Not having any luck getting a junior developer postion - <AUTHOR> Hey, I been trying to get a junior developer position, but haven't had any luck. Here is my resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8b4MJypbW9YSHQyeFo4RDN3djA/view?usp=sharing, What's wrong with it? How do I improve it? I dropped out of school so I didn't bother putting in anything for education. <comment><USER2> Do you have any code up on Github, Bitbucket, Sourceforge, etc? If so, and you don't have a lot of formal schooling, emphasize actual code. If you don't, start working on some personal projects and put them up on GH or whatever, so you'll have something to show prospective employers.

<comment><AUTHOR> Sorry, just updated my link. Yes I do have gitHub. I have some projects on it.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> How many years were in you in school before you dropped out? If you had a couple of years of college, you might still want to note that on your resume, especially if you were majoring in CS or some other STEM field.

</comment><comment><USER4> I don't think that is a link to your resume, unless, you want people to log in using your credentials.

</comment><comment><USER5> Go back to school.</comment>


Using IPython for interactive work - <AUTHOR> http://ipython.github.com/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/index.html

<comment><USER2> IPython is great. Also, if you do any django work, you'll probably love shell_plus, which is an enhanced shell that uses IPython and automatically imports all the models of your installed_apps. shell_plus is a command extensions provided by django-extensions:

<https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions>

<comment><USER3> If you like working in a "code in the debugger" mode with ultimate omnipotent runtime power, there's also Smalltalk. It's a little like Python with everything designed around IPython as the default mode of operation.

I am going to check out shell_plus. It sounds badass.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> The overview is here, which I found more helpful: <http://ipython.github.com/ipython-doc/dev/overview.html>

</comment><comment><USER5> IPython has some really handy features for quick development, like adding ? after any object to get its docstring, and opening any line in the history in a text editor.

I also found it useful to add a newline after the prompt so you can copy/paste snippets without getting the indentation wrong.

<comment><USER6> Incidentally, you can also just use the %cpaste "magic" command to start a block for copy/pasting code snippets in (also have a look at %edit).</comment></comment>


Goaz – Do More Than Just Navigate - <AUTHOR> http://appsandapplications.com/goaz-do-more-than-just-navigate/ <comment><AUTHOR> New GPS App, No other GPS tool allows such customization and utility</comment>


Ask HN: What can I build for you today? - <AUTHOR>

What's your biggest pain point?
I want to build a webapp that people and/or businesses will find useful.  I'll start building it right now.
One webapp per comment will make it easy for people to vote. <comment><USER2> At the risk of sounding like a jerk, you're asking the wrong people. This is a community of builders, you need to ask the users (or potential users). Go interview small business owners in your area. Call up companies and ask to talk to the office manager. Let them know that you're interested in building something that will solve a problem of theirs so that you can sell it to other small businesses, but that you're not trying to sell them something, you just need their help in identifying painful problems that nobody else is solving.

<comment><AUTHOR> People here understand what's possible. They are aware when something is sub- optimal. If I go and ask the majority of people on the street they won't even know they have a problem.

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> A way of reading HN that lets me say "That was interesting" and "That is of no interest to me" and then presents, when asked, all the posts from the last 48 hours based on how interesting a Bayesian (or other) filter thinks I'll find them.

I've been intending to write my own, but I've been too busy of late to make any progress.

<comment><USER4> Huh. I've been having the same idea. Except it doesn't have to be limited to HN. I was thinking more along the lines of a standalone system that you can give RSS feeds or whatever (a way to fetch new articles, in any case). You train it like a spam filter, except you mark articles are interesting or uninteresting. It goes out, gets more articles, presents the ones with the best scores, you train it further, etc.

I've been kicking this idea around for a while, but like you, I haven't actually started, mostly because I'm not sure about the best way to do it. (E.g. web app, traditional desktop app, etc. Not to mention the implementation language...)

<comment><USER5> Check out newsblur.com. The code is on github (all python and js).

<comment><USER4> That looks almost like what I had in mind... except you have to tell it what you like and don't like about an article (limited to author, title, publisher). What I had in mind was, feed the text of the article to a bayesian filter, and let the system make decisions based on that.

At first sight, telling newsblur that you like an author or publisher, doesn't seem to useful... you might as well subscribe to their feed in a regular RSS reader then. But maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

<comment><USER6> I thought your idea was great and then I tried out NewsBlur and came to the same conclusion you did. It seems to be filtering based on title, author, publisher, and tag rather than doing any statistical filtering of the text. That's not very useful because I already know who produces great content consistently and I subscribe to their feeds. What I need is a way to filter out the good articles from inconsistent sources.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Pay-per-answer email service. I want to create email address- smthg like @payperanswer.com

I can give it to recruiters, and all ppl that want something from me. Senders need to credit say $1 to sent me something to that inbox and once i reply to that email money go to charity of my choose (and 50% go to payperanswer.com or something).

I wanted to build something like that myself, but dont have time atm.

Extra bonus - convince Steve Jobs to use, price it like $1000 to Apache SW Foundation, and publish all emails publically - what would be HUGE!!! :))))

<comment><USER8> I would be interesting in being a part of this project! Contact me if you want to take this from inception to conception!!! Email is on my profile.

<comment><USER7> sorry i didnt get it.. why do you need my contact? feel free to implement this thing, i don't hold any patents for this AMAZING idea :)

I rely on your sense of justice and just added red Ferrary to my amazon wishlist

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> I need a book listing service similar to <http://www.7bks.com>, but which shows ratings (by me) and category. The list should be embeddable in my website. (eg: <http://sivers.org/book> )

(The service could then extract the user ratings and make a top books list for each category.)

<comment><USER10> Hey, I'm the creator of 7books :)

Embeddable lists are definitely on my roadmap. Drop me an email (tom@) and let me know exactly what you want and I'll see if I can build it for you!

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> It seems we need a better way of tracking what existing webapps are available.

<comment><AUTHOR> Great idea. Sort of like an Appstore for webapps (without payments). <http://www.appappeal.com/> was the first thing I came across - it looks awful. Anyone used it?

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> Write a small PHP plugin that will allow our users invite their friends. This plug-in can be embedded as an iframe, and then it will ask the user to select his email service. Options would be gmail, yahoo and any other email services that provide an API. On clicking next, he will authenticate, and then his contacts will be displayed, with none selected. He can select as many as he wants. Pressing next once more will allow him customize the invite email, and a final 'invite' press will invite all his friends.

I believe most of us here could use this.

<comment><USER13> You can use OpenInviter: <http://openinviter.com/>

I think you have to signup to download it, but it's free and you get the source.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> A sexy dashboard that grabs data from Google Analytics API and displays it all - suitible to have a monitor up on the wall showing various stats from 1-10 websites, highly customisable, very beautiful.

<comment><USER15> Heard of <http://geckoboard.com/> ?

<comment><USER14> I now have, and will check it out on Monday - thanks!

edit: don't suppose you have an invite code?

<comment><USER16> Hi guys, I'm the founder of Geckoboard. Thanks for your interest (and thanks for the mention lachyg).

We currently have a a backlog of > 1000 invites. It's still early days and the product is a little raw but if you're interested in checking it out mail me (address in my profile). If you include your HN handle I'll get your invite out straight away.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> The webapp that shows exactly what you're looking for in this "Ask HN" post.

I've created Wappr.com. Too much hassle to moderate/filter (100% neglected right now). I hope you have a much better solution.

</comment><comment><USER18> I would like a shared to-do list that is suitable for touchscreen devices.

<comment><USER19> Building it - <http://gettasklist.com>

<comment><USER18> Cool!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER11> Please, please make an application that will make it easy to track supporting and opposing views on a topic. The idea being to replace discussions (mailing list, real life meetings) that get lost in word games and politics. The application would bring transparency to a decision and allow any people not acquainted with the discussion to get up to speed quickly. An evidence-based transparent decision process I guess.

<comment><AUTHOR> <http://www.procon.org/> does this, but for more popular topics.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> A plugin/gem for rails apps that allows you to build a feedburner-like feed subscriber tracking system so you don't have to go through FB all the time. If all it does is accurately report the number of subscribers, I'll be using it on a number of sites. If it does more, all the better.

Feedburner in a gem, basically.

</comment><comment><USER21> A tool similar to Delicious that aggregates content that you've Liked on Facebook (within the wall) and marked as a Favorite on Twitter. There's a few of us that are using those two methods to mark content to come back and read later.

<comment><USER22> Not exactly, but <http://historio.us/> is similar.

</comment></comment><comment><USER23> A sync tool between Mac Outlook 2011 and Google Calendar and Contacts

</comment><comment><USER24> A web app manager. The browser window is far from optimal for using multiple web apps at once.

</comment><comment><USER25> Upvote a post on HN if I click on the post in the New section.</comment>


Hacker says to release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday - <AUTHOR> http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/01/14/uk-symantec-hacker-idUKTRE80D09T20120114 <comment><USER2> Well, hopefully someone will now devise a way of removing thedamn thing from a machine with one-click and without multiple reboots.

</comment><comment><USER3> Are there no infosec folks on HN, or are they just lurking? There are about 3 worthwhile comments in this thread, and yes I do realize mine isn't contributing, but I would love to hear more on this subject from the knowledgeable.

<comment> mkr-hn Not much to say until the release either happens or doesn't.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4>
      > A hacker who goes by the name of 'Yama Tough' threatened Saturday
      > to release next week the full source code for Symantec Corp's
      > flagship Norton Antivirus software.

Unfortunately, Saturday could not be reached for comment but Friday and Sunday pledged support for the beleaguered day.

<comment><USER5> What's the proper grammar for this? It seems like a perfectly acceptable order for the words, but you're right that there's some flow missing. Commas surrounding 'Saturday' perhaps?

