How Masten Space Systems Is Using Ada and Spark to Land on the Moon's South Pole [pdf]
21 by MaxBarraclough | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA
Tell HN: Amplitude (YC W12) just went public – AMA
51 by sskates | 24 comments on Hacker News.
HN- you are the community that convinced me to get into startups. I wanted to come back and share what the experience of building a company has been like from inception to public listing. I'll be here for a couple hours to answer your questions. Ask me anything.
51 by sskates | 24 comments on Hacker News.
HN- you are the community that convinced me to get into startups. I wanted to come back and share what the experience of building a company has been like from inception to public listing. I'll be here for a couple hours to answer your questions. Ask me anything.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Monday, September 27, 2021
Sunday, September 26, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021?
Ask HN: How do you do estimates in 2021?
19 by buttonsmasher | 9 comments on Hacker News.
For context, I am a manager at a medium sized enterprise software company, I worked as an engineer for 10+ years and took over managing the team. We have 80+ engineers in the entire org. broken down into smaller teams of 5-10. My team specifically has about 15 engineers broken down into teams of 3-5. We have a very challenging roadmap and often we end up delivering 20-30% of what's planned for the year. One thing that's often asked is how do we estimate, how do we predict when some feature will be done. We are close to 20+ years into the usage of Agile methods, there is the school of thought who prefer to use time based estimates, some try story points and then there is the No Estimates movement. I am trying to see what's considered as a best practice to start something for the team in 2021.
19 by buttonsmasher | 9 comments on Hacker News.
For context, I am a manager at a medium sized enterprise software company, I worked as an engineer for 10+ years and took over managing the team. We have 80+ engineers in the entire org. broken down into smaller teams of 5-10. My team specifically has about 15 engineers broken down into teams of 3-5. We have a very challenging roadmap and often we end up delivering 20-30% of what's planned for the year. One thing that's often asked is how do we estimate, how do we predict when some feature will be done. We are close to 20+ years into the usage of Agile methods, there is the school of thought who prefer to use time based estimates, some try story points and then there is the No Estimates movement. I am trying to see what's considered as a best practice to start something for the team in 2021.
New top story on Hacker News: Racketscript/Racketscript: Racket to JavaScript Compiler
Racketscript/Racketscript: Racket to JavaScript Compiler
25 by lycopodiopsida | 2 comments on Hacker News.
25 by lycopodiopsida | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Friday, September 24, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas
30 by Michelangelo11 | 9 comments on Hacker News.
30 by Michelangelo11 | 9 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US
Murder rate rose by almost 30% in 2020 in the US
53 by atlasunshrugged | 60 comments on Hacker News.
53 by atlasunshrugged | 60 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, September 23, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?
Ask HN: What are some other general link aggregators aside from HN?
40 by hidden-spyder | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I know of lobsters, reddit, and metafilter.
40 by hidden-spyder | 29 comments on Hacker News.
I know of lobsters, reddit, and metafilter.
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: What Happened to Safe: Valuation Cap and Discount?
What Happened to Safe: Valuation Cap and Discount?
31 by baritoneparrot | 5 comments on Hacker News.
31 by baritoneparrot | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, September 20, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?
Why is Confluence Wiki Search so bad?
7 by nicktorba | 1 comments on Hacker News.
The title says it all. To me, the most important component of a wiki is search. With that said, why is confluence wiki search basically unusable? (by unusable, I mean I can never find the page I am looking for when I search. Basically, I have to maintain my own wiki of important links I may need to reference in the future)
7 by nicktorba | 1 comments on Hacker News.
The title says it all. To me, the most important component of a wiki is search. With that said, why is confluence wiki search basically unusable? (by unusable, I mean I can never find the page I am looking for when I search. Basically, I have to maintain my own wiki of important links I may need to reference in the future)
Sunday, September 19, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: YouTube has a spam problem, and it's getting worse
YouTube has a spam problem, and it's getting worse
21 by curiousgeorgio | 9 comments on Hacker News.
I've noticed a ton of crypto scams on YouTube recently, many of which are using the names of legitimate channels (like SpaceX), re-posting content from those channels and promoting scams – usually in the form of "send me [Elon Musk, Jeff Bezoz, etc] BTC, and I'll send you 2x back". It seems reasonable to expect one or two of these to slip through the cracks now and then, but over the past few months, I've had YouTube "recommend" these to me, again and again, multiple times per day. I've often reported them as spam, only to have YouTube recommend the exact same video to me a few minutes later . I don't know anyone who would fall for the scams in the videos, but they've become so common now that it's getting really annoying. You can't tell me that they're too difficult to distinguish from legitimate content. Any human being or half-decent algorithm would be able to catch these with no trouble at all (heck, I could write a couple of regular expressions that would do the trick and have 0 false positives), which leads me to wonder: why is YouTube promoting these videos? At this point, it feels like they must have some incentive not to shut them down, because it would require deliberate effort to have any form of spam control while also somehow letting these through. Am I the only one noticing this?
