15:[[37999759,{"by":"SuperHeavy256","descendants":2,"id":37999759,"kids":[38000671],"score":3,"text":"Hi Hacker News. For a long time, I've found the the process of installing C on Windows to be not as friendly as other languages. So I made this installer to solve that. This is pretty much my first major public project, so I'm looking for feedback as much as I can. Hope this helps.","time":1698158255,"title":"Show HN: Install C – Fast and Simple One-Click Installer for C on Windows","type":"story","url":"https://installc.org/"}],[36862579,{"by":"thunderbong","descendants":78,"id":36862579,"kids":[36863133,36863436,36863215,36863728,36863186,36863135,36863392,36862650,36863189,36863727,36863822,36863924,36863837,36863672,36863178,36863155,36863625,36863606,36863678,36863219,36863700,36863612,36863288,36863144,36863395,36863619],"score":55,"time":1690294575,"title":"Sugary drinks tax could prevent decay and increase health equity: study","type":"story","url":"https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/sugary-drinks-tax-could-prevent-decay-and-increase-health-equity-study"}],[36664119,{"by":"sneha1995","descendants":54,"id":36664119,"kids":[36665767,36664642,36664760,36664540,36664333,36666569,36664617,36665804,36667076,36667588,36664305,36666762,36666275,36665867,36666999,36666533,36664570,36665513,36665905,36666605,36665896,36664225],"score":22,"text":"What do you think of Threads, Meta’s new Twitter Alternative?

Meta has launched ‘Threads’ an alternative to Twitter. Have you signed up for Threads? What do you think, does it live up to its Hype?

I believe that because of Meta copying and integrating features from their competitors (Snapchat, Twitter and others) they will create a monopoly on social media. Instagram added stories a feature on snapchat that is really popular. Slowly they will make a platform which has everything a user needs. Also they will try to buy everything just like Whatsapp.","time":1688983183,"title":"What do you think of Threads, Meta’s new Twitter Alternative?","type":"story"}],[34393273,{"by":"xchip","descendants":109,"id":34393273,"kids":[34393848,34394129,34394541,34393544,34394587,34393643,34394424,34394867,34394444,34395011,34393716,34396062,34394845,34397936,34394699,34394476,34393374,34449980,34401118,34397250,34399525,34414482,34398019,34394689,34395598,34398167,34395083,34393849,34426270,34394182,34393523],"score":127,"text":"Has this happened to more people?

I just noticed this, and so this happened to a few friends of mine.

I am familiar with dark patterns, and read carefully and I though I had dodged all Microsoft attempts at trying to register me into their online system, but somehow they got me.","time":1673816188,"title":"Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account","type":"story"}],[33211442,{"by":"kyleyeats","descendants":4,"id":33211442,"kids":[33211586,33211627],"score":3,"text":"I was wondering how HN would do on it.

Please post your results here, because the app doesn't collect any info.","time":1665804442,"title":"Show HN: I made an emotion/personality test","type":"story","url":"http://eristicstest.com/"}],[32463336,{"by":"openfuture","descendants":66,"id":32463336,"kids":[32463747,32464010,32463764,32463585,32463389,32464368,32463562,32464016,32463805,32464526,32465117,32464015,32464088,32463590,32463579,32463454,32463797,32463671,32463701,32463865,32463638,32464003,32463686,32463566,32463876,32463718,32465724,32463688,32463795,32463506,32463716,32463714,32463675,32464348,32463708,32463694,32465551,32463952,32465373,32464625,32466289,32464829,32463557,32463704,32463587,32467316,32464884,32463429,32463634,32463635,32465976,32469283,32464298,32463946,32463611,32463665],"score":13,"text":"Do you rely on the "proof of money+taxes" provided by society? or do you have a different perspective? are you vegetarian or something? only free software? I am curious to know what moral framework people are operating under.","time":1660514071,"title":"Ask HN: How do you justify your existence?","type":"story"}],[32338445,{"by":"braingenious","descendants":1,"id":32338445,"kids":[32338755],"score":2,"text":"I was working with a friend that’s on US food stamps and he asked me to look up Indomie Mi Goreng (some sort of ramen dish I think), and the only product he could order with his state-issued card was >$10 per serving… for ramen.

I also looked up EBT eligible goat cheese a while ago for the same reason and found that the only thing that qualified was a $90 basket of assorted cheeses.

What sort of sorcery is this?","time":1659577518,"title":"Ask HN: How does Amazon SNAP/EBT eligibility work?","type":"story"}],[31403415,{"by":"AnimalMuppet","descendants":9,"id":31403415,"kids":[31403563,31404186,31403624,31405490,31403439,31405763],"score":6,"text":"I have an old Big Board SBC (Single Board Computer) system that (as of a year or two ago) still runs.

