15:[[30822010,{"by":"j3s","descendants":25,"id":30822010,"kids":[30822517,30822195,30822229,30822477,30822525,30822447,30824426,30822417,30822255,30829355,30823068,30841149,30822385,30822399,30822593],"score":49,"time":1648401667,"title":"Poop.is – A Crappy Link Shortener","type":"story","url":"https://poop.is/"}],[30804598,{"by":"mrvenkman","descendants":1,"id":30804598,"kids":[30805972],"score":2,"text":"Does anyone have any insight into the usage of “Deepfake” technology maybe used by Russian state media recently?

And would Putin use the technology to create fake videos of people such as J.K. Rowling for propaganda?","time":1648227705,"title":"Deepfake in Russia","type":"story"}],[30805153,{"by":"ryzvonusef","descendants":2,"id":30805153,"kids":[30805443,30805576],"score":4,"time":1648230422,"title":"Documents reveal NASA’s internal struggles over renaming Webb telescope","type":"story","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00845-6"}],[30798539,{"by":"firefly284","descendants":17,"id":30798539,"kids":[30805662,30802259,30798716,30798860,30798877,30798904,30798853,30798768,30802238,30799047],"score":17,"text":"When I pick a new language to learn, I can pickup the basic types, control, syntax etc. in a few hours and write basic programs while referencing the language docs/tutorials. I can also write few mid sized programs while learning about the standard library in a few days of learning a language. But often times the programs written aren't the most efficient in terms of the programming language. One example is learning c after working with a grabage collected language like python tend to not use pointers and instead make multiple copies of the same data i.e not use one of the better features of the language. So does the programmer know C?","time":1648180962,"title":"Ask HN: What does it mean to learn a new programming language?","type":"story"}],[30798756,{"by":"xupybd","descendants":14,"id":30798756,"kids":[30798902,30802065,30801463,30798871,30798893,30802345,30821965,30802097,30808816,30800547],"score":11,"text":"I'm currently doing all development and IT support for a medium sized business.

I come from a Linux shop and am now supporting a fleet of Windows workstations and servers along with development tasks.

I have found that there is a shocking amount of instability with Windows servers and workstations. I can't believe business can operate like this. I'm currently trying to rebuild a critical PC as it freezes up all the time. Debugging the issue is a nightmare.

Our servers regularly stop working, some interaction between active directory and DNS. I haven't been able to get to the bottom of it. Every second Sunday the server requires a reboot else the entire network doesn't seem to work.

This didn't happen with Linux things just worked or you knew why they didn't.

Is my experience typical or just bad luck?","time":1648183942,"title":"Ask HN: Windows vs. Linux stability what is your experience","type":"story"}],[30798807,{"by":"samizdis","descendants":4,"id":30798807,"kids":[30798913,30798845,30799142],"score":6,"time":1648184737,"title":"Russia considers accepting Bitcoin for oil and gas","type":"story","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60870100"}],[30788530,{"by":"davikr","descendants":144,"id":30788530,"kids":[30791908,30791980,30793145,30790381,30789446,30789908,30789359,30791287,30791212,30790790,30790815,30795253,30789420,30792400,30796404,30790722,30790143,30790066,30793532,30795612,30793330,30789203],"score":267,"time":1648122314,"title":"So, you want to be a darknet drug lord","type":"story","url":"https://pastebin.com/raw/GrV3uYh5"}],[30790964,{"by":"sirjaz","descendants":330,"id":30790964,"kids":[30793707,30791906,30795397,30791560,30793431,30795028,30794395,30792979,30794286,30793216,30791585,30791103,30791586,30791758,30793219,30794843,30791512,30791900,30793364,30791732,30792949,30793907,30796045,30793905,30793129,30795142,30795006,30796581,30793723,30791228,30793370,30795341,30791613,30792912,30793709,30794096,30795430,30796248,30793846,30794814,30793125,30795381,30794381,30799952,30791668,30791494,30797324,30793254,30792831,30795087,30793184,30797301,30798067,30795318,30792883,30794529,30799060,30791621,30791120,30791834,30791775,30793234,30791759,30793862,30794516,30795497,30791951,30793984,30799485,30793840,30793753,30792908,30792680,30797708,30791571,30793522,30791648,30793222,30793140,30793788,30795248,30800267,30793664,30791673,30791835,30793223,30795010,30794991,30792960,30794112,30793957,30797613,30792993,30793335,30793958,30793291,30791960,30796450,30794717,30793880,30793430,30795477,30793512,30795183,30793122,30790988,30796164,30794898],"score":264,"text":"I was wonder why aren't devs making desktop apps any more, especially since everyone is buying laptops and desktops again? With all the tooling out there for cross platform, a native experience, and better privacy/security than a webapp.

