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The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS 472 by thomaspark | 43 comments June 10, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effect-in-css/ Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019 Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus activity in Fall 2019 446 by abc-xyz | 283 comments June 10, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767 Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old 827 by paraschopra | 117 comments Hello HN, I'm Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We're an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009. As a 22 year old fresh out of college, I had launched an early prototype of a marketing platform in 2009 here, got initial users from HN (including patio11) who gave their feedback that my product was trying to do too many things. Their inputs are what that led me to focusing on one thing (A/B testing) and that's how I built and launched "Visual Website Optimizer"(now called VWO). Here's that Show HN thread from 2009: https://ift.tt/2ofrYNQ I can't thank this community enough - without Hacker News, VWO wouldn't have existed. Today, we're a team of 250+ people and seen that initial "Show HN" grow into a $20mn+ bootstrapped business (no VC funding). If anyone's interested in reading more, I've blogged this journey (from launch to now) on our website: https://ift.tt/2AfH24v For any early stage entrepreneurs / indie hackers reading this, I'm sharing my story to let you know that you don't need connections, funding or breakthroughs to build a successful business. All you need is a hunger to make it happen and a community (like this one) to give you honest feedback for iterating on your product. If you are what Paul Graham calls as relentless resourceful, you will build a successful business. So, thank you HN! Thanks @patio11 for your feedback and initial shoutouts in 2009. And thanks Paul. Beyond YC funding, you've impacted lives of many other folks (like me) through your essays and by making Hn happen. PS: I don't know if this post will get any attention on HN today, but I felt like I had to do this :) June 10, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly New inline assembly syntax available in Rust nightly 438 by dagenix | 204 comments June 10, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2020/06/08/new-inline-asm.html Create diagrams with code using Graphviz Create diagrams with code using Graphviz 575 by adrianancona | 184 comments June 11, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://ncona.com/2020/06/create-diagrams-with-code-using-graphviz/ After 10 years in tech isolation, I'm now outsider to things I once had mastered After 10 years in tech isolation, I'm now outsider to things I once had mastered 650 by signa11 | 340 comments June 11, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://forklog.media/after-10-years-in-tech-isolation-im-now-outsider-to-things-i-once-had-mastered/ Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people 636 by svmanager | 419 comments June 11, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://staysaasy.com/engineering/2020/06/09/Don%27t-Joke.html You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain 684 by ashitlerferad | 324 comments June 11, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/gzr3cq/fyi_you_can_bypass_youtube_ads_by_adding_a_dot/ Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event Zoom closes account of U.S.-based Chinese activist after Tiananmen event 1648 by surajama | 439 comments June 11, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.axios.com/zoom-closes-chinese-user-account-tiananmen-square-f218fed1-69af-4bdd-aac4-7eaf67f34084.html Woodworking for Engineers Woodworking for Engineers 674 by jakear | 283 comments June 12, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://woodgears.ca/ Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site Activists rally to save Internet Archive as lawsuit threatens site 720 by KANahas | 359 comments June 12, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://decrypt.co/31906/activists-rally-save-internet-archive-lawsuit-threatens Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn 709 by rohmanhakim | 429 comments June 12, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.pcmaffey.com/finally-i-closed-my-linkedin/ MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations 933 by davrosthedalek | 228 comments June 12, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://news.mit.edu/2020/guided-by-open-access-principles-mit-ends-elsevier-negotiations-0611 Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare? Ask HN: My wife might lose the ability to speak in 3 weeks – how to prepare? 780 by tech4all | 201 comments My wife will be undergoing significant oral surgery in a few weeks and there is a SMALL chance she may lose the ability to speak. I'd like to prepare, just in case, to have technology to reproduce her voice from keyboard or other input. My ideal would be an open source "deepfake toolkit" that allows me to provide pre-recorded samples of her speech and then TTS in her voice. Unfortunately most articles and tools I'm finding are anti-deepfake. Any recommendations? Fallback would be recording her speaking "phonetic pangrams" and then using her pre-recorded phonemes to recreate speech that sounds like her. I feel like the deepfake toolkit is the way to go. Appreciate any recommendations... There must be open source tools for this?? June 12, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website 876 by napolux | 355 comments June 12, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://coding.napolux.com/a-facebook-crawler-was-making-7m-requests-per-day-to-my-stupid-website/ Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser 792 by m0ck | 290 comments June 13, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News http://cs-online.club Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3 Jepsen: PostgreSQL 12.3 693 by aphyr | 129 comments June 13, 2020 at 04:08PM via Hacker News http://jepsen.io/analyses/postgresql-12.3 Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone 565 by obilgic | 810 comments June 14, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://capitolhillautonomous.zone/ Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations Show HN: Download Hi-Res Public Domain Art, Posters and Illustrations 543 by therecb | 48 comments June 14, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://artvee.com/ University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs University of the People: Tuition-Free, Accredited Online Degree Programs 697 by