Are there organizations of hobbyists who still care about this stuff? Perhaps less likely, is there a museum that might be interested?

[Edit: Based in western US.]","time":1652736889,"title":"Ask HN: Who wants a running CP/M system?","type":"story"}],[30073998,{"by":"bobkrusty","dead":true,"id":30073998,"kids":[30074178,30074640],"score":2,"time":1643128961,"type":"story"}],[28472013,{"by":"ofou","dead":true,"id":28472013,"kids":[28472069,28476983,28477000,28472047,28472142,28476164,28475482],"score":13,"time":1631207389,"type":"story"}],[27926893,{"by":"manofthunder","descendants":2,"id":27926893,"kids":[27930306],"score":1,"text":"$16","time":1627011118,"title":"Excellent Secure Free VPNs","type":"story"}],[26761195,{"by":"lordgroff","descendants":98,"id":26761195,"kids":[26765548,26831354,26761275,26762935,26763380,26762532,26767795,26762020,26765021,26764757,26767179,26769434,26768136,26761725,26762667,26765442,26761745,26768289,26763704,26761894,26767949,26770965,26761748,26761811,26762089,26767558,26817664,26769827,26762250,26786974,26762661,26766251,26761533,26764697,26767488,26761490,26765603,26806429,26766608,26768284,26808181,26789563,26766994,26851623,26783246],"score":52,"text":"I'm at the point where I feel a certain fatigue writing Bash scripts, but I am just not sure of what the alternative is for medium sized (say, ~150-500 LOC) scripts.

The common refrain of "use Python" hasn't really worked fantastically: I don't know what version of Python I'm going to have on the system, installing dependencies is not fun, shelling out when needed is not pleasant, and the size of program always seemingly doubles.

I'm willing to accept something that's not on the system as long as it's one smallish binary that's available in multiple architectures. Right now, I've settled on (ab)using jq, using it whenever tasks get too complex, but I'm wondering if anyone else has found a better way that should also hopefully not be completely a black box to my colleagues?","time":1618059903,"title":"Ask HN: What to use instead of Bash / Sh for scripting?","type":"story"}],[25498101,{"by":"tmoaad","descendants":10,"id":25498101,"kids":[25501004,25505838,25498333,25502224,25513026,25526195],"score":9,"text":"A year ago I finally said most of my goodbyes to gmail and moved over to a more private email provider (Hushmail).

Yesterday, I went to go signup for Repl.it and for the first time I was told to go grovel via email to prove that my email is valid and that I'm actually a human. Sure, I stop what I'm doing and send an email. I get a reply back saying (summed up with the anger of watching the internet burn down around you) "go to our support forum and grovel publicly but if you're actually trying to reach someone send another email and we might take it seriously".

...is this really what awaits those of us who choose not to be with the largest email providers (Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo) or refuse to use SSO (Google/Github/FB Login)?","time":1608577006,"title":"Ask HN: Have you had trouble with using alternative email providers?","type":"story"}],[23824929,{"by":"reactspa","descendants":1,"id":23824929,"kids":[23825134],"score":1,"text":"I have a mentee whose native tongue is French, and for whom English is a bit of a challenge (although it's passable). We're both in the U.S.

He's in the process of applying for graduate academic programs.

I've offered to go over his application materials to offer suggestions for improving them.

His application letters are full of very flowery English. I'm not sure if this is because he's translating from French to English in his mind, or whether he's using something like Google Translate. I haven't yet asked him.

I want to nudge him towards some resources online where he can check his writing sentence by sentence to see if it sounds contemporary.

A website that was recommended on HN a while back was: Hemingwayapp.com . I've never tried it myself but it seems like something along the lines of what I'm looking for.

My Ask: I'd like your suggestions for other similar resources that could help this person.","time":1594670221,"title":"Ask HN: Resources for checking if writing sounds contemporary","type":"story"}],[23690436,{"by":"tjkrusinski","descendants":1,"id":23690436,"kids":[23690980],"score":2,"text":"See this device, "Winston".

https://winstonprivacy.com/

One of the product's claims is to increase your connection speed. I'm curious about the way they are doing that.

