Hacker Wisdom

A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.

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In what ways is programming more difficult today than it was years ago?

https://landscape.cncf.io/

What to do to be healthy when old?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06X6LPQH9/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/

https://www.faculty.umb.edu/alexandrine_noel/AlexINFO/newstart.htm

https://thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2818%2931310-2

Which mailing lists would you recommend to subscribe to?

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/my-favorite-tech-and-creator-newsletters

Architecture for embedding a language in my program

http://www.lua.org/pil/24.html

A surprising way to lose your files on Windows

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/my-profile-is-not-opening-and-a-temp-profile-was/0ea823d6-97be-4416-a77e-fc2a66e406d2

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/seeing-the-microsoft-account-problem-pop-up/eba096d0-752c-436c-81ca-24247e56c867

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/fast-file-finder-for-windows/

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/n4Fo16YKi45Y5JxL.full

https://dmde.com/

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook-air-core-2-duo-1.86-13-late-2010-specs.html

https://www.forensit.com/

https://futurism.com/the-byte/gen-z-kids-file-systems

https://getdata.com/recovermyfiles/

https://i.imgur.com/6jk6imp.png

https://imgur.com/a/ao5AtO6

https://imgur.com/a/TXNtJHy

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usmt-recognized-environment-variables

https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/shell/namespace-intro

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189139

https://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/186131-user-profile-service-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html

https://sleuthkit.org/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/send-feedback-to-microsoft-with-the-feedback-hub-app-f59187f8-8739-22d6-ba93-f66612949332

https://techcult.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Fix-Youve-been-signed-in-with-a-temporary-profile-error.png

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/48012-fix-youve-been-signed-temporary-profile-windows-10-a.html

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/269419/tip-set-up-windows-11-22h2-with-a-local-account

https://www.voidtools.com/

https://www.windowsphoneinfo.com/attachments/97fdf7d3-6fca-4a29-92bb-1319b6575bf2-upload-true-png.91063/

What's the salary benchmark for DevSecOps lead with 10 years experience?

https://www.levels.fyi/2021

What tool do you use for journaling? Privacy vs. availability tradeoff?

https://www.monkkee.com/en/

What did Linux not do right?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=249028

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=macOS+

https://docs.rs/redox_syscall/0.3.4/syscall/call/index.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd

https://fishshell.com/

https://github.com/iced-rs/iced

https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom

https://linuxhandbook.com/journalctl-command/

https://lore.kernel.org/all/d9802b6a-949b-b327-c4a6-3dbca485ec20@gmx.com/

https://lwn.net/Articles/873244/

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/11/01/ubuntu-search-amazon-privacy/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31200562

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31361974

https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2022/nsf22062/nsf22062.jsp

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/qn0o9w/adjust_touchpad_scroll_speed_enable_mouse_wheel/

http://redox-os.org/

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/254923/is-it-possible-to-protect-browser-credentials-from-malicious-processes#comment549262_254923

https://ubuntuunity.org/

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_recommendations#Sound_system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8VBOiPV-_M

How to regain my mind back?

https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5024

https://hubermanlab.com/

Sling modifies website so you can't pause or cancel after Disney dispute

https://www.usa.gov/state-attorney-general

How to Stop Caring (Professionally)?

https://www.16personalities.com/intj-personality

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

https://www.hybridcalisthenics.com/routine

https://www.wired.com/story/overemployment-work/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHxwY3Fz2gU

Just received spam to an address only used at Amazon?

https://bitwarden.com/blog/use-bitwarden-to-generate-email-aliases-with-fastmail/

https://blame.email/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33020571

https://non-public.email

https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/10/amazon-employees-email-address/

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-failed-to-protect-your-data-investigation/

Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files/+bug/1701068

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blank-new-tab-page/jaadjnlkjnhohljficgoddcjmndjfdmi

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-google-ea/bhloflhklmhfpedakmangadcdofhnnoh?hl=en

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/netscape-cuts-prices-on-retail-products/

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bureau_of_Economic_Research#Recession_markers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_(web_browser)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungoogled-chromium

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPI

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

https://i.ibb.co/ygp2x49/Fitbit-Ad-Google-com.png

https://imgur.com/a/wQhvFF9

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/2022/07/29/paul-krugman-recession-is-a-matter-of-definition/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800175

