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Hacker News mentions (503)

• eBPF, sidecars, and the future of the service mesh

  William: My current role primarily shapes my strategy. I learn a lot from the engineers and users of Linkerd, who are at the forefront of these technologies. I also keep myself updated by reading discussions on Reddit platforms like r/kubernetes and r/Linkerd. Occasionally, I contribute to or follow discussions on Hacker News. Overall, my primary source of knowledge comes from the experts I work with daily, giving... - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago

• Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line

  A simpler, cross-platform, solution is to use headless Chrome to save pages as PDFs. Example I just tried and worked for me: > chrome.exe --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --print-to-pdf=page.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com I know you can specify cookies, existing sessions and existing profiles in case authentication is required. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• GPT-4o

  Asking it about a user that doesn't exist (grdevhux1536): The user "grdevhux1536" on Hacker News demonstrates a thoughtful and analytical tone in their writing. They often engage deeply with technical topics, providing insightful comments and constructive criticism. Their expertise seems to be in software development and computer science, often discussing topics like LED game platforms and reverse engineering old... - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

• Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

  Thanks for the feedback! One big distinction with the "site:https://news.ycombinator.com" hack is that the search on Hacker Search directly runs against the underlying link's contents, rather than whatever happens to be on HN. We also more directly leverage HN's curation by factoring in scores. Appreciate your suggestions; will look into building those! - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

  Nice work! I'm sure you know that you can also search Google with site:https://news.ycombinator.com. If I were you I would probably think of a niche where one can get better results by searching HN and other relevant data sources. Another suggestion is not about the search so much but about the UI. One of the worse things about sites like HN is that it's really hard to... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Slashdot mentions (13)

• Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

  Probably my Slashdot account from 1999. https://slashdot.org/~DaGoodBoy. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future

  If anyone does not understand the reference, "Slashdot" is a link-sharing site oriented at tech news, that was popular many years ago as HN is today. https://slashdot.org. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

  It has been a VERY long time since I've done this with `wget`, but here's what I pulled out of my notes. I used to use this to mirror Slashdot when I was travelling for work and had limited/no internet: ```

    wget --ignore-length --no-remove-listing --no-check-certificate --recursive --page-requisites --span-hosts --convert-links --no-verbose --tries=3 --timeout=60 --level=1 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0...

  - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda – Hacker History Podcast

  My user number on /. Is "404" ( https://slashdot.org/~dmd ). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Adios and thanks for the fishes!

  If I want a real "front page of the Internet" that is web-based, I will head back to https://slashdot.org. Source: 12 months ago