Tuesday, November 30, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: The American Prison System’s War on Reading

The American Prison System’s War on Reading
19 by misiti3780 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule

Elizabeth Holmes' Daily Schedule
47 by Hrundi | 27 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9

German Court Rules Against Internet Security Non-Profit Quad9
31 by pgl | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Silbo Gomero: ‘Special and Beautiful’ Whistled Language

Silbo Gomero: ‘Special and Beautiful’ Whistled Language
7 by kwindla | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

Searchable flight logs from Jeffrey Epstein’s plane
34 by bananapear | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Cancer therapy from Princeton holds potential to switch off major cancer types

Cancer therapy from Princeton holds potential to switch off major cancer types
7 by MKais | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts
20 by psim1 | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Reducing an LTO Linux kernel bug with cvise

Reducing an LTO Linux kernel bug with cvise
8 by ndesaulniers | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: 6kW OzInverter – DIY Pure Sinewave Inverter

6kW OzInverter – DIY Pure Sinewave Inverter
7 by todsacerdoti | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation

An Illustrated Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography Validation
32 by alanfranz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: New research links potentially toxic fat-protein complexes to Alzheimer's

New research links potentially toxic fat-protein complexes to Alzheimer's
54 by echelon | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: UI/UX Designer at Nimble (YC S17) – P/T with F/T option

UI/UX Designer at Nimble (YC S17) – P/T with F/T option
1 by Nimble2017 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Proposed Bill to Outlaw Bots from Scalping Online Goods [pdf]

Proposed Bill to Outlaw Bots from Scalping Online Goods [pdf]
3 by runnerup | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses

Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses
7 by Kinrany | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications

AWS Nitro SSD – High Performance Storage for Your I/O-Intensive Applications
18 by Trisell | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: FBI access levels to different messengers

FBI access levels to different messengers
2 by sega_sai | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: DESQview/X: The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future

DESQview/X: The forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
5 by WoodenChair | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The US C-Band Spectrum Saga, Explained

The US C-Band Spectrum Saga, Explained
6 by aml183 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb

Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb
13 by i0exception | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air

Ten Million Deaths a Year: David Wallace-Wells on Polluted Air
31 by Glench | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Back End Developers on Hackathons Are Not Needed

Back End Developers on Hackathons Are Not Needed
23 by skibish | 19 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AWS Redshift Serverless

AWS Redshift Serverless
24 by Trisell | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands

Lazygit: A simple terminal UI for Git commands
39 by tnorthcutt | 6 comments on Hacker News.

Monday, November 29, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Workers Quit Jobs in Droves to Become Their Own Bosses

Workers Quit Jobs in Droves to Become Their Own Bosses
9 by prostoalex | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]

The Essence operating system at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video]
8 by abnercoimbre | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Satellites Reveal Arctic Rivers are Changing Faster Than We Thought

Satellites Reveal Arctic Rivers are Changing Faster Than We Thought
11 by infodocket | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West

Crises of Elite Competition in the East and West
9 by arexxbifs | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto

Ex-Google workers sue company, saying it betrayed 'Don't Be Evil' motto
15 by authed | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ‘Amazing science’: researchers find xenobots can give rise to offspring

‘Amazing science’: researchers find xenobots can give rise to offspring
2 by hi5eyes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma

Proof-of-Stake and Stablecoins: A Blockchain Centralization Dilemma
17 by yasp | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: An AWS Savings Plans Calculator

Show HN: An AWS Savings Plans Calculator
7 by mickeyt500 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce

Team builds first living robots–that can reproduce
3 by nkotov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry

Pull Through Cache Repositories for Amazon Elastic Container Registry
13 by dantiberian | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language

Asmrepl: REPL for x86 Assembly Language
40 by tekkertje | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Google Chromium, sans integration with Google

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
56 by thunderbong | 33 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout

The case of the recursive resolvers: What happened during Slack’s DNSSEC rollout
32 by usrme | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management

Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management
1 by ethanyu94 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)

Music is a negative superstimulus for speech (2020)
20 by _Microft | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Digging for Utopia

Digging for Utopia
7 by apollinaire | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion

AppFlowy: an open-source alternative to Notion
2 by ericyan | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (2014)

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (2014)
29 by tediousdemise | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Breakthrough, PhD student creates a simple, cost-effective laser on silicon

Breakthrough, PhD student creates a simple, cost-effective laser on silicon
22 by croes | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi

Setting Up Cloudflare Argo and Access on a Raspberry Pi
25 by erdaltoprak | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3

The Inherent Limitations of GPT-3
16 by andreyk | 12 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs

Show HN: Md2blog – A zero-config static site generator for dev blogs
10 by schemescape | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Sunday, November 28, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: A Constitutional Convention is closer than you think

A Constitutional Convention is closer than you think
14 by throwoutway | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Generally Intelligent Is Hiring Machine Learning Research Engineers (Remote, SF)

Generally Intelligent Is Hiring Machine Learning Research Engineers (Remote, SF)
1 by kanjun | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Anthocyanins

Anthocyanins
15 by finite_jest | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Naval said to productize myself. WTF does that mean?

Naval said to productize myself. WTF does that mean?
4 by trevorLane | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to Save a Ski Town

How to Save a Ski Town
11 by auxym | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Designer Diary: The Seeds of Stardew Valley: The Board Game

Designer Diary: The Seeds of Stardew Valley: The Board Game
7 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became the Norm Again

Command Palettes: How Typing Commands Became the Norm Again
33 by BrendanThompson | 21 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?

Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS lately?
18 by bluehex | 12 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?

New top story on Hacker News: Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language

Colobot, an RTS game where you program your units in C++ like language
17 by Claude_Shannon | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!

