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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing

Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing 22 by Townley | 18 comments on Hacker News. A relative of mine recently suffered a serious injury to their dominant (right) arm, which will have a long recovery period (likely several months). Ideally finger movement will be restored sooner, but even if so it might not be comfortable to keep the injured arm in an ergonomic typing position. So I wanted to prepare some options for one-handed typing that they can review. At first glance, it looks like solutions fall into one of three categories: - Trainings on how to effectively use a keyboard with one hand - Keyboard remappings on existing hardware to use alternative key layouts that favor the keys on the left side - Specialty keyboards that are intended to be used with one hand. Some of these seem promising but also shockingly expensive. Any thoughts on what solutions you've seen work / you might pursue in a similar situation?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell 9 by fazkan | 4 comments on Hacker News. I used to love these threads, super helpful in finding early customers, and inspiring as well. Please do share your journeys. https://ift.tt/Hc23Lek (2024) https://ift.tt/XlB2kei (2023) https://ift.tt/M0gASqe (2022) https://ift.tt/RoBXFWO (2021) https://ift.tt/PY1siOb (2020)
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you struggle with/optimize for deep,sustained focus?

Ask HN: How do you struggle with/optimize for deep,sustained focus? 3 by jenever | 0 comments on Hacker News. With digital distractions everywhere, and nowadays the need to have all these context switches between tabs, messages, emails, papers, prompting LLMs, literally anything, I feel like the ability to maintain deep focus on a high priority task is harder than ever. For those struggling with this, what are the main stressors for you and how do you deal with it to maximize productivity in your work sessions?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What is your current LLM-assisted coding tool?

Ask HN: What is your current LLM-assisted coding tool? 3 by HiPHInch | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone, I’m testing and comparing various LLM-assisted coding tools, and I want to know which tool you are currently using in your daily development workflow. Here are some observations and questions I have: 1. Cursor and Windsurf - Both work nicely on local, but they use token-saving strategies: - With very long context, they may truncate important information, causing the suggested code to miss key details. - Even in normal scenarios, complex cases might exceed context or quota limits, interrupting suggestions. 2. “Roo Code” and API-based approaches - Directly calling paid APIs (e.g., OpenAI’s ChatGPT/GPT-4 API) works well but is expensive. - Some free or community APIs (open-source mirrors, community editions) can be unstable, rate-limited, or slow. 3. Augment Code - It’s said to be one of the most “intelligent” commercial products, but it’s also costly. - Many recommend its ...
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New ask Hacker News story: My "tiny" Product Hunt alternative made $5.6k in revenue last month

My "tiny" Product Hunt alternative made $5.6k in revenue last month 2 by jaisalrathee | 0 comments on Hacker News. I run a small Product Hunt alternative called Tiny Startups. I've been running it as a newsletter for a few years and have grown it to around ~20k subscribers but I decided to go ahead with a soft pivot and build it into a "launch platform" in April to try and compete with the big boys like Product Hunt. I made $4.9k in revenue in April - my first month as a launch platform. In May revenue jumped from $4.9k to $5.6k -- most of this is from promoted submissions, even though a very high majority of submissions (~98%) are free submissions. Costs me ~$200/month to run the site + newsletter, the rest is profit. May saw over 12k unique visitors visit the tinystartups.com website. I'm mainly just promoting this via my newsletter (~20k subs) and X. Word of mouth does the rest. Looking to grow this project to a stable ~$10k/month but not sure how it...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Local AI for Handwriting Transcription?

Ask HN: Local AI for Handwriting Transcription? 2 by i4i | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is it possible to teach an AI to privately read one's digitized handwritten journals on an off the shelf late model Mac? If you're done it, please share how to.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What should you ask to understand a new team and company?

Ask HN: What should you ask to understand a new team and company? 4 by laura2013 | 1 comments on Hacker News. When joining a new company, I want to understand what’s working well and where the gaps are, from the perspective of my manager, peers, and leadership. What are the best questions you’ve asked (or wish you had asked) to uncover: - The team's strengths - Weaknesses or blind spots - Communication styles - How decisions actually get made - How you can help early on - What success looks like I’m especially interested in questions that go beyond the surface-level onboarding process and reveal real insights. I understand this takes time and the first 1:1s might not be as efficient while you get to know the team and them you. What’s worked well for you?
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