Friday, 30 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo

Apollo is dead. Long live Apollo
565 by bears-n-beets | 198 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.

New best story on Hacker News: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
558 by celsoazevedo | 557 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers

YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad blockers
447 by prhrb | 807 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Annas Archive: Open-source data library

Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library
447 by janandonly | 84 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, 29 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Type-safe K-sortable globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

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


New best story on Hacker News: Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam

Valve bans games using AI generated graphics or text from Steam
440 by Wouter33 | 249 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The Awk Programming Language Second Edition

The Awk Programming Language, Second Edition
429 by 0x54MUR41 | 109 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions

Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions
420 by rbrown | 643 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Plastics are poisoning us

Plastics are poisoning us
417 by fortran77 | 496 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: FedEx Accused of Largest Odometer Rollback Fraud in History with Used Vans

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


Tuesday, 27 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)

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


New best story on Hacker News: The Password Game

The Password Game
708 by kretaceous | 296 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default
682 by mfwit | 493 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: macOS command-line tools you might not know about

macOS command-line tools you might not know about
662 by Gadiguibou | 197 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data

Discovering that a Bluetooth car battery monitor is siphoning location data
636 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.

Sunday, 25 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
450 by xitang | 144 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 interesting read to see the steps and logics it uses ( https://ift.tt/R3wOKQy ). I hope others might find this tool useful and I look forward to hearing any feedback the community has. Thanks all. Home Page: https://open-resume.com Github Repo: https://ift.tt/t6oQUrl Product Hunt: https://ift.tt/7bYp2xP

New best story on Hacker News: The 'fuck you' pattern

The 'fuck you' pattern
432 by keepamovin | 316 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: An open-source collaborative WYSIWYG Markdown editor

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 my best to support most common Markdown formatting, pasting and in-editor shortcuts, though there might still be room for improvement - Self-hosting isn't easy right now, though you should be able to figure it out from the source code The editor itself is a standalone app, extracted from the larger Vrite CMS project ( https://ift.tt/1AMDrVu ) which you can also test out (only with sign-in) here: https://app.vrite.io/

New best story on Hacker News: Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located

Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located
556 by ingve | 175 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, 22 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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


New best story on Hacker News: Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?

Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
396 by thepbone | 208 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business

Mistakes to avoid to build a better 1-person business
384 by Jthink | 135 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: FTC sues Amazon over deceptive Prime sign-up and cancellation process

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


New best story on Hacker News: GPT4 is 8 x 220B params = 1.7T params

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


New best story on Hacker News: How to do the thing you've been avoiding

How to do the thing you've been avoiding
432 by duck | 190 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: French govt. says users of uBlock Origin Signal etc. are potential terrorists

French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists
439 by Bright_Machine | 235 comments on Hacker News.


Friday, 16 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments

Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments
553 by kaimac | 314 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Sequence diagrams the only good thing UML brought to software development

Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development
558 by knsv | 320 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Bay Area woman is on a crusade to prove Yelp reviews cant be trusted

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


New best story on Hacker News: My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do

My 24 year old HP Jornada can do things an iPhone still can't do
643 by jandeboevrie | 732 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private

Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private
602 by Jimmc414 | 363 comments on Hacker News.


Thursday, 15 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators from Subreddits Continuing Blackouts
545 by stalfosknight | 507 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates

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


New best story on Hacker News: Reddits blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely

Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely
559 by rajeevk | 605 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Native JSON Output from GPT-4

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


New best story on Hacker News: First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources

First people sickened by Covid-19 were scientists at WIV: US government sources
565 by larsiusprime | 544 comments on Hacker News.


Tuesday, 13 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Cormac McCarthy has died

Cormac McCarthy has died
543 by benbreen | 240 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: AWS us-east-1 down

AWS us-east-1 down
553 by rurp | 246 comments on Hacker News.
The status page says everything is fine though.

New best story on Hacker News: Comic Mono

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


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit

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?

New best story on Hacker News: Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration

Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration
576 by gzer0 | 237 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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


Monday, 12 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft
504 by 8organicbits | 242 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years

Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
523 by jjcm | 190 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 the distribution algorithm for returning funds - you won't get overcharged or anything, but I just want to guarantee your funds are properly distributed at the end of the month. I've opened up free accounts to post and interact in the meantime. If you want to try a test account, use this login: login: hackernews pw: helloworld Edit: Loginless browsing here: https://non.io/#all If you want to browse the code or the api: https://api.non.io https://ift.tt/b3760c1

New best story on Hacker News: Archive your Reddit data before it's too late

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


New best story on Hacker News: Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid

Inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid
556 by ricksunny | 544 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?
591 by xednir | 251 comments on Hacker News.


Saturday, 10 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Ted Kaczynski has died

Ted Kaczynski has died
496 by mfiguiere | 493 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Debian 12 “Bookworm”

Debian 12 “Bookworm”
500 by Chatting | 188 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: June 2023 Data Dump is missing

June 2023 Data Dump is missing
524 by JasonPunyon | 247 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: ArchiveTeam has saved over 11.2B Reddit links

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


New best story on Hacker News: Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark

Reddark: Website to watch subreddits going dark
491 by morjom | 357 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch
550 by zdw | 171 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Average color of the NYC sky every 5 minutes

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


New best story on Hacker News: Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
584 by coloneltcb | 441 comments on Hacker News.


Wednesday, 7 June 2023

Monday, 5 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer

Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
573 by samwillis | 503 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat

Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat
483 by prhrb | 90 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest

Tell HN: My Reddit account was banned after adding my subs to the protest
432 by goplayoutside | 175 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 legitimate. When I logged back in, I saw that all of the posts and comments I've made from this account had been deleted. The password reset requirement is understandable; the fact that the posts and comments were not restored, less so. Looks like it's finally time to encourage my community to move to another site. 0. https://ift.tt/RPh4l0g 1. https://ift.tt/NZvIlrw... 2. https://ift.tt/82Fbl3r... 3. https://ift.tt/Hr8lQuj... 4. https://ift.tt/1Tu6igP

New best story on Hacker News: Generative AI learning path

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


New best story on Hacker News: The Rust I wanted had no future

The Rust I wanted had no future
427 by dochtman | 172 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)

WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)
407 by thunderbong | 303 comments on Hacker News.


Sunday, 4 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

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


New best story on Hacker News: Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough

Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough
386 by cendyne | 164 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS
375 by rarbgipfs | 71 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?

Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?
390 by Twixes | 172 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GPS (2022)

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


New best story on Hacker News: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap

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


Thursday, 1 June 2023

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup

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.