Ask HN: Know any non Librem5 PinePhone for Mobile Linux? Legacy devices too!
10 by GhettoComputers | 2 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, please do, I think there is too much bias and assumptions that only those 2 are "Linux phones". https://ift.tt/2yLfi3v

New top story on Hacker News: Update on Omicron

Update on Omicron
60 by hh3k0 | 23 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why don’t we just open the windows? covid19 prevention lost in translation

Why don’t we just open the windows? covid19 prevention lost in translation
25 by stmw | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: South African medical association says Omicron variant causes ‘mild disease.’

South African medical association says Omicron variant causes ‘mild disease.’
3 by vaadu | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The truth about turbinates (and sinusitis)

The truth about turbinates (and sinusitis)
6 by flreln | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge

McKinsey taught Big Pharma how to price-gouge
108 by bing_dai | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Labors of Love: Translations of Dante

Labors of Love: Translations of Dante
3 by pleaser | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage

BMW removing touchscreen from a bunch of models due to chip shortage
57 by edward | 30 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K

A small Scheme implementation with AOT and incremental compilers that fits in 4K
19 by eatonphil | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Fuel of Philosophers

The Fuel of Philosophers
7 by comeagain | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience

Today’s Disneyland is a price gouge, not a magical experience
24 by imperio59 | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by

The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by
19 by 11001100 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?

Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?
16 by bccdee | 10 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 lightweight option like firejail (which I use) or a totalizing system like QubesOS. But these systems are awkward to use, and have their own drawbacks. What's the bar for reasonable security, in your opinion? How do you secure your workstation without living like a monk?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?

Ask HN: EU devs who moved to the States for work, has it been worth it?
68 by Winterflow3r | 48 comments on Hacker News.
For however you choose to define "worth".

Saturday, November 27, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning

Permutation-Invariant Neural Networks for Reinforcement Learning
6 by hardmaru | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A prioritised micro-batch scheduler in rust

A prioritised micro-batch scheduler in rust
6 by mooreds | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Rare Greek Variables

Rare Greek Variables
3 by walterbell | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A Utopia of Useful Things

A Utopia of Useful Things
9 by Petiver | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Five Books That Changed My Career as a Software Engineer

Five Books That Changed My Career as a Software Engineer
37 by julianogtz | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: More Cash Invested in Stock in 2021 Than Two Decades Combined

More Cash Invested in Stock in 2021 Than Two Decades Combined
24 by walterbell | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours

My friends Instagram was hacked and deep-fake videos posted in less than 6 hours
35 by k4runa | 7 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 much news or content online about this happening or it seems very targeted... but for such an account with such a small following it seems like it must be quite widespread problem. Have you had this happen to someone you know personally and what do you think about how prepared we are to deal with scams this sophisticated or what effect they might have?

New top story on Hacker News: Explainer: .DS_Store Files

Explainer: .DS_Store Files
4 by crecker | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?

Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company?
32 by akouri | 35 comments on Hacker News.
I have been searching for a solution to e-sign some lease agreements. It is something that I need to do maybe once a year and the only thing I need is a legally binding way to put signatures and timestamps on a PDF. I do not need any fancy features. I was doing research, and it seems like most document signature companies all charge monthly subscription fees! This does not work for me as I am not using the platform on a monthly basis. Are there free, open source alternatives to Docusign? If so, why do more companies not use them?

New top story on Hacker News: The Myth of Multitasking (2008)

The Myth of Multitasking (2008)
6 by well_i_never | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: GitHub is down again

Tell HN: GitHub is down again
301 by pupdogg | 159 comments on Hacker News.
Yet somehow https://ift.tt/2rzqrAY is ALL GREEN! smh

New top story on Hacker News: Spirituality Shaped Leonard Cohen

Spirituality Shaped Leonard Cohen
7 by tintinnabula | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SQLite 3.37 Is Released

SQLite 3.37 Is Released
33 by massysett | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos

Show HN: A music player that creates real-time music videos
4 by aeroheim | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Godot Engine – Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)

Godot Engine – Multiplayer in Godot 4.0: Scene Replication (Part 1)
7 by Tomte | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Reality shifting: an emergent online daydreaming culture

Reality shifting: an emergent online daydreaming culture
7 by geox | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: 2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed

2021 Tesla Model Y review: Nearly great, critically flawed
72 by unclebucknasty | 44 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf]

Comparison of Operating System Complexity (2020) [pdf]
13 by marttt | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: India tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence

India tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence
23 by mariojv | 21 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Programming in R

Show HN: Rmpk – Mixed Integer Linear and Quadratic Programming in R
4 by watwatwat123 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Code with Engineering Playbook

Code with Engineering Playbook
19 by nrsapt | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Pinning in Plain English

Pinning in Plain English
9 by lukastyrychtr | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Friday, November 26, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs in college students

Cognitive distortions predict safetyism-inspired beliefs in college students
15 by Bostonian | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Procrastination and the Extended Will [pdf]

Procrastination and the Extended Will [pdf]
11 by pps | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
25 by whitepoplar | 41 comments on Hacker News.
I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: https://ift.tt/3raNZMj...

