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Shelley: macOS menu bar app that runs shell scripts upon authorized HTTP request - miles https://tyler.io/shelley/ ====== csilverman I have an iOS Shortcut that SSHs into my Mac and runs scripts. It’s pretty simple; I only use it to remotely launch/quit Slack, but I could probably do a lot more if I had a reason to. ...
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Show HN: DueFocus – Comprehensive time tracker for freelancers - androsipen https://duefocus.com/ ====== vovkvovk cool application
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Even Faster WebAssembly: Cheerp 2.0 Surpasses Emscripten for Speed and Size - multimillion https://medium.com/leaningtech/cheerp-2-0-release-880f249a5677 ====== pumanoir Great to see alternatives to emscripten. I’m definitely going to try this one out, I’m especially interested in the smaller size ( compared to emscri...
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Ask HN: How popular is Python for web applications? - 3dfan Python has seen crazy growth over the last 5 years:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;trends.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore?date=all&amp;q=php,javascript,python,ruby<p>Is that because everyone and their dog are now writing AI software, or is it also widely used for ot...
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Here's How Microsoft Competes With "Free" Android - msredmond http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-charges-more-for-licensing-6-patents-than-it-does-for-windows-phone-7-2011-4 ====== jcr Does anyone know which six Microsoft patents are claimed to be infringed by android?
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In-N-Out Secret Menu Survival Guide - jasonwilk http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/03/the-in-n-out-survival-guide-we-ate-every-single-item-on-the-secret-menu.html ====== anateus Denny's has free wifi, open 24/7, free caffeine refills, stabbings are _quite_ rare, basically a hacker's dream. So, Denny's Bacon Ha...
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Linux from Scratch - findaway http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ ====== drallison IMHO the best way to learn about Linux.
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Ask HN: Which YC Company does A/B Testing for anything - ismail I remember reading an article or blog post, there was a YC company that did A&#x2F;B testing but could be used for offline. What is it called? Are they still around? ====== mwsilver SigOpt - [http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/12/sigopt- launch/](http://tech...
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Restoring YC's Xerox Alto day 7: experiments with disk and Ethernet emulators - dwaxe http://www.righto.com/2016/09/restoring-ycs-xerox-alto-day-7.html ====== makomk Ahh, the quirks of FPGA development. If I recall correctly, you shouldn't use tristate signals internally because there's actually no such thing within a...
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The Algebra of Algebraic Data Types - dons http://chris-taylor.github.io/blog/2013/02/10/the-algebra-of-algebraic-data-types/ ====== crntaylor Author of the blog post here. It's amusing to see this submitted by Don Stewart, since it was his explanation[0] of algebraic data types that first made them "click" for me! I ...
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Humanoid construction robot installs drywall - mavci https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/01/aist-humanoid-robot-installs-drywall/ ====== TaylorAlexander It’s a cool demo. We’re definitely getting better at making humanoids. I would guess this is a pretty “hard coded” demo designed to work for this exact room setup only. ...
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Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours - joemanaco https://joemanaco.itch.io/timezone ====== joemanaco Author here: Last weekend I participated in the Ludum Dare Game Jam (#44, Theme was "Life is your currency") and did a game from scratch in 48 hours: TIME ZONE How to play? Arrow Keys Left/Right: Move left/right Arrow...
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Strategies work only to the extent of their execution - ankut04 https://thoughtlytics.substack.com/p/10-strategies-work-only-to-the-extent ====== notlukesky SaaS companies can and will try multiple growth methods till they find what sticks for their particular niche. It only is called execution when it succeeds. Today...
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Guide to Web Automation - peterdemin https://medium.com/@peterdemin/guide-to-web-automation-889557804453 ====== peterdemin Did you use any of mentioned products?
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Neighbourly by Google - prostoalex https://neighbourly.google.com/ ====== jklinger410 I have been thinking a lot about creating localized versions of services like reddit and facebook so that people could be more in touch with what is actually going on around them instead of this kind of national narrative. It seems ...
