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Re:'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:50AM (#50007331)
same :-)
Re:Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs on Thursday June 19, 2025 @04:24AM (#44316583)
Following the topic of FHE for quite some time and I am always hoping that we get some breakthroughs regarding speed. Seeing how this can be applied to CRDTs another awesome topic, is really cool, even if it still more theory than practice :-D
Re:Merlin Bird ID on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:28AM (#44179512)
whoBird is only working with audio (and not photos) though
Re:Merlin Bird ID on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:26AM (#44179503)
yes, it is an android version of birdNET as stated on the github page https://github.com/woheller69/whoBIRD
Re:Merlin Bird ID on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:24AM (#44179492)
Loving these kind of apps :-) I personally use WhoBird, which runs complete local on your android device, so it works also when you don't have internet and is available on fdroid (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.whobird/). Will give merlin a shot as well to see how it compares

Show HN: WhoIsHiring filterable by tags and live text search

I recently created a little open-source webapp to help searching for a job on hackernews. It allows for filtering based on multiple tags, live text search and allows to create your own regex filter. Dark mode works fine as well now. Have a look at:https://grburst.github.io/hnjobsNote that there are a few limitations like only current month is shown and little optimization, but it was already a...

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yeah seems like at least for many that is the case. I wasn't aware that so many engines are using bing! under the hood. Afaik qwant uses their own thing and that startpage is using google under the hood, but that might have changed
Mhm tested in ff and chrome and it works fine in my site. Does it mean that the filters do not at all on your site? What setup are you using? Ty for the feedback :-)
uh ty that's a pity - will fix it

Show HN: WebApp to filter WhoIsHiring by tags and live text search

I recently created a little webapp when searching for a job on hackernews. Couldn't find a solution that allows for filtering based on multiple tags or similar, so I created one myself here: https://grburst.github.io/hnjobsNote that there are multiple limitations (firebase live only, only current month, not really mobile friendly, ...), little to no optimizations and potential bugs, but it was...

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Re:Baltimore's Key Bridge collapses due to ship strike on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @06:55PM (#39845606)
Seems like wbaltv.com has some geo restrictions... "Sorry, this content is not available in your region."
so if I want to sunset my api version X in 1 year for whatever reason and I am able to support an old schema X, which api X maps to, for that time period without any hassle (and not only during migration), this would be a much bigger feature / USP for me then everything else mentioned. I am really curious to look deeper into this :-)
So during migration both schemas are valid if I understood correctly?! It would be awesome if "during migration" could be lifted to a point where it is possible to keep both schemas (old and new) for as long as I want and do migrations/transformation of incoming request (like queries) on the fly. Then I could map my different api version to different schemas and these on the fly transformation would be able to take care of the rest in many scenarios :-)
Re:Watchman: Execute a command when something changes on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @09:35AM (#33095392)
For those use-cases I use entr (https://github.com/clibs/entr). In what sense does watchman differ to it? Didn't see anything related to this at first glance :-)
Re:Show HN: Low-cost backup to S3 Glacier Deep Archive on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:39PM (#32868672)
Nope. There are some concerns about using openssl for file encryption and it is generally good to be very specific about the encryption instead of using default parameters. I don't necessary share all the concerns, but it might be worth knowing them, e.g. https://security.stackexchange.com/a/182281
Re:Show HN: Low-cost backup to S3 Glacier Deep Archive on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:39AM (#32866626)
Still a thumbs up because all backup solutions I and a lot of my friends are aware don't cover most use cases and I am happy to see people are trying to fill some of those gaps
Re:Show HN: Low-cost backup to S3 Glacier Deep Archive on Friday September 16, 2022 @10:34AM (#32866556)
Some questions that weren't answered in the readme: - What type of encryption is used exactly? Is it a simple encfs which leaks some meta information or is a container created or something else? - Is it a full snapshop backup or does it work incrementally?
Re:Thunderbird 102 on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @04:08AM (#31917603)
Yeah, these things are not handled very well in TB.

What you can do:

For 1) You can configure TB to not show event notifications from the past

For 2) Things improved at least a bit, so for me, this is usable now

Very cool to see more privacy by default in Firefox.

It is still a lot of effort to have clear separations in every browsern...

I am using Firefox containers with the temporary containers plugins (with history deletion enabled) as well as cookies auto delete plugin (which supports containers).

Therefore, everything is usually isolated in a container inside a tab and only white listed cookies are kept in the named containers.

Ask HN: Do You Report Bugs?

So yesterday, my browser crashed completely and after restarting it, all extensions were disabled and their corresponding configurations were gone.Usually, a popup shows up after a crash, but not this time. Since the hurdle is so big, I didn't report the bug.Many tools and programs don't have a good way to report bug.So I am wondering: Do you report bugs? If you are, what is the hurdle you...

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Re:Amazon Partially Down on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @10:35AM (#31740154)
It is strange that there is no statement from Amazon, yet. Or did I miss it?
The name is very misleading when it is only a blocker for Google search

Amazon Partially Down

On the webstore, you will be facing the following message “We’re sorry, an error has occurred. Please reload this page and try again.”Moreover, multiple reports at https://downdetector.com/status/amazon/And on twitter and social media.

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022) on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @04:48AM (#30929899)
Hivemind Technologies | Senior Scala Developer | Onsite/Remote (EU/EEA/UK) | Full- or Part-Time | https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

Hivemind Technologies | Mid + Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Onsite/Remote (EU/EEA/UK) | Full- or Part-Time | https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

As a Berlin based software consultancy, we are focused on building state of the art scalable platforms using functional programming and DevOps paradigms. We believe writing software is an inherently creative craft which requires a nurturing, supportive and collaborative environment.

