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Proboards mentions (3)

• New Youth Rights Forum I Just Created

  As an autistic person, I'm much more comfortable with the classic forum layout. I know instantly where a certain discussion would be appropriate. Whereas on reddit, I often feel at bit lost to be frank even with flair on posts. I've created a youth rights forum on proboards.com It's a free hosting service for forums. My forum is called Youth Rights Now! Source: 6 months ago

• Just an idea:What if we create a website that allows users to setup forum server based on customizable templates independently just like old school forums.

  I mean, sites like that have existed since back then. Hell Proboards is still active: https://proboards.com/. Source: 12 months ago

• website forum/message board recommendations please

  Otherwise, your best bet is to use a 3rd party service (like proboards.com - I hope its ok I posted that link, im not affiliated with it) and then just link to it from your website. that would the less hassle way. Source: about 2 years ago

Hacker News mentions (504)

• Jank's new persistent string is fast

  Sure, but in a language without the zero terminator the empty string doesn't need an allocation. With a zero terminator, only SSO allows us to avoid that. There are a lot of empty strings. [On a typical modern 64-bit computer] An empty Rust std::String is 24 bytes, exactly the same as the Clang libc++ std::string as somewhat smaller than an MSVC or GCC std::string Most strings are "pretty small" but... - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• 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 / 9 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 / 12 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 / about 1 month 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