Monday, November 28, 2022
Sunday, November 27, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
633 by costco | 508 comments on Hacker News.
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham: https://ift.tt/xKgfoFR Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
633 by costco | 508 comments on Hacker News.
Author here. This site lets you put in a username and get the users with the most similar writing style to that user. It confirmed several users who I suspected were alts and after informally asking around has identified abandoned accounts of people I know from many years ago. I made this site mostly to show how easy this is and how it can erode online privacy. If some guy with a little bit of Python, and $8 to rent a decent dedicated server for a day can make this, imagine what a company with millions of dollars and a couple dozen PhD linguists could do. Here's Paul Graham: https://ift.tt/xKgfoFR Here are some frequent HN commenters: (EDIT: Removed due to privacy concerns)
Friday, November 25, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?
552 by janober | 306 comments on Hacker News.
Last week we at n8n ran into problems getting a new database from Azure. After contacting support, it turns out that we can’t add instances to our k8s cluster either. Azure has told they'll have more capacity in April 2023(!) — but we’ll have to stop accepting new users in ~35 days if we don't get any more. These problems seem only in the German region, but setting up in a new region would be complicated for us. We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft, or that they wouldn’t proactively inform us about this. Is anyone else experiencing these problems?
552 by janober | 306 comments on Hacker News.
Last week we at n8n ran into problems getting a new database from Azure. After contacting support, it turns out that we can’t add instances to our k8s cluster either. Azure has told they'll have more capacity in April 2023(!) — but we’ll have to stop accepting new users in ~35 days if we don't get any more. These problems seem only in the German region, but setting up in a new region would be complicated for us. We never thought our startup would be threatened by the unreliability of a company like Microsoft, or that they wouldn’t proactively inform us about this. Is anyone else experiencing these problems?
Thursday, November 24, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
571 by mr_o47 | 102 comments on Hacker News.
I’m really thankful for this anazing platform and the knowledge i have gained through HN.
571 by mr_o47 | 102 comments on Hacker News.
I’m really thankful for this anazing platform and the knowledge i have gained through HN.
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
546 by TangerineDream | 245 comments on Hacker News.
546 by TangerineDream | 245 comments on Hacker News.
New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game
518 by trizoza | 149 comments on Hacker News.
I had the concept in my head for some time and firstly just prototyped it using only HTML & CSS. Sent it to a few friends and they liked it so I made it into its own website and added few 'competitive' features like click counter and share button.
518 by trizoza | 149 comments on Hacker News.
I had the concept in my head for some time and firstly just prototyped it using only HTML & CSS. Sent it to a few friends and they liked it so I made it into its own website and added few 'competitive' features like click counter and share button.
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?
Ask HN: Why isn't remote work advertised as a pro environment initiative?
544 by cpeth | 475 comments on Hacker News.
No form of transport requires less energy than telecommuting. Why aren't there Zoom/MS Teams/Slack bill-boards on 101 and 880? Where is everyone's outrage at needlessly requiring people to move themselves into offices and the congestsion, waste, and environmental damage it causes?
544 by cpeth | 475 comments on Hacker News.
No form of transport requires less energy than telecommuting. Why aren't there Zoom/MS Teams/Slack bill-boards on 101 and 880? Where is everyone's outrage at needlessly requiring people to move themselves into offices and the congestsion, waste, and environmental damage it causes?
Monday, November 21, 2022
New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
Show HN: A color picker for named web colors
506 by arantius | 118 comments on Hacker News.
I had this idea kicking around in my head for quite a while. Took an evening to make this, and a short morning to polish it a bit. So here it is!
506 by arantius | 118 comments on Hacker News.
I had this idea kicking around in my head for quite a while. Took an evening to make this, and a short morning to polish it a bit. So here it is!
