Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter &amp; Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare&#x27;s WARP to avoid it, but just today they blocked the access as well. What alternative should we use?

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I wanted to briefly share my experience as a senior engineer with 15 years of experience trying to find work in this market, because it was exhausting for me and i&#x27;m sure others will appreciate the perspective.As the title says, I have applied to over 450 positions. Most companies did not even send me a rejection. Ghost jobs are a thing, so are fake roles to get you to signup&#x2F;join some rando job board.I interviewed for a director of engineering role, and all interviews went well, but they ghosted me at the end.I did several take homes and all were accepted, but companies dragged their feet on next steps.I did reject a few kinds of roles: ones that used AI for interviewing me, ones that had me do a coding challenge as the first step, and jobs that had &quot;no working hours&quot; and expected you to be &quot;on&quot; 24&#x2F;7.Many of the job applicant expected me to answer asinine questions like &quot;what excited you about this role?&quot; and would say things like &quot;don&#x27;t use AI! we want your true self&quot; or would go so far as to try to get you to agree to their AI interview policy. As If.I eventually did get hired as a software architect. the company that hired me was very professional, respectful, forward thinking (i used windsurf during the interview) and did not play games with me. They had a 4-step interview process, and asked a lot of good questions. One of the best interview processes of my career.My advice to other engineers on the job market:<pre><code> 1) Spray and pray. If its vaguely a fit, apply. It&#x27;s a numbers game. Be shameless. 
 2) Always be willing to walk. Protect your time. Don&#x27;t waste your time on lengthy job applications that take too long to complete. Some hiring managers will gladly waste your time. (one job application explicitly wanted you to spend 20 minutes filling out theirs)
 3) Don&#x27;t do coding exercises before you interview with someone, be weary of asymmetrical time expenditures. see #2. 
 4) You can probably do a lot of different roles, &quot;prompt engineer&quot; is a real job title companies are hiring for, for example. 
 5) Work a couple of different job platforms. For example I used linkedin, dice, ziprecruiter, weworkremotely, and rubyonremote and a few others.
 6) Use AI to generate your resume, but feed it all the context of your work history (don&#x27;t misrepresent your skills)
 7) Use AI to fill out asinine job application questions, but if they ask you thoughtful questions answer those yourself. I got the interview for director of engineering because i answered authentically to thoughtful questions.
 8) Pace yourself. Spend a few hours a day at it then come back in a day or two and go again. 
 9) Work on a side project or learn a new lang&#x2F;framework in parallel. 
 10) Interviewing is like dating, everyone is looking for something different, and some don&#x27;t really know what they want. Not a you problem.
 11) If they use workday for their job applications, bounce. It&#x27;s the worst. 
 12) It takes time as roles become available. The job you end up getting might not open until 2 months from now. see #1.</code></pre>

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parametric cubic curveboundary representationblending functionsplineb-splinecubic bezier curvede casteljau algorithmI have been diving into these topics since few days and I have not understood anything. I tried peter shirley&#x27;s textbook on Computer Graphics. Foley et al, Hearn baker etc...It is clear to me that I lack the mathematics preriquisites for understanding this. Thus, I am deeply asking for resources that I can do to brush up. Me being a computer engineering graduate I have done math classes, it is just that I became like a calculator instead of understanding the logic behind doing the formulas and steps so need a short revision.

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Is there anyone here who works on android at google? What&#x27;s it like? I&#x27;m curious about the new dev verification requirements: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.android.com&#x2F;developer-verification&#x2F;guidesCan you give a rundown on how those rules came about? What do the other developers think about the rules and the future of android?Also, why did you switch away from the alphabetical naming conventions for the android versions?I&#x27;m posting this because I haven&#x27;t heard anything about this from anyone who actually works on android. Figure this would be a good place to post.

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I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever been truly happy with a text editor, the closes I got is my current neovim setup that has just way too many plugins but it still just isn&#x27;t quite what I want.
So I thought, how hard could it be to write one? Anyone gone down this road before?

