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Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting? 837 by genedangelo | 148 comments on Hacker News. In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve the efficiency of order processing and fulfillment. Since then, all my jobs for the past 57 years have involved computer programming. I am now a data scientist developing cloud-based big data fraud detection algorithms using machine learning and other advanced analytical technologies. Along the way, I earned a Master’s in Operations Research and a Master’s in Management Science, studied artificial intelligence for 3 years in a Ph.D. program for engineering, and just two years ago I received Graduate Certificates in Big Data Analytics from the schools of business and computer science at a local university (FAU). In addition, I currently hold the desig...

Zero-day in Sign in with Apple 751 by masnick | 190 comments on Hacker News.

SpaceX successfully launches two humans into orbit 816 by tosh | 321 comments on Hacker News.

Why is Kubernetes getting so popular? 675 by a7b3fa | 589 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter hides Donald Trump tweet for “glorifying violence” 666 by danso | 961 comments on Hacker News.

Tools for Better Thinking 484 by mmoez | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page 442 by shihn | 60 comments on Hacker News.

The Vintage Beauty of Soviet Control Rooms (2018) 439 by ricardomcgowan | 182 comments on Hacker News.

AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor 538 by zaiste | 91 comments on Hacker News.

Rediscovering the Small Web 426 by livatlantis | 106 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube actively deletes anti CCP comments 435 by podnami | 179 comments on Hacker News.

Htmx – high power tools for HTML 573 by oftenwrong | 137 comments on Hacker News.

The Day AppGet Died 640 by lostmsu | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Trump threatens to 'close' down social media platforms 527 by patd | 1286 comments on Hacker News.

Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs with thousands more planned 509 by hhs | 399 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files 533 by ericax | 250 comments on Hacker News.

Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results 814 by zenexer | 345 comments on Hacker News.

I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next 617 by AlexeyBrin | 321 comments on Hacker News.

Speed.cloudflare.com 475 by manigandham | 144 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform 652 by HermanMartinus | 337 comments on Hacker News.

I've collected over 600 pitch decks 595 by drew_m | 84 comments on Hacker News.

The US Army's earth-shaking, off-road land trains 506 by tomohawk | 114 comments on Hacker News.

Supabase (YC S20) – An open source Firebase alternative 755 by vira28 | 271 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive 681 by longdefeat | 497 comments on Hacker News.

AWS services explained in one line each 659 by jaytaph | 184 comments on Hacker News.

I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something 604 by notRobot | 60 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology 617 by trianx | 393 comments on Hacker News. This just landed in my inbox. The discussion on hackernews ( https://ift.tt/3c2KiNO ) surely helped Triplebyte understand that it was a mistake to create public profiles of their users by default: Email by Triplebyte CEO, Ammon: --- Hi xxxxx, There’s no other way to put this--I screwed up badly. On Friday evening, I sent an email to you about a new feature called public Triplebyte profiles. We failed to think through the effects of this feature on our community, and made the profiles default public with an option to opt out. Many of you were rightfully angry. I am truly sorry. As CEO, this is my fault. I made this decision. Effective immediately, we are canceling this feature. You came to us with the goal of landing a great software engineering job. As part of that, you entrusted us with your personal, sensitive information, including both the fact that you are job searching as well as the resu...

How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1k users 564 by maxgt | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Jepsen: MongoDB 4.2.6 544 by aphyr | 224 comments on Hacker News.

Product Marketing for Engineers 555 by rofws | 59 comments on Hacker News.

Jepsen Disputes MongoDB's Data Consistency Claims 533 by anarchyrucks | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down 600 by roadbeats | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Netflix stops charging customers who never watch 623 by d99kris | 456 comments on Hacker News.

I think my BBQ just offered to be my default browser? 603 by Kroeler | 229 comments on Hacker News.

Breathing habits are related to physical and mental health 494 by SirLJ | 260 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox extensions to make remote work and school a little better 518 by joeyespo | 185 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public 625 by winston_smith | 272 comments on Hacker News. Fortunately this email made it through my spam filter. Looks like they want to take on LinkedIn and are planning to seed it by making existing accounts public unless you opt OUT within the next week: Hey [redacted], I’m excited to announce that we are expanding the reach of your Triplebyte profile. Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do well on a Triplebyte assessment, your profile will showcase that achievement (we won’t show your scores publicly). Unlike LinkedIn, we aim to become your digital engineering skills resume — a credential based on actual skills, not pedigree. The new profiles will be launching publicly in 1 week. This is a great opportunity to update...

Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list? 589 by iameoghan | 438 comments on Hacker News. For me a couple of interesting technology products that help me in my day-to-day job 1. Hasura 2. Strapi 3. Forest Admin (super interesting although I cannot ever get it to connect to a hasura backend on Heroku ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4. Integromat 5. Appgyver There are many others that I have my eye on such as NodeRed[6], but have yet to use. I do realise that these are all low-code related, however, I would be super interested in being made aware of cool other cool & upcoming tech that is making waves. What's on your 'to watch' list? [1] https://hasura.io/ [2] https://strapi.io/ [3] https://ift.tt/2p6eimS [4] https://ift.tt/1N3LkvM [5] https://ift.tt/1T5iPym [6] https://nodered.org/

Siri, What Time Is It in London? 561 by jmsflknr | 603 comments on Hacker News.

MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design 658 by jrk | 400 comments on Hacker News.

The original source code of Microsoft GW-BASIC from 1983 481 by AlexeyBrin | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Stealing secrets from developers using WebSockets 471 by stestagg | 129 comments on Hacker News.

An introduction to RabbitMQ 430 by olikas | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook to shift permanently toward more remote work after coronavirus 420 by Bahamut | 434 comments on Hacker News.

Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images 435 by danso | 381 comments on Hacker News.

Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in living memory 557 by ProAm | 243 comments on Hacker News.

What Is Nix? 549 by elsewhen | 306 comments on Hacker News.

Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work 419 by ColinWright | 124 comments on Hacker News.

Surviving Depression 453 by vishnumohandas | 189 comments on Hacker News.

The death of corporate research labs 406 by fanf2 | 223 comments on Hacker News.

X 547 by boffinism | 86 comments on Hacker News.

EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3 523 by haunter | 120 comments on Hacker News.

Ray tracing in notepad.exe at 30 FPS 463 by ingve | 51 comments on Hacker News.

Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? 557 by BCharlie | 259 comments on Hacker News.

DirectX is coming to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 680 by modeless | 453 comments on Hacker News.

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem 450 by theafh | 66 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app 511 by prostoalex | 272 comments on Hacker News.

Woman who designed Florida's Covid-19 dashboard removed from her position 498 by danso | 226 comments on Hacker News.

A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case 698 by sciurus | 250 comments on Hacker News.

Florida scientist fired for refusing to manipulate Covid-19 data 680 by tmountain | 182 comments on Hacker News.

Notion for everyone 583 by FireBeyond | 303 comments on Hacker News.

New York Times phasing out all 3rd-party advertising data 573 by jbegley | 285 comments on Hacker News.

Don't set the language of your website based on user location 579 by pedrogpimenta | 289 comments on Hacker News.

Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf] 714 by ketanmaheshwari | 146 comments on Hacker News.

John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code 634 by hellschreiber | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Uber cuts 3000 more jobs, closes 45 offices 646 by WFHRenaissance | 361 comments on Hacker News.

New.css – A classless CSS framework to write modern websites using only HTML 664 by sdan | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Google deletes “communist bandits” 共匪 comments on Youtube globally. 778 by zaggynl | 377 comments on Hacker News.

Google bans Podcast Addict app over non-approved Covid-19 content 641 by garyclarke27 | 284 comments on Hacker News.

Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage 575 by lunchbreak | 224 comments on Hacker News.

US Secret Service: “Massive Fraud” Against State Unemployment Insurance Programs 556 by elsewhen | 525 comments on Hacker News.

It’s Time to Get Back to RSS 534 by danielrm26 | 218 comments on Hacker News.

It’s OK for your open source library to be a bit shitty (2015) 469 by mmcloughlin | 219 comments on Hacker News.

What every software engineer should know about Apache Kafka 426 by aloknnikhil | 183 comments on Hacker News.

If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs 594 by TTTThis | 402 comments on Hacker News.

Game Programming Patterns (2014) 420 by simonpure | 46 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites? 415 by cJ0th | 166 comments on Hacker News. Discovering unknown paths of the web seems almost impossible with google et al.. Are there any earch engines which exclude or at least penalize results from, say, top 500 websites?

