | 2 comments on Hacker News. Today has been wild. I am quite shocked at how quickly the whole thing happened and how difficult it is to report the hacked account to instagram and try recover the account. The docs seem to take you in a loop without ever being able to resolve the problem... My friends instagram account has only ~2,000 followers, so not even a huge amount, and her email and password was reset about 6pm to a gmail account, and by midnight the account had already posted deep-faked AI videos of her promoting cryptocurrency scams. The deepfake videos are very realistic too, if I hadn't know her better or know about the hacking it would be very easy to believe it was real... It's possible they deep-faked her videos ahead of time but it seems like something you'd only spend resources on only if you knew the attack was successful. And there doesn't seem to be that muc...

Ask HN: What's your favorite book about chaos theory? 4 by f0e4c2f7 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Any reccomendations for an introductory book or textbook? Podcasts or YouTube videos also welcome.

Ask HN: Is a 1Mhz CPU precisely 1Mhz? How are clock crystals so accurate? 2 by andrewstuart | 2 comments on Hacker News. When programming something timing dependent it is often necessary to very precisely time things. So I'm wondering if the system clock really is precisely the megahertz advertised? And if so, how are crystals made so precise?

Maybe not a joke: Turkish lira crash at every Thanksgiving? 4 by oriettaxx | 0 comments on Hacker News. I would not be surprised if the apparently constant significative fluctuations of the Turkish lira around every October/November is somehow the result of a higher presence of the term "Turkey" in the media before Thanksgiving. yes, I am (a bit) serious :) :) Indeed I would doubt any modern "smart" predictive model would not take into account the frequency of that term in communication (from the news to even search terms in a search engine).

Ask HN: How do you take care of your eyes? 3 by stickyricky | 1 comments on Hacker News. My eyes hurt when I look at the computer for short durations. My eyes are fatigued after a day of work. I think I'm okay when reading books. Not sure if its screen brightness or what. Seems to hurt no matter the brightness. I bought some cheap blue light blocking glasses. They take the edge but don't prevent fatigue later in the day. I figure this is a common problem among devs. So, whats your eye care ritual?

Ask HN: Trying to explain NFTs to family on Thanksgiving. Am I wrong? 2 by okareaman | 6 comments on Hacker News. I tried to explain NFTs and crypto to family on Thanksgiving, but I don't think I was able to get it across across. I should have mentioned that many years before NFTs you could buy land on the Moon and get a certificate of ownership. There is no legal framework for owning land on the Moon, but that doesn't have to stop you from setting up a market for Moon land with your friends and trading your Moon acres for goods and services. As long as a group of people decided to use Moon land as money, they can use it as a way of enabling transactions. Like Monopoly money, it's essentially a way of keeping score of who owns what. Like casino chips, you might even be able to exchange them for dollars if the market owner (the casino) finds it profitable to maintain the illusion that they are real money. Just don't try to buy groceries with casino chips. The operativ...

Ask HN: How much was Python used from 1991 to 2006? What for? 2 by jstx1 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Question inspired by the recent discussion (https://ift.tt/3cTWoM0) that mentioned how Python wasn't a big deal before it had a data science / ML ecosystem. Right now in addition to data science there's also web backend stuff with Django, Flask, FatAPI. What else are people doing with it now? What about 20 years ago? People who were using Python back then, what was your experience?

Ask HN: How to make your personal blog stand out? 3 by brunooliv | 6 comments on Hacker News. I created a blog with Github pages and I'd like to know what's the best way to make it stand out more? https://ift.tt/3nBEKTg

Ask HN: What do you use to switch between projects 3 by gls2ro | 2 comments on Hacker News. I work on multiple projects in the same time. Most of the sideprojects so I am working on them from time to time. I would like just to resume from where I left. Not to open again everything. And I am wondering what software is there (MacOS if possible) that allows me to switch between projects. This means: - Open Finder to a specific address - Open IDE/Editor (different ones) - Open Browser with some tabs to resume research ... Is there a solution for this? I have something in bash where if I cd to a folder it will execute a script that opens the browser, but I feel it is not complete.

