New top story on Hacker News: Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?

Happy New Year HN! What are your plans for the new year?
53 by MasterYoda | 35 comments on Hacker News.
Happy New Year HN First: Thanks for all great submissions and for all high quality and interesting comments from all you users here on HN. Second: Do you have any plans for the new year, new skills to learn, excited over any new project, looking forward to something, should you do anything different this year, etc? Personally I never had any "new year promises", neither this year, but I have at least a "goal/plan" this year, to do something different; Consume less, create/learn more. It is so easy just surf the web consuming stuff because you are bored, that in the end gives you nothing/little in the end. This year I will try to use more of my time to try to learn stuff that interest me or can be useful. I probably will fail miserably, but at least its a plan :) And now I have said it, on the internet, so best I stick to it :) Once again Happy New Year

Tutu's body lies in state at S.Africa cathedral



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Denver area "killing spree": What we know



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Monday, 27 December 2021

Berliners react to new Covid-19 restrictions



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AP Top Stories



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Saturday, 25 December 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas

Tell HN: You are not alone this Christmas
577 by mattowen_uk | 165 comments on Hacker News.
Hi, my Christmas is solitary this year, no family or friends. I'm not even having a Christmas dinner. I'm not sad about this, though. It's just the way it is. What I wanted to say is, if you are in the same situation, you are not alone. So have a virtual hug from me.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Intercepting HTTPS – How can we trust anything at all?

Ask HN: Intercepting HTTPS – How can we trust anything at all?
43 by wg0 | 45 comments on Hacker News.
The proxies like Squid can do HTTPS intercepting so I was wondering what's the point of TLS anyway? What if a nation state is determined to intercept all traffic of its internet users or even a major ISP - can't they get a trusted CA colluding with them in such a way that they can generate certificates on the fly and hence replacing the SSL certificate of every website that's get visited, decrypt and encrypt back? Cryptographically speaking, that's possible? Wouldn't it be possible for certain states hostile to their citizens to pay off some trusted CA to get a wide open arrangement of that sorts? Now someone thinking they're talking to gmail could be first talking to a data collection island in the middle? Similarly, other vectors of attack are the IP routing and DNS. I do not understand the Noise protocol but couldn't an ISP or a government pretend to be man in the middle, between let us say a Signal user and its servers? EDIT: Added IP and DNS aspects plus typos

At least 30 dead in migrant boat accidents in Greece



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Thursday, 23 December 2021

Monday, 20 December 2021

US-born China pop star Wang Leehom apologizes in scandal



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Sunday, 19 December 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?
61 by timdaub | 62 comments on Hacker News.
I noticed that I'm still clicking away the once proposed dialogue of Whatsapp to give all my data away to Facebook. I have not accepted it and I keep clicking away. And you?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?

Ask HN: How do you get articles/papers/talks recommendations?
7 by __all__ | 5 comments on Hacker News.
I've been trying different approaches such as subscribing to newsletters or using RSS readers to follow people I find interesting but not everything they write every time is interesting! Also, if you limit yourself to following people you've been reading before you probably end up not discovering new content. With the technology, amount of data, and algorithms we have currently should be pretty easy to build a tool capable of tracking articles/papers/talks you read/like and suggest things you could be interested in. Does anybody use/know a tool like that? There are many places to get suggestions based on how popular they are across the entire platform but aren't we in the era of the personalization?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?

Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?
27 by aydwi | 21 comments on Hacker News.
I've been reading a lot as of late. All sorts of things, but mostly technical posts and papers by a wide variety of programmers and researchers. Especially about the Rust Programming Language. The more content I discover, the tinier and irrelevant I feel. I go down a rabbit hole of brilliant relevations of one person after the other, and I come out tired and discouraged. People are writing crazy compilers, optimizers, devising mathematical mathematical theorems etc. and finding concerete applications of their work everywhere. For instance, I just discovered the blog of Aleksey Kladov today and the depth and breadth of his work made my jaw drop. Now, I realize this is rather superficial to talk about. I myself work on low-level systems, writing non-trivial code and trying to solve all sorts of interesting problems. Senior engineers and professors have told me that I'm brilliant. But when I'm alone with myself, I feel like I know that I'm a nobody. I try not to compare myself; but I'm also unable to shrug these feeling off, however indirect. P.S. Not intended as a humblebrag. I truly need external input at this point. Sorry if this is offensive to some.

Thursday, 16 December 2021

Wednesday, 15 December 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Do you still use Clubhouse app?

Ask HN: Do you still use Clubhouse app?
24 by kkcorps | 21 comments on Hacker News.
I stopped using it 5-6 months back as most rooms I find were pretty boring or just people arguing about random stuff. If you still use it, what are some interesting rooms you follow?

Tuesday, 14 December 2021

Old Man Trump Is Looking Weaker and Weaker—Sad!



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India's Harnaaz Sandhu crowned the 70th Miss Universe



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Russian teenager 'blows himself up' at Orthodox school



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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?

