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moleculeon Ask HN: Hacker News like forums for other niches?

Lobste.rs is an hn-inspired site and open-source software that is also used by other communities.

https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/wiki

moleculeon Ask HN: Where to find contract work as a developer?

Have you checked out the monthly "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" posts?

May edition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27025921

E.g. there's a 6-month opportunity for React + Django

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27040390

moleculeon Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

Solo compositions and a band I was in:

https://soundcloud.com/t-molecule/molecule-grime-and-punishm...

https://soundcloud.com/t-molecule

moleculeon Another Boeing Pratt and Whitney Engine Exploded in the Netherlands

Substantive article on this incident was discussed when it happened two days ago:

> Boeing 747 loses parts after take-off from Maastricht – 2 injuries (aviation24.be)

> 104 points by UncleOxidant 2 days ago | 40 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26209611

moleculeon Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon Before Doomsday Planes

Belenko cowrote an autobiography, MiG Pilot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Pilot:_The_Final_Escape_of...

moleculeon Doomsday Ships Were Ready to Ride Out Nuclear Armageddon Before Doomsday Planes

> I read that defector provided soviet jets at one point had tiny weeny valves, which were not indications of how backward their electrical engineering was: they were capable of being rad-hardened more than the IC's of the time. I'm not sure this is true.

Viktor Belenko's defection to Japan w/ a MiG-25 is a fascinating story unto itself. But, yes, the MiG-25 had vacuum tubes and other design elements that seemed like anachronisms @ first glance.

> The use of vacuum tubes also made the aircraft's systems resistant to an electromagnetic pulse, for example after a nuclear blast. They were also presumably used to provide radiation hardening for the avionics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-25#Wester...

moleculeon Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing

This was submitted yesterday [0], w/ discussion today.

- [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25829966

moleculeon Systems Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Telegraf + InfluxDB?

moleculeon Why Are Plants Green? To Reduce the Noise in Photosynthesis

> Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine's Abstractions blog.

The original article was upvoted and discussed last week, 244 points | 96 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23998793

moleculeon Ex-Green Beret pitched Venezuela coup plot to Colorado investors last year

The Neutrality Act of 1794 makes it illegal for an American citizen to wage war against any country at peace with the United States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Act_of_1794

18 U.S. Code § 960.Expedition against friendly nation

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/960

Contemporary application: A Texas businessman convicted of plotting to violate the U.S. Neutrality Act in a failed 2014 bid to overthrow the government of Gambia and install himself as president of the tiny African nation was sentenced on Thursday to a year in prison.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-gambia-plot-idUSKCN0Y...

moleculeon Getting a 787 back in the air after a diversion

(2016)

moleculeon The world’s most-beloved money-losing business needs your help

Discussion of this topic yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21841813

moleculeon Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues

“Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy“

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage/

moleculeon A Rogue Raspberry Pi Let Hackers Into JPL Network

There’s a significant distinction between federal organizations and federally-funded organizations— JPL is the latter.

moleculeon Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?

Learning web development via view-source

moleculeon [dead]

That policy has been retired

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/2/16395604/first-click-free...

moleculeon Show HN: Maildown – Super Simple Email API

Sounds like new and existing accounts, but only if the email originates within AWS EC2:

> When you call Amazon SES from an application hosted in Amazon EC2, you can send 62,000 messages per month at no charge. This Free Usage Tier benefit does not expire.

https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

moleculeon Travels with a Pi (2018)

> I decided early on to edit the menus to remove a lot of the "junk" and replace it with my list of apps, so I fired up the Main Menu Editor app. Normally this is quite responsive, but on the resource-challenged Zero it had worrying lags and pauses as changes were made. Ultimately, it meant that my ad-hoc menus were corrupted and worse still, the default Pi menus had been reinstated.

If I understand Raspian’s portability correctly, this could be mitigated by preparing the system disk on a Pi w/ more resources, e.g. a Pi3– run Main Menu Editor w/ system disk in Pi3, then put system disk in Pi Zero W when menus are edited to satisfaction.

moleculeon Interview with Kyle Simpson, author of You Don’t Know JS book series

Not that I don’t appreciate a good William Gibson reference, but is there a specific aspect that makes this a reference to Neuromancer?

The idiom is common and predates Neuromancer:

> "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" is a number one country music single for The Davis Sisters in 1953.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Forgot_More_Than_You%27ll_Ev...

moleculeon Gum bacteria implicated in Alzheimer's and other diseases

Recent discussion of the cited research:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19596915

moleculeon Stop Using `rm` in Bash. Use `del`

Or “How I Filled Up /home By ‘Deleting’ A Larger Amount Of Data From A Larger Volume”

moleculeon Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard

> From the archives... registered May 10, 2012