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Apple bans Watch apps “whose primary function is telling time” - iwwr http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/28/apple-watch-face-app-policy/ ====== s_dev >This rule that Watch apps that only tell time will be rejected has actually been enforced since Smart watches actually have really nothing to do with time pieces -- the name...
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Deciding to rewrite getaddrinfo in rust - azth http://blog.dkhenry.com/2016/02/17/deciding-to-rewrite-getaddrinfo-in-rust/ ====== agwa How security sensitive is getaddrinfo? The recent vulnerability was actually in glibc's DNS client library, libresolv, not getaddrinfo itself (but it was triggered when using getaddrin...
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Elite versus Non-Elite Access to Covid-19 Testing – Philip Greenspun’s Weblog - djsumdog https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/03/24/elite-versus-non-elite-access-to-covid-19-testing/ ====== chmaynard Nice blog post from Greenspun, convincing and well-documented. He promises one interesting idea every three months an...
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Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2020) - whoishiring Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:<p><pre><code> Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé&#x2F;CV: Email: </code></pre> Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportuni...
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Let's Buy CNN - solray http://www.letsbuycnn.com/ ====== solray Some background — [http://time.com/3023062/jon-stewart-kickstarter- cnn/](http://time.com/3023062/jon-stewart-kickstarter-cnn/) ------ mpnordland ha, I'd add a tier where you get to change the name
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Show HN: A short game to know if you're good running 1:1s - soneca https://www.oneonemeeting.com/choose-your-own-adventure.html ====== porphyrogene Asking them an esoteric question will make them uncomfortable but a personal question that addresses specific members of their family by name is going to put them at ease?...
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Maersk and IBM aim to get 10M shipping containers onto blockchain - prostoalex http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/maersk-ibm-aim-get-10-million-shipping-containers-onto-global-supply-blockchain-by-year-end-1609778 ====== Hermel Crazy, the paperwork around the shipping often is more costly than the shipping itself: > Maersk had...
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Ask HN: Education is broken, how do you fix it? - GroupRefer For the past few years, there has been a worrying trend in education. Bill Gates has even blogged about it just last week. While everyone agrees we need a departure from the rote memory method of learning to one which involves critical thinking and decision ...
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Picking the right customer support tool - ringolo https://medium.com/@scffld/picking-the-right-customer-support-tool-25674898bbf0 ====== hw "Because better customer service creates better businesses." It's amazing how that doesn't resonate very often with businesses. Robo- replies and being assigned ticket numbers ...
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Ask HN: Written a book for devs, now what? - franze ====== hnyk Put it on the web under a CC license! ------ PaulHoule Describe the book. What are your goals?
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Rapidly Prototyping Rockets - palish http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/misc/sas07_high.mpg ====== tlrobinson That's pretty awesome. I guess this is what John Carmack is doing with his fortune from Doom and Quake.
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Tracking friends and strangers using WhatsApp - robheaton https://robertheaton.com/2017/10/09/tracking-friends-and-strangers-using-whatsapp/ ====== antirez A few weeks ago there was a similar discussion, and I commented the following: If you think there is no problem, you are wrong. The blog post does not show all th...
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Ohio State University Gets Armored Military Vehicle, Dodges Questions About It - trysomething http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/19/ohio-state-university-gets-armored-milit ====== greenyoda Q: Why do colleges cost so much these days? A: All that military hardware is sooooo expensive! ------ westicle I'd be interested ...
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I'm completely demotivated to work; what can I do? - iyra72 I&#x27;m two years before heading off to university, but I have no motivation to learn the things that are being taught at college. I chose to study the subjects that I thought I would enjoy, but sadly this isn&#x27;t true. I&#x27;m assuming that if I had mad...
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@Israel People Want a Fair Fight - jboydyhacker http://www.blindreason.org/2010/06/people-want-fair-fight.html ====== quizbiz This isn't the place.