We exist and strive to empower companies who conduct their business according to our values: fairly, ethically, sustainably, humanly. We don’t do fossil fuels, defense nor surveillance. We celebrate diversity and especially encourage non-males to apply.

We are a team of skilled 1.) Scala developers which like to write pure functional and clean Scala code and 2.) Infrastructure engineers with a strong background in IaC and a DevOps-mindset

We are now looking for an infrastructure engineer with a strong background in IaC and a DevOps-mindset to help us build scalable and replicable infrastructures for our customers and our own products on AWS.

Our benefits

- We work 100% remotely

- Choice of equipment (Mac or Linux)

- Cross-Functional teams

- Paid Conference/workshop

- Paid co-working

- Regular on-sites

- Flexible working arrangements (between 20 - 38h / week)

- 30 days of paid vacation

- We don’t do overtime

Contact: [email protected]

Complete job description: https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022) on Thursday February 03, 2022 @06:20AM (#30191096)
Hivemind Technologies | Mid + Senior Scala Developer | Onsite/Remote (EU/EEA only) | Full- or Part-Time | https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

Hivemind Technologies | Mid + Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Onsite/Remote (EU/EEA only) | Full- or Part-Time | https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

As a Berlin based software consultancy, we are focussed on building state of the art scalable platforms using functional programming and DevOps paradigms. We believe writing software is an inherently creative craft which requires a nurturing, supportive and collaborative environment.

We exist and strive to empower companies who conduct their business according to our values: fairly, ethically, sustainably, humanly. We don’t do fossil fuels, defense nor surveillance.

We are a team of skilled 1.) Scala developers which like to write pure functional and clean Scala code and 2.) Infrastructure engineers with a strong background in IaC and a DevOps-mindset

Our work is mostly fullstack and our stack includes a lot of OSS, including Jenkins, Spark, git, kafka, elasticsearch and libraries including zio, cats, circe, monix, fs2, akka streams, http4s and shapeless. We heavily make use of AWS and cloud computing.

Our benefits

- We work 100% remotely

- Choice of equipment (Mac or Linux)

- Cross-Functional teams

- Paid Conference/workshop

- Paid co-working

- Regular on-sites

- Flexible working arrangements (between 20 - 38h / week)

- 30 days of paid vacation

- We don’t do overtime

Contact: [email protected]

Complete job description: https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

Ask HN: Open-source projects with inspiring code?

I have seen a lot of open-source projects with different code quality. But sometimes you see code where you think: Wow that is written very well. This can be a few line of codes or the way the whole project is written.I had these moments when I saw code that is e.g. very idiomatic or very good to follow and understand.So where do you have similar experience and what do you think caused it?

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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022) on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @03:17AM (#29792573)
Hivemind Technologies | Mid + Senior Scala Developer | Onsite/Remote (EU/EEA only) | Full- or Part-Time | https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

Hivemind Technologies | Mid + Senior Infrastructure Engineer | Onsite/Remote (EU/EEA only) | Full- or Part-Time | https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

As a Berlin based software consultancy, we are focussed on building state of the art scalable platforms using functional programming and DevOps paradigms. We believe writing software is an inherently creative craft which requires a nurturing, supportive and collaborative environment.

We exist and strive to empower companies who conduct their business according to our values: fairly, ethically, sustainably, humanly. We don’t do fossil fuels, defense nor surveillance.

We are a team of skilled Scala developers which like to write pure functional and clean Scala code. We are working mostly fullstack with little frontend but quite a bit of DevOps. Our stack includes a lot of OSS, including Jenkins, Spark, git, kafka, elasticsearch and libraries including zio, cats, circe, monix, fs2, akka streams, http4s and shapeless. We heavily make use of AWS and cloud computing.

Our benefits

- We work 100% remotely

- Choice of equipment (Mac or Linux)

- Cross-Functional teams

- Paid Conference/workshop

- Paid co-working

- Regular on-sites

- Flexible working arrangements (between 20 - 38h / week)

- 30 days of paid vacation

- We don’t do overtime

Contact: [email protected]

Complete job description: https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2021) on Thursday December 02, 2021 @05:58AM (#29414661)
Hivemind Technologies | Intermediate/Senior Scala Developer | Onsite/Remote (EU/EEA only) | Full- or Part-Time | https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

As a Berlin based software consultancy, we are focussed on building state of the art scalable platforms using functional programming and DevOps paradigms. We believe writing software is an inherently creative craft which requires a nurturing, supportive and collaborative environment.

We exist and strive to empower companies who conduct their business according to our values: fairly, ethically, sustainably, humanly. We don’t do fossil fuels, defense nor surveillance.

We are a team of skilled Scala developers which like to write pure functional and clean Scala code. We are working mostly fullstack with little frontend but quite a bit of DevOps. Our stack includes a lot of OSS, including Jenkins, Spark, git, kafka, elasticsearch and libraries including zio, cats, circe, monix, fs2, akka streams, http4s and shapeless. We heavily make use of AWS and cloud computing.

Our benefits

- We work 100% remotely

- Choice of equipment (Mac or Linux)

- Cross-Functional teams

- Paid Conference/workshop

- Paid co-working

- Regular on-sites

- Flexible working arrangements (between 20 - 38h / week)

- 30 days of paid vacation

- We don’t do overtime

Contact: [email protected]

Complete job description: https://hivemindtechnologies.com/en/jobs/

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