tomato2juice | 437 comments June 14, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.uopeople.edu/ Biohacking Lite Biohacking Lite 685 by askytb | 345 comments June 14, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/biohacking-lite/ Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request Zoom Acknowledges It Suspended Activists' Accounts at China's Request 1003 by dehrmann | 356 comments June 14, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/876351501/zoom-acknowledges-it-suspended-activists-accounts-at-china-s-request New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress "unionize" in workplace chat New Facebook tool allows employers to suppress "unionize" in workplace chat 513 by aaronbrethorst | 479 comments June 15, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://theintercept.com/2020/06/11/facebook-workplace-unionize/ SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) SQLite as an Application File Format (2014) 560 by afiori | 292 comments June 15, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry's 'Best Chance' at Safe Systems Programming Microsoft: Rust Is the Industry's 'Best Chance' at Safe Systems Programming 512 by adamnemecek | 428 comments June 15, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-rust-is-the-industrys-best-chance-at-safe-systems-programming/# Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar 844 by vezycash | 661 comments June 15, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/06/12/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary/ Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa Amazon added a non-compete after the employee entered the U.S. on an L1B visa 670 by luu | 470 comments June 15, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1157729616259235840 Ask HN: A way to adblock "we're using cookies" popups? Ask HN: A way to adblock "we're using cookies" popups? 511 by rayalez | 226 comments Whatever the intent of the GDPR was, the practical result is that now I have to click away the annoying "we're using cookies" popup on every website. Is there any way to do this automatically? If there isn't - there should be. Maybe people should use some special tag for them, so that it would be easy for users to block them on all the websites, if they want to. June 15, 2020 at 12:08PM via Hacker News George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter George Floyd Protest – police brutality videos on Twitter 642 by mimixco | 779 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1YmZeSxpz52qT-10tkCjWOwOGkQqle7Wd1P7ZM1wMW0E/htmlview?pru=AAABcql6DI8*mIHYeMnoj9XWUp3Svb_KZA Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020 Adobe to remove Flash Player from web site after December 2020 779 by michaelhoffman | 431 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract After GitHub CEO backs Black Lives Matter, workers demand an end to ICE contract 637 by Xordev | 731 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS Show HN: My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS 523 by callumprentice | 112 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08PM via Hacker News https://callumprentice.github.io/apps/iss_photo_explorer_flat/index.html?lat=30&lng=-60&pn=6&ph=0# Zsh and Fish's simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds Zsh and Fish's simple but clever trick for highlighting missing linefeeds 467 by ingve | 126 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08PM via Hacker News https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=878 Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised Free Textbooks from Springer, Categorised 526 by hnarayanan | 103 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08PM via Hacker News https://hnarayanan.github.io/springer-books/ How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants? How many of you know that the team is working on something that no-one wants? 571 by kiyanwang | 383 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08PM via Hacker News https://iism.org/article/how-many-of-you-know-deep-down-that-the-team-is-working-on-something-that-no-customer-wants-54 Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed Woman makes $420k by buying insurance on flights she predicted would get delayed 587 by 9nGQluzmnq3M | 396 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08PM via Hacker News https://mothership.sg/2020/06/woman-china-scam-insurance-delayed-flights/ Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign Six eBay executives and employees charged over alleged cyberstalking campaign 612 by bbatsell | 201 comments June 16, 2020 at 10:08PM via Hacker News https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/15/ebay-employees-arrested-u-s-attorney-andrew-lelling-cyberstalking/ Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert Procrastination is driven by our desire to avoid difficult emotions, says expert 558 by pseudolus | 281 comments June 17, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thesundayedition/the-sunday-edition-for-june-14-2020-1.5604357/there-s-a-reason-we-procrastinate-and-it-s-not-laziness-1.5604433 For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business 518 by saeedjabbar | 444 comments June 17, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-16/black-lives-matter-highlights-adversity-facing-black-tech-ceos Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations Drive through cities in the browser while listening to local radio stations 501 by herval | 111 comments June 17, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/ The Next Step for Generics The Next Step for Generics 546 by ainar-g | 445 comments June 17, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step On Coding, Ego and Attention On Coding, Ego and Attention 496 by digitalmaster | 151 comments June 17, 2020 at 11:08AM via Hacker News https://josebrowne.com/on-coding-ego-and-attention/ Bootstrap 5 alpha Bootstrap 5 alpha 499 by mkurz | 220 comments June 17, 2020 at 01:08PM via Hacker News https://blog.getbootstrap.com/2020/06/16/bootstrap-5-alpha/ Time to Upgrade Your Monitor Time to Upgrade Your Monitor 922 by neonbones | 787 comments June 18, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/ Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying Zoom to bring end-to-end encryption to all users, including non-paying 722 by jmsflknr | 437 comments June 18, 2020 at 10:08AM via Hacker News https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/06/17/end-to-end-encryption-update/ GitHub isn't fun anymore GitHub isn't fun anymore 616 by MH15 | 587 comments June 18, 2020 at 02:08PM via Hacker News https://jaredpalmer.com/github-isnt-fun-anymore Manage