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A few options.

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If you have an iOS device tons of free or cheap music creation apps are available. Korg Gadget is only $30, but is more than enough to get started. You can even plug in an audio interface and record straight into it.

You have standalone devices, like the Akai MPC. Literally just load in some 8-bit samples and start playing around, this tends to be a bit of an investment though as the standalone devices start at like $700.

My personal suggestion, assuming you have the money to spend would be to buy something like Maschine, 200$. Install a Chip Tune VST.

https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MaschMik3--native-in...

However that's just me speaking from producing primarily hip hop, trip hop, and lo-fi beats.

Since you mention rock like four times, obvious answer is you should go and buy a guitar and maybe take some classes.
I would love it if roundabouts caught on in the states, at least the single-lane ones. Multi-lane and the huge ones with traffic lights always scared me when driving in the UK.
Which is odd considering the "wrong thinking" people could never get hired there in the last two decades, so what's really going on here?
I think this is a good choice.

Search don't sort.
It's weird the way they just let it rot in place, without officially deprecating it.

I think the alternative is now vite, which is definitely better, but switching can be a massive hassle.
It's the same concept. Even with niche tech. If you can't hire a good candidate in a buyers market, and repeatedly get bad hires, what's your interview pipeline doing? Paying too low, getting reqs wrong in a game of telephone? Hiring through nepotism instead of merit?

I'm just a bit tired of the "but we need to avoid bad hires" narrative. Especially since a certain blundermouth more or less said the quiet part out loud for the intentions many have with that. It made sense in 2022, but is that really an issue in 2025? If you can't "find solid candidates" now, how did you Faire in non-bust markets?
Level and start/end year of tenure if you don't mind sharing. As meta grew in employee number things definitly worsen on that front
Hi HN!

I'm preparing to relaunch my AI App development tool, OpenLIT, on Product Hunt. During our first attempt, we made it to #10 on Product of the Day. While that was a solid outcome, there's room for improvement, and we can aim for the top spot.

Many users have recommended that we focus more on marketing, but my expertise is in coding, not marketing. I'd love to hear your thoughts and advice on how to effectively relaunch OpenLIT and reach #1 on Product Hunt. What strategies, tips, or tricks would you suggest for maximizing our impact?

Thanks for sharing your insights!
I didn't say not no American has ever learned it. Im somewhat surprised that you learned it, but still think that most don't cover this.
Why would society not mandate cameras to make sure the operators of thousands of kilograms of metal at high speeds are paying attention to the road instead of their phone? And to be able to punish them if they are not.

Assuming pedestrian and children’s safety is a priority.
"The f___ing article"
1. Cannot protect against meta doing this as well. Can only hope to make my service better than theirs.
2. Using the Meta API with a business account.
You mean Aha! isn't hiring 100 people in 100 locations world wide at all times?
Fear. Effects on stock price during when talent is a hot commodity.

Besides, all those Associate Directors of Nonengineering Engineers of Developer Conference Swag Acquisition need to eat too.
nah edison was a pretty huge douche. but he could walk the walk and often got a pass
Perhaps there's a reason why. The market generally doesn't need people who can do it all. In the same way it doesn't need people writing C++ or Rust to know how to write machine code or assembly. Sure, the ones that can are probably more knowledgable, but their experience with the high level language is more important.

I've done full-stack with no frameworks or non-std libraries (aside from PDO and OpenSSL, the limitations set by CEO decree) for about 8 years now.

I write my own schemas in IBM Db2. Hell, I wrote small application databases in IBM DDS in the AS400's SEU while I was still under the legal drinking age. I've always written our stylesheets from scratch, using SCSS. I've written C++ APIs that run in PASE, talk to the database with ODBC, then send back to a front end through sockets. I do graphic design and photography -- something I started back in middle school and took some formal classes on -- and have led the creation of marketing materials for multiple subsidiaries. I've spent 40 hour weeks working on sysadmin tasks in vim, 40 hour weeks writing libraries in JetBrains and VSCode, and 40 hour weeks working running around with my DSLR or working in Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

But when I look for full-stack jobs, most of them actually want somebody who is well versed in a framework. There's not much point in doing all of this from scratch. It's more tedious, more error prone, and it takes longer to get to market. Some interviewers have given the impression that I'm a little "less than" because I haven't used any major frameworks.

I think that's actually a valid take, and it's something I've started doing side projects to address. Frameworks improve velocity. Frameworks improve reliability. They reduce the risk of a developer coming up with an out-in-the-weeds solution to a problem they didn't properly understand. They make it easier to maintain the code. They make it easier to onboard new developers who are familiar with that tech.
Some people use FB like phpBB, despite the massive shit of a UI. Maybe it's because reading comments don't earn them ad-revenue? "Quick, annoy the user so they'll move away!".

