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Re:14 Killed in protests in Nepal over social media ban on Monday September 08, 2025 @02:23PM (#45171907)
Maybe what is even worse in a way, is the state of many developed countries where all the coruption is well documented in media, everyone knows what is going on and yet it does not really move people. I guess until you are in "good enough" state you are not forced to really fight.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025) on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @01:46AM (#45099520)
ELI Beamlines (ELI ERIC) | Dolní Břežany (Prague), Czech Republic | Onsite (with HO) | Full‑time

We operate one of the world’s leading high‑power laser research facilities (up to 10 PW) and support an international user community. We’re hiring:

• Director for Technology Lead the Technology Division (laser beam transport, instrumentation, engineering services, control systems, data infrastructure). Set the technical roadmap, grow teams, and ensure reliability and integration across the facility. Apply: https://www.eli-beams.eu/careers/director-for-technology/

• SW Control Systems Developer Join the Controls Hardware Integration team. Build and maintain device control & data‑acquisition for lasers/beamlines (EPICS). Write IOCs/services in C/C++/Python, integrate hardware, and collaborate with scientists on Linux. Apply: https://www.eli-beams.eu/careers/sw-control-systems-develope...

• Web Developer for Data Visualization Build interactive tools and UIs that help researchers visualize experiment data and plan setups (from dashboards to 3D/WebGL). Work across Python backends & modern JS frontends; design clean APIs; familiarity with Jupyter/three.js/D3 a plus. Apply: https://www.eli-beams.eu/careers/web-developer-for-data-visu...

• Safety Systems Engineer (PLC / Interlocks) Own the PLC‑based Personal Safety Interlock (PSI): define state logic, supervise installation/upgrades with suppliers, commission new areas, and keep documentation, testing and availability tight. Apply: https://www.eli-beams.eu/careers/safety-systems-engineer-152...

How we hire: CV → HR pre‑screen → interviews (in‑person or Webex). Questions? Email HR: [email protected] Or me with technical ones [email protected]

About us: ~350 people from 38+ countries; easy public‑transport commute from Prague. Keywords: EPICS, Python, Linux, PLC/Safety, JavaScript/TypeScript, Git.

Re:Internet in a Box on Monday April 28, 2025 @05:41AM (#43819364)
Would be great to have this kind of internet in box but for 90s or 00s internet.

Ask HN: How is it possible that HN is free of SPAM?

Lately I was really surprised by the sheer amount of spam on web like for example in YouTube comment section. Where you can find whole groups of spam bots creating fake discussion about crypto investment etc. And Im honestly wondering how is that HN is still that SPAM free and yet that simple page. Is it only possible by having good mederators?

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Looks really great! I never imagined that we will be "stealing" design from Chinese companies.

Ask HN: What Is the New Hype?

As everybody noticed AI hype is slowing down. And I was wondering what is the new hype gonna be? And I simply cannot find new theme that is on hype rise. Assuming that all Blockchain, NFT, IoT, Cloud is already finished its cycle. What do you think the new Hype will be?

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Re:Bottle Plotter on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @07:44AM (#40143164)
Time, I would like to polish all the stuff a do it properly, but have not time for that. Also there are still some things TBD.
Re:Bottle Plotter on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @03:09AM (#40141527)
Hi All, author here. I'm little bit surprised to find my blog here. If you have any question feel free to ask!

Show HN: Make/Hack Web with URL. Experiment

https://www.makemee.eu

Hi, I've developed a simple webpage that responds to a URL-encoded GET request in the form of "?makeme=string". When you provide a string as input, it appends it to existing content and displays the result on the page. Essentially, this allows you to modify the webpage but also compete with everyone else. Everyone visiting the page sees the same content, but the cache is reset once a day. While...

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Re:A.I. Imagery May Destroy History as We Know It on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @10:07AM (#35700690)
Yes, exactly I remeber when I was younger and experimenting with lucid dreaming, when I spotted something weird I checked my hands and told myself "ten fingers, not a dream" every time. And trully when I was dreaming my hand was deformed, so if I paid attention to it I could start lucid dreaming. So maybe we are not that much off with NN
Re:What “Work” Looks Like on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @06:45AM (#33328750)
It actually does not matter what work looks like the important part are the results. I think that's generaly one of the worst problem at job. People being "busy" without any results and people that seems to calmly delivere. Usually management favors the first kind as it feels like no struggle no work is being done.

Ask HN: How to debug windows audio pipeline

Hi, I really enjoy blogs about people disecting system in order to find why some bug exists. I have issue on my Windows computer that audio can start crack stutter and only thing that help is restart. I would like to dive into OS and find out what going on, but I miss some introduction into how do such OS debugging. So if you could point me to some tutorial that could introduce me into such...

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Re:The Wendelstein 7-X concept proves its efficiency on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:08PM (#28215414)
As I see it the problem is also in approach to big new projects. Usually you have long careful preparation to build something about what you have no clear idea how to do it, since it was not build before. But investors, in this case usually government, wants to see some classical project, with schedule / waterfall but in reality it should be more, as what mentioned SpaceX is doing. Which as I understand is fast iteration on unclear solution with clear goal. But I can understand that investors prefer to have ordinary projects as it is more classic approach. The issue is the way it works every time is the same. Project starts everything is fine. Some small delays on milestones but OK, then someone finds out that state of project is actually much worse than expected. Director is fired and the cycle starts again. On the end there is somehow working somehow done project.
Re:Reprogramming a Sennheiser Microphone on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:25PM (#28001043)
Hi, thats amazing! I was trying if it would be possible to find the software or the cables somewhere hidden on web. But it's looks like there is nothing. This was actually the motivation for the blogpost in case someone want to the same thing, so he can get the informations.

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