My only thought would be some reliable UDP? Anyone know or care to elaborate?","time":1593527711,"title":"Ask HN: How does this device claim to “speed up your internet”?","type":"story"}],[21878796,{"by":"cvs268","descendants":3,"id":21878796,"kids":[21883372,21879075],"score":1,"text":"After holding out for last couple of years, i finally switched to Windows 10 (from Windows 7) this Christmas! :-)

While the upgrade went through without any issues, and all my tools seem to be working properly, i have lost one MAJOR feature - multiple desktops/workspaces.

I used to use Dexpot on Windows 7, which has intermittent issues after upgrading to Windows 10.

Any suggestion for customizing the built-in workspaces feature in Windows 10, or any 3rd-party utilities for Windows 10, that support keyboard-shortcuts like:

  - moving active window between workspaces.\n  - switching to specific workspace (without cycling through all).

","time":1577287347,"title":"Ask HN: Any Workspaces for Windows 10 with keyboard support?","type":"story"}],[21878815,{"by":"jobless","descendants":20,"id":21878815,"kids":[21879045,21879316,21879594,21879126,21880293,21878861,21879607,21880263,21878859,21878931,21879064],"score":9,"text":"Is ethical to expect from your employer to pay for primary health care for you and your family?","time":1577287579,"title":"Ask HN: Should your employer pay for your primary health care?","type":"story"}],[19091896,{"by":"malchow","descendants":6,"id":19091896,"kids":[19092106,19091950,19092382,19092583,19092318,19091923],"score":3,"text":"The world needs one. To keep the internet alive. Now that Microsoft has given up, a company with reliable income, access to good devs, and a long-term interest in the open web should come along and do this.

And Firefox is slooow. (For me, anyway.)","time":1549416755,"title":"Ask HN: Why doesn't YC build a web browser?","type":"story"}],[19089572,{"by":"Kinnard","descendants":2,"id":19089572,"kids":[19089927,19093903],"score":2,"text":"What browser gives the user the most power?

I think it's ridiculous that I need to install a browser extension to do something as simple as block a list of sites. I want more power.

What browser exposes the most power to the user?","time":1549399138,"title":"Ask HN: Most hackable browser?","type":"story"}],[18646534,{"by":"mlejva","descendants":4,"id":18646534,"kids":[18653425,18648767,18646813,18646563],"score":3,"time":1544435051,"title":"Ask HN: What email client are you using?","type":"story"}],[18644735,{"by":"ph33r","descendants":5,"id":18644735,"kids":[18645578,18650450,18645454,18644973,18654565,18654969],"score":5,"text":"torproject.org has a section called 'Who Uses Tor?' and lists: Friends and Family, Businesses, Activists, Media, etc.

None of my IT colleagues use it, my family certainly doesn't use it, and two guys I know who work in the NetSec field don't bother with it. It would seem the stigma is real.

Do you use Tor everyday?

- Browse HN and reddit with it?

- Do regular search queries and browsing on it?

- Use legitimate .onion sites (DuckDuckGo, Facebook, Proton Mail) instead of their clearnet address?","time":1544408544,"title":"Do you use Tor everyday?","type":"story"}],[18482388,{"by":"usman143online","descendants":1,"id":18482388,"kids":[18482492],"score":1,"time":1542573272,"title":"Download Free MSI Afterburner for Windows XP, 7, 8, 10 and Vista","type":"story"}],[17491215,{"by":"srameshc","descendants":2,"id":17491215,"kids":[17492101,17491435],"score":2,"text":"How to save your personal information after its leaked.","time":1531152090,"title":"Ask HN: What to do when someone accessed you credit report and SSN?","type":"story"}],[17443300,{"by":"smaili","descendants":1,"id":17443300,"kids":[17444339],"score":1,"time":1530550466,"title":"San Francisco is First major US city with $15 wage","type":"story","url":"https://www.apnews.com/136601024f72475faca12e762ecffbce/Officials:-San-Francisco-is-1st-major-US-city-with-$15-wage"}],[17272882,{"by":"startupflix","descendants":5,"id":17272882,"kids":[17273173,17273324],"score":2,"time":1528550546,"title":"Ask HN: Facebook alternative?","type":"story"}],[15827864,{"by":"throw99887","descendants":87,"id":15827864,"kids":[15828001,15828096,15828064,15828423,15828031,15828132,15828025,15828230,15827990,15828141,15828075,15827981,15828852,15828251,15828014,15829635,15828222,15828162,15828130,15829626,15828242,15828097,15827918,15827882,15828120,15828074,15828066,15828179,15828143,15829549,15828003,15828061,15828078,15828154,15828421,15828111,15827985,15827938],"score":20,"time":1512164869,"title":"Ask HN: What would you do with $5k/mo basic income for rest of life?","type":"story"}]]

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