As you know, serious vulnerabilities are common in IoT, and it often takes too long for these to be patched on end-user devices\u2014if the manufacturer even bothers to release an update, and if the device was even designed to receive them. Companies may stop supporting a device well before consumers have stopped using it. The support period is often not communicated at the time of sale. And sometimes the end of support is not even announced, leaving even informed users unsure whether their devices are still safe.
I\u2019ve advocated for the FCC to require device manufacturers to support their devices with security updates for a reasonable amount of time [1]. I can't bring such a proposal to a vote since I\u2019m not the chairman of the agency. But I was able to convince my colleagues to tentatively support something a little more moderate addressing this problem.
The FCC recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [2] for a cybersecurity labeling program for connected devices. If they meet certain criteria for the security of their product, manufacturers can put an FCC cybersecurity label on it. I fought hard for one of these criteria to be the disclosure of how long the product will receive security updates. I hope that, besides arming consumers with better information, the commitments on this label (including the support period) will be legally enforceable in contract and tort lawsuits and under other laws. You can see my full statement here [3].
But it\u2019s too early to declare victory. Many manufacturers oppose making any commitments about security updates, even voluntary ones. These manufacturers are heavily engaged at the FCC and represented by sophisticated regulatory lawyers. The FCC and White House are not likely to take a strong stand if they only hear the device manufacturer's side of the story.
In short, they need to hear from you. You have experienced insecure protocols, exposed private keys, and other atrocious security. You have seen these problems persist despite ample warning. People ask, \u2018why aren\u2019t there rules about these things?\u2019 This is your chance to get on the record and tell us what you think the rules should be. If infosec doesn\u2019t make this an issue, the general public will continue falsely assuming that everything is fine. But if you get on the record and the government fails to act, the evidence of this failure will be all over the Internet forever.
If you want to influence the process, you have until September 25th, 2023 (midnight ET) to file comments in the rulemaking proceeding.[4] Filing is easy: go to https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/docket-detail/23-239 and click to file either an \u2018express\u2019 comment (type into a textbox) or a \u2018standard\u2019 comment (upload a PDF). Either way, the FCC is required to consider your arguments. All options are on the table, so don\u2019t hold back, but do make your arguments as clear as possible, so even lawyers can understand them. If you have a qualification (line of work, special degree, years of experience, etc.) that would bolster the credibility of your official comment, be sure to mention that, but the only necessary qualification is being an interested member of the public.
I\u2019m here to listen and learn. AMA. Feel free to ask any questions about this or related issues, and I\u2019ll answer as many as I can. I just ask that we try to stay on the topic of security. My legal advisor, Marco Peraza, a security-focused software engineer turned cybersecurity lawyer, will be answering questions too. \nI\u2019m open to incorporating your ideas (and even being convinced I\u2019m wrong), and I hope that my colleagues at the FCC are as well. Thank you!
Edit: The Q&A is over now, but please keep this great discussion going without us. Thanks again everyone for your input. Don't forget to file comments if you want to make sure your arguments get considered by the full FCC.
[1] https://www.fcc.gov/document/simington-calls-mandatory-secur...
[2] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labe...
[3] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labe...
[4] If your comments are purely in response to arguments made in other comments, you have an extra 15 days, until October 10, 2023."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: I\u2019m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates"}},"_tags":["story","author_SimingtonFCC","story_37392676","ask_hn"],"author":"SimingtonFCC","children":[37392900,37392910,37392928,37392934,37392942,37392952,37392956,37392969,37392974,37392985,37392997,37393008,37393033,37393035,37393057,37393087,37393097,37393125,37393126,37393130,37393151,37393161,37393165,37393166,37393175,37393193,37393228,37393230,37393243,37393252,37393268,37393292,37393297,37393298,37393300,37393317,37393328,37393350,37393457,37393459,37393491,37393517,37393537,37393538,37393547,37393551,37393619,37393684,37393707,37393715,37393780,37393829,37393884,37393915,37393944,37394000,37394052,37394080,37394111,37394116,37394124,37394142,37394144,37394146,37394154,37394198,37394221,37394223,37394329,37394346,37394359,37394484,37394497,37394502,37394546,37394561,37394582,37394589,37394598,37394599,37394608,37394627,37394645,37394662,37394692,37394731,37394763,37394863,37394892,37394893,37394924,37394982,37394992,37394994,37395071,37395082,37395125,37395148,37395177,37395201,37395273,37395274,37395281,37395332,37395355,37395376,37395452,37395489,37395522,37395676,37395714,37395718,37395736,37395756,37395763,37395768,37395867,37395873,37395919,37396007,37396009,37396054,37396080,37396097,37396098,37396205,37396224,37396237,37396350,37396376,37396391,37396444,37396492,37396493,37396509,37396546,37396583,37396603,37396611,37396634,37396707,37396772,37396872,37396877,37396943,37397001,37397014,37397062,37397096,37397118,37397131,37397162,37397173,37397190,37397191,37397242,37397295,37397322,37397380,37397514,37397736,37397744,37397759,37397788,37397794,37397829,37398057,37398064,37398130,37398219,37398232,37398342,37398416,37398502,37398624,37398765,37398827,37398905,37398971,37398984,37399010,37399609,37399651,37399688,37399797,37400381,37400528,37400701,37400734,37400889,37400909,37401091,37401233,37401342,37401387,37401400,37401419,37401483,37401493,37401603,37402121,37402297,37402336,37402445,37402528,37402543,37402606,37403352,37403748,37404113,37404198,37404210,37404485,37404670,37405245,37405382,37405549,37406694,37407065,37407500,37408145,37408390,37411321,37411981,37414708,37428457,37455913,37455928,37468243],"created_at":"2023-09-05T15:07:21Z","created_at_i":1693926441,"num_comments":925,"objectID":"37392676","points":3387,"story_id":37392676,"story_text":"Hi everyone, I\u2019m FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and I\u2019m here to discuss security updates for IoT devices and how you can make a difference by filing comments with the FCC.
As you know, serious vulnerabilities are common in IoT, and it often takes too long for these to be patched on end-user devices\u2014if the manufacturer even bothers to release an update, and if the device was even designed to receive them. Companies may stop supporting a device well before consumers have stopped using it. The support period is often not communicated at the time of sale. And sometimes the end of support is not even announced, leaving even informed users unsure whether their devices are still safe.
I\u2019ve advocated for the FCC to require device manufacturers to support their devices with security updates for a reasonable amount of time [1]. I can't bring such a proposal to a vote since I\u2019m not the chairman of the agency. But I was able to convince my colleagues to tentatively support something a little more moderate addressing this problem.
The FCC recently issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking [2] for a cybersecurity labeling program for connected devices. If they meet certain criteria for the security of their product, manufacturers can put an FCC cybersecurity label on it. I fought hard for one of these criteria to be the disclosure of how long the product will receive security updates. I hope that, besides arming consumers with better information, the commitments on this label (including the support period) will be legally enforceable in contract and tort lawsuits and under other laws. You can see my full statement here [3].
But it\u2019s too early to declare victory. Many manufacturers oppose making any commitments about security updates, even voluntary ones. These manufacturers are heavily engaged at the FCC and represented by sophisticated regulatory lawyers. The FCC and White House are not likely to take a strong stand if they only hear the device manufacturer's side of the story.
In short, they need to hear from you. You have experienced insecure protocols, exposed private keys, and other atrocious security. You have seen these problems persist despite ample warning. People ask, \u2018why aren\u2019t there rules about these things?\u2019 This is your chance to get on the record and tell us what you think the rules should be. If infosec doesn\u2019t make this an issue, the general public will continue falsely assuming that everything is fine. But if you get on the record and the government fails to act, the evidence of this failure will be all over the Internet forever.
If you want to influence the process, you have until September 25th, 2023 (midnight ET) to file comments in the rulemaking proceeding.[4] Filing is easy: go to https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/docket-detail/23-239 and click to file either an \u2018express\u2019 comment (type into a textbox) or a \u2018standard\u2019 comment (upload a PDF). Either way, the FCC is required to consider your arguments. All options are on the table, so don\u2019t hold back, but do make your arguments as clear as possible, so even lawyers can understand them. If you have a qualification (line of work, special degree, years of experience, etc.) that would bolster the credibility of your official comment, be sure to mention that, but the only necessary qualification is being an interested member of the public.
I\u2019m here to listen and learn. AMA. Feel free to ask any questions about this or related issues, and I\u2019ll answer as many as I can. I just ask that we try to stay on the topic of security. My legal advisor, Marco Peraza, a security-focused software engineer turned cybersecurity lawyer, will be answering questions too. \nI\u2019m open to incorporating your ideas (and even being convinced I\u2019m wrong), and I hope that my colleagues at the FCC are as well. Thank you!
