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  2. Ask HN: Getting Someone at Facebook to Listen

    I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but how can we reach a human at Facebook to plead a case? Our small Indiana county has a Facebook group. Local news is limited here, so Facebook has become an enormously…

    6 points 5
  3. Ask HN: Where do YC websites come from?

    Every company that come out of Y Combinator seems to have a really slick, professionally designed website. I'm have a rough time finding someone with the ability to create one like that for my site my site. Is there…

    1 points 2
  4. Amazon won't accept written communication

    We had a bad time with Amazon yesterday, and I can't reach them to tell them about it. Without getting into details, an Amazon delivery driver did a bad thing on our property, which we only discovered this morning when…

    80 points 70
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  6. Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine

    About 15 minutes ago I got a call from a customer that our site was down. "Works for me," I said, because I could bring it up on my laptop. The customer said he couldn't get it on his phone, and then I confirmed I…

    114 points 66
  7. Ask HN: Building an Online Community in 2022

    I'm having a tough time figuring out the best model for an online community. I'd like to build some kind of forum/communications mechanism for the parents of kids at our elementary school. We've got almost 1,000 kids…

    1 points 0
  8. Ask HN: Is AWS having capacity issues?

    I'm trying to launch an instance in AWS. I'm getting "Failed to start the instance i-xxxxxxxx Insufficient capacity." When I try to launch an instance from an AMI, all of the instance types are grayed out. This is…

    3 points 1
  9. I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations (ccleve.com)
    240 points 394
  10. Gmail sends far more emails from conservatives to spam: study (arxiv.org)
    19 points 60
  11. Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it

    My middle schooler goes to Chicago Public Schools. They use Google Classroom for assignments and other communications. I bought him a Chromebook for schoolwork, but also for other private things. When we logged in, the…

    936 points 441
  12. A word used only by Postgres developers

    I came across a word in the Postgres source code that I'd never seen before: "frammish". https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/master/src/backend... : > Therefore, they offer both exclusive and shared lock modes (to…

    286 points 159
  13. Ask HN: Best way to build Yelp for X?

    Dear HN: What's the best or fastest way to build a Yelp for X site? This is for a geographically-oriented niche market where users would submit reviews of a particular type of service provider. It wouldn't be pure Yelp…

    1 points 2
  14. We Hire Old People (relevantdb.com)
    375 points 302
  15. Covid 19 Censorship on Medium

    Aaron Ginn has written a thoughtful, well-researched piece on the spread of Covid 19: https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894 But as of 12:30 pm US central time / 5:30 pm UTC,…

    5 points 3
  16. Ask HN: Is AWS Backing Away from PostgreSQL?

    I just went to Amazon Web Services RDS to spin up an Aurora Postgres-compatible instance. That's no longer an option. They offer MySQL-compatible instances only. It seems that they are not moving very fast on supporting…

    4 points 7
  17. Time travel is possible – but only if you have an object with infinite mass (foxnews.com)
    3 points 0
  18. Ask HN: Why don't common text editors support printing?

    I'm new to the Mac, and I've started looking for a text editor. It turns out that you can't print from several major ones, including SublimeText, Atom and Bracket. I don't print very often, but when I need to, I need…

    3 points 3
  19. Ask HN: What are the “View issue” and “Modify reservation” buttons in Gmail?

    This morning, my Gmail inbox had a message with a small gray button on the right-hand side that said "Modify reservation". It was an email from my son's baseball team. I've seen similar "View issue" buttons that point…

    1 points 1
  20. JAX-RS 2.1 released (javaee.groups.io)
    1 points 0
  21. Oregon Man Fined $500 for Study Showing Yellow Stoplights Are Too Short (heatst.com)
    9 points 2
  22. Ajit Pai: Why I'm trying to change how the FCC regulates the Internet (latimes.com)
    1 points 0
  23. Access a database in one line of code (github.com)
    2 points 0
  24. Access a database in one line of code (github.com)
    1 points 0
  25. Irritating conversation with a bot

    I went to a site that answers questions about home appliances. Whenever I typed a question into chat, the answer came back instantly. Here's the transcript: Pearl Wilson, Appliance Technician's Assistant Welcome! How…

    2 points 1