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How Framework Laptop Broke The Hacker Ceilinghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cbf875be640ac91b84c998edff300&url=https%3A%2F%2Fhackaday.com%2F2023%2F10%2F30%2Fhow-framework-laptop-broke-the-hacker-ceiling%2F&c=3037517391052066066&mkt=en-usWe’ve been keeping an eye on the Framework laptop over the past two years – back in 2021, they announced a vision for a repairable and hacker-friendly laptop based on the x86 architecture. They’re not ...Oct 30, 2023 1:55 AM
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Product Management Career Path Growth Potentialshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37907422I have a question regarding career path that I would LOVE your thoughts on*TLDR; coming from a technical background I feel ready to move to a product career path and become less technical however my friends think otherwise due to less growth potential.*I come from a technical background and after years of feeling misplaced and having to force motivate myself to be engaged at various technical and coding roles where building product was my first responsibility, I decided that my strength is not in teeny tiny technical work and rather in more strategic human centric and leadership enabling roles. It makes me laugh to now put this in one paragraph! In reality this insight has been the result of a decade of soul searching, head scratching and feeling lost in my career and losing opportunities at my door step.This doesn't mean I'm bad at or not liking technical work at all. I love to use my technical knowledge for advancing business goals and communicating ideas but to do that almost entireOct 16, 2023 10:15 PM
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School shootings in the US: Fast factshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a89804bec5540ce8db2fa1d9db5c5f3&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2Fus%2Fschool-shootings-fast-facts-dg&c=15939269303419451781&mkt=en-usThere have been at least 36 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of August 20. Twelve were on a college campus, and 24 were on K-12 school grounds. The incidents left at least 23 ...Sep 22, 2023 3:00 AM
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How to Found a New Town (and Why You Might Want To)http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8bba3a6a6243ba86c3a8925916ccff&url=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Fhow-to-found-a-new-town-and-why-you-might-want-to-1850849371&c=5851351039430201636&mkt=en-usJeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...Sep 18, 2023 11:00 AM
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Tell HN: A Year for PC Gaming: Baldur's Gate 3, Starfield, GFN Streaminghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37511080I know this isn't normally a gaming forum, but 2023 has been such an exceptional year for PC gaming that I thought it might be an interesting discussion meta-topic? I just wanted to geek out a bit...This year, a few huge things happened:* Baldur's Gate 3 came out, 23 years after its sequel, to overwhelming acclaim, with a level of narrative and tactical freedom not seen in video games [1][2]* Starfield, basically "Skyrim in Space", also came out a few weeks later (to worse reviews [3], but it's still a big deal for a lot of people)* Microsoft pushed through its Activision deal, and around the same time also signed a new agreement with Nvidia [4], letting its Game Pass games [5] be available through GeForce Now game streaming [6]First, taken together, all of this means that AAA games have never been quite so accessible. Anybody with a web browser (even a Chromebook) and a few dollars can play the latest AAA games in ultra graphics, no console or gaming desktop needed. We've come a LONG Sep 14, 2023 4:27 PM
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Bio-banding: Sport’s attempt to stop talent drain of stars with late-maturing bodieshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd2796c1c497ea2d897aa152a68cf&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fathletic%2F4655857%2F2023%2F09%2F14%2Fbiobanding-late-maturing-footballers%2F&c=12513611744220315402&mkt=en-usIt could have been very different for Gareth Bale. During his time at Southampton’s academy, the Welshman — who would go on to achieve incredible success, winning five Champions League titles with ...Sep 13, 2023 9:10 PM