Ask HN: Why have we accepted the cookie pop-up situation across the web?
216 by LightG | 189 comments on Hacker News.
You know what I'm talking about. Even at their best, the pop-ups for every single website to accept or choose cookies is ridicuous. Can you imagine how much time in total we all lose to this? And yet, these "solutions" to the data privacy questions have become widespread. It's bad enough at normal times, let alone those who double triple quadruple bluff you into choosing the wrong setting. This is a tech board. Why have we all accepted this ridiculous situation? Isn't there a better solution?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Best way to prepare a codebase for open-source?

Ask HN: Best way to prepare a codebase for open-source?
9 by Eikon | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, How would you approach the process to opensource a proprietary codebase, especially regarding things such as ensuring that no secrets are sitting somewhere in the history. I'd be tempted to publish without history but I feel like a lot of important context will be lost.

Friday, 10 December 2021

AP: Smollett 'showed nothing' as verdict is heard



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Passing time with Pakistan's lonely clock collector



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Thursday, 9 December 2021

Graham warns GOP about Trump's wrath on debt vote



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Hillary Clinton gets personal



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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?

Ask HN: How are you taking care of you eyes?
21 by zuj | 23 comments on Hacker News.
Like anyone else these days, I am spending 8 hours for work, couple of hours for entertainment and social in front of the monitor. As I age I can see the stress and strain on my eyes. No issues as of now but I want to take care of them before anything happens. Couple of things I am doing right now. During the day, moved to single monitor and immediately noticed less strain on the eyes and neck. During night started spending at least couple of minutes in a room(not bedroom) with out any major light source either meditating or chatting with partner, it provides major relief. What tactics are you following and any resources which talks about practical eye health.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is everything changing too fast?

Ask HN: Is everything changing too fast?
30 by dmje | 16 comments on Hacker News.
I'm getting on (I'm nearly 50) - not a software dev (thank god) but more a project manager. I do a lot of the "knitting together" type work between developers, UX people, designers, content owners, etc. Until recently, we used to do things like write cheatsheets and other help docs for our clients for tools like Google Analytics. This was all fine, and they were appreciated, as clients just don't know how to use these tools. But recently, the rate of change has just made this untenable. I'd log into a tool like GA and the whole thing would be different. Not just the upgrade to 4, but then incremental changes there, too. So cheatsheets, training workshops, anything around support - just becomes untenable. Another example: I log into Teamwork (my project management tool of choice) - and they're "retiring" the plan I've been on (and very happy with) for years. Instead I have to choose "Growth" and now my dashboard is littered with a whole bunch of stuff I neither want or need. Nothing is where I'm used to it being. And: we do a bunch of work with Wordpress. The rate of change here is insane, too - every single update brings new features, none of which is documented, bedded in or understood. None of which can be written about, supported or workshopped. And: Trello. It was fine. And then Atlassian bought it and it became this horrific behemoth of "features", all of which just clutter everything up, none of which seems to actually do anything useful. And on, and on. Is this rate of change supportable? Am I just too old? Help me put this in context, HN!

Total solar eclipse plunges Antarctica into darkness



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Norwegian archaeologists find late Iron Age longhouses



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New top story on Hacker News: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video
63 by thijser | 30 comments on Hacker News.
I knew Google's automated processes were pretty bad from earlier stories here, but today I got hit by it myself. I participated in the totally legit EthGlobal "Hack Money" hackathon (https://ift.tt/3c6VSHN) earlier this year and one of required submissions of that event was a video describing your work. I made one and uploaded it to Youtube. The hackathon went great and we won some prizes but that's not relevant to this story. Yesterday evening I received an email from Youtube that they've removed my channel because "Spam, scams or commercially deceptive content are not allowed on YouTube.". I thought this certainly must be an error so I used the attached appeal link and got a response within less than 15 minutes that they appeal has been rejected and that no further replies will be processed. I am a paid Youtube Music subscriber and I can't login to even listen to my own music anymore. Amazing. I would like to think that Google's AI systems are smarter than just videoTitle.contains("hack") && videoTitle.contains("money"), but apparently not. If anybody has connections who can help get me unsuspended that would be highly appreciated. The google cache of my channel is still available here: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:gcYJ--i6UYgJ:https://www.youtube.com/c/MathijsVogelzang+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?

Ask HN: What is the best book on data visualization in 2021?
16 by zwaps | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I am looking for a comprehensive resource on data visualization. There are many individual resources that have been posted over the years (such as in blog posts). However, as a non-expert I am not sure which advice is good to follow (e.g., many blogs are published by companies trying to sell me a particular product or package). Not sure if the book is the ideal format for this, but it seems to have the highest chance of being competent, unbiased and comprehensive. For the latter point, I think important topics are - Colors and accessibility - Concrete examples of color schemes - Pros and Cons of different visualizations vis-à-vis data - Print versus digital - Fonts and layout considerations - Perhaps short insights into the research on these points But perhaps there are other things not on my radar that are current or interesting?

