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• Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links

  Weird, it still seems to be working for me: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://news.ycombinator.com Was invisible on the search UI for some time now, but the service itself is still accessible. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• What we learned after spending 5,000 EUR on developer marketing

  One last channel, we tried was newsletter sponsoring. I don't have the feeling, developers are overly into E-Mail newsletters, but we wanted to give it a try. The Hacker Newsletter has 60,000 subscribers and collects trending discussions on Y Combinator's popular Hacker News website. - Source: dev.to / 23 days ago

• Scraping Jobs listed on Hacker News

  Const cheerio = require('cheerio') Const processHTML = (HTML, filterValues, maxDaysBack) => { const $ = cheerio.load(HTML) let data = [] let nextPage = '' nextPage = 'https://news.ycombinator.com/' + $('.morelink').attr('href') //.each to loop over all class athing elements $('.athing').each(async (index, element) => { let title = $(element) .find('.titlelink') .text() let link =... - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• Tell HN: Immersive-translate plugin may expose you to XSS attacks

  This post might not directly concern English-speaking users, but I know there are many users (at least many Chinese speaking users) browse Hacker News with immersive-translate plugin[1]. The plugin has https://news.ycombinator.com included in its default list of sites to translate. I recently identified a potential XSS injection target. When users navigate to a specific piece of content using the plugin, malicious... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Airlines Are Running Out of Flight Numbers, and They Don't Know What to Do

  I bet you probably go to this website by visiting https://209.216.230.207 since that's way easier to remember than https://news.ycombinator.com I mean why would anyone really care to deal with DNS anyways, just a bunch of fluff. Real IT admins just memorize IP addresses. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Show HN: Made a bookmarklet to pluck things from the internet into PSQL

  Howdy HN, I previously did a "Show HN" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40966268) when I got my custom database to a point where you could query the internet like a structured database by treating CSS selectors/URLs as valid identifiers ie the following: ```. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Firefox "Copy" has been inconsistent and broken for 8 months

  Https://ftp.wildfire.gov/public/incident_specific_data/ Is it the lack of js, not something more arcane in the ftp templating on those sites? I can reproduce all of this at http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/, and also at https://news.ycombinator.com/, which has js (be careful to select something like ### points below a post, which has no hyperlink) So google is... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• What I Discovered About Making Great Widgets: Insights From 100+ Real Users

  For this study, I selected Reddit and Hacker News, platforms where many tech enthusiasts gather. I posted my inquiry in major Android and iPhone subreddits and waited for responses. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• 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 / 3 months 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 / 3 months 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 / 4 months 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 / 4 months 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 / 5 months 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 / 5 months ago

• I want to create IMDB for Open source projects

  I'm not sure how much value making something "not fugly" really matters. Design should be based on functionality, not anti-fugliness. In my experience, design considerations should come after building a successful growth "feedback loop." (Or whatever you want to call it.) At that point, you may decide making your website look "polished" isn't even necessary. IMDB was certainly quite ugly for a long time.... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: What is the ideal format to structure AI prompts?

  User input does not need to be sanitized if it is programmatically inserted into the document as the value of a key in a regular dict section. To work, I assume the target model needs to be trained on Braq documents with emphasis on the fact that only the top unnamed section contains root instructions (equivalent to the "system" role in ChatML). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34988748 [3]... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Show HN: Skyvern – open-source browser automation tool

  This can definitely be used for front end testing. Just tell it to do something like a user and monitor whether it's successful or not Here's a prompt example to try out { "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com", "navigation_goal": "goal is met if you see a post from basiep2. Terminate if you don't" }. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Web Development Tools and Resources

  Hacker News (Visit Site) - Hacker News offers news and discussions related to technology and programming. It's a source of information and inspiration for developers interested in the tech industry's latest developments. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• The Economics of Status (2006)

  If you have ublock installed you can zap these html elements and stop being tempted to look at your social status report card every pageload.

    ! 2021-02-02 https://news.ycombinator.com.

  - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• I don't want anything your AI generates

  Objective: HackerNews (https://news.ycombinator.com/) is very popular website among developers for latest news and projects. However sorting of the items is done via their own algorithms and we want to build a clone which keeps getting the top 90 articles and shows them in reverse chronological order. Requirements: Each news item will have the following fields - url,... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Ask HN: What are some interesting articles you've read recently?

  I find a decent aggregation of interesting things at: https://news.ycombinator.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago