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discussedbefore··on Libui: a portable GUI library for C
Another option (C++ LGPL w/ Lua,JS bindings): https://github.com/yue/yue

Other projects building on andlabs/ui and https://github.com/parro-it/libui-node:

https://github.com/mimecorg/vuido - vue

https://github.com/kusti8/proton-native - react

discussedbefore··on LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time
Related discussions over the past week-ish:

US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17081684 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17069459

Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046632

discussedbefore··on A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities
I recently learned two XBox controllers can function as one, an ease of access feature called Copilot.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories/copilot

discussedbefore··on US cell carriers are selling access to real-time phone location data
Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17046632
discussedbefore··on System76 and LVFS
RE: Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17037845

discussedbefore··on Shortwave Trading: The West Chicago Tower Mystery
The secret world of microwave networks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862789 (2016)

HFT in My Backyard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8354278 (2014)

discussedbefore··on How Algolia Built Their Realtime Search as a Service
I use HN search all the time; it's useful.

There is no way to search across multiple comments on the same "story"; I use Google site search for this.

It only counts replies/"comments" for stories, not comments (which would probably be a lot more work).

It differentiates between plural and singular search terms as very different searches.

The only ranking options are by popularity and date (would like to be able to sort results by number of replies too).

discussedbefore··on Show HN: Alexa skill for Hacker News that summarizes articles
Interesting to compare the automation vs. a manual approach started last month.

Show HN: Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16850689

discussedbefore··on Don't Get Your Coworker to Agree with You
Be likeable or get fired

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16883882

discussedbefore··on MacOS monitoring the open source way
osquery came up a few days ago; in use at Etsy, including a direct link to a common setup.

Ask HN: Is no anti-virus software still best practice for mac?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16904103#16904721

> https://github.com/facebook/osquery/blob/master/packs/osx-at...

Also a discussion of how this type of monitoring worked out in practice in the Google/Uber/Lewandowski case last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860890#13861475

> the level of detail that Google has over the logs and actions of their laptop

> https://github.com/google/grr

discussedbefore··on Multi-core cryptography for Node.js
Microsoft's Bing group customized Node.js for CPU-bound tasks: https://github.com/Microsoft/napajs/wiki/Why-Napa.js

Napa.js: A multi-threaded JavaScript runtime https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15498219 (Nov 2017)

Their deal-breaker against using node-cluster was a need to use shared memory for IPC.

discussedbefore··on The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color
Did you miss Silicon Valley season 5 episode 4? ;)
discussedbefore··on Mode Studio – Python, R and SQL Editor
https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/6435#issuecommen...

https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/6095

discussedbefore··on Proof-Of-Work is a Decentralized Clock
> increase the fee of a transaction after the fact

Someone should have volunteered to help the Pineapple Fund do this instead of switching to Bitcoin Cash (or maybe this is what "Child-Pays-For-Parent" is, and it cost too much). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15995391

>> Since this created a series of unconfirmed transactions, we had to do something drastic: use Child-Pays-For-Parent with a very significant fee.

discussedbefore··on Ask HN: Does SEO still work in 2018?
The basic option for local lead gen is encouraging happy customers to leave glowing Google reviews.

After that comes paying for AdWords to get those reviews in front of more eyeballs.

discussedbefore··on Massively Multiplayer Minesweeper
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11158897 (Feb 2016)

> game like this http://gameofbombs.com/

Apparently being offline has happened before:

> it was down and didn't get back up for at least 200 days

discussedbefore··on Show HN: Hacker Daily, a daily podcast for Hacker News readers
If it takes off, you could do a free 5 minute intro feed + a paid 1 hr detailed feed (which might be enough to satisfy the HN craving while commuting/doing chores/etc.).

I'd recommend trying out assigning numbers to the stories (eg. 1 of 10) as they are introduced to give more separation between stories / comments. Or maybe one voice does the story summary and the other the comments. Without paying close attention it seems to all blend together.

discussedbefore··on OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world
It's great to read the ongoing stories from the boots-on-the-ground still doing the actual deployments: http://planet.laptop.org

Unfortunately as the project loses momentum these types of stories are dwindling; here's one example from the aggregator:

http://blog.olenepal.org/index.php/archives/2630

discussedbefore··on Making Ads and Pages More Transparent
https://www.fbpurity.com adblocking extension
discussedbefore··on Payment Request API for Apple Pay
Does Apple take 30% on the web?
discussedbefore··on Ask HN: What did you build with your RaspberryPI?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14856277
discussedbefore··on Migra – A schema diff tool for PostgreSQL
Would appreciate more from what you've been tracking.

Someone put a lot of love into this list for MSSQL circa 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_SQL_Ser...

discussedbefore··on A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe
How close is Apple Pay? Is there anything in an Apple Pay transaction identifying the customer (that can be correlated across purchases)?

I've heard good things but I have no idea about the details.

Edit: https://www.engadget.com/2014/10/02/apple-pay-an-in-depth-lo...

merchant sees NO account information but has the final four digits of the PAN [CC number] as an account identifier to use as a mechanism for tracking volume/activity per account

discussedbefore··on “The street finds its own uses for things” (2012)
How Tide Detergent Became a Drug Currency

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023204 (2013)

discussedbefore··on Why there are so many online mattress-in-a-box companies
Zinus sub-discussion from some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489344
discussedbefore··on Blueprint of a distributed social network on IPFS, and its problems
One decentralized project is willing to list alternative options, many past the 'create a prototype' stage:

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/faq/misc/related.html

ZeroMe – Decentralized Microblogging on ZeroNet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464156

An off-grid social network [Scuttlebutt] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14050049

--

A recent discussion of building on IPFS, where a developer was honest about drawbacks:

OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16702684

haven't solved the decentralized reputation problem and reviews can't entirely be trusted

--

I am interested in this space because first mover advantage is still kind of up in the air until something works well enough to build a network advantage.

discussedbefore··on OpenTTD 1.8.0-RC1
OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon the popular Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", written by Chris Sawyer.
discussedbefore··on 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?
It may be opt-in, but website operators can choose to whitelist Tor even on the free Cloudflare tier.

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...

The options for Tor are:

Whitelist (trust)

CAPTCHA (visible challenge which the visitor must interact with to pass)

JavaScript Challenge (visible challenge with less friction, testing the browser)

Block (blacklist -- available only to Cloudflare Enterprise customers)

discussedbefore··on 1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?
Cloudflare has dropped the Daily Stormer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15029852 (August 2017)

> I wonder if this signals a more general change in attitude

CloudFlare CEO says his Daily Stormer takedown was “arbitrary” and “dangerous” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15034304

> If this is true [Daily Stormer made the claim that CloudFlare were secretly supporters], then I agree with the takedown [...] But in this interview, the CEO says something totally different

The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15238415 (September 2017)

> If you think that [...] government has a tendency to suppress dissent, then censoring [...] is just opening the door and setting a precedent

‘Daily Stormer’ Termination Haunts Cloudflare in Online Piracy Case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15377292

> Cloudflare set up a limit to what they allow or not so now they will have to fight where that limit is

discussedbefore··on Au Revoir
I just love tech a lot more than marketing, probably primarily because I'm much better at tech!

I'm glad that RethinkDB seems to be headed toward a happy ineding as a community, and thanks for the pointer to the write up.

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