Hacker News
Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?
Why there is no P2P protocol for mass live stream content in decent quality?… i cant find anything.
236 upvotes · 223 replies
Communities & Forums
Communities & Forums
Ops and engineering problems from forum owners and community managers.
Hacker News
How should interviews change in the AI era? Hiring teams are searching for answers
Ask HN: How has your company adapted interviews in the AI world? Comments: formal-methods people get called first; others emphasize reading code live, asking for optimizations, spotting flaws in AI-generated code.
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Discourse Meta
How do community managers handle AI-generated answers?
Our current policy is that the usage of AI is okay as long as you validate the response… I want to create a rule.
17 replies
Webapps Stack Exchange
Archiving a Facebook group back to 2015: search misses posts, scrolling crashes at 2022
I'm in a Facebook group that has posted trivia since 2015 and want to catalogue every post. Problem 1: group search omits posts. Problem 2: scrolling crashes around 2022.
1 upvotes
Discourse Meta
Support emails get rejected silently — the team never sees them
There seem to be a lot of weird cases where email should NOT actually be rejected… users send support emails that we never see.
17 replies
Stack Exchange
Shared IP flagged by Cloudflare: need an alternative frontend for Stack Exchange
My IP is shared by thousands of people and Cloudflare has been blocking all Stack Exchange sites for days — an annoying false positive. Looking for an alternative frontend.
2 upvotes · 1 replies
Webapps Stack Exchange
Group admins want to detect and prune inactive WhatsApp members
Half of a 500-member group never speaks; scrolling history to tally activity is unrealistic and WhatsApp exposes no member-activity data.
1 upvotes · 1 replies
Discourse Meta
No way to browse and monitor files users upload, including in private messages
For moderation purposes, it would be useful to be able to see and browse files uploaded by users.
8 replies
Discourse Meta
Set a reminder for three days later and forget why you set it
I'm praying I still remember my intent when the reminder goes off. It would be nice to be able to leave myself a note.
10 replies
Discourse Meta
The weekly digest flooded the queue and killed registration, login and password resets
Over 300K emails in the sidekiq queue; anyone who tried to login via email couldn't.
21 replies
Discourse Meta
The payment page doesn't capture name, address or ZIP — so payments get declined
On the payment page there is no option for users full name, address and zip code to be recorded. Several payments getting declined.
22 replies