Ask HN: Which one is better – Read all or on Need basis 2 by bg117 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Which one is better - a) Read all books/blogs/... about the relevant technologies related to a project and start working b) Read books/blogs/... on need basis as you keep working on your project. Which works or doesn't work? Thanks...

Ask HN: Do You Like Stocks Crypto or Precious Metals for 2022? 2 by sigmaprimus | 1 comments on Hacker News. I think I may have tricked myself into a confirmation bias when it comes to my personal thoughts on the subject. It seems the algorithms have decided I like watching TEOTWAWKI type videos on Youtube and now my personalized adds are all for Prepper items and Bullion. The stock markets have treated me quite well the last couple years but recently I have been feeling nervous. I like the concept of crypto but do not have a strong understanding of it beyond the general ideas. In some ways I wonder how many people really know what is going on, very similar to the pre 2008 derivatives market build up. I do like shiny things but am concerned that my current bullish mindset of precious metal might have more to do with being brainwashed to a certain extent from the media and advertising systems pushing that content to me. So I was hoping I could humbly ask the YC community members to s...

Ask HN: Should I spend the next two years learning Magento 2? 2 by Red_Tarsius | 0 comments on Hacker News. Long story short, I'm eligible to join a state funded program on web/e-commerce development. It features over a thousand hours of training (and internship), over half of them being about the Magento 2 platform. It wouldn't cost me anything but it's a major commitment time-wise. It seems an interesting opportunity but I worry about overspecialization. Despite dabbling in programming and being on HN for 8 years, I don't come from a technical background so I can't fully understand the reliability of the platform and the future payoff of such training. I asked around my trusted dev friends irl, but I'd like to hear the opinion of HN users as well, especially the ones who had to deal with Magento 2.

Ask HN: What have you automated in the browser? 2 by hidden-spyder | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Software Engineer hitting 40: what's next? 7 by man-next-door | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been working in software engineering for 18 years. I worked mostly as individual contributor (now as a Senior Staff Engineer), also I was an Engineering Manager for couple years. Now I am interviewing after a few years at the company, and I am hit by harsh reality. For the context, I am in Europe, not in the US. I like technologies and programming, I want to further improve my skills in designing and developing reliable and maintainable distributed system, make better technical decisions. Also, I want to keep learning and playing with new techs. I am now interviewing for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer, My expectations for the roles like Staff / Principal Engineer are that while staying hands-on, say for 30%, I will primarily use more my skills in architecture, engineering, and communications to focus on large, important pieces of functionality, technical decisions with ...

What do you think about HashiCorp's business model? 2 by igaloly | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems like most of their revenue comes from support because their software is open source. It's a challenge to increase the margins from support because the more people pay for support, the more people HashiCorp needs to employ. How they will be able to grow financially?

My free weekend project helped me earn $200, I'm now giving it back to community 2 by nikhil_twf | 0 comments on Hacker News. I earned $200 from this free weekend project without lots of work & now giving it back to community as giveaway https://ift.tt/3nWaB19

Ask HN: How did you go from consuming to producing 2 by quietthrow | 0 comments on Hacker News. I would like to limit my 'consumption' (of information) and focus on 'creating' or 'producting' something to bring more engagement to my day to day life. I came to this conclusion as I have recently realized (and this may be obvious to others already) that while there is a absurd amount of benefit of having worlds information at your finger tips, one negative side effect is that consumption of information is so high we don't even realize it..kinda like fish not noticing water. Specially consumption without focus. In other words I'd consuming all kinds of information that may be very interesting but may never be materially useful to me or my goals. But having focus by virtue of producing I can leverage having access to the worlds information by being able to get all the information I need about something I am working on. Long winded way of saying that I want...

