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valevk··on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
If anyone is looking for an alternative made in Germany: https://ignite.video/en
valevk··on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
In the latest national security strategy the US defined the EU as an enemy. Also, when you read the chats from that Signal group where a reporter was accidentally added, you can see the resentment those people feel towards the EU.
valevk··on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector
How does Infomaniak compare to Proton? I see they have more office productivity products, but regarding mail and drive?
valevk··on Doing Rails Wrong
Which framework is actually just „do X“? Good frameworks should be easily extendable with other technologies.
valevk··on Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations
Would be interesting to see how this compares to https://splid.app/
valevk··on Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices
Switched to proton, never looked back
valevk··on What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
> the stack layout didn't match what the exploit was expecting.

What does that mean? Why is the exploit expecting something from the stack layout and why does valgrind complain?

valevk··on Someone bought 26.9 BTC on Binance and sent it to Satoshi's dead wallet
What means dead wallet? Might it be artificial supply limitation?
valevk··on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
Nice tool, would be great if you could input other languages that english when searching for a location
valevk··on NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild
The stuxnet dossier from Symantec is a good read: https://archive.org/details/w32_stuxnet_dossier
valevk··on Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing to?
https://www.datadrivenvc.io/
valevk··on How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
How about .net core vs framework?
valevk··on Show HN: Banger.show – Create colorful visuals for your songs in seconds
Looks nice, but are there any other visuals than the three you demoed? Also, is your user name in any way related to the bulgarian mobster that got killed in Amsterdam?
valevk··on Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
BetterSnapTool! While at it, check out BetterTouchTool as well.
valevk··on FlightRadar24 crashes due to surge in users tracking SPAR19
What's SPAR19 all about?
valevk··on Ask HN: What do you use VMs for regularly?
Windows Sandbox to run Adobe Flash to access old data rooms.
valevk··on China's state media buys Meta ads pushing Russia's line on war
Replace twitter.com with nitter.net for a more pleasant experience, i.e. https://nitter.net/neilcybart/status/1500825861242724352
valevk··on Linus on Line Breaks (2020)
https://reddit.com/r/linusrants for a few more Linus stories
valevk··on Google employees who work from home could lose money
But wouldn't companies also save money by using smaller offices (and maybe by cutting the micro managers who control employees in an office environment)? What you are saying is that companies are capitalizing on the preference rather than any real cost of working from home?
valevk··on Show HN: Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs
How do you compare with https://matrix.org/?
valevk··on Cities with the Best Work-Life Balance 2021
Nice to see kisi here.
valevk··on Signal Tries to Run the Most Honest Facebook Ad Campaign Ever, Gets Banned
Why? Can you please elaborate more. I recently started using Signal and like it very much. It seems that more and more of my contacts are also starting to use Signal.
valevk··on The Apache Attic
I really liked the Apache Click framework for building websites. I seemed so natural using it
valevk··on Slack is down
> While the issue is largely still ongoing, we believe some customers may see improvement in connecting to Slack after a refresh (CTRL/CMD + R).

Nice.

valevk··on The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
"The curve shows how many spots there are of each size in the background radiation."

"The first peak shows that the universe is geometrically flat, i.e. two parallel lines will never meet."

Can somebody explain this, please?

valevk··on Ask HN: Which project management and team communication software do you use?
Microsoft Teams and Planner
valevk··on Servo nightly builds on Windows now available
Did you build with --release flag?
valevk··on PgAdmin 4 v1.0 released
I'm a big fan of SQuirrel SQL. Sometimes the Java process consumes all my memory, still had far less crashes than using any client.
valevk··on Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species [video]
Aldo?
valevk··on Looking ahead for WhatsApp
Funny that it's impossible to delete you HN account.
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