HackerNews Summary (2023-06-11 10AM)

Source: Digital Marketing Manager at Writesonic

Summary
Writesonic is seeking an experienced Growth Marketing Manager to develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy, manage multi-channel digital marketing campaigns, and drive growth and revenue.

Facts

📈 Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy, including SEO, email marketing, paid ads, influencers outreach, partnerships, and podcasts.

📊 Manage and optimize multi-channel digital marketing campaigns.

🤝 Identify, establish, and maintain relationships with industry influencers and key strategic partners.

💻 Strong analytical skills, understanding of SEO, paid advertising, email marketing, and partnerships.

✨ Self-starter with excellent communication and presentation skills.

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Source: HSTS preload adoption and challenges

Summary
HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) prevents unencrypted HTTP connections and untrusted TLS certificates. HSTS preload list provides protection from the “bootstrap man-in-the-middle vulnerability,” but only eight of the top twenty domains are on the Chrome HSTS preload list, and half aren’t using HSTS at all.

Fact

🔒 HSTS ensures that HTTPS is used, preventing data leaks and man-in-the-middle attacks.

📝 HSTS preload list provides protection from the “bootstrap man-in-the-middle vulnerability,” but only eight of the top twenty domains are on the Chrome HSTS preload list, and half aren’t using HSTS at all.

🔑 Users’ inability to decide about an untrusted TLS certificate makes HSTS important for security.

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Source: One man’s nearly 40-year, 8-bit quest to finish his teenage Commodore 64 RPG

Summary
Mike Brixius is seeking moral support from Patreons and Youtube community to complete his Digital Dungeon Master (DDM), a Commodore 64 CRPG that he started working on in 1984. He held onto all the necessary tapes, disks, and notes, and has gotten the facsimile of a simple overworld and dungeon working by hand-typing over 12k of RAM.

Fact

🎮 Mike Brixius has been working on his Commodore 64 CRPG since 1984.

📼 Mike Brixius held onto all necessary tapes, disks and notes from the game.

💻 Mike Brixius hand-typed over 12k of RAM to get the facsimile of a simple overworld and dungeon working.

👾 Digital Dungeon Master was based on the Avalon Hill tabletop games and Telengard.

🗺️ Mike Brixius intends to keep the project true to its early days CRPG roots and make DDM less elaborate than something like The Bard’s Tale.

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Source: Reddark

Summary
Watch a 24/7 stream of Reddark on twitch.tv/reddark_247. Some subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th due to slow rollout on reddit’s side. Contribute to the website if you like it.

Fact

📺 You can watch a 24/7 stream of Reddark on twitch.tv/reddark_247

💻 Some subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th

🔧 Slow rollout on Reddit’s side may cause some subreddits to flash public and private

💰 Contribute to the website if you like it

📝 Subreddits that have disabled posting will still be displayed as “Public”

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Source: It’s Not the Chemicals, It’s the Cages

Summary
The traditional belief that drugs cause addiction has been proven false based on a study. The study shows that it is the environment that causes addiction. When rats were placed in a paradise-like environment called Rat Park, they used significantly less drugs, even when given the choice. Additionally, humans have a natural need to bond with others, and addiction can result from the failure to form those bonds due to trauma or isolation.

Fact

🐀 Rats consumed significantly less drugs when living in a paradise-like environment called Rat Park, compared to when they were alone in cages.

👥 Humans have a natural need to bond with others, and addiction can result from the failure to form those bonds due to trauma or isolation.

💉 Thousands of people who receive diamorphine (the medical name for heroin) for pain management in hospitals never become addicted to the opiate.

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Source: csexp: S-expressions over the network

Summary
csexp is a way to format s-expressions into data packets suitable for transmission over a network. It changes the s-expression to a tree of bytestrings, removes spaces, appends the size and a colon to all strings, and offers an optional hint to attach a bytestring to the front of a csexp atom.

Fact

🌐 csexp is used to format s-expressions into data packets suitable for network transmission.

🔤 It transforms s-expressions into a tree of bytestrings, removes spaces, appends sizes and a colon to strings.

🔗 Optional hints as bytestrings can be attached to a csexp atom to generate hinted structures.

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