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Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse? 529 by itchyjunk | 315 comments on Hacker News. I used to have better time googling in the past. I struggle to find things I remember finding in the past using google. I think I might be stuck in some old habits of googling and I've lost touch with modern google. For example, google seems to want full sentences instead of just keywords now. "How do I do X?" seems to get me better(?) results then "X + some relevant keyword". But I can't seem to get past this "most popular responses" google things I need. I do appreciate youtube videos marked at certain times but watching video isn't always what I want to do. Tangentially, has youtube search been integrated to youtube search or something now? I used to be able to search obscure music in youtube. "Sal dulu a" would both recommend "Sal dulu antasma" and list it but now unless i search for that particularly, it doesn't...

4x Smaller, 50x Faster 502 by pama | 107 comments on Hacker News.

Accepted and ghosted: interviewing for a leadership position at Stripe 453 by danrocks | 216 comments on Hacker News. Recently I interviewed with Stripe for an engineering MoM (Manager of Managers) for one of their teams. I interview regularly, so I am used to many types of processes, feedback mechanisms, and so on. I won't go into details about the questions because there's nothing special about them, but I wanted to share some details of my experience for people thinking of interviewing there. 1) About 35-40% of the interviewers started their questioning by saying "I will only need 20 minutes for this", while emphasizing it is an important leadership position that they are hiring for. So 20 minutes is all needed to identify "important, critical leaders"? What a strange thing to say - also a GREAT way to make candidates feel important and wanted! 2) There is significant shuffling of interviewers and schedules. One almost has to be on-call to be able to r...

Winamp source code leak 438 by svlasov | 298 comments on Hacker News.

Tiny 526 by omarfarooq | 131 comments on Hacker News.

I resigned from Twitter 485 by ryzvonusef | 367 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox is the alternative to a complete Chrome hegemony 447 by gmemstr | 268 comments on Hacker News.

Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains 444 by bmc7505 | 234 comments on Hacker News.

Jaguar Parade calls to artists for its exhibition in New York City. Published November 30, 2021 at 02:54AM Read more at unodc.org

Indian academics throw weight behind Sci-Hub and LibGen in landmark case 489 by ofou | 84 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: GitHub is down again 432 by pupdogg | 264 comments on Hacker News. Yet somehow https://ift.tt/2rzqrAY is ALL GREEN! smh

Books that changed my career as a software engineer 517 by julianogtz | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Proof of stake is a scam and the people promoting it are scammers 465 by alg0rith | 378 comments on Hacker News.

Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money 446 by mjmayank | 317 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? 433 by whitepoplar | 887 comments on Hacker News. I'll go first. I think the Bialetti Brikka is exceptional: https://ift.tt/3raNZMj...

The fish shell is amazing 434 by RMPR | 283 comments on Hacker News.

OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware 590 by transpute | 296 comments on Hacker News.

Greening of the Earth Mitigates Surface Warming (2020) 433 by themantra514 | 281 comments on Hacker News.

Apple will notify users about state-sponsored cybersecurity threats 527 by evercast | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org 666 by endymi0n | 51 comments on Hacker News.

90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before 603 by belter | 205 comments on Hacker News.

New German government calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance 570 by giuliomagnifico | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Underrated Reasons to Be Thankful 589 by dynm | 197 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving Everyone 606 by mr_o47 | 118 comments on Hacker News. I have been really thankful for hackernews. This place has been full of great knowledge and people. I really appreciate the efforts of the people who are running this platform. HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Samsung plans $17B chip plant in Taylor, Texas 511 by kungfudoi | 370 comments on Hacker News.

QOI: Lossless Image Compression in O(n) Time 551 by Ragnarork | 167 comments on Hacker News.

Things I learned from building a production database 480 by dangoldin | 100 comments on Hacker News.

Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s 548 by mrzool | 480 comments on Hacker News.

The World's Deadliest Thing 537 by mkeeter | 217 comments on Hacker News.

Boards are dangerous to founder/CEOs 573 by tosh | 263 comments on Hacker News.

Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware 551 by todsacerdoti | 203 comments on Hacker News.

Full key extraction of Nvidia TSEC 534 by vitplister | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Remix – A framework focused on web fundamentals and modern UX 529 by canyonero | 260 comments on Hacker News.

Fingerprints can be hacked 511 by SerCe | 216 comments on Hacker News.

The Stroad 504 by PaulHoule | 311 comments on Hacker News.

Rust Moderation Team Resigns 601 by hasheddan | 529 comments on Hacker News.

Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) 514 by Fiveplus | 295 comments on Hacker News.

