Saturday, 31 August 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?

on 8/31/2019 12:26:00 pm 0 Comment
Ask HN: What are problems that enterprising college students could solve?
4 by ups474773 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I'm looking for your help to brainstorm problems that need solutions. I'm in a program where we create teams and find challenges that the world or community around us is facing; however, many of us struggle to find realistic or 'not too broad' problems due to a lack of real-world experience. Based on your personal or anecdotal experience, what types of problems would you like to see a solution developed to? Are there places or websites to source ideas from? Thank you.

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Friday, 23 August 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?

on 8/23/2019 06:52:00 am 0 Comment
Ask HN: Why do maintainers optimize for small binaries?
4 by nikisweeting | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about GUI apps or websites, those are separate conversations (cough cough 350mb Electron apps and 10mb Webpack bundles). I'm talking specifically about CLI tools, webservers, and other tools distributed as static binaries or via package managers. What's the reasoning for so many package maintainers optimizing for <5mb binaries at the expense of usability? It seems like when >90% of hosts are running on 2008+ hardware with SSDs or even moderately fast HDDs, loading time and storage space are not major issues below the 30~50mb mark. A recent example from HN: https://ift.tt/2P8ddtC

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Sunday, 18 August 2019

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Hackable external wireless SSD storage?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Hackable external wireless SSD storage?

on 8/18/2019 07:26:00 am 0 Comment
Ask HN: Hackable external wireless SSD storage?
5 by kencausey | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I've been looking at the Western Digital My Passport SSD Wireless devices with the idea of setting this up for a client for local server backup. I already have the client setup for backup to remote storage (rsync.net) but for redundancy and speedier access in the case of an emergency I would like them to have access to a local backup. However, through prior experience, I've learned that if any effort is required then eventually good practice stops. So my thought is to have a small box that the user takes home (to avoid loss due to fire or other catastrophe at the office) and then at least once a week brings in to the office for the day and then takes home again. The 'box' would automatically connect to the local wireless network and would be able to use something like rsync and would have access to the server necessary to make a full backup hopefully before the user leaves for the day. I'm thinking SSD is a better choice than a spinning disk for reliability while being carried around regularly. A little research on the Western Digital wireless storage devices suggests linux is running underneath and that it is possible to enable SSH, login as root, and start hacking. I guess my question is has anyone here actually done that and can you provide any additional details? As far as I can tell this is not something that is officially supported by Western Digital. Alternatively is anyone aware of a similar device (mostly closed box, rechargable internal battery, wireless accessible) that either has internal SSD storage or into which an SD card can be installed that also has a *nix filesystem underneath? Access to a solid ZFS implementation would be a plus.

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