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Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo 586 by bears-n-beets | 213 comments on Hacker News. I was actively using the app on my phone and it suddenly crashed at 4:10pm PDT. I thought it was just my phone acting up but then I realized that’s about 12am UTC. With the death of Apollo also goes the metaphorical death of all the best parts (IMO) of the internet: open-source, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit. Sad day. I guess I’ll go outside now. Edit: sorry, Apollo wasn’t open source. That’s what happens when I make a post while two beers deep I guess. Hopefully you get the general spirit of what I was trying to convey.

Twitter now requires an account to view tweets 572 by celsoazevedo | 571 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers 452 by prhrb | 812 comments on Hacker News.

Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library 428 by janandonly | 77 comments on Hacker News.

Terrible real estate agent photographs 431 by thunderbong | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs 392 by dloreto | 212 comments on Hacker News.

The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition 431 by 0x54MUR41 | 110 comments on Hacker News.

Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions 437 by rbrown | 662 comments on Hacker News.

FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans 488 by cwwc | 278 comments on Hacker News.

We raised a bunch of money 556 by charliermarsh | 408 comments on Hacker News.

The hidden cost of air quality monitoring 517 by ahaucnx | 245 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Mofi – Content-aware fill for audio to change a song to any duration 653 by jaflo | 154 comments on Hacker News. I worked on a web service that allows you to import a song and define a target length that the song will be shortened or lengthened to. It does this by analyzing the song and finding repeating audio patterns. This is helpful for making any song match a video or performance with a set duration. You can also specify areas of the song to prefer or avoid. An example is available here: https://ift.tt/Q43xhW0... The cool thing is that after the song is analyzed on the server, the client can recompute and preview the results completely client-side through an implementation that uses Web Workers and WebAssembly. The audio previewing uses Tone.js. I am thinking of writing up some more details about the implementation in the future. I'm still working on a way to explain this easily, but I like the idea of carrying over the concept of content-aware fill from images to a

I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux) 505 by stargrave | 382 comments on Hacker News.

The Password Game 715 by kretaceous | 299 comments on Hacker News.

Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default 690 by mfwit | 501 comments on Hacker News.

macOS command-line tools you might not know about 699 by Gadiguibou | 210 comments on Hacker News.

Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data 638 by x1sec | 262 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, this is my efforts in reverse engineering a BLE car battery monitor where it's app has over 100,000 downloads on the Google Play store alone. It turns out it's sending GPS, cell phone tower cell IDs and Wifi beacon data to servers in Hong Kong and mainland China on a continued basis. Google and Apple app store pages say no personal data is collected or sent to 3rd parties. Hopefully readers pick up a few tips on reversing apps for their connected devices.

Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings 638 by matan-h | 226 comments on Hacker News.

XML is the future 505 by tannhaeuser | 291 comments on Hacker News.

Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks 473 by lucasv07 | 743 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser 455 by xitang | 145 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I recently created and published an open-source resume builder as a weekend project. The idea came to me while I was mentoring students and noticing common mistakes they made in their resumes that I had also made in the past. I thought to build a tool to help people easily create a modern professional resume with built-in best practices to avoid those mistakes. Top highlights of the resume builder are: 1. Real time UI update as you type 2. ATS friendly to top ATS platforms, e.g. Greenhouse, Lever 3. Privacy focus - no sign up is required and data is stored locally in browser that only users have access 4. Support import from existing resume PDF The tool also includes a resume parser to help people test their existing resumes’ ATS readability if they might not be interested in using the builder. I also explained the parser algorithm in an article with interactive tables that might be an

The 'fuck you' pattern 424 by keepamovin | 310 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor 443 by arek_nawo | 127 comments on Hacker News. Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when logged in) - GPT-3.5 integration (only when logged-in with the corresponding extension installed) Stack used: TipTap, Solid.js, HocusPocus, Fastify, tRPC. Some notable drawbacks: - No mobile support - Collaboration available only between signed-in users, in the same workspace; - I tried

Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located 586 by ingve | 180 comments on Hacker News.

Try: run a command and inspect its effects before changing your live system 574 by espressoRunner | 107 comments on Hacker News.

The rule says, “No vehicles in the park” 531 by luu | 361 comments on Hacker News.

Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened? 525 by dceddia | 498 comments on Hacker News.

Anime.js – A lightweight JavaScript animation library 464 by doodlesdev | 110 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video] 440 by reaperman | 259 comments on Hacker News.

Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits 424 by dredmorbius | 300 comments on Hacker News.

Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business 386 by Jthink | 136 comments on Hacker News.

FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ Prime sign-up and cancellation process 371 by geekrax | 238 comments on Hacker News.

GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params 374 by georgehill | 203 comments on Hacker News.

How to do the thing you've been avoiding 435 by duck | 191 comments on Hacker News.

Maps distort how we see the world 417 by yarapavan | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Making Figma better for developers with Dev Mode 404 by emilsjolander | 166 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube: Sort by oldest is back baby 394 by stefanos82 | 172 comments on Hacker News. I was navigating around YouTube and found a channel I wanted to watch its most popular videos and have noticed they added back the oldest option!

Style your RSS feed 402 by captn3m0 | 133 comments on Hacker News.

A daytime nap is good for the brain 413 by andsoitis | 210 comments on Hacker News.

“Exit traps” can make your Bash scripts more robust and reliable (2013) 529 by ekiauhce | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated 484 by el_hacker | 99 comments on Hacker News.

A single line of code made a 24-core server slower than a laptop (2021) 515 by xk3 | 162 comments on Hacker News.

PostgreSQL reconsiders its process-based model 595 by todsacerdoti | 256 comments on Hacker News.

OpenLLM 573 by fzliu | 150 comments on Hacker News.

