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Meetupcall | Software engineering, product and marketing roles | Remote (UK) | https://www.meetupcall.com Want to work on a meaningful problem and receive meaningful equity as part…

I'm founder of Meetupcall, a startup working to help care organisations reduce loneliness and isolation for those most in need. We're currently looking for a senior Rails engineer …

It doesn't seem viable that they won't support it. I think they have potentially mis-understood the wide reaching impact of this legislation. I'd be surprised if there is not a fol…

So we managed to get our startup featured on a tech show (BBC Click) on the BBC here in the UK, which is great. Plenty of traffic to the site, a load of signups and a few telephone…

It appears under UK law the Prime Minister could denounce the embassy as no longer Ecuadorian territory. The UK government has 'reminded' Ecuador of this fact in an attempt to infl…

I'm looking for a service / API that can trigger an e-mail upon a completed transaction that will allow our customers to rate the service on a per transaction basis and then collat…

I'd love to HN's feedback on our attempt at making hosting and joining conference calls that little bit better.

Is their filtering on a per TCP port basis? Or more advanced packet inspection?

How do people deal with remote files? I love Sublime, but always end up reverting back to VIM as it is so slow when accessing files over a network connection. I've tried the SFTP p…

That's one annoyance out of the way. Is there a decent way to work with remote files yet? This is always the killer for me.

Considering how many incidents there seems to be due to the loss of these airspeed sensors it seems crazy not to have an additional, different method of calculating airspeed. Is th…

Am I missing something? The physical size of a 16px font will surely vary based on resolution and screen size. So claims such as '16px is the same as most books' are clearly nonsen…

"...keep the money and use it to book yourself into a nice, safe hotel room the next time you travel. You’ll be glad you did." Statements like this certainly fuel the hotel industr…

I wonder if they are using the same (undocumented) exploit for each of these attacks. I am certainly no expert in this field, but I would have thought discovering new exploits and …

Out of interest, why the old browser/OS combo?