New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?

Ask HN: Do you trust solo entrepreneurs?
22 by chiscript | 19 comments on Hacker News.
Hello HN! [I'm a solo developer so this question is a bit personal to me] Would knowing if the creator of a product is like me or fully fledged organisation affect your likelihood of using any software they create?

Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Devs who passed whiteboarding at FAANG: how do you feel about it?

Ask HN: Devs who passed whiteboarding at FAANG: how do you feel about it?
10 by user0x1d | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Most of the blogs I read about whiteboarding and leetcode style questions come together with hate. “It doesn’t test real world scenarios” or “not proof of how well I’m gonna do at the job”. Do you agree with those? Or is it just the case that the tests are designed to see if the person applying is actually really smart and interviewers want to work with really smart people, and those complaining about these types of questions are just not good enough? Honest question and I’m not taking any side although I admit it I tried to phrase it more towards getting favourable FAANG responses

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?

Ask HN: What is your Kubernetes nightmare?
17 by wg0 | 18 comments on Hacker News.
Everything self-hosted has its maintenance tax but why Kubernetes (especially self hosted) is so hard? What aspect is that makes Kubernetes operationally so hard? - Is it the networking model that is simple from the consumption standpoint but has too many moving parts for it to be implemented? - Is it the storage model, CSI and friends? - Is it the bunch of controller loops doing their own things with nothing that gives a "wholesome" picture to identify the root cause? For me personally, first and foremost thing on my mind is the networking details. They are "automatically generated" by each CNI solution in slightly different ways and constructs (iptables, virtual bridges, routing daemons, eBPF etc etc) and because they are generated, it is not uncommon to find hundreds of iptable rules and chains on a single node and/or similar configuration. Being automated, these solutions generate tons of components/configurations which in case of trouble, even if one has mastery on them, would take some time to hoop through all the components (virtual interfaces, virtual bridges, iptable chains and rules, ipvs entries etc) to identify what's causing the trouble. Essentially, one pretty much has to be a network engineer because besides the underlying/physical (or the virtual, I mean cloud VPCs) network, k8s pulls its very own network (pod network, cluster network) implemented on the software/configuration layer which has to be fully understood to be able to maintained. God forbid, if the CNI solution has some edge case or for some other misconfiguration, it keeps generating inadequate or misconfigured rules/routes etc resulting in a broken "software defined network" that I cannot identify in time on a production system is my nightmare and I don't know how to reduce that risk. What's your Kubernetes nightmare? EDIT: formating

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Sunday, 26 June 2022

Carpe diem: In Ukraine, war turning love into marriages



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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Seeking Cryptography Certification

Ask HN: Seeking Cryptography Certification
4 by mfbx9da4 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I would like to do some training in cryptography and information security. The goal is that I would have the credentials, confidence and toolkit to write my own cryptographic protocols. Are there any industry recognised courses or exams that I can sit? Beyond doing a masters, as I don’t really have the option to ditch my full time work, as much as I would like to.

Thursday, 16 June 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: CS grad who barely knows any CS

Ask HN: CS grad who barely knows any CS
21 by nevillain | 16 comments on Hacker News.
I (m, 23) will be graduating from a university in Kenya with a CS degree at the end of the year. However, I feel like I barely know anything. I hardly attended classes in my first and second year. I upped my grades in my third year and was even among the top in the class (anecdotally). To be honest, I’ve always felt like our CS course was inferior. For example, I did a Computer Graphics course, but we didn’t even implement line drawing algorithms. My favorite courses were compiler construction (we actually built a compiler) and distributed systems. I started checking the sources of web pages in high school, and even learnt rudimentary JavaScript and PHP. After high school, I was hoping to join a good uni in the US. I got a relatively decent 1490 in my SATs then bungled up the rest of the application process. I hesitantly joined my current uni. I’ve been coding on and off since then. For school, I wrote introductory assembly, C, and C++: most of which I can’t recall now. Outside of school I learnt Node.JS, Python and Go. I haven’t built any large project: my biggest code base is probably my FYP React Native app or the Vue/Flask web app for my internship. On paper, it appears I know quite a few technologies. But contrary to that, most of it has been surface level knowledge. To use a friend’s words, I’ve been turning buttons from red to green (doing CRUD). I don't know how databases work, I don't know what exactly ray tracing is, et al. I started applying for jobs last week. To my surprise (or not), I do not fit cleanly into the requirements of any of the junior listings. I can't solve the "easy" problems on LeetCode and my score for the AngelList Fullstack assessment [1] was 18/30. I rather objectively believe I have some gaps in my CS knowledge. I am even considering a boot camp—if one exists for people who already know what a variable is. My tentative plan is to get a part time job, and then spend 6 months reading books, learning tech I’ve always wanted to learn, and hacking on at least one build-your-own [2] type project. So, how can one effectively fill gaps in their CS knowledge? It’s worth noting that I am overwhelmed, and even procrastinate when I don't have an overarching framework (like school). So it’s not as simple as just sitting alone and studying/coding. I am the "smart" kid who didn’t have to study throughout most of school, but who's "discovered" you have to sit long hours now to be competitive. Is my situation more common than I suppose? Should I suck it up, get a technical support role and build up from there? [1] https://ift.tt/UV2Ecdn [2] https://ift.tt/P1oSwjC

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New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups

Tell HN: Bitwarden does not export attachments in backups
65 by howlett | 12 comments on Hacker News.
I've been using Bitwarden for about 4 years now and cannot understand how a Password Manager does not export attachments when backing up your data. I understand this was the case when the only export format was a CSV file, but now with JSON files I can't get my head around the fact that I almost missed crucial SSH keys had I not checked the output. A simple solution would be to b64 encode each file and add it into an array! It's even mentioned on their Help page - https://ift.tt/m3jfbqX but I still think it's a bit unacceptable that there isn't even a warning in the GUI about this. And yes, I know there are ways to manually export the files, but I shouldn't have to do that.

Friday, 10 June 2022

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Friday, 3 June 2022

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you record your personal finances?

Ask HN: How do you record your personal finances?
23 by mdrzn | 34 comments on Hacker News.
This is a recurring question that pop up every couple of years, but it's always interesting to see what people use nowadays. How do you track your personal finances? Excel sheet? Python script? Self-hosted dashboard? Do you use open source software, did you code your own, or do you subscribe to a service? I'm more interested in the basic spending tracking functions (auto importing from bank, auto tagging categories, etc) than having it track my investment portfolio.

Wednesday, 1 June 2022