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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works? 448 by farleykr | 173 comments on Hacker News. I've tried several times to understand the vocabulary and concepts of electricity - basic things like volts, amps, resistance - but I'm not having much success with self-led study. Can anyone recommend any good videos, books, courses, etc.? Thank you.
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups?

Ask HN: A way to adblock “we're using cookies” popups? 517 by rayalez | 232 comments on Hacker News. Whatever the intent of the GDPR was, the practical result is that now I have to click away the annoying "we're using cookies" popup on every website. Is there any way to do this automatically? If there isn't - there should be. Maybe people should use some special tag for them, so that it would be easy for users to block them on all the websites, if they want to.
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare?

Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare? 641 by tech4all | 178 comments on Hacker News. My wife will be undergoing significant oral surgery in a few weeks and there is a SMALL chance she may lose the ability to speak. I'd like to prepare, just in case, to have technology to reproduce her voice from keyboard or other input. My ideal would be an open source "deepfake toolkit" that allows me to provide pre-recorded samples of her speech and then TTS in her voice. Unfortunately most articles and tools I'm finding are anti-deepfake. Any recommendations? Fallback would be recording her speaking "phonetic pangrams" and then using her pre-recorded phonemes to recreate speech that sounds like her. I feel like the deepfake toolkit is the way to go. Appreciate any recommendations... There must be open source tools for this??
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New best story on Hacker News: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old 420 by paraschopra | 35 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, I'm Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We're an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009. As a 22 year old fresh out of college, I had launched an early prototype of a marketing platform in 2009 here, got initial users from HN (including patio11) who gave their feedback that my product was trying to do too many things. Their inputs are what that led me to focusing on one thing (A/B testing) and that's how I built and launched "Visual Website Optimizer"(now called VWO). Here's that Show HN thread from 2009: https://ift.tt/2ofrYNQ I can't thank this community enough - without Hacker News, VWO wouldn't have existed. Today, we're a team of 250+ people and seen that initial "Show HN" grow into a $20mn+ bootstrapped business (no VC funding). If anyone's interested in reading more, I've blogged this jour
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020) 490 by whoishiring | 500 comments on Hacker News. Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per company, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something—it's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: Try https://ift.tt/2Yk5tc6 , https://ift.tt/2Ib3ASF , https://hnhired.com/ , https://ift.tt/1ZbOG0z , https://ift.tt/1RJIwB2 . Don't miss these other fine threads: Who wants to be hired? https://ift.tt/2Xl2cXK and Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://ift.tt/36N2ycX Note that these threads are paginated and usually end up with seve
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New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers?

Ask HN: Best books under 200 pages for developers? 516 by erkanerol | 93 comments on Hacker News. Most of the highly recommended books for software developers are about 400 pages. Sometimes I want to start and finish a book in a weekend and 400 is too much for me. Which books under 200 pages do you recommend to software developers? Bonus: Best non-tech books under 200 pages https://ift.tt/36MPnsd
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