15:[[26371448,{"by":"anticristi","descendants":15,"id":26371448,"kids":[26376606,26372917,26372608,26371634,26371897,26372571,26372731,26371900,26378195],"score":15,"text":"I just cancelled my Amazon Prime membership. I took 5 confusing steps to achieve that. One click too much and I would have reactivated it.

I always wondered, how does it feel to be the programmer who wrote that code? "It's my job, I don't care." "My boss made me do it." "We are simply educating the customer on making a better choice." "Well, we all have bills to pay."","time":1615072733,"title":"Ask HN: How does it feel to be a dark pattern programmer?","type":"story"}],[25682502,{"by":"athrowaway1","descendants":16,"id":25682502,"kids":[25694114,25682518,25685713,25682596,25686644,25698110,25686884],"score":7,"text":"Throwaway. I publicly posted my MVP on a tech forum, and a few days later a tech company filed a patent for the same thing. I'm assuming it's a coincidence, and that we were both working on the same thing at the same time. Had anyone experienced this before? And is it feasible someone could pull together and submit a patent in less than a week?","time":1610091447,"title":"Ask HN: Is it a coincidence someone patented my MVP?","type":"story"}],[25309337,{"by":"baybal2","descendants":32,"id":25309337,"kids":[25311044,25309685,25329016,25311746,25309579,25311841,25312692,25309917,25309964,25310027,25309930,25311819,25309545,25309679,25311765,25309622,25312233,25309608,25310033,25310868],"score":16,"time":1607121995,"title":"Ask HN: Why do Americans live in houses made of wood in 21st century?","type":"story"}],[25234300,{"by":"seshagiric","descendants":16,"id":25234300,"kids":[25237583,25234954,25235645,25236547,25237310,25235176,25235175,25236950],"score":11,"text":"Block chain, super-apps, autonomous driving, satellite internet...","time":1606526939,"title":"What upcoming tech trends do you think will change the world","type":"story"}],[25233353,{"by":"_pygv","descendants":12,"id":25233353,"kids":[25234260,25233392,25241922,25233822,25233894,25235627,25233566],"score":6,"text":"$16","time":1606518165,"title":"Ask HN: Should We Move Again?","type":"story"}],[25185619,{"by":"jacek","descendants":77,"id":25185619,"kids":[25198165,25199856,25198452,25188128,25198494,25198515,25202292,25194820,25198924,25198127,25191042,25198273,25187004,25199492,25198986,25202123,25200772,25196037,25199250,25199317,25200270,25199064,25202456,25198164,25199969,25200989,25199026,25198198,25201116,25202128,25198314,25201081,25201048,25198349,25202559,25198140,25198890,25198560,25212721,25201895,25202208],"score":139,"text":"$17","time":1606130623,"title":"Ask HN: How to effectively communicate results of my work to non-engineers?","type":"story"}],[25179664,{"by":"throwaway-pine","descendants":16,"id":25179664,"kids":[25184116,25181245,25183594,25202705,25182432,25179728,25183871,25231872,25180722,25179712,25194837,25194476,25181834,25193828,25187282,25181826,25190702],"score":11,"text":"Much my life is in front of a computer, even without taking into account my hobbies. Every so often, I get a massive headache (its effect compounding from my pretending it will go away soon) after which I need to take several days away from the screen. Obviously, this is impractical.

I'm pretty sure that reading books/on a Kindle e-ink display has not made headaches worse. But I can't transfer much of my routine away from the computer.

So far, I've tried taking more breaks to focus on something distant, maybe now I will try actually scheduling breaks instead of taking them when I remember. Maybe I need to change how I set the brightness, or try distancing myself from the monitor, get special glasses, ... I don't know what I should do.