Ask HN: Flutter vs. React Native – which one do you prefer? 4 by busymom0 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN: I have been developing apps for iOS and Android for about 10 years. Started with Objective C and Java and then moved to Swift and Kotlin. I don't have much web dev experience though (mostly vanilla JS) but do have lots of mobile dev and backend dev experience in node js and bit of Rust. Have you switched from native to cross platform dev? Have you tried both flutter and react native? Which one did you prefer and why? Thanks! Edit: I did start learning flutter yesterday and it seems pretty decent so far. 2 problems I do have are: 1. Too must nesting (which some say can be solved by breaking down everything into smaller widgets but seems like a lot of extra code work). 2. Flutter for web dev is absolute trash and useless as it seems to just draw the content using canvas instead of actually creating the html tree.

Ask HN: What tools make using Windows more bearable (for Linux folk)? 2 by mkeedlinger | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've used Linux exclusively on my devices for years, and it's been great! It's hard for me to articulate how wonderful using an OS that's part of an ecosystem (FOSS software) that favors user freedom over profit has been. But a situation has come up that forces me to use Windows again, so does anyone have suggestions for tools that make it more acceptable? There are some things I imagine I could search for like something to stop forced updates and built-in ads (looking at you Candy Crush), but I would love to hear about tools I wouldn't even know to look for! (PS, Before I make anyone angry, I'm sure there are plenty of people who prefer Windows to Linux and find it quite bearable! I mean no disrespect, use what you will.) edit: formatting (which didn't work how I expected)

Ask HN: What is your recommended path for getting into freelancing? 3 by khaled_ismaeel | 3 comments on Hacker News. tldr: what is your best advice for a competitive programmer wanting to start freelancing (possibly taking it as a full time job even)? I am a computer science student with a long history of programming and mathematics competitions. I believe I am proficient enough for real life projects and I would like to try my luck with freelancing (I also fancy the freelancing lifestyle, being free and all). A quick search on Google lead me to platforms such as upwork, freelancer, fiverr, and others. They seem to be too full of spam, however (students asking for homework and tests and similar). I had the feeling that toptal could provide a more serious atmosphere, but my application was refused because I had less than two years of experience. It seems to me that the freelancing platforms are very hard to penetrate for a student with no work experience. What advice can you give for...

Tell HN: Why Foundation (TV series) sucks. And doesn't. 2 by nobody9999 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Note: Spoilers below. As someone who has enjoyed the worlds of Isaac Asimov's fiction for many years, I was excited to watch the TV adaptation[0] of his Foundation series. I expected a good deal of re-imagining of the original novels, as Asimov's story spans centuries and recasting the series every few episodes would be both challenging and wouldn't allow viewers to invest in specific characters -- which is a big no no in television. I also expected some story lines to be combined with others, and some to be excised, in order to maintain a reasonable (for TV) number of plot lines in the story being told. However, I did not expect the show to veer so far from the novels as to completely change the narrative of the story. That Salvor Hardin was gender-switched was perfectly fine, and even the reveal of the Second Foundation (and, even more, the reveal of its location) d...

Ask HN: What are you working to help make the world more sustainable? 4 by zakary | 5 comments on Hacker News. I saw this video from economics explained today: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kVOTPAxrrP4 Which talks about how an MIT computer model from 1972 ‘predicted’ a collapse of our growth based global economy. And how it appears we’re on track to meet that prediction. So it has me thinking: Yes clearly political and social change are needed more than anything. But engineers like me don’t control governments. So what is there that a person can work on which is most likely to have to greatest positive impact on helping the world get past the coming energy, climate and population crises? At the moment I’m working on a robotics project which it is hoped will make fully autonomous mining and manufacturing closer to reality.

Ask HN: What newsletters and news sources do you subscribe to? 1 by jjtec | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What’s a good solution for messy handwriting recognition for mobile app? 2 by faizshah | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looking for an API, pretrained model or some guidance on how to implement handwriting recognition of post it notes, handwritten paper notes etc. for a mobile app.