New top story on Hacker News: AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet

AWS price reduction for data transfers out to the internet
24 by eranation | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies

California port truckers ‘drowning’ in supply chain inefficiencies
2 by tomohawk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: PyTorch: Where we are headed and why it looks a lot like Julia (but not exactly)

PyTorch: Where we are headed and why it looks a lot like Julia (but not exactly)
33 by thetwentyone | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Omicron Variant: Early Analysis

Omicron Variant: Early Analysis
29 by theptip | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: New in C# 10: Easier Lambda Expressions

New in C# 10: Easier Lambda Expressions
5 by FairDune | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft

EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
40 by thibautg | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Teach Yourself Computer Science (2020)

Teach Yourself Computer Science (2020)
18 by truly | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529

New Concerning Variant: B.1.1.529
41 by kposehn | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Skio (YC S20) Is Hiring

Skio (YC S20) Is Hiring
1 by kennandavison | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Repairing an HP 3478A Multimeter with a Hacksaw

Repairing an HP 3478A Multimeter with a Hacksaw
11 by picture | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Games for IBM AS/400

Games for IBM AS/400
15 by remoquete | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Internet Is Held Together with Spit and Baling Wire

The Internet Is Held Together with Spit and Baling Wire
20 by picture | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: $200 ARM based Linux Laptop is Here

$200 ARM based Linux Laptop is Here
53 by risingstarr | 28 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language

Features of PL/I not realized in a modern language
20 by vitplister | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'

Kropotkin's 'The Conquest of Bread'
22 by awanderingmind | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Samsara S-1

Samsara S-1
6 by finolex1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern

Classification of Omicron (B.1.1.529): SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern
30 by nycdatasci | 12 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Fast(er) Sorting with Sorting Networks

Show HN: Fast(er) Sorting with Sorting Networks
8 by zvrba | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”

I faked tons of Covid passes – “Weak Key Cryptography in real world”
22 by jtaft | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Crypto’s hottest game is facing an economic maelstrom

Crypto’s hottest game is facing an economic maelstrom
32 by samizdis | 27 comments on Hacker News.

Thursday, November 25, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing

Hacking CD/DVD/Blu-ray for Biosensing
8 by garaetjjte | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: MyHDL: Using Python as a hardware description and verification language

MyHDL: Using Python as a hardware description and verification language
4 by ofou | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Deuterium molecules in superposition act as slits for classic quantum experiment

Deuterium molecules in superposition act as slits for classic quantum experiment
4 by sohkamyung | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: GetElementById vs. QuerySelector

GetElementById vs. QuerySelector
17 by wesleyac | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A Live Look at Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales on Shopify

A Live Look at Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sales on Shopify
10 by badcc | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: 'Art Is the Opposite of Spectacle': The Notebooks of Gabriel Orozco

'Art Is the Opposite of Spectacle': The Notebooks of Gabriel Orozco
4 by axiomdata316 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Canada tells Boeing its bid for C$19 bln fighter jet contract falls short

Canada tells Boeing its bid for C$19 bln fighter jet contract falls short
3 by bouchard | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: An Odd Card Trick

An Odd Card Trick
14 by allthings | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Dead Ends of IT

Dead Ends of IT
4 by peterhunt | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Umarell, men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites

Umarell, men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites
39 by paganel | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert

Heavily mutated coronavirus variant puts scientists on alert
27 by abbassi | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Last year 90% of Black Friday deals were cheaper six months before sales event

Last year 90% of Black Friday deals were cheaper six months before sales event
33 by belter | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring Software Engineers

Rescale (YC W12) Is Hiring Software Engineers
1 by amckenzie | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge

What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
8 by adrian_mrd | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: B.1.1.529

B.1.1.529
52 by tosh | 19 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: PHP 8.1.0 Release Announcement

PHP 8.1.0 Release Announcement
60 by AegirLeet | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere

The New Luxury Vacation: Being Dumped in the Middle of Nowhere
8 by preetamjinka | 12 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Check Point discover vulnerabilities in chips embedded in 37% of smartphones

Check Point discover vulnerabilities in chips embedded in 37% of smartphones
12 by T-A | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Amazon Linux 2022

Amazon Linux 2022
9 by gtirloni | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Sending mobile push notifications to yourself

Sending mobile push notifications to yourself
7 by therealja | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are the early signs of singularity?

Ask HN: What are the early signs of singularity?
9 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.

New top story on Hacker News: Nearly two-thirds of Gen Z think they’ll become crypto millionaires

Nearly two-thirds of Gen Z think they’ll become crypto millionaires
9 by oblib | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning

Customize Python dependency resolution with machine learning
7 by BerislavLopac | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet

FarPlay: Low-Latency Audio over the Internet
31 by sp332 | 11 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Bizarre Cultural History of Saliva

The Bizarre Cultural History of Saliva
4 by drdee | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SafeButler (YC S17) Is Hiring Marketing Manager

SafeButler (YC S17) Is Hiring Marketing Manager
1 by eastdark | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: My plugin system/package manager for Git

Show HN: My plugin system/package manager for Git
5 by joshburnsxyz | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: I’d like to hire a personal/executive assistant – any tips or advice?

Ask HN: I’d like to hire a personal/executive assistant – any tips or advice?
49 by jw1224 | 38 comments on Hacker News.
I’m a CEO with very limited free time/capacity. I would love to recruit someone to help out with “everything else” — that means personal tasks first and foremost, but involvement with the administrative/day-to-day tasks in my business too. Whilst I’ve recruited and managed plenty of “traditional” roles in the office, this area is new to me. Has anyone hired a PA/EA before, who can share any tips or advice? Thanks!

New top story on Hacker News: How to implement and use .noinit RAM

How to implement and use .noinit RAM
14 by picture | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Getting Started with Reverb Design, Part 1: Dev Environments

Getting Started with Reverb Design, Part 1: Dev Environments
9 by donbrae | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Greening of the Earth mitigates surface warming

Greening of the Earth mitigates surface warming
30 by themantra514 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Distributed Authorization and Wayfair’s Supply Chain

Distributed Authorization and Wayfair’s Supply Chain
22 by gneray | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes

A Smart Artificial Pancreas Could Conquer Diabetes
19 by rchaudhary | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: YC Founders Online at YC's Winter Job Expo on Thurs Dec 2nd

YC Founders Online at YC's Winter Job Expo on Thurs Dec 2nd
1 by ryankicks | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Two Norwegian journalists arrested after interviewing Qatar World Cup Manager

Two Norwegian journalists arrested after interviewing Qatar World Cup Manager
47 by eisa01 | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: In a Nation That Loves Accordions, He Loves to Fix Them

In a Nation That Loves Accordions, He Loves to Fix Them
5 by pseudolus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming [pdf]

Virtual Log-Structured Storage for High-Performance Streaming [pdf]
13 by teleforce | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats

Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats
109 by evercast | 25 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive (2019)

The 3-2-1 Backup Rule – Why Your Data Will Always Survive (2019)
34 by Apocryphon | 28 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Thinking in OODA Loops [slides]

Thinking in OODA Loops [slides]
10 by jger15 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes life meaningful" poll

Koreans react to startling results in Pew "what makes life meaningful" poll
18 by debo_ | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Greek myths of programming – how to find a mythological god of programming?