For example, Here are just two frameworks/tool kits that are easy to use and to build desktop apps with.

React Native for Windows and MacOS: https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

Avalonia UI:\nhttp://avaloniaui.net/

Also, If they do use frameworks like the ones mentioned above they will still only release the app for mobile and then rebuild the code for a webapp which is slower and does not have the functionality.

John","time":1648134574,"title":"Ask HN: Why aren't devs making desktop apps any more?","type":"story"}],[30792716,{"by":"killjoywashere","descendants":9,"id":30792716,"kids":[30792980,30792992,30793210,30792844,30793594,30792749,30792853,30792998],"score":2,"text":"I'm a scientist, not an IT industry veteran, but it did peak my interest when the infosec/compliance security guy for our production environment didn't know what Vim is. Would that be a red flag for most folks?","time":1648142040,"title":"Should I be concerned if my security guy doesn't know what Vim is?","type":"story"}],[30791958,{"by":"daenz","descendants":4,"id":30791958,"kids":[30793587,30792372],"score":6,"time":1648138602,"title":"Uncle Vanya Replaces McDonald's in RU","type":"story","url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/18/uncle-vanya-russian-mcdonalds-replacement-logo/"}],[30629214,{"by":"theafh","descendants":67,"id":30629214,"kids":[30631162,30631132,30631337,30629544,30632553,30630100,30630936,30629629,30629744,30630361,30633029,30636044,30631422,30632479,30631838,30634176,30629300,30630255,30634089,30635352],"score":190,"time":1646931661,"title":"Transformers, originally designed to handle language, are taking on vision","type":"story","url":"https://www.quantamagazine.org/will-transformers-take-over-artificial-intelligence-20220310/"}],[30407776,{"by":"freedomben","descendants":6,"id":30407776,"kids":[30408332,30408684,30408415],"score":23,"time":1645380560,"title":"Improving DuckDuckGo (2019)","type":"story","url":"https://help.duckduckgo.com/privacy/atb/"}],[30407789,{"by":"ta_u","descendants":6,"id":30407789,"kids":[30407843,30408172,30408108,30408375,30408094],"score":3,"text":"This question is inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30406201, but I am curious not just about programing, but all things that will be getting much easier …or got easier just recently.","time":1645380627,"title":"Ask HN: Which things, that are now difficult, will become easy in near future?","type":"story"}],[30404535,{"by":"nixass","descendants":4,"id":30404535,"kids":[30405083,30405058,30408701,30408098,30408265],"score":17,"time":1645350657,"title":"Adam Smith Institute report calling to privatise the Moon prompts angry response","type":"story","url":"https://www.thenational.scot/news/19929867.privatise-moon-adam-smith-institute-report-call-prompts-angry-response/"}]]

1.	Deadliest Animal Comparison: Probability and Rate of Death(youtube.com) 1 points by vpbusvltsmtk 4 years ago \| 0 comments
2.	Is it dangerous or unethical to DDoS Russian gov sites? 5 points by vpbusvltsmtk 4 years ago \| 6 comments
3.	Gnome 42 Release(news.itsfoss.com) 2 points by vpbusvltsmtk 4 years ago \| 0 comments
4.	Why doesn't my brain turn off? 3 points by vpbusvltsmtk 4 years ago \| 6 comments

user:	vpbusvltsmtk
created:	February 20, 2022
karma:	10