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InkWell: A Creative Writer’s Creative Assistant [pdf] - bootload https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/InkWell.pdf ====== jawon This is just an advanced madlibs generator. As a copywriter who dabbles in creative writing I see nothing here that would help me. It's just too "dumb". ~~~ wwwdonohue Which is the whole point, r...
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Semantic UI - jhund https://semantic-ui.com/ ====== jameslk I've always found it ironic that this library calls itself "Semantic UI" but doesn't follow the practice of semantic HTML/classes[0]. W3C suggests[1] that classes should be used for semantic roles (e.g. "warning", "news", "footer"), rather than for display ("...
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Ask HN: Linux family vs. Mac OS X family for Development? - haidrali I am full stack developer spend about 10 hours programming daily. I have been using Ubuntu for last 3 years and have never used MAC neither for development nor for daily use. I want to have developers opinion about development on Linux based OS vs MA...
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David Lynch’s TV commercials (2017) - prismatic https://lwlies.com/articles/david-lynch-tv-commercials/ ====== pmoriarty David Lynch also made a little known TV series called _On the Air_.[1] At its best it was full of black humor and characteristic Lynchian weirdness. Here are a couple of my favorite episodes: [2],...
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Facebook earnings gain as ad sales surge 82%; CFO is stepping down - Kopion http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-earnings-gain-as-ad-sales-surge-82-2014-04-23 ====== ENGNR They've actually pulled a bait and switch on small business. First the pages were free and great, then they started to reduce the number of p...
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Nginx dev version proxying WebSocket - calico http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/websocket.html ====== calico I'll test that very soon !
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Programming Language Implementation – Part 0 – Tools and Setup - marcofiset http://marcofiset.com/programming-language-implementation-part-0-setup ====== marcofiset Hi guys, this is the follow up post of a new series I introduced 2 days ago: A Beginner's Guide to Programming Language Implementation. Today we'll be s...
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Why Windows 10 Sucks or Everything Wrong with Microsoft Windows - dadt https://itvision.altervista.org/why-windows-10-sucks.html ====== brianpgordon I'm no Windows fanboy but there's a lot of misinformation here. In the spirit of bullying the reader with a big list of points, here are some examples of incorrect claims...
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Rogue Dairy Queen has been ignoring corporate HQ since 1949 - curtis http://nypost.com/2015/07/23/rogue-dairy-queen-has-been-ignoring-corporate-hq-since-1949/? ====== torgoguys The tldr is that that are not rogue nor ignoring corporate HQ. They are just operating under a very old agreement (dating to the 1940s) which ...
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Court documents claim Kim Dotcom ratted out competitors - padseeker http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-12/23/kim-dotcom-destroys-rivals ====== padseeker I know in the past there seems to be a lot of sympathy for Kim from most Reddit/HN. A lot of this comes from the rightful animosity toward the Film/TV/Music I...
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Night-before-opsmas.txt - hartleybrody https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8109885 ====== emiunet Happy holidays to you! I am still on ops duty right now :) ------ narsil That would be me right now, minus everything breaking (otherwise I wouldn't be on HN of course). Merry Christmas! :) ~~~ sounds Here's to hoping y...
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Sequence: A High Performance Sequential Semantic Log Parser at 175,000 MPS - zhenjl http://zhen.org/blog/sequence-high-performance-sequential-semantic-log--parser/ ====== lsh Another alternative to regular expression based message parsing that has native support within syslog-ng: patterndb ([http://www.balabit.com/n...
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Developing an Android Version of an iOS App? - Morgan17 Hey<p>I&#x27;m in the process of building an app on iOS similar to a dating app (it&#x27;s not a dating app) we&#x27;d like to start the android version. So far the iOS build is 6 months. Will an Android version take the same amount of time or less as we have t...