Greek myths of programming – how to find a mythological god of programming?
6 by mchl-news | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Germany will legalize Marijuana and promote drug harm reduction

Germany will legalize Marijuana and promote drug harm reduction
36 by siva7 | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Secret History of ATAPI

The Secret History of ATAPI
14 by finite_jest | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: JavaScript engines achieve great performance

JavaScript engines achieve great performance
8 by EntICOnc | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide

California moves to recommend delaying algebra to 9th grade statewide
115 by moultano | 202 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Telegram requires developers to show ads

Telegram requires developers to show ads
13 by ushakov | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: GoDaddy Breach Widens to TsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory and More

GoDaddy Breach Widens to TsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory and More
14 by mmaunder | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court

Facebook can pursue malware lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group -US appeals court
17 by nceqs3 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Our fundraising learnings post-YC

Our fundraising learnings post-YC
19 by matijash | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web

Show HN: Tamagui – React design systems optimized for native and web
29 by nwienert | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Dover (YC S19) just raised $20m and is hiring for all roles

Dover (YC S19) just raised $20m and is hiring for all roles
1 by mkx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education

The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education
8 by besmirch | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Things I learned from building a production database

Things I learned from building a production database
13 by dangoldin | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says

India seeks to block most cryptocurrencies in new bill, government says
115 by shenoybr | 66 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Albrecht Dürer: Self-publicist, tourist, entrepreneur, Renaissance artist

Albrecht Dürer: Self-publicist, tourist, entrepreneur, Renaissance artist
12 by lermontov | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and Its Possibilities)

An Engineer's Hype-Free Observations on Web3 (and Its Possibilities)
17 by treblig | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: End of Support for Firefox Lockwise

End of Support for Firefox Lockwise
59 by tfehring | 31 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical

German car that was super-aerodynamic but impractical
12 by davesailer | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Osseosurface Electronics – Musculoskeletal Biointerfaces

Osseosurface Electronics – Musculoskeletal Biointerfaces
10 by 0des | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Next ‘Lab Leak’

The Next ‘Lab Leak’
46 by johncena33 | 92 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: C64

C64
3 by amasad | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL

How We Turn Authorization Logic into SQL
12 by gneray | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Blueboat, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers

Blueboat, an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers
10 by ushakov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Covid-19 death rate difference b/w those who are vaccinated and those who aren't

Covid-19 death rate difference b/w those who are vaccinated and those who aren't
46 by Jugurtha | 44 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware
118 by todsacerdoti | 44 comments on Hacker News.

Monday, November 22, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: I Test in Prod

I Test in Prod
15 by rsie_above | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: No News Is Good News: A Critique of the One Billion Word Benchmark

No News Is Good News: A Critique of the One Billion Word Benchmark
4 by CarrieLab | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics

Blood sugar level follows perceived time rather than actual time in diabetics
36 by ve55 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design

Show HN: Retrocomputing with Clash: Haskell for FPGA Hardware Design
7 by gergoerdi | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Examples of the Importance of Context-Sensitivity in Data-Centric AI

Examples of the Importance of Context-Sensitivity in Data-Centric AI
8 by brianmott | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-based development tools

Renesas introduces sub 50 cents FPGA family with Yosys-based development tools
22 by Rochus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web

SugarCoat: Private browsing without breaking the web
12 by codesuki | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Janken – A rock paper scissors game

Show HN: Janken – A rock paper scissors game
11 by neet-vc | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Probiotic that produces lactase enzymes directly in gut

Probiotic that produces lactase enzymes directly in gut
13 by mataug | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The 2 Sigma Problem [pdf]

The 2 Sigma Problem [pdf]
14 by mleonhard | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Use Cases: The purpose of your code

Use Cases: The purpose of your code
10 by CodeItWrong | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]

Trackers: The Sound of 16-Bit [video]
36 by winkywooster | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The case of Japan’s curiously quiescent inflation rate

The case of Japan’s curiously quiescent inflation rate
13 by paulpauper | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX

Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX
37 by canyonero | 12 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Back to basics: Writing an application using Go and PostgreSQL

Back to basics: Writing an application using Go and PostgreSQL
12 by benhoyt | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses

The Weirdness of Government Variation in Covid-19 Responses
9 by igammarays | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Rust-CUDA: Extremely fast GPU code fully in Rust

Rust-CUDA: Extremely fast GPU code fully in Rust
24 by amadeusine | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Convictional (YC W19) Is Hiring Software Engineers (Remote)

Convictional (YC W19) Is Hiring Software Engineers (Remote)
1 by rogerkirkness | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: GitHub – tzarc/djinn: Djinn Split Keyboard

GitHub – tzarc/djinn: Djinn Split Keyboard
17 by rolph | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max

Benchmarking the Apple M1 Max
27 by xrayarx | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Svelte Cubed

Svelte Cubed
29 by 0xedb | 16 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Tutanota is now free for open source projects

Tutanota is now free for open source projects
4 by NmAmDa | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Books I loved reading this year

Books I loved reading this year
14 by Tomte | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Sunday, November 21, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms (1999)