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20231960

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33022768

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33032470#33036403

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/opinion/economy-stock-market-coronavirus.html

https://p.mort.coffee/0Yy.png

https://qua3k.github.io/ungoogled/

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/lf9egy/comment/iivz2db/

https://techdows.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Chrome-dismiss-new-tab-promo-close-button-no-flag-needed.jpg

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/internet-browser-market-share/

https://web.archive.org/web/20020703150514/http://www.google.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt2iPpJmySU

Am I the only one who does not want IoT in their solar panel setup?

https://diysolarforum.com/threads/sol-ark-needs-a-serious-change.27144

http://www.energyjustice.net/coal/igcc/factsheet-long.pdf

https://enphase.com/download/2022-04-30-enphaseenergy-microinverterlimitedwarrantyuscanada

https://www.fronius.com/~/downloads/Solar%20Energy/Quick%20Guides/SE_QG_SA_Gov_Smarter_Homes_SAPN_Fronius_Remote%20Disconnect%20Setup_EN_AU.pdf

https://www.ginlong.com/rhi_3pinverter1/29118.html

https://github.com/jbuehl/solaredge

https://mobile.twitter.com/internetofshit

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-twitter-first-amendment.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/aloi5v/programmers_know_the_risks_involved/

https://www.sevarg.net/tag/solar/

https://signaturesolar.com/eg4-lifepower4-lithium-battery-48v-100ah/

https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1547/5915/

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/08/04/0800#solar

https://web.facebook.com/solarcompanyEST2018/?_rdc=1&_rdr

https://www.youtube.com/c/WillProwse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSa1tvrrFZg

Offline resources during internet outages?

https://100r.co/site/working_offgrid_efficiently.html

https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/12/27/blame-and-claim-can-we-fix-americas-uniquely-litigious-culture-14477

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-60431176

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-webpages-offline-as/nfbcfginnecenjncdjhaminfcienmehn

https://devdocs.io/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus/docs/features/offline

https://en.cppreference.com/w/Cppreference:Archives

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_kit

https://endlessos.com/

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

https://github.com/itkach/aard2-android#download

https://internet-in-a-box.org/

https://kapeli.com/dash

https://www.kiwix.org/en/

https://www.libgen.is/repository_torrent/

https://library.kiwix.org/?lang=eng

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/5-coffee-myths-legends

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31848566

https://organicmaps.app/

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/wiki/index

https://www.simplegermany.com/legal-insurance-germany/

https://terokarvinen.com/2022/ks-kanasirja-offline-tui-dictionary

https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/TBS/MCRP%203-40.3B%20Radio%20Operators%20Handbook.pdf

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Library_Genesis

Microsoft SmartScreen is destroying our business

http://athena.m3047.net/temporizing.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2021/09/28/wells-fargo-gets-into-trouble-yet-again-over-alleged-fraud/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/protocols/ms-protocolslp/9a3ae8a2-02e5-4d05-874a-b3551405d8f9

http://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-18.pdf

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33037323

https://twitter.com/xhfloz/status/1574404009288425472

HN people who write meaningful software, how did you learn to program?

https://craftsmanshipacademy.com/

https://github.com/Kareadita/Kavita

https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool

https://github.com/spieglt/flyingcarpet

https://kpow.io

https://magnesiumandhealth.com/murder-by-methanol/

https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

https://pluralkit.me

https://springtek.in/

https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

https://techcrunch.com/2008/10/27/hearwhere-lets-you-discover-live-music-in-your-neighborhood/

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/how-i-became-the-honest-broker?s=r

https://text-generator.io

https://thestackreport.xyz

http://zxnext.narod.ru/manuals/Basic_Programming.pdf

Google's Latest Legacy Gmail for Domains Fiasco: Increasing Storage

https://drive.google.com/settings/storage

https://www.lifewire.com/move-or-copy-mail-from-one-gmail-account-to-another-1171948

What Happened to SixthSense by Pranav Misty

https://www.pranavmistry.com/

What Is Happening in the UK?

https://blogsmedia.lse.ac.uk/blogs.dir/8/files/2022/09/28september2022bppfigure1crop.png

https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/national-policies-shield-consumers-rising-energy-prices

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/ron-insana-something-big-could-be-about-to-break-in-markets-as-rates-continue-to-rise.html

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/09/28/how-not-to-run-a-country

https://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2009/10/clash-of-autonomy-and-interdependence.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_bank

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Unchained

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_in_Venezuela

https://www.ft.com/content/f4a728a5-0179-48bd-b292-f48e30f8603c

https://fullfact.org/economy/do-top-1-earners-pay-28-tax-burden/

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/percentile-points-from-1-to-99-for-total-income-before-and-after-tax

