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  1. America's coming war over AI regulation (technologyreview.com)
    2 points 0
  2. Ask HN: Raw Data on Total Mortality

    I'm trying to find raw, recent data on the number of deaths (from all causes) by country. Essentialy the source data for a chart like…

    1 points 1
  3. Moderna Investigation Initiated by Former Louisiana Attorney General (globenewswire.com)
    1 points 0
  4. Ask HN: Better GitHub issue/comment search

    I'm having a pretty terrible experience using Github for a project with many comments per issue (30-150). The problem is with searching through issue comments: 1. The issue search doesn't display snippets of comments 2.…

    1 points 0
  5. Ask HN: SQL engine reclaiming space from DELETEs

    Both PostgreSQL and MySQL are poor in that regard, especially PostgreSQL: after many DELETEs/UPDATEs, the disk space is not released to the OS, and the re-use of the space by the DB engine is often not working well due…

    12 points 18
  6. Ask HN: SaaS pricing vs. self-hosted pricing

    I'm looking for some examples of products offered both as SaaS and a self-hosted option. Is one-time payment the common method? Does the price should depend on a size of a company?

    2 points 8
  7. Ask HN: A tool for writing English that checks “popularity” of used sentences?

    As a non-native English speaker I find that the best way to check grammar is to google whole parts of sentences (in apostrophes - exact match). It's because there are multiple exceptions to language rules and some…

    126 points 50
  8. Propose HN: monthly “This is my startup/sideproject” thread

    There's "Show HN" but it's only for launching/one time. I think makers deserve a thread where the current status/updates for a project could be regularly posted. EDIT. I meant to start a discussion if such thread should…

    29 points 11
  9. Ask HN: Server providers missing from privacy policies?

    I reviewed a few privacy policies of SaaSes and they don't mention third-parties that they obviously use, like: - server providers (hosting) - email sending services (like SendGrid) - other SaaSes they use like error…

    2 points 3
  10. Ask HN: Proof that SaaS is running specific source code checkout?

    There are SaaSes with open sourced code, claiming the benefits coming from this: the code can be reviewed by anyone (to check for backdoors/security issues). However, it looks to me it's impossible to prove that the…

    6 points 7
  11. Ask HN: Why “database as a service” didn't succeed?

    Even the database services from cloud providers, like Amazon RDS or GCE, are effectively thin wrappers over traditional database components. "Instances", "nodes", "hosts" are still present and not abstracted. It looks…

    10 points 10
  12. Ask HN: “Beating the Averages” in 2016?

    There's a popular essay by PG written in 2001 [0] about how Lisp gives a real advantage in creating a startup, and allowed them to beat competitors. Do you think any current programming technology gives this kind of…

    2 points 0
  13. Tell HN: CPUs can't be “fast enough”

    There's this common view that CPUs became "fast enough" - a web browser and other apps people are using work fast on modern processors, so it doesn't make sense to create faster CPUs and use more RAM as a standard. But…

    1 points 0
  14. Ask HN: Monitor for programming – modern LEDs are poor for text

    When looking for a new monitor I found out that old LED screens were far better in displaying text, especially white/gray on black (a Linux terminal). Particularly a modern Dell LED IPS screen is worse than Benq TN LCD…

    1 points 8
  15. JSON Table Schema (dataprotocols.org)
    20 points 6
  16. Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Affect Brain Activity: Hypersonic Effect (2000) (jn.physiology.org)
    28 points 6