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Monday, October 31, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose you passwords in case of death?
Ask HN: Have you set up a procedure to disclose you passwords in case of death?
18 by bsjaux628 | 16 comments on Hacker News.
After coming back from my home country where the insecurity is a big part of the daily life (armed robbery, kidnapping, murder), I started thinking of what would happen if something happened to me and how would I be able to ease the burden on my love ones to manage my digital assets (cancel subscriptions, keep my digital libraries, etc). So I ask: do you have a procedure in place to grant or transfer access in case of death? My first idea would be using a password manager for everything, list every device used for 2SA and confine within my will a master password.
18 by bsjaux628 | 16 comments on Hacker News.
After coming back from my home country where the insecurity is a big part of the daily life (armed robbery, kidnapping, murder), I started thinking of what would happen if something happened to me and how would I be able to ease the burden on my love ones to manage my digital assets (cancel subscriptions, keep my digital libraries, etc). So I ask: do you have a procedure in place to grant or transfer access in case of death? My first idea would be using a password manager for everything, list every device used for 2SA and confine within my will a master password.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
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Friday, October 28, 2022
Thursday, October 27, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
Telegram has stolen my channel's username to sell it on auction
15 by filestorage | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Today Pavel Durov just announced the launch of their dedicated platform to sell/buy premium Telegram usernames. Checking that list, I've searched my channel's username and it says is coming soon: https://ift.tt/FOnmRDZ Going back to my channel to make sure this username belongs to me (my channel), I've noticed that the channel was transformed into a private channel, without username! So telegram just literally stole my channel's username to sell it! Durov, what you were saying about privacy and security in Telegram? You just dropped its level yourself! P.S. check if your usernames still yours!
15 by filestorage | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Today Pavel Durov just announced the launch of their dedicated platform to sell/buy premium Telegram usernames. Checking that list, I've searched my channel's username and it says is coming soon: https://ift.tt/FOnmRDZ Going back to my channel to make sure this username belongs to me (my channel), I've noticed that the channel was transformed into a private channel, without username! So telegram just literally stole my channel's username to sell it! Durov, what you were saying about privacy and security in Telegram? You just dropped its level yourself! P.S. check if your usernames still yours!
New top story on Hacker News: Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?
Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?
22 by TeacherTortoise | 62 comments on Hacker News.
22 by TeacherTortoise | 62 comments on Hacker News.
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me
Tell HN: Meta is using my 2FA to call and sell me
112 by codyZ | 28 comments on Hacker News.
I run a couple of businesses with ad accounts connected to my personal account. I received multiple calls this morning on my personal cell that's used for 2FA for my personal FB account. All of them, they were pitching me ads to buy for my business accounts. None of my business accounts have my personal cell on them. Edit: Now my personal email connected is getting emails to purchase business ads...
112 by codyZ | 28 comments on Hacker News.
I run a couple of businesses with ad accounts connected to my personal account. I received multiple calls this morning on my personal cell that's used for 2FA for my personal FB account. All of them, they were pitching me ads to buy for my business accounts. None of my business accounts have my personal cell on them. Edit: Now my personal email connected is getting emails to purchase business ads...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Vercel acquires Splitbee to expand first-party analytics
Vercel acquires Splitbee to expand first-party analytics
11 by craigkerstiens | 0 comments on Hacker News.
11 by craigkerstiens | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Monday, October 24, 2022
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Trump’s Business, Under Threat, Faces a Tough Test in Court
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
13 by epicureanideal | 17 comments on Hacker News.
After all these years, Android phones still feel like cheap plastic to me, and the interface feels cheaply put together. Why aren't there more Apple-quality products? For example, couldn't someone make a great smartphone with limited models, a very tiny app store that doesn't have nearly the range of the Apple app store, but just enough to do common things for some small subset of the market? Same question about why there isn't one polished Linux-based operating system, etc.
13 by epicureanideal | 17 comments on Hacker News.
After all these years, Android phones still feel like cheap plastic to me, and the interface feels cheaply put together. Why aren't there more Apple-quality products? For example, couldn't someone make a great smartphone with limited models, a very tiny app store that doesn't have nearly the range of the Apple app store, but just enough to do common things for some small subset of the market? Same question about why there isn't one polished Linux-based operating system, etc.
