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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How does my Instagram keep getting compromised?

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Ask HN: How does my Instagram keep getting compromised?
96 by china | 63 comments on Hacker News.
I was an early Instagram user and got my nickname as my handle and I keep getting either locked out of my account or compromised altogether. Over the years, hackers have tried a number of things to steal my handle and I can usually tell how they get in. These days, I have no idea. I've been SIM swapped a handful of times. One time a hacker faxed a fake ID to Godaddy to try and swap out my domain to gain control of my email (they were successful). Now, I will try to log in to my account and will just be locked out. The email I created specifically for Instagram is not recognized, and there is no way to reset my password. I have two-factor auth on, I don't use the same password anywhere else, I change it regularly, etc. My current theory is there is some employee at Meta that's ultimately stealing the account. Does anybody have any idea how they're hacking me? PS: the worst part about all this is in order to get the handle back, I have to pull strings with folks I know at Meta, for a normal user, they would have absolutely no way of regaining access... [Update] Just got the account back and still have no idea how my email was removed from the account... [Update 2] Reviewing the security section I see a password reset email was sent to [username]@instagramz.com. No clue how or who changed the account email to that though.

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New top story on Hacker News: Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually

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Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually
43 by abelsm | 6 comments on Hacker News.
Hey HN! It’s Abel and Alex here to share what we’ve been working on for just over a year: FlutterFlow ( https://flutterflow.io ). It’s like WebFlow, but for Flutter. Flutter is an open source framework for building cross platform applications. FlutterFlow combines a UI builder with pre-built templates and Firebase/API integrations, generates clean Flutter code, and allows you to deploy to app stores directly from your browser. This enables extremely fast iteration, from product idea concepts and designs to working Flutter apps. As an example of what’s possible, we built an internal app for playing trivia games by using the jservice.io API and Firebase all in under 2 hours: Time lapse of building the app: https://youtu.be/Fm4jjpuKM1E Link to live version of the app: https://ift.tt/32bwsti Exported source code: https://ift.tt/33N3Eb9 Alex and I, along with a friend of ours from Google, quit our jobs in 2019 to work on a cross-platform mobile app that ultimately failed. It was a learning opportunity, and it also led us to feel the pain of the slow iteration process every time we wanted to roll out a new experience. We were able to experiment with various landing pages within hours, but building new screens and app experiences took weeks or even months. For over a year now, we’ve been tirelessly working on fixing this problem. I first fell in love with coding by pure luck as a kid in Ethiopia. My father, who at the time owned an internet cafe, decided to start taking night classes in CS in the late 90s. Ultimately he didn’t use his degree professionally, but I ended up with learning materials and a compiler, Turbo C++ 3.0. As I grew older, eventually ending up as an engineer at Google, I started to appreciate that as engineers we were often tasked with solving problems even when the solution didn’t necessarily involve writing code. Alex comes from a physics background, doing his undergrad at Stanford, and transitioned to study CS and AI there as well. In 2016 he joined the team I was on, a small ML group within Google Maps. He’ll often admit he had underestimated the amount of skill involved in building beautiful, fast and functional apps. And he certainly didn’t expect to love building with Flutter as much as he does, having been entrenched in ML for most of his career. Yet here we are. There has recently been a healthy amount of skepticism towards no-code tools, mainly due to concerns of extensibility and scalability. This is definitely the case for some apps - a good example is a tool such as FlutterFlow itself. It would be very difficult to build all of FlutterFlow recursively. We do use it internally for many of our pages, but using a visual builder to implement our code generator seems far fetched. This doesn’t imply however that there isn’t a middle ground that enables fast iteration in a visual builder, coupled with the ability to write code that seamlessly integrates with the overall experience. We’re not quite there yet, but we believe this is the right direction. Finally, we believe Flutter is going to be the catalyst that drives this movement. It’s composability, the fact that it’s super cross-platform (Android/iOS/Web/Desktop/Embedded), and the vibrant and passionate community it fosters give it a unique advantage. Whether we do it or someone else, the application builder of the future will be built on Flutter. Huge thanks to our users, the Flutter team and the Flutter community. We’d love for you to give it a try and share your thoughts. What do you think the future of application development is going to be? p.s. we were on HN when we announced our launch back in May: https://ift.tt/3u8glot We’ve made a lot of progress since then, enabling app store deployment, payments, ability to add custom code and much more: https://ift.tt/3sqPqa6

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data

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Show HN: Describe SQL using natural language, and execute against real data
7 by napoleond | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I played around with GPT-3 to build this demo. Select a public BigQuery dataset and describe your query in natural English, then edit the generated SQL as needed and execute it. https://ift.tt/3yzZXkd

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?