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Hi,My daily workhorse is a M1 Pro that I purchased on release date, It has been one of the best tech purchases I have made, even now it really deals with anything I throw at it. My daily work load is regularly having a Android emulator, iOS simulator and a number of Dockers containers running simultaneously and I never hear the fans, battery life has taken a bit of a hit but it is still very respectable.I wanted a new personal laptop, and I was debating between a MacBook Air or going for a Framework 13 with Linux. I wanted to lean into learning something new so went with the Framework and I must admit I am regretting it a bit.The M1 was released back in 2020 and I bought the Ryzen AI 340 which is one of the newest 2025 chips from AMD, so AMD has 5 years of extra development and I had expected them to get close to the M1 in terms of battery efficiency and thermals.The Ryzen is using a TSMC N4P process compared to the older N5 process, I managed to find a TSMC press release showing the performance&#x2F;efficiency gains from the newer process: “When compared to N5, N4P offers users a reported +11% performance boost or a 22% reduction in power consumption. Beyond that, N4P can offer users a 6% increase in transistor density over N5”I am sorely disappointed, using the Framework feels like using an older Intel based Mac. If I open too many tabs in Chrome I can feel the bottom of the laptop getting hot, open a YouTube video and the fans will often spin up.Why haven’t AMD&#x2F;Intel been able to catch up? Is x86 just not able to keep up with the ARM architecture? When can we expect a x86 laptop chip to match the M1 in efficiency&#x2F;thermals?!To be fair I haven’t tried Windows on the Framework yet it might be my Linux setup being inefficient.Cheers,
Stephen

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it&#x27;s really frustrating, are you guys experiencing the same?
perplexity doesn&#x27;t generate code in the first response, it always asks if you want it or not.

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I&#x27;m so tired of seeing content about AI all the time.  Everywhere I look there is always AI.   I love the things that people do by spending their time and effort. AI does not appeal to me.  What are your opinions on this subject?

Are You Tired of AI?

The Great Firewall of China (GFW) is China&#x27;s internet censorship and surveillance system that blocks access to many foreign websites and services. Given its significant impact on internet freedom and global connectivity, I&#x27;m curious about the HN community&#x27;s perspectives on this topic.

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https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflarestatus.com&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;pscy7zvw26r1Cloudflare&#x27;s discord bot posted this yesterday at 8:45 PM UTC, so it was published around that time: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discord.com&#x2F;channels&#x2F;595317990191398933&#x2F;895794943182909470&#x2F;1410726965710688367I experienced these issues on August 23rd, and my website didn&#x27;t just have &quot;elevated latency&quot;.There were a lot of timeouts where pages did not load at all, or loaded partially, including cached resources that did not hit the origin.Lately Cloudflare has been having issues where they regularly route a significant portion of US traffic over to data centers further away (usually the EU).They&#x27;ve confirmed that this is happening because their US data centers can&#x27;t take the load, but their EU ones cannot either. Anyone on an Enterprise plan is prioritized, so it&#x27;s much less likely to happen to them.Sometimes when this happens, there&#x27;s elevated latency again, which results in timeouts, even for cached resources.Downtime happens, so I can understand that.But that&#x27;s only been confirmed on their Discord when people complained about it -- otherwise it&#x27;s nowhere to be seen, and you wouldn&#x27;t know that Cloudflare is working on fixing it unless you went to their Discord either.To top things off, they silently post about downtime that affects a lot of people on their status page, yet they make a whole blog post about downtime that happened on August 21st: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;cloudflare-incident-on-august-21-2025&#x2F;There&#x27;s a glaring lack of consistency about what they will or won&#x27;t post about.I&#x27;m not saying that this downtime or latency issues deserves a whole blog post.But surely there&#x27;s better ways to communicate that than Discord, unless you&#x27;re just trying to hide it.Companies lie on their status pages all the time, so I&#x27;m not surprised about this. But Cloudflare tries to maintain an image of transparency about downtime or other issues, and people often commend them for doing detailed blog posts about it.This is the complete opposite of being transparent.I suspect they don&#x27;t care just because a lot of the impact is on non-enterprise customers, but that&#x27;s a pretty horrible way to run a company.

Cloudflare confirms downtime on August 23rd, silently posts it on status page

The two things I wish mediawiki had:* APIs with deeper functional inroads in multiple languages. There are lots of great tools for writing bots, but if you want to write a parser extension, you&#x27;re stuck with PHP right? Or has that changed?* Multiplayer. Edit conflicts can be a real pain and turnoff for beginner users. I wish that simultaneous use felt more like a collaborative social experience and less like a minefield....but I do think mediawiki is wonderful, and I&#x27;m inclined to use it despite these drawbacks.

