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SomaFM 542 by Datenstrom | 128 comments on Hacker News.

So I Took a Corporation to Arbitration 550 by snapetom | 260 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around 507 by RoseBuckler | 269 comments on Hacker News. I've been programming on and off since the age of 16. Unfortunately, I have never been a rockstar programmer. I've always pieced code together from multiple sources to create programs but I've always failed to come up with a solution from scratch of my own and provide any value. I've always wondered how other smart people are able to come up with libraries, services and various solutions from scratch. I've devised countless ideas only to never execute them for various reasons or get started with them only to never fully complete them and see it all the way through. I've already wasted my entire teens and 20s, current 28 years old, working as a software engineer (Full-Stack) at a startup for ~4 years. I've been feeling like a loser and not good enough for this career even though I am a sole developer for Mobile and Web platforms at this startup in ...

Fox News Breaking News Alert Number of dead rises after devastating tornadoes, Kentucky governor announces 12/13/21 7:52 AM

Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached 503 by avielb | 212 comments on Hacker News.

Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM 438 by dreamcompiler | 252 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How to learn math from zero for adults? 433 by stArrow | 140 comments on Hacker News. I am a 26 year old learner who is really into Machine Learning. But my lack of understanding in math has held me back. Skipping and hating math classes in high school have been my biggest regret. Now, I am slowly trying to learn, but I don't know where to start. I need some guidance.

Reasons to ditch Chrome and use Firefox 565 by ddtaylor | 375 comments on Hacker News.

Terraform should have remained stateless 371 by ricardbejarano | 300 comments on Hacker News.

Marginalia Goes Open Source 339 by georgehill | 71 comments on Hacker News.

GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor 486 by rdpintqogeogsaa | 333 comments on Hacker News.

What did Earth look like X million years ago? 496 by hwayne | 110 comments on Hacker News.

My students cheated... a lot 625 by benjyhirsch | 550 comments on Hacker News.

Neon – Serverless Postgres 544 by nikolay | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Knots 3D – Learn how to tie over 150 useful knots 510 by kosasbest | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B 547 by squidofbits | 362 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec 485 by jacobgorm | 138 comments on Hacker News. Before the pandemic, my tiny startup was doing quite well selling Edge AI systems, based on our own lightweight AI inference engine, with object detection and face recognition for smart city and smart retail & food service applications. When the real world shut down, there was suddenly nothing to monitor on streets and in restaurants, so I set out to try and evolve our real time face recognition system into a video codec for high quality face-to-face online interactions, as I was not satisfied with the quality of Zoom and friends. I got it to work, and the first release for IOS was just approved on Apple's app store, link: https://ift.tt/bfZ39Ks The way it works is that you create a meeting URL, which you can share out-of-band, for instance via slack or text message. You can also share as a QR code which the app can scan to join a call. You then place your device on a surf...

SQLite 3 Fiddle 545 by sgbeal | 89 comments on Hacker News.

Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor 530 by colinprince | 131 comments on Hacker News.

Learnings from 5 years of tech startup code audits 509 by lordofmoria | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: I made $1000 with my app and now making $500/mo 450 by strongpigeon | 141 comments on Hacker News. Edit: Wow #1 on HN. Y'all are making my day. Hey HN, I'm mostly a lurker on HN who's always super inspired by other people's small project that end-up making money. (Huge fan of Ben Stoke's Tiny Project [0]) After being burnt-out in big tech, I decided to write my own weightlifting app and set myself a humble goal of reaching $1000 in total proceeds. See [1] for my initial launch post. I've now surpassed that goal and am now making about 500$/mo by selling premium features in the app. Android version is coming soon too. Doing the whole thing end-to-end (code, launch, marketing, support) was super gratifying and taught me a whole lot. I have to admit that I got almost teary eyed the first time someone bought one of my IAPs. I'm not making a killing out of the app, and that was never the goal. But the personal satisfaction I got out of it was worth ev...

FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting 512 by averysmallbird | 146 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? 479 by jharohit | 1269 comments on Hacker News. I have usually kept a short list of games that would be fun if they existed. Long ago one my bullets in the list was a procedurally generated planet-sized planet with a full diaspora to explore. No Man's Sky fulfilled that for me. What are some games that you wish existed?

Starlink for RVs 515 by kristianpaul | 490 comments on Hacker News.

Donald Knuth on work habits, problem solving, and happiness (2020) 598 by Thursday24 | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Finland’s Green Party endorses nuclear power 433 by robin_reala | 282 comments on Hacker News.

Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) 533 by memorable | 382 comments on Hacker News.

How This Ends 468 by imartin2k | 667 comments on Hacker News.

Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model 716 by keveman | 509 comments on Hacker News.

Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux 650 by taviso | 73 comments on Hacker News.

Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old 628 by benbreen | 324 comments on Hacker News.

“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti 569 by coolwulf | 181 comments on Hacker News.

9-Euro-Ticket 585 by _Microft | 423 comments on Hacker News.

Outhorse Your Email 643 by eorri | 109 comments on Hacker News.

YC W22 Stablegains is being sued for losing $42m in funds from 4878 customers 561 by donsupreme | 342 comments on Hacker News.

I'm an addict 494 by tarunreddy | 485 comments on Hacker News.

Why Google is so unbearable, and how to fix it 467 by ixnus | 415 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Bike – macOS Native Outliner 498 by jessegrosjean | 232 comments on Hacker News. Bike’s most original feature is the “fluid” text editing. Lots of text editors have animated some interactions (cursor movement, insert newline, etc), but I think Bike is the first designed from the ground up to support fluid editing. Give it a try, it feels different. (movie on home page if you don't have Mac) Other Features: • In text mode Bike works like a normal text editor. In outline mode rows are constrained to outline hierarchy. • .bike file format is HTML subset, so files are easy to parse and manipulate. Bike also supports .opml and .txt. • Scriptable via AppleScript. Javascript plugin API also expected in future, though no timing on that. • Architecture needed to support fluid editing also makes Bike faster/more scalable than most (all?) outliners and many text editors. I test performance using the Moby Dick Workout[^1]. Implementation Notes: • View is built using CALayers[^2]. •...

The new and upgraded Framework Laptop 513 by etbusch | 229 comments on Hacker News.

I spent two years launching tiny projects 551 by tinyprojects | 121 comments on Hacker News.

Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore 497 by Tomte | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Using a "proper" camera as a webcam 483 by ltratt | 423 comments on Hacker News.

Inkscape 1.2 released 493 by jarek-foksa | 216 comments on Hacker News.

Nearly 20% of active Twitter accounts likely to be fake or spam 499 by iamflimflam1 | 391 comments on Hacker News.

Web3 is expensive P2P 495 by mritzmann | 355 comments on Hacker News.

Modern JavaScript Tutorial 524 by Hbruz0 | 98 comments on Hacker News.

I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone 638 by erohead | 474 comments on Hacker News.

Taking a Break from Social Media Makes You Happier and Less Anxious 581 by yarapavan | 396 comments on Hacker News.

Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem 577 by benjojo12 | 295 comments on Hacker News.

Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots 575 by m-i-l | 328 comments on Hacker News.

Fly.io: The reclaimer of Heroku's magic 495 by sealeck | 273 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter Deal Temporarily on Hold 638 by palebluedot | 1163 comments on Hacker News.

Map of Reddit 693 by penneyd | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Maps location scan spikes WiFi latency every 60 seconds 665 by ivank | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is anyone else glad the crypto market is crashing? 603 by blueberrychpstx | 614 comments on Hacker News. Obviously it's bad if people lose their entire life savings and all that dead horse beating disclaimer stuff. I fancy myself as a somewhat esoteric idea person, and so when I first discovered cryptocurrency a few years ago, I was very excited to explore the mind bending ways we can build __NEW__ things. Instead, JPEGs and skeuomorphic representations of traditional financial vehicles in web3 space. I'm hoping this crash and those in the future rid the space of the toxic backrooms these $30,000 jpegs provide access to and get us to collectively work on building really exciting cool new things. What do you all think?