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2017/11/21/01/468DEAAA00000578-0-image-a-12_1511227727085.jpg

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/distribution-household-wealth-uk

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/mini-budget-response

https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/tax-reform-2/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-donor-profit-pound-sterling-b2176258.html?amp

https://lookingglasseducation.com/whats-a-debt-spiral-and-is-the-us-already-in-one/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33009959

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10884632/Do-I-have-to-go-on-my-knees-grovelling-apology-from-IMF-head-for-incorrect-warnings-on-UK-economy.html

https://youtu.be/w-V5FVludFk

https://www.youtube.com/c/TLDRNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4

Has the Apple Silicon excessive disk read/write issue been fixed?

https://github.com/mirror/smartmontools/blob/0df69a95136fd4299c6887b03d13e3f09bda7ff8/os_darwin.cpp#L578

Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran

https://berty.tech/

https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-internet-ukraine-elon-musk-experts-dangerous-target-risk-2022-3?r=US&IR=T

https://www.ditto.live/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/info.guardianproject.pixelknot/

https://getoutline.org/

https://getsession.org/

https://github.com/arlolra/meek

https://github.com/bannedbook/fanqiang

https://github.com/oxen-io

https://github.com/Qbix

https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/14/france-police-crowd-control-methods-maim-people

https://inckredible.com/offline-messaging-apps/

https://scuttlebutt.nz/

https://signal.org/blog/run-a-proxy/

https://snowflake.torproject.org/

https://stuartsprojects.github.io/2021/02/26/Large-Data-Transfers-with-LoRa-Part1.html

https://support.getoutline.org/s/article/Data-collection?language=en_US

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360056052052-Proxy-Support

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/spacex-satellite-internet-starlink-comes-to-antarctica/

https://www.tinc-vpn.org/

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-crisis-update-september-28

https://youtu.be/ZB8ODpw_om8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooROZDeds8o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-mtjEF4t0

Setup for home recording and DAW on windows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midi_controller

Ideas for a subtle but pleasant home office aroma?

https://www.arnoldclark.com/newsroom/510-the-magic-tree-air-freshener-where-it-came-from-and-why-it-s-so-successful

https://www.saje.com/ca/diffuser-blend-kits/

Is Clojure Dead?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.05647.pdf

https://babashka.org/

https://clojure.org/community/contributing

https://clojure.org/community/resources

https://clojure.org/news/news

https://clojurescript.org/tools/tools

https://fresh.deno.dev/

https://github.com/borkdude

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/2b3ba822815981e7f76907a3b75e9ecc428f7656/src/clj/clojure/core.clj#L2762

https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp

https://www.hyperfiddle.net/

https://jobs.braveclojure.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31932085

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F03yb8hb,%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6,%2Fm%2F091hdj

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=IN&q=%2Fm%2F03yb8hb,F%23,%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6,%2Fm%2F091hdj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8KFrqyGtU

What are you doing now to profit from the current or upcoming recession?

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Individual_bonds_vs_a_bond_fund

https://www.businessinsider.com/fed-keeps-key-rate-near-zero-sees-inflation-as-transitory-2021-4?utm_medium=ingest&utm_source=markets

https://calculatedrisk.substack.com/p/new-home-sales-decrease-sharply-record-02a

https://www.cnbc.com/tom-lee/

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INTDSRUSM193N

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6372440-this-time-is-different

https://jabberwocking.com/employment-has-recovered-to-pre-pandemic-levels-almost-everywhere/

https://www.nber.org/research/business-cycle-dating/business-cycle-dating-procedure-frequently-asked-questions

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29508238

https://occaminvesting.co.uk/against-duration-matching/

https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acquisition/pages/is-us-in-a-recession-employment-unemployment.aspx

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/09/mecfs-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-doctors-long-covid/671518/

https://totalrealreturns.com/s/SH,SQQQ

https://totalrealreturns.com/s/TQQQ

https://tradingeconomics.com/new-zealand/housing-index

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/indepth/ibonds/res_ibonds.htm

Tell HN: My job site made its first sale – $49

https://remoteok.com/

JetBlue Phone Number is/ may be Hacked

https://www.jetblue.com/contact-us

Why do people add * over letters in offensive words?

