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We need visual programming. No, not like that
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Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead
Boeing to plead guilty to criminal fraud charge stemming from 737 MAX crashes
Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers
The Origins of DS_store (2006)
I Received an AI Email
Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder
Why is Chile so long?
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is <i>not</i> an option.<p>Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.<p>Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.<p>Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.<p>Searchers: try <a href="https://hnresumetojobs.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnresumetojobs.com</a>, <a href="https://hnhired.fly.dev" rel="nofollow">https://hnhired.fly.dev</a>,
<a href="https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/" rel="nofollow">https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/</a>, <a href="https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com" rel="nofollow">https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com</a>.<p>Don't miss these other fine threads:<p><i>Who wants to be hired?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846426">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846426</a><p><i>Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?</i> <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846427">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40846427</a>
RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems
Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
Show HN: I created an After Effects alternative
Many years ago, I made VJ softwares (to mix live visuals in clubs) for unexpected platforms like the Game Boy Advance, the Playstation 2 and the Raspberry Pi. This year, I’m back with a new web-app: Pikimov.<p>Inspired by Photopea (a free Photoshop clone), I created this web-based motion design & video editor as an alternative to After Effects, to fill empty void.<p>It's free, without signup, without cloud uploads (your files stay on your machine), and your projects are not used for AI models training.
Show HN: Drop-in SQS replacement based on SQLite
Hi! I wanted to share an open source API-compatible replacement for SQS. It's written in Go, distributes as a single binary, and uses SQLite for underlying storage.<p>I wrote this because I wanted a queue with all the bells and whistles - searching, scheduling into the future, observability, and rate limiting - all the things that many modern task queue systems have.<p>But I didn't want to rewrite my app, which was already using SQS. And I was frustrated that many of the best solutions out there (BullMQ, Oban, Sidekiq) were language-specific.<p>So I made an SQS-compatible replacement. All you have to do is replace the endpoint using AWS' native library in your language of choice.<p>For example, the queue works with Celery - you just change the connection string. From there, you can see all of your messages and their status, which is hard today in the SQS console (and flower doesn't support SQS.)<p>It is written to be pluggable. The queue implementation uses SQLite, but I've been experimenting with RocksDB as a backend and you could even write one that uses Postgres. Similarly, you could implement multiple protocols (AMQP, PubSub, etc) on top of the underlying queue. I started with SQS because it is simple and I use it a lot.<p>It is written to be as easy to deploy as possible - a single go binary. I'm working on adding distributed and autoscale functionality as the next layer.<p>Today I have search, observability (via prometheus), unlimited message sizes, and the ability to schedule messages arbitrarily in the future.<p>In terms of monetization, the goal is to just have a hosted queue system. I believe this can be cheaper than SQS without sacrificing performance. Just as Backblaze and Minio have had success competing in the S3 space, I wanted to take a crack at queues.<p>I'd love your feedback!