15:[[39826115,{"by":"andrewstuart","descendants":3,"id":39826115,"kids":[39826205,39831961,39826144],"score":2,"text":"I see sites like urcdkey advertised on YouTube all the time.

Are these Windows keys legit? How do they work? Hard for me to imagine Microsoft is good with these low end sites.","time":1711448893,"title":"Ask HN: Are the cheap Windows license keys sites legit?","type":"story"}],[38725897,{"by":"nathan_tarbert","descendants":3,"id":38725897,"kids":[38726327,38727070,38726510],"score":3,"text":"I'm not a Rust developer so I'm looking for a solution I can build in JavaScript.","time":1703188460,"title":"Ask HN: What is the best way to build a command line tool?","type":"story"}],[38493185,{"by":"gaussbr","descendants":2,"id":38493185,"kids":[38493543,38493429],"score":1,"text":"How has knowledge of algorithms and data structures benefited you in real-world projects?\nI've been studying it for nearly three months, but while coding i still faced a problem that would give the click "hey i could use binary trees to solve this", but something that i actively noticed is the capacacity of understanding abstract things quicker (like OOP). so i would like to know your perspective towards this topic and daily problem that comes up at work.","time":1701468553,"title":"How has algorithms and data structures helped you?","type":"story"}],[38404232,{"by":"capl","descendants":20,"id":38404232,"kids":[38411655,38407433,38404265,38404377,38404340,38404661],"score":3,"text":"$16","time":1700835753,"title":"Ask HN: Is Go simplicity worth it?","type":"story"}],[38126571,{"by":"altun","descendants":140,"id":38126571,"kids":[38126903,38127033,38126816,38126871,38126626,38127280,38127190,38127058,38126948,38127020,38130439,38126603,38128817,38126888,38131744,38126895,38126914,38127122,38126979,38129418,38127618,38126661,38126994],"score":28,"text":"When you search "golang" on google for a long time, the question "Why people hate Go?" comes up at the top.

Now the blog post "A new way to bring garbage collected programming languages efficiently to WebAssembly" written by the team of V8 (JavaScript and WebAssembly engine) on the official website of Google has appeared.

https://v8.dev/blog/wasm-gc-porting

When I saw in the first paragraph of the blog that "we will get into the technical details of how GC languages such as Java, Kotlin, Dart, Python, and C# can be ported to Wasm" the question "Why people in Google hate Go?" arose","time":1699006043,"title":"Why people in Google hate Go?","type":"story"}],[37907195,{"by":"tixu1990","descendants":4,"id":37907195,"kids":[37907368,37907400],"score":3,"text":"Got an interesting proposition from an investor: they're offering to fund severance for a few of my employees.

Basically, if we run out of runway in 2-3 years and my employees have stuck around, they get guaranteed 3-month severance pay. If my employees leave sometime in the next 2 years, this money comes directly to the company instead.

Employees to exchange 3 months' worth of their stock options to the investor. They seem on board, they get a bit of downside protection and they've got most of their stock options still tied to the company.

Anything I'm missing? Would you do this deal?","time":1697493210,"title":"An investor is offering to fund severance for three of my employees","type":"story"}],[37779605,{"by":"RekarBotany","descendants":1,"id":37779605,"kids":[37779947],"score":1,"text":"We have an API server developed using NodeJS for a game, and we use Socket.IO to connect to the client side (React Native), Users connect daily for 3 minutes at a specific time, But the servers start to disconnect users when we reach around 11,000 concurrent users.

Here's a brief on our setup:

Server: AWS EC2 (c5n.xlarge) with 4 vCPU and 10GB memory.\nProcess Management: Utilizing PM2, distributing the load across 5 different ports.\nLoad Balancing: AWS ALB for traffic management.\nAWS monitoring shows the EC2 CPU utilization not exceeding 6%. However, monitoring through PM2 shows spikes in CPU usage (to 100% or 105% for under a second) during game sessions, after which the respective node drops all traffic, triggering a wave of disconnections.

I would appreciate your help","time":1696518609,"title":"Help: Scaling Node.js Socket.io on EC2 Disconnect Post 11K Concurrent Users","type":"story"}],[37422469,{"by":"_xivi","descendants":2,"id":37422469,"kids":[37425361,37423968,37422788],"score":3,"text":"Even though markdown+frontmatter is a popular setup for static blogs, it's a frankenstein monster (why YAML?).