Edit: The Q&A is over now, but please keep this great discussion going without us. Thanks again everyone for your input. Don't forget to file comments if you want to make sure your arguments get considered by the full FCC.
[1] https://www.fcc.gov/document/simington-calls-mandatory-secur...
[2] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labe...
[3] https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-cybersecurity-labe...
[4] If your comments are purely in response to arguments made in other comments, you have an extra 15 days, until October 10, 2023.","title":"Ask HN: I\u2019m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of IoT security updates","updated_at":"2026-05-08T02:12:31Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"zachrip"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now, just highlighting that I have experience on frontend apps as well as backend architecture). I've been working professionally for ~7 years building mostly javascript projects but also some PHP. Two years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called "Usher's Syndrome" - characterized by hearing loss, balance issues, and progressive vision loss.
I know there are blind software engineers out there. My main questions are:
- Are there blind frontend engineers?
- What kinds of software engineering lend themselves to someone with limited vision? Backend only?
- Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision?
- Does your company employ blind engineers? How well does it work? What kind of engineer are they?
I'm really trying to get ahead of this thing and prepare myself as my vision is degrading rather quickly. I'm not sure what I can do if I can't do SE as I don't have any formal education in anything. I've worked really hard to get to where I am and don't want it to go to waste.
Thank you for any input, and stay safe out there!
Edit:
Thank you all for your links, suggestions, and moral support, I really appreciate it. Since my diagnosis I've slowly developed a crippling anxiety centered around a feeling that I need to figure out the rest of my life before it's too late. I know I shouldn't think this way but it is hard not to. I'm very independent and I feel a pressure to "show up." I will look into these opportunities mentioned and try to get in touch with some more members of the blind engineering community."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?"}},"_tags":["story","author_zachrip","story_22918980","ask_hn"],"author":"zachrip","children":[22919021,22919079,22919129,22919134,22919135,22919157,22919161,22919162,22919165,22919174,22919177,22919180,22919182,22919203,22919206,22919207,22919226,22919230,22919231,22919236,22919258,22919267,22919269,22919290,22919291,22919302,22919303,22919317,22919326,22919332,22919337,22919343,22919345,22919347,22919350,22919351,22919372,22919377,22919389,22919397,22919437,22919455,22919478,22919483,22919539,22919542,22919549,22919550,22919561,22919562,22919571,22919574,22919597,22919614,22919620,22919643,22919645,22919653,22919689,22919691,22919693,22919718,22919730,22919766,22919776,22919778,22919832,22919855,22919863,22919932,22919943,22920016,22920035,22920037,22920042,22920047,22920111,22920112,22920119,22920183,22920217,22920353,22920360,22920466,22920498,22920508,22920587,22920622,22920624,22920763,22920770,22920874,22920887,22920922,22920926,22920993,22921001,22921002,22921022,22921055,22921136,22921149,22921154,22921189,22921209,22921382,22921499,22921801,22921835,22921844,22921994,22922097,22922136,22922175,22922177,22922188,22922192,22922215,22922226,22922315,22922321,22922371,22922449,22922459,22922559,22922609,22922691,22922760,22922900,22922933,22923137,22923153,22923391,22923547,22923729,22923762,22923801,22923813,22923827,22923936,22924065,22924266,22924303,22924334,22924434,22924509,22924561,22924625,22924868,22924980,22924986,22925104,22925218,22925220,22925726,22925981,22926053,22926219,22926283,22926343,22926441,22926448,22926457,22927024,22928615,22929106,22929214,22929221,22929460,22929581,22929958,22930298,22930516,22930970,22932440,22932963,22932973,22933076,22933466,22933552,22933716,22934337,22934451,22934547,22934889,22935059,22935320,22935971,22938294,22938314,22942267,22969175,23047541,23059554],"created_at":"2020-04-19T21:33:46Z","created_at_i":1587332026,"num_comments":473,"objectID":"22918980","points":3270,"story_id":22918980,"story_text":"I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now, just highlighting that I have experience on frontend apps as well as backend architecture). I've been working professionally for ~7 years building mostly javascript projects but also some PHP. Two years ago I was diagnosed with a condition called "Usher's Syndrome" - characterized by hearing loss, balance issues, and progressive vision loss.
I know there are blind software engineers out there. My main questions are:
- Are there blind frontend engineers?
- What kinds of software engineering lend themselves to someone with limited vision? Backend only?
- Besides a screen reader, what are some of the best tools for building software with limited vision?
- Does your company employ blind engineers? How well does it work? What kind of engineer are they?
I'm really trying to get ahead of this thing and prepare myself as my vision is degrading rather quickly. I'm not sure what I can do if I can't do SE as I don't have any formal education in anything. I've worked really hard to get to where I am and don't want it to go to waste.
Thank you for any input, and stay safe out there!
Edit:
Thank you all for your links, suggestions, and moral support, I really appreciate it. Since my diagnosis I've slowly developed a crippling anxiety centered around a feeling that I need to figure out the rest of my life before it's too late. I know I shouldn't think this way but it is hard not to. I'm very independent and I feel a pressure to "show up." I will look into these opportunities mentioned and try to get in touch with some more members of the blind engineering community.","title":"Ask HN: I'm a software engineer going blind, how should I prepare?","updated_at":"2026-09-11T04:06:10Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"genedangelo"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve the efficiency of order processing and fulfillment. Since then, all my jobs for the past 57 years have involved computer programming. I am now a data scientist developing cloud-based big data fraud detection algorithms using machine learning and other advanced analytical technologies. Along the way, I earned a Master\u2019s in Operations Research and a Master\u2019s in Management Science, studied artificial intelligence for 3 years in a Ph.D. program for engineering, and just two years ago I received Graduate Certificates in Big Data Analytics from the schools of business and computer science at a local university (FAU). In addition, I currently hold the designation of Certified Analytics Professional (CAP). At 74, I still have no plans to retire or to stop programming."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer \u2013 57 years and counting?"}},"_tags":["story","author_genedangelo","story_23366546","ask_hn"],"author":"genedangelo","children":[23366553,23366568,23366594,23366675,23366687,23366688,23366797,23366816,23366866,23366875,23366888,23366897,23366914,23366921,23366925,23366950,23366991,23367006,23367022,23367036,23367059,23367061,23367081,23367083,23367088,23367090,23367092,23367100,23367110,23367132,23367134,23367135,23367138,23367159,23367164,23367171,23367187,23367197,23367202,23367212,23367221,23367231,23367240,23367244,23367259,23367276,23367288,23367299,23367305,23367311,23367316,23367337,23367348,23367359,23367361,23367386,23367411,23367418,23367426,23367436,23367474,23367487,23367516,23367522,23367612,23367635,23367657,23367675,23367745,23367752,23367757,23367770,23367798,23367899,23367906,23367909,23367997,23368055,23368071,23368096,23368099,23368149,23368154,23368251,23368257,23368335,23368357,23368456,23368464,23368475,23368488,23368500,23368515,23368630,23368666,23368708,23368751,23368763,23368813,23368842,23368941,23369089,23369122,23369127,23369157,23369223,23369250,23369269,23369432,23369435,23369468,23369484,23369648,23369656,23369702,23369807,23369861,23369866,23370082,23370336,23370391,23370493,23370557,23370569,23370626,23370667,23370684,23370865,23370876,23371252,23371466,23371467,23372875,23373105,23373955,23374417,23374756,23374970,23375270,23375643,23375658,23375670,23375752,23376072,23376462,23376573,23377762,23377927,23378057,23378073,23378183,23378184,23378260,23378791,23379627,23379666,23379750,23379894,23380324,23388553,23432087,23446148,23468259],"created_at":"2020-05-31T01:53:44Z","created_at_i":1590890024,"num_comments":531,"objectID":"23366546","points":2634,"story_id":23366546,"story_text":"In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve the efficiency of order processing and fulfillment. Since then, all my jobs for the past 57 years have involved computer programming. I am now a data scientist developing cloud-based big data fraud detection algorithms using machine learning and other advanced analytical technologies. Along the way, I earned a Master\u2019s in Operations Research and a Master\u2019s in Management Science, studied artificial intelligence for 3 years in a Ph.D. program for engineering, and just two years ago I received Graduate Certificates in Big Data Analytics from the schools of business and computer science at a local university (FAU). In addition, I currently hold the designation of Certified Analytics Professional (CAP). At 74, I still have no plans to retire or to stop programming.","title":"Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer \u2013 57 years and counting?","updated_at":"2026-09-10T06:15:52Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"iamdeedubs"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I'm getting
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HN has had many discussions about this, including The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44180533 - (927 comments) a few days ago. Other threads are listed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44203869.