Ask HN: Thoughts – will Microsoft ever publish Excel for Linux? 3 by tomrod | 3 comments on Hacker News. For almost all my use cases, the online version of Office is wonderful. Yes, there is advanced functionality in Word, in Powerpoint, etc. that aren't 100% compatible, but wow, what a fantastic accomplishment by the Microsoft team in making it available by browser. It would be incredible if MS could publish Excel on Linux. What are the technical limitations preventing this?

Ask HN: Is the Processor vs. Memory speed gap in the future shrinking or not? 2 by lichtenberger | 1 comments on Hacker News. Up until now the gap between processor and memory speed was growing. Do you know of any hardware advances that this gap is going to shrink sometime in the future? I'm thinking about data structures, which are currently outperformed by smarter cache-line friendly algorithms as for instance balanced mutable binary search trees vs smart trie or B-tree implementations. These index structures are of course meant as an example for the wide range of algorithms, which have to take cache-lines into account nowadays. Do you think these "old" algorithms are getting some kind of renaissance in the future?

Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? (2021) 2 by whitepoplar | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: https://ift.tt/3CSZUk9

Ask HN: What Black Friday deals have caught your eye? 5 by swyx | 2 comments on Hacker News. Please disclaim if you have any personal interest in the stuff you mention.

Ask HN: How worrying is the new Covid variant? 10 by cl42 | 6 comments on Hacker News. The news coverage I'm reading (BBC, FT, NYT, etc.) seems very concerned in saying this new variant has a strong chance of evading vaccines, existing immune responses, etc. Whenever they quote scientists, however, it sounds more like "We don't know, so better safe than sorry." Are there any HN readers who know a thing or two about biotech that could shed light on the science of what we know and the current risk of this variant?

Ask HN: How did you correct your sleep patterns? 7 by behnamoh | 3 comments on Hacker News. Ever since college, I've been used to sleeping very late (we're talking +2 AM). Sometimes I would even pull an all-nighter esp. for exams or because I was depressed and would keep myself busy online. I always thought if I say awake a bit longer I can finish this piece of code or answer this homework problem, but I always secretly knew that it's not efficient as I wouldn't make much progress late at night (my performance after 11 PM is almost 5%). Also, waking up early has been almost a challenge for me, and I can't say how many opportunities I've missed because of that. I'm almost 30 now and I clearly see a huge reduction in my energy, yet I still sleep very late and wake up late. There has to be a better way. As a kid, I used to be up for school between 6:30-7:30 AM and I would go to bed before 12 AM. I believe going to college changed lots of my good habits. Now ...

Ask HN: Do you think ISP should be allowed to duopolize a community? 2 by informationslob | 0 comments on Hacker News. So I am trying to get internet service for my dad. He stays in South Florida. The community he lives in doesn't have internet and everyone has to use mobile Hotspot or hubs, internet service through towers as opposed to fiber optics. The area is congested so the internet speed reminds me of dial up. I've talked to the front office and asked what service is provided here, and they said ATT. I call ATT they say Xfinity and ATT are the only ones who provide service to that area but for some reason not the community. XFINITY says that two other companies own the area, Spectrum and Atlantic Broadband. I go to their websites and they both redirect me to Xfinitys website and have me search there to see if service is available. The Xfinity representative told me Spectrum or Atlantic isn't owned by Xfinity, and as I suspected, they aren't owned but they clear...

Ask HN: Other communities with responses as good as the submissions? 7 by notpachet | 2 comments on Hacker News. A friend and I were discussing what it is about HN that maintains such a grip on our attention, and I realized something which is probably obvious to a lot of you: I often spend just as much time reading through and digesting the comments here as I do the original posts. It isn't uncommon for me to learn way more about the subject matter from comments than from the post itself. Are there other communities, online or off, with a similar balance between the quality of the original source material (whatever that means in context) and the responses to it? For example: an online forum dedicated to an esoteric interest; a book club or writing group; your local bicycle repair shop; etc. (A lot of workplaces probably exhibit this balance, but let's leave them out of the definition of "communities" for the purposes of this post.)