Sunday, 5 December 2021

Friday, 3 December 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Advice about Aging Parents

Ask HN: Advice about Aging Parents
24 by tren | 14 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, I know some of you have been down this road already. My dad is 86, my mum is 79 and my dad refuses to leave his house until he dies. It's our family home from when I was growing up, 2 stories and my dad currently crawls his way up the stairs each day to use his computer. He won't even consider moving down to the first floor (stubborn). I have my own young family and my partner and I have jobs, so I'm basically looking for how you juggled your way through this part of life and if you have any pointers. I'm 41 btw.

South Dakota woman sentenced in 1981 death of infant son



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The Webb telescope gazing back to the beginning of time



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New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Lost access to my Google account even with the correct credentials

Tell HN: Lost access to my Google account even with the correct credentials
27 by authed | 11 comments on Hacker News.
"Google couldn’t verify this account belongs to you." I clear cookies once in a while and usually can recover my account but this time, no option to recover: https://ift.tt/3pmwvtW Even if I have the correct login and password. Luckily, I also forward all my emails to a 3rd party so I should still be able to read my new mail but I lost access to a lot of other stuff.

Thursday, 2 December 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: Stipop (YC S21) – Improving user engagement with stickers

Launch HN: Stipop (YC S21) – Improving user engagement with stickers
3 by tonyatkc | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I'm Tony, and together with my friend Daniel, we created Stipop ( https://ift.tt/2ZQhaJw ). We help app developers add stickers on chat, comment section, profiles, and live streams by providing an easy-to-install Sticker SDK with 150K+ stickers and a fully customizable UI. This may sound silly and of course, it is, but did you know that stickers - the big, animated emojis you can send in chat - are sent 17x more than GIFs on Facebook Messenger? That’s almost 400 million times a day! Users, especially Gen Z and Millenials, love sending stickers to express themselves better and stay more connected online. But the thing is, having stickers in your app can cost up to a million dollars because you’ll need a good 4~5 engineers to build the infrastructure, UI, search engine AND have a content team to sign contracts with hundreds of sticker artists, send payouts and make regular updates every month. We wanted to solve this problem. We used to operate our own sticker app for iMessage. That's when we first gathered all the artists and knowledge about the stickers. Now, after 4 years, we have 5,000 artists from 35 countries. We hit 200k users before we pivoted to B2B. Back then, we attended TC Disrupt, and many startups came to us asking if they could use our stickers. So we came back, released API, and got our first customers. Now with Stipop, any app developer can install stickers in just a single day. Stipop SDK has a pre-built UI, so you don't have to design anything by yourself. It also comes with two layouts: a sticker search engine to search for stickers with keywords and a library mode where users can browse and download stickers. We found that stickers apply to many different app types too. For example, Fingo Africa (YC S21) is a neobank. They are adding stickers to their money-sending feature, so their users can soon send stickers to say thank you instead of just transferring money or send a relevant sticker like pizza to split bills after eating a pizza together. TripTime used stickers for user profile images. We are also on Microsoft Teams to help users search for stickers to send in chats, Blabla live-streaming chat, and soon to be on Canva to provide stickers for image editing and designs. Our sticker end-users show a stable 40% 8-week retention and helped apps increase user engagement by up to 17%. We provide the service for free and plan to turn freemium next year. We monetize by creating custom stickers for brands like Coca-Cola. Please let me know if you have any questions, feedback, or ideas. Your thoughts would greatly help us improve the product! You can also take a look at our demo video here: https://link.stipop.io/3Epl9LI Thank you!

Pope departs for Cyprus and Greece



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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?
9 by yosito | 8 comments on Hacker News.
By personal start page, I mean a custom-made web page that you would set as the home page in your browser and use it as the starting point of doing things in the browser. I'm considering building something with Next.js or Gatsby that I can self-host, but I'd love suggestions of the most customizable tools that would allow me to quickly integrate data "widgets" from diverse sources like Nextcloud, Fastmail, RSS readers (Inoreader, maybe), CalDAV, bank accounts, etc.

Pet names trends inspired by TV and pandemic



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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are these low quality “Code Snippet” sites?

Ask HN: What are these low quality “Code Snippet” sites?
6 by endofreach | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Whenever i am trying to google a code issue i have, there is countless low quality sites just showing SO threads with no added value whatsoever. It is so annoying it actually drives me mad. Does anyone know what's up with that? I am really disappointed because the guys creating these sites (i guess for some kind of monetization) must have some relation to coding. But i feel this is an attack against all of us. Every programmer should be grateful for the opportunity to find good quality content quickly. Now my search results are flooded with copy & paste from SO. They are killing that. Am I the only one experiencing this or being that annoyed by it? P.S: I don't name URLs because if you don't know what I am talking about already, you probably don't have that issue.

Peru archaeologists find mummy up to 1,200 years old



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