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New best story on Hacker News: Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

Namecheap: Russia Service Termination
719 by exizt88 | 814 comments on Hacker News.
Just received this email: Dear XXXX, Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia. While we sympathize that this war may not affect your own views or opinion on the matter, the fact is, your authoritarian government is committing human rights abuses and engaging in war crimes so this is a policy decision we have made and will stand by. If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022. Additionally, and with immediate effect, you will no longer be able to use Namecheap Hosting, EasyWP, and Private Email with a domain provided by another registrar in zones .ru, .xn--p1ai (рф), .by, .xn--90ais (бел), and .su. All websites will resolve to 403 Forbidden, however, you can contact us to assist you with your transfer to another provider. Customer Support, Namecheap

New best story on Hacker News: Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman

Hoppscotch: Open-source alternative to Postman
575 by MarcellusDrum | 199 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C
485 by chmaynard | 248 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Twitter based map of Russian troop movements

Twitter based map of Russian troop movements
544 by jillesvangurp | 368 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking
565 by swores | 247 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)

Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)
480 by whalesalad | 323 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4

Estonia, allies to trigger NATO Article 4
463 by throwaway5752 | 533 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app

I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app
597 by trevor-e | 427 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8
522 by luu | 155 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ukraine Conflict Live Map

Ukraine Conflict Live Map
451 by journey_16162 | 423 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness

Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
617 by pella | 449 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases

Show HN: Full text search on 630M US court cases
474 by richardbarosky | 208 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work

Tell HN: YouTube and how my wife lost 7 years of work
495 by jdhendrickson | 179 comments on Hacker News.
I just wanted to share an experience as a warning to fellow users of hacker news and in the hope that somehow someway 7 years and countless hours can be recovered. I've never posted anything like this, but this is the only place I have any hope of a human response after youtube deleted 700 videos created for internal training for our company. My wife started a company that helps people transition from colleges in their home country (for instance the IIT system in India) by translating their credit system into the American educational credit system. She utilized a youtube channel with unlisted videos to explain to internal employees the nuances of difficult evaluation types, for instance how to determine for CEGEPs in Quebec the difference between upper secondary and post secondary. Another example would be how to award credits for MBBS programs from U.K modeled educational system (West Africa, India etc). Youtube sent her 3 strikes in one week. On videos that were 4 years old, indicating cyber bullying. These videos were unlisted and literally contained only incredibly dense, rather boring videos covering the nooks and crannies of various educational systems and how they relate to each other. When she responded, she received an auto reply that stated you get a reply within 2 business days. No further response despite repeated requests within the system, then tweets, and finally submitting a new appeal form from scratch to which the reply was nothing can be done because too much time had passed. This content was incredibly time intensive to create and was basically another job on top of her position as CEO. As a small company this was a devastating blow. Her work youtube account is now removed. Personally the cynic in me speculates that google cleans out low hanging fruit, using metrics, and there was nothing in the content that triggered the bot at all, just a case of over 700 somewhat lengthy videos that were getting almost no traffic, and they get to delete them and hide behind the byzantine garbage fire that is their "support". If you work for the youtube division and can help, I'm begging you please send me a message or reply to this post, it seems this is the only way to rectify this kind of problem. If there is anyway to download the videos that is all we are asking for. -jdh

New best story on Hacker News: Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads

Outlook just asked me if I want to upgrade to bigger ads
496 by tech234a | 260 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
662 by mooreds | 182 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories
717 by sohkamyung | 709 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning

Controlling the nuclear fusion plasma in a tokamak with reinforcement learning
427 by 317070 | 206 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes

The Unreasonable Math of Type 1 Diabetes
652 by grahar64 | 290 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity

Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity
643 by omnibrain | 348 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Building for the 99% Developers

Building for the 99% Developers
463 by bdburns | 300 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Akamai to Acquire Linode

Akamai to Acquire Linode
630 by nycdatasci | 233 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website

Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
600 by kbst | 117 comments on Hacker News.
We had some free time during the Chinese New Year vacation (we live in Taiwan). So I thought it would be fun to work with my daughter on a little web project. She did all the drawings. I digitized them and added them to the page as inline SVGs. Then I wrote the code. Nothing fancy — it's just one HTML page with a few links. But I like the end result (yes, I'm 100% biased): https://kevin.tw Fun technical facts: the page is entirely self-contained (except the favicon). It doesn't have any JavaScript at all. And it weighs 35Kb total (52Kb if you include the favicon).

New best story on Hacker News: Google Search Is Dying

Google Search Is Dying
926 by dbrereton | 493 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?

Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?
541 by greatatuin | 218 comments on Hacker News.
What is the main thing that made your business take off and start to see success that you're kicking yourself you didn't start doing it much earlier? Thanks HN!

New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?

Ask HN: How to prepare as soon-to-be blind developer?
513 by MathCodeLove | 108 comments on Hacker News.
Disclaimer: Not myself, but a good friend of mine is suffering from rapid vision degradation and will be fully blind within a few months. I want to do what I can to help them prepare. Anything from software and tool suggestions to general workflow and tips would all be very much appreciated, thanks!