What has worked for you HNers who struggled with headaches from screen use?","time":1606069622,"title":"Ask HN: How do you prevent headaches from screen use?","type":"story"}],[25169621,{"by":"akudha","descendants":159,"id":25169621,"kids":[25170294,25174483,25173318,25170349,25170577,25170717,25170353,25173373,25170466,25170524,25170465,25176242,25170290,25170303,25170550,25170409,25175174,25183843,25170306,25170394,25173801,25170337,25170616,25170536,25170375,25170350,25170636,25171592,25170610,25178747,25175537,25170611,25180079,25170326,25174251,25172036,25175377,25170720,25170539,25174536,25209103,25180339,25201998,25172908,25170678,25170354,25178549,25174385,25176425,25170513,25185506,25183351,25170871,25170447,25171192,25170569,25188774,25210224,25170519,25174744,25174801,25171208,25176421,25186788,25170390,25170346,25170437,25171947,25184530,25170804,25174963,25170598,25170347,25173773,25175585,25170741,25171340,25174737,25170443,25175036,25173266,25174135,25179228,25174018,25176572,25242882,25170533,25176089,25170607,25170416,25173807,25184313],"score":100,"text":"I'm not talking about learning programming languages if you are already a programmer, but more like something totally different from what you do - like a new human language, new sport or music or any skill late in your life? 40s or later? If yes, what is it and how did you learn?","time":1605965188,"title":"Ask HN: Have you picked up any new skill from scratch in your 40s or later?","type":"story"}],[25108675,{"by":"jelliclesfarm","descendants":49,"id":25108675,"kids":[25109879,25109500,25110239,25129538,25110194,25113025,25108955,25109354,25114912,25108857,25114754,25120686,25108841,25115805,25131221,25109927,25120391],"score":15,"time":1605507486,"title":"Ask HN: Ex-atheists/agnostics, I will be 50 y/0 soon. Should I explore Faith?","type":"story"}],[25041351,{"by":"thejteam","descendants":6,"id":25041351,"kids":[25053680,25043900,25043643,25042992,25044267],"score":2,"text":"How viable a business is starting a local news site today? Think original reporting in a city/county of about 100K people. What are the must-have features?

Right now where I live there are several local sites, all designed a little differently. Some do original reporting (low quality, in my opinion), others just repost press releases. Some allow comments on articles, some don't, and some run toxic forums.

The website for the local newspaper is behind a paywall, a source of frustration for people who want to share articles. Especially if they are about family members.","time":1604965572,"title":"Local News Website","type":"story"}],[25039994,{"by":"JadoJodo","descendants":10,"id":25039994,"kids":[25040104,25040139,25040470,25053091,25044217,25040154,25085220],"score":2,"text":"A recent thread[0] about Amazon reviews got me to thinking: I'm not so married to Amazon services as a whole (Alexa, Prime Shipping, Whole Foods, etc) that I would be unwilling to drop them. What I _am_ (seemingly) married to is the crazy level of selection.

For example, I need a tool to clean out the dryer vent in my home. Local stores (Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, Mom'n'Pop, etc) all have tools for just such an occasion and often at a comparable price. But Amazon has 20+ in varying lengths, materials, designs, tiers (Git-R-Done <---> Artisanal) and approaches. The same can be said for almost any other category.

Have any of you found alternatives that solve this particular issue? Or are we simply doomed to choosing between either a) supporting Amazon's dominance or b) going back to the world of ACME Dryer Cleaner? Is there a middle ground?

