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Re:GPU World on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:52PM (#49524581)
Do submissions need to be in English? If so, that'll prevent a huge chunk of us from participating.

Ask HN: How do I even use a computer anymore?

I'm a senior consultant (DevOps, security) with 15+ years of experience. When not doing work for a client, I don't seem to know what to do with my computer anymore... I get put off by all the threats/friction I've been exposed to professionally. Does this happen to any one of you too? I think most of my pain points are related to being perma-connected to the Internet but it might be something...

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Show HN: FeedForge – Get RSS updates when specific parts of any webpage change

https://feedforge.io/

I built FeedForge to solve a frustrating problem I often encountered: many interesting blogs and websites I enjoy lack RSS feeds, the same goes for many local government agencies where I live (though they have Instagram/X/TikTok profiles...)What started as a personal tool evolved into something more versatile.FeedForge generates RSS feeds for any website, with XPath/CSS selector support to...

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Ask HN: Is the World Going to Shit?

About a year ago I stumbled upon the degrowth concept and subsequently picked up the book "Degrowth: Less is More" by Jason Hickel. For those unfamiliar with the term: "an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to finite planetary boundaries".[1]There's been some of HN posts mentioning degrowth in the past but they were heavily criticized[2][3]. I get some degrowthist...

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That makes total sense, cheers!
I'll see how to integrate such a feature in SimpleKV so that it keeps being simple. I like the idea a lot, thanks!
Thanks for your feedback! I see input sanitation as a double-edged sword: it could potentially prevent some misuse of the service (since it's 100% anonymous), but then ultimately you're the "owner" of your keys (though they're in reality public) and you should be able to write whatever you want in them.

I guess this argument could also be applied to Pastebin? Should it be returning raw HTML if asked to?

Thank you for your feedback! For now, I wanted to gauge interest and/or traction in such a service. I will definitely add a Donate button in it once the backend starts to max out the VPS where it lives.

As for the backend, it's a Flask-based API. I'll look into your suggestion though!

Thanks! My use case was very specific, but the concept is so simple I was wondering what people would do with it.
I'll open source it in the coming weeks. Feel free to e-mail me: simplekv at protonmail dot com
Re:Amazon Review Scam on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @04:58AM (#25044266)
Yup, I have to admit I do this myself. A good amount of things in my household have been acquired like this.

I'm on a few WeChat groups where the reps of different manufacturing firms constantly upload pictures of the newest products they sell on Amazon. For a 5 star review, I'll get a full refund either via Paypal or WeChat Pay.

Re:Trump says he will ban TikTok through executive action on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:02AM (#24019240)
The message that would trascend from such an action is that our vision of how a society should work was no better than the one in China. The West always believed their ideals and principles around "democracy" and "freedom" were superior to those of the CCP.

Now the West also needs to ban <X> (in this case, a social media platform) to function and is no better than its rival. If anything, this would prove the CCP was always right when it applied such measures in the past.

This sets a scary -albeit interesting- precedent.