There's currently a major effort to get this change reversed. One of the people working on it is YC's Luther Lowe (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther). Luther has been organizing YC alumni to urge lawmakers to support this reversal. I asked him if we could do that on Hacker News too. He said yes\u2014hence this thread :)
If you're a US taxpayer and if you agree that software dev expenses should be deductible like they used to be, please sign this letter to the relevant committee members: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZ....
(If you're not a US person, please don't sign the letter, since lawmakers will only listen to feedback from taxpayers and we don't want to dilute the signal.)
I'm sure not everyone here agrees with us\u2014HN is a big community, there's no total agreement on anything\u2014but this issue has as close to a community consensus as HN gets, so I think it makes sense to add our voices too.
Luther will be around to answer questions and hopefully HN can contribute to getting this done!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"}},"_tags":["story","author_dang","story_44226145","ask_hn"],"author":"dang","children":[44226284,44226285,44226293,44226294,44226300,44226309,44226340,44226352,44226356,44226383,44226408,44226433,44226437,44226458,44226467,44226474,44226496,44226503,44226571,44226574,44226583,44226604,44226625,44226652,44226663,44226667,44226678,44226680,44226755,44226773,44226797,44226808,44226816,44226940,44227026,44227044,44227073,44227126,44227134,44227187,44227196,44227244,44227430,44227496,44227530,44227572,44227606,44227699,44227780,44227788,44227864,44227901,44228041,44228054,44228084,44228085,44228107,44228273,44228276,44228319,44228414,44228614,44228741,44228813,44228850,44228890,44229037,44229124,44229201,44229258,44229362,44229405,44229460,44229609,44229621,44229726,44229748,44229785,44229935,44229971,44230047,44230065,44230081,44230388,44230466,44230607,44230913,44230934,44230969,44230998,44231217,44231494,44231537,44231577,44231628,44231731,44231803,44231881,44231958,44232079,44232125,44232219,44232346,44232446,44232605,44232946,44233021,44233565,44233593,44233720,44233796,44234197,44234393,44234536,44234551,44234767,44235211,44235358,44235383,44235522,44235785,44235899,44235964,44236236,44237221,44237348,44237708,44238290,44238384,44238488,44238676,44238923,44238929,44239363,44239542,44239798,44248046,44250467,44262985,44270503,44273616,44325662],"created_at":"2025-06-09T16:28:51Z","created_at_i":1749486531,"num_comments":907,"objectID":"44226145","points":2439,"story_id":44226145,"story_text":"Companies building software in the US were hit hard a few years ago when the tax code stopped allowing deduction of software dev expenses. Now they have to be amortized over several years.
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There's currently a major effort to get this change reversed. One of the people working on it is YC's Luther Lowe (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=itsluther). Luther has been organizing YC alumni to urge lawmakers to support this reversal. I asked him if we could do that on Hacker News too. He said yes\u2014hence this thread :)
If you're a US taxpayer and if you agree that software dev expenses should be deductible like they used to be, please sign this letter to the relevant committee members: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DkRGeef2e_tU2xf3TyEyd2JLlmZ....
(If you're not a US person, please don't sign the letter, since lawmakers will only listen to feedback from taxpayers and we don't want to dilute the signal.)
I'm sure not everyone here agrees with us\u2014HN is a big community, there's no total agreement on anything\u2014but this issue has as close to a community consensus as HN gets, so I think it makes sense to add our voices too.
Luther will be around to answer questions and hopefully HN can contribute to getting this done!","title":"Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)","updated_at":"2026-07-20T19:35:40Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"atum47"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I remember like it was yesterday: I applied to a job overseas through a job platform and didn't get hired. People from the platform contacted me telling me one of the possible reasons was that I didn't have any code on GitHub. After that I started uploading all my code as open source projects and began to search places to tell people about it.
Soon I learned about Hackernews and made a post that got 1 vote. I then decided to contact HN to ask how can I get more traction to my projects and they told me about the Show HN, a tag design to share small and even unfinished projects. Soon I was posting every idea I ever had made into a project. After InvaderZ - a space invaders clone that uses genetic algorithm (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577659) - people started liking my projects and I started to gain some attention. That was very important cause I was being approached by some companies.
I don't do projects to gather attention, I do cause I have fun doing them. I already had a lot of things done when I decided to upload them to GitHub. Well, in one of those times when my post was in top 10, a cool company from S\u00e3o Paulo saw me and called me for an interview. They liked my project so much they offer me a job.
I'm living in S\u00e3o Paulo now, it's a huge city full of things to do and places to visit. It's been really cool so far and I have a huge appreciation for Hackernews and the good people that work here. They provide a cool platform where people can share relevant news. They provide tools for people to start their own startup. They share job openings. They share companies that are hiring. It's a neat place for programmers, hackers and tech enthusiasts in general. I wrote this cause you never know when your story will inspire others and maybe there's someone on the struggle right now looking for a job. This was my experience. HN help me a lot and I think it might help you too. Thank you all and have a wonderful year."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Thank HN: You helped me get a new job"}},"_tags":["story","author_atum47","story_22050802","ask_hn"],"author":"atum47","children":[22050883,22050901,22050948,22050976,22050980,22051009,22051031,22051094,22051145,22051159,22051185,22051212,22051230,22051277,22051291,22051301,22051310,22051321,22051342,22051354,22051356,22051358,22051359,22051448,22051455,22051482,22051494,22051536,22051550,22051553,22051588,22051598,22051615,22051675,22051679,22051749,22051814,22051831,22051845,22051871,22051896,22051955,22051986,22051997,22052190,22052203,22052236,22052291,22052332,22052436,22052441,22052518,22052571,22052600,22052667,22052707,22052712,22052830,22053007,22053012,22053038,22053097,22053148,22053183,22053277,22053305,22053351,22053417,22053457,22053517,22053774,22053997,22054069,22054361,22054620,22054693,22054729,22054766,22055148,22055206,22055207,22056045,22056329,22056768,22057680,22057791,22057814,22057975,22058515,22059680,22061501,22061640,22062274,22062829,22062903,22063470,22063664,22064825,22065913,22072491,22074311,22108359,22143341],"created_at":"2020-01-15T00:51:29Z","created_at_i":1579049489,"num_comments":193,"objectID":"22050802","points":2425,"story_id":22050802,"story_text":"I remember like it was yesterday: I applied to a job overseas through a job platform and didn't get hired. People from the platform contacted me telling me one of the possible reasons was that I didn't have any code on GitHub. After that I started uploading all my code as open source projects and began to search places to tell people about it.
Soon I learned about Hackernews and made a post that got 1 vote. I then decided to contact HN to ask how can I get more traction to my projects and they told me about the Show HN, a tag design to share small and even unfinished projects. Soon I was posting every idea I ever had made into a project. After InvaderZ - a space invaders clone that uses genetic algorithm (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21577659) - people started liking my projects and I started to gain some attention. That was very important cause I was being approached by some companies.
I don't do projects to gather attention, I do cause I have fun doing them. I already had a lot of things done when I decided to upload them to GitHub. Well, in one of those times when my post was in top 10, a cool company from S\u00e3o Paulo saw me and called me for an interview. They liked my project so much they offer me a job.
I'm living in S\u00e3o Paulo now, it's a huge city full of things to do and places to visit. It's been really cool so far and I have a huge appreciation for Hackernews and the good people that work here. They provide a cool platform where people can share relevant news. They provide tools for people to start their own startup. They share job openings. They share companies that are hiring. It's a neat place for programmers, hackers and tech enthusiasts in general. I wrote this cause you never know when your story will inspire others and maybe there's someone on the struggle right now looking for a job. This was my experience. HN help me a lot and I think it might help you too. Thank you all and have a wonderful year.","title":"Thank HN: You helped me get a new job","updated_at":"2026-05-02T22:48:14Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dang"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Today we'd like to introduce five features and one moderator.
1. You can collapse comments in threads. If you're logged in, collapses persist across page refreshes and devices for a week.
2. You can tell which way you voted and undo a vote if you want. An 'unvote' or 'undown' link appears after a post's timestamp when you vote.
3. Save and share the best stories and comments. Click on a post's timestamp to go to its page, then click 'favorite' at the top. Your favorites are linked from your profile, and you can browse other users' from theirs.
