Pope Francis Visits Congo: What to Know

Pope Francis Visits Congo: What to Know
The pope is planning to spend three days in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the most populous and most Catholic nations in Africa. While it has extensive natural riches, its people have long been buffeted by conflict and exploitation.

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?
Ask HN: Why does every package+module system become a Rube Goldberg machine?
36 by jamesfisher | 40 comments on Hacker News.
A programming language has a "core language" plus a package/module system. In each successful language, the core language is neat-and-tidy, but the package/module system is a Rube Goldberg machine. See JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, or C/C++. Lots of brain cycles are spent on "programming language theory". We've roughly figured out the primitives required to express real-world computation. In contrast, we apparently have no "package management theory". We have not figured out the primitives required to express dependencies. As a result, we keep building new variants and features, until we end up with

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Airbnb requires my credit-card transaction history?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Airbnb requires my credit-card transaction history?
Ask HN: Airbnb requires my credit-card transaction history?
44 by zug_zug | 16 comments on Hacker News.
https://twitter.com/planmoretrips/status/1603738966271860736 I ran into this myself (literally could not check out with my credit card without agreeing to those terms) and opted to paypal instead. Anybody at airbnb/plaid know if this is any less awful than it seems?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?
Ask HN: What is your favorite Tech Podcasts these days?
12 by Hixon10 | 11 comments on Hacker News.
During COVID-era we got a lot of new podcasts. So I am wonder, what is the current list of Tech Podcasts, which you consume these days? My current list: 1. https://ift.tt/AZKa7Qk - deep dives into different tech topics 2. https://ift.tt/m8cnZu3 - scala/kotlin/java + interviews with different tech people 3. https://ift.tt/sjunhrV - deep dives into different parts of PostgreSQL database 4. https://ift.tt/WAxgZPb - interviews with different tech people 5. https://ift.tt/eQrCO71 - java/spring + interviews with different tech people

Where the Bison Could Roam

Where the Bison Could Roam
Bison once numbered in the tens of millions in the United States. Now, a nonprofit is working to restore the shortgrass prairie, where the American icons and their ecosystem can thrive again.

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Other Devs, How Do You Deal with Socials, Blogging, etc.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Other Devs, How Do You Deal with Socials, Blogging, etc.
Ask HN: Other Devs, How Do You Deal with Socials, Blogging, etc.
10 by throwtheheyaway | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Throwaway.. because I don't want to tie my actual account to this one. People - how do you deal with the ongoing requirements it appears that jobs place, such as social network involvement. To me - this means LinkedIn posting rubbish, Twitter bollocks, public GitHub repos for sharing - even the asks from employers to post here. I, as a person have zero accounts anywhere, except for one here. I've been gainfully employed in industry for ~2 decades, and frankly I have neither need nor desire to have a "social profile". I speak at conferences when I want to, sans twitter, linkedin, etc. Moreso - I find the amount of developer advocate written blogspam (let's just call it marketing crap) only contributes to the web problems - and hence have started to block... everything, including my employer's search results (personally, with a plugin in DuckDuckGo and Google. I'm not interested in writing blog things. I'm interested in continuing my ongoing work as a principal engineer, without marketing externally on the fakery of "how great we/I am/are", or "humbelbragging", or frankly any of the rubbish I keep encountering. I just want to focus on the things we're collectively doing to be successful. So... how do you handle this?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Since when is everything a scam?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Since when is everything a scam?
Ask HN: Since when is everything a scam?
6 by throwmeup123 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
It feels like you need to look up if something is a scam or not rather than just the user reviews. I mean it started in the 70s with the prominent make up Pyramide schemes but in the last 2 years it just got mainstream to scam everyone around you. How do you navigate it?

New top story on Hacker News: GoDaddy Rant:(

New top story on Hacker News: GoDaddy Rant:(
GoDaddy Rant:(
10 by Jaxtek | 10 comments on Hacker News.
Hi HN, I tried editing a subdomain's CNAME record and it was not editable (API returned "Duplicate entry"). So I deleted that record and tried creating again. Same error. Now our old record is gone and I can't create new one. I spoke with the support and they created a record for `subdomain.example.com.example.com` instead of `subdomain.example.com` from backend (lol). When I pointed it out, they politely said they cant do anything about it . Now I can do nothing to revert what I did. This was a subdomain used by few people in the company so it didn't cause any major problems. But it would have been disastrous otherwise(Some of our pings are already failing). We will be transferring the domain to another registrar ASAP. I would recommend anyone having a GoDaddy domain to transfer to another registrar. More examples: https://ift.tt/n3Kmt8A Rant over.

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
Ask HN: What are the best open source TypeScript projects I can learn from?
13 by pototo666 | 4 comments on Hacker News.
What are the best open source TypeScript frontend and backend real world projects I can learn from? I am a self-taught web developers and I haven't worked for any good companies. There are no seniors reviewing my code. My code quality can be improved but I don't know how. Maybe reading some good codebase is a way out. I use React in frontend and express in Backend. Do you know any good OSS projects that use those stacks? Maybe I should read popular OSS frameworks instead of web app's source code? I am thinking of changing my job, so reading real web app's source code might be more relavant. I am very thankful for any advices. And Happy New Year!