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news.ycombinator.com• Mar 7, 2022• 1 min read

Ask HN: Versioning BackupHello HN!I currently have a backup/archival setup which works like this: Local Machine --> Syncthing --> cluster of boxes regionally separated --> zfs shares --> restic --> Amazon S3 (soon to be replaced) As it stands, I have restic running on two servers, however they operate in a sort of primary/secondary mode (of my own design), where restic will only run on the secondary server if it cannot reach the primary server on a designated port and receive a correct message.So far, this set up has worked well, I have hourly/daily/weekly snapshots on zfs, and restic runs daily archiving all the information.I've been pretty happy with this setup, it's mostly been designed to protect against loss of data on my main machine (via PEBAK or ransomware type issues).One noticeable gap I've found is the gap of versioning backup. Similar to something like Dropbox where it tracks the versions of files (up to a certain number), it would be nice if the first layer (i.e. the Syncthing replacement) could h

news.ycombinator.com• Feb 9, 2022• 1 min read

Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and Free SoftwareThis is my highly opinionated but closely observed view of the rise and fall of free software.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish)In 1997 I worked at Worldcom qualifying backbone and data center routers. I wrote a tool to report on and display the health of all of the thousands of computers they could reach. I released it as free software. Eventually it was hosted on Sourceforge.My next big project in 2001 was Axiom, an IBM Research computer algebra product that I rebuilt and released as free software on Savannah, a GNU site. Later versions were released on Sourceforge, Litsoft, and eventually Github.All public work I've done is intended as "free software".The first real attack using "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" on free software was "open source", aimed at a more corporate-friendly version of free software. This is the beginning of the "Embrace" step. There have been many steps in between I'll skip.The Extend step is now in motion. Extend takes an idea and "

bing.com• Jan 31, 2022• 1 min read

Limited Run Games is opening an ’80s-themed physical game storeSince 2015, Limited Run has made a business out of publishing physical versions of digital games — often by selling them with low print runs directly to customers, rather than putting them into ...

bing.com• Jan 11, 2022• 1 min read

quickly, quickly’s Technicolor Pop Bursts Beyond the AlgorithmTo visit Graham Jonson on his home turf is to see Northeast Portland as it really is: lined with single-story homes and condo conversions, kids on bikes and Black Lives Matter flags planted in front ...

bing.com• Sep 30, 2021• 1 min read

What is backward compatible (backward compatibility)?Backward compatible (also known as downward compatible or backward compatibility) refers to a hardware or software system that can successfully use interfaces and data from earlier versions of the ...

news.ycombinator.com• Aug 2, 2021• 1 min read

Show HN: PrivateAnalytix – Google Analytics and MS Clarity AlternativeHello hackers, I am Arsen. We are a team of two, and I would like to introduce you to our tool called PrivateAnalytix https://privateanalytix.comWhat is PA: PrivateAnalyltix is a privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity.What problem does PA solve: I don't want to sound like a marketer, so I'll tell you how it is. The problem we aim to solve is for a price of 2 coffees, to allow web site owners see visitor analytics, quickly find out why do their web site users not convert, save a ton of time troubleshooting (replicating) and improving design issues, A/B test without compromising their user's privacy. We also aim to help improve web site SEO and conversions.But there are other tools: "But there are many other tools, like Plausibe.io that do the same", you'd say. We know and love our colleague's work at Fanthom, Plausible and many others. PrivateAnalytics is different in that it adds Session Replays and Heatmaps, giving you the best of both (GA and Clarity) in

news.ycombinator.com• May 24, 2021• 1 min read

Launch HN: Curvenote (YC W21) – Collaborative writing tools for scienceHi HN! I’m Rowan and with my co-founder Steve we are building Curvenote (https://curvenote.com) — a technical writing tool for sharing data analysis and research from Jupyter with a wider audience.We are building Curvenote to get science communication out of PDFs and help researchers and data-scientists communicate interactive, reproducible results (graphs, figures, maps, etc.) that are linked to the actual data and computation. There are currently two parts to Curvenote: 1) a WYSIWYG collaborative writing environment for interactive, technical documents; and 2) a Jupyter integration that adds version control and commenting and can link interactive plots and outputs directly into Curvenote documents (including any new versions or comments on those outputs).Steve and I met in the open-source/science community and are coming at this from different angles: Steve has led data science teams, and keeping stakeholders and team members in the loop with up-to-date figures/reports took a lot of

bing.com• Apr 29, 2021• 1 min read

The 11 Most Important Parts of SEO You Need to Get RightGetting the key elements of SEO right can help you win clients, conversions, and sales. Are there only 11 parts of SEO you need to know? Far from it. However, getting these important pieces right is a ...