4. On the front page and /newest, click 'hide' if you no longer want to see a story. The next story in the list will slide up at the bottom. If you change your mind, visit /hidden and click 'unhide'. If you're logged in, hidden stories persist for a week.
5. Find out which stories were the most popular on HN on a given day by visiting /front?day=yyyy-mm-dd. You'll see all the front page stories for that day, sorted by how much time they spent there. For example, Alan Kay's AMA had the most front page time on June 20: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-06-20.
Finally, I'm pleased to introduce sctb, a.k.a. Scott Bell, as a Hacker News moderator. Scott has been moderating HN incognito for a long time, but starting today he and I will be sharing the public part of the job. Since Scott is familiar with all aspects of HN moderation, you shouldn't notice any changes in practice; this is just an internal refactoring to enable such innovations as vacations and a day off. Scott is my cofounder from Skysheet (YC W09), an excellent programmer with a meticulous eye for detail, and a thoroughly decent human being. Please welcome him and be nice!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: New features and a moderator"}},"_tags":["story","author_dang","story_12073675","ask_hn"],"author":"dang","children":[12073691,12073692,12073693,12073695,12073697,12073701,12073703,12073706,12073709,12073711,12073712,12073719,12073720,12073725,12073727,12073728,12073731,12073734,12073735,12073737,12073741,12073743,12073744,12073747,12073749,12073750,12073754,12073757,12073759,12073770,12073777,12073778,12073781,12073785,12073786,12073789,12073791,12073796,12073802,12073805,12073808,12073818,12073822,12073828,12073830,12073832,12073833,12073840,12073843,12073844,12073858,12073873,12073878,12073880,12073887,12073894,12073897,12073900,12073904,12073909,12073915,12073930,12073931,12073936,12073957,12073985,12074017,12074051,12074056,12074060,12074067,12074074,12074081,12074094,12074109,12074125,12074152,12074159,12074163,12074254,12074273,12074274,12074306,12074336,12074383,12074394,12074407,12074412,12074416,12074419,12074441,12074487,12074517,12074561,12074562,12074582,12074589,12074621,12074636,12074637,12074638,12074658,12074662,12074682,12074736,12074771,12074782,12074801,12074802,12074813,12074877,12074888,12074945,12074977,12074993,12075059,12075063,12075071,12075154,12075161,12075245,12075246,12075257,12075272,12075277,12075280,12075289,12075355,12075381,12075386,12075392,12075399,12075455,12075510,12075521,12075534,12075547,12075590,12075633,12075645,12075655,12075670,12075682,12075785,12075849,12075868,12075882,12075951,12076006,12076019,12076022,12076046,12076053,12076056,12076114,12076172,12076182,12076255,12076361,12076417,12076513,12077128,12077130,12077421,12077541,12077557,12077908,12077947,12078130,12078181,12078378,12078384,12079992,12081685,12082273,12083417,12083921,12088446,12091730],"created_at":"2016-07-11T19:34:57Z","created_at_i":1468265697,"num_comments":451,"objectID":"12073675","points":2381,"story_id":12073675,"story_text":"Today we'd like to introduce five features and one moderator.
1. You can collapse comments in threads. If you're logged in, collapses persist across page refreshes and devices for a week.
2. You can tell which way you voted and undo a vote if you want. An 'unvote' or 'undown' link appears after a post's timestamp when you vote.
3. Save and share the best stories and comments. Click on a post's timestamp to go to its page, then click 'favorite' at the top. Your favorites are linked from your profile, and you can browse other users' from theirs.
4. On the front page and /newest, click 'hide' if you no longer want to see a story. The next story in the list will slide up at the bottom. If you change your mind, visit /hidden and click 'unhide'. If you're logged in, hidden stories persist for a week.
5. Find out which stories were the most popular on HN on a given day by visiting /front?day=yyyy-mm-dd. You'll see all the front page stories for that day, sorted by how much time they spent there. For example, Alan Kay's AMA had the most front page time on June 20: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-06-20.
Finally, I'm pleased to introduce sctb, a.k.a. Scott Bell, as a Hacker News moderator. Scott has been moderating HN incognito for a long time, but starting today he and I will be sharing the public part of the job. Since Scott is familiar with all aspects of HN moderation, you shouldn't notice any changes in practice; this is just an internal refactoring to enable such innovations as vacations and a day off. Scott is my cofounder from Skysheet (YC W09), an excellent programmer with a meticulous eye for detail, and a thoroughly decent human being. Please welcome him and be nice!","title":"Tell HN: New features and a moderator","updated_at":"2026-08-19T10:52:38Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"sinak"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Since it\u2019s Thanksgiving here in the US, I thought it would be nice to say a big thank you to dang for his tireless work moderating HN.
Thank you dang. You keep this community vibrant and interesting, yet civil."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: Thank You Dang"}},"_tags":["story","author_sinak","story_25225775","ask_hn"],"author":"sinak","children":[25225861,25225864,25225868,25225869,25225871,25225872,25225875,25225877,25225878,25225879,25225880,25225882,25225883,25225886,25225887,25225888,25225890,25225892,25225896,25225898,25225906,25225907,25225917,25225918,25225923,25225924,25225925,25225929,25225930,25225932,25225935,25225937,25225940,25225946,25225952,25225953,25225956,25225960,25225965,25225968,25225969,25225977,25225979,25225980,25225981,25225982,25225986,25225989,25225990,25225994,25225997,25225998,25226011,25226012,25226014,25226015,25226016,25226019,25226024,25226025,25226027,25226028,25226036,25226037,25226045,25226046,25226049,25226050,25226051,25226060,25226064,25226070,25226075,25226084,25226086,25226087,25226089,25226090,25226092,25226094,25226098,25226103,25226107,25226110,25226115,25226122,25226128,25226133,25226145,25226150,25226169,25226178,25226186,25226189,25226196,25226217,25226218,25226310,25226358,25226485,25226509,25226528,25226537,25226599,25226637,25226641,25226679,25226750,25226756,25226787,25226790,25226846,25226861,25226865,25227005,25227036,25227044,25227175,25227179,25227294,25227430,25227611,25227698,25227770,25227906,25228267,25228475,25228487,25228677,25228825,25228870,25229004,25229008,25229069,25229118,25229283,25229383,25229412,25229506,25229523,25229537,25229576,25229854,25229879,25230082,25230180,25230461,25231003,25232150,25232664,25232694,25233592,25233630,25233918,25234396,25234496,25234558,25234654,25236070,25238528,25239774,25241295,25250258,25254576,25330469],"created_at":"2020-11-27T05:35:27Z","created_at_i":1606455327,"num_comments":249,"objectID":"25225775","points":2363,"story_id":25225775,"story_text":"Since it\u2019s Thanksgiving here in the US, I thought it would be nice to say a big thank you to dang for his tireless work moderating HN.
