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Ask HN: Who is pretending to be hiring? (🔥 Score: 173+ in 55 minutes)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6fxSS
I’m looking for a job and like many people in this situation am finding it unusually difficult.
I’ve read rumors that many firms are actually in a hiring freeze, but they keep job reqs open for appearances. Apparently some investors use job postings as a company health metric.
From my contacts, I am personally aware of situations where internally-recommended CVs are ignored by HR, and other cases had open job postings and passed people successfully through the interview process, and then the hiring manager still didn’t pull the trigger. I have no way of knowing how widespread this is, but it is happening at some places.
Is your company like this? If you have real info and not just suspicions, let’s name some names.
OpenAI DevDay 2024 live blog (Score: 153+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwVG
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwVG
A $1k Wheelchair (🔥 Score: 165+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwR7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwR7
Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store (Score: 153+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvzk
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvzk
Is the world really running out of sand? (🔥 Score: 156+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwsq
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwsq
Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Origin developer (🔥 Score: 154+ in 3 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvMZ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvMZ
ESO telescope captures the most detailed infrared map of the Milky Way (Score: 151+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvmD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvmD
Comedy Theory (2022) (❄️ Score: 150+ in 4 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fhxD
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fhxD
Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts? (Score: 152+ in 13 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6fug2
I have been advising people I know to block, then delete and report junk (iOS) to unwanted texts. Others have argued with me that you should reply STOP. I disagree, especially after checking a shortened link in a “campaign” text and finding the link was a phishing attempt. What do you think?
Text2CAD: Generating sequential cad designs from text prompts (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fnCu
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fnCu
Ask HN: Any good essays/books/advice about software sales? (Score: 151+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6freW
I'm a software engineer trying to build an agency, would love to hear anything(literally) about how can an engineer learn to generate leads and convert them.
Thanks!
BorgBackup 2.0 supports Rclone – over 70 cloud providers in addition to SSH (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ftWd
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ftWd
Phrase matching in Marginalia Search (Score: 151+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6frWg
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6frWg
Boris Vallejo and the pixel art of the demoscene (Score: 152+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fuef
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fuef
AI chipmaker Cerebras files for IPO (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fu6F
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fu6F
The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia (Score: 150+ in 7 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvYJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvYJ
Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts (Score: 150+ in 16 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fuDx
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fuDx
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2024) (Score: 150+ in 4 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwaX
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US)
or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.
Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no
recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name,
explain what your company does.
Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about
something. It's off topic here.
Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.
Searchers: try https://vawogbemi-whoishiring.web.val.run, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnresumetojobs.com,
https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com.
Don't miss these other fine threads:
Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709299
Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41709300
Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub (🔥 Score: 170+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fwVX
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fwVX
Bots, so many bots (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fw2F
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fw2F
PyTorch Native Architecture Optimization: Torchao (❄️ Score: 150+ in 3 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fkfn
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fkfn
Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ftBt
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ftBt
Essential node in global semiconductor supply chain hit by Hurricane Helene (Score: 150+ in 17 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ftN8
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ftN8
YC criticized for backing AI startup that simply cloned another AI startup (🔥 Score: 167+ in 1 hour)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fvAH
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fvAH
MtCellEdit – Lightweight Spreadsheet Program (❄️ Score: 150+ in 2 days)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fkEh
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fkEh
Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6fpc7
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6fpc7
How we built ngrok's data platform (Score: 150+ in 23 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6frsJ
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6frsJ
Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6frR6
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6frR6
Right, here's the thing: If you are using AirPods(or any Bluetooth headphones with a mic in fact) on Mac and something activates the mic(i.e. you Shazam a song), the sound will be interrupted momentarily and will return in very low quality. This is happening because Bluetooth can't handle both way high quality streaming and the bandwidth is decreased to make it work.
It's a known issue and here's what Apple recommends to fix it: https://support.apple.com/en-hk/102217
Most of the time(unless you are on a Mac Mini/Studio/Pro), you have much higher quality microphones built in, so in most use cases, you want to hear from your AirPods but be heard from your internal microphone, which means if every time you connect your AirPods and go into the settings and set the default input device as the internal mic, you won't have sound quality degradation on mic activation, and if you use your mic to talk to people or record something, you will have better sound quality too.
Based on this observation, first I tried to create a script or some automation that can do it for me but found out that it can be clunky or needlessly complex.
Here's someone who used this approach to fix this issue: https://www.dermitch.de/post/macos-force-microphone-when-usi...
Anyway, I decided to take the "build your app for that" route and created this app and called it CrystalClear Audio which doesn't involve any technical setup to use. Making it was also not as easy I hoped, I was expecting this to be a half an hour project but ended up filing bug reports with Apple because some API wasn't behaving as expected or mysterious things were happening when using it(like phantom device changes).
After spending that much time with all this, I decided to publish it on Mac AppStore and after too many rejections(all my mistakes) I got it published: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crystalclear-sound/id669572374...
The app is not free but comes with a free trial. I decided to go with a very cheap subscription model because I suspect further development might be needed as bugs emerge or API behavior changes. I know its a hated business model but IMHO it's better than ads or tracking of any sort to justify the work done. It's not free because supporting a free app is just as hard as supporting a paid one and it's not one time payment because I don't know what would the right price be for supporting an app for years to come and still have people willing to pay for it.
I hope other people find this useful and if you do, you can support by upvoting on Producthunt so even more people can find it sueful: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crystalclear-sound
PS: the app is also useful for quickly switching between giving the sound out of the laptop speakers and the headphones, I ended up using that quite often.
Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6ftJe
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6ftJe
I originally built a QR code generator as a resume project using Rust and I realized a web interface would make customization way easier.
This still generates the "data" using that rust library via wasm, but the rendering is all editable javascript to make an SVG or paint on an HTML canvas.
I was especially inspired by https://qrbtf.com which had some unique style options I had never seen before, which I ended up copying, and then I made some more.
Keep Track: 3D Satellite Toolkit (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6frws
Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6frws