bing.com• Dec 15, 2020• 1 min read

How to set up a Microsoft Teams meeting using a computer or mobile deviceMicrosoft Teams is a comprehensive chat, video conferencing, and collaboration tool that you can use for free, though there are subscription versions of the service that add additional features and ...

bing.com• Oct 9, 2019• 1 min read

Moz launches Domain Analysis, free tool for SEO metricsWe’re all marketers here, and this is of course a marketing tool for Moz. But that doesn’t mean it’s not useful. The free tool doesn’t offer the depth of data available in the paid versions of Moz ...

bing.com• Aug 23, 2019• 1 min read

Taylor Swift Reveals Her Favorite Lyric on 'Lover' During Intimate Sirius XM PerformanceTaylor Swift performed stripped-down acoustic versions of three tracks from her new album, Lover: "The Archer," "You Need to Calm Down," and "Daylight" A handful of lucky Swifties were on hand to ...

news.ycombinator.com• Apr 3, 2019• 1 min read

Launch HN: Atomic Alchemy (YC W19) – Manufacturing Nuclear MedicineHello, HN.I’m Thomas Eiden, founder of Atomic Alchemy.Atomic Alchemy will manufacture nuclear medicine and the radioactive materials used to make it, using several compact nuclear reactors.These will be the first privately-owned nuclear reactors for nuclear medicine production. They are merely higher-powered versions of previously-licensed reactor designs that currently reside at universities. These reactor designs are passively safe and cannot melt down. With improvements in modeling and simulation that have occurred in the last few years, it is quicker and cheaper than ever to license and construct such a facility. But to be clear—we won’t be manufacturing reactors—we’ll be a chemical/drug manufacturer in the same way that Delta Airlines doesn’t manufacture planes or airports, but is a transportation company.Before starting Atomic Alchemy, I was the lead reactor core designer at the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory. My main job each operating cycle was to arrange th

bing.com• Apr 2, 2019• 1 min read

forward compatibleHardware or software that is compatible with subsequent versions of the product. Also called "upward compatible." When a product or interface is said to be forward compatible, it is really a statement ...

bing.com• Nov 27, 2018• 1 min read

The Widely-Spoken Languages We Still Can’t Translate OnlineIn the internet age, when we face a language barrier, there are a host of internet resources to solve it: things like translation apps, dictionary websites, versions of Wikipedia in other languages, ...

news.ycombinator.com• Oct 8, 2018• 1 min read

Ask HN: Browser print dialog programming or other waysFirst let me explain what i am talking about and why we need it.We are working with a world wide company for almost 20 years and a few of the countries are still using IE7 with our old version for some reason.The reason is to have ActiveX and use ScriptX to manipulate print dialog box on IE7.Client users are printing hundreds of invoices daily and each invoice or report uses different paper size and orientation, and users dont want to set print dialog settings each time they print. So, in that time, we implemented ScriptX for that purpose and everyone was happy.But in time, we updated our web application to work with all modern browsers and we moved to IE11 and ignored all prev. IE versions.After this point and with multi browser support, there is no more activex and vbscript involved. It means we can no longer use Active and ScriptX for this a few countries but they insist to have this printing functionality because time is very important for them.Now we are stuck and i cant offer any

news.ycombinator.com• Oct 1, 2018• 1 min read

Ask HN: How to take advantage of living in the Bay?Before moving to the Bay, I had hoped that the Bay to America would be like America to the rest of the world.I grew up in a developing country with an authoritarian government. Moving from there to an American liberal arts college, I learned a lot more about how the world works: politics, economy, technology, history, arts--the whole gamut. But a lot of that learning didn't happen just because I was in America. It happened also because I reached out the right people and was open the right opportunities.Now I'm in the Bay area working in data science for one of FAANG. My daily life so far has been 9-5 at the company, 3 meals at the company, conversions with people at the company. The work is interesting, but certainly not mind-blowing (given that I'm quite similar to my teammates--we're all hired by the same standards after all.)How to take advantage of being in the Bay to grow intellectually? Like when I moved to the States, I want to make a conscious effort to grow. Should I reach out

bing.com• Oct 18, 2017• 1 min read

DeepMind's latest AI breakthrough is its most significant yetDeepMind's human-conquering AlphaGo AI just got even smarter. The firm's latest Go-playing system not only defeated all previous versions of the software, it did it all by itself. "The most striking ...

bing.com• Jul 6, 2016• 1 min read

Microsoft readies combined CRM, ERP Dynamics 365 cloud bundleWill Dynamics 365 replace Dynamics CRM Online and the cloud versions of Dynamics NAV, GP and AX? If so, when will these current cloud services go away?Microsoft is combining its current CRM and ERP ...