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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do I navigate horror of requirement gathering in product management?

Ask HN: How do I navigate horror of requirement gathering in product management? 2 by souravpradhan | 1 comments on Hacker News. Every other day I face challenges while gathering requirements from various clients. 1. When everything becomes priority number 1 2. When the stakeholder goes back on the discussed requirements 3. Requirements change after every single meeting 4. During UAT a new stakeholder appears out of nowhere and says "This is not what we wanted" 5.You rely on SME for inputs who actually doesn't have a clue 6. Two clients from same team give you opposite requirements 7. Scope creep is the new fashion 8. THE BIGGEST OF ALL - The client doesn't know what they want How do you navigate the horrors of the requirement gathering process to make yourself a better product manager?
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New ask Hacker News story: What is the most effective way to learn programming?

What is the most effective way to learn programming? 2 by luis_journey | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?

Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences? 6 by glidr_dev | 1 comments on Hacker News. For those of you who ship often, when you release updates, do you typically write one set of release notes, or do you end up rewriting them for different audiences? For example: • technical version for developers • simplified version for end users • something more high-level for stakeholders etc… In my current position I’ve seen a plethora of different ways teams, and even the company I currently work for, go about this. What I’ve seen: 1. paste raw GitHub changelogs into customer emails (highly wouldn’t recommend if you’re currently doing this ) 2. manually rewrite the same update multiple times for each audience 3. skip release notes entirely because it’s too much work So I guess my question is: How do you or your company currently go about handling more than one set of release notes, and do you feel like more than one set is needed? Would love to hear what’s working (or not...
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New ask Hacker News story: Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100

Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100 4 by ggm | 2 comments on Hacker News. Here's a video from 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1J9kfDCAmU It's his 100th birthday today.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher

Ask HN: ArXiv Endorsement as Independent Researcher 5 by 7777777phil | 6 comments on Hacker News. I have a preprint article [1] which I'm trying to get submitted to arXiv's cs.SI (Social and Information Networks) for peer review. As an independent researcher I do not have any affiliations to a university anymore. How do I go about this? Appreciate any kind of info / support. [1] https://ift.tt/vDyEQPC
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood?

Ask HN: Go all-in on AI Boom vs. enjoy parenthood? 5 by pratchett | 6 comments on Hacker News. After many years of working hard, my wife and I finally decided to have a kid recently. I am looking forward to spending a lot more time with her, while working just a 9-5. However, the AI boom seems like a short-lived, once in a life-time opportunity. Now I am considering if I should dive in fully even if it means sacrificing time with family? Options: 1) Joining an AI startup 2) Founding an AI startup 3) Stay at my big-tech role I make good money at my current role, but I am extremely passionate about the work I do. With the AI boom, there seems to be a lot of great infra, data movement and algorithmic challenges on the table. However, it is also clear that options 1 and 2 seem to require a lot more time commitment than a simple 9-5 job. There are also financial considerations. If AI affects the SWE job market in a meaningful way, my future salary will be drastically low. Maybe it makes ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital?

Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital? 3 by FWKevents | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I'm pre-revenue but there's a buzz in the corporate events industry about my AI Agent MVP. Who do you recommend to help me get my slide deck and financials ready for fundraising? What is the best way to fundraise for seed capital when pre-revenue? Family Offices in the Middle East (because the US is sluggish on startup investing right now)? "Go Fund Me" type sites for B2B products? Something else?
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