Maybe if they replaced every 5th comment with an ad (like how every 5th or so post/story/reel on Instagram is an ad).
The article is pretty light on details. But it was clear that their previous plan to return the samples by 2040 for $11 billion wouldn't get funded. Doing it faster for less money will require some out-of-the-box thinking.

Commercial options to get to earth orbit have been booming ever since SpaceX proved it viable on a startup budget, and commercial resupply of the ISS is an incredible success. Commercial options for delivery to the moon are emerging. Commissioning a commercial provider with delivering the lander to Mars seems like the best long-term option. But it's not immediately obvious if it's the best option from the viewpoint of this single mission. Mars landings are really tricky, and NASA has by far the best track record nailing them.
I had two issues, possibly due to my own perception, with Firefox. One is that it still froze in the same way Netscape did: the UI had no response whatsoever and a there was a hanging process in the process viewer. Granted, it didn't happen often, but it was noticeable enough that I got back my PTSD of using Netscape back. The other is somehow Firefox still feels less responsive than Chrome. This may well be just my unfounded perception, but pager loading, typing, and opening on a new tab somehow always felt a little delay, compared to using Chrome.
At least in the US the education system is so incredibly bad for anyone reasonably intelligent where homeschooling is an option it should be the clear preference. At least until high school.
That's not quite my point. "Productive" is for a reason. Is manufacturing perfume productive? Making video games?

It depends on your goals.

However, in a great power conflict, they're much less productive than tanks, drones, fighter jets, and guns.

Conversely, money thrown into weapons can't be used for quality-of-life improvements.

Neither of these is "good" or "bad" per se.

Some industries are hybrid. A ship yard is dual purpose.

If two hypothetical countries are playing this game, and one exports movies to buy ships and vice versa, when war breaks out, one country might be stuck without movies and the other without ships.
"The F-ing article" (derived from old internet slang "RTFM", for "Read the F-ing manual", a thing that new users were prone not to do before getting online and asking questions easily answered by RTFM.)
I mean, in an Oligarchy, you need powerful oligarchs. We no longer have any semblance of being a democracy, possible haven't for a while.
Like others, I don't really understand why anyone would desire this.

D&D is a social activity, why would I want to remove the most core human component of a social activity. It'd be like someone who enjoys going to a sports bar with friends deciding they'd rather sit next to a vending machine.
Made using which process? The article doesn't mention this.

https://www.tsmc.com/english/dedicatedFoundry/technology/log...
Google isn't entitled to invade my privacy, harvest my data and waste my time with ads. Installing an adblocker isn't an act of entitlement, it's an act of self-defense.
This headline was carefully written to trigger confirmation bias, but the phrase “or never filled” is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Most mid-sized companies where I’ve been a hiring manager haven’t had a 1:1 relationship between job postings and hires. Some times we’d post 1 job posting but hire 2-3 people out of it. Other times we’d post 2 or 3 job listings at different levels for 1 headcount because we were open to candidates of wide skill range but a single wide-range posting tends to turn off more experienced candidates. We’ve had situations where an internal candidate expresses interest in a public job posting, so we take it down without filling it and replace it with a different posting for their backfill.

So looking back, several of my job postings would be considered “fake or never filled” despite the fact that we were honestly hiring and filling roles.

This article and the WSJ article it sources from feel like journalists picking up on a social media trend and working backward to provide fodder for it. There is no 1:1 relationship between a job posting and a hire at many companies, so using job posting data to draw conclusions like this isn’t good logic. It probably feels like vindication to people who are tired of applying to jobs, though.
Mr Beast would be perfect.
The goal is to always be bringing in new talent and cutting lowest performers to increase productivity. They want the new talent and don’t care about the low performers at a personal level.
I'm suprised they can't ship (flat) packaging that could be used in Arizona with a simple assembly line.

If they had that packaging design then for this to make financial sense the two way shipping (and loading, unloading, custom clearance etc) would have to be less than shipping the packaging, the setup cost per unit cost of putting the chip in a box
The machines and processes needed to package the individual integrated circuits are fantastically expensive but the margins are so low in that step that it's only profitable at massive scales.

So you put the fantastically expensive machines near where most of the customers are and most of the customers are in Asia.

Works the same way with fiber optic cables. Making the long skinny bits is hard and high-margin. Actually turning them into cables is easy and low-margin.