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25038734","time":1604956475,"title":"Ask HN: Replacing Amazon Shopping","type":"story"}],[25031277,{"by":"fen","descendants":7,"id":25031277,"kids":[25032870,25033448,25044129,25036337],"score":3,"text":"As a non technical founder of a company that runs online, would you fancy outsourcing your IT needs to a trusted brand or take on the stress of recruiting ,having and managing the team(department_)in house","time":1604893675,"title":"Outsourcing IT Needs vs Inhouse Team","type":"story"}],[24939227,{"by":"julienreszka","descendants":14,"id":24939227,"kids":[24940267,24940224,24939237,24939681,24949638,24939975,24972340,24942326,24943835,24963904,24965542],"score":13,"text":"It's now pretty clear that learning is more effective when you have a larger dataset of examples. Why are programing documentations only showing one example per function, if any, instead of dozens?","time":1604032782,"title":"Ask HN: Why are documentation only showing 1 example if any","type":"story"}],[24709059,{"by":"summitsummit","descendants":3,"id":24709059,"kids":[24717920,24717618,24716010],"score":5,"text":"$18","time":1602083487,"title":"Ask HN: Best framework/stack for simple SaaS product site with payment","type":"story"}],[24702677,{"by":"chaBha","descendants":21,"id":24702677,"kids":[24705565,24703017,24728227,24703216,24709895,24708255,24718526,24705695],"score":19,"text":"It looks like there is SaaS for everything you can think of AND something that other consumers or business would pay for. Time management, project management, education courses, ads, no-code dev. You name it and you will find it.

I am good at execution and getting things done. But, I am not sure what to build or where to invest time and money such that it pays off in 6-12 months. I have been involved in backend work and have good knowledge of "how to use" cloud like AWS.

It is said that you scratch your own itch. But, I don't know if that will pay or not to create successful business.

Thoughts on gathering or finding profitable ideas that can scale up to 1-10 MM revenue in 5 years?","time":1602020833,"title":"Ask HN: How to start SaaS or software business?","type":"story"}],[24698749,{"by":"02020202","descendants":4,"id":24698749,"kids":[24702362,24702771,24705688],"score":12,"text":"Personally I see it only as something that needs to be implemented on the server so the browser doesn't error out and the user won't freak out. Beside that it's just like a lock on a door... in a house... with no walls.... in the middle of a desert... on mars.","time":1601998182,"title":"Ask HN: Has CORS Solved Anything?","type":"story"}],[24698724,{"by":"ryankicks","descendants":2,"id":24698724,"kids":[24701153,24702907,24705678],"score":44,"text":"$19","time":1601998091,"title":"Tell HN: Y Combinator’s Work at a Startup Expo Is Online on Thurs, December 3rd","type":"story"}],[24664978,{"by":"jarbus","descendants":17,"id":24664978,"kids":[24668439,24669958,24665153,24669836,24665025,24668458,24664998,24667108,24669099,24676678,24667800,24665095,24665022],"score":12,"text":"Looking for fast, easy to use, and powerful cli applications. Especially interested in programs written in Rust.","time":1601660339,"title":"Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications?","type":"story"}],[24648642,{"by":"nikivi","descendants":6,"id":24648642,"kids":[24657755,24650193,24648985,24660153,24650508,24650036],"score":6,"text":"Minimum you pay for a domain is 10$ / year. Sometimes the cost is upwards to 100 or even 1000s.

But I don't get, there is like no cost in owning a domain. It's just an entry in a DNS server. How is even 10$ justifiable for owning a piece of address as recurring cost?","time":1601540175,"title":"Ask HN: Will domains always cost this much in future?","type":"story"}],[24622403,{"by":"mikeg8","descendants":18,"id":24622403,"kids":[24623943,24638941,24625226,24623393,24623469,24638031,24628955,24627458,24625474,24623870,24631534,24624424],"score":16,"text":"I've lived in the Bay area most of my (32 yo) life and in the past 7-10 years, the level of homelessness seems to be spinning out of control. If you've driven on 580 through Berkeley or parts of Oakland, you have seen encampments and trash piles that would seem unfathomable for the "5th largest economy in the world". It isn't normal.

What strategies/initiatives should be considered outside of the traditional methods (shelters, methadone clinics, street teams sharing helpful resources etc) that may be able to help with this is increasingly prominent issue??","time":1601335789,"title":"Ask HN: Thoughts on how we can alleviate homelessness?","type":"story"}]]

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