Markdown is such a simple and elegant format, my only wish is if it had a standard metadata extension.

Are there more options other than the YAML frontmatter?","time":1694107741,"title":"Ask HN: Any file formats better suited for blogging than Markdown?","type":"story"}],[35692648,{"by":"Alifatisk","descendants":42,"id":35692648,"kids":[35694398,35699463,35693933,35694223,35703701,35695734,35692939,35692934,35700478,35694137,35710321,35694309,35710241,35693795,35694733,35705438,35710642,35698903,35699092,35692718],"score":37,"text":"I haven't tried Go lang yet but to me, it looks like the main selling point to Go lang is that it's a simple and highly concurrent language.

Is my feeling correct?","time":1682367685,"title":"What makes you enjoy Go lang?","type":"story"}],[33778229,{"by":"switchupcb","descendants":1,"id":33778229,"kids":[33778270],"score":1,"text":"I am looking for a project task manager with the following features (example).

---

Tasks, Sub Tasks (Graph), Recurring Tasks

- Add notes related to task (TickTick).

- Assign tasks to users or vice versa (ClickUp).

- Automatic addition of tasks to calendar when date is mentioned (Taskade).

---

Organization

- Projects

- Lists

- Tags

- etc

* Multiple views for each task list (Taskade).

---

Time Tracking

- Recording, Manual Entry (Toggl)

- Reports (Toggl)

- Activity Log (optional)

---

Suggest applications that are file-based (offline usage) or self-hosted (open source), AND/OR that provide ANY of the requested features using CalDav (but remain file-based or self-hosted).

Please don't recommend single user linux command line * (like orgmode or taskwarrior).","time":1669663246,"title":"Ask HN: An Ideal Project Task Manager?","type":"story"}],[33727164,{"by":"anxiously","descendants":16,"id":33727164,"kids":[33731957,33732407,33727336,33727421,33731543,33729996,33727376,33728379,33749089,33737953,33733411,33757073,33730127,33727427,33729883,33731198,33728851],"score":16,"text":"I have always tried to build web applications that load quickly, don't require JavaScript (but can be improved by it) and work on any device that supports rendering HTML and CSS.

Everywhere I turn there's a new framework or library that depends on complicated build tools, generating mountains of JavaScript and sometimes even generating HTML and CSS.

What's wrong with building simple web applications that get things done and don't require build tools, secondary (or tertiary) languages or meta-languages (like SCSS, ERB, JSX, Jade, etc)?","time":1669256393,"title":"Ask HN: Am I missing something (modern webdev)?","type":"story"}],[33727705,{"by":"aryxns","descendants":21,"id":33727705,"kids":[33728000,33727814,33758726,33728991,33727879,33727735,33728223,33727870,33727728,33727720,33727706,33728329],"score":3,"text":"I've been thinking about this a lot lately. The blockchain is fundamentally architectural innovation. And to me, the core value is in finding ways to improve existing software systems using this new distributed architecture.

Think of products like https://fleek.co/

A few ideas that fascinate me:\n1. Better database for specific industries (financial data?) - Core value is not relying on third-party servers by using IPFS.\n2. Better authentication (the in-browser wallet auth is smooth!)\n3. Potentially a better way to host critical code functions on smart contracts w/ Oracles (since someone can break your hosted code, but code on a contract is hard to modify and break.)

I wonder what other devs think.","time":1669263032,"title":"Ask HN: Does the blockchain improve any parts of the existing tech stack by 10x?","type":"story"}],[33519085,{"by":"rlawson","descendants":60,"id":33519085,"kids":[33519361,33519334,33519276,33519393,33519342,33519336,33519147,33519366,33519457,33519321,33538000,33519386,33519455,33522292,33519664,33519368,33521687,33520015,33519424,33519576],"score":21,"text":"My experience (20+ yrs) at a variety of shops has led me to the belief that overall large corporate projects are best served by using Java (or JVM based language). Access to talent pool, IDE and tooling, type system, vendor support, vast opensource ecosystem are all factors. I don't think that Java is best for small/medium projects - I actually prefer Python for rapid development with small teams (1-5 people). But if 50 devs on a project then I am choosing Java. Willing to hear evidence otherwise. So prove me wrong :) [Genuinely interested - not looking for a flame war]","time":1667916562,"title":"Ask HN: Java or JVM based is the best choice for large projects. Prove me wrong","type":"story"}],[33170299,{"by":"gitgud","descendants":2,"id":33170299,"kids":[33170455,33170409],"score":3,"text":"Do you have remnants of older product names in the source-code?