The note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen 562 by lewisflude | 455 comments on Hacker News.

Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet 561 by campuscodi | 194 comments on Hacker News.

European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries 705 by gumby | 593 comments on Hacker News.

Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit 559 by hubraumhugo | 342 comments on Hacker News.

Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps 616 by mhh__ | 188 comments on Hacker News.

Daniel Ellsberg has died 600 by lgvln | 220 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews 588 by el_hacker | 293 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments 562 by kaimac | 321 comments on Hacker News.

Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews can’t be trusted 527 by gnicholas | 309 comments on Hacker News.

My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do 653 by jandeboevrie | 743 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private 639 by Jimmc414 | 385 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts 549 by stalfosknight | 508 comments on Hacker News.

Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates 530 by Brajeshwar | 341 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely 564 by rajeevk | 619 comments on Hacker News.

Native JSON Output from GPT-4 570 by yonom | 239 comments on Hacker News.

First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources 571 by larsiusprime | 550 comments on Hacker News.

The Reddit blackout will continue 543 by taubek | 520 comments on Hacker News.

Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit – and why users revolted 545 by tedivm | 560 comments on Hacker News.

Cormac McCarthy has died 544 by benbreen | 241 comments on Hacker News.

AWS us-east-1 down 558 by rurp | 250 comments on Hacker News. The status page says everything is fine though.

Comic Mono 530 by lolinder | 107 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit 517 by cryoz | 363 comments on Hacker News. Today's subreddit strike showed me just how reliant I've become on reddit including my local subreddits and adding site:reddit.com to all my web searches. Going forward, are there any good comprehensive alternatives to reddit?

Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration 582 by gzer0 | 239 comments on Hacker News.

BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due 554 by tambourine_man | 139 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years 564 by jjcm | 208 comments on Hacker News. Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported network doesn't have alignment between the needs of the users and the needs of the platform, which is what drove me to make this. Because this is a soft launch, if you do subscribe I'd encourage you not to pay for the time being. I'm still testing th

Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in California 450 by belter | 727 comments on Hacker News.

Archive your Reddit data before it's too late 451 by xavdid | 376 comments on Hacker News.

Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid 526 by ricksunny | 505 comments on Hacker News.

Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access? 602 by xednir | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit Strike Has Started 606 by Freddie111 | 532 comments on Hacker News.

Ted Kaczynski has died 503 by mfiguiere | 502 comments on Hacker News.

Debian 12 “Bookworm” 496 by Chatting | 186 comments on Hacker News.

ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links 515 by susanthenerd | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch 550 by zdw | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Average color of the NYC sky every 5 minutes 519 by sethbannon | 108 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA 586 by coloneltcb | 443 comments on Hacker News.

The Last Egg 573 by focusedone | 166 comments on Hacker News.

iOS 17 automatically removes tracking parameters from links you click on 595 by belfalas | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Apollo will close down on June 30th 1094 by timf | 462 comments on Hacker News.

Notes on Vision Pro 558 by firloop | 663 comments on Hacker News.

Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English 560 by TonyTrapp | 319 comments on Hacker News.

Deepmind Alphadev: Faster sorting algorithms discovered using deep RL 545 by anjneymidha | 169 comments on Hacker News.

US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles 542 by bloak | 1042 comments on Hacker News.

Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami 552 by kencausey | 133 comments on Hacker News.

Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics 585 by robinhouston | 268 comments on Hacker News.

GGML – AI at the Edge 617 by georgehill | 177 comments on Hacker News.

Reddit’s plan to kill third-party apps sparks widespread protests 633 by thunderbong | 358 comments on Hacker News.

GPT Best Practices 569 by yla92 | 174 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer 627 by samwillis | 561 comments on Hacker News.

Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat 508 by prhrb | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest 436 by goplayoutside | 176 comments on Hacker News. As you may be aware, there is an upcoming protest[0] on June 12-14 where many subreddits[1] are going private for 48 hours in protest of reddit's API fee increase[2][3], which many expect will lead to the end of all third party apps. I moderate a few subreddits for a niche hobby, and decided to join the protest. We're fairly small, if non-negligible potatos: altogether, maybe 10k-15k active users on a busy day, but still want to show support. So, I commented to add the subs to the list[1] and made announcement posts based on the template[4] linked from r/modcoord. Several minutes later, the site logged me out. I received an email from reddit that said my account had been locked for "suspicious activity" and I would need to reset my password. The timing seemed curious, but as I was logged in over an Airbnb's wifi, I figured it could be le

Generative AI learning path 407 by sh_tomer | 107 comments on Hacker News.

The Rust I wanted had no future 443 by dochtman | 181 comments on Hacker News.

WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022) 408 by thunderbong | 304 comments on Hacker News.

DreamBerd is a perfect programming language 409 by Davidbrcz | 130 comments on Hacker News.

Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough 365 by cendyne | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS 383 by rarbgipfs | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them? 398 by Twixes | 174 comments on Hacker News.

GPS (2022) 362 by tkiolp4 | 32 comments on Hacker News.

How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap 353 by sebg | 93 comments on Hacker News.

Fq: Jq for Binary Formats 437 by ingve | 68 comments on Hacker News.

California spent $17B on homelessness – it’s not working 394 by mfiguiere | 933 comments on Hacker News.

Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases 378 by isaacfrond | 399 comments on Hacker News.

The greatest risk of AI is from the people who control it, not the tech itself 613 by nickwritesit | 499 comments on Hacker News.

Notes apps are where ideas go to die (2022) 644 by pps | 202 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup 695 by koch | 72 comments on Hacker News. My designer is somewhat special, if I do say so myself, as it allows you to put arbitrary designs in the middle area of the QR while still being totally scannable.