<comment><USER6> I'm guessing "...threatened on Saturday..." is probably a better way to phrase it

<comment><USER5> It's a better way to phrase it, certainly, but that wasn't my question. I've heard reporters use the original phrasing (i.e. "threatened Saturday"), so I consider it correct, just with incorrect punctuation. I was trying to figure out what the proper punctuation would be without changing the words.

This is part of a more general problem I have with being able to write the way I speak. I don't think I have terrible grammar when writing something relatively formal, in a "written tone" rather than a "spoken tone", but when I make comments on reddit or HN, I've noticed I have a general inability to also make my writing grammatically correct. I also use a lot of parentheses, because I tend to talk in tangents, and that's the only way I can really write it that makes sense.

It was an intellectual curiosity, nothing more.

<comment><USER7> The original and the version with the added preposition are both correct. If there were a real ambiguity you'd favor the preposition, but that isn't the case here.

<comment><USER8> British English requires the preposition.

<comment><USER7> It doesn't. You can easily see this by searching British media for the phrase "said Thursday" or the like. It's the same construction.

[https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...](https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=M7w&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen- US%3Aofficial&q=site%3Awww.guardian.co.uk+%22said+thursday%22&oq=site%3Awww.guardian.co.uk+%22said+thursday%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=se&gs_upl=6824l11775l0l11897l22l21l0l16l0l0l339l832l18.104.22.168l5l0)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> last i saw symantec is saying this is old code:

[http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/247376/symante...](http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/247376/symantec_confirms_leak_of_source_code_for_old_enterprise_antivirus_products.html)

and not currently running products: '"Symantec can confirm that a segment of its source code used in two of our older enterprise products has been accessed, one of which has been discontinued. The code involved is four and five years old," said Cris Paden, the company's senior manager for corporate communications.'

<comment><USER10> It'll still be interesting to see if there's any specific code/comments in there for the government-produced trojans/backdoors that are allowed through.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> "The hacker says all the data was taken from Indian government servers."

But hey, we can trust the supreme competence of the bureaucracy with our secrets.

</comment><comment><USER12> I wonder how companies protect their source code from leaking. Doesn't every programmer have access to the full source tree? Any disgruntled former programmer employee ought to be able to dump the source of a product for the public to see.

<comment><USER13> Companies like Microsoft and Google employ several hundred interns each summer... college students with little commitment to the company and access to the source code of real products. Kids! Yet it's not considered a problem.

> I wonder how companies protect their source code from leaking

The prospect of being bankrupted by a civil suit or thrown in prison is enough to stop most people.

<comment><USER14> > The prospect of being bankrupted by a civil suit or thrown in prison is > enough to stop most people.

Yes, but... if you're good enough to be hired by these companies, leaking source code without being traced isn't going to be hard for you. I've thought about this before and I'm actually surprised it doesn't happen more often.

<comment><USER13> If you're working at these companies you also know they have lots of people like you who will be working to track down any trace of who leaked the code. Are you willing to risk going to prison then being legally banned from touching a PC when you get out?

<comment><USER15> Also, you have little to gain from doing it even if you don't get caught. It's probably much more cathartic to blast them in a blog post than it is to anonymously release source code of an outdated/discontinued product. Especially since source is only readable to x people and a blog is readable to y. With X<<y.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I'm looking forward to downloading this and having a look through - I often find stuff like this interesting.

<comment><USER17> me,2!

</comment></comment><comment><USER18> I can't remember the last time I used a Norton product. Why is this big news?

<comment><USER19> I can't remember the last time I used an i[Pod,Pad,Phone], but that doesn't make stories about them unimportant.

</comment></comment><comment><USER20> Oh cool… I've always wanted to know how that works. Right? No.

Anti-virus software is like drugs: they'll preload a little quality free thing on your new computer and then remind you (every two hours) when your 60-day trial has expired AND YOUR COMPUTER IS AT RISK OH NOES KABOOM!!! Then, they'll gladly charge you for that feeling of safety when no software can protect against human stupidity, which is the root cause of most virus infections.

In other news, the world has moved past Norton and you should get a Mac.

<comment><USER21> > you should get a Mac.

but you lost credibility way before saying that anyway.</comment></comment>


Xkcd #2175: Flag Interpretation - <AUTHOR> https://xkcd.com/2175/ <comment><USER2> As a long time (10+ years) reader of XKCD, I have to say I love the comic strip. That said, not sure why this is on HN though. Honest question: am I missing something -- is there something _specific_ about this XKCD cartoon that makes this more HN worthy than all other XKCD cartoons?

<comment><USER3> The submitter's history suggests they try to submit every xkcd comic.</comment></comment>


Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC - <AUTHOR> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2014/02/25/announcing-typescript-1-0rc.aspx

<comment><USER2> Neat, TS is the first initiative/product/stuff I enjoyed from M$ is so many years...

</comment><comment><USER3> This is Huge!

Although the compiler is a bit slow at the moment, I'm really excited about this.</comment>


Starting an ISP is hard, don't do it (2016) - <AUTHOR> https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/05/31/starting-isp-really-hard-dont/ <comment><USER2> Currently on the front page as well: "Start Your Own ISP" - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726906](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20726906)

</comment><comment><USER3> I wonder what kind of initial capital was needed for this. Any guesses for a ballpark? Couple of millions?</comment>


Type to Shoot - My HTML5 Game for Mozilla's Game On - <AUTHOR> http://www.phoboslab.org/ztype/

<comment><USER2> Either my expensive Kinesis keyboard and Dvorak layout are giving me an unfair advantage, or the difficulty needs tweaked.

There should be more keyboard driven web games, for a more sedate puzzle game with a similar interface try Word Swirl:

<http://tromey.com/Swirl/>

</comment><comment><USER3> Wow, this is really impressive!</comment>


The Humane Interface? - <AUTHOR> http://raskinformac.com/

<comment><USER2> Cool for media, not yet super useful if you have directories full of code.</comment>


Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog? - <AUTHOR> I've seen a couple[1][2] of posts recently about personal websites/blogs where some people seemed hesitant to post their own site, and perhaps more didn't post at all to avoid self-promotion. So I thought, why not ditch the modesty and just have a post where you can shamelessly plug your own website. I love reading your comments here, so let's see what you all have put on your websites.<p>[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19188760<p>[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19114037 <comment><USER2> [https://conradadam.com](https://conradadam.com)

I'm a UX engineer so my focus was on a site that loads quickly, is accessible, and is easy to read. It gets 100s across the board on Google Lighthouse because it's built with one HTML file.

The CSS was ruthlessly cut down to a single style tag and I believe there's only a tiny bit of JavaScript for lazy loading images and Service Workers for offline capabilities (in case you _need_ my email in a Subway tunnel?). The service worker file needed to be separated (so I guess it's two files then) but the single HTML was compressed as much as I possibly could to reduce the size down. I even downloaded the Google font file to preload it faster and to strip out all of the unused glyphs.

It definitely loads quickly.

I also have some interest in design, so I wanted to express myself a bit, choosing lots of fonts and designs to create a somewhat eclectic homage to computing past and present.

<comment><USER3> Woah, that's a seriously fast loading site. Well done!

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I wrote an SVG powered contact page which is around 16KB. [https://edent.tel/](https://edent.tel/)

I was trying to get the most functionality out of the minimum possible size.

<comment><USER5> This is really cool! Simple and very effective. Well done.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> [https://jake.tl](https://jake.tl)

My full name is Jake Teton-Landis so I'm overjoyed I could get this domain name. I redesigned the site from scratch in 2018, although most of the content is from long before then. The bit I'm proud of is [https://jake.tl/notes/2018-03-28-goto/](https://jake.tl/notes/2018-03-28-goto/)

Built with [Ivy], a static site generator I picked for its simple content model and well-designed plugin architecture. I wrote a custom plugin to inline resources like CSS and images. Auto-deployed using Github Actions which I find very handy. Hosted by Firebase Hosting which gives me free CDN & HTTP/2 delivery and an easy deploy tool. DNS from gandi.net, a ["no bullshit"] independent registrar I highly recommend.

I hope to publish a long-form post completely explaining how my website works in a way understandable to any English speaker familiar with computers, but no ETA on that.

Ivy: [https://darrenmulholland.com/docs/ivy/](https://darrenmulholland.com/docs/ivy/)

No bullshit: [https://www.gandi.net/en/no- bullshit](https://www.gandi.net/en/no-bullshit)

<comment><USER7> Maybe the perfection enthusiast should fix the typo in the website blurb ;)

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> [https://dosowisko.net/](https://dosowisko.net/)

Just a little business card-like thingie. It might become a blog some day. I'm particularly proud of its 404 page ;)

</comment><comment><USER9> [https://jonaswouters.com](https://jonaswouters.com)

Personal blog that I usually don't promote because it's about myself and some of my reasoning. Older posts are not even valid anymore and I will revisit them when I feel like it.

It's about writing more and reflecting on my decisions and experiences.

I recently moved from a static website to write.as because I want to focus on the content. Something broke in my pipeline and as a result I didn't post updates for years.

At some point I want to make [http://jw.be](http://jw.be) an entry point to my blogs and businesses. It's pointing to my company website for now.

</comment><comment><USER5> My blog is at [https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/](https://axiomatic.neophilus.net/) where I write mostly about software/math/physics. A static site built using Zola [https://www.getzola.org/](https://www.getzola.org/)

I also have a travel/photoblog which has some really cool features. It's written in Elm [https://odyssey.neophilus.net/](https://odyssey.neophilus.net/)

<comment><USER10> Very nice! I had a very popular G+ collection with hundreds of animations, which I deleted. Now, by looking at your photoblog, I wonder if I can suck all the photos from posts from [1] and then use your Odyssey [2].

[1] [https://get.google.com/albumarchive/110322266958783287132/al...](https://get.google.com/albumarchive/110322266958783287132/albums/photos- from-posts)

[2] [https://github.com/Libbum/Odyssey](https://github.com/Libbum/Odyssey)

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> If you're looking for a simple, static page which doesn't require any additional libraries, is lightweight and can be hosted easily on GitHub, I can't recommend Jon Barron's enough.