Or do you refactor all internal code references, when new product name changes are required?

Coming into an older code-base it can be confusing to see multiple outdated concepts everywhere...

What are your thoughts?","time":1665528688,"title":"Ask HN: Do you keep Source-Code consistent with User-Facing naming and concepts?","type":"story"}],[32378079,{"by":"amichail","descendants":7,"id":32378079,"kids":[32379242,32378528,32378272,32378231],"score":1,"text":"One might expect this given that TeXmacs was written by a mathematician.","time":1659893367,"title":"Ask HN: Can successful mathematicians become top programmers if they want to?","type":"story"}],[31804221,{"by":"joeldo","descendants":81,"id":31804221,"kids":[31805244,31805433,31805310,31805259,31805084,31804385,31804910,31805225,31805716,31821860,31807427,31804763,31805687,31804990,31831619,31817040,31831791,31806023,31822786,31805474,31805638,31822127,31822059,31805815,31816972,31806160,31805409,31805024,31805675,31811980,31840107,31807184,31804252],"score":39,"text":"I'm curious if there are any senior engineers who have swapped from using statically typed languages to dynamically typed languages later in their career and prefer this way of working?

I've met many senior engineers (myself included) who have made the opposite transition (dynamic -> static) and now the thought of using a dynamic language for anything outside of small scripts is uncomfortable.","time":1655678413,"title":"Ask HN: Are there senior devs who liked switching from static to dynamic typing?","type":"story"}],[31428247,{"by":"judge2020","descendants":1,"id":31428247,"kids":[31428530],"score":3,"time":1652911782,"title":"GitHub Actions to support M1 self-hosted runners by end of Q2","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/507"}],[31073421,{"by":"pdevr","descendants":2,"id":31073421,"kids":[31078230],"score":2,"text":"I am looking for a general purpose parser - something which is powerful to handle a variety of grammars. I am thinking of using Flex/Bison and AntLR.

Am I woefully behind? What is the latest and most powerful production quality parser available?","time":1650301293,"title":"Ask HN: What is the latest mainstream parser?","type":"story"}],[30931168,{"by":"s1291","descendants":12,"id":30931168,"kids":[30931556,30931776,30932276,30935157,30934407,30931539,30934725,30935131,30933429,30932908,30938944],"score":8,"text":"Has anyone used Markdown or reStructuredText to write a PhD thesis in STEM fields? I want to eventually move away from using MS Word or Latex directly.

Could you please share your experiences?","time":1649247334,"title":"Ask HN: Markdown/reStructuredText to write a PhD thesis in STEM fields?","type":"story"}],[30252638,{"by":"tosh","descendants":1,"id":30252638,"kids":[30253369],"score":5,"time":1644274621,"title":"js2cljs","type":"story","url":"https://mauricioszabo.gitlab.io/js2cljs/"}],[29788398,{"by":"amichail","descendants":2,"id":29788398,"kids":[29792515,29788528,29788715],"score":2,"text":"And if so, why?","time":1641251391,"title":"Ask HN: Were CS classes in top universities more difficult in the 80s than now?","type":"story"}],[29717227,{"by":"tubby12345","descendants":26,"id":29717227,"kids":[29717448,29717852,29720889,29719891,29720061,29717317,29720873,29741798,29724831,29717372,29718876,29719362,29719766,29755602,29719279,29717444],"score":8,"text":"Lately (last ~6 months) I've transitioned to working on large C++ projects (e.g., LLVM). Naturally compile times are long and a serious barrier to learning/iteration. At work I have a beefy workstation (32 core threadripper, 128GB RAM, 2TB ssd) so I don't feel the pain as much. I'd like to get something comparable at home but I don't want to spend 5k or whatever. Looking around on ebay you find lots of decommissioned 1U units that are pretty cheap, pretty old, but multicore. Would it be a bad idea to get one of these if I'm going to use it just to offload compiling (either through vscode remote or by some other means)?","time":1640720950,"title":"Ask HN: Buy a used 1U as a compiler server","type":"story"}],[29706701,{"by":"smellingwood","descendants":10,"id":29706701,"kids":[29708555,29706795,29709361,29708489,29709177,29709473,29709009,29706783,29706721,29706792],"score":3,"text":"$17","time":1640638696,"title":"Ask HN: Which Language(s) to Migrate Application To?","type":"story"}]]

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