New best story on Hacker News: If OpenSSL were a GUI

If OpenSSL were a GUI
642 by soheilpro | 206 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings

Microsoft will include pay ranges in all U.S. job postings
613 by blue_box | 293 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: “Code” 2nd Edition

“Code” 2nd Edition
606 by emme | 129 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Welcome to the M1 Windows project

Welcome to the M1 Windows project
577 by giuliomagnifico | 247 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: I've locked myself out of my digital life

I've locked myself out of my digital life
704 by edent | 480 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices

EU reaches deal to make USB-C a common charger for most electronic devices
574 by geox | 956 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Deepfake Offensive Toolkit (real-time deepfakes for virtual cameras)

Deepfake Offensive Toolkit (real-time deepfakes for virtual cameras)
530 by draugadrotten | 316 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Tools for Better Thinking

Tools for Better Thinking
777 by andsoitis | 67 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Apple Unveils M2

Apple Unveils M2
588 by yottabyte47 | 740 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Apple Passkey

Apple Passkey
757 by samwillis | 355 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: What rr does

What rr does
691 by mmarq | 66 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Dear Spotify, can we just get table of songs?

Dear Spotify, can we just get table of songs?
747 by neilpanchal | 355 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code

VSCodium – Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code
674 by pabs3 | 404 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Installing a payphone in my house

Installing a payphone in my house
710 by itsjloh | 178 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Google cancelled a talk on caste bias

Google cancelled a talk on caste bias
656 by devnonymous | 742 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down
691 by RBBronson123 | 135 comments on Hacker News.
So it’s with deep professional and personal sadness that I must announce my plans to shut down 70 Million Resources, Inc., the parent company of 70 Million Jobs (the 1st national, for-profit employment platform for people with criminal records) and Commissary Club (the first mobile social network for this population). When I launched 70MR in 2016, I was motivated to build a company that could short circuit the pernicious cycles of recidivism in this country--cycles that destroy lives, tear apart families and decimate communities. I sought to disrupt the sleepy reentry industry by applying technology, focusing on data, employing an aggressive, accountable team, and moving with some urgency. And for the first time, approaching the challenge as a national, for-profit venture. This approach, which I named “RaaS,” (Reentry as a Service), turned out to be wildly effective, and by the beginning of 2020, we were delivering on our mission of driving “double bottom line returns”: build a big, successful business and do massive social good. With the help of Y Combinator and nearly 1,500 investors, I assembled a team and got to work. We succeeded in facilitating employment for thousands of deserving men and women and became operationally profitable. However, the pandemic had other plans for us. When it hit in force in March 2020, companies made wholesale terminations of nearly all our people, and continued their halt in hiring for two years. Our revenue dropped like a rock to almost nothing. I immediately responded by paring our expenses to the bone and began letting team members go. There was no opportunity to raise additional funding, so I began injecting my own money into the company—money I barely have—just to keep the lights on. When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days. It became obvious that we lacked the resources to weather this new storm while hoping and praying the world would normalize soon. (It still hasn’t.) Our coffers are empty. We’ve incurred a relatively small amount of debt (that I personally guaranteed) that I hope to negotiate down. All employees have been paid what they were owed (except for me). I will explore sale of assets we hold. On a personal note, I can’t tell you how grateful and humbled I’ve been that many would entrust their investment or business with me. For a person who’s done time in prison (me), it’s almost impossible to ask for someone’s trust. I have not yet forgiven myself for things I did which ultimately got me into trouble. But I will be eternally grateful to those that assisted me in my efforts to settle the score and win back my karma. From the beginning I was blessed by an unbelievable team of smart, funny, passionate young people who shared my ambition to cause change. They stuck with me/us until the very end. I’m most saddened by the millions of formerly incarcerated men and women who we won’t be able to help. These are some of the most sincere, honest, and heroic people I’ve ever met. It was my life’s honor to work with them. I’m pretty sure I’ll continue my reentry work. Several prominent organizations have indicated their interests in me assuming a leadership role. I need to work, and I need to continue my work. I’m so sorry for this outcome, despite the good we’ve done. I’m not sure we could have done anything differently or better, but ultimately, I take full responsibility. Needless to say, if you have any thoughts or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out, here or at Richard@70MillionJobs.com. This has been the greatest experience of my life; it couldn’t have happened without my getting a second chance. Richard

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New best story on Hacker News: Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data

Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data
607 by danso | 353 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released

Show HN: A friend and I spent 6 years making a simulation game, finally released
634 by iliketrains | 174 comments on Hacker News.
I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam: https://ift.tt/1reJjlB... I am still not sure if this was a good decision financially, but unlike in a corporate environment, I am so much happier working on a product that I can put my love into and see people enjoy it, see my direct impact, and be able to make big decisions (although this also adds a lot of stress). I also quite enjoy the added SWE challenges. I had to write so many complex algorithms (path-finding, logistics, serialization, ...) and optimize things down to bits (shaders, compression of in-memory data, ...) that were rarely required by my corp job. Anyhow, this is getting a little long, feel free to ask any questions, I will do my best to answer them.

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New best story on Hacker News: DALL-E 2 has a secret language

DALL-E 2 has a secret language
581 by smarx | 107 comments on Hacker News.


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New best story on Hacker News: Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?

Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried?
568 by dontwordle | 198 comments on Hacker News.


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