Holography without Lasers: Hand-drawn Holograms (1999)
5 by smusamashah | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Library Athena

Library Athena
5 by gjvc | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: WeWork and Adam Neumann: Scam or Genius? 5 Lessons Learned

WeWork and Adam Neumann: Scam or Genius? 5 Lessons Learned
11 by fpert | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Tesla, electric SUVs get poor scores from Consumer Reports

Tesla, electric SUVs get poor scores from Consumer Reports
36 by andreyk | 42 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Neri Oxman's Synthetic Apiary

Neri Oxman's Synthetic Apiary
7 by simonebrunozzi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Writing Is Networking for Introverts

Writing Is Networking for Introverts
46 by whoisnnamdi | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Japanese Dome House

Japanese Dome House
28 by traverseda | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: There are infinite worlds to explore

There are infinite worlds to explore
11 by apsec112 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Kessler Syndrome: Space junk in orbit

The Kessler Syndrome: Space junk in orbit
42 by RageoftheRobots | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Explanations for the Havana Syndrome

Explanations for the Havana Syndrome
9 by firebaze | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Thoughts on “E-Readers” (2009)

Thoughts on “E-Readers” (2009)
17 by ctoth | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Rust-Like Traits in Python

Show HN: Rust-Like Traits in Python
13 by xrudelis | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Reframing Tech Debt

Reframing Tech Debt
9 by kiyanwang | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Data Scientists in Boston (Reverielabs.com)

Reverie Labs (YC W18) Is Hiring Data Scientists in Boston (Reverielabs.com)
1 by ankitvgupta | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Los Angeles to ban wood-framed construction

Los Angeles to ban wood-framed construction
31 by dmitriy_ko | 12 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Functorio

Functorio
31 by shepherdjerred | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Graydon Hoare: What's next for language design? (2017)

Graydon Hoare: What's next for language design? (2017)
14 by isaacimagine | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Weekly Selection of Robot Videos

Weekly Selection of Robot Videos
5 by ystad | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Chapter II, the Specious Present (1901)

Chapter II, the Specious Present (1901)
5 by gone35 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Trial of Mary Wade

Trial of Mary Wade
6 by qwertyuiop_ | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find

Git ls-files is Faster Than Fd and Find
16 by todsacerdoti | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once-Lost Language

The Centuries-Old Plays Helping to Revitalize a Once-Lost Language
5 by Thevet | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Saturday, November 20, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Ovipost (YC W18) Is Hiring a Project Manager

Ovipost (YC W18) Is Hiring a Project Manager
1 by trinachi | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Soviet 1801VM3 Enhanced LSI-11 Processor

The Soviet 1801VM3 Enhanced LSI-11 Processor
22 by picture | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: VAmiga online: Amiga emulator in the browser

VAmiga online: Amiga emulator in the browser
13 by doener | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What it's like to ride 900 km in a day

What it's like to ride 900 km in a day
15 by giuliomagnifico | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation

Python – Writing large ZIP archives without memory inflation
13 by sandes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss)

Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss)
10 by gk1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The history of Flash games in China

The history of Flash games in China
5 by minding | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is your favourite gaming hardware/device?

Ask HN: What is your favourite gaming hardware/device?
5 by recvonline | 5 comments on Hacker News.
Title says it all. A bit of an explanation: I used to game a lot as a kid/teenager, and over the years it became less and less. Now with having my own family, time is rare but I sometimes "want the feeling back" I had as a kid and dive into a game. I basically look for a device I can feel connected to. I had the Nintendo Switch and good experiences with it. I am now looking for a device which would feel good "to have" and can play a few games. I am curious about your experiences. Do you enjoy gaming on an iPad? Are you a Switch person? Or do you have a dedicated gaming PC at home?

New top story on Hacker News: Lagrange: A Beautiful Gemini Client

Lagrange: A Beautiful Gemini Client
16 by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor

JEdit – Programmer's Text Editor
32 by Tomte | 16 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines

On the Impossibility of Supersized Machines
11 by FBT | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Maxima (Software)

Maxima (Software)
10 by Tomte | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to programmatically find out if computer is on

How to programmatically find out if computer is on
62 by marcodiego | 38 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter

What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter
14 by zdw | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Tools I use: PyCharm / Idea plugins

Tools I use: PyCharm / Idea plugins
16 by todsacerdoti | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Deep Sea

The Deep Sea
12 by Tomte | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Oedipus on his Life’s Path

Oedipus on his Life’s Path
4 by breathnow | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Facebook tells LA police to stop spying on users with fake accounts

Facebook tells LA police to stop spying on users with fake accounts
9 by LordAtlas | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: TheNFTBay: Fake, but Worth Discussing

TheNFTBay: Fake, but Worth Discussing
14 by originalcvk | 20 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)

Bring Back Our Knobs: Analog vs. Digital (2009)
23 by Kaibeezy | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Friday, November 19, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Talk with the Hand – On the expressive art of chirology

Talk with the Hand – On the expressive art of chirology
4 by benbreen | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?

Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive?
41 by behnamoh | 45 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Renaissance Science – XXII: Land Surveying

Renaissance Science – XXII: Land Surveying
10 by commons-tragedy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'

How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'
5 by quakeguy | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing
101 by cdahmedeh | 73 comments on Hacker News.
I was watching a video game documentary about the history of the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise, a theme park management game that had both an easy learning curve but with incredibly sophisticated dynamics. What really impressed me however was the origins of the first two titles: written by one man in assembly language. At that point, I realized how mediocre and untalented I was. Nothing I’m doing in my life are anything that people will remember me for. Throughout my life, I’ve seen many awe inspiring projects done by extremely talented people, way more intelligent than I am, come to fruition. Over the years, I realized how shallow and dumb I really am. I’m uninteresting. Most of my career revolved around software development, something that I’ve done since I was 17 (now I'm 30) until a few years ago. I found myself writing entreprise software usually in the backend and that’s all I really knew except for some server administration and scripting sprinkled on top. Sat beside me were full-stack developers with expertise in DevOps as well. They knew how to do everything I could on top of so much else. As for me, I can barely write basic HTML pages. I meet with incredibly smart people with master’s degrees and PhDs knowing so much about their field of expertise while I’m a University drop-out. People who know world history so well while being able to talk about the hard problem of consciousness at the same time. YouTubers and Twitch streamers who are so talented at playing games and entertaining us along the way. There’s people who have paved the way for innovation and foresight that I don’t have at all. Those who make so much money due to their talents and bringing them to life in this world of ours. I’ve watched so many documentaries about all sorts of people from racing drivers, to game developers, comedians, data science experts, cybersecurity nuts, music producers, video editors, documentaries makers and so much more. These are all things that come to mind thinking that I’ll never be able to do any of that. I’m mostly a self-taught person teaching myself skills as I go along with my life. I generally don’t pick up much except for a few facts that I can repeat to others. I can barely do derivatives anymore in math or draw like I used to. My talents are shallow and honestly quite useless. Today, I don’t do much with my life other than binging on YouTube documentaries and reading Wikipedia articles not helping my case. My motivation for learning is shrinking slowly and would much rather stare out of the window while I’m not doing my obligatory 8 hours of daily work. Now, I’m an unimportant technical writer composing documents for developers and users. There’s no path for career growth if I stay in this specialty. My work doesn’t feel like it takes much talent and I was hired a few times without having any credentials in business writing. I’ve been told by previous managers that I’m always in “learning mode” and quite “creative” but I can’t convince myself that these traits are actually true. I feel untalented, empty and dumb. My dreams do exist but they starting to seem more and more superficial. There’s a lot of subjects and activities that I’m really interested of getting into but I can’t just dive into it. I blame it on the lack of time and laziness but I have strong time management skills and can conjure up much empty slots in my schedule. I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline.

New top story on Hacker News: Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations

Fixing the Drift in Shape Rotations
2 by steveruizok | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Zstandard RFC 8878

Zstandard RFC 8878
44 by itroot | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The WeeCee – Tiny Vortex86-Based DOS Gaming PC

The WeeCee – Tiny Vortex86-Based DOS Gaming PC
22 by nickt | 9 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Best cars without too much digitalization?

Ask HN: Best cars without too much digitalization?
82 by gautamcgoel | 117 comments on Hacker News.
As we all know, there is a trend in the automotive industry towards ever more digital "features" in cars. Many of these software systems pose privacy risks; many others simply don't work as intended, leading to frustration and trips to the dealership. For those of us who are "old-school" and prefer their cars without fancy digital gimmicks, which cars would you recommend?

New top story on Hacker News: China's Foreign Ministry 'not aware' of situation of tennis player Peng Shuai

China's Foreign Ministry 'not aware' of situation of tennis player Peng Shuai
88 by bryan0 | 50 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Transformers from Scratch (2019)

Transformers from Scratch (2019)
13 by softwaredoug | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: It's Hard to Say Who's Winning the Streaming Wars, but Customers Are Losing

It's Hard to Say Who's Winning the Streaming Wars, but Customers Are Losing
36 by anderspitman | 32 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible

Ultracold, superdense atoms become invisible
22 by gmays | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Flags vs. Gates

Flags vs. Gates
20 by boberoni | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Parsing Permutations

Parsing Permutations
2 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Learning containers from the bottom up

Learning containers from the bottom up
31 by notkaiho | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections

The Amazon lobbyists who kill U.S. consumer privacy protections
58 by conductor | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Why NFTs are bad: the long version

Why NFTs are bad: the long version
5 by NicoJuicy | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SpaceX will ‘hopefully’ launch first orbital Starship flight in January

SpaceX will ‘hopefully’ launch first orbital Starship flight in January
22 by hsnewman | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Designing transport for humans, not econs

Designing transport for humans, not econs
4 by agronaut | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Thursday, November 18, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management

Motion (YC W20) is hiring engineers to build the future of time management
1 by ethanyu94 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!

The NFT Bay is the galaxy's most resilient NFT BitTorrent site!
72 by miracle2k | 10 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: MOOC on Mobile Robotics using ROS 2 and your own affordable robot

MOOC on Mobile Robotics using ROS 2 and your own affordable robot
11 by jackp510 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Solar-driven water splitting at 13.8% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency

Solar-driven water splitting at 13.8% solar-to-hydrogen efficiency
91 by Breadmaker | 78 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Open-Source Plastic Scanner

Open-Source Plastic Scanner
50 by giuliomagnifico | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ECB sees rising risk that housing bubble will burst

ECB sees rising risk that housing bubble will burst
75 by harambae | 77 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Learning Rust for Embedded Systems

Learning Rust for Embedded Systems
35 by tekkertje | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink

Chess Grandmaster Kasparov on Mob Mentality and Groupthink
74 by dandotway | 85 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I would like closure, but I'll take honesty

I would like closure, but I'll take honesty
76 by paulpauper | 41 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns

I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns
24 by indus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Vials Labeled ‘Smallpox’ Are Found in Pennsylvania Laboratory

Vials Labeled ‘Smallpox’ Are Found in Pennsylvania Laboratory
68 by gumby | 36 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks

TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks
31 by 0xedb | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages

Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages
281 by twapi | 44 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Cold War spy satellites were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert

Cold War spy satellites were calibrated with marks in the Arizona desert
32 by EricButton | 14 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Can beavers make our cities better?