Source: [https://github.com/jonbarron/website](https://github.com/jonbarron/website)

Page: [https://jonbarron.info](https://jonbarron.info)

It's easy to modify to suit your content, as I did.

Link: [https://priyansh.page](https://priyansh.page) (Not updated recently).

Also consider getting a .page domain, which I feel is perfect for these purposes.

Link: [https://get.page](https://get.page)

</comment><comment><USER12> Long, long ago I was a developer at Microsoft, and at a small startup before that. I've since transitioned into theatre, but I love keeping up with the tech world via Hacker News (which is my way of warning you that my blog is completely non-technical).

I've just started a series about writing fight scenes, from the perspective of a fight choreographer: [https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2019/02/03/writing-the- fight-v...](https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2019/02/03/writing-the-fight- violence-vs-action/).

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> I'll get the ball rolling. This is my personal blog: [https://lusmo.re](https://lusmo.re)

I've overhauled the style recently inspired a lot by the simplicity of Butterick's Practical Typography[0]. It's all hand-written HTML and CSS, with JS completely optional only there to enable the theme switcher and 1-click copy on code snippets.

[0]: [https://practicaltypography.com/](https://practicaltypography.com/)

</comment><comment><USER13> Can I just chime in to say I appreciate all the folks responding here. I've had various personal websites/blogs in the past but nothing currently. Would love to start one soon again and this just gave me that extra jolt of motivation I think I needed.

</comment><comment><USER14> [https://pixelpoppers.com/](https://pixelpoppers.com/)

Started in 2009 as a Blogger blog about video game design/culture/psychology/philosophy (my most-read post was about quitting World of Warcraft[1] and was discussed on HN at the time[2]), it's now a (mostly) static site built in Hugo including the blog, my own developed games and a dev blog about them (only one game so far; that's a new part of the project), quick reviews of games I play, shared links to interesting articles/videos, and a blogroll of other recommended websites.

I'm very much a fan of "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere", so I've been moving all of my content together under my own control. My articles also go to Medium, my games also go to itch.io, my shared links are also on Pinboard, etc., but everything is primarily on my own site and if any of the external services vanished I wouldn't lose anything.

It's been a great way to learn more web development tools and skills, and it's nice to have both "write something creative" and "tinker with site infrastructure" as project options depending on what kind of energy I have in my free time.

[1]: [https://pixelpoppers.com/2010/12/doing-my-dailies-why-i- quit...](https://pixelpoppers.com/2010/12/doing-my-dailies-why-i-quit-wow-and- started-working-out/) [2]: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054992](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054992)

</comment><comment><USER15> [http://pepijndevos.nl/](http://pepijndevos.nl/)

The site is mostly about my personal projects. Everything from the web to Z80 assembly to electronics. Currently ongoing: homebrew modular synth

The design is quite old, most recently updated with a mobile layout. Powered by Jekyll with very plain HTML and CSS with a smudge of JS for the rotating wheel. Search is broken and I have not found an alternative.

</comment><comment><USER16> Great thread idea!

I'm a fan of static sites, Hugo in particular. Went from WP on Apache in early 2000s, to Drupal/Nginx to Hugo/Nginx more recently. I edit the sites locally and rsync the files with an alias when done. Saves messing about with a CMS. Which I've done enough of in my time. Quick and cheap way to host a bunch of fast sites.

Freelance + blog site using Kube framework/Hugo. After looking at all the great sites here, it definitely needs some colour, a new favicon, some images of yours truly and update of services offered. But before that lot gets done, it's at:

> [https://lukespear.co.uk/](https://lukespear.co.uk/)

This other one is experimental, the better looking of the two, probably the home for courses I hope to put out this year:

> [https://objectivelyfun.com/](https://objectivelyfun.com/)

It uses a customised Hugo theme - related posts, new sidebar, new post layout, new post types, improved meta stuff etc.

Keep sharing - it's great for ideas.

</comment><comment><USER17> Recently redesigned homepage for my software consultancy services (aimed for minimal but nice looking and made the tech jargon easy to skip if you're non- technical):

[https://www.seanw.org/](https://www.seanw.org/)

This is the homepage for my paid Chrome extension that audits multiple pages at a time for SEO, speed and security problems like broken links, duplicate content, render blocking scripts and insecure password forms:

[https://www.checkbot.io/](https://www.checkbot.io/)

The homepage is less than 300KB (custom CSS theme, minimal JS + all images use SVG including the header screenshot) and the whole website follows all the rules the extension advocates (see [https://www.checkbot.io/guide](https://www.checkbot.io/guide)).

Feedback welcome! :)

</comment><comment><USER18> Hey Hacker News! Python^Vim user here.

A blog: [https://tarasmatsyk.com/](https://tarasmatsyk.com/) I always export posts on medium: [https://medium.com/@tarasmatsyk](https://medium.com/@tarasmatsyk)

I am talking about Architecture, ML SOA models in production and Team building activities. Next post is going to be about our experience of using PyTorch in production for a year.

It's backed with GoHugo on top of Netlify and I am extremely happy about it. Also I wrote a post on how to start a blog under 2 hours where compared most popular blogging engines for engineers: [https://tarasmatsyk.com/posts/1-how- to-start-a-blog-in-2-hou...](https://tarasmatsyk.com/posts/1-how-to-start-a- blog-in-2-hours/)

</comment><comment><USER19> [http://heffern.net/rob/](http://heffern.net/rob/)

Mostly it's an online CV, but I blog occasionally. Some entries that may interest HN are:

[http://heffern.net/rob/index.php/2018/05/18/hello- world/](http://heffern.net/rob/index.php/2018/05/18/hello-world/) . How much should a Harvard Lotto ticket sell for?

[http://heffern.net/rob/index.php/2018/08/25/ch-1-kismayo- som...](http://heffern.net/rob/index.php/2018/08/25/ch-1-kismayo-somalia-is- the-most-valuable-real-estate-in-the-solar-system/) Why the Somali coast is the most valuable real-estate in the Solar System

</comment><comment><USER20> Website: [https://hackpravj.com](https://hackpravj.com) Blog: [https://hackpravj.com/blog](https://hackpravj.com/blog)

I write about explorable explanations from a software engineering perspective, going after a particular problem and explaining it using either data or a solution.

For example, my recent article was about solving Google AI's game Semantris using Computer Vision. [https://hackpravj.com/blog/solving-semantris-opencv- word2vec...](https://hackpravj.com/blog/solving-semantris-opencv-word2vec/)

This year I've decided to write about my learnings in products. I've my first topic in making, will try to publish it as soon as I get time.

</comment><comment><USER21> haha I was thinking about starting similar thread :) don't bother if I repost from other thread again?

[https://lukaszkups.net](https://lukaszkups.net)

My DeusEx-game-inspired personal website (love the game, especially from the design side so decided to take an inspiration from it)

Will soon release tool I've used to generate this website (yes, another static site generator ;) )

<comment><USER16> :+1: for the design, guy! Cyberpunk done well. Just needs a 90s feel "Metadyne" style corporation name slapped across it and a neon/rain page and I'll never leave.

</comment></comment><comment><USER22> [https://lifebeyondfife.com/](https://lifebeyondfife.com/)

Tech: some coding projects e.g. an old constraint solver in an Excel spreadsheet which helps pick a fantasy football team, opinions on software development, how I designed my wedding ring, and a series of git-for-beginners posts.

I used to self-enforce "must make a post at least once per month" for a few years, but it's been a while since I last blogged regularly. Plan to restart this year with a series on fitness for tech/office workers.

Top tip: choosing a subject matter agnostic name means that you can alter what you blog about as your interests change over the years.

</comment><comment><USER23> [https://xyrillian.de](https://xyrillian.de)

My website has mostly two halfs: my podcasts and radio shows (German only), and my blog (English only). I'm starting a second podcast show next week where I visit hackerspaces across Germany, so if any German listeners are interested, keep an eye out for that.

Source code is at [https://github.com/majewsky/xyrillian.de](https://github.com/majewsky/xyrillian.de) \- Most parts are autogenerated (e.g. the build process pulls metadata from the podcast audio files to render into the page) using Go scripts and Makefiles.

</comment><comment><USER24> My personal website/blog is here: [https://www.louisnicholls.com](https://www.louisnicholls.com)

I tend to write mainly about technical marketing, bootstrapping and common early-stage founder mistakes.

<comment><USER16> Signed up for the newsletter - this guy can market!

</comment></comment><comment><USER25> [https://pa-mar.net/](https://pa-mar.net/)

Nothing special, I do not write code worth publishing for example. It is just a personal site to document some of my passions - it is also practical sometimes to write a short piece about recurring questions (e.g.: "how to make your own hanko" has been my most popular piece for years now [https://pa- mar.net/Study/ShoDo/HankoDo-it-Yourself.html](https://pa- mar.net/Study/ShoDo/HankoDo-it-Yourself.html) )

</comment><comment><USER26> Things that might be not-so-useless, mostly home-related networking, FAQs for subreddits I participate in, and bad puns... [https://try.popho.be](https://try.popho.be)

</comment><comment><USER27> Couple of years back, I finally decided to document my efforts. I have a thing for coming up with new ideas and troubleshooting, so I thought to myself maybe it's time to share them with others and give back something to the community. And I must say, even though it only hosts just couple of posts by now, starting my blog was probably one of the most satisfying things I'd ever done.

[https://hamy.io](https://hamy.io)

</comment><comment><USER28> [https://simonswain.com/](https://simonswain.com/) Links to personal projects and conf talk videos.

</comment><comment><USER29> [https://jules.hu.ls/](https://jules.hu.ls/)

I made it to get familiar with all tooling involved - I host the website myself at home. From the hardware to middle ware to the web server it all runs on a simple €150 dell server.