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Python from scratch- RegEx - hodbby http://go.hodspot.com/2012/03/python-from-scratch-regex.html ====== reuser I applaud your effort. Regex is a valuable skill (really, language) which you will use across languages and programs as it gives you access to an efficient and pretty general method for scanning and extractin...
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Why the NYC Startup Scene is Hot (Hint: Not Fred Wilson) - MediaSquirrel http://www.metamorphblog.com/2010/03/why-the-nyc-startup-scene-is-hot-hint-not-fred-wilson.html ====== mtalantikite Do we really need to see these 'This is why NYC is awesome for startups' posts every week? I mean I'm getting sick of these an...
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Ask HN: Pivotal Tracker SSL Error? - hellbanner Pivotal tracker isn&#x27;t loading for me in browser. &quot;Chrome: this webpage is not available&quot;. I got an SSL error a moment ago. Pings fine, fast response in terminal. ====== sfsdfsdf dfgdfgdfg
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Iran blocks encrypted messaging apps amid nationwide protests - snake117 https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/2/16841292/iran-telegram-block-encryption-protest-google-signal ====== jozzas Mesh networking apps get around this, and there are a few of those available now. Signal even has an offline mode that does this.
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Cracking a System in Which Cheating Ran Rampant in Atlanta Schools - px http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/education/18oneducation.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all ====== wisty Cheating seems to be like fraud, if state funds (or state-backed loans) are going to be awarded for it.
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Ask HN: How remote is your job? What is missing for 100%? - pengwing A software developer can easily perform 100% of his tasks remote. A retail employee can perform 0% remotely.<p>I am interested in the 70-99% remote spectrum. What do you need to achieve 100%? ====== rkx1 1\. I find that a good office environment comb...
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VS Code without Microsoft branding/telemetry/licensing - max_ https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium ====== cercatrova Note that this doesn't work with VSCode's Remote extensions, such as for SSH, Docker containers, and WSL. Those extensions are closed source and explicitly check that they're running on only VSCode. I t...
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Typists who clear 70 wpm can’t even say where the keys are - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/12/typists-who-clear-70wpm-cant-even-say-where-the-keys-are/ ====== dredmorbius If I need to sort out key locations on a keyboard, I usually type out the alphabet and note where the keys fall (I know the sequenc...
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The Case Against Microsoft and GitHub - UkiahSmith https://sneak.berlin/20200307/the-case-against-microsoft-and-github/ ====== politelemon This is incredibly narrow black and white view, it's full of mental gymnastics, leaping to conclusions and putting words in their mouths. I know that HN is collectively biased agai...
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IBM has more employees in India than in the US - twunde https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/technology/ibm-india.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage ====== Arnt Effective immediately, the I in IBM is short for International.
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Cars took over because the legal system helped squeezed out alternatives - pseudolus https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/car-crashes-arent-always-unavoidable/592447/ ====== dalbasal Another way of stating this could be "transport is a policy question." How cities are built and what transport infrastructu...
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Ask HN: What's a Good Business for a College Student to Run? - movingtohawaii I'm going into my second year of college, and I'm looking for any suggestions on what would be a good business to run at school. I'm not necessarily talking about startups with revolutionary technology (I already have something to that ef...
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Introducing Accelerated Mobile Links: Making the Mobile Web App-Quick - michaelmior https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerated-mobile/ ====== cdata AMP is fast and that makes it really nice when reading news on my phone. I just wish it was less centralized / dependent on Google's cache. It seems like it should be possibl...
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Annoyance-free web surfing - giis https://adblockplus.org/en/ ====== nakedrobot2 I actually don't mind Google Ads because I rather often see ads for obscure products that I find interesting and wouldn't have otherwise come across - that's almost the textbook definition of what advertising is _supposed_ to do. But t...
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Quantifying and Time Tracking My Reading - cflynnus https://cflynn.us/posts/2020-03-27-quantifying-and-time-tracking-reading ====== lukevp Maybe I’ll sound like an old fogey for saying this, but... I enjoy reading and I feel like this level of analysis would take all the joy out of it. With exercise you are competing ...