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How to recover (digitally) when you are out of prison?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37498158This is not a joke. I have been in prison abroad for nearly two years. A total nightmare. I have nearly lost everything. Not made CC payments in 2 years etc. The US embassy was of little help, mainly because I am a dual citizen. Be assured that this is something that will change very soon. Some things would count as torture that I experienced in this prison (I was 5 month without any contact to my public defender, he never picked up his phone. I wanted to call the US embassy but was denied, finally they declared me crazy for claiming to be a US citizen and I was put in solitary confinement in a cell that was video monitored 24/7. All this is over now. I was released unexpected yesterday. Now I try to heal and recover.A friend of mine was able, to at least some extent, to pay for some of my domains. While my main email seems lost (he forgot to pay for email hosting), my main email/domain address seems to be saved. Just have to set up some email hosting for this domain.0. Main email at mSep 13, 2023 3:34 PM
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Phase Four demonstrates Maxwell Block 2 thruster in orbithttps://spacenews.com/phase-four-demonstrates-maxwell-block-2-thruster-in-orbit/Phase Four’s Maxwell Block 2 radio-frequency thruster has been demonstrated on a commercial satellite.Sep 12, 2023 8:13 PM
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Show HN: WhatsApp-Llama: A clone of yourself from your WhatsApp conversationshttps://github.com/Ads-cmu/WhatsApp-LlamaHello HN!I've been thinking about the idea of a LLM thats a clone of me - instead of generating replies to be a helpful assistant, it generates replies that are exactly like mine. The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige), and I think with LLMs, there might actually be a possibility of us doing something like this!I've just released a fork of the facebookresearch/llama-recipes which allows you to fine-tune a Llama model on your personal WhatsApp conversations. This adaptation can train the model (using QLoRA) to respond in a way that's eerily similar to your own texting style.What I've figured out so far:Quick Learning: The model quickly adapts to personal nuances, emoji usage, and phrases that you use. I've trained just 1 epoch on a P100 GPU using QLoRA and 4 bit quantization, and its already captured my mannerismsTuring Tests: As an experiment, I asked my friends to ask me 3 questSep 9, 2023 5:43 PM
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Over 100 One Piece Manga Chapters Are Now Freehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd9e05143420d9538197b21c21ac5&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2Fover-100-one-piece-manga-143835181.html&c=17503154500589017935&mkt=en-usNetflix's live-action One Piece adaptation has been massively popular, having been viewed 18.5 million times in its first few days on the service. With over 140 million hours watched by viewers across ...Sep 7, 2023 7:38 AM
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India’s moon lander set for nighttime as solar mission soarshttps://spacenews.com/indias-moon-lander-set-for-nighttime-as-solar-mission-soars/India’s Chandrayaan-3 lander and rover have been set to sleep for the onset of lunar night, days after the country successfully launched its Aditya L1 solar mission.Sep 4, 2023 11:38 AM
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Oh Sees album guide: their 11 best recordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a4204aa1447b282c441abf72a30da&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brooklynvegan.com%2Foh-sees-album-guide-their-10-best-records%2F&c=2720453312060887231&mkt=en-usJohn Dwyer has been making music with some form of the name Oh Sees since 1997, beginning with Orinoka Crash Suite that became OCS, then The Ohsees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, and most recently, OSEES. He ...Sep 3, 2023 9:04 AM
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Oh Sees album guide: their 11 best recordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a4ae3a4f44af3ab07fe282301dab6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brooklynvegan.com%2Foh-sees-album-guide-their-10-best-records%2F&c=2720453312060887231&mkt=en-usJohn Dwyer has been making music with some form of the name Oh Sees since 1997, beginning with Orinoka Crash Suite that became OCS, then The Ohsees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, and most recently, OSEES. He ...Sep 3, 2023 9:04 AM
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Oh Sees album guide: their 11 best recordshttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b159dc3c047d4a78d1e2b16d7ffe6&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brooklynvegan.com%2Foh-sees-album-guide-their-10-best-records%2F&c=2720453312060887231&mkt=en-usJohn Dwyer has been making music with some form of the name Oh Sees since 1997, beginning with Orinoka Crash Suite that became OCS, then The Ohsees, Thee Oh Sees, Oh Sees, and most recently, OSEES. He ...Sep 3, 2023 9:04 AM