Might be a bit slow for non EU people because of it. :)

To create it I used Hugo!

[https://gohugo.io/](https://gohugo.io/)!

edit: no markdown here...

<comment><USER30> Looks good and loads fine from ireland :) Might want to reduce the size of the profile picture. jules.jpg is 1.6mb

<comment><USER29> >Might want to reduce the size of the profile picture. jules.jpg is 1.6mb

Yeah it's on the list!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER31> [https://www.fretflip.com](https://www.fretflip.com) | An interactive guitar fretboard tool to make shareable scale and chord charts. I'm using it as a common place for learning guitar and bass. Opened it up for others to store their own charts, some are using it for education. Still non-profit but glad to share.

</comment><comment><USER32> [https://www.owenrumney.co.uk](https://www.owenrumney.co.uk)

It's a bit of a mismash of subjects but covers things I'm currently working on or seem interesting.

Powered by Jekyll, hosted on Github. It has very few visitors because I am reluctant to shout about the posts in case they're shit.

</comment><comment><USER33> [https://technicalpenguins.com](https://technicalpenguins.com) is the site for the freelance company I run with my fiance. (See if you can count all the different penguins - our favorites are Lost Penguin for 404s and Plug Penguin for shameless plugs on whitepapers.)

<comment><USER34> This is wonderful! I love the personality that shines through in your site. In my experience at least, more personality is always better than less personality in freelancing.

</comment></comment><comment><USER35> [https://eivindarvesen.com](https://eivindarvesen.com)

Home-rolled CMS I made in PHP four years ago or so. Been meaning to update the design for some time now...

I blog sporadically about anything that interests me, but I've been meaning to get more focused and deliberate this year.

Excuses, excuses...

</comment><comment><USER36> I wish i would write more, currently not a lot of content on my site.

[https://gempir.com](https://gempir.com)

Hosted on github pages and build with Hugo. [https://github.com/gempir/blog](https://github.com/gempir/blog)

</comment><comment><USER37> Still just a blog that clearly needs a huge theme update? Heh, but it has collected fragments since January 2004, when I gave up hand coded HTML and doing an rsync on the diary.

[http://www.bytebot.net/blog/](http://www.bytebot.net/blog/)

</comment><comment><USER38> [https://el-ghazali.com](https://el-ghazali.com)

Me: A Front End Engineer that loves Vue.js (and actively searching for a new role!)

My Portfolio: Initial template by HTML5UP, some custom components, custom animation, features Vue web applications built by me.

</comment><comment><USER34> My site is [https://www.lessboring.com](https://www.lessboring.com)

The site is purely Markdown crunched through Pelican, a nifty Python static site generator.

I've been a freelance Django developer for about 8 years and always wanted to build a software product of some kind. The idea was to freelance to pay the bills and spend the rest of my time on products.

Well, the products never really worked out, but the freelancing has worked out really well, especially in the last two years since I learned about business. My site now aims to help other developers learn the business skills of freelancing to help people avoid the pitfalls I fell into.

I've been writing to a mailing list where the good emails go into articles on this site.

<comment><USER34> My site was designed by my friend Elise who has a super neat freelancing website: [http://itmustbee.com](http://itmustbee.com) She does Shopify consulting for beekeepers and is a CSS master.

</comment></comment><comment><USER39> [https://wapl.es](https://wapl.es)

Uses Jekyll and Github Pages. I'm more interested in just writing words and sharing knowledge these days than playing with blog frameworks.

Just published a "redesign" this morning. It's... Minimalist...

</comment><comment><USER40> [https://www.inconspicuous.no](https://www.inconspicuous.no)

Mostly just a CV and overview of projects I've done. I do consulting on realtime-rendering, game dev and interactive installations. Somewhere between tech and design.

</comment><comment><USER41> [https://keanankoppenhaver.com](https://keanankoppenhaver.com)

I do most of my writing for other blogs or over on our company blog, but tried to make my personal site as minimal and performant as possible while still being useful.

</comment><comment><USER42> I am long overdue for an update and I never got around to making it mobile friendly. [https://www.michaelzaporozhets.com](https://www.michaelzaporozhets.com)

My girlfriend says it's boring but I'm a still a fan.

<comment><USER16> It is boring, but I'm also a fan. A little streak of colour somewhere and some more interesting content should keep engagement levels up?

</comment></comment><comment><USER43> Wanted to try out a static website generator(HUGO) for both personal and professional reasons.

[https://yigit-kocak.com](https://yigit-kocak.com)

Note: I know the site's content is a bit old now, but I'm going to update it.

</comment><comment><USER44> [http://rorygibson.me](http://rorygibson.me)

I've been playing with the typography on the site recently. Not massively happy with it but there you go; I'm sure I'll get round to changing it in a few weeks^H^H^H^H^Hyears

I'm mostly an interim CTO these days (though I run Trolley [1] as a side project) but have been a consultant, agile person, Clojure dev, Java dev, Ruby dev...

About 18 years in to my career and trying to maintain that balance of "can talk like a business person" and "can still code")

1\. [https://trolley.link](https://trolley.link) \- a JAMstack shopping cart system

</comment><comment><USER45> [https://brunoluiz.net](https://brunoluiz.net)

This is my personal blog, with random thoughts and guides around software development.

Until last year, I was using my Medium to post stuff. But, as I wanted to own my content and not have issues to post code snippets (Medium is horrible on this), I moved it to Gatsby + GitHub pages. I am still missing some stuff, such as a comment system, but this will be solved soon.

Having my own content in Markdown makes easier to transport it around, even to other systems in the future -- if Gatsby proves to be not that good. And, as it is ReactJS, it is quite easy to tweak the starter theme.

</comment><comment><USER46> From programming to my experience sensory-depriving myself in a floating tank and musings about creativity, this is my blog:

[https://diessi.ca](https://diessi.ca)

I like it simple, static-generated, and minimal.

</comment><comment><USER47> Been a while since I've updated it, but [http://itskrish.co](http://itskrish.co)

I promise I was on the minimalist monospace emoji design wave a few months before it really took off :)

</comment><comment><USER48> [http://gabrielgambetta.com](http://gabrielgambetta.com) has most of my stuff. Not a blog, more a collection of things I do, including the Client Side Prediction series, the Computer Graphics textbook, the A* demystified series... but also a couple of articles about the technical and creative side of writing and publishing my first novel.

There's also [http://gabrielgambetta.biz](http://gabrielgambetta.biz) for a different side that I'm exploring more and more seriously :)

</comment><comment><USER49> [http://karthikkumar.org](http://karthikkumar.org)

It is not fancy, uses Makefiles and a few scripts to generate static content; Most of this stuff existed before Node.js and I plan to keep it that way. An old version of this site used to be on geocities, so you can imagine. :)

It contains pointers to very old code and a link to my old favorite sites and my social network profiles; It even has a RSS feed that is updated every few years. ;)

@all: I'm going to go through all of your pages here. Will try my best to connect with you if I am able to!

</comment><comment><USER50> [https://ultracrepidarian.phfactor.net/](https://ultracrepidarian.phfactor.net/)

Minimal politics, tech I find interesting, timekeeping, EVs... classic blog fodder.

</comment><comment><USER51> [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-cat- video-...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/new-tab-cat-video- extensi/lcpipfmjdfelofldlehfiogoogpkjiea)

I built this Chrome Extension as a small project to learn how to code. This extension plays a new cat video every time you open a new tab in Chrome.

I am 1/3 complete the Udemy Complete Web Developer Course 2.0 and am having fun applying what I am learning on small projects like this!

</comment><comment><USER52> [http://xem.github.io](http://xem.github.io)

I'm Maxime, front-end developer and passionate of JavaScript code-golfing.

I make tiny JS demos & games for fun or for contests like JS1K.com and JS13Kgames.com, and write about them (among other front-end experiments) here.

There's also a lot of tech watch and projects involving other topics like retro consoles emulation, Unicode, WebGL, and even a collection of memes and jokes.

Feel free to send feedback, even negative.

(I know the site's style is a bit old now, but I'm updating it!)

Cheers :)

</comment><comment><USER53> created an account after lurking here for 3(!) years now. happy for this to be my first post, as the HN community has definitely been an inspiration towards starting my own website/blog (and I have in turn convinced a few others)

[https://www.vivekkalyan.com/](https://www.vivekkalyan.com/)

my website is built with gatsbyJS and hosted with netlify. i plan to blog regularly about NLP/deep learning topics and eventually add projects + photog but thats for another day.

</comment><comment><USER54> [https://cyrilniobe.com](https://cyrilniobe.com) \- I'm a junior software developer (still a student) but I like minimalist things

</comment><comment><USER55> [https://www.ibrahimdiallo.com](https://www.ibrahimdiallo.com)

The name is in the domain. Not my main website, but it is a fun project nevertheless.

</comment><comment><USER56> My personal blog: [https://www.brill.blog/](https://www.brill.blog/)

I'm an amateur designer and coder. I made the site to explore responsive layout, to learn how to code templates in a CMS (Craft), and to get exactly the kind of personal site I wanted. Of course it's turned out not quite as I expected, and I'm struggling to motivate myself to create the volume of content it needs.

So, I'd love to get feedback (and encouragement) from you guys.

</comment><comment><USER57> [https://pjrvs.com](https://pjrvs.com) \- it's simple, but it sure does work for me. I'm a writer and entrepreneur.

</comment><comment><USER7> [https://f5n.org](https://f5n.org) \- running since 2011, former websites (going back to 1998) haven't been updated since

Source: [https://github.com/winks/f5n.org](https://github.com/winks/f5n.org)

Tool: hugo (an older version)

Custom theme: [https://github.com/winks/hugo-f5norg](https://github.com/winks/hugo-f5norg)

</comment><comment><USER58> Subscribe to mine [http://muhammadraza.me](http://muhammadraza.me) I try to write atleast 3 articles every month

</comment><comment><USER59> [https://redalemeden.com/](https://redalemeden.com/)

Just deployed a new design, rewritten in Gatsby (source: [https://github.com/kaishin/redalemeden.com](https://github.com/kaishin/redalemeden.com)). I still have plans to add some additional bells and whistles but I am happy with the result so far!