So Corning makes huge spools of fiber optic cable in Arizona, North Carolina, and New York (I think) and ships it off to Taiwan and China where it is made into the cables that you plug into stuff.
rei.com generally continues to have issues with firefox. Completely absurd.
British novelists criticise government over AI 'theft'
Tell HN: New/Novel? Form of PayPal Phishing
I just got to me what is a new and novel form of paypal phishing, that could easily target less inclined people.

Instead of sending a phishing email to me directly, they set up a forwarding e-mail that forwards to my real account.

This means they don't have to fake paypal, paypal is sending real emails to the email under their control which then gets forwarded to me. And all the DKIM/SPF stuff seem to check out (google even flags it as important, even though it's "To: " header is not to any email they should associate with mine.

what's worse, since this is a "Billing Request" email, when you click through, you are greeted with a

"We'll link e-mail_addr@naga99g-186.com to your PayPal account when you log in."

It has the standard "Fraud Alert: Didn't make this order? Call at 1-888-341-5602". type message to try and get people to call in and manipulate them from there as well.

I'm semi impressed, but also figure worth raising a flag of warning to others that might have family members easily taken in by this.
I'm making an educated guess but probably the cutting of chips from the wafers, placing them into the appropriate ceramic socket types (DIP, BFGA, SMD etc), soldering the line wires from chip to pin, encasing the chip, etc.
Send a bill.
It's understandable that in an organization that hasn't tightened its screws on employees, you will be able to find 5% low performers. But do you expect to find 5% low performers even after 5 iterations of these firings? Like eventually you are left only with medium to high performers, and you are just making their lives miserable by turning work into a meaningless Hunger Games season.
those who have not increased their neck size in the last year will be first to go
According to him no, he does engineering. See eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32035317
ADD/ADHD was over-diagnosed for a long time. Why are you so sure all the people you mention have it vs other explanations? What is it you think makes ADHD brains special?
The apps allow you to mark the trips on which you were a passenger and those aren't counted
It's like we need a hero to rally around or something.
I think the commenter was sarcastically referencing their historical roots as a Nazi project (Volkswagen) and Nazi-supporting, Hilter-inspiring, anti-semite (Henry Ford)
Wait, in my media bubble the American left is the one consumed by rage.

The right is stupid or craven or greedy or just evil, but true righteous fury is reserved for those who saw a woman's rights not getting respected one time.
> I don't think NTFS is as relevant in comparison though. People who choose windows will have no interest in ZFS and vice versa (someone considering ZFS will not pick Windows).

ZFS on Windows, as a first-class supported-by-Microsoft option would be killer. It won't ever happen, but it would be great. (NTFS / VSS with filesystem/snapshot send/receive would "scratch" a lot of that "itch", too.)

> And I don't think anyone bothers to use it due to the lack of user-facing tooling around it. If it would be as easy to create snapshots as it is on ZFS, more people would use it, I'm sure. It's just so amazing to try something out, screw up my system and just revert :P But VSS is more of a system API than a user-facing geature.

VSS on NTFS is handy and useful but in my experience brittle compared to ZFS snapshots. Sometimes VSS just doesn't work. I've had repeated cases over the years where accessing a snapshot failed (with traditional unhelpful Microsoft error messages) until the host machine was rebooted. Losing VSS snapshots on a volume is much easier than trashing a ZFS volume.

VSS straddles the filesystem and application layers in a way that ZFS doesn't. I think that contributes to some of the jank (VSS writers becoming "unstable", for example). It also straddles hardware interfaces in a novel way that ZFS doesn't (using hardware snapshot functionality-- somewhat like using a GPU versus "software rendering"). I think that also opens up a lot of opportunity for jank, as compared to ZFS treating storage as dumb blocks.
In my opponion, all of those cases very well justify a manual check, or some sort of extended identification before the user is let in.

It indicates a deeper cultural issue of "convenience/profit over security" if those are sufficient reasons to not check the sub
parameter.
Are these numbers coming out of thin air? Gut feel perhaps? So after you fire 10% and don’t hire, that holds until there is nobody left?

Maybe we should stop with the gut feel managerial apologies and think about what we’re doing and how it affects company morale, no?
If you keep selling a product for $95 that costs you $100 to deliver you will be "in the hole" on that product line. For Allstate, that product line is insurance.

If you invest that $95, get a $15 dollar return, and then deliver the $100 product, you have made a net profit even though you sold the product for below cost. You are still in the hole for the insurance product no matter how you slice it.

Yes, I get that the insurance product is what allows them to invest the float. But any accountant can tell you that they are in the hole on that product.