Saturday, October 22, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Stripe holding funds for 120 days for no reason
Ask HN: Stripe holding funds for 120 days for no reason
48 by interesting_att | 21 comments on Hacker News.
Hi Guys-- I started a Stripe account (even incorporated through them) for a basic graphic design and web design service business. I process a few charges and even though I didn't get a single chargeback or dispute, Stripe decided to deactivate my account and said they would refund all the charges that were processed. Which would have been fine with me. They said they would refund on Oct 17, but that date came and past. So I kept emailing. Now they're saying they're holding all the funds for 120 days because of "elevated risk". Which is insane because they have already withdrawn all the funds, meaning their risk would be zero if they refunded everyone. I am beyond hurt and confused as I did need this money for my daughter. These decisions have real impacts on real families. What do you do in this scenario? I have tried contacting support at Stripe but seems to be of no help.
48 by interesting_att | 21 comments on Hacker News.
Hi Guys-- I started a Stripe account (even incorporated through them) for a basic graphic design and web design service business. I process a few charges and even though I didn't get a single chargeback or dispute, Stripe decided to deactivate my account and said they would refund all the charges that were processed. Which would have been fine with me. They said they would refund on Oct 17, but that date came and past. So I kept emailing. Now they're saying they're holding all the funds for 120 days because of "elevated risk". Which is insane because they have already withdrawn all the funds, meaning their risk would be zero if they refunded everyone. I am beyond hurt and confused as I did need this money for my daughter. These decisions have real impacts on real families. What do you do in this scenario? I have tried contacting support at Stripe but seems to be of no help.
Friday, October 21, 2022
Thursday, October 20, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Transform Your City
Show HN: Transform Your City
11 by gregsadetsky | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2]. And now, we're live with our own site! Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well. [0] https://ift.tt/ZC8iysN [1] https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai [2] https://ift.tt/euDSnM9...
11 by gregsadetsky | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN, As noted in a previous comment posted on the "Paris Will Become ‘100% Cyclable’" thread [0], I've been contributing to a project (as a volunteer backend developer) to try to accelerate urban change around pedestrian/cyclable/car-free streets. It's "change.org for urban transformation". It started with a Twitter account posting Dall-E-ified versions of streets [1] which picked up steam in the press [2]. And now, we're live with our own site! Happy to answers questions, and other folks from the project might chime in as well. [0] https://ift.tt/ZC8iysN [1] https://twitter.com/betterstreetsai [2] https://ift.tt/euDSnM9...
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities
Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities
35 by cheeseblubber | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord! I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for open-source knowledge-based communities. Traditionally these communities have lived on forums that solved many of these problems. However, from talking to communities, I found most of them preferred chat because it feels more friendly and modern. We want to bring back a bunch of the advantages of forums while maintaining the look and feel of a chat-based community. Slack and Discord are closed apps that are not indexable by the internet, so a lot of content gets lost. Traditional chat apps are not search engine friendly because most search engines have difficulty crawling JS-heavy sites. We built Linen to be search engine friendly, and our communities have over 30,000 pages/threads indexed by google. Our communities that have synced their Slack and Discord conversations under their domain have additional 40,000 pages indexed. We accomplish this by conditionally server rendering pages based on whether or not the browser client is a crawler bot. This way, we can bring dynamic features and a real-time feel to Linen and support search engines. Most communities become a support channel, and managing this many conversations is not what these tools are designed for. I've seen community admins hack together their own syncs and internal devices to work to stay on top of the conversations. This is why we created a feed view, a single view for all the threads in all the channels you care about. We added an open and closed state to every thread so you can track them similarly to GitHub issues or a ticketing system. This way, you and your team won't miss messages and let them drop. We also allow you to filter conversations you are @mentioned as a way of assigning tickets. I think this is a good starting point, but there is a lot more we can improve on. How chat is designed today is inherently interrupt-driven and disrupts your team's flow state. Most of the time, when I am @mentioning a team member, I actually don't need them to respond immediately. But I do want to make sure that they do eventually see it. This is why we want to redesign how the notification system works. We are repurposing @mentions to show up in your feed and your conversation sections and adding a !mention. A @mention will appear in your feed but doesn't send any push notifications, whereas a !mention will send a notification for when things need a real-time synchronous conversation. This lets you separate casual conversations from urgent conversations. When everything is urgent, nothing is. (credit: Incredibles) This, along with the feed, you can get a very forum-like experience to browse the conversations. Linen is free with unlimited history for public communities under https://ift.tt/UJMAC8k domain. We monetize by offering a paid version based on communities that want to host Linen under their subdomain and get the SEO benefits without managing their own self-hosted instance. We are a small team of 3, and this is the first iteration, so we apologize for any missing features or bugs. There are many things we want to improve in terms of UX. In the near term, we want to improve search and add more deep integrations, DMs, and private channels. We would appreciate any feedback, and if you are curious about what the experience looks like, you can join us here at Linen.dev/s/linen