</comment><comment><USER60> [https://www.charlieharrington.com](https://www.charlieharrington.com) I've just finished the first draft of my children's novel about robots, so I'm planning to post more about the writing, editing, querying, publishing process here. Right now, most of the posts on my site are about books, ultramarathons, coding, and music.

</comment><comment><USER61> [https://bionics.it](https://bionics.it)

Has served as my research blog during my phd studies in pharmaceutical bioinformatics and covers a lot of my insight gained on batch workflow systems for running machine learning pipelines (mostly on hpc clusters and locally), as well as some Go stuff.

Custom design based on bulma.io css framework, and processwire(.com) as CMS.

</comment><comment><USER62> Oh lord, I really need to rework mine visually - it's just some HTML+CSS which gets mangled by my own PHP powered minimizer, and of course there's JS for the games. All of this was written more or less to try if I could even get a page up and running, but it was fun ;)

[http://bananicorn.com/](http://bananicorn.com/)

</comment><comment><USER63> [https://www.vincentprouillet.com/](https://www.vincentprouillet.com/)

I do need to blog more but recently it was mostly about my projects. It is powered by one of them, Zola ([https://www.getzola.org/](https://www.getzola.org/)).

I want to write more but not really sure about the topics.

</comment><comment><USER64> Dancing icons. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

[http://billpg.com/](http://billpg.com/)

</comment><comment><USER65> [https://alvaroduran.me](https://alvaroduran.me)

My personal site, mostly about the books I've read and the lessons I've learnt. So far I've covered books such as Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Skin in the Game, Deep Work, or Through the Language Glass, among others.

Any feedback is very much welcomed! Thank you, guys!

<comment><USER66> I have a quick tip: there's an issue with the Github pages SSL certificate. Apparently it's an easy fix: [https://stackoverflow.com/a/42177720/359774](https://stackoverflow.com/a/42177720/359774)

<comment><USER65> Thank God, I've tried to solve this for quite some time now. You're the man!!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER67> [https://jwcooney.com/](https://jwcooney.com/)

My name is Justin Cooney and this is my personal programming blog that I occasionally post code snippets or random programming related ideas to. I haven't contributed much in the past year(s), but hopefully can motivate myself to post more in future.

</comment><comment><USER68> [http://erwinandres.github.io/](http://erwinandres.github.io/)

I'm Erwin, this is my personal website. I'm trying to start a career as a front-end developer.

I was looking for a minimalist design with minimal assets for fast loading, readable text, good accessibility, and good CSS print styles.

</comment><comment><USER69> [http://dusted.dk](http://dusted.dk) Just a place where I keep my stuff.

</comment><comment><USER70> Late to the game, but I just gave my site a facelift.

[https://www.0x44.pw](https://www.0x44.pw)

I'm a sysadmin, hope to get into dev one day. Background (ie my degree) is in theology, been on my IT hustle for just over a year professionally. Blog is new, doing python and rust stuff mostly.

</comment><comment><USER71> [http://www.jacobjacquet.com/](http://www.jacobjacquet.com/)

</comment><comment><USER72> I put something up to capture thoughts and record thing for myself for posterity. At least 1 of the posts started as notes to myself so I could refer to it later on.

Not much there but I did enjoy hunting down photos of Marseille to use.

[https://skillscheck.co.uk](https://skillscheck.co.uk)

</comment><comment><USER73> [https://epiphany.pub](https://epiphany.pub)

My blog platform under development.

<comment><USER74> Fancy! The interactivity is indeed impressive :-)

It also feels a bit overloaded, though. Especially the lower bar on the homepage - the cursive script is really hard to read, and the scrolling credits are too distracting.

<comment><USER73> Thank you very much for the feedback! You are the first to give me any feedback. I have been hesitated to show it to people as it's under heavy development. Yes, I also think the lower bar is a bit too much, my intention was to give credits to all the open source projects I use, without them I can't imagine I would be able to make this website.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER75> [https://takeabreathtoo.wordpress.com](https://takeabreathtoo.wordpress.com)

I started this blog last year to share interesting reads that I come across (includes the ones recommended by HN). It covers varied subjects and would love to improve with your feedback.

Thanks.

</comment><comment><USER76> [https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/](https://www.barbarianmeetscoding.com/)

I write mostly about web dev, front-end, ux, dev productivity and whatever I happen to be tinkering with at the moment. All of it with a pinch of fantasy on top ^_^

</comment><comment><USER77> [https://lamasa.de](https://lamasa.de) I mainly created it because people kept asking me how I made my DIY smart energy meter, so now I can just redirect them to my website. Have a lot of refining to do on those descriptions though.

</comment><comment><USER78> I've been thinking lately I should take a look at Gatsby finally add build a blog that goes with my current website. At the moment it's just a list of projects and some contact info.

[https://kuroikyu.com/](https://kuroikyu.com/)

</comment><comment><USER79> [https://www.kartastudio.nl/](https://www.kartastudio.nl/)

My company's new website: We make interactive data visualization for the web. Karta is a data design studio from Utrecht and makes data understandable for everyone.

</comment><comment><USER80> [https://gobitcoinincome.com](https://gobitcoinincome.com)

Yup, with all the other mining operations closing down around the world, the company I mine with is expanding.

This blog is for educational purposes around crypto and mining. Still a work in progress :)

</comment><comment><USER81> [https://anthonyoconnor.ca](https://anthonyoconnor.ca) \- Mainly just for my resume and a few blog posts at [https://anthonyoconnor.ca/blog](https://anthonyoconnor.ca/blog)

</comment><comment><USER82> [https://ishimura.uk/](https://ishimura.uk/)

</comment><comment><USER83> [https://adimuresan.com/](https://adimuresan.com/)

Personal website that I've been wanting to turn into a blog about computational (differential) geometry, applied mathematics, performance optimization and distributed systems.

</comment><comment><USER84> [https://bogdancornianu.com/](https://bogdancornianu.com/)

My name is Bogdan Cornianu and this is my blog where I write technical stuff, do book reviews, post projects I'm working on and also favorite movies and TV shows.

</comment><comment><USER85> jonpauluritis.com

I went super brutalist for fun. I may move back to a more traditional typographic setup but for the moment I think I'll keep it as is.

Note on the photography. Some of the photos are done by a friend => joevenuto.com. He's awesome and looking for interesting gigs.

</comment><comment><USER74> [https://terranostra.one/](https://terranostra.one/)

I like writing, both as an art and as a tool to shape and share ideas. Accordingly, my blog is a rather eclectic mix of topics, from biology and books to Java and Lisp.

</comment><comment><USER86> Engineering: [https://travisbumgarner.com](https://travisbumgarner.com) Photography: [https://travisbumgarner.photography](https://travisbumgarner.photography)

</comment><comment><USER87> [https://www.crstin.com](https://www.crstin.com)

</comment><comment><USER88> Interesting. Threads like this can also be used for profiling, tracking and analysis of HN readers and active users.

Well, it's a double-edged sword I guess.

P.S. Also there is nothing wrong with self-promotion, assuming you are not shamelessly plugging in irrelevant, low-quality content.

EDIT: P.S.

<comment><USER16> Depends how involved in HN you are already. I have already submitted links to my sites a bunch of sites over the last few years so figured it makes no difference at this point.

Looks like you have too, so what are you waiting for :D

</comment></comment><comment><USER89> [https://codecleane.rs/](https://codecleane.rs/)

It's a blog I write with my brother, dedicated to topics regarding working in a legacy environment while applying agile and software craftsmanship principles

</comment><comment><USER90> [https://periodix.net/](https://periodix.net/) I'm a developer of the service. We analyze your chances to get freelance projects leveraging AI. So, you will see only relevant jobs for you.

</comment><comment><USER91> Oh, why not? If nothing else, it might provoke me to do the second part of the linear typewriters post.

[https://rjp.is/blogging/](https://rjp.is/blogging/) (powered by Hugo)

There is no coherent theme, I'm afraid.

</comment><comment><USER92> It's a mixture of programming, travel, observations, and other miscellaneous topics for the past twenty years using a home grown blogging engine: [http://boston.conman.org](http://boston.conman.org)

</comment><comment><USER93> [https://vitobotta.com/](https://vitobotta.com/) \- it's my personal blog where I write about stuff like programming (especially Ruby and Rails) and other things I use for development etc.

</comment><comment><USER94> [https://www.cnaanaviv.com](https://www.cnaanaviv.com) and [http://breapo.com](http://breapo.com) \- unfortunately I don't have much time to update.

</comment><comment><USER95> I just started a blog / website last year @ [https://dcaulfield.com](https://dcaulfield.com). Currently, I'm building up my knowledge of devops and product management.

I welcome any feedback anyone has!

</comment><comment><USER96> [https://lunelson.xyz/](https://lunelson.xyz/)

This is pretty new and has a way to go but I put it out partly to force myself to follow up. "Watch this space" sort of thing. Static hosted.

</comment><comment><USER97> [https://abaditya.com/](https://abaditya.com/) Started the blog in 2006 to share how-tos, interesting links, movie reviews and the like. Haven't posted there for a while though.

</comment><comment><USER98> [http://www.fabianrios.co/en/](http://www.fabianrios.co/en/) Did everything. I wrote a small CMS in rails + the design and the coding 6 years ago. it still works :)

</comment><comment><USER99> [https://medium.com/@elbrujohalcon](https://medium.com/@elbrujohalcon) Mostly about Erlang development and being a Tech Leader, but there are other things here and there.

</comment><comment><USER100> Mine is [http://liza.io](http://liza.io)

My last post happens to be more of a life update, but mostly I just blog about my long-running personal project, Go, and other stuff I run into when coding.