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Ask HN: How to write a Top Grad School Personal Statement - Tzeentch99 I'm in the process of applying to grad school. Are there any specific sites or resources you'd recommend for how to write a top grad school essay?<p>Also any tips from the community would be appreciated. ====== cperciva Assuming you're going into...
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Journey to Python Part 2: Input, Output, and Documentation - noor420 http://www.tuxtips.org/?p=14 ====== dazzawazza python with 'end of scope' comments looks totally alien to me. I hope they are there for educational reasons rather than for a coding 'style'.
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The time displayed on most Android phones is wrong - Garbage http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-time-displayed-on-most-android-phones-is-wrong/19387 ====== kalleboo Do "most Android phones" really get their time automatically GPS? On all the ones I've used (HTC Hero, Xperia X10, Xperia Arc), I had to set the time ...
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Ask HN: What is your favorite Javascript code snippet? - donohoe Any useful gems or ways to overcome common hurdles? Would love to see and compare insights. Preferably framework/library agnostic if possible. ====== donohoe Some of these assume you have Firebug or similar for console output. Quick and easy browser ...
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Ask HN: Nature or Nurture - ricberw Simple question, but a complicated answer. I’d love to get your thoughts on the matter. ====== MAXPOOL Almost always both. Environment triggers changes in gene expression and reverse is also true. There are multiple ways of how nature and nurture interact. Take for example stress ...
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How Andreessen Horowitz Fumbled An Instagram Investment - joao http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/20/how-andreessen-horowitz-fumbled-an-instagram-investment/ ====== dalton Anyone reading this article needs to remember to never be afraid of putting yourself out there because you are afraid of failure. I saw the mar...
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Silicon Valley Has Not Saved Us from a Productivity Slowdown - leothekim http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/upshot/silicon-valley-has-not-saved-us-from-a-productivity-slowdown.html ====== thedevil "they valued free Internet services at ... less than 1 percent of G.D.P." So Pandora, Facebook, Hacker News, YouTube, Goog...
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Hacker School banning “feigned surprise” is absolutely brilliant - SoftwarePatent http://brooklynoptimist.com/2014/04/10/hacker-school-banning-feigned-surprise-is-absolutely-brilliant/ ====== awjr One of the reasons I'm leaving my current role at the end of the month is due to this egocentric development approach from...
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Soviet Santa - mr_golyadkin https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-santa ====== aasasd Even though we're behind Europe in religiosity and far behind the US, Orthodox Christianity was alive and well here after the fall of the SU, and Christmas and Easter are variously observed. It's rather notable that despite th...
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How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars? - xref https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/mars-pd/569668/?single_page=true ====== anoncoward111 This is a loaded question. The police are a relatively new phenomenon. For example, in Iceland in the Middle Ages, murders were settled privately between families. In ...
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2006 Apple Patent: multiple cameras embedded within LCD display - fiaz http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220060007222%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20060007222&RS=DN/20060007222 ====== car It's an application, not a patent.
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Reddit launches an "about" page to help new users understand it - austenallred http://www.reddit.com/about ====== raldi That's been there for eleven and a half months. [http://blog.reddit.com/2012/06/announcing-rabout-and- reddit-...](http://blog.reddit.com/2012/06/announcing-rabout-and-reddit- postcards.html) ~~~...
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Books all founders should read - davidcrow http://startupnorth.ca/2012/10/29/jump-into-bin-38-founder-books/ ====== davidcrow I'd like to see "Getting to Yes" or "Getting Past No" in addition. I think both of these books are great at helping founders understand that negotiations are not zero-sum games. ~~~ woohoo I...
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The end of cloud computing [video] - rmason http://a16z.com/2016/12/16/the-end-of-cloud-computing/ ====== clusmore So we started with centralized mainframes, because it was too expensive for everybody to have their own computer. As hardware improves, computers become cheaper and more powerful and then everybody can ha...