35 by cheeseblubber | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord! I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for open-source knowledge-based communities. Traditionally these communities have lived on forums that solved many of these problems. However, from talking to communities, I found most of them preferred chat because it feels more friendly and modern. We want to bring back a bunch of the advantages of forums while maintaining the look and feel of a chat-based community. Slack and Discord are closed apps that are not indexable by the internet, so a lot of content gets lost. Traditional chat apps are not search engine friendly because most search engines have difficulty crawling JS-heavy sites. We built Linen to be search engine friendly, and our communities have over 30,000 pages/threads indexed by google. Our communities that have synced their Slack and Discord conversations under their domain have additional 40,000 pages indexed. We accomplish this by conditionally server rendering pages based on whether or not the browser client is a crawler bot. This way, we can bring dynamic features and a real-time feel to Linen and support search engines. Most communities become a support channel, and managing this many conversations is not what these tools are designed for. I've seen community admins hack together their own syncs and internal devices to work to stay on top of the conversations. This is why we created a feed view, a single view for all the threads in all the channels you care about. We added an open and closed state to every thread so you can track them similarly to GitHub issues or a ticketing system. This way, you and your team won't miss messages and let them drop. We also allow you to filter conversations you are @mentioned as a way of assigning tickets. I think this is a good starting point, but there is a lot more we can improve on. How chat is designed today is inherently interrupt-driven and disrupts your team's flow state. Most of the time, when I am @mentioning a team member, I actually don't need them to respond immediately. But I do want to make sure that they do eventually see it. This is why we want to redesign how the notification system works. We are repurposing @mentions to show up in your feed and your conversation sections and adding a !mention. A @mention will appear in your feed but doesn't send any push notifications, whereas a !mention will send a notification for when things need a real-time synchronous conversation. This lets you separate casual conversations from urgent conversations. When everything is urgent, nothing is. (credit: Incredibles) This, along with the feed, you can get a very forum-like experience to browse the conversations. Linen is free with unlimited history for public communities under https://ift.tt/UJMAC8k domain. We monetize by offering a paid version based on communities that want to host Linen under their subdomain and get the SEO benefits without managing their own self-hosted instance. We are a small team of 3, and this is the first iteration, so we apologize for any missing features or bugs. There are many things we want to improve in terms of UX. In the near term, we want to improve search and add more deep integrations, DMs, and private channels. We would appreciate any feedback, and if you are curious about what the experience looks like, you can join us here at Linen.dev/s/linen
Monday, October 17, 2022
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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?
18 by ilovecaching | 16 comments on Hacker News.
In college I did a month long experiment where I only used my computer's terminal emulator to do all my work. I wrote my code/notes in Vim, browsed the web with elinks, and wrote my emails using mutt. It was a great learning experience. Recently I looked into doing this again and ran into a bunch of issues: - My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work. - The web is using more javascript than in the past. - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt. It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps. Anyone still living inside the terminal? Links to tools for Slack are appreciated.
18 by ilovecaching | 16 comments on Hacker News.
In college I did a month long experiment where I only used my computer's terminal emulator to do all my work. I wrote my code/notes in Vim, browsed the web with elinks, and wrote my emails using mutt. It was a great learning experience. Recently I looked into doing this again and ran into a bunch of issues: - My company uses Slack's enterprise auth, and all the CLI slack clients I could find haven't been updated in years and no longer work. - The web is using more javascript than in the past. - Mutt doesn't handle multiple email accounts natively for work/personal. The solutions are hacks at best. Email servers are starting to use more complete auth mechanisms that don't work well with mutt. It seems like the terminal world is slowly getting abandoned in favor of proprietary GUI apps. Anyone still living inside the terminal? Links to tools for Slack are appreciated.