</comment><comment><USER101> I don't post often. It's a static site generated with hexo, using the default theme from wintersmith and it's hosted on cloudfront/S3.

[https://rexflex.net/](https://rexflex.net/)

</comment><comment><USER102> [http://johnmathews.eu](http://johnmathews.eu) It's my personal blog, mostly about side projects or what I'm learning. It's been a great mirror to my interests.

</comment><comment><USER103> [https://luizfzs.github.io/](https://luizfzs.github.io/) Just a GH page I created to write about solutions to CTFs. Haven't been updated for a few months now.

</comment><comment><USER104> [https://www.rasikjain.com](https://www.rasikjain.com)

Personal Website created few months ago to try out different Static site generators. Settled with Hugo. Hoping to write blog soon :-)

</comment><comment><USER105> [https://batr.am](https://batr.am)

</comment><comment><USER106> Mostly out of date...

[https://badalic.com/](https://badalic.com/) [https://blog.badalic.com](https://blog.badalic.com)

</comment><comment><USER107> [http://temporary.directory/blog](http://temporary.directory/blog)

Going to probably make another blogpost soon about how I'm so mad at Lenovo's bullshit.

</comment><comment><USER10> [https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/](https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/)

Blog of a mathematician with interests in computation, geometry, open science.

</comment><comment><USER108> [https://www.bryanbraun.com](https://www.bryanbraun.com)

It's been running for 9 years now and I'm getting close to blog post number 400.

Looking forward to the next 400. :)

</comment><comment><USER109> [http://westby.io/](http://westby.io/)

I just have a few posts right now, mostly related to climbing. Hoping to update the site and write more this year.

</comment><comment><USER110> Recently finished updating my portfolio - would love to hear some feedback / feel free to get in touch for a chat :)

[http://tomyeoman.me](http://tomyeoman.me)

<comment><USER11> Hi, nullandvoid. I can't comment about the content on your page, but here's a few comments about the UI, which IMHO perturb the experience.

\- As you scroll down, and the gradients shift to yellow, white font based text gets difficult to read

\- (On Mobile) the black footer, and headers feel uncanny, and take up reading space. Maybe fixing the header to the top of the page is a better option? Since most people don't mind scrolling to the top to find the nav bar. Kudos for using both text and icons there btw. Regarding the footer, the left side (powered by ?) can go to the bottom of the page since it's not particularly relevant. Also consider making the icon clickable to whatever that thing is. The LinkedIn, GitHub and Stack overflow links could be in the contact section, where you've got linkedin anyway. Or maybe fixed at the top, right above projects section.

All of this is just my personal thoughts, feel free to ignore :)

<comment><USER110> Hi geraltofrivia - Appreciate the feedback!

I'm certainly aware of the mobile being more clumsy than I had wanted ( spent a lot of time on the desktop and then retrofitted the mobile view which i'm unhappy with :P ).

I will certainly add those points to my TODO list when i'm polishing it up over the next few weeks

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER111> [https://coderoncode.com](https://coderoncode.com)

Programming and technology, I'm currently working on rebuilding it and new content after a bit of a hiatus

</comment><comment><USER112> personal site [https://meagher.co](https://meagher.co)

blog [https://websgrain.com](https://websgrain.com)

</comment><comment><USER113> Here's mine [http://www.zuenok.com](http://www.zuenok.com) You can click anywhere to refresh. Not working w/o JS, sorry.

</comment><comment><USER114> [https://magardinesh.com.np/](https://magardinesh.com.np/) \- Just a simple personal site. I am a frontend developer.

</comment><comment><USER115> [http://puntofisso.net](http://puntofisso.net)

I'm pretty much a data/digital jack of all trades and the website probably shows it...

</comment><comment><USER116> [https://www.axfon.com](https://www.axfon.com) About Tech Tutorial I hope we change more knowledge to share with other people

</comment><comment><USER117> We probably should have weekly thread for this.

[http://www.ankshilp.in/blog](http://www.ankshilp.in/blog)

Ps: The blog is under heavy construction.

</comment><comment><USER118> Here's mine. I definitely don't frequently enough and leave too many drafts unfinished.

[https://blue42.net](https://blue42.net)

</comment><comment><USER119> [http://nithinmurali.github.io](http://nithinmurali.github.io) a bit on the heavy side and not updated for quite a while.

</comment><comment><USER120> My personal website for ASP.NET/C# developers [https://www.danylkoweb.com/](https://www.danylkoweb.com/)

</comment><comment><USER121> [https://crpwebdev.github.io](https://crpwebdev.github.io) I'm fullstack dev, writter, blogger and entrepreneur.

</comment><comment><USER122> [https://zocoi.com/](https://zocoi.com/)

Personal blog built with Jekyll, code on Github and hosted on Netlify (all are free)

<comment><USER3> Looks like the links for the posts are broken.

</comment></comment><comment><USER123> [https://c306.net](https://c306.net) Home page is a cluster of links to assortment of apps, blogs, profiles, et al.

</comment><comment><USER124> My blog - 100% bespoke PHP with no frameworks, etc: [https://www.jamieweb.net/](https://www.jamieweb.net/)

</comment><comment><USER125> I have gopher://zzo38computer.org/ although there are also files accessible by HTTP but not linked from the root of either the HTTP or Gopher.

</comment><comment><USER126> [https://polso.info](https://polso.info)

I mostly write about Drupal, PHP and Javascript. Planning on doing a redesign soon.

</comment><comment><USER127> [http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/](http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/)

Been blogging for over 15 years.

</comment><comment><USER128> Mostly my photos, with a small amount of techie stuff.

Published since 2002.

[https://allthepages.org/](https://allthepages.org/)

</comment><comment><USER129> Mine - [https://palerdot.in](https://palerdot.in)

Just a static site that I use as kind of showcase to my personal stuffs.

</comment><comment><USER130> WP photoblog demoing minimalistic front end (13 KB CSS + 10 KB JS) – [https://rado.bg](https://rado.bg)

</comment><comment><USER131> Just threw this together for my webcomic: [http://madeofmistake.com](http://madeofmistake.com)

</comment><comment><USER132> A few posts, but hey it's mine.

[https://www.williamghelfi.com/](https://www.williamghelfi.com/)

</comment><comment><USER133> Very little content, but sure: [https://www.timboswell.co.uk](https://www.timboswell.co.uk)

</comment><comment><USER134> Infrequently blog, never really advertised it anywhere.

[https://andrewpillar.com](https://andrewpillar.com)

</comment><comment><USER135> [https://fatcatdog.github.io](https://fatcatdog.github.io)

Personal site: Create react app hosted on Github

</comment><comment><USER136> [http://www.gauravsarin.com/](http://www.gauravsarin.com/) Personal website

</comment><comment><USER137> [https://cloudnetworking.io](https://cloudnetworking.io) :)

I write about cloud networking in general.

</comment><comment><USER138> [http://thegrumpysage.me](http://thegrumpysage.me)

Philosophical poetry and stuff. Not very regular.

</comment><comment><USER139> [http://www.sheunlawani.com](http://www.sheunlawani.com) -> Personal Blog

</comment><comment><USER140> [https://adambowl.es/](https://adambowl.es/)

I like seeing a few domain hacks here!

</comment><comment><USER141> recently started blogging: [https://taimur.me](https://taimur.me)

trying to publish something once a week, either there, or for bigger researched pieces, on Medium ([https://medium.com/@taimurabdaal](https://medium.com/@taimurabdaal))

</comment><comment><USER142> [https://ontoblogie.clabaut.net](https://ontoblogie.clabaut.net)

</comment><comment><USER143> [https://cubitoo.com](https://cubitoo.com)

My personal website, portfolio and blog

</comment><comment><USER144> [https://primozker.in](https://primozker.in)

I have one post per year, but anyways.

</comment><comment><USER145> Here's mine [https://raybesiga.com](https://raybesiga.com)

</comment><comment><USER146> [http://jeremydye.fyi/](http://jeremydye.fyi/)

Tried to keep it simple.

</comment><comment><USER147> [https://www.upbeat.it](https://www.upbeat.it)

Adventures in making software.

</comment><comment><USER148> [https://www.sadiqevani.com](https://www.sadiqevani.com)

</comment><comment><USER149> [https://kusha.me](https://kusha.me)

Blog, Portfolio, Resume, Contact

</comment><comment><USER150> [http://giacomoballi.com](http://giacomoballi.com)

</comment><comment><USER151> [https://devbrett.com](https://devbrett.com)

</comment><comment><USER152> [http://illegalcode.com](http://illegalcode.com)

Just for fun

</comment><comment><USER153> [https://rameshl.com](https://rameshl.com)

</comment><comment><USER154> [https://gus.host](https://gus.host)

Simple and effective :)

</comment><comment><USER155> Https://artres.xyz where I write and blog about art tutorials!</comment>


Ask HN: What advice would you give for "breaking into" top-tier companies? - <AUTHOR> I'm a full stack web developer, graduated a little over 7 years ago but really only 5 years into my career, where for personal reasons that no longer apply I was restricted to opportunities in a small city. In other words, working at small custom web development shops - using modern frameworks but nothing that scaled beyond a single server.
I've reached out to the few people in my network working at the types of companies I'd like to get into, but the response has always boiled down to "we don't think you have the relevant experience." And when I don't have an inside connection, silence.
So, figuring I don't have the strongest resume, what are my options with the highest chances of improving my career trajectory?
Do I work on brushing up my algorithms and data structures knowledge in a lower-level language (and blog about it)? Or do I spend time on MOOCs (and blog)? Or build a ridiculously over-engineered side project with distributed micro-services just to prove I can do it (and blog)? Or maybe the above and simultaneously pack my bags and move to a more opportunities-rich location, networking on the ground? Or try to get into something like the Recurse Center or the Bradfield School and hope to piggy back on their networks? Something else entirely?
Have you been in a similar situation? What did you do? Thanks! <comment><USER2> If you're targeting companies like google, facebook, etc. They're looking for excellent algorithm solvers. Ideally, people who can right a complex function on a whiteboard in a very short amount of time (under 15 minutes).

