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It's easier and faster to pirate an e-book, than it is to buy it 572 by leoff | 464 comments on Hacker News. The end of the year is coming, and I have some funds left from my company learning budget. I wanted to give it back to some of the authors that still help me in my developer journey, by buying some of their work online and hopefully contributing to their income, but the following happened: 1. I went to Amazon, since I have a kindle and didn't want to buy physical books. Amazon doesn't have a shopping card for kindle books, so I started buying them one by one. My company uses Spendesk for managing funds, so for each of the purchase I created a new virtual card and bought them. After a few minutes my Amazon account is blocked for suspicious activity, and ALL my kindle library is wiped, and the funds are returned to my company. 2. Not wanting to give up, I go to a different online store, Thalia, to buy the books again. After buying them, I download the files, which a...

Draw SVG rope using JavaScript 767 by stankot | 45 comments on Hacker News.

A search engine for searching books in the Z-Library index on the IPFS network 741 by baptiste313 | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default 693 by withinboredom | 334 comments on Hacker News.

Pelé has died 677 by mfiguiere | 211 comments on Hacker News.

Barnes and Noble's surprising turnaround 672 by AlbertCory | 354 comments on Hacker News.

Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job 614 by sbuccini | 355 comments on Hacker News.

US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf] 603 by diimdeep | 370 comments on Hacker News.

How to Befriend Crows 551 by karmanyaahm | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 530 by graderjs | 109 comments on Hacker News. Hope your 2023’s great. I’m sorry for all of you that were laid off or affected by the virus or lockdowns. Next year will be better! Keep the faith!

“Nobody cares about your blog” 561 by barry-cotter | 102 comments on Hacker News.

The situation at LastPass may be worse than they are letting on 576 by wyxuan | 392 comments on Hacker News.

Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation 579 by hazebooth | 109 comments on Hacker News.

Merry Christmas, HN 762 by Thorentis | 121 comments on Hacker News. Just wanted to wish everybody here a Merry Christmas. HN is one of those Internet communities which I would be the saddest to see go, even looking back on other communities in which I've participated over the years. I see many posts here about loneliness, nihilism, friendships (or lack thereof) and just wanted to let everybody here know that life is never hopeless, and there are always people who care, even if they're thousands of miles away. Please reach out to loved ones this season and let them know you love them. Life is short, and you never know when the last time you'll be wishing somebody a Merry Christmas will be. I wish you all the very best for 2023.

Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays! 771 by O__________O | 76 comments on Hacker News.

I am done. I give up 685 by wakana | 390 comments on Hacker News. I'm writing this post because I'm done. I can't do this anymore. After three failed attempts at building a successful startup and spending time institutionalized, I'm giving up on my entrepreneurship dreams. I tried everything - building an audience, making sure my product actually solved a problem, getting paying customers, and writing high-quality content and contributing to the community. But no matter what I did, I couldn't seem to get anywhere. My efforts were fruitless and I'm tired of trying. I barely had 20 followers, my substack and product blogs didn't get any signups, and while I did get a few upvotes (8) on Product Hunt once, I never had a paid customer. It was as if the world was against me and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't make any progress. I remember trying to interact and hype up my fellow indiehackers on Twitter, regularly engaging with their content, but no o...

Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077 547 by pierremenard | 48 comments on Hacker News.

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location 550 by alphabetting | 256 comments on Hacker News.

UnifiedPush: A decentralized, open-source push notification protocol 473 by mikece | 104 comments on Hacker News.

Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift 469 by geox | 369 comments on Hacker News.

Welcome to Comprehensive Rust 432 by eecc | 155 comments on Hacker News.

WebAssembly: Docker Without Containers 408 by RebootStr | 270 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately 443 by mprime1 | 179 comments on Hacker News.

Okta says its GitHub account hacked, source code stolen 379 by nazgulsenpai | 134 comments on Hacker News.

I still use Flash 442 by rogual | 156 comments on Hacker News.

Apple Music deletes your original songs and replaces them with DRM'd versions 368 by josephcsible | 169 comments on Hacker News.

January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all 666 by CharlesW | 363 comments on Hacker News.

Spotifyd 697 by fahrradflucht | 219 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas 769 by ericax | 215 comments on Hacker News.

Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative 749 by ryzvonusef | 1448 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Has anyone here turned around their life in their 40s? 701 by Deutscher | 433 comments on Hacker News. I know the best of my life is behind me, but I need help salvaging what's left of it. I've been meaning to ask for help for a couple of years now, but only now got around to it after being scared by my first real suicidal ideation a few nights ago. HN is probably not a suitable platform for this, but /r/advice seems to be not very active and I can't post on /adv/ due to some IP range ban. There are no mental health facilities in the small town where I live. I let my professional network decay and die, and there is literally nowhere else I can get any kind of useful, actionable advice. I'm a 43-years-old single guy, NEET for the past decade. I got my Master's in the US in the late 2000s and was gainfully employed there for a few years (NOT in my field of education; long story) until I had to return to my home country to take care of my ailing father. He p...

