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pineapple_guyon LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

That’s amazing. I’ve never heard such praise for LinkedIn unless it was a sponsored comment.

pineapple_guyon Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?

The user is the equivalent force of Mother Nature in software engineering. You just can’t predict what they will try next!

pineapple_guyon X.org Hit by New Security Vulnerabilities – Two Date Back to 1988 with X11R2

TIL Fedora is a new-broom distro. Whatever that means.

pineapple_guyon Epic Games is laying off 16% of its staff

Possibly, but why assume that developers are passing on that increased productivity without expecting a relative pay increase?

pineapple_guyon Japanese scientists working on creating human eggs and sperm in the lab

And what if we are already the product of this process from a long forgotten empire?

pineapple_guyon Companies Stall Climate Action Despite Earlier Promises

How did you arrive at that conclusion?

pineapple_guyon Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets

And they are simply unable to reliably release Linux drivers

pineapple_guyon Svelte 5 is going to be radical

If anything needs to be radically improved with svelte it’s bundle size and IDE tooling

pineapple_guyon Friendly Captcha – GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection

It’s not a captcha

pineapple_guyon Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs

The junior level is often magnified due to lack of English proficiency.

pineapple_guyon Life at the Margin: How I got $25,000 in debt

$360 for eight people in San Francisco? I would be a sucker to believe that.

pineapple_guyon Time to bring back asylums?

We have to do something with our politicians

pineapple_guyon Llama 2

Always interesting to see a huge company with access to top talent release a site with key features such as: - a header that takes up a third of the screen on mobile - a hamburger menu that unintentionally navigates you to the top of the page upon opening and closing

pineapple_guyon Unihertz Jelly 2E – smartphone with 3“ screen

Web devs mark this day of sadness

pineapple_guyon Top suspect in 2015 Ashley Madison hack committed suicide in 2014

Is it just me or does that headline read as he was murdered by a highly skilled assassin who was hired by a high net-worth ‘victim’ of the hack.

pineapple_guyon Ask HN: Could you please brutally review my product website?

CTA is below the fold on mobile. Company name appears twice in large font on mobile. Hamburger menu animation time is too slow.

pineapple_guyon Rings.social – Reddit-API compatible and Open Source content-voting platform

Yes, and sorry if it’s harsh. It just appears to be a generic blogging clone.

The page I land on needs to make it immediately clear why the site is useful. No explanations or hand waving.

pineapple_guyon Rings.social – Reddit-API compatible and Open Source content-voting platform

Search with no results, login? And explore with four links.. all designed poorly. Not going to cut it.

pineapple_guyon Twitter Is DDOSing Itself

On a side note, I must say that Mastadon having a side bar on mobile is a very poor design choice.

pineapple_guyon TabDB: Using browser tabs as a database like only a maniac would

Does anyone know if this is web scale?

pineapple_guyon Tell HN: Considering legal action against Stripe

Are there any specific white label solutions that you would recommend?

pineapple_guyon Tell HN: Reddit Has Disabled i.reddit.com

Funny you say this as their app is also pretty bad. Their image slider is one of the most poorly made features I’ve ever seen in an app - with it never being clear what a left swipe, a double tap, or a right swipe will do.

pineapple_guyon Phoenix 1.7.0

Ships with tailwind? We’re jumping the shark with that

pineapple_guyon Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

This is cool. I’m curious how you managed to access all the music data from apple?