They are still selling the product at a loss, even if their time arbitrage lets them make money elsewhere. Its kind of magic in that its a win/win scenario in what looks like a zero sum game. The point is that people think that insurance companies make money off of them paying a premium higher than what they will recover in claims, and saying that insurance is always a bad deal for the consumer. My point is that isn't true. Insurance companies pay out more in underwriting costs than they collect in premiums. Insurance is very frequently and insanely good deal in aggregate.
how is the webauthn story for FF? I recall that some hardware tokens could sometimes play weird with FF on Mac, I am not sure if Windows had the same thing. that was one practical advantage Chrome had.
Seems like we need a chain of custody for domains, not just current ownership. Kinda like real estate. And then accounts are tied not just to the ownership state, but also the ownership instance ID.

Just don't tell the web 3.0 folks cause I don't necessarily mean a blockchain.
Yeah--and that's the trouble. To kickstart things, apparently you have to follow the "success sequence" (get high school diploma, get job, get married, then have kids), but if your society, peers, and home life make that a difficult struggle, then what could we expect?
>> lol yea or a few bad jobs reports?

Which ones? The ones they released or the ones they re-released after overstating the numbers several times?
That sub identifier changing without the underlying user changing may be the core of the bug. It's not fully clear from the post IMO. I posted a little breakdown here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42701030

I don't think the article clearly states one way or another whether those 0.04% of sub claims changing are legitimate end user changes or not. If those sub changes are legitimately the Google Account changing, I don't think that's a bug on Google's part, but rather is a problem on the clients' side for not validating the sub claim.

If the sub is changing without the Google Account user actually changing, maybe something internally at Google is swapping out those IDs when it shouldn't be. It doesn't look like a UUID from the example I saw, so maybe there's some code somewhere to just change the user's ID if there's a collision or something?

Interestingly, I don't think Google claims that Sign in with Google is fully OIDC-compliant. At least in the overview I linked in my comment, they compare the implementation to OAuth+OIDC, but I'm not sure they claim to be 100% spec compliant.
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You seem to be under the impression that "wrong think" is in some way consistent or unchanging.
New Orleans is an interesting point of comparison. It's generally considered to be a pretty dangerous city by US standards. If you were gangbanging in the 90s then, yeah, it's safer today. Kind of a low bar tbh. I grew up in and around NYC and there I was never shot at or mugged or molested or beaten up by gangs. It was also generally safe late at night in the 90s and 2000s.
My view is that you cannot sacrifice other peoples' lives and belongings, and call it good, without also sacrificing some of your own. It does not actually have to be "an eye for an eye", the sacrifices do not have to be anywhere close to balanced. But willingly hurting other people and paying no price whatsoever cannot possibly be considered good.

> Sounds nice and virtuous
Yeah it is. I care about people about as much as it is possible to care about people, because I can't truly separate myself from anyone. If I know someone is happy, I feel like I am happy. If I am aware of someone on death row, I feel like I am on death row. My brain doesn't actually mix up real and imagined sensations, but I lack the ability to hear of something happening to someone and go "that can't happen to me". In some sense, I "am" humanity: I want everyone to be happy and get what they want. I empathize towards trans people and transphobes simultaneously (though ultimately side with trans people). I feel near-completely unable of actually making a difference with anything, but my mind does give me rather strong yanks to "make this war go away" all the time. Though the one exception to all this is people who hurt other people and call it good, especially if they call it "for their own good". I feel quite a lot of rage when I hear about incidents like that.

If you share goals and desires with someone, you are "the same person" as them. You are a "law-abiding citizen". Their successes are your successes, their failures are your failures. You are not the same person as "homeless people". Their successes mean nothing to you. Same with your failures. They are capable of causing problems to you (as all people do), but your desire to retaliate is not limited by the desire to not "cut off your nose to spite your face" that you would have if the cause of the problem was a "law-abiding citizen".

In my understanding of the world, it is not possible to convince you to care about homeless people. The desires of different people are fundamentally not comparable. My desire to stay alive does not outweigh your desire to not stub your toe, and if those desires come into conflict, it does not matter which one wins. (Though as I also consider myself to be you to some extent, I desire both to stay alive and for you to not stub your toe. And you too are probably also "humanity" to some extent, though probably not as strongly as I am. Not that it actually matters beyond simply describing what happens)

I see groups of parents looking out for their kids and feel good. I see groups of homeless people being hurt and feel bad. You go, "I'm defending the lives and non-drugginess of the kids of my community. That makes me a good person". Does it? You are making a decision to help the people you feel closest to at the expense of the people you feel further away from. On one hand, no such decision is better than any other decision. On the other hand, people are being hurt at all.
Why couldn't that have different prices per country?
Don't let domains you use lapse. Never get rid of a phone number.