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  1. Ask HN: What to suggest as "HN for not-geeks"?

    My partner clearly suffers from undiagnosed ADHD, but refuses to do anything about it. The result is that she spends most of her time on her phone, looking for stuff to buy - with predictable results in terms of…

    7 points 5
  2. Ask HN: Best current option for browser automation in Python or Powershell?

    I have to automate a silly internal process carried out through an internal website. It's heavily reliant on JS so I need to drive an actual browser engine. What is the best option at the moment? My choice of languages,…

    2 points 2
  3. Kevin Smith on Coping with Trauma (youtube.com)
    2 points 0
  4. Ask HN: What would you want in a Linux community?

    I'm tempted to start a new community for Linux / BSD enthusiasts, a sort of "LUG 2.0". What would you guys want to see in such a thing? A few of the ideas I had (please feel free to build them yourself!!): - a…

    2 points 0
  5. Russia’s strategy failed, not the tank (theguardian.com)
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  7. Banter is no foundation for lasting friendship (theguardian.com)
    31 points 12
  8. Xkcd Is Down (xkcd.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Ask HN: New Alternatives to Vagrant?

    This is a rehash of a question from 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14176191 I think it's safe to say that Docker has since won the battle for devops mindshare, but there are still niches where that is…

    5 points 3
  10. Fisherman drops statues in the sea to stop trawling, creates “museum” (theguardian.com)
    2 points 0
  11. Ask HN: Google Authenticator crashing, what do?

    The Google Authenticator app on my iPhone seems to be crashing. I tried rebooting a few times but no dice. I guess deleting and reinstalling the app will lose all my tokens; I have recovery codes religiously preserved,…

    1 points 2
  12. Ask HN: Alternatives to Shazam?

    In the last year Shazam has become very unreliable for me, particularly on classical music. Any alternatives out there...?

    2 points 3
  13. Ask HN: “Git” for Microsoft Office?

    I’ve recently changed job and now I am basically swamped in MSOffice documents. This makes collaboration very hard: people are fearful you’ll touch their precious files, there are manual procedures to produce “gold”…

    145 points 148
  14. Ask HN: How do you sell at a conference without booth?

    After years as consultant/developer, I started my own company less than 2 years ago. I now find myself alone at some big conference for the next couple of days, supposedly to get people interested into my services, but…

    2 points 1
  15. EU gives 'high-level' protection to whistleblowers (bbc.co.uk)
    437 points 125
  16. 'Europe's Silicon Valley': Denmark plans nine new islands (theguardian.com)
    3 points 0
  17. Scalable and secure access with SSH (code.fb.com)
    4 points 0
  18. The Guardian has SSL cert problems (theguardian.com)
    3 points 1
  19. HackerCreep now on FF appstore (HN-Pinboard integration) (addons.mozilla.org)
    1 points 0
  20. Some of cliqz services are already whitelisted in Firefox (blog.pythonaro.com)
    2 points 2
  21. Kotlin Workshop Material from Jetbrains (blog.jetbrains.com)
    1 points 0
  22. Python packaging gets yet another metadata format (github.com)
    2 points 0
  23. Ubuntu asking which Gnome extension they should ship (docs.google.com)
    2 points 0
  24. Bye Fusion – Script to Migrate Images from VmWare Fusion to VirtualBox (github.com)
    2 points 0
  25. [WTF] Go Unicode Hack to Get Pseudo-Generics (reddit.com)
    74 points 17