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Do What You Love and Starve? (2006) - exolymph http://www.martynemko.com/articles/do-what-you-love-and-starve_id1380 ====== peppery This article presumes the premise that "what you love"/"your passion" is the same as "what you _can_ love"/the set of all "passions" you have not yet discovered. This is untrue. Especial...
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The gear seer: analyze your bicycle drivetrain - gideonite http://www.andrusia.com/gearseer/ ====== listic Cached version: [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...](http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.andrusia.com/gearseer/) ~~~ jws doteasy is serving a 200k "exceed...
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I'm looking to buy a small SaaS business - ebellity Does anyone have side projects or products they&#x27;re not working on anymore that they&#x27;d be interested in selling ?<p>I&#x27;m looking for products, preferably SaaS, making $300 to $4000 in MRR ====== ezekg Do you have an overall budget for this? And on this t...
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Reporter suspended from Twitter following tweet run-in with NBC - cooldeal http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57482320-93/reporter-suspended-from-twitter-following-tweet-run-in-with-nbc/ ====== nacorbier Twitter is stating that posting the e-mail address was "personal and private information." NBC suggests that the guy'...
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Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying - lelf http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/24/us-eu-brazil-idUSBREA1N0PL20140224 ====== brudgers It's a feel good. The US has the most sophisticated undersea capability of any nation state. Tapping transatlantic cables is something at which its intelligence o...
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“Extremely angry with the state of academic CS research right now” - zdw http://neverworkintheory.org/2016/04/26/perception-productivity.html ====== tedmiston For an engineering community manager, that was an awfully rant-y way to make the point: "It's frustrating that researchers don't publish their code." Not to sa...
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World's most maintainable programming language - bootload http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html ====== BrandonM Along with nostrademons, I disagree strongly with that article. In my opinion, the thing that affects maintainability the most is the length of the resulting progr...
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Best polynomial approximation equal ripple error - wglb https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2020/03/10/remez-algorithm/ ====== unlinked_dll Mathematica does have an implementation of the Parks-McClellan algorithm (Remez exchange applied to digital filter design) so somewhere in there is a Remez implementation. ------ remc...
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iOS users buy more apps and pay more for them - jammur http://gigaom.com/apple/ios-users-buy-more-apps-and-pay-more-for-them/ ====== flyosity The most interesting (and possibly neglected) piece of information that I've found when analyzing the economics & business of the App Store is just how many apps are a slightly ...
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Convert your React codebase to TypeScript automatically - mohsen1 https://github.com/lyft/react-javascript-to-typescript-transform ====== mohsen1 This is also available as a VSCode plugin: [https://github.com/mohsen1/react-javascript-to-typescript- tr...](https://github.com/mohsen1/react-javascript-to-typescript-tran...
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Self promotion ideas: Novel resumes - miller_f http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2011/04/self-promotion-ideas-15-new-modern-and-inspirational-resumes/ ====== achompas These "datavis" resumes exemplify everything that's wrong with data visualization today: (1) cluttered and distracting (2) vapid (a Frank Zappa quot...
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The Internet Of Things Will Need Millions Of Developers By 2020 - damian2000 http://readwrite.com/2014/06/27/internet-of-things-developers-jobs-opportunity ====== onion2k If IoT devices make their data open, accessible and work to a defined standard with a machine discoverable, zero config interface[1], then, in the...
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Audi E-Tron Gets Lower Than Expected 204-Mile EPA Range Rating - codeulike https://insideevs.com/audi-e-tron-electric-range-epa/ ====== codeulike That's with a 95kwh battery. Turns out building EVs is not so easy. ~~~ clouddrover But only 83 kwh available for use. As mentioned in the article, the battery is over-prov...