Can beavers make our cities better?
17 by sysadm1n | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Palm oil favors tumor expansion

Palm oil favors tumor expansion
60 by kleiba | 44 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Things You Are Allowed to Do, Academic Edition

Things You Are Allowed to Do, Academic Edition
12 by Topolomancer | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Seattle residents launch Approval Voting initiative for representative elections [pdf]

Seattle residents launch Approval Voting initiative for representative elections [pdf]
14 by troydavis | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Accord (YC W20) – Repeatable sales and onboarding for B2B startups

Launch HN: Accord (YC W20) – Repeatable sales and onboarding for B2B startups
18 by rossrich | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN! I’m Ross, and alongside my brother / co-founder Ryan, we’re building Accord ( https://inaccord.com ) with the goal of making B2B sales suck less for buyers and sellers. Yep, sales... sometimes a dirty word in the startup community, but read on—it’s not what you think! I helped Stripe’s sales org go from a couple of us trying to find potential users, to scaling a 450-person global revenue machine. That rollercoaster of a learning curve turned all my ideas about sales on their head. At first I assumed that success in sales was based on someone’s ability to be a smooth talker, applying ad-hoc tricks, improvising each deal. Thousands of conversations and hundreds of deals at Stripe taught me the opposite: the key to personal success in winning deals, as well as the success of the entire sales org, is in building repeatable processes and iterating on them each day. What works best is not a cowboy operation with people winging it—it’s orderly, iterative, and actually more reminiscent of building great products. Jumping ahead a bit: the idea behind Accord is to take all those lessons and build them into a platform that sellers and buyers can immediately use, so you don’t have to learn the hard way like we did. A well-oiled B2B sales machine is surprisingly well-suited for software, so we built that software. We let you easily create a repeatable, collaborative sales process (even if you don’t have a background in sales), and that is really what helps you hit your revenue goals. Ok, so back to the wild world of startup sales and why I decided to leave Stripe after 4 amazing years. Well, similar to a lot of you, I truly felt the bar for B2B sales today sucked and wanted to use the tough lessons learned to level-up the experience, making sales more collaborative, transparent, and genuinely helpful. Every startup needs to sell, but very few do a decent job at it, and I think this is because many founders feel like they need to be born with amazing interpersonal skills. In reality, sales is more of a science than an art, and is much more accessible than founders think. For example: Customers don’t want to talk to sales reps. One of our wildest learnings is that 95% of the buying process is NOT spent with a seller. You get only 5% of the entire process to engage, so you’d better get it right. How? By partnering with customers to actually solve their problems. Not only that, but the average B2B sale involves 14+ people, and that’s only on the buyer’s side! You can imagine the inefficiency and crossed signals here. Even if you have the above all figured out, you need a system to reinforce this collaborative, buyer-first approach. You need to structure your sales the way you can structure engineering (Github), design (Figma), product (Jira). No matter what you try, you’re never going to see a real transformation in sales until you bring the buyer into the process. Accord provides a radically collaborative workspace that makes you look like seasoned sellers. We give you collaborative, customer-facing workspaces to drive alignment throughout the process; templated sales & onboarding playbooks; a Resource Hub for managing key deal documents, images, etc.; Engagement Insights (see how prospects are interacting with your process); Contextual Conversations— commenting system contextually attached to particular key parts in the sales process; integration with Slack & Salesforce plus integrations through Zapier - like Hubspot; and Smart Notifications(keep stakeholders informed by sending the right message or reminder at the right time). If you’re curious to try it out we offer free trials ( https://ift.tt/3CvjJhp ) and free sales consulting sessions from our founding team (Seed/Series A startups + Stripe, Shopify, Google Cloud). We'd love to hear if this resonates with your experience as either a seller or buyer of tech!

New top story on Hacker News: Out Past The Eye-Mark: On Anchorites

Out Past The Eye-Mark: On Anchorites
6 by ubac | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: TPM Sniffing

TPM Sniffing
22 by amenghra | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: CSS Is an Interface

CSS Is an Interface
12 by edent | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) Is Hiring a Security Dev Advocate, Full Stack/Back End Eng

Fuzzbuzz (YC W19) Is Hiring a Security Dev Advocate, Full Stack/Back End Eng
1 by andrei | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Daddy isn’t coming back

Daddy isn’t coming back
52 by chesterfield | 51 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A deep dive on load balancing algorithms

A deep dive on load balancing algorithms
18 by khalidlafi | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Dark Humor in the Dark Ages (2014)

Dark Humor in the Dark Ages (2014)
9 by diodorus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Ephemeral Postgres Databases

Ephemeral Postgres Databases
20 by sac2171 | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Web Scraping with Go

Web Scraping with Go
3 by daolf | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: ConstitutionDAO

ConstitutionDAO
27 by tosh | 17 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Comparing Julia to Performance Portable Parallel Programming Models for HPC [pdf]

Comparing Julia to Performance Portable Parallel Programming Models for HPC [pdf]
12 by leephillips | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column

Sed challenge: join cal -y months into a single column
4 by jolmg | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Forth vs Lisp

Forth vs Lisp
17 by monological | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The features that more cameras should have

The features that more cameras should have
14 by giuliomagnifico | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math

Three Sins of Authors in Computer Science and Math
34 by kcolford | 19 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A pitch that is music to the ears

A pitch that is music to the ears
7 by nickfrost | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms

XMPP, a Comeback Story: A Protocol for Robust, Private and Decentralized Comms
11 by upofadown | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: SSH – Spoofing FIDO2 Tokens

SSH – Spoofing FIDO2 Tokens
5 by student10000 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature

Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature
65 by trouthousetech | 59 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Prefix sum on portable compute shaders

Prefix sum on portable compute shaders
14 by raphlinus | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: When Young Elvis Met B.B. King

When Young Elvis Met B.B. King
7 by tintinnabula | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said

Scott Aaronson, when reached for comment, said
26 by feross | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What really happened at the Millennium Tower?