Thank you dang. You keep this community vibrant and interesting, yet civil.","title":"Tell HN: Thank You Dang","updated_at":"2026-09-24T14:52:23Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"abluecloud"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"various services are broken
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- gmail returning 502
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status page now reflecting outage: https://www.google.com/appsstatus
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services look to be restored."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Google outage \u2013 resolved"}},"_tags":["story","author_abluecloud","story_25415989","ask_hn"],"author":"abluecloud","children":[25416000,25416009,25416013,25416016,25416024,25416026,25416031,25416032,25416033,25416036,25416038,25416039,25416041,25416045,25416046,25416047,25416049,25416051,25416053,25416054,25416055,25416057,25416059,25416060,25416063,25416065,25416067,25416070,25416071,25416075,25416076,25416077,25416078,25416079,25416080,25416081,25416083,25416084,25416085,25416089,25416090,25416092,25416094,25416099,25416100,25416101,25416102,25416103,25416106,25416109,25416110,25416111,25416112,25416117,25416119,25416126,25416130,25416132,25416133,25416134,25416138,25416141,25416142,25416144,25416145,25416148,25416149,25416150,25416152,25416156,25416157,25416158,25416159,25416160,25416162,25416163,25416164,25416168,25416174,25416176,25416177,25416179,25416182,25416183,25416184,25416185,25416187,25416189,25416191,25416192,25416194,25416195,25416196,25416197,25416198,25416201,25416208,25416209,25416210,25416211,25416213,25416214,25416223,25416224,25416227,25416230,25416234,25416235,25416238,25416239,25416242,25416243,25416245,25416252,25416254,25416255,25416257,25416258,25416260,25416261,25416263,25416265,25416266,25416267,25416268,25416269,25416274,25416278,25416284,25416286,25416288,25416290,25416291,25416292,25416293,25416297,25416308,25416310,25416311,25416312,25416314,25416317,25416318,25416320,25416322,25416324,25416328,25416330,25416332,25416335,25416336,25416339,25416340,25416342,25416343,25416345,25416348,25416352,25416358,25416359,25416368,25416369,25416370,25416372,25416375,25416377,25416381,25416382,25416383,25416386,25416390,25416391,25416392,25416396,25416397,25416400,25416403,25416404,25416407,25416411,25416418,25416420,25416421,25416425,25416431,25416433,25416436,25416438,25416439,25416441,25416444,25416451,25416453,25416454,25416455,25416461,25416467,25416471,25416473,25416477,25416479,25416480,25416481,25416482,25416483,25416485,25416490,25416492,25416494,25416496,25416497,25416500,25416502,25416504,25416506,25416511,25416518,25416519,25416522,25416526,25416528,25416532,25416534,25416538,25416542,25416544,25416546,25416548,25416553,25416557,25416558,25416562,25416563,25416569,25416570,25416571,25416572,25416585,25416586,25416587,25416588,25416591,25416593,25416596,25416599,25416601,25416603,25416604,25416606,25416607,25416611,25416613,25416616,25416618,25416620,25416621,25416622,25416623,25416624,25416625,25416627,25416628,25416636,25416637,25416639,25416640,25416642,25416644,25416646,25416648,25416652,25416661,25416663,25416672,25416676,25416679,25416681,25416682,25416688,25416690,25416693,25416695,25416698,25416700,25416701,25416702,25416705,25416707,25416709,25416712,25416713,25416716,25416719,25416724,25416725,25416728,25416734,25416735,25416739,25416740,25416757,25416758,25416791,25416795,25416801,25416803,25416808,25416812,25416814,25416820,25416843,25416865,25416871,25416880,25416881,25416883,25416885,25416891,25416911,25416918,25416923,25416995,25417012,25417047,25417055,25417088,25417097,25417142,25417170,25417177,25417193,25417194,25417259,25417303,25417316,25417320,25417563,25418023,25418522,25418858,25419188,25419271,25419548,25424455,25428849],"created_at":"2020-12-14T11:51:30Z","created_at_i":1607946690,"num_comments":827,"objectID":"25415989","points":2316,"story_id":25415989,"story_text":"various services are broken
- youtube returning error
- gmail returning 502
- docs returning 500
- drive not working
status page now reflecting outage: https://www.google.com/appsstatus
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services look to be restored.","title":"Google outage \u2013 resolved","updated_at":"2025-11-14T02:12:06Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"paraschopra"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Hello HN,
I'm Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We're an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141
Today, I sold the company to a private equity firm for $200mn.
It's covered on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/everstone-acquires-bootstr...
I was a 22 year old fresh graduate when I launched VWO on HN and got initial users. Feedback from people like @patio11 helped me get to PMF. And now, 15 years later, "site:ycombinator.com" is what I appended when I wanted to search for advice on what to keep in mind while selling my company.
Thank you HN for sharing inspiration and wisdom all along. I honestly don't think I would have been an entrepreneur had it not been for hacker news.
Every single day, HN is the first website I open! I'm feeling very grateful towards the community. Thanks @dang, and thank you Paul Graham for your essays and for creating this beautiful corner of the internet!"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"}},"_tags":["story","author_paraschopra","story_42806247","ask_hn"],"author":"paraschopra","children":[42806298,42806618,42806644,42806682,42806702,42806724,42806726,42806737,42806754,42806764,42806816,42806820,42806825,42806826,42806827,42806831,42806833,42806835,42806863,42806877,42806879,42806891,42806929,42806933,42806943,42806948,42806969,42806979,42806980,42806986,42807055,42807183,42807227,42807295,42807296,42807343,42807356,42807367,42807372,42807384,42807399,42807429,42807524,42807560,42807632,42807650,42807676,42807678,42807715,42807769,42807795,42807904,42807949,42807991,42807999,42808021,42808049,42808097,42808170,42808253,42808301,42808405,42808440,42808540,42808544,42808546,42808584,42808598,42808624,42808628,42808654,42808708,42808748,42808840,42808858,42808976,42808984,42809032,42809077,42809140,42809142,42809193,42809235,42809242,42809252,42809302,42809315,42809348,42809356,42809411,42809500,42809508,42809586,42809720,42809781,42809877,42809894,42809931,42810080,42810158,42810178,42810197,42810399,42810409,42810484,42810486,42810543,42810567,42810593,42810602,42810645,42810667,42810706,42810707,42810746,42810757,42810783,42810791,42810816,42810817,42810825,42810826,42810862,42810864,42810883,42810930,42811035,42811058,42811068,42811070,42811102,42811116,42811118,42811137,42811138,42811161,42811172,42811179,42811232,42811260,42811284,42811302,42811303,42811329,42811339,42811379,42811391,42811448,42811479,42811485,42811493,42811515,42811564,42811574,42811599,42811684,42811737,42811796,42811917,42812051,42812108,42812204,42812247,42812258,42812272,42812494,42812592,42812727,42813002,42813178,42813223,42813245,42813344,42814689,42814728,42814819,42814950,42815055,42815133,42815137,42815145,42815198,42816410,42817000,42817837,42818526,42819204,42819747,42910625],"created_at":"2025-01-23T17:58:05Z","created_at_i":1737655085,"num_comments":396,"objectID":"42806247","points":2246,"story_id":42806247,"story_text":"Hello HN,
I'm Paras Chopra, founder of VWO. We're an A/B testing platform that was born here as a Show HN in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=876141
Today, I sold the company to a private equity firm for $200mn.
It's covered on TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/23/everstone-acquires-bootstr...
I was a 22 year old fresh graduate when I launched VWO on HN and got initial users. Feedback from people like @patio11 helped me get to PMF. And now, 15 years later, "site:ycombinator.com" is what I appended when I wanted to search for advice on what to keep in mind while selling my company.
Thank you HN for sharing inspiration and wisdom all along. I honestly don't think I would have been an entrepreneur had it not been for hacker news.
Every single day, HN is the first website I open! I'm feeling very grateful towards the community. Thanks @dang, and thank you Paul Graham for your essays and for creating this beautiful corner of the internet!","title":"Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today","updated_at":"2026-07-20T16:46:39Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"aEJ04Izw5HYm"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I want to draw attention to Bob Lee, a well-respected technologist and prototype hacker, always curious and sharing lots of interesting technical developments. He was a great role model for how Engineers should be respected in an executive capacity as he advanced his career from 'Software' to 'Product'. His efforts contributed to technology used by millions. What happened to him is tragic and wrong; he deserved better. Thank you, I'll miss you 'crazybob'.
Please share your stories featuring Bob Lee, who I'm sure would like to be remembered for his contributions rather than as a victim of this unfortunate awful event."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Remembering Bob Lee"}},"_tags":["story","author_aEJ04Izw5HYm","story_35457341","ask_hn"],"author":"aEJ04Izw5HYm","children":[35449584,35449925,35449954,35449955,35450136,35450168,35450534,35450678,35450963,35451821,35451885,35452378,35452852,35453330,35453795,35454182,35454844,35454971,35455431,35455597,35455712,35455747,35455812,35456142,35456818,35457428,35457507,35457535,35457646,35457700,35457758,35457844,35457873,35457995,35458049,35458164,35458277,35458279,35458280,35458486,35458557,35458569,35458571,35458595,35458706,35458900,35458902,35459040,35459056,35459103,35459185,35459247,35459320,35459350,35459423,35459435,35459436,35459491,35459753,35460054,35460173,35460304,35460326,35460675,35460680,35460788,35460942,35460976,35461125,35461161,35461188,35461278,35461331,35461341,35461516,35461681,35462224,35462339,35462559,35462659,35462701,35462740,35462852,35463375,35463425,35463437,35463481,35463581,35463599,35463735,35463739,35464001,35464038,35464126,35464214,35464222,35464530,35464600,35464825,35465034,35465109,35465172,35465186,35465544,35465798,35467256,35467718,35475415,35477721,35478866,35488229,35488793,35488885,35489255,35489487,35499386,35500971],"created_at":"2023-04-05T17:11:56Z","created_at_i":1680714716,"num_comments":217,"objectID":"35457341","points":2090,"story_id":35457341,"story_text":"I want to draw attention to Bob Lee, a well-respected technologist and prototype hacker, always curious and sharing lots of interesting technical developments. He was a great role model for how Engineers should be respected in an executive capacity as he advanced his career from 'Software' to 'Product'. His efforts contributed to technology used by millions. What happened to him is tragic and wrong; he deserved better. Thank you, I'll miss you 'crazybob'.