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll 620 by calcifer | 568 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? 593 by CM30 | 415 comments on Hacker News. Not newspapers or media services (though those can be annoying too), but products in general? It feels like it's getting harder and harder to just buy something in the tech world, especially when it comes to running programs on my home computer. Want a password manager? It's a SaaS now. Note taking app? SaaS. Image editor or office suite? SaaS (thanks Adobe...) This is especially annoying given I generally refuse to rent anything in life, and will go out of my way to buy something upfront simply so there's no risk of losing it if finances get worse in future (or the wrong billionaire buys the company). Yet it seems like it's getting harder to do so, especially when open source products don't exist for that domain. So yeah, why is that? And is anyone else tired of the constant barrage of subscriptions for things that should be one off purchases?

Twitter suspends pg's account 1115 by operatingthetan | 704 comments on Hacker News.

Paul Graham is leaving Twitter 428 by sanketpatrikar | 329 comments on Hacker News.

Promotion of alternative social platforms policy 661 by ttepasse | 537 comments on Hacker News.

OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out 447 by sadiq | 164 comments on Hacker News.

Autopsy-based characterization of myocarditis after anti-SARS-CoV-2-vaccination 491 by Octokiddie | 619 comments on Hacker News.

John Carmack Leaves Meta 644 by viburnum | 383 comments on Hacker News.

A Linux Evening 546 by ingve | 242 comments on Hacker News.

Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports 537 by mfiguiere | 613 comments on Hacker News.

Atom was archived today 684 by Bondi_Blue | 510 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter applies 7-day suspension to prominent journalists 660 by prawn | 782 comments on Hacker News.

Htmx in a Nutshell 632 by tosh | 387 comments on Hacker News.

Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate Music 763 by MitPitt | 154 comments on Hacker News.

Twitter has re-suspended ElonJet account 660 by SXX | 1017 comments on Hacker News.

A circuit simulator that doesn't look like it was made in 2003 684 by malerba118 | 184 comments on Hacker News.

SvelteKit 1.0 675 by theodorejb | 226 comments on Hacker News.

ElonJet Is Now Suspended 794 by ffsoftboiled | 643 comments on Hacker News.

Recursive Game of Life 584 by alden5 | 78 comments on Hacker News.

After 20 years the Dwarf Fortress devs have to get used to being millionaires 557 by robin_reala | 334 comments on Hacker News.

LosslessCut: lossless video/audio editing 545 by spking | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Apple to allow outside app stores in overhaul spurred by EU laws 501 by MBCook | 568 comments on Hacker News.

Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal 534 by jger15 | 615 comments on Hacker News.

US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved 800 by novateg | 413 comments on Hacker News.

Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab 709 by zackoverflow | 600 comments on Hacker News.

SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities 733 by zone411 | 468 comments on Hacker News.

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer 655 by sonabinu | 178 comments on Hacker News.

Just use Postgres for everything 633 by KingOfCoders | 373 comments on Hacker News.

Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe 552 by starsep | 328 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub” and users are being punished 570 by 2Gkashmiri | 305 comments on Hacker News. The offending website "nopecha.com", which unfortunately i found about a week ago on HN itself appeared to be another captcha service but one that was offering "1 Sec" solve speed for text captchas. i was interested and by the looks of it, a lot of people. their webisite only had "sign in with google" so i didnt bother. The day before i check the website out of boredom and saw "sign in with github". i logged in, clicked through a bunch of pages because its the same drill everytime. i found out that i had "automatically starred their repos". by the looks of it, around 500 "stars", the last i saw. suddenly i am unable to log in to my github and the page just says "account suspended." contacted their support and the last response i got from them was "your ban should stay as you engaged in ...

Executive Director's Message on International Anti-Corruption Day 2022 Published December 10, 2022 at 02:37AM Read more at unodc.org

Finding the B-21's hanger location from the stars in its press image 485 by johnmcelhone | 145 comments on Hacker News.

You don't need live chat on your website 469 by 5amdotis | 214 comments on Hacker News.

I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language 525 by Schiphol | 237 comments on Hacker News.

Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups 724 by frizlab | 576 comments on Hacker News.

Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux 561 by sohkamyung | 213 comments on Hacker News.

Open-source hospital price transparency 502 by sl-dolt | 187 comments on Hacker News.

Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game 498 by danso | 184 comments on Hacker News.

Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting 468 by bertman | 422 comments on Hacker News.

Mac OS 9 517 by Shank | 204 comments on Hacker News.

Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location 459 by matteocontrini | 288 comments on Hacker News.

Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software 452 by mdswanson | 277 comments on Hacker News.

Administrators Have Seized the Ivory Tower 440 by jseliger | 285 comments on Hacker News.

The War on General Purpose Computing (2015) [video] 436 by tosh | 244 comments on Hacker News.

Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet? 456 by jasonhansel | 344 comments on Hacker News.

Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT 733 by 317070 | 418 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks 506 by tpetry | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo 490 by nixcraft | 855 comments on Hacker News.

People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life” 502 by isp | 236 comments on Hacker News.

“Humanitarian crises and global conflicts are increasing human trafficking” says leading UN Forum Published December 03, 2022 at 11:50AM Read more at unodc.org

Sperm counts worldwide are plummeting faster than we thought 616 by Brajeshwar | 1059 comments on Hacker News.

Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon 668 by 2bit | 152 comments on Hacker News.

Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet 634 by stale2002 | 598 comments on Hacker News.

TSMC to make 4nm chips in Arizona for Apple, AMD, Nvidia 537 by ZinedineF | 403 comments on Hacker News.

Inkbase: Programmable Ink 497 by infinite8s | 61 comments on Hacker News.

FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident 515 by mcone | 308 comments on Hacker News.

A collection of 88x31 pixel web buttons from the 1990s and 2000s 478 by jakobdabo | 148 comments on Hacker News.

Firefox Translations: Translate websites in your browser without using the cloud 624 by PaulKeeble | 137 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays 533 by jonahss | 181 comments on Hacker News. I made a thing! In 2014, I was holding a stack of iPhones and thought to myself: "Hey, if I had each phone display a playing card, I could click a button and they'd shuffle themselves" I pared that idea all the way down to this: trading cards made of e-ink displays. Right now, each card costs me about $20 each, but with only a bit more scale, I think I can get that down to $10. In doing this project, I learned how to design electronics and circuit boards. I learned Rust and wrote my first driver, I upped my CAD skills, 3D printed, and did my first resin casting. I generated the images on the cards using stable-diffusion. HN always seems to appreciate new uses for e-ink. Thought I'd share :)

Tales of the M1 GPU 499 by rawrenstein | 190 comments on Hacker News.

Git Notes 617 by thcipriani | 128 comments on Hacker News.

Intentionally making close friends 707 by yamrzou | 203 comments on Hacker News.

AirDrop is now limited to 10 minutes 744 by doener | 533 comments on Hacker News.

The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg 713 by buss_jan | 112 comments on Hacker News.

Photography for geeks 662 by excite1997 | 117 comments on Hacker News.

Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on 636 by ingve | 257 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts 634 by costco | 508 comments on Hacker News. Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham: https://ift.tt/JHUaMTc Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)

Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected? 552 by janober | 306 comments on Hacker News. Last week we at n8n ran into problems getting a new database from Azure. After contacting support, it turns out that we can’t add instances to our k8s cluster either. Azure has told they'll have more capacity in April 2023(!) — but we’ll have to stop accepting new users in ~35 days if we don't get any more. These problems seem only in the German region, but setting up in a new region would be complicated for us. We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft, or that they wouldn’t proactively inform us about this. Is anyone else experiencing these problems?

A 3D-printed ethernet RJ45 clip to secure/repair/fix broken tab (2020) 600 by mmastrac | 209 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving 574 by mr_o47 | 102 comments on Hacker News. I’m really thankful for this anazing platform and the knowledge i have gained through HN.

Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad 573 by boplicity | 398 comments on Hacker News.

Smart Move, Google 592 by garritfra | 158 comments on Hacker News.

Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information 547 by TangerineDream | 245 comments on Hacker News.

Stable Diffusion 2.0 591 by hardmaru | 181 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game 519 by trizoza | 149 comments on Hacker News. I had the concept in my head for some time and firstly just prototyped it using only HTML & CSS. Sent it to a few friends and they liked it so I made it into its own website and added few 'competitive' features like click counter and share button.

An interactive guide to Flexbox 522 by brandrick | 68 comments on Hacker News.

Ooh.directory 544 by adrianhon | 111 comments on Hacker News.

Japanese have been producing wood for 700 years without cutting down trees 516 by CHB0403085482 | 155 comments on Hacker News.

Dwarf Fortress – randomly generated, persistent fantasy world 506 by loa_in_ | 138 comments on Hacker News.

High-documentation, low-meeting work culture 517 by seltzerboys | 353 comments on Hacker News.

D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source 480 by alixanderwang | 115 comments on Hacker News.

Is wine fake? 484 by ctoth | 520 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative? 544 by cpeth | 475 comments on Hacker News. No form of transport requires less energy than telecommuting. Why aren't there Zoom/MS Teams/Slack bill-boards on 101 and 880? Where is everyone's outrage at needlessly requiring people to move themselves into offices and the congestsion, waste, and environmental damage it causes?

Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE 628 by mtejo | 641 comments on Hacker News.

CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows 511 by ghuntley | 96 comments on Hacker News.

Show HN: A color picker for named web colors 510 by arantius | 118 comments on Hacker News. I had this idea kicking around in my head for quite a while. Took an evening to make this, and a short morning to polish it a bit. So here it is!

I quit my programmer job to become a chicken 497 by satvikpendem | 118 comments on Hacker News.

Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code 532 by dynamicwebpaige | 267 comments on Hacker News.