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Re:Libui: a portable GUI library for C
on Saturday May 19, 2018 @10:09PM (#17110785)
Another option (C++ LGPL w/ Lua,JS bindings): https://github.com/yue/yue
Other projects building on andlabs/ui and https://github.com/parro-it/libui-node:
Re:LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in R...
on Thursday May 17, 2018 @04:55PM (#17095667)
Related discussions over the past week-ish:
US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17069459
Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046632
Re:A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with...
on Thursday May 17, 2018 @08:34AM (#17090743)
I recently learned two XBox controllers can function as one, an ease of access feature called Copilot.
Re:US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:29PM (#17084399)
Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046632
Re:System76 and LVFS
on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:52PM (#17049413)
RE: Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS
Re:Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @09:25AM (#17029578)
The secret world of microwave networks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862789 (2016)
HFT in My Backyard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278 (2014)
Re:How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service
on Thursday May 03, 2018 @07:18AM (#16984924)
I use HN search all the time; it's useful.
There is no way to search across multiple comments on the same "story"; I use Google site search for this.
It only counts replies/"comments" for stories, not comments (which would probably be a lot more work).
It differentiates between plural and singular search terms as very different searches.
The only ranking options are by popularity and date (would like to be able to sort results by number of replies too).
Re:Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles
on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @04:00PM (#16980628)
Interesting to compare the automation vs. a manual approach started last month.
Show HN: Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers
Re:Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You
on Wednesday May 02, 2018 @03:35PM (#16980422)
Be likeable or get fired
Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way
on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:33PM (#16936040)
osquery came up a few days ago; in use at Etsy, including a direct link to a common setup.
Ask HN: Is no anti-virus software still best practice for mac?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16904103#16904721
> https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/packs/osx-at...
Also a discussion of how this type of monitoring worked out in practice in the Google/Uber/Lewandowski case last year:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860890#13861475
> the level of detail that Google has over the logs and actions of their laptop
Re:Multi-core cryptography for Node.js
on Thursday April 26, 2018 @01:54PM (#16934030)
Microsoft's Bing group customized Node.js for CPU-bound tasks: https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs/wiki/Why-Napa.js
Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498219 (Nov 2017)
Their deal-breaker against using node-cluster was a need to use shared memory for IPC.
Re:The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color
on Thursday April 19, 2018 @10:27AM (#16876139)
Did you miss Silicon Valley season 5 episode 4? ;)
Re:Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor
on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:53PM (#16864008)
Re:Proof-Of-Work is a Decentralized Clock
on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:15PM (#16863138)
> increase the fee of a transaction after the fact
Someone should have volunteered to help the Pineapple Fund do this instead of switching to Bitcoin Cash (or maybe this is what "Child-Pays-For-Parent" is, and it cost too much). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15995391
>> Since this created a series of unconfirmed transactions, we had to do something drastic: use Child-Pays-For-Parent with a very significant fee.
Re:Ask HN: Does SEO still work in 2018?
on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:05PM (#16859580)
The basic option for local lead gen is encouraging happy customers to leave glowing Google reviews.
After that comes paying for AdWords to get those reviews in front of more eyeballs.
Re:Massively Multiplayer Minesweeper
on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @11:16AM (#16859081)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158897 (Feb 2016)
> game like this http://gameofbombs.com/
Apparently being offline has happened before:
> it was down and didn't get back up for at least 200 days
Re:Show HN: Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers
on Monday April 16, 2018 @03:41PM (#16852045)
If it takes off, you could do a free 5 minute intro feed + a paid 1 hr detailed feed (which might be enough to satisfy the HN craving while commuting/doing chores/etc.).
I'd recommend trying out assigning numbers to the stories (eg. 1 of 10) as they are introduced to give more separation between stories / comments. Or maybe one voice does the story summary and the other the comments. Without paying close attention it seems to all blend together.
Re:OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world
on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:50AM (#16849809)
It's great to read the ongoing stories from the boots-on-the-ground still doing the actual deployments: http://planet.laptop.org
Unfortunately as the project loses momentum these types of stories are dwindling; here's one example from the aggregator:
Re:Making Ads and Pages More Transparent
on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:01PM (#16776306)
https://www.fbpurity.com adblocking extension
Re:Payment Request API for Apple Pay
on Thursday April 05, 2018 @04:49PM (#16768675)
Does Apple take 30% on the web?
Re:Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?
on Thursday April 05, 2018 @03:41PM (#16768243)
Re:Migra – A schema diff tool for PostgreSQL
on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:42PM (#16767078)
Would appreciate more from what you've been tracking.
Someone put a lot of love into this list for MSSQL circa 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_SQL_Ser...
Re:A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe
on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @11:20AM (#16745479)
How close is Apple Pay? Is there anything in an Apple Pay transaction identifying the customer (that can be correlated across purchases)?
I've heard good things but I have no idea about the details.
Edit: https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/02/apple-pay-an-in-depth-lo...
merchant sees NO account information but has the final four digits of the PAN [CC number] as an account identifier to use as a mechanism for tracking volume/activity per account
Suds for Drugs (2013)
Re:“The street finds its own uses for things” (2012)
on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:14AM (#16735175)
How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency
Re:Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies
on Monday April 02, 2018 @08:43AM (#16734005)
Zinus sub-discussion from some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489344
Re:Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems
on Saturday March 31, 2018 @11:18PM (#16726522)
One decentralized project is willing to list alternative options, many past the 'create a prototype' stage:
https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/misc/related.html
ZeroMe – Decentralized Microblogging on ZeroNet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464156
An off-grid social network [Scuttlebutt] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049
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A recent discussion of building on IPFS, where a developer was honest about drawbacks:
OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16702684
haven't solved the decentralized reputation problem and reviews can't entirely be trusted
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I am interested in this space because first mover advantage is still kind of up in the air until something works well enough to build a network advantage.
Re:OpenTTD 1.8.0-RC1
on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:11PM (#16725662)
OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer.
Re:1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?
on Friday March 30, 2018 @12:42PM (#16717631)
It may be opt-in, but website operators can choose to whitelist Tor even on the free Cloudflare tier.
https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...
The options for Tor are:
Whitelist (trust)
CAPTCHA (visible challenge which the visitor must interact with to pass)
JavaScript Challenge (visible challenge with less friction, testing the browser)
Block (blacklist -- available only to Cloudflare Enterprise customers)