Please share your stories featuring Bob Lee, who I'm sure would like to be remembered for his contributions rather than as a victim of this unfortunate awful event.","title":"Remembering Bob Lee","updated_at":"2026-05-02T21:57:29Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Uptrenda"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I'm very interested in what types of interesting data structures are out there HN. Totally your preference.
I'll start: bloom filters. Lets you test if a value is definitely NOT in a list of pre-stored values (or POSSIBLY in a list - with adjustable probability that influences storage of the values.)
Good use-case: routing. Say you have a list of 1 million IPs that are black listed. A trivial algorithm would be to compare every element of the set with a given IP. The time complexity grows with the number of elements. Not so with a bloom filter! A bloom filter is one of the few data structures whose time complexity does not grow with the number of elements due to the 'keys' not needing to be stored ('search' and 'insert' is based on the number of hash functions.)
Bonus section: Golomb Coded Sets are similar to bloom filters but the storage space is much smaller. Worse performance though."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?"}},"_tags":["story","author_Uptrenda","story_32186203","ask_hn"],"author":"Uptrenda","children":[32186423,32186452,32186457,32186495,32186505,32186508,32186517,32186520,32186530,32186568,32186571,32186603,32186661,32186723,32186763,32186807,32186812,32186837,32186842,32186847,32186858,32186871,32186895,32186949,32187005,32187012,32187063,32187130,32187133,32187135,32187142,32187168,32187176,32187189,32187222,32187264,32187267,32187268,32187276,32187298,32187315,32187329,32187344,32187356,32187357,32187404,32187405,32187513,32187551,32187603,32187612,32187622,32187684,32187725,32187731,32187880,32187919,32188147,32188149,32188214,32188236,32188313,32188323,32188353,32188357,32188411,32188430,32188495,32188497,32188556,32188561,32188567,32188624,32188636,32188663,32188665,32188683,32188720,32188724,32188728,32188763,32188783,32188785,32188791,32188797,32188819,32188820,32188824,32188841,32188846,32188880,32188885,32188913,32188921,32188923,32188931,32188942,32188947,32188948,32188952,32188964,32188977,32188983,32188984,32188985,32188990,32189038,32189046,32189063,32189080,32189092,32189128,32189152,32189196,32189199,32189208,32189216,32189226,32189235,32189241,32189252,32189262,32189274,32189294,32189306,32189324,32189335,32189371,32189416,32189425,32189430,32189477,32189479,32189495,32189518,32189538,32189556,32189616,32189655,32189660,32189678,32189692,32189693,32189696,32189707,32189714,32189767,32189824,32189885,32189898,32189921,32189940,32190011,32190059,32190075,32190087,32190117,32190144,32190153,32190156,32190166,32190234,32190263,32190276,32190312,32190412,32190453,32190535,32190550,32190551,32190594,32190610,32190625,32190631,32190635,32190653,32190669,32190707,32190792,32190838,32190867,32190882,32190897,32190997,32191073,32191132,32191184,32191240,32191279,32191343,32191384,32191397,32191448,32191456,32191462,32191527,32191579,32191619,32191631,32191648,32191683,32191887,32191962,32191991,32192017,32192091,32192132,32192203,32192219,32192314,32192336,32192404,32192410,32192470,32192624,32192663,32192693,32192842,32192920,32193102,32193525,32193695,32193782,32194021,32194202,32194263,32194702,32194835,32194870,32194880,32195216,32195262,32195549,32195616,32195825,32195966,32196333,32196348,32196379,32196711,32196925,32198334,32199005,32199194,32200205,32202684,32203989,32205779,32213953,32214717,32232391,32234624,32243171],"created_at":"2022-07-21T22:50:29Z","created_at_i":1658443829,"num_comments":753,"objectID":"32186203","points":2051,"story_id":32186203,"story_text":"I'm very interested in what types of interesting data structures are out there HN. Totally your preference.
I'll start: bloom filters. Lets you test if a value is definitely NOT in a list of pre-stored values (or POSSIBLY in a list - with adjustable probability that influences storage of the values.)
Good use-case: routing. Say you have a list of 1 million IPs that are black listed. A trivial algorithm would be to compare every element of the set with a given IP. The time complexity grows with the number of elements. Not so with a bloom filter! A bloom filter is one of the few data structures whose time complexity does not grow with the number of elements due to the 'keys' not needing to be stored ('search' and 'insert' is based on the number of hash functions.)
Bonus section: Golomb Coded Sets are similar to bloom filters but the storage space is much smaller. Worse performance though.","title":"Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?","updated_at":"2026-09-23T17:59:06Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"lmueongoqx"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Hey HN,
I'll probably get a lot of flak for this. Sorry.
I'm an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible.
The pandemic made me realize that I do not care about working anymore. The software I build is useless. Time flies real fast and I have to focus on my passions (which are not monetizable).
Unfortunately, I require shelter, calories and hobby materials. Thus the need for some kind of job.
Which leads me to ask my fellow tech workers, what kind of job (if any) do you think would fit the following requirements :
- No / very little involvement in the product itself (I do not care.)
- Fully remote (You can't do much when stuck in the office. Ideally being done in 2 hours in the morning then chilling would be perfect.)
- Low expectactions / vague job description.
- Salary can be on the lower side.
- No career advancement possibilities required. Only tech, I do not want to manage people.
- Can be about helping other developers, setting up infrastructure/deploy or pure data management since this is fun.
I think the only possible jobs would be some kind of backend-only dev or devops/sysadmin work. But I'm not sure these exist anymore, it seems like you always end up having to think about the product itself. Web dev jobs always required some involvement in the frontend.
Thanks for any advice (or hate, which I can't really blame you for)."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?"}},"_tags":["story","author_lmueongoqx","story_26721951","ask_hn"],"author":"lmueongoqx","children":[26722032,26722125,26722301,26722335,26722422,26722527,26722532,26722562,26722564,26722580,26722583,26722584,26722609,26722618,26722646,26722655,26722688,26722689,26722719,26722725,26722728,26722732,26722761,26722795,26722871,26722909,26722930,26722957,26723113,26723165,26723204,26723248,26723253,26723269,26723275,26723289,26723334,26723361,26723362,26723366,26723370,26723394,26723395,26723404,26723407,26723431,26723436,26723447,26723485,26723498,26723507,26723566,26723567,26723573,26723595,26723600,26723608,26723624,26723641,26723642,26723652,26723654,26723657,26723662,26723665,26723670,26723698,26723710,26723750,26723767,26723782,26723792,26723815,26723816,26723817,26723820,26723821,26723827,26723838,26723854,26723868,26723884,26723948,26723951,26724020,26724030,26724032,26724058,26724061,26724115,26724163,26724165,26724169,26724220,26724243,26724244,26724285,26724293,26724324,26724328,26724364,26724473,26724502,26724506,26724512,26724513,26724566,26724592,26724685,26724727,26724791,26724792,26724898,26724920,26724940,26724954,26725003,26725045,26725048,26725098,26725104,26725128,26725133,26725161,26725169,26725176,26725256,26725270,26725287,26725408,26725416,26725436,26725457,26725475,26725479,26725502,26725520,26725552,26725581,26725583,26725596,26725680,26725731,26725740,26725764,26725771,26725810,26725831,26725868,26725875,26725906,26725960,26725998,26726000,26726033,26726041,26726062,26726101,26726163,26726196,26726235,26726244,26726248,26726275,26726278,26726294,26726299,26726304,26726332,26726339,26726393,26726403,26726433,26726499,26726506,26726549,26726556,26726576,26726590,26726614,26726669,26726699,26726707,26726805,26726821,26726840,26726857,26726906,26726931,26727041,26727048,26727052,26727062,26727072,26727108,26727114,26727118,26727196,26727292,26727344,26727387,26727398,26727400,26727429,26727470,26727552,26727553,26727561,26727589,26727611,26727612,26727655,26727693,26727722,26727794,26727803,26727853,26727855,26727861,26727979,26728017,26728042,26728094,26728176,26728210,26728274,26728312,26728334,26728404,26728413,26728497,26728509,26728584,26728598,26728936,26728987,26729001,26729346,26729424,26729469,26729479,26729534,26729566,26729575,26729599,26729703,26729789,26729914,26730012,26730059,26730327,26730446,26730456,26730469,26730675,26730731,26730956,26730992,26731234,26731285,26731374,26731410,26731500,26731552,26731737,26731881,26732148,26732478,26732528,26732810,26733183,26734192,26734280,26734988,26735162,26735646,26735916,26736359,26737613,26737648,26738135,26738276,26740640,26740780,26742686,26744527,26744859,26747185,26748630,26748642,26749780,26756184,26771946,26774463,26782058],"created_at":"2021-04-07T08:41:03Z","created_at_i":1617784863,"num_comments":1091,"objectID":"26721951","points":2022,"story_id":26721951,"story_text":"Hey HN,
I'll probably get a lot of flak for this. Sorry.