Ask HN: Account Hijacking Risk of Email Accounts and Other Digital Identities 2 by roastedpeacock | 0 comments on Hacker News. Many online services (relative to the past) have reasonably secure login systems with two factor authentication using codes, hardware tokens, and so forth. However one aspect that doesn't get as much attention is how things are handled in cases of failures. Some services err on the paranoid side and strongly incentivize you to have backup methods of recovery (Such as backup tokens) or have things become very tricky which could be considered good from a defense (Google APP) In contrast, there have been other incidents such as the incident of the owner of the Twitter handle @N having one of his domains hijacked by social engineering of GoDaddy support to pivot to control of his Twitter account[1] Since then. GoDaddy has fallen victim to other incidents of this nature[2]. Not advocating the use of GoDaddy, but was just illustrating these as case studies. Go...

Ask HN: What steps do you take to protect yourself and your family online? 13 by akudha | 2 comments on Hacker News. This week, I found out that someone opened a bank account in my name. I was able to block the account, but I am not receiving any help from the bank. They don't even have a phone number to let me talk to someone. Everything is done via email :( What steps can I take, to protect myself online? By now, it is safe to assume that my SSN, address, employment info are in multiple databases somewhere. Given this scenario, any advice?

Ask HN: To Sunset or Not to Sunset..? 3 by SteveChurch | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, So I have never actually posted on HN however I have been a reader for many years. My time, however, has come to ask a question and potentially some advice or support. I'm a bit of a project addict, although I have always been in employment my whole career I am constantly coming up with ideas and trying my hardest to push them out there into real business models. It's a passion and a hobby of mine, my current employer is fully aware of my "side hustles" and most managers I have worked with in my career have always been welcoming as these side projects tend to really stretch our knowledge. I am sure I am not alone. Now, the problem I currently face is about one of my projects under the guise of The Night Project (https://ift.tt/3cOlewE) Like all projects, I tend to stumble at the point of financials (funding) or resources (people) - And sadly this project I am about to share...

Ask HN: Was Your Turkey Dry? 3 by itchyjunk | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am not sure if it's something about the turkey itself or the ways generally employed to cook them, but dry turkey seems to be a common theme of discussion among people during thanksgiving. Although, it might also be my own biases that makes me think it's a common enough issue. So I figured HN would be a reliable enough group to ask if they have run into this problem/ found their own unique solutions.

Ask HN: How to find if a product is "really" on sale? 2 by siddharthgoel88 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As I have noticed that article from bbc.com on fake Black Friday sale, the questions comes down to how the user would know if the prices have really dropped or it is just a price manipulation game by the platforms like Amazon. On searching around a bit, I stumbled upon https://ift.tt/3uctfCI which has a kind of price audit of products on different Indian platforms which is kind of cool and I will try this out. But are there other such platforms which solve this problem? Does someone here use some useful tips/tricks to buy a product at optimal price?

Ask HN: IMAP2Git 2 by l0b0 | 2 comments on Hacker News. All mail clients suck. It seems every single one needs a lot of configuration effort to have a decent experience, most of them have really slow search, and several of them have unrecoverably deleted messages seemingly at random. I'm tempted to try managing my email using Git, one file per email. It'll be super fast and reliable, and I won't have to ever worry about losing my emails after they are safely copied to several separate devices. Is this feasible? Specifically: - Is there any decent software to save all messages from the IMAP server to one file per message on a regular basis? They'd have to at least have some sensible filenames, like date + subject. - Are there any Linux and Android clients which will read files from such a folder? I don't mind to `adb push` the repository if necessary, but if I have to read them using a text editor that'll be a blocker.

Pushing People into IT 5 by trabant00 | 1 comments on Hacker News. This comment was inspired by a submission that has been flagged. While the context of the article was about women, this is a generalized problem. Boys are just as much the victims of parent ambition as girls are. That said, here is my original comment: One thing I do not understand regarding regarding college diplomas overproduction is the push for more women in IT. We all know over here that IT is not the sunshine and flowers industry it sometimes looks like from outside. There's plenty of psychical and mental health hazards. For the first time in 20 years I now have more women colleagues than man. Of course we should accept anybody who is passionate about IT into the field, but pushing people into it? In my team right now there's an junior engineer girl who is absolutely WOW, I have only seen one more junior so bright and passionate in my career. But there's also two junior engineer girls, the project o...

