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New best story on Hacker News: Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure

Elegant six-page proof reveals the emergence of random structure
552 by davidvarela_us | 160 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Principles of Engineering Management

Principles of Engineering Management
437 by im_dario | 117 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?

Ask HN: Have you used SQLite as a primary database?
485 by barryhennessy | 313 comments on Hacker News.
I periodically hear about projects that use/have used sqlite as their sole datastore. The theory seems to be is that you can test out an idea with fewer dependencies (and cost) and that it scales surprisingly far. There are even distributed versions being built for reliability in the cloud: dqlite by canonical (of Ubuntu fame) and rqlite Given the complexity it seems like there are use cases or needs here that I'm not seeing and I'd be very interested to know more from those who've tried. Have you tried this? Did it go well? Or blow up? Were there big surprises along the way? - https://sqlite.org - https://dqlite.io - https://ift.tt/R8BQJnr

New best story on Hacker News: 10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive

10 years since Google said to “hang tight” about Linux support for Google Drive
513 by politelemon | 209 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts

Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
545 by Ashoka_rkt | 203 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist

Show HN: This AI Does Not Exist
429 by thesephist | 68 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! Author of the site here. I tried a few tricks to keep the text-generation part of the site up, but even leaning hard on Huggingface's API and bumping time-outs up, it looks like the site is struggling a bit. I'm going to see if there's anything I can do to keep the text-generation part available, but in the meantime, the pre-generated set should stay pretty stable. Not sure if there's much else I can do without burning a hole in my cloud bills — sorry for the troubles! I've put up a more detailed description of how this works on the GitHub - https://ift.tt/l0fm8rp PS - if anyone at Huggingface is reading this and wants to help out with keeping the API up, that would be super :)

New best story on Hacker News: Apple Discontinues macOS Server

Apple Discontinues macOS Server
567 by sharjeelsayed | 346 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy

Musk announces funding secured for Twitter buy
439 by coloneltcb | 968 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Web color is still broken

Web color is still broken
597 by Aissen | 196 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Go will use pdqsort in next release

Go will use pdqsort in next release
427 by ngaut | 121 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3

California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3
425 by lizparody23 | 267 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Memray: a memory profiler for Python

Memray: a memory profiler for Python
471 by shcheklein | 45 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond

Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond
553 by ashvardanian | 154 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Framework Laptop Mainboard

Framework Laptop Mainboard
576 by hecanjog | 150 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy

De-AMP: Cutting out Google and enhancing privacy
485 by w0ts0n | 220 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear

Six companies control 90% of what you read, watch, and hear
464 by tomohawk | 235 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years

Canada bans foreign home buyers for two years
506 by cwwc | 646 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature

James Webb telescope's coldest instrument reaches operating temperature
544 by wglb | 243 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: “YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG

“YouTube-dl” and “Pirate Bay” back on DDG
463 by ikt | 208 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus

UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
655 by yablak | 331 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms
610 by spenvo | 146 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing

TurboTax’s fight against free tax filing
604 by xweb | 297 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?

Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speedtest?
630 by halgir | 329 comments on Hacker News.
I want to start by saying this is anecdotal, and I feel paranoid for even thinking it. But often my internet will feel very slow, so I'll open speedtest to check if something's wrong. When I do, all of my stalled tabs suddenly spring into action and finish loading. The tinfoil hat wearer inside of me speculates that my internet provider is overloaded and throttling my bandwidth, but immediately prioritizes me when it senses that I'm trying to check if I'm getting what I pay for. Has anyone else noticed this pattern? Is there a way I can test this more scientifically?