New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects

Show HN: Free and open-source illustrations for your projects
494 by murtaza_alexa | 109 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: City Generator

City Generator
545 by breck | 29 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid
513 by todsacerdoti | 155 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here

Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here
482 by hdiniz | 220 comments on Hacker News.
Dell deletes Latitude CPU Throttling issue after link is posted here. Dell's new Latitude 5420/7420/7520 Notebooks have a ongoing issue where their CPU are severely throttled when running on any Linux distribution, even on Ubuntu OEM Certified System according to some reports at the forum. After a link to the Dell forum post was ported to HN, the post mysteriously was deleted in the same day. Many users of this model posted to the forum thread since last year and so far no solution was provided and we only received very unenthusiastic responses from Dell support. Shocking to see this apparent action to hide the problem. Originally Here: https://ift.tt/j0PiXVK... You can still see it on Google Cache https://ift.tt/nh4zERH... Screenshot here: https://ift.tt/ASmNQdG

New best story on Hacker News: A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people

A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people
506 by jakobgreenfeld | 344 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]

Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]
448 by bookofjoe | 177 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Discord is a black hole for information

Discord is a black hole for information
506 by Prestoon | 325 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection

Newly declassified documents reveal previously secret CIA bulk collection
535 by sneak | 200 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: uBlock Origin 1.41

uBlock Origin 1.41
529 by favourable | 180 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Web hacking techniques of 2021

Web hacking techniques of 2021
551 by adrianomartins | 49 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?
551 by JNRowe | 908 comments on Hacker News.
Last February there was, in my opinion, a really uplifting thread with the same title¹. I'd like to see all the cool new things going on, and I'll steal the intro text from as89 to explain: One where you don't care if it makes money or gets a lot of attention, but you are working on it regardless. I don't think I mean private hobbies, exactly, but projects that could or will be shared with others - you just don't care about the outcome. ¹ https://ift.tt/ZTFREmu

New best story on Hacker News: Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands

Apple will charge 27% commission for alternative payment systems in Netherlands
521 by walterbell | 868 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Unlearning perfectionism

Unlearning perfectionism
536 by akprasad | 93 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?

Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?
585 by trendingwaifu | 469 comments on Hacker News.
I am turning 35 years soon and I feel like I haven't achieved much, both personally and professionally. I have held jobs in small and big companies for mostly for 1-2 years each, traveled and lived in different countries, had 2 failed startups, and have about $500k in savings. I am single and haven't had a serious relationship for many years now. As time went on, I started feeling less excited about everything, personal or work related. I used to be excited about new technologies, but not these days. I feel like I've seen most things before, and it's all just different iterations of the same. I increasingly wish I could go back to my 20s. Now I feel too old to go to festivals, bars and clubs and make new friends that way. This has been a recent change for me. When I was ~30 I still considered myself young and able to do anything I could do when I was in my 20s. But not anymore now. I feel like my time for everything is running out. Have you been through a similar thing? How did you deal with it?

New best story on Hacker News: Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs

Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
489 by vdemedes | 391 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Building a modern home in the woods

Building a modern home in the woods
485 by hokumguru | 456 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm

iPhone flaw exploited by second Israeli spy firm
491 by caaqil | 137 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS

Yes, I can connect to a DB in CSS
523 by skilled | 134 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook
512 by unboxedvariable | 525 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful
480 by bajtos | 417 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Amazon Pip Horror Story

Amazon Pip Horror Story
590 by vikinghckr | 490 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Facebook loses users for the first time

Facebook loses users for the first time
677 by prostoalex | 551 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation

Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
673 by bbarnett | 393 comments on Hacker News.
I've been using Google Maps a long time, and during all of that time I have only used GPS for location tracking on Android. Depending upon the version of Android, I've had different things disabled. Wifi scanning. Bluetooth. Cell location data. Etc. Always with one single goal -- GPS only for location. And further, this is always, especially with newer versions of Android, restricted in many ways. For example, only allowing when an app is active, and so on. Google has always played games with Maps, using dark patterns. For example, with the versions prior to the current version, if I wanted Maps to zoom in on my location, I'd hit the tracking button. It'd first say something like "To continue, turn on device location". Of course, device location is on, but it's only for GPS, and google so badly wants that (apparently) vital, and sweet wifi + bluetooth + cell tracking data. Yet you could cancel this before, and it would then zoom in on your present location. Because, of course, GPS works fine for that. I could also use only GPS, leaving wifi and bluetooth and so on scanning off to use navigation. I've driven all over North America and Europe that way too, and yes with Maps. Tricky dark patterns (ie, lying) about needing wifi scanning to find a route is just insulting, and absurd. Now, enter a new update. I can no longer navigate with Google Maps, unless full location tracking is on. Comments in Play Store indicate others hit the same wall. Yeah, right Google, driving in the middle of the country, with GPS, is helped by scanning wifi while I pass farmer's fields?! Google has now drawn a line in the sand. Give us all your local SSIDs, local bluetooth connections, with likely even more detail, or they now refuse to allow you to use Maps to navigate. I immediately installed Organic Maps, and I'm sure there are loads of others as an option. Google wants that wifi data so bad , that the only thing I can equate it to, is a used car salesperson. I get the impression that the Maps team is channeling Sméagol, and just shudder .

New best story on Hacker News: Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off

Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off
709 by twhb | 287 comments on Hacker News.
I received an email from Google yesterday that communicated, with much obfuscation, the following key points: - The “Web & App Activity” setting for Google Workspace users will be ignored by Gmail, Drive, Docs, Calendar, Chat, Meet, Keep, and several other services. - Tracking for these services will be controlled by a new user setting, “Google Workspace Search History”, which will default to on regardless of the user’s Web & App Activity setting. - The ability of Google Workspace organizations to turn off “Web & App Activity” for all users will be removed. - These changes will take effect on 2022-03-29. Full email text: https://ift.tt/DNGQOvRsZ More info from Google: https://ift.tt/cKFGdWTOA

New best story on Hacker News: Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco

Cruise is opening driverless cars to the public in San Francisco
624 by d-jones | 524 comments on Hacker News.