I'm an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible.
The pandemic made me realize that I do not care about working anymore. The software I build is useless. Time flies real fast and I have to focus on my passions (which are not monetizable).
Unfortunately, I require shelter, calories and hobby materials. Thus the need for some kind of job.
Which leads me to ask my fellow tech workers, what kind of job (if any) do you think would fit the following requirements :
- No / very little involvement in the product itself (I do not care.)
- Fully remote (You can't do much when stuck in the office. Ideally being done in 2 hours in the morning then chilling would be perfect.)
- Low expectactions / vague job description.
- Salary can be on the lower side.
- No career advancement possibilities required. Only tech, I do not want to manage people.
- Can be about helping other developers, setting up infrastructure/deploy or pure data management since this is fun.
I think the only possible jobs would be some kind of backend-only dev or devops/sysadmin work. But I'm not sure these exist anymore, it seems like you always end up having to think about the product itself. Web dev jobs always required some involvement in the frontend.
Thanks for any advice (or hate, which I can't really blame you for).","title":"Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?","updated_at":"2026-07-29T22:46:34Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"apitman"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I was reflecting today about how often I think about Freakonomics. I don't study it religiously. I read it one time more than 10 years ago. I can only remember maybe a single specific anecdote from the book. And yet the simple idea that basically every action humans take can be traced back to an incentive has fundamentally changed the way I view the world. Can anyone recommend books that have had a similar impact on them?"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost 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I don't study it religiously. I read it one time more than 10 years ago. I can only remember maybe a single specific anecdote from the book. And yet the simple idea that basically every action humans take can be traced back to an incentive has fundamentally changed the way I view the world. Can anyone recommend books that have had a similar impact on them?","title":"Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?","updated_at":"2026-09-21T12:52:43Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"basilikum"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so:
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people who are dear to you and get to focus on what's important rather than getting lost in stressing about everything having to be perfect.
Also much love to everyone who cannot spend their Christmas with dear people.
To make sure this post meets the relevancy criteria, here is a Wikipedia article about some Christmas (more precisely advent) tradition which I personally really like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: Merry Christmas"}},"_tags":["story","author_basilikum","story_46380168","ask_hn"],"author":"basilikum","children":[46380195,46380357,46380364,46380387,46380391,46380423,46380432,46380439,46380441,46380447,46380451,46380452,46380453,46380458,46380462,46380463,46380482,46380484,46380487,46380493,46380495,46380513,46380531,46380535,46380545,46380552,46380558,46380577,46380580,46380592,46380596,46380598,46380625,46380627,46380630,46380631,46380637,46380657,46380659,46380660,46380689,46380699,46380712,46380716,46380717,46380728,46380739,46380750,46380774,46380784,46380786,46380796,46380799,46380814,46380821,46380824,46380853,46380879,46380896,46380899,46380903,46380918,46380930,46380940,46380954,46380972,46380981,46380992,46380993,46380998,46381000,46381002,46381017,46381034,46381043,46381056,46381057,46381074,46381094,46381108,46381118,46381124,46381149,46381163,46381183,46381185,46381204,46381207,46381246,46381268,46381285,46381288,46381333,46381342,46381354,46381370,46381371,46381376,46381398,46381416,46381419,46381422,46381441,46381538,46381565,46381571,46381584,46381600,46381602,46381653,46381665,46381680,46381687,46381701,46381708,46381752,46381753,46381759,46381768,46381781,46381841,46381845,46381848,46381913,46381937,46381954,46381982,46381998,46382003,46382015,46382082,46382101,46382104,46382111,46382114,46382129,46382140,46382180,46382190,46382226,46382253,46382277,46382384,46382414,46382418,46382428,46382438,46382462,46382469,46382536,46382559,46382630,46382648,46382700,46382703,46382722,46382769,46382804,46382837,46382893,46383017,46383020,46383033,46383041,46383109,46383125,46383142,46383145,46383153,46383300,46383355,46383380,46383406,46383450,46383536,46383564,46383566,46383595,46383630,46383642,46383680,46383775,46383932,46384037,46384098,46384251,46384282,46384284,46384287,46384313,46384394,46384502,46384554,46384594,46384618,46384645,46384766,46384771,46384812,46384869,46384894,46384951,46384963,46384970,46385089,46385127,46385147,46385153,46385159,46385388,46385412,46385524,46385687,46385694,46385826,46386124,46386287,46386747,46386892,46386895,46387133,46387203,46387204,46387312,46387335,46387339,46387607,46387632,46387935,46393166,46440766],"created_at":"2025-12-24T22:56:00Z","created_at_i":1766616960,"num_comments":429,"objectID":"46380168","points":1958,"story_id":46380168,"story_text":"Different cultures celebrate Christmas at different days and time zones are a thing. But it's Christmas here, so:
Merry Christmas to everyone. I hope you get some rest and can spend time with people who are dear to you and get to focus on what's important rather than getting lost in stressing about everything having to be perfect.
Also much love to everyone who cannot spend their Christmas with dear people.
To make sure this post meets the relevancy criteria, here is a Wikipedia article about some Christmas (more precisely advent) tradition which I personally really like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_market","title":"Tell HN: Merry Christmas","updated_at":"2026-09-08T20:17:48Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"l2silver"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. 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Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.","title":"Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?","updated_at":"2026-07-12T22:57:10Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ramphastidae"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"I\u2019m currently in a country with low speed internet and the entire \u2018modern\u2019 web is basically unusable except HN, which still loads instantly. Reddit, Twitter, news and banking sites are all painfully slow or simply time out altogether.
To PG, the mods and whoever else is responsible: thank you for not trying to \u2018fix\u2019 what isn\u2019t broken."},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News"}},"_tags":["story","author_ramphastidae","story_20854214","ask_hn"],"author":"ramphastidae","children":[20854292,20854306,20854307,20854321,20854323,20854332,20854343,20854363,20854399,20854411,20854443,20854467,20854477,20854489,20854492,20854496,20854505,20854524,20854539,20854568,20854574,20854580,20854598,20854610,20854651,20854662,20854706,20854729,20854753,20854805,20854818,20854819,20854844,20854860,20854915,20854926,20854930,20855015,20855098,20855114,20855121,20855239,20855275,20855352,20855406,20855469,20855568,20855620,20855636,20855678,20855704,20855768,20855813,20855833,20855857,20856026,20856068,20856156,20856193,20856322,20856356,20856419,20856631,20856660,20856709,20856762,20856808,20856846,20857012,20857113,20857125,20857153,20857343,20857533,20857562,20857574,20857637,20857796,20857837,20858071,20859200,20859526,20859802,20861706,20867050,20873972,20874956],"created_at":"2019-09-01T19:27:00Z","created_at_i":1567366020,"num_comments":390,"objectID":"20854214","points":1831,"story_id":20854214,"story_text":"I\u2019m currently in a country with low speed internet and the entire \u2018modern\u2019 web is basically unusable except HN, which still loads instantly. Reddit, Twitter, news and banking sites are all painfully slow or simply time out altogether.
To PG, the mods and whoever else is responsible: thank you for not trying to \u2018fix\u2019 what isn\u2019t broken.","title":"Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News","updated_at":"2026-09-03T06:24:00Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dang"},"story_text":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Hi all,
Tom Howard is going public as HN moderator today. He has been doing HN moderation work for years and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you'll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do. I'm not going anywhere, so you'll have two of us to put up with going forward :)
I've known Tom since he was sctb's and my batchmate back in YC W09. Many of you know him as the kind and thoughtful community member tomhoward (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomhoward). He's still kind and thoughtful, but he's going to post as tomhow from now on (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomhow), the same way I switched to dang when I went through this rite of passage years ago.
Below is a bit from Tom about himself. Please join me in welcoming him to this new status which he was crazy enough to say yes to!
---
YC and HN have been a huge part of my life for nearly two decades. I read pg's essay How to Start a Startup in 2005 after my friend (and later, co-founder) Fenn found it on Slashdot, and it opened our eyes as to how to go about building products and companies. I first signed up in late 2007, and since then HN has been the place I come to find interesting news and discussions.