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/486809/jewish/Why-Write-Gd-Instead-of-G-o-d.htm

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2457

Thinking on Paper – a collection of building blocks

https://tinyurl.com/yt3zp4m3

What process do you use to manage your life?

https://archive.ph/cTOzT

Any good software testing resources?

https://google.github.io/googletest/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ItB5btREU&t=2931s&ab_channel=SoftwareCraftsmanshipLuxembourg

Do you plan work goals, etc. that take 1 yrs to bear fruit? Why/why not?

https://ivypanda.com/essays/importance-of-setting-goals-and-strategic-planning-in-an-organization/

Shouldn't high inflation incentivize more startups to produce mo value?

https://fee.org/articles/hyperinflation-lessons-from-south-america/

What I want to see from a Learn To Code tutorial as a non-techie

https://www.freecodecamp.org/

https://fullstackopen.com/en/

https://www.railstutorial.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks4MPfMq8aQ

AWS us-west-2 issues

https://app.awareops.com/whatisdown/orgs/a7f95108-ead0-4718-8940-d61e0d80510a

https://www.awareops.com/

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-of-the-cloud-outweigh-the-benefits

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

https://www.taloflow.ai/is-aws-down/us-west-2

Tell HN: Toptal's HTML minification API occasionally injects tracking JavaScript

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/beacon-min-js-as-malware/117552

https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/web-analytics/getting-started/

https://gist.github.com/joshmn/c87a52b5328aa4f452be7970af4ba407

https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/\\

Reliable ways to remove Monterey's orange recording indicator dot?

https://twitter.com/asplake/status/1575797091292495873?s=20&t=saQceVdPH74l3Sv2B5U2dQ

Google have lost one of my customers; potential legal trouble

https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/reseller/v1/how-tos/prerequisites

Seriously, steelman this please. 7,400 employees at Docusign?

https://constantrenewal.com/steel-man

https://www.docusign.com/press-releases/docusign-announces-fourth-quarter-and-fiscal-year-2022-financial-results

https://i.postimg.cc/DZKS1vK6/Screenshot-2022-09-28-23-18-57-66-d0ef7a9810af20f7b394f4f927b723b0.jpg

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?currentCompany=%5B%2219022%22%5D&heroEntityKey=urn%3Ali%3Aorganization%3A19022&origin=FACETED_SEARCH&sid=Khs

https://s22.q4cdn.com/408980645/files/doc_financials/2022/ar/DOCUSIGN_10K_2022_ebook_V2.pdf

https://www.tiktok.com/@mads.ringswaldegan/video/7092055375633206574

How do you write a “Terms of Service” for your startup?

https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-it-digital-legal-companion/landy/978-1-59749-256-0

https://github.com/basecamp/policies

https://legal.hubspot.com/dpa

https://www.termsfeed.com/

Is hungarian notation still around?

https://www.ghs.com/products/compiler.html

What happened to Modula-2 style modules?

https://fruttenboel.verhoeven272.nl/Langs/go.html

Has Mark's Google account been reinstated yet?

https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en-US

How do I make an Instagram account that doesn’t get banned?

https://www.instagram.com/accounts/signup/phone

Examples of high-value specialised consulting?

https://www.andrewmcwatters.com

https://on.ft.com/3CJyH6W

Golang – Pull all the structs out???

https://hackernoon.com/clean-domain-driven-design-in-10-minutes-6037a59c8b7b

Could we 'make the internet good again'?

https://indieweb.org

Are There Any Lisp Style Guides?

https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml

What do you use for API Key Management?

https://www.aimproviderportal.net/

https://disq.us/url?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalce.com%2Fblog%2Ftop-marketing-tools-for-your-business%2F%3AfRrBrkjUuMQGd1yiqCxmyZ5QxM8&cuid=1130353

https://stripe.com/docs/keys

I'm good at debugging and improving systems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVlEVRKv4is

Tell HN: I've started to get email spam to my Comcast-only email address

https://email-checker.net/validate

https://expedient.com/

https://login.xfinity.com/login

https://www.wired.com/2004/06/aol-worker-sells-92-million-names/

Program Analysis resources/online courses

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-03811-6

Favorite meal planning and recipe hacks?

https://www.seriouseats.com/colombian-chicken-stew-with-potatoes-tomato-onion-recipe

Is Vivoo the Next Theranos?

https://truthinadvertising.org/articles/vivoo/

UberSuggest Chrome Extension tracks your location data extensively

https://ipinfo.io/json

What wiki software do you use?

https://ramadda.org

https://tiddlywiki.com

https://zim-wiki.org