Advent of Code 2021 497 by amenghra | 106 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft Edge’s new ‘Buy now, pay later’ feature is the definition of bloatware 476 by JCWasmx86 | 313 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing 465 by cdahmedeh | 317 comments on Hacker News. I was watching a video game documentary about the history of the RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise, a theme park management game that had both an easy learning curve but with incredibly sophisticated dynamics. What really impressed me however was the origins of the first two titles: written by one man in assembly language. At that point, I realized how mediocre and untalented I was. Nothing I’m doing in my life are anything that people will remember me for. Throughout my life, I’ve seen many awe inspiring projects done by extremely talented people, way more intelligent than I am, come to fruition. Over the years, I realized how shallow and dumb I really am. I’m uninteresting. Most of my career revolved around software development, something that I’ve done since I was 17 (now I'm 30) until a few years ago. I found myself writing entreprise software usually ...

Vertiwalk Vertical Walking 456 by hliyan | 82 comments on Hacker News.

UNODC’s ‘Super Skills’ supports skill development for vulnerable children worldwide Published November 21, 2021 at 12:28AM Read more at unodc.org

Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app 446 by ChrisArchitect | 111 comments on Hacker News.

Crypto Wash Trading 541 by paulpauper | 291 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Pony – a messenger for mindful correspondence 583 by dmitryminkovsky | 206 comments on Hacker News.

Elfshaker: Version control system fine-tuned for binaries 518 by jim90 | 107 comments on Hacker News.

Tasking developers with creating detailed estimates is a waste of time (2020) 453 by lauriswtf | 251 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter rolls back AMP support, no longer sends users to AMP pages 544 by twapi | 101 comments on Hacker News.

10 years of whatever this has been 461 by zdw | 679 comments on Hacker News.

Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster 461 by tomasreimers | 278 comments on Hacker News.

UNODC launches Synthetic Drug Strategy to prevent global crisis Published November 19, 2021 at 10:16PM Read more at unodc.org

SerenityOS demo at Handmade Seattle 2021 [video] 680 by akling | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors 643 by Nirali_Feige | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a Chrome extension that can automate any website 555 by dkthehuman | 174 comments on Hacker News.

How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home 574 by kdavis | 99 comments on Hacker News.

Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know 553 by 4monthsaway | 511 comments on Hacker News.

Apple announces Self Service Repair 557 by todsacerdoti | 195 comments on Hacker News.

Microsoft Calls Firefox’s Browser Workaround “Improper,” Will Block It 523 by Vinnl | 292 comments on Hacker News.

“Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says 480 by spzx | 165 comments on Hacker News.

Security issue related to the NPM registry 474 by ManuelKiessling | 167 comments on Hacker News.

I hate password rules 447 by CapitalistCartr | 360 comments on Hacker News.

There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada 419 by actually_a_dog | 259 comments on Hacker News.

Afghan opiates supply 8 out of 10 opiate users worldwide, UNODC finds, as experts meet in Vienna to combat illicit trafficking Published November 17, 2021 at 06:30AM Read more at unodc.org

Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships 456 by tosh | 373 comments on Hacker News.

Individuals Matter 443 by benfrederickson | 206 comments on Hacker News.

YouTube takes down independent court livestreams 428 by crocodiletears | 292 comments on Hacker News.

macOS Monterey's new network quality tool is surprisingly good 413 by danpetrov | 78 comments on Hacker News.

Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices today despite mitigations 452 by buran77 | 206 comments on Hacker News.

Bar-tailed Godwits regularly travel more than 7,000 miles non-stop 416 by mcenedella | 182 comments on Hacker News.

Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013) 453 by SergeAx | 170 comments on Hacker News.

Debugging memory corruption: who the hell writes “2” into my stack? (2016) 395 by darknavi | 141 comments on Hacker News.

U.S. states file updated antitrust complaint against Google 409 by mancerayder | 243 comments on Hacker News.

'Stop punishing human trafficking victims' says leading UN Forum Published November 16, 2021 at 10:59AM Read more at unodc.org

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI 450 by zdw | 132 comments on Hacker News.

Hoax email blast abused poor coding in FBI website 393 by todsacerdoti | 91 comments on Hacker News.

Reverse-engineering the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer's sound chip from die photos 389 by picture | 121 comments on Hacker News.

Restic – Backups Done Right 500 by IceWreck | 259 comments on Hacker News.

Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys 602 by h1x | 295 comments on Hacker News.

Email from FBI Looks Odd 456 by jacksoncloud | 155 comments on Hacker News.