That's it.

Your past experiences don't really matter. My best advise is for you to memorize as many algorithm problems as you can and to make your Resume look like you'd be someone who could easily crack a "technical" interview. They usually look if you've already worked for one of these companies in the past, if you've graduated from a prestigious institution, with an excellent GPA, if you've won a hackathon and things like that. Forget about buzz words, technologies, prior projects and open source stuff. We all do that by default. Unless you're someone like Guido van Rossum, they don't really care.

<comment><USER3> That's been the experience for me. I have built a portfolio of side projects less related to my job, and have been through the interview process with Amazon. And I've mainly worked for small web shops who build websites for local businesses that don't care about scaling massively.

You really have to be on top of the algorithms knowledge. First time I was tested on HackerRank where the problems were usually a twist on familiar puzzles.

The only big gripe I have is that if you don't pass the interview the company will probably have a required "cooldown period" lasting a few months before you can apply again. This is frustrating when the solution to a problem you failed hits you in the face a couple days later, but you gotta wait several months before you can have a go at interviewing again.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Get the relevant experience via working on open-source stuff.

That doesn't mean a ridiculously over-engineered side project with distributed micro-services, BTW. Most of the top-tier companies don't actually fall for the bullshit that makes up most of the tech industry hype cycle.

It could mean investigating an interesting data-science problem with publicly- available data, building a model with some predictive validity, and publishing your findings & code via blog & GitHub. Or it could mean building a side- project for some local organization of importance to you, but really going the extra mile on user-experience so it's not just a CRUD screen, and you collect data in unobtrusive ways that don't bother the user. Or it could mean working on a hobby programming language and delivering a working compiler.

</comment><comment><USER5> >> Do I work on brushing up my algorithms and data structures knowledge in a lower-level language?

Yes sir but not in lower-level language. You can refer C/C++ solutions here [http://www.techiedelight.com/list-of- problems/](http://www.techiedelight.com/list-of-problems/)

</comment><comment><USER6> I don't code, but I was a homemaker for a lot of years. My first full time paid job was at a Fortune 500 company. I was 41 years old and it paid better than minimum wage.

I didn't plan that. I was trying to get a different job when a relative suggested I apply. But I knew people at the job who had spent years trying to get good enough to qualify.

Get a copy of "What color is my parachute?" and read up on the section concerning _informational interviews._ See if you can get a few information interviews. The point is a fact finding mission to get some idea of what it really takes to get into the company in comparison to where you currently are.

Do some googling online and start a folder to compile information on your target companies. Try to get some insight into what they are looking for.

Try to find out what the application and interview process is like. Big companies tend to have very formal processes. Insider connections will generally be less useful to you than in small shops like you have been working at.

I would do some basic legwork before asking further questions of this sort. I got a job at a big company and I can't really tell you how to make that happen. I had several years college and I had the math and language skills they wanted. I ended up qualifying for two positions and picking which one I wanted, this after more than a year of getting nowhere in my job search while going through a divorce. But there are people who are talented at job hunting (my sister is one such person) and my impression is they do a lot of research before applying.

Best.

</comment><comment><USER7> I've been thinking about posting something similar, but your experiences match mine, so I'll wade in with my experiences too.

I too am a developer with 7 years of experience, probably a bit more if I count freelancing during university. I studied at a not-so-great university in the UK where I studied Computer Science, and most of my experience is either in a non-tech startup or digital agencies. In terms of agency strength I currently lead projects for a big UK agency in a satellite office. I'd say I'm a decent developer. Not the greatest in the world, but typically one of the better developers in most places I've worked. I've also got some open-source work behind me, and some user group talks, although primarily to do with content management systems.

Over the past decade I've applied to Google and Microsoft a couple of times, and every time I've been quickly rejected by email. Whether it's for a college internship, grad scheme, as a recent graduate, or after a few years of experience, I've received a rejection email after a week of applying. I've had recruiters from Amazon and Microsoft contact me on LinkedIn in the past, and after sending over my CV I've heard nothing back.

My thoughts match yours, in that I think it's because I don't have the "right" experience. It's probably a mixture of me being a .NET developer (and the stigma that comes with working on Windows), and primarily working with Content Management Systems. It's been a negative at jobs I've applied to in the past, so I can only guess that it's the same for the larger companies. I have a CS degree, and a public repo full of C# implementations of various data structures and algorithms, so I doubt it's to do with a lack of knowledge. Outside of me being put on some kind of top four blacklist, I can only guess it's because neither company wants to hire a .NET dev.

Apologies if my reply isn't that helpful, but I thought I'd wade in as someone with a CS degree who feels that they are in the same position as you.

<comment> UK-AL I wouldn't imagine .NET experience would be a negative at Microsoft. In fact .NET seems to main language used by a lot of large companies UK.

In fact some biggest e-commerce sites and well funded startups(JustEat, Purplebricks) in the UK use .NET.

These sorts of companies tend use things like DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing which a lot of developers at "local" companies don't really use.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Networking, networking, networking.

And I mean the social kind.

Regardless of experience, resume, whatever.. Networking is everyones number one way of getting a "foot in the door". Honestly, if I were you, any time you think you should spend polishing up your resume / brushing up on data structures whatever; you should instead spend your time getting out there and networking.

Ask people to refer you to other people. Meet people for friendly coffee, and don't even bring up that you're looking for work the first coffee. Start commenting on popular blogs, insightful articles on LinkedIn, etc.

</comment><comment><USER9> Just don't expect them to be as good as they look from the outside. Smart people do dumb things, and good businesses can be run on top of a pile of absolute garbage, technologically speaking. PR people can work wonders. Et cetera.

</comment><comment><USER10> MONSTER POST WARNING!!!

I'm a full stacker too, so I sort of know what you're going through.

\---

> but the response has always boiled down to "we don't think you have the > relevant experience"

This has been my experience but as a guy one year out of school. And I live in the Seattle area, so you would think that I should have ample opportunities.

In my extremely limited experience, "relevant experience" can literally mean anything in this context. It might be true that they were looking for other technical knowledge. It could also mean that they were looking for another trait and wanted to let you down on a more neutral note. Basically, it's an HR term meant to avoid opening a can of worms on both sides.

\---

>figuring I don't have the strongest resume

You have five years of full stack work. That's an incredibly strong background.

What languages did you write in? Platforms/programs/operating systems? What software patterns did you use?

Since you worked on a very broad area of software development, your resume is fine as long as you fine tune it a bit more to emphasize your knowledge on certain languages and frameworks, as well as the fact that you should have a good idea on how a software project evolves over time.

\---

> Do I work on brushing up my algorithms and data structures knowledge in a > lower-level language (and blog about it)?

You could try that. But that still doesn't guarantee that you'll get an interview. You could literally do this for a full year and still not get a code screen because someone will ask you "why did you _only_ study this stuff for a year? where are your projects/work experience/meetup talks/OSS contributions/the holy grail/etc etc etc?!!!"

\---

> Or do I spend time on MOOCs (and blog)?

Since you say you've graduated, I'm assuming you have a formal college degree. A MOOC would be a waste of cash at this point. You have the experience and education already. You don't need another diploma just to satisfy some HR drone.

\---

> Or build a ridiculously over-engineered side project with distributed micro- > services just to prove I can do it (and blog)?

Again, this is something that _might_ get you in the door. It might not. Either way, I wouldn't recommend trying to write anything too specific. As the old saying goes, don't put all of your eggs in one basket.

And, once again, even if you're successful in building it, whoever replies to your application could still give you the "we don't think you have the relevant experience" jargon for literally any reason they feel like.

\---

> move to a more opportunities-rich location, networking on the ground?

Only move once you have another job lined up. All those stories we hear of people moving for work reek of Survival Bias. We don't know how much they saved prior, if they had family/friends in the new location that could help them out, if they borrowed money, if they had their parents pay for it, etc. Moving anywhere is a huge time and money cost, so only do it if you have the cash and resources to do it. Reliable housing comes first, networking second.

But, then again, I do not know where you live.

\---

> TL;DR

Basically, my big points are

1\. Don't do a MOOC if you already have any sort of professional programming experience (especially full stack). You already have the tools and knowledge necessary to learn almost anything related to modern programming on your own.

2\. Don't move just to network. Networking won't necessarily get you a job, let alone an interview.

3\. Don't read too far into those "I did it, so can you" articles. They're full of Survival Bias.

4\. Companies can reject your application for any reason they feel like and get away with it by telling you something purposefully broad like "we don't think you have the relevant experience". It's total BS, but it's next to impossible to challenge it from outside the company.

5\. It might be time to consider starting something new if it doesn't already exist in your town. If you know 3-5 people that have good business skills, you might want to consider talking to them.

6\. There are a lot of over achievers in tech right now. Looking at them as you are right now can lead to phycological problems. You might want to consider talking to your doctor and/or a psychologist.

\---

If you have any further questions or just want to talk/vent, feel free to give me a buzz at email@example.com.</comment>


Ask HN: How to handle Payroll for remote "employees" payroll outside the U.S.? - <AUTHOR> <comment><USER2> I work as a remote employee for a us based startup out of India. I raise and invoice every month corresponding to the salary account.

For all legal purposes, I'm a consultant to the company.

</comment><comment><USER3> every time I've looked at remote (out of country) work, it was always as a contractor/consultant. Never as a true employee. That way the company pays an invoice, the contractor handles all their own taxes.

Treating your "foreign" remote workforce as employees I imagine will land you in some tricky international waters much better suited for your accountant, tax attorney, and your general business lawyer.

</comment><comment><USER4> All of my remote contractors invoice me weekly. We just use a shared google spreadsheet that track times on one tab and sums it on another by week.