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Hi, I&#x27;m a student developer and I wanted to get paid right now, and I heard that you can get paid through sponsors on GitHub, but I&#x27;m wondering what the chances are that people will do it? Not everyone wants to spend money.Please share your opinion and tell me who may have managed to get money this way?

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I developed a game called &quot;Putter King Adventure Golf&quot; for iOS and Android back in the 2010s. It&#x27;s long since disappeared from the app stores, but my son recently asked if he could play it, which got me thinking about whether it might be recoverable.I&#x27;m wondering if there&#x27;s any way to find a copy of it somewhere on the web (I assume it was probably pirated at some point during its lifetime). And if I could find it, what would be the best approach to get it running again?Has anyone here successfully recovered and revived their old mobile apps? I&#x27;d appreciate any suggestions on:* Where to look for archived APKs or IPAs
* How to sideload&#x2F;run old mobile apps on modern devices
* Whether emulators might be a viable option

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Longer title: Should we stop worrying that AI will replace developer jobs and instead start thinking how we are going to hire more developers?Hi folks,I can&#x27;t be the only one noticing that AI coding agents are making us work more, not less.Here&#x27;s the math that&#x27;s been bugging me. If a developer used to write 100 lines of code per day (illustrative) but now AI writes 90% of the code, so you&#x27;d think that the load will go down to 10 lines, right? What I find is that the scope has exploded. Developers are now able to crank 1000 lines per day total and while you may say that AI writes 90% of them we are still writing 100 lines of the hard stuff.Every feature that seemed too expensive before is suddenly doable. Every prototype becomes production system. The bottleneck shifted from typing to thinking, but the thinking load just got 10x bigger. We have also single-handedly increased the demand of that 10% chunk which is not as easy to scale as machines.
Am I the only one noticing this?

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Hey, trying to set up an end to end encrypted group chat stack for some friends. What options are out there besides Matrix?

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I’m an experienced developer, but recently my 13-year-old daughter told me she wants to learn programming—and surprisingly, I find myself unsure about how to get her started.There’s an overwhelming amount of advice out there. Some suggest beginning with Scratch or other no-code platforms, while others recommend jumping straight into the command line or a “real” programming language.I’m torn between a bottom-up approach (teaching the fundamentals first and building up) and a top-down approach (starting with something more visual and practical, then filling in the gaps later). If we go top-down, should we start with Scratch or dive directly into a language? If it’s a language, should it be Python, JavaScript, or something else?Even on the hardware side, I’m debating whether it’s better to get her started on Windows, macOS, or something else entirely.I’d love to hear from those of you who have introduced programming to kids (or started young yourselves). What worked, what didn’t, and what path would you recommend?

How should I introduce my 13-year-old daughter to programming?

I&#x27;m curious what HN thinks is the best course of action when you are reasonably certain you have interviewed someone who is attempting to gain access to your company from a certain place that is famously totalitarian.Let&#x27;s assume they are a state actor,
Here are some things that crossed my mind:- Citizens from this region of the world are forced to do this and it amounts to slave labor. I have empathy for their situation. What is a responsible way to report things like this?- I try to avoid communicating with law enforcement in general, is the FBI or other US agency the only avenue to warn others?- Without hiring this person, what exposure should we worry about? What precautions are worth taking in the future?Thanks for your insights :)

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So that a person can lab them at their home if possible. (As projects)

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When you hear this phrase, what do you imagine the person does as a profession ?

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I have a bunch of old ipads which have become almost useless being stuck on iOS 9.3I&#x27;ve been looking for solutions to this and it seems the only possible option is to jailbreak and downgrade iOS to a more usable version.Any ideas?

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I have had a theory for a while that economic growth or the economy in terms of CAGR will go to 0% or becomes linear with population as the population grows. This in my mind aligns with the opportunities for lifestyle improvements going to 0 (we already have the internet, we already have food, shelter etc.) so this is no new market to cover&#x2F;no new businesses to invent?Has this topic been discussed or debated anywhere? Has anyone with this same theory done any mathematical projections?

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I am a freelancer from EU and I want to specialize in migrating software back on-prem or to traditional EU hosting providers.However, with all the talk about Digital Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy, I found few real projects that require engineering expertise.I feel like everyone is just trying to squeeze money from EU funds on this hot topic, but none actually believes such migrations can be done, so all money is consumed on policy issues, not the actual work.We are collectively sitting on our hands, waiting until Trump administration is over and relations between EU and US are back to normal.Are there people out there really doing such migrations? Technology associations that provide support? Businesses that grow in that niche?