Hacker News gave me a window into the big wide world of technology and startups, that had previously seemed so remote and opaque from where I lived (and still live) in Australia. We were lucky enough to be accepted into the W09 batch of YC, and since then HN has been a place where we could share announcements about the startup, but also where I could share the challenges and struggles I experienced in the startup journey and other aspects of life, particularly to do with health and wellbeing.
From the discussions that have happened about these topics I've ended up making enduring friendships with people all over the world, and have been able to learn many things that have improved my life in profound ways. I love HN's ethos - of being a place people come to engage their curiosity. That's what it's always been for me and what I hope I can help it to be for everyone!
--Tom"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator"}},"_tags":["story","author_dang","story_43558671","ask_hn"],"author":"dang","children":[43559141,43559155,43559163,43559174,43559186,43559210,43559234,43559244,43559263,43559266,43559277,43559282,43559309,43559334,43559372,43559382,43559392,43559401,43559404,43559425,43559434,43559450,43559475,43559479,43559481,43559535,43559543,43559550,43559559,43559576,43559582,43559585,43559609,43559622,43559630,43559680,43559687,43559695,43559726,43559768,43559800,43559845,43559871,43559905,43559973,43559998,43560099,43560113,43560200,43560212,43560223,43560360,43560371,43560392,43560414,43560481,43560487,43560493,43560696,43560798,43560810,43560876,43560979,43561021,43561038,43561050,43561098,43561180,43561182,43561256,43561338,43561346,43561537,43561627,43561703,43561726,43561731,43561757,43561758,43561913,43561958,43562014,43562114,43562134,43562224,43562285,43562478,43562480,43562555,43562589,43562642,43563024,43563033,43563157,43563207,43563290,43563311,43563391,43563499,43563569,43563652,43563677,43563763,43563769,43564120,43564132,43564223,43564571,43564758,43565245,43565258,43565390,43565860,43566090,43566439,43566540,43566593,43566946,43567367,43567396,43571835,43572455,43599549,43600225,43632141],"created_at":"2025-04-02T16:49:56Z","created_at_i":1743612596,"num_comments":462,"objectID":"43558671","points":1825,"story_id":43558671,"story_text":"Hi all,
Tom Howard is going public as HN moderator today. He has been doing HN moderation work for years and knows the site and its practices inside-out, so the only new thing you'll see is mod comments from Tom showing up in the threads the way mine do. I'm not going anywhere, so you'll have two of us to put up with going forward :)
I've known Tom since he was sctb's and my batchmate back in YC W09. Many of you know him as the kind and thoughtful community member tomhoward (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomhoward). He's still kind and thoughtful, but he's going to post as tomhow from now on (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tomhow), the same way I switched to dang when I went through this rite of passage years ago.
Below is a bit from Tom about himself. Please join me in welcoming him to this new status which he was crazy enough to say yes to!
---
YC and HN have been a huge part of my life for nearly two decades. I read pg's essay How to Start a Startup in 2005 after my friend (and later, co-founder) Fenn found it on Slashdot, and it opened our eyes as to how to go about building products and companies. I first signed up in late 2007, and since then HN has been the place I come to find interesting news and discussions.
Hacker News gave me a window into the big wide world of technology and startups, that had previously seemed so remote and opaque from where I lived (and still live) in Australia. We were lucky enough to be accepted into the W09 batch of YC, and since then HN has been a place where we could share announcements about the startup, but also where I could share the challenges and struggles I experienced in the startup journey and other aspects of life, particularly to do with health and wellbeing.
From the discussions that have happened about these topics I've ended up making enduring friendships with people all over the world, and have been able to learn many things that have improved my life in profound ways. I love HN's ethos - of being a place people come to engage their curiosity. That's what it's always been for me and what I hope I can help it to be for everyone!
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Dear XXXX,
Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia. While we sympathize that this war may not affect your own views or opinion on the matter, the fact is, your authoritarian government is committing human rights abuses and engaging in war crimes so this is a policy decision we have made and will stand by.
If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022.
Additionally, and with immediate effect, you will no longer be able to use Namecheap Hosting, EasyWP, and Private Email with a domain provided by another registrar in zones .ru, .xn--p1ai (\u0440\u0444), .by, .xn--90ais (\u0431\u0435\u043b), and .su. All websites will resolve to 403 Forbidden, however, you can contact us to assist you with your transfer to another provider.
Customer Support,\nNamecheap"},"title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Namecheap: Russia Service Termination"}},"_tags":["story","author_exizt88","story_30504812","ask_hn"],"author":"exizt88","children":[30504832,30504898,30504911,30504940,30504970,30504986,30505000,30505008,30505011,30505017,30505022,30505048,30505090,30505151,30505161,30505242,30505290,30505323,30505354,30505468,30505495,30505592,30505598,30505604,30505624,30505637,30505658,30505692,30505824,30505934,30505949,30506146,30506154,30506238,30506290,30506335,30506345,30506366,30506378,30506388,30506400,30506401,30506417,30506443,30506475,30506516,30506581,30506585,30506597,30506613,30506627,30506649,30506666,30506681,30506687,30506736,30506747,30506759,30506783,30506796,30506807,30506814,30506817,30506862,30506864,30506865,30506869,30506875,30506891,30506900,30506918,30506977,30506980,30506983,30506988,30507036,30507054,30507059,30507060,30507086,30507096,30507103,30507180,30507194,30507230,30507252,30507283,30507295,30507316,30507327,30507351,30507421,30507429,30507431,30507433,30507443,30507464,30507484,30507489,30507510,30507522,30507574,30507638,30507646,30507659,30507726,30507740,30507741,30507749,30507767,30507772,30507891,30507940,30507964,30507967,30507973,30507975,30507982,30507983,30508009,30508026,30508036,30508049,30508065,30508072,30508168,30508259,30508286,30508303,30508319,30508372,30508376,30508382,30508395,30508396,30508471,30508475,30508512,30508523,30508529,30508554,30508604,30508612,30508644,30508669,30508678,30508683,30508733,30508762,30508764,30508790,30508793,30508795,30508875,30508885,30508908,30508922,30508948,30508971,30509013,30509048,30509060,30509076,30509104,30509129,30509140,30509153,30509380,30509483,30509496,30509498,30509524,30509531,30509593,30509655,30509668,30509685,30509740,30509798,30509814,30509817,30509819,30509852,30509882,30509885,30509899,30509912,30509923,30509943,30509965,30509975,30510028,30510084,30510119,30510126,30510150,30510165,30510208,30510218,30510254,30510291,30510330,30510335,30510389,30510436,30510443,30510467,30510531,30510575,30510591,30510605,30510614,30510694,30510700,30510744,30510773,30510846,30510962,30511070,30511074,30511093,30511136,30511339,30511389,30511525,30511527,30511552,30511605,30511884,30511984,30511992,30511996,30512011,30512013,30512106,30512134,30512190,30512499,30512544,30512656,30512732,30512750,30512894,30512908,30512923,30512953,30513038,30513086,30513240,30513629,30513847,30514233,30514671,30514719,30514803,30514948,30515277,30517063,30517198,30518542,30518674,30519420,30521426,30521463,30521646,30524029,30524946,30526426,30529070,30529149,30530289,30545332,30549131,30588544,30588742],"created_at":"2022-02-28T20:38:16Z","created_at_i":1646080696,"num_comments":1825,"objectID":"30504812","points":1735,"story_id":30504812,"story_text":"Just received this email:
Dear XXXX,
Unfortunately, due to the Russian regime's war crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine, we will no longer be providing services to users registered in Russia. While we sympathize that this war may not affect your own views or opinion on the matter, the fact is, your authoritarian government is committing human rights abuses and engaging in war crimes so this is a policy decision we have made and will stand by.
If you hold any top-level domains with us, we ask that you transfer them to another provider by March 6, 2022.
Additionally, and with immediate effect, you will no longer be able to use Namecheap Hosting, EasyWP, and Private Email with a domain provided by another registrar in zones .ru, .xn--p1ai (\u0440\u0444), .by, .xn--90ais (\u0431\u0435\u043b), and .su. All websites will resolve to 403 Forbidden, however, you can contact us to assist you with your transfer to another provider.
Customer Support,\nNamecheap","title":"Namecheap: Russia Service Termination","updated_at":"2026-09-18T10:56:33Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":2260519,"nbPages":50,"page":0,"params":"tags=ask_hn&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":2,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"queue":14,"roundTrip":19},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":1,"total":2}},"fetch":{"scanning":1,"total":2},"total":2},"query":"","serverTimeMS":19}