Ask HN: How to handle being bad at school? 2 by bush-bby | 0 comments on Hacker News. The last time I got straight A’s was middle school. After high school I took a few years to work/travel/ figure out what I like…as I wasn’t finding it in school. I’ve found an interest-more so a passion-in technology. I like writing code, I like solving problems, and knowing how things work. I’ve had trouble however finding employment in the industry without a degree…I know this is not many peoples experience but it has been mine. Therefore, I’ve starting going back to school. But I just can’t seem to hack it. I think it’s poor time Managment and general apathy. When implementing something in code I find interesting for example, I’m able to spend 16/hours a day every day until it’s complete. I’m not very good at pushing myself to finish things I don’t care about. I have pretty bad adhd, but my focusing problems really aren’t a limiting factor to success. I’m failing my very into level prereqs and o...

Ask HN: What is something important I should start doing in my 20s? 17 by saaspirant | 36 comments on Hacker News. Something I should do in my 20's which will have good impact on my future. Also things I should NOT to do in my 20's. I am looking for all types of stuff - personal, professional, etc. Thanks

How to Understand the GUI API of macOS? 2 by mayureshkathe | 2 comments on Hacker News. How could one go about probing the internals of macOS to learn about the API driving it's GUI? It would be useful while providing GUI handling capabilities using a language not supported by Apple.

How can MacBooks be so slim compared to others laptops 3 by donboscow | 5 comments on Hacker News. There are so many laptops out there - Thinkpad, SurfaceBooks, Dell Inspiron, etc. How come they are so bulkier compared to Macbooks? Macbooks are so slim and lightweight, while an Inspiron or Thinkpad is so bulky and thick. Which engineering aspect is superior in case of Macbooks that makes it slimmer and less bulkier compared to those? Is it the OS - the way it has been written, it requires less cooling and hence lesser bulk? Or is it something else?

Ask HN: How to motivate someone who has lost perspective? 8 by _u | 0 comments on Hacker News. Last year I created an online order system for my youth movement which enabled us to sell anything we wanted online. This was needed as an alternative to the real-life events we could no longer organise and allowed us to continue financing our activities. Recently, a man (~ aged 65-80) sent me an e-mail in which he told me he was impressed by the system I created (I guess because it automatically sends a personalized e-mail with his order details). He also told me he was interested in informatics (mentioning Excel and C#) but has lost perspective. He seemed upset about that. I have been thinking how I can help this kind man to regain his perspective in informatics but nothing suitable has crossed my mind so far. That is why I decided to ask HN. What are fun things to study/create/implement/think about? Or what is something he could do to impress his friends with? Or more general, what seem...

Ask HN: Have you ever taken a pay cut in order to switch roles/industries? 3 by arduinomancer | 1 comments on Hacker News. If so what made you switch and how did it work out. Was it worth it?

Ask HN: What are the early signs of singularity? 2 by itchyjunk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Post singularity, people (?) might look back and attribute certain events as a major indicator of the impending singularity. But for someone without the hind sight, looking into the future, what types of indicator would you look for? Also assuming that even if singularity is achieved (?) at some locations, the effects would take times to spread. Say it's already reached at the opposite corner of the world. How long would it take for it to be apparent and what are some indicators? Also, happy thanksgiving.

Ask HN: What’s the Best TV to Buy? 2 by colpabar | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m in the market for a new TV. I’d like it to be as dumb as possible. I don’t subscribe to any streaming services and download everything through torrents. I don’t want a TV that requires an internet connection and I really don’t want it to do anything other than display what I send to it. What’s the best TV for someone like me? It doesn’t have to be totally dumb; I know these are expensive and I’m ok with a few features. But I need to be able to ignore them and I don’t want it to stop working when the manufacturer rolls out an “update”.