What really happened at the Millennium Tower?
37 by chmaynard | 15 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to Write a Computer Emulator

How to Write a Computer Emulator
2 by marcodiego | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Considering a Sphere

Considering a Sphere
6 by ColinWright | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: US-BR, a fork of US-intl for brazilian / portuguese programmers

Show HN: US-BR, a fork of US-intl for brazilian / portuguese programmers
6 by Kaze404 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
Hi. I've been using the US-intl keyboard layout for a while, as ABTN2 (the standard Brazilian Portuguese) layout treats ' and " as dead keys, which makes programming incredibly annoying for me. However, US-intl makes accented letters like ã, à and â annoying to type, requiring holding Alt as you press the respective keys. As a solution, I decided to make a small fork of US-intl that changes ~, ` and ^ to dead keys, while leaving ' and " as non-dead keys (as you can easily type á with Alt+a). It's nothing major or substantial, but I thought I'd share it in case some other brazilian / portuguese-speaking programmer might need it. You can find it here: https://ift.tt/3DrOdSw

New top story on Hacker News: The California Life of Czesław Miłosz

The California Life of Czesław Miłosz
5 by canthandle | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Netflix now sharing worldwide top10 viewing data with export options

Netflix now sharing worldwide top10 viewing data with export options
51 by Aissen | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8

Unicast Use of the Formerly Reserved 127/8
12 by todsacerdoti | 7 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Skittish: A playful space for online events

Skittish: A playful space for online events
5 by sillybilly | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Types of Parser Combinators

Types of Parser Combinators
12 by todsacerdoti | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript

Etsy’s Journey to TypeScript
19 by elorant | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring designers to build a universal banking API

Modern Treasury (YC S18) is hiring designers to build a universal banking API
1 by mattmarcus | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine

A 1980s space telescope may have seen planet nine
2 by starwind | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Automatically generating types for Cloudflare Workers

Automatically generating types for Cloudflare Workers
5 by tekkertje | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Security issues related to the NPM registry

Security issues related to the NPM registry
29 by ManuelKiessling | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Cache of documents declassified by the NRO for it's 60th anniversary

Cache of documents declassified by the NRO for it's 60th anniversary
18 by starwind | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers

List of 8000 security vulnerabilities in 1200 Wi-Fi routers
29 by ndata | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-Scale Datacenter Systems

The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture for Microsecond-Scale Datacenter Systems
11 by zdw | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: IBM Unveils Breakthrough 127-Qubit Quantum Processor

IBM Unveils Breakthrough 127-Qubit Quantum Processor
20 by ag8 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Outage Bingo

Show HN: Outage Bingo
62 by notamy | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: IoT Nixie Tubes

IoT Nixie Tubes
19 by todsacerdoti | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Error 404 (Not Found)

Error 404 (Not Found)
358 by fairytale | 152 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: “Let's Run The Experiment”: about DAOs and the future of organizations online

“Let's Run The Experiment”: about DAOs and the future of organizations online
11 by abecedarius | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Monday, November 15, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: OpenAPI fuzzer – fuzzing APIs based on OpenAPI specification

Show HN: OpenAPI fuzzer – fuzzing APIs based on OpenAPI specification
11 by matusf | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: C# 10 new feature CallerArgumentExpression

C# 10 new feature CallerArgumentExpression
5 by soheilpro | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Path (YC S19) is Hiring Engineers to automate gen z finance

Path (YC S19) is Hiring Engineers to automate gen z finance
1 by evanfarrell | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: My letter to Medicaid, appealing my child's Medicaid denial

My letter to Medicaid, appealing my child's Medicaid denial
16 by ivanech | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity

Databricks response to Snowflake's accusation of lacking integrity
143 by rxin | 59 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Stop Letting OKRs Masquerade as Strategy

Stop Letting OKRs Masquerade as Strategy
57 by asplake | 16 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Bottlenecks: Causes and Macroeconomic Implications

Bottlenecks: Causes and Macroeconomic Implications
5 by throw0101a | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Handling five billion sessions a day in real time

Handling five billion sessions a day in real time
11 by tansionline | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: YouTube Takes Down Independent Court Livestreams

YouTube Takes Down Independent Court Livestreams
149 by crocodiletears | 67 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale

The AMD “Aldebaran” GPU That Won Exascale
14 by jonbaer | 3 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Updates to the Twitter developer platform

Updates to the Twitter developer platform
26 by coloneltcb | 36 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: A rough proposal for sum types in Go, from a Rust compiler engineer

A rough proposal for sum types in Go, from a Rust compiler engineer
28 by isaacimagine | 5 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Teliva – an environment for end-user programming

Teliva – an environment for end-user programming
3 by escot | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: How to Scrape and Extract Hyperlink Networks with BeautifulSoup and NetworkX

How to Scrape and Extract Hyperlink Networks with BeautifulSoup and NetworkX
9 by spacejunkjim | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Dubious $56,000 Alzheimer’s drug spurs largest Medicare price hike ever

Dubious $56,000 Alzheimer’s drug spurs largest Medicare price hike ever
36 by samizdis | 13 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C

Show HN: Mako – a full Bitcoin implementation in C
18 by chjj | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: What a Naval Aviation Incident Can Teach Us About IT Incident Management

What a Naval Aviation Incident Can Teach Us About IT Incident Management
4 by kiyanwang | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: California needs clean firm power, and so does the rest of the world [pdf]

California needs clean firm power, and so does the rest of the world [pdf]
9 by p1mrx | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: FreeBSD quarterly status report for Q3 2021

FreeBSD quarterly status report for Q3 2021
15 by gautamcgoel | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day

Flint water crisis costs Michigan $600M. Preventing would have cost $80/day
31 by rbanffy | 14 comments on Hacker News.