21 by curiousgeorgio | 9 comments on Hacker News.
I've noticed a ton of crypto scams on YouTube recently, many of which are using the names of legitimate channels (like SpaceX), re-posting content from those channels and promoting scams – usually in the form of "send me [Elon Musk, Jeff Bezoz, etc] BTC, and I'll send you 2x back". It seems reasonable to expect one or two of these to slip through the cracks now and then, but over the past few months, I've had YouTube "recommend" these to me, again and again, multiple times per day. I've often reported them as spam, only to have YouTube recommend the exact same video to me a few minutes later . I don't know anyone who would fall for the scams in the videos, but they've become so common now that it's getting really annoying. You can't tell me that they're too difficult to distinguish from legitimate content. Any human being or half-decent algorithm would be able to catch these with no trouble at all (heck, I could write a couple of regular expressions that would do the trick and have 0 false positives), which leads me to wonder: why is YouTube promoting these videos? At this point, it feels like they must have some incentive not to shut them down, because it would require deliberate effort to have any form of spam control while also somehow letting these through. Am I the only one noticing this?
Saturday, September 18, 2021
Friday, September 17, 2021
Thursday, September 16, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor
China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor
19 by MichaelMoser123 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
19 by MichaelMoser123 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?
Ask HN: Advice on bringing community broadband to Los Alamos?
19 by fraserphysics | 0 comments on Hacker News.
For a decade I have been advocating for the government of Los Alamos County in New Mexico to help with county wide broadband. The coincidence of my renewed effort, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a sympathetic County Council is yielding progress. At the direction of the County Council, the County staff has a job posting for a Broadband Manager. (See the posting at https://ift.tt/3tMmurK... ) The staff is posting the opening for a second time because the first time, only one applicant met even the minimum qualifications. My questions for Hacker News are: 1. Does the posting look realistic? 2. Does it describe someone who could get a community broadband network built? 3. How can the County get qualified people to apply? I've been pushing on this issue since 2011. I went so far as serving on the County Board of Public Utilities and becoming its Chair in 2015. Finding that the Board had no authority over the issue, I turned to political organizing and set up the website blabnow.blog. On that site, you can see what I think we need a Broadband Manager to do at https://ift.tt/3EqLsBV... Beyond asking for thoughts on the Broadband Manager position, I would like to read general comments on: 4. How to get local governments to take responsibility for modern communication utility monopolies?
19 by fraserphysics | 0 comments on Hacker News.
For a decade I have been advocating for the government of Los Alamos County in New Mexico to help with county wide broadband. The coincidence of my renewed effort, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a sympathetic County Council is yielding progress. At the direction of the County Council, the County staff has a job posting for a Broadband Manager. (See the posting at https://ift.tt/3tMmurK... ) The staff is posting the opening for a second time because the first time, only one applicant met even the minimum qualifications. My questions for Hacker News are: 1. Does the posting look realistic? 2. Does it describe someone who could get a community broadband network built? 3. How can the County get qualified people to apply? I've been pushing on this issue since 2011. I went so far as serving on the County Board of Public Utilities and becoming its Chair in 2015. Finding that the Board had no authority over the issue, I turned to political organizing and set up the website blabnow.blog. On that site, you can see what I think we need a Broadband Manager to do at https://ift.tt/3EqLsBV... Beyond asking for thoughts on the Broadband Manager position, I would like to read general comments on: 4. How to get local governments to take responsibility for modern communication utility monopolies?
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Where can you apply for a programming job when you are a Class A asshole
Ask HN: Where can you apply for a programming job when you are a Class A asshole
36 by calltrak | 16 comments on Hacker News.
Do you love tech but hate tech interviews with a burning passion? It really rubs my fucking rhubarb the wrong way when I am in a technical interview and the interviewer starts asking me some random assed questions either technical or voodoo doodoo mumbo jumbo personality type questions. I understand they have to ask something in a interview but its the questions in of themselves that they choose that has me hanging the phone up on their hot ear. After years in the industry I have come to the conclusion I am actually no longer employable! I am crankier than bag of cats on their period! Where can i get a job as a programmer where class A assholes can apply? I mean with all this diversity and inclusion assholes need to eat too!
36 by calltrak | 16 comments on Hacker News.
Do you love tech but hate tech interviews with a burning passion? It really rubs my fucking rhubarb the wrong way when I am in a technical interview and the interviewer starts asking me some random assed questions either technical or voodoo doodoo mumbo jumbo personality type questions. I understand they have to ask something in a interview but its the questions in of themselves that they choose that has me hanging the phone up on their hot ear. After years in the industry I have come to the conclusion I am actually no longer employable! I am crankier than bag of cats on their period! Where can i get a job as a programmer where class A assholes can apply? I mean with all this diversity and inclusion assholes need to eat too!
Monday, September 13, 2021
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