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Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month - alexxtomsk https://standuply.com/blog/slack-bot-business-tutorial/ ====== alexxtomsk Hi folks! Just in 8 months, we grow our Slack bot from zero to $25,000/mo. Moreover, it keeps growing like crazy. Based on our learnings we prepared a step-by-step guide on h...
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Show HN: New developer tool for the JVM - Edmond http://www.crudzilla.com ====== bjrnjs I wouldn't mind some more information, either on the startpage or under `About`. Right now I have no idea what I'm downloading, what I can use it for or why I should use it. ~~~ Edmond It seems the home page is quite clear...no?...
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Ask HN: Anyone else regret making free software? - paulryanrogers Recently I&#x27;ve published a few modest plug-in&#x27;s to popular software as commercial products, and a part of me wants to give such minor work away. Yet my past experiences producing freeware and the macro effects on labor make me reluctant. After ...
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The license is the license - detaro http://www.boldport.com/blog/2015/9/22/the-license-is-the-license ====== ChuckMcM Perhaps the point was missed? When I read the proposal I read it as one, and only one thing, trying to find a way to "punish" people who sold something for profit without acknowledging the originator a...
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It's Still About the Applications - dsr_ https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2019/12/28/its-still-about-the-applications/ ====== reggieband > the very fact that The Pentagon thinks that all its cloud apps are going to > work under either AWS or Azure shows how ignorant they are I'm not sure why that is the case. I wo...
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Is the U.S. turning a corner on high-speed rail? - edw519 http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/08/18/us.high.speed.rail/index.html?hpt=Sbin ====== hsmyers Yes, going south on US 1, make an abrupt right hand turn...
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Obama's Stagecoach - newmediaclay http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/01/obama-rolls-a-s.html ====== josefresco "The Secret Service has since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, required that presidential limos be destroyed upon retirement to preserve their secrets." Neat, reminds me of the Far Side cartoon where the...
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Nikon's 300mm F/2 - brudgers http://www.company7.com/library/nikon/Nikon_0300f2.html ====== brenden2 That's a remarkable lens. One thing that I think has been lost in photography today thanks to the smartphone is the value of high quality lenses. You simply can't replace great optics with software (at least, not yet)....
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The Top 10 Reasons Startups Fail - nreece http://www.squidoo.com/starup_failures/ ====== davidw 11\. spending too much time reading "top N X's" lists. ------ zurla or, #11 naming your startup squidoo
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New Features in Python 3.9 You Should Know About - zdw https://martinheinz.dev/blog/21 ====== asplake Thanks. Small typo: the second removeprefix() should be removesuffix() ------ qwerty456127 This looks much more useful than what was introduced in Python 3.8. Nevertheless it's still weird these features take a year ...
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A Dark Theme for GitHub - imfunniee https://github.com/imfunniee/gitark ====== leshokunin Clicked it expecting to be a gimmick, but it turned out much better than I expected. Thank you.
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Algorithm That Tells the Boss Who Might Quit - softdev12 http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-algorithm-that-tells-the-boss-who-might-quit-1426287935 ====== amirmc Sadly, this has the perverse effect of forcing otherwise happy people to _act_ like they might be a flight risk, otherwise they risk being passed-over for int...
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Show HN: We built an easier/amazing way to interact with like-minded individuals - abalog http://solayo.com/land ====== abalog My co-founder and I have spent the last couple of months building this website. Our aim is to provide a place more than just a forum, where people who share similar interest can connect and ...
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Voter Matchup - ParameterOne Do you use a calendar(.ics) to keep up with local elections? -and- Would you like a way to directly tell elected officials if an issue is important to you? ====== PaulHoule If they are local officials I will tell them directly, myself.
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Nativefier: CLI tool to create a desktop application for any site - boredgamer2 https://github.com/jiahaog/nativefier/blob/master/README.md ====== aphroz You can also add the parameter "-app" followed by the website URL in a chrome shortcut and it will open as an app. ~~~ johnmarcus What's a chrome shortcut? ~~~ aph...
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