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Maybe you don&#x27;t think it is as creative as you once did?

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I’m working on improving my software design skills, and it was recommended that I study existing well designed codebases. What are some publicly accessible codebases you would consider gold standards for software design?

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For years, I&#x27;ve been frustrated with the state of search on the Tor network. Most .onion search engines return a huge number of dead links, outdated results, and have clunky interfaces.That&#x27;s why I&#x27;ve been working on Carrot Web, a new Tor search engine built from the ground up to fix these problems.What makes it different?Real-Time Link Verification: Every single link in the search results is checked for activity in real-time. Broken or inactive sites are automatically filtered out, so you don&#x27;t waste your time.Sophisticated Ranking: It goes beyond simple keyword matching. Carrot Web uses a custom ranking algorithm to prioritize more relevant and useful onion sites.Simple &amp; Clean Interface: No clutter, no distractions. Just a straightforward search experience that focuses on speed and efficiency.This is a passion project, and for it to truly improve, I need feedback from the community. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.Test it out here: j5dkeyccbahuehkuggd3uhcu2paanxjl7n7tz2fs5koxugrclhpxxyyd.onion (Make sure to use Tor Browser)All your thoughts, good or bad, are highly appreciated. Thanks!

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Hi HN,
I’m really interested in marine biology and cephalopods. I’ll be traveling in Maine and would love to know if there are aquariums, research centers, or even public tidepool areas where I could see a live octopus.Any tips on locations, institutions, or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

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I was curious how other app developers that publish apps to the App Store manage the review process.I have a geolocked app that kicks users to a splash screen if they&#x27;re out of the legal jurisdiction.I get the feeling app reviewers are paid per review mainly because they aren&#x27;t reading the instructions, and just rejecting the review as soon as they reach the first hurdle. If they took the time to read the instructions and watch the instructional video there would be no issue.I have to submit my app for review multiple times before I hopefully get lucky with someone who actually reads the instructions. It&#x27;s crazy.Do others have a similar experience?

Apple App Store Review Mess

I am currently in the worst customer support situation I have ever been in with the Google Store. I ordered a gift for a friend, but Google sent me the wrong item. Google Support has acknowledged the wrong item was sent but in 3 days of back-and-forth communication, they have refused to refund me or ship a replacement. Both items are under $200.If it were any other company, I would feel justified going to my credit card company and disputing the charge. However, I understand that if I initiate a chargeback, Google could terminate my account, so they have all the leverage in this interaction. I fully rely on my Google account for phone service (Pixel phone with Fi), email service (Gmail), documents&#x2F;spreadsheets, photos, maps, and likely other items that are not coming to mind.This event has made me realize that I&#x27;ve put too much of my life in one provider, and I need to switch. What alternatives does HN use for various Google services?

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Vibe Coding is fast-moving space, and I’m trying to get a clear sense of the best way to approach it. I’m interested in resources that cover both the basics for getting started as well as deeper guidance for using it effectively once you’re past the initial learning curve. Since the technology is evolving quickly, I’d especially like recommendations for guides, documentation, or communities that are actively maintained and updated rather than static posts that go stale. For those already experimenting with or using Vibe Coding, what have you found most useful for keeping up?

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With the pace of new AI coding tools coming out, it&#x27;s hard to keep up to date on best practices&#x2F;tools&#x2F;techniques to get the best use out of them while also staying focused on my project.How do you all discover improvements to your dev workflow in this wild AI world?Any bloggers, YouTubers, subreddit, etc you recommend? Or just a summary of what you&#x27;ve currently tried and &quot;settled&quot; on at the moment?

Staying up to date on the best AI dev workflow?

OpenAI, Anthropomorphic and every company is putting a lot into training. How is the functionality pipeline filled out for LLMs? What is missing in today’s LLMs that they need to plan for? Just trying to get some insights into the planning process and also what the community sees as the northstar for LLMs without saying AGI

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Going through the difficult process of winding down my company.Looking for recommendations on services that helped make this smoother, whether legal, financial, operational, or administrative.What worked well for you? What would you do differently? Any services designed explicitly for startup shutdowns?Thank you.