ISO should make all standards Publicly Available 546 by yegle | 172 comments on Hacker News.

Useful sed scripts and patterns 515 by adrianscheff | 118 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Long Range E-Bike 610 by jacquesm | 462 comments on Hacker News.

MEDIA ADVISORY - GlobE Network Members Meeting Creating a community of anti-corruption practitioners Published November 13, 2021 at 06:44AM Read more at unodc.org

The gradual extinction of softness 575 by flabber | 113 comments on Hacker News.

How to make a CPU – a simple picture-based explanation 577 by robertelder | 161 comments on Hacker News.

Business Essentials 592 by judge2020 | 306 comments on Hacker News.

3D printed mirror array 775 by agmm | 105 comments on Hacker News.

Rich Harris joins Vercel to work on Svelte full time 701 by leodriesch | 354 comments on Hacker News.

I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old 701 by dario_satu | 511 comments on Hacker News.

La trata de personas, una herramienta de los grupos armados para financiar sus actividades: informe de UNODC Published November 07, 2021 at 08:29PM Read more at unodc.org

Making the dislike count private across YouTube 691 by minimaxir | 847 comments on Hacker News.

Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors 593 by julosflb | 399 comments on Hacker News.

We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem 557 by kmdupree | 273 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I'm 48 and finally learning how to be a game developer 566 by bananabat | 151 comments on Hacker News.

Lesser-known Postgres features 537 by CRConrad | 133 comments on Hacker News.

ProctorU is dystopian spyware 499 by smitop | 306 comments on Hacker News.

.NET 6 Released 466 by tonicbbleking | 390 comments on Hacker News.

Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware 523 by bjourne | 298 comments on Hacker News.

IOC and UNODC extend collaboration to fight corruption and crime in sport Published November 10, 2021 at 04:21AM Read more at unodc.org

Pinterest ruined photo search on the internet 530 by spyke112 | 193 comments on Hacker News.

Use forums rather than Slack/Discord to support developer community 615 by gk1 | 310 comments on Hacker News.

Don’t do interviews, do discussions 492 by maddynator | 377 comments on Hacker News.

Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday 515 by mofosyne | 89 comments on Hacker News. For the general public he was seen as just another hacktivist along with various hacktivist groups that were active around the time like lulzsec and anonymous. But for the wider internet community, he represents something much much more, especially post 2020 where we are all questioning many aspect of governance that we take for granted as the normal state of the world. In November the eight of 1986 Aaron Swartz was born. While his early childhood was like any other kid, he showed early spark of someone who would be very consequential to internet culture. One of his first website to be recognized by the public is "The Info Network" a user generated encyclopedia, created at the age of 12 years old which won the ArsDigita Prize. But later on he was accepted into Y Combinator's founder program on a startup called infogami. While infogami failed to get further funding, his contribution ...

Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro 500 by miles | 458 comments on Hacker News.

A terrible schema from a clueless programmer 465 by zdw | 298 comments on Hacker News.

Timeline of the Human Condition 464 by piotrgrudzien | 110 comments on Hacker News.

Don’t be spooky 480 by mooreds | 204 comments on Hacker News.

What is AT&T doing at 1111340002? 472 by mperham | 129 comments on Hacker News.

Helion 459 by sixhobbits | 211 comments on Hacker News.

How credit cards make money 468 by grn | 318 comments on Hacker News.

Our self imposed scarcity of nice places 467 by Fricken | 537 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for? 455 by edhowzerblack | 421 comments on Hacker News. I've moved around quite a bit these past several years and I feel like every company has been the same. Management don't know what they want the product to be. Project managers don't know anything about technology. There's an offshore team in Traansylvania busy making it a legacy codebase. They don't want to give developers raises... I see "Who's Hiring?" threads and "Who Wants To Be Hired?" threads. How about a "Who Doesn't Suck To Work For?" thread? Not sure if this will take off or get deleted ...but if it does take off, it would be great if developers --not recruiters-- replied to this. Tell us why your company is a good place to work so we can apply there :-)

Show HN: I built a CNC-machine from scratch, using 40x 3D-printed parts 457 by mfi | 136 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare 578 by hamaluik | 260 comments on Hacker News.

Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85% 533 by jeremylevy | 654 comments on Hacker News.

Why is Excalidraw so good? 521 by zekenie | 205 comments on Hacker News.

Stockholm parents built their own school app, then the city called the cops 476 by hakonbogen | 308 comments on Hacker News.

HashiCorp – S1 526 by mootpt | 151 comments on Hacker News.

An oral history of Bank Python 503 by todsacerdoti | 181 comments on Hacker News.