New top story on Hacker News: The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading
The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading
78 by DisjointedHunt | 26 comments on Hacker News.
78 by DisjointedHunt | 26 comments on Hacker News.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs
Show HN: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding User Needs
7 by simulo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/AW8Yaf1 …a free/libré book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers. I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher). This is the link to the full book for online reading: https://ift.tt/xJvL0P6 (it’s one long page, so it might take a bit to load)
7 by simulo | 0 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/AW8Yaf1 …a free/libré book about UX research with qualitative methods on motivations, activities written for UX researchers, UX designers and product managers. I have been writing on this book since about 2010 and did a large rewrite during the first half of 2022. (I initally planned this with a bigger tech publisher). This is the link to the full book for online reading: https://ift.tt/xJvL0P6 (it’s one long page, so it might take a bit to load)
Monday, October 10, 2022
New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about
Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about
21 by rdavidr | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! My name is David (david@linkidex.com) and I am the author of Linkidex (www.linkidex.com)! My goal is to make bookmarks better. I built Linkidex because I was getting overwhelmed by the number of things I had to keep track of on the internet during my day to day job. Constantly needing to re-find various wikis or jira epics or project proposals or whatever was eating into my day. I was using a chrome extension to manage urls, but the extension was getting unwieldy as my list of “important URLs” grew and I started looking for alternatives. There are a few really cool bookmark managers out there, but I wasn’t satisfied with what I saw. Regular bookmarks don’t cut it either for me as I need something that works across browsers and devices. Thus, Linkidex was born. The most basic idea with Linkidex is that you can go to Linkidex and just start typing. Linkidex will search across your link titles, link urls, categories, and tags all at once. Click the result you are looking for and it opens in a new tab. If you want to scope your search by specific categories or tags you can do that too. Linkidex is a progressive web application. It (mostly) works offline and it can be downloaded to your phone and act like a native app without requiring you to grant it any permissions. The back end is rails, and the front end is React, Typescript and GraphQL. Security wise it is deployed to AWS. The database and back end are all wrapped up in a VPC. The front end supports 2 factor and WebAuthn, so you can use a yubikey or your device's fingerprint reader as your second factor. Linkidex can import and export bookmarks to and from your favorite browser. That said, I’ve limited the number of links / categories / tags a given user can have for now on Linkidex to prevent anything insane from happening. All feedback / feature requests / complaints / whatever welcome. Thanks for checking out Linkidex!
21 by rdavidr | 8 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN! My name is David (david@linkidex.com) and I am the author of Linkidex (www.linkidex.com)! My goal is to make bookmarks better. I built Linkidex because I was getting overwhelmed by the number of things I had to keep track of on the internet during my day to day job. Constantly needing to re-find various wikis or jira epics or project proposals or whatever was eating into my day. I was using a chrome extension to manage urls, but the extension was getting unwieldy as my list of “important URLs” grew and I started looking for alternatives. There are a few really cool bookmark managers out there, but I wasn’t satisfied with what I saw. Regular bookmarks don’t cut it either for me as I need something that works across browsers and devices. Thus, Linkidex was born. The most basic idea with Linkidex is that you can go to Linkidex and just start typing. Linkidex will search across your link titles, link urls, categories, and tags all at once. Click the result you are looking for and it opens in a new tab. If you want to scope your search by specific categories or tags you can do that too. Linkidex is a progressive web application. It (mostly) works offline and it can be downloaded to your phone and act like a native app without requiring you to grant it any permissions. The back end is rails, and the front end is React, Typescript and GraphQL. Security wise it is deployed to AWS. The database and back end are all wrapped up in a VPC. The front end supports 2 factor and WebAuthn, so you can use a yubikey or your device's fingerprint reader as your second factor. Linkidex can import and export bookmarks to and from your favorite browser. That said, I’ve limited the number of links / categories / tags a given user can have for now on Linkidex to prevent anything insane from happening. All feedback / feature requests / complaints / whatever welcome. Thanks for checking out Linkidex!