Swift 5.3 Will Be Supported on Windows and Additional Linux Distributions 408 by nan0 | 255 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please? 716 by krm01 | 426 comments on Hacker News. Of all places, HN should be dark mode by default, without any of us using a plugin or specific browser. I don't want my eyes to burn when I'm browsing HN at night on my phone. Anyone?

Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust lawsuits against Google 472 by xoxoy | 450 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M 929 by coloneltcb | 492 comments on Hacker News.

TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S. 517 by ytch | 411 comments on Hacker News.

A small restaurant owner on Google, DoorDash, and Grubhub 847 by rmason | 368 comments on Hacker News.

UNODC report on East and Southeast Asia: continued growth in the supply of methamphetamine while synthetic opioids spread Published May 15, 2020 at 08:27PM Read more at unodc.org

Do not Draw a Penis 721 by dvt | 307 comments on Hacker News.

Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently 651 by feross | 314 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project? 585 by dhr | 1281 comments on Hacker News. For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on / building / learning? I've been making excessive amounts of bread.

92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people 696 by DeusExMachina | 379 comments on Hacker News.

Message from the Executive Heads of the four main Vienna-based United Nations organizations (VBOs) Published May 14, 2020 at 10:15AM Read more at unodc.org

COVID-19 measures likely to lead to an increase in migrant smuggling and human trafficking in longer term, UNODC report finds Published May 14, 2020 at 08:54PM Read more at unodc.org

Show HN: This Word Does Not Exist 631 by turtlesoup | 247 comments on Hacker News.

Deno 1.0 608 by theBashShell | 246 comments on Hacker News.

Redditor finds unsecured surveillance cameras seemingly placed by US government 560 by nbrempel | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension 565 by cimnine | 202 comments on Hacker News.

A first look at Unreal Engine 5 614 by HammadB | 262 comments on Hacker News.

Forced returns of migrants must be suspended in times of COVID-19 Published May 14, 2020 at 05:52AM Read more at unodc.org

Show HN: SHA-256 Animation 555 by inersha | 53 comments on Hacker News.

How COVID-19 is changing the world: UNODC highlights impact on homicide and drug trafficking Published May 14, 2020 at 12:26AM Read more at unodc.org

Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think 489 by secondbreakfast | 240 comments on Hacker News.

React Native for Windows and Mac 528 by ed | 363 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned 476 by baicunko | 146 comments on Hacker News.

Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order 562 by heshiebee | 1136 comments on Hacker News.

Bitcoin Halving Just Occured 534 by 3ds | 642 comments on Hacker News.

New Abbott SARS-CoV-2 antibody test has 99.90% specificity and 100% sensitivity 475 by bookofjoe | 265 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever 713 by minimaxir | 326 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before? 590 by behnamoh | 531 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for mind games, plot twists, brain expanding books, and literally anything that transforms me into a smarter, wiser person.

A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra 580 by organicfigs | 132 comments on Hacker News.

Thank you for helping us increase our bandwidth 574 by edward | 173 comments on Hacker News.

Pi-hole 5.0 561 by Iolaum | 241 comments on Hacker News.

We at $Famous_company switched to $Hyped_technology 625 by gok | 106 comments on Hacker News.

Create Diagrams in VS Code with Draw.io 582 by sharjeelsayed | 104 comments on Hacker News.

Make LLVM Fast Again 555 by notriddle | 214 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Call Mom 558 by benatkin | 206 comments on Hacker News. I remembered this post from six years ago, and thought it would be good to have a post like it on HN today. It's especially important to call important people in your life today with the pandemic, both for the caller and the person (or people) being called. It may also be worth setting up a Zoom (or Jitsi Meet, or Google Hangouts, or Facebook, or another group video call service) gathering. I joined one for my little brother's birthday late last month, and it was really good for feeling connected. https://ift.tt/RCxrJ0

Second-Guessing the Modern Web 647 by erict15 | 398 comments on Hacker News.

MS Flight Simulator 2020 vs. Real life 613 by lelf | 223 comments on Hacker News.

Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font 580 by phoe-krk | 231 comments on Hacker News.

Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers 529 by hmhhcycbtsc557 | 111 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor 502 by rxi | 218 comments on Hacker News.

Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models 469 by hardmaru | 48 comments on Hacker News.