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Ask HN: Robust and affordable alternatives to Google Play for app distribution?
11 by m_kos | 2 comments on Hacker News.
TL;DR: I am looking for a platform to distribute my dissertation research data collection Android app to ~50 adult study participants in the US. The most important features are the ability to quickly and reliably deliver app updates over one year, safety, affordability, and good UX (participants are non-technical Android users). I don't want to use Google Play Store. To give you some context, for my dissertation project, I need to collect data using a custom Android research app installed on participants' phones for one year. The app requires a lot of permissions and continuously collects a lot of data. My colleagues discouraged me from using Play Store because Google banned their apps for no good reason and with no recourse, even though their research was approved by research ethics and human subject protections committees (IRB). This jeopardized their federally-funded studies and caused issues with their findings. For this reason, I would like to distribute my app to ~50 adult study participants in the US using a different platform. Four features are especially important to me. First, app updates need to be delivered reliably and relatively quickly over one year. Second, there can be no spyware, excessive tracking, unnecessary notifications, nudges to download other apps, and no annoying ads. Third, affordability is important because I would be paying for the distribution from my personal student savings. Finally, I would prefer a platform with good app update UX for non-technical users, including older adults. So far, I have looked into APK Mirror, but according to their policy [1], > If your app is new, doesn't have a proven track record, and not > unique, it will likely not be approved. I have also tried F-Droid, but at least on my Pixel 2 XL, updates of some apps downloaded from F-Droid often fail to install. Would you have any recommendations on what other platforms I could look into? Thank you. [1]: https://ift.tt/3oQcehl...

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New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: RemoteLy – Receive curated remote jobs directly in your email

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Show HN: RemoteLy – Receive curated remote jobs directly in your email
9 by standard09 | 2 comments on Hacker News.
https://ift.tt/3lINqpo Looking for next remote job? RemoteLy will hand curate jobs from 100s of sites, job boards, etc. directly in your email :) Personal backstory - I am Kumar, based in Bangalore, India. I have been looking for remote job (but not into developer/technology, but in other fields like marketing/analytics etc), however it was difficult to search so many sites on daily/weekly basis and then collating the same information and re-searching it again on every week for new jobs. To solve this, was searching if any similar tools available online. There are few but unfortunately only caters to [Tech] fields only and that too give limited info, so having my current job searching need in mind, have build 'RemoteLy' RemoteLy enriches the information about the role/company beyond the description, it provides information about : - Job Location (Remote US, Remote EU, Remote Anywhere) - $ Salary Range - Skills (Developer - Python, PHP, etc) - Visa offered (Y/N) - Equity offered (Y/N) - company's social media profile (like twitter, LinkedIn etc) Company Funding Details - $ funded - $ funding round (YC, Seed, Series A, B, C) Have built this using all NoCode tools only (i.e. Softr, Airtable, Tally Forms & Gumroad) 20% discount on annual plan for HN users/readers - code -- 'hn20' I look forward to your feedback, and questions on RemoteLy! also, reachable for any questions, etc DM on Twitter.

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New top story on Hacker News: I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN

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I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN
27 by oreopithecus | 26 comments on Hacker News.
will only do 3 sites (in a span of 180 minutes); will do max 5 pages per site. Post link in comments, feel free to link ANY site, it doesn't necessarily need to be yours. (i'll reply with Netlify links to the redesigned, chaotically-coded, static pages) !for fun!

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Saturday, December 4, 2021

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?

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Ask HN: Dependency Graphs for Cloud Services?
11 by machinerychorus | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Are there any dependency graphs for cloud services? This seems to be pretty important info for determining how a system will degrade. For example, if Google Cloud Storage is down, will Google Artifact Registry go down? and if GAR is down, will Cloud Build be down? I have heard that there are "tiers" of services, with services in a given tier only using services from lower tiers, but I haven't been able to find any info on this, even unofficial blog posts or third party analysis. Does anyone know where I can find this info? Or have tips for figuring it out myself?

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New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Definitive source for real estate statistics?

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Ask HN: Definitive source for real estate statistics?
20 by b20000 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
I am considering buying a house or multi family property here in CA and would like to know what sources for real estate statistics you are all using, and what your thoughts are on what the best, unbiased sources are to do your homework? I do not want to rely on what realtors say as they always say "the market is going up" and "pay cash over asking price".

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