Hacker News Reader

bkfhon Swatch – The Beep (2016)

You can see an actual TV ad of this watch on YouTube (8:45 min) https://youtu.be/zpkwT-cOf4M?t=523

bkfhon Ask HN: What is the easiest way for a non-coder to deploy a simple CRUD website?

Yes

bkfhon Rückzugsorte – Map of areas in Berlin which are the furthest away from a street

Nice! Berliner here, living very closely to a large green bubble in Neukölln (Tempelhofer Feld)

bkfhon Ask HN: Best way to turn a simple static website interactive with PHP?

OP here. Thanks for all your responses, they helped me assessing on how I can get max output with least amount of work to quickly get online.

I will go ahead and create a static website, add some simple PHP to include header and footer on each page (either w/out any framework or Lumen) and apply some Zapier (or Netlify) magic to make forms work.

Once the MVP is validated, we might as well switch to some other framework or stack but for now, this is totally doing the trick.

bkfhon People older than 65 share the most fake news, a new study finds

When I was young, I was told to not believe everything on TV. Now I tell my parents not to believe everything on the internet

bkfhon Messenger systems compared by security, privacy, compatibility, and features

I came across Tungsten Messenger the other day and it's supporting even multiple personas (public, private) and runs traffic via Tor. Pretty neat UI and the team is throwing out new features regularly: http://tungstenapp.com/

(Edit: typo)

bkfhon Tell HN: Using Gmail? You will be force logged into Chrome

Ever since it came out I started using Firefox' Containers for that purpose and they work like a charm.

Maybe something similar exists for Chrome?

bkfhon Ask HN: How to convince my gf to think more about online privacy?

Indeed that would be a cruel way to teach her. My point is that I'm having a hard time finding 'down to earth' arguments why one should think about online privacy.

Whenver I give an argument, she usually can't relate much to it e.g. 'once you hand your data over, you can't get it back. it's out there and no one knows what will happen with it and who will control it.'

bkfhon TelegramLogin – Authenticate Users via Telegram Messenger

Cool, nice idea actually

bkfhon Google is working on a Telegram competitor with Bot features and AI

Sure, but I think Google has still the advantage of having millions of millions of users already using at least one platform. And if this messenger will be delivered through Android, this will be some hard competition for other messengers

bkfhon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

orat.io Broadcasts | Berlin, Germany (or remote, but preferred on-site) | full time

orat.io Broadcasts is the central platform for mobile content distribution: We are bringing digital content to mobile devices through messengers (WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram), rich notifications (Chrome, Yo) and emails.

If you are an Linux pro and Android hacker, if your second name is "virtual devices" and you know all about scaling processes on servers, well then you will have some fun working with us.

More infos here: http://www.orat.io/jobs.php

bkfhon Does Your Audience Understand Your Landing Page?

OP here: Yes, you are right. It's kind of NSWF. But I fell in love with his work couple of years ago and think more people should actually know him.

bkfhon The threat facing online comments

Coincidentally, me and my friend are working on making online comments smarter and overall simpler by providing a feedback structure. See more here: http://www.orat.io

Bloggers can embed orat.io Comments on their blog by simply adding two lines of code or using the WordPress plugin.

Any feedback to this highly appreciated!

bkfhon I replaced my 6 yr old MacBook with a new one. And I regret it (somehow)

yes and no. it's about taking away features from an existing product line.