New best story on Hacker News: The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten

The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
660 by db48x | 320 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]

How to write more clearly, think more clearly, and learn complex material [pdf]
611 by Secrethus | 109 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing

I must announce the immediate end of service of SSLPing
550 by WelcomeShorty | 226 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Van life (cancer edition) finale

Van life (cancer edition) finale
630 by BadCookie | 240 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)
557 by karlzt | 476 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email

An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
541 by mlapida | 270 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: MIT graduate students vote to unionize

MIT graduate students vote to unionize
630 by Metacelsus | 376 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Why I'll never use Affirm again

Why I'll never use Affirm again
504 by mabunday | 270 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Heresy

Heresy
792 by prtkgpt | 1190 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal

Show HN: Warp, a Rust-based terminal
621 by zachlloyd | 517 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal, and keep pushing further into the world of shells, ultimately ending up with a better integrated experience. At Warp we are building a Rust-based terminal that keeps what’s best about the CLI while modernizing the experience. We’ve built 1) An input area that works just like a code editor: selections, cursor positioning and completion menus 2) Grouped commands and outputs: so you can easily copy, search, and share terminal outputs 3) AI-powered Command Generation and Community-sourced Workflows [0]: so you can find useful commands without leaving the terminal 4) The ability to share your outputs with teammates: no more pasting long unformatted code into Slack 5) Project Workflows: save your team’s common commands into your project so your teammates can run them from Warp See a demo here: [1] We built Warp in Rust with GPU-accelerated graphics, and along the way we built our own UI framework, a text editor that’s a CRDT, and an out-of-the-box theming system. You can learn more here [2]. Huge thanks to our early collaborators: Atom co-founder Nathan Sobo, Nushell co-founder Andres Robalino, and Fish shell lead developer Peter Ammon. We are planning to first open-source our Rust UI framework, and then parts and potentially all of our client. As of now, the community has already been contributing new themes [3]. And we’ve just opened a repository for the community to contribute common useful commands. [4] Our business model is to make the terminal so useful for individuals that their companies will want to pay for the team features. We will never sell your data. We are calling today’s release a “beta” because we know there are still some issues to smooth out. You will notice that a log-in is required and that we do collect usage data and crash reports. We do so to enable team features and also to keep improving the product. Post-beta, we will allow users to opt out of usage data. You can see our privacy policy here [5]. While it is a “beta”, we are confident that even today the experience is meaningfully better than in other terminals. If you use a Mac, please give it a shot at warp.dev and let us know how it goes. Otherwise, sign up here [6] to be notified when Warp is ready for your platform. Join our community on Discord [7] and follow us on Twitter [8] Let me know what you think! Ask me anything! [0] https://ift.tt/vl78nKT [1] https://youtu.be/X0LzWAVlOC0 [2] https://ift.tt/jl9xTFc [3] https://ift.tt/1kN4ngh [4] https://ift.tt/xG6pQHw [5] https://ift.tt/SLATcyH [6] https://ift.tt/rhN2npy and https://ift.tt/UhkPmw7 [7] warp.dev/discord [8] twitter.com/warpdotdev

New best story on Hacker News: Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors

Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
586 by alexrustic | 968 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Are you a baby? A litmus test

Are you a baby? A litmus test
614 by mooreds | 289 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine

One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine
645 by mmgu | 172 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”

Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”
585 by enraged_camel | 333 comments on Hacker News.


New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?

Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?
544 by geeky4qwerty | 662 comments on Hacker News.
edit: I love this community! Thank you so much for all the insight. For those who complained, I'm sorry if this post comes across as complainy or redundant, I respect the HN hive-mind and was genuinely curious about everyone's thoughts on the matter. Hello fellow travelers, I'll do my best to keep this brief(ish). I've been in IT professionally since Y2K, data entry->QA->SysAdmin->PM->consultant->founder->sold and with the money took some years off, bought some property and a fixer upper and went to school and got a BSBA degree (never graduated from high school but wanted to show my kids the importance of a degree). I missed working and creating things with people so decided to reenter the job market in the PM space. So now that my hat is in the ring I have been told by recruiters what I need to "expect" in this "new market." I was told "5 to 7 interviews is normal". What? I genuinely feel like I'm having a 'Blast from the Past' moment in this whole thing (good 90s romcom kids, look it up). When did a hiring manager lose their authority and the trust of the organization to do their job? Am I just out of touch? How is a process like this in any way shape or form efficient or productive? Am i missing something? HN, please help!

New best story on Hacker News: A database for 2022

A database for 2022
506 by tosh | 224 comments on Hacker News.