DeepMind: A Generalist Agent 489 by extr | 335 comments on Hacker News.

The Apple GPU and the impossible bug 668 by stefan_ | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did 781 by EGreg | 898 comments on Hacker News.

Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pilot incapacitated 780 by prostoalex | 466 comments on Hacker News.

Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework 759 by colinclerk | 138 comments on Hacker News.

Coinbase warns that bankruptcy could wipe out user funds 676 by okasaki | 435 comments on Hacker News.

The ACLU Has Lost Its Way 742 by tysone | 899 comments on Hacker News.

Apple is discontinuing the iPod 652 by minimaxir | 502 comments on Hacker News.

Nvidia transitioning to official, open-source Linux GPU kernel driver 883 by ghishadow | 186 comments on Hacker News.

We need a middle class for startups 693 by thanedar | 243 comments on Hacker News.

No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me 717 by techsin101 | 297 comments on Hacker News. Spoiler: rant. I don't know what happened exactly but I'm pretty sure it's the lack of dislike stats, that now my suggestions and home page of youtube is filled, and I mean FILLEDDD!, with videos that have 4k stock clips, catchy title, but completely lacking in content. Misleading 100%. Not 1, not 2, but like 8/10 videos are now garbage stock footage with bs commentary over nothing. Example: Nasa just discovered truth about solar system!?!?!?! Science has progressed a lot in last 100 years.... So and so first discovered pluto in 1xxx Mayans used to think balbala... Some historians think.... Now scientist finally have answered.... New evidence (2014 research) shows there might be a planet ... No explanation of study because you know it actually requires some comprehension... Insert failed attempt at humor... Leave a comment on your thoughts.. =========== Same script, like 8th...

I'm all-in on server-side SQLite 669 by dpeck | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Everything with a battery should have an off switch 619 by danso | 426 comments on Hacker News.

PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities 606 by thunderbong | 285 comments on Hacker News.

Apple's Director of Machine Learning Resigns Due to Return to Office Work 558 by carlycue | 306 comments on Hacker News.

When I tell the Windows Terminal team something is simple, I am "misguided" 592 by moritonal | 421 comments on Hacker News.

Please stop disabling zoom 601 by zachflower | 300 comments on Hacker News.

Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it 505 by charlieirish | 297 comments on Hacker News.

Why do you waste so much time on the internet? 693 by memorable | 368 comments on Hacker News.

7GUIs 627 by miguelrochefort | 104 comments on Hacker News.

Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash 671 by patneedham | 215 comments on Hacker News.

Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf] 653 by insamniac | 802 comments on Hacker News.

IBM's Asshole Test 588 by johnpublic | 513 comments on Hacker News.

The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures 561 by zachlloyd | 543 comments on Hacker News.

What are your most used self-hosted applications? 520 by geeked | 326 comments on Hacker News.

Mechanical Watch 1134 by todsacerdoti | 160 comments on Hacker News.

Tailscale raises $100M 581 by gmemstr | 310 comments on Hacker News.

OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models 441 by MasterScrat | 219 comments on Hacker News.

I won free load testing 448 by 0xedb | 131 comments on Hacker News.

DALL-E 2 open source implementation 503 by jonas_kgomo | 147 comments on Hacker News.

Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal 582 by behnamoh | 245 comments on Hacker News.

Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act” 606 by raybb | 166 comments on Hacker News.

Noto emoji, a new black and white emoji font with less color 528 by Vinnl | 144 comments on Hacker News.

We think this cool study we found is flawed. Help us reproduce it 639 by colinprince | 301 comments on Hacker News.

How to professionally say 639 by ghostfoxgod | 308 comments on Hacker News.

I accidentally loaned all my money to the US government 625 by beanlog | 374 comments on Hacker News.