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Beeper Mini is now open-source
Original EnglishWhen possible, I use chat clients that work well for them, because otherwise we can’t share quality photos with each other.
Hackers may have leaked the Social Security Numbers of every American
Original EnglishI made the mistake of paying for our IP lawyers dubious Lexis Nexsus subscription for a year, and then was hit 4 years later with …
Ask HN: What's your backup setup?
Original EnglishWe tried backuppc for a while and liked it, but it still had the problem with append only files growing, and lots of our backups …
Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security
Original EnglishWell this same thread on Reddit resulted on several "oh, but I deployed 7-zip across the enterprise" answers.
CoreCLR building on ARM
Original EnglishVisual Studio 2015 Community is a full-featured world-class IDE that's now free (edit: for OSS or Companies with <$1M Revenue) - which I've now moved …
How Ubuntu startup script deletes everything
Original EnglishI'm glad microsoft employees are waving this around in our faces because look how many lives this bug report will save.
Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp
Original EnglishMaybe someday I’ll have hardware powerful enough to run a local LLM, but for now, this setup is more than good enough.
Ask HN: Cost of living across the world (Ramen PPP Index for hackers)
Original EnglishI worked for people in the US - a few clients and would make about 15K per year USD.
Rewriting a high performance vector database in Rust
Original EnglishI failed to understand the reasons for that unification.