I actually handle payments via xoom.com -- it is now owned by paypal. It takes a little work to setup a new payee, but once you have paid a person once, you can pay them again very easily.

</comment><comment><USER5> If they are US citizens then whichever way you would pay the non-remote probably. If they aren't, then they will tell you which is best for their situation/country according to what's available there and the lowest fees.

</comment><comment><USER6> Www.rippling.com</comment>


Give HN: 1x Free (as in beer) e-paper development kit (6" tablet included) - luka-birsa

Dear HNers!
We're giving away an e-paper development kit, which includes a WiFi enabled waterproof e-paper tablet and server software (usually priced at 239 EUR). You'll be able to develop your own e-paper application/solution in a matter of days using regular HTML, CSS and JS. See our web (http://www.visionect.com) for more information.
The device comes with no strings attached, we'll even cover the shipping expenses and throw in additional support if you need it.
Every poster in this thread that presents his idea of what he'd like to build or develop using our development kit in a comment will be put in a prize pool. You'll need to tag idea comments with #VISIONECTIDEA so it's easier for us to parse the thread. A computer will pick a random winner on Monday 9. of June at 16.00 CET. We'll ask you for contact/shipping information at that point.
There are a couple of ideas of what you can build on our blog (http://blog.visionect.com) to get your creative juices started.

  TL;DR;
  - Free e-paper development kit, includes a 6" waterproof tablet (239 EUR value)
  - Post an idea on what you'd develop with it, tag it with #VISIONECTIDEA
  - Random winning post will be picked on Monday 16.00 CET
 <comment><AUTHOR> #VISIONECTIDEA

I work at a web and we manage dozens of websites. I have had the idea for some months to create a display which would be on at all times to show the current latency and which servers are currently offline. Sometimes I'm on my phone or my phone is dead and we need to know these types of things before they even happen. With the format of the tablet, I could take it with me when I don't work in the office. Myu name is Simon and I come from Canada, you can contact me at this address : email@example.com

</comment><comment><USER2> #VISIONECTIDEA I'd like to build a personal status board that displays bus times, weather information, website analytics and github repository stats in a pretty way. contact at firstname.lastname@example.com

</comment><comment><USER3> #VISIONECTIDEA

I developed a Hospital bed booking system previously, but it did not work as it was tied to a pc (this was before the tablet). So I would like to pursue this idea with this dev kit.

</comment><comment><USER4> Here's my #VISIONECTIDEA Use the tablet as a voting machine. The user would enter a code which blindly identifies him/her to the tablet, then be presented with the voting options, etc.

</comment><comment><USER5> #VISIONECTIDEA I'd love to make some choose your own adventure books and of course a story/game design app to go with it so you can make your own!

</comment><comment><USER6> #VISIONECTIDEA

PushBullet endpoint/blink(1)-style notification center, using patterned shapes and text instead of colors.

<comment> luka-birsa @fprotthetarball - our python script drawed your number. You're the lucky winner of our giveaway.

Check your email (the one that's listed on HN).

</comment></comment><comment><USER7> #VISIONECTIDEA

I want to use the tablet to drive a home automation system built on a Spark Arduino module.

</comment><comment><USER8> Tagging replies, because reading is hard? This really just seems like spammy- self-promotion.

<comment> luka-birsa I was hoping there will be a discussion bellow ideas hence the tag, to distinguish between discussions and ideas.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> #VISIONECTIDEA

Text and geometry only remote admin tool for slow networks.

</comment><comment><USER9> Btw, any chance you come up with 11"\+ screens?

<comment> luka-birsa Not as the default DIY kit, but there are other sizes we can support with the same electronics (basically all screens from E Ink and Plastic Logic). Also keep in mind that sizes other than 6" and 9.7" aren't mass produced, which means higher prices - there's a reason why Sony is selling their 13" PDF reader for 1k EUR.

</comment></comment><comment><USER10> #VISIONECTIDEA

I'm interested in testing the usefulness and new applications this technology can bring to the e-signage industry. Mobile advertisements, dynamically updated pricing in stores, etc.</comment>


I really dont like spark, and scala sucks too - <AUTHOR> i do ml/dl at a mid sized company and spark is terrible for this other features seem good and other engs are content any suggestions? yes im talking about databrricks btw <comment><USER2> Tips to get good answers:

\- Add 'Ask HN' to the submission title. The submission will show up in [https://news.ycombinator.com/ask](https://news.ycombinator.com/ask)

\- Describe the issue in more detail. "is terrible [for ml/dl]" isn't enough.

\- Punctuation, capitalizing words, avoid abbreviations. The message seems to be typed on a mobile phone in a hurry. HN has no 140 character limit and I presume you're not looking for short one sentence answers.

\- Proper submission title.

<comment><AUTHOR> i improved it from my last submission but will incorporte thank you</comment></comment>


NSA surveillance retrospective: AT&T, Verizon never denied it - <AUTHOR> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589012-38/nsa-surveillance-retrospective-at-t-verizon-never-denied-it/

<comment><USER2> AT&T and Verizon didn't have to deny it: what were their users going to do, switch to Quest?

Facebook, Google, etc stand to loose a lot if the allegations are true or are believed to be. If what is alleged is true, they have a massive financial motivation to lie and lie blatantly.

That doesn't mean they are lying, but the fact that AT&T and Verizon didn't lie doesn't tell us one way or the other.

<comment><AUTHOR> One thing I've seen on HN and elsewhere is the accusation, and I'm not saying you said this, that goes something like this: "Of course Larry and Mark are lying! They'd be required to lie because of <handwave> government secretsauce."

This naturally extremely well-written article demonstrates that AT&T and Verizon never actually lied. And that AT&T and Verizon acted in basically the opposite way that the Internet companies are today. So it casts doubt on the <handwave> forced-to-lie-secretsauce allegations.

An update to the story includes some more detail on AT&T's participation.

<comment><USER3> That <handwave government secretsauce> actually exists. National Security Letters come with a gag order. You are told not to tell anyone, not your spouse, not your lawyer, not anyone, and they last forever. Presumably, if someone asks if you've ever been served a NSL, you're supposed to lie and say "no."

One of the few that we know about is describe here, where a ISP provider broke the gag order to speak with his attorney, and the ACLU, and eventually the order was lifted.

[http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order- lifte...](http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifted)

There have been hundreds of thousands of NSLs issued since they were created.

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter)

<comment><USER4> 1\. "Presumably, if someone asks if you've ever been served a NSL, you're supposed to lie and say "no.""

This is an awful large presumption. You could simply say nothing, and not answer.

2\. the only courts to ever confront the NSL's compelled silence have ruled it unconstitutional.

There are zero courts that have ever okay'd this.

3\. The "not your lawyer" part is now explicitly wrong, as the law now states (and has since 2006), "shall disclose to any person (other than those to whom such disclosure is necessary to comply with the request or an attorney to obtain legal advice or legal assistance with respect to the request)".

4\. Judicial review of any NSL may now be had (again, since Mar 9, 2006), in a normal district court. See "18 USC § 3511 - Judicial review of requests for information"

There are plenty of reasons to generate large amounts of righteous indignation about NSL's, but it would be nice if you actually got the law right in the hyperbole.

<comment><USER3> Thanks for the correction, I'm glad to hear the law was modified. I went back to the story in Wired and I see they did make note of the change to the law.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Verizon's official response [0] effectively confirmed the allegations. I'm not sure why Verizon "never denying" it is noteworthy in light of their tacit admission:

 _You may have seen stories in the news about a top secret order Verizon allegedly received to produce certain calling information to the U.S. government._

 _We have no comment on the accuracy of The Guardian newspaper story or the documents referenced, but a few items in these stories are important. The alleged court order that The Guardian published on its website contains languages that:_

 _\- compels Verizon to respond;_

 _\- forbids Verizon from revealing the order 's existence; and_

 _\- excludes from production the "content of any communication . . . or the name, address, or financial information of a subscriber or customer."_

 _Verizon continually takes steps to safeguard its customers ' privacy. Nevertheless, the law authorizes the federal courts to order a company to provide information in certain circumstances, and if Verizon were to receive such an order, we would be required to comply._

[0]: [http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/from-the-desk- of-...](http://publicpolicy.verizon.com/blog/entry/from-the-desk-of-randy- milch)

<comment><AUTHOR> You're confusing Verizon's response in the last week with Verizon's response in 2006.

The article talks about the 2006-era responses from AT&T and Verizon. The one in the last week isn't especially interesting when you have the NSA director and multiple senators confirming the phone log collection exists.

<comment><USER5> Ah! So I am! Re-reading the article in that light makes much more sense.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> isn't this consistent with the conclusion that they're using "metadata" from ISPs to do network analysis and then, from the results of that, requesting targeted information from web companies? i thought that was the consensus take on all this? or am i just imagining a consensus? if so, is the above likely wrong?

[we know telecom companies cooperate (at&t, what happens to qwest when you don't). we know that the nsa is collecting metdata on everyone because they've had to redefine "collecting"[1]. we also know prism isn't rocket science because it's only $20m. and we know there's no "direct access" to servers because that was so carefully scripted in all the denials. hence network analysis of (all) calls, then targeted "legal" requests.

[1] [http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/22435723348/nsas-f...](http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130606/22435723348/nsas- favorite-weasel-word-to-pretend-its-claiming-it-doesnt-spy-americans.shtml)]

<comment><USER7> Every ISP in the world already has an infrastructure for collecting this kind of metadata (albeit using some degree of sampling); some ISPs even have provisions for sharing signatures generated from that metadata. So yeah, this sounds credible.

</comment></comment><comment><USER8> Watching old people stumble over so much jargon is rough. Not because it makes them sound ignorant, but because I know that it muddles the message for people who need to get it.

</comment><comment><USER9> I never denied pissing in CNET's coffee either.

<comment><AUTHOR> I thought it tasted funny.</comment></comment>