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About MAKERShttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb12f17af43bbbe04dcfb70faf0dd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Flifestyle%2Farticle%2Fabout-makers-183936026-192209578.html&c=7369899610466648553&mkt=en-usMAKERS is a media and community-focused brand that exists to accelerate equity in the workplace. With live events, Emmy-nominated documentaries and award-winning digital content, MAKERS has been ...Aug 28, 2023 12:06 PM
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Near-death experience research has doctor convinced of afterlifehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8911604e84469f84242b9ca7549533&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fnear-death-experiences-research-doctor-life-after-death-afterlife-2023-8&c=5138556686987985807&mkt=en-usYou're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeffrey Long. It has been edited for length and ...Aug 28, 2023 7:36 AM
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What Is User Experience (UX) Design?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cb9794fc14823ab7cf99c9e75233c&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cmswire.com%2Fcustomer-experience%2Fwhat-is-user-experience-ux-design%2F&c=16653973824142203765&mkt=en-usEditor's Note: This article has been updated on August 28, 2023 to include new data and information. In the digital age, the way a product or service feels to users can make or break its success. At ...Aug 28, 2023 7:36 AM
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Ask HN: I'm trapped in a golden prison, any advice?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37237036This is going to sound very braggy, I hope I won't get shut down for this.I feel like I'm trapped in a golden prison, unhappy but comfortable.I'm a self taught programmer, 32 yo, with an engineering background and masters. Co-founded 2 companies, failed, worked in california and singapore, now based in Europe. I think I'm an ok dev, quite good with people.I've mostly been working as a freelancer all my life, started billing 33€/day in 2012 for a few days at a time, now around 924€/day, 220 days/year.Always worked at fast paced / high stakes startups except for my current job. Worked 60 to 70 hours a week, ~50 weeks per year for many years until 2020.In 2021 I was completely burned out after 7.5 years of grinding.Took a cozy freelance job as a fullstack senior engineer in a ~100ppl company, coming into the office 2days/week.I'm working about 1 to 2 hours a day max, the expectations are so low compared to what I'm used to. The rest of the time I'm just answering a couple of emails, helpiAug 23, 2023 2:56 PM
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Ask HN: How do I Reduce The Risk or Stop SIM Swapping Attacks?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37170414Google Fi, and Mint Mobile are two MVNOs that claim to prevent again sim swapping [0][1]. Mint Mobile offers TOTP, and Google Fi is linked to your Google account, so you can add U2F/TOTP MFA. However, it's still possible for a T-Mobile retail employee to hijack a Google Fi, or Mint Mobile number?Both MVNOs use T-Mobile for their backend, but Google Fi uses US Cellular as well. There have been documented cases of retail T-Mobile employees conducting sim swaps. There has also been documented cases of Mint Mobile users getting sim swapped [2][3][4][5][6]. So, are MVNOs really not vulnerable to sim swapping? Are VOIP services like Google Voice the only secure alternative to prevent sim swapping attacks[7]?0. https://support.google.com/fi/answer/98342431. https://old.reddit.com/r/mintmobile/comments/jw21qf/how_does_mint_prevent_sim_swapping/2. https://old.reddit.com/r/mintmobile/comments/113dyvi/sim_swap_a_few_days_ago_day_3_of_still_not_having/3. https://old.reddit.com/r/mintmobile/commentAug 18, 2023 1:19 AM
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Ask HN: Are MVNOs Really Invulnerable to SIM Swapping?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37166216Google Fi, and Mint Mobile are two MVNOs that claim to prevent again sim swapping [0][1]. Mint Mobile offers TOTP, and Google Fi is linked to your Google account, so you can add U2F/TOTP MFA.However, would it still be possible for a T-Mobile retail employee to hijack a Google Fi, or Mint Mobile number? Both MVNOs use T-Mobile for their backend, but Google Fi uses US Cellular as well. There have been documented cases of retail T-Mobile employees conducting sim swaps. There has also been documented cases of Mint Mobile users getting sim swapped [2][3][4][5][6]. So, are MVNOs really not vulnerable to sim swapping? If so, is VOIP services like Google Voice the only secure alternative [7].0. https://support.google.com/fi/answer/98342431. https://old.reddit.com/r/mintmobile/comments/jw21qf/how_does_mint_prevent_sim_swapping/2. https://old.reddit.com/r/mintmobile/comments/113dyvi/sim_swap_a_few_days_ago_day_3_of_still_not_having/3. https://old.reddit.com/r/mintmobile/comments/t4g4g3/i_just_goAug 17, 2023 6:46 PM
