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Re:The lost joy of music piracy on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:53AM (#48934614)
Beyond here is something like a utopia - no false advertisement here. Some good memories: COFFE & salinger leak, filling in one of the largest bounties of obsure german electro pop for internet glory points, good memories.
Re:Punk, or why I don't stream anymore on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:10AM (#48861047)
Hacker culture isn't dead. It just smells funny.
Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) on Sunday June 28, 2026 @02:12PM (#48709878)
> Communism in Poland meant two things: not a lot of disposable income

The issue wasn’t so much the lack of income it was scarcity of items to purchase.

Re:Show HN: Are You in the Weights? on Thursday June 18, 2026 @05:41PM (#48592030)
Apparently gpt 5.5 thinks I’m a metal folk musician, i wish.
Re:Last.fm is now independent on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @02:21PM (#48298294)
Spotify is pay to win (play) - especially user curated ones playlists.
> the Flying V shape is not really playable while seated

it needs to be played in a classical position (with a footrest ideally) but it's more ergonomic than the standard strat position.

What does he have to show for it?
Anthropic taketh and Anthropic giveth.
Scummy approach, we have buyer protections for a reason.
Re:Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:43PM (#47903144)
In Poland Canal+ was encrypted like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z83bIGiRVy4

I'm guessing it's a latter version?

Re:Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @07:37AM (#47862129)
> You know what the best part of being a software engineer is? You can meet and talk to people who think like you. Not necessarily the same interests like sports and TV shows and stuff. But they think about problems the same way you think of them. That’s pretty cool.

That hasn't really been my experience, for every 50 people I meet maybe 1 is here for the craft, the rest want to do 9-5, have a visibility at work, work on impactful projects but actually talk about their problems, their opinions in a deeper way - almost never.

What are strategies for achieving consistent productivity?

I have fairly regular bouts of attention deficit filled with youtube, games, in-depth research of mostly useless things. These episodes could last a couple of weeks. After that I typically have a couple of weeks of productive work - working much longer hours that I should, researching useful things, pushing work project forward and over-delivering. For every two inattentive weeks I typically...

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Re:A Timeline of the OpenAI Board on Sunday November 19, 2023 @11:35AM (#38334268)
Looks like a board of a crypto(scam): weak, unclear profiles, frequent changes, no board experience, personal connections. It's quite amazing they've seemingly stumbled upon $100b product.
> This question was marked to be a duplicate of "Goose"–"geese" vs. "moose"–"moose" and Why is the plural form of Moose not Meese?

Never change, SO, never change.

Re:Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly on Sunday November 05, 2023 @07:07PM (#38157169)
Except there really isn’t a better product to back up these issues. There were some important improvements made to the gameplay, traffic system, certain things were reworked, nicer graphics etc. It feels like an iteration and not a ground-breaking game rhat would justify the performance issues we’re seeing.
Re:Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @03:22AM (#33703350)
No problem, honestly I think for the price it's really hard to beat considering that you get unlimited (subject to fair use I'm guessing) traffic and backups included in the price. Also, supposedly v25 of NextCloud does offer big improvements (including for Photos) - Hetzner are yet to implement this.
I don't find categorizing something as "alt-right conspiracy stuff" is a serious rebuttal. Since you've complained about the fresh accounts perhaps you should also consider reading through the comments guidelines yourself (your comment is easily violating the top 6): https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The West, I can suggest The War on the West by Douglas Murray - it explains this phenomenon very well.
Re:Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud on Sunday November 20, 2022 @02:27PM (#33684308)
Couple of issues:

1) It seems that some movies are placed first in the Photos screen, no correct thumbnails are generated for these. I'm unable to play the vide of these movies (.mov files). This means that when opening the Photos app I'm met with a wall of thumbnail placeholders.

2) It seems that for the photos the thumbnails aren't being pre-generated. There is a wait time until the thumbnails are generated. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/config...

3) Random error loading of the photos - some photos just don't open and display the placeholder thumbnail.

4) Linked to 1) - some videos appear between photos so I'm getting a mix of photos thumbnails and placeholder thumbnails.

5) As I scroll down the thumbnails are generated so there is a noticeable lag between scrolling and photos appearing. iCloud can generate thumbnails almost as quickly as I'm scrolling so the difference is noticeable.

6) Lack of any AI integrated into the product (face matching etc.)

Re:Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud on Friday November 18, 2022 @12:07PM (#33657806)
Hetzner offers a managed product -I'm still on version 24.0.5. The users aren't given the possibility to upgrade or configure the product. For example, I'm not able to turn on the option to create the photo thumbnails.
Re:Migrating 1 terabyte of files from OneDrive to Nextcloud on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:46AM (#33656403)
I pay 4eur for 1tb managed NextCloud from Hetzner - it's a good service overall but it's unusable for photos. Apart from iCloud at 10eur per month are there any alternatives with a good photos (viewing, sharing, tagging, ai etc) integration?
> This persons visa is dependent on their employment so now they get to go into a city they don't know and try desperately to find employment with an employer who is interested in sponsoring someone from abroad (which is a small fraction of the total employers).

Alternatively they can just return to India? I'd be surprised if they didn't receive reallocation package (16k USD according to teamblind?). I don't expect any employer to go above and beyond their contractual obligations.

There is also certain irony here in Meta employees expecting ethical behavior from Meta whilst happily creating and maintaining unethical outcomes for the customers.

Re:How to Succeed Once Hired? on Saturday November 05, 2022 @02:13AM (#33478477)
Success: getting through the probation period, not getting on PIP, getting recognition for work done, setting myself up for promotion. I’ve read a couple of accounts of people getting sacked on Team Blind due to not speaking up in meetings and various other reasons which I’m guessing could be avoided.
Re:How to Succeed Once Hired? on Saturday November 05, 2022 @02:08AM (#33478447)
Thank you, I’ll check it out.

How to Succeed Once Hired?

Are there any practical, 'Cracking the Coding Interview' esque books for succeeding in the tech company (promotions, personal branding, respect etc) once hired? Ideally something that touches on office politics, what to focus on, how to succeed in performance reviews, communications.

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