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It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it 572 by leoff | 464 comments on Hacker News. The end of the year is coming, and I have some funds left from my company learning budget. I wanted to give it back to some of the authors that still help me in my developer journey, by buying some of their work online and hopefully contributing to their income, but the following happened: 1. I went to Amazon, since I have a kindle and didn't want to buy physical books. Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books, so I started buying them one by one. My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them. After a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity, and ALL my kindle library is wiped, and the funds are returned to my company. 2. Not wanting to give up, I go to a different online store, Thalia, to buy the books again. After buying them, I download the files, which a...

Draw SVG rope using JavaScript 802 by stankot | 47 comments on Hacker News.

A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network 741 by baptiste313 | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default 710 by withinboredom | 337 comments on Hacker News.

Pelé has died 679 by mfiguiere | 213 comments on Hacker News.

Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround 654 by AlbertCory | 342 comments on Hacker News.

Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job 653 by sbuccini | 381 comments on Hacker News.

US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf] 609 by diimdeep | 373 comments on Hacker News.

How to Befriend Crows 547 by karmanyaahm | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 530 by graderjs | 108 comments on Hacker News. Hope your 2023’s great. I’m sorry for all of you that were laid off or affected by the virus or lockdowns. Next year will be better! Keep the faith!

“Nobody cares about your blog” 564 by barry-cotter | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation 575 by hazebooth | 108 comments on Hacker News.

Merry Christmas, HN 704 by Thorentis | 108 comments on Hacker News. Just wanted to wish everybody here a Merry Christmas. HN is one of those Internet communities which I would be the saddest to see go, even looking back on other communities in which I've participated over the years. I see many posts here about loneliness, nihilism, friendships (or lack thereof) and just wanted to let everybody here know that life is never hopeless, and there are always people who care, even if they're thousands of miles away. Please reach out to loved ones this season and let them know you love them. Life is short, and you never know when the last time you'll be wishing somebody a Merry Christmas will be. I wish you all the very best for 2023.

I am done. I give up 625 by wakana | 353 comments on Hacker News. I'm writing this post because I'm done. I can't do this anymore. After three failed attempts at building a successful startup and spending time institutionalized, I'm giving up on my entrepreneurship dreams. I tried everything - building an audience, making sure my product actually solved a problem, getting paying customers, and writing high-quality content and contributing to the community. But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere. My efforts were fruitless and I'm tired of trying. I barely had 20 followers, my substack and product blogs didn't get any signups, and while I did get a few upvotes (8) on Product Hunt once, I never had a paid customer. It was as if the world was against me and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress. I remember trying to interact and hype up my fellow indiehackers on Twitter, regularly engaging with their content, but no o...

Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 568 by pierremenard | 51 comments on Hacker News.

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location 540 by alphabetting | 255 comments on Hacker News.

UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol 468 by mikece | 103 comments on Hacker News.

Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift 460 by geox | 362 comments on Hacker News.

Welcome to Comprehensive Rust 452 by eecc | 164 comments on Hacker News.

WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers 409 by RebootStr | 273 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I store my critical secrets and document, and communicate privately 393 by mprime1 | 160 comments on Hacker News.

Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen 376 by nazgulsenpai | 134 comments on Hacker News.

Did insurance fire brigades let uninsured buildings burn? 372 by zinekeller | 401 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions 368 by josephcsible | 169 comments on Hacker News.

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all 670 by CharlesW | 363 comments on Hacker News.

Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer 593 by 04rob | 560 comments on Hacker News.

Spotifyd 696 by fahrradflucht | 218 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas 819 by ericax | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative 741 by ryzvonusef | 1422 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s? 655 by Deutscher | 391 comments on Hacker News. I know the best of my life is behind me, but I need help salvaging what's left of it. I've been meaning to ask for help for a couple of years now, but only now got around to it after being scared by my first real suicidal ideation a few nights ago. HN is probably not a suitable platform for this, but /r/advice seems to be not very active and I can't post on /adv/ due to some IP range ban. There are no mental health facilities in the small town where I live. I let my professional network decay and die, and there is literally nowhere else I can get any kind of useful, actionable advice. I'm a 43-years-old single guy, NEET for the past decade. I got my Master's in the US in the late 2000s and was gainfully employed there for a few years (NOT in my field of education; long story) until I had to return to my home country to take care of my ailing father. He p...

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll 610 by calcifer | 566 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter suspends pg's account 932 by operatingthetan | 549 comments on Hacker News.

Paul Graham is leaving Twitter 636 by sanketpatrikar | 524 comments on Hacker News.

Promotion of alternative social platforms policy 618 by ttepasse | 484 comments on Hacker News.

OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out 447 by sadiq | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned 474 by _fizz_buzz_ | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Autopsy-based characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination 491 by Octokiddie | 619 comments on Hacker News.

John Carmack Leaves Meta 615 by viburnum | 363 comments on Hacker News.

A Linux Evening 543 by ingve | 241 comments on Hacker News.

Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports 537 by mfiguiere | 613 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter applies 7-day suspension to prominent journalists 630 by prawn | 716 comments on Hacker News.

Htmx in a Nutshell 631 by tosh | 387 comments on Hacker News.

Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate Music 684 by MitPitt | 132 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account 686 by SXX | 1059 comments on Hacker News.

A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003 666 by malerba118 | 181 comments on Hacker News.

SvelteKit 1.0 668 by theodorejb | 223 comments on Hacker News.

ElonJet Is Now Suspended 695 by ffsoftboiled | 535 comments on Hacker News.

Recursive Game of Life 554 by alden5 | 77 comments on Hacker News.

After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires 552 by robin_reala | 331 comments on Hacker News.

LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing 540 by spking | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11 534 by thibautg | 645 comments on Hacker News.

Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal 535 by jger15 | 615 comments on Hacker News.

US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved 723 by novateg | 380 comments on Hacker News.

Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab 697 by zackoverflow | 596 comments on Hacker News.

SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities 680 by zone411 | 427 comments on Hacker News.

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer 652 by sonabinu | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Just use Postgres for everything 631 by KingOfCoders | 371 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe 547 by starsep | 321 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub” and users are being punished 546 by 2Gkashmiri | 291 comments on Hacker News. The offending website "nopecha.com", which unfortunately i found about a week ago on HN itself appeared to be another captcha service but one that was offering "1 Sec" solve speed for text captchas. i was interested and by the looks of it, a lot of people. their webisite only had "sign in with google" so i didnt bother. The day before i check the website out of boredom and saw "sign in with github". i logged in, clicked through a bunch of pages because its the same drill everytime. i found out that i had "automatically starred their repos". by the looks of it, around 500 "stars", the last i saw. suddenly i am unable to log in to my github and the page just says "account suspended." contacted their support and the last response i got from them was "your ban should stay as you engaged in ...

Finding the B-21's hanger location from the stars in its press image 497 by johnmcelhone | 149 comments on Hacker News.

You don't need live chat on your website 467 by 5amdotis | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Apple kills plans to scan for CSAM in iCloud 628 by ashton314 | 313 comments on Hacker News.

100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth 452 by sizzle | 145 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable 630 by 9dev | 542 comments on Hacker News. Our Hosting provider, Hetzner, has recently started charging for public IPv4 addresses - as they should! Those numbers started getting expensive. This prompted me to try and set up a new server cluster using IPv6 exclusively, and see how far I could get before having to give in and purchase an additional v4 address. The experiment ended much sooner than I had anticipated. Some of the road blocks I hit along the way: - The GitHub API and its code load endpoints are not reachable via IPv6, making it impossible to download release artefacts from many projects, lots of which distribute their software via GitHub exclusively (Prometheus for instance). - The default Ubuntu key servers aren't reachable via IPv6, making it difficult to install packages from third-party registries, such as Docker or Grafana. While debugging, I noticed huge swaths of the GPG infrastructure are defunct: There aren't...

Chris Seaton has died 516 by iluzone | 184 comments on Hacker News.

I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language 525 by Schiphol | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups 686 by frizlab | 528 comments on Hacker News.

Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux 550 by sohkamyung | 205 comments on Hacker News.

Open-source hospital price transparency 495 by sl-dolt | 182 comments on Hacker News.

Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game 485 by danso | 183 comments on Hacker News.

Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting 468 by bertman | 422 comments on Hacker News.

Mac OS 9 491 by Shank | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location 473 by matteocontrini | 294 comments on Hacker News.

Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software 446 by mdswanson | 267 comments on Hacker News.

The War on General Purpose Computing (2015) [video] 432 by tosh | 244 comments on Hacker News.

Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet? 456 by jasonhansel | 344 comments on Hacker News.

Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT 702 by 317070 | 396 comments on Hacker News.

Puter 633 by 6581 | 142 comments on Hacker News.

The Twitter Files 522 by lost1 | 760 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks 497 by tpetry | 127 comments on Hacker News.

Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo 490 by nixcraft | 855 comments on Hacker News.

People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life” 594 by isp | 277 comments on Hacker News.

Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought 616 by Brajeshwar | 1057 comments on Hacker News.

Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet 654 by stale2002 | 617 comments on Hacker News.

TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia 517 by ZinedineF | 394 comments on Hacker News.