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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications?

Ask HN: How to learn how to develop real time applications? 4 by creatorcoder | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a C++ programmer and I want to learn how to develop real-time programs. It looks like it's a "lost art" these days.I think we all use such programs every day to one degree or another. For example, if you work with a network, then you probably use wireshark. If you work with audio, then you probably use something from this field. What do I mean by real-time apps? These are applications where we have a part that creates data (or a data stream, with high frequency) and a part that processes it (or gui part, if we somehow process it). I would like to focus specifically on network applications. I'll say right away that I've already read Richard Stevens book[1], but it doesn't seem to be enough to develop applications of this level. [1] Richard Stevens - Unix Network Programming

New ask Hacker News story: Using games/cards to learn new skills

Using games/cards to learn new skills 4 by dominikz | 0 comments on Hacker News. I wear two hats: - I am making my living being a programmer - as a hobby I rock climb quite a lot (including ice climbing) Story 1 When I started going into avalanche terrain, I quickly realized that I need to get some professional training before something happens. I went to a 2 day course. The lecture for 8 hours in a classroom, even though was done by a really good professional, was hard to understand. Especially when the lecturer introduced something called 'professional method of assesing avalanche risk'. Nobody understood. But at the evening, we went to the bar, ordered a few beers and the lecturer pulled out something called 'Snow Safety Cards' (https://ift.tt/SHpIgGN). And even though we were getting more drunk with each beer, we started to understand that method. Story 2 I joined a new IT project. One of the veterans in our team convinced the founder that it would be great to in...

New ask Hacker News story: We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit

We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit 3 by Stanlyya | 1 comments on Hacker News. So, as some of you guys might have done, we started a hosting for Openclaw type of a business, and holy, this thing grew to 300k ARR and even got a YC interview. Last week was a bit hectic. We got a no from YC, and I was just thinking reflecting on the feedback we got. We were playing with this whole company brain thing as well. We are doing two pilots for that too. It's a Saturday. I just installed Hermes agent because Open Router Hermes agent was overtaking Openclaw, and holy shit, Hermes agent is so underrated, so so much underrated. Now I am rethinking my company.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?

Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe? 4 by Cheesebh | 2 comments on Hacker News. About my experience(10 yoe): - Tech stack: C, C++, python, OpenCL, GPU and DSP programming. Along with that some performance engineering and docker topics. Problem: - not feeling confident enough in my skillset. I feel that I have breadth of topics but deep expertise is missing. - I am with the same company(automotive supplier) for 8 years but switched teams after 4 years. Topics are random based on the customer project as there is no real sw product. I believe this hinders in becoming expert. - Finding new job is becoming harder day-by-day. Looking for advice/recommendations: - How can I turn the situation? - Has anyone here has faced similar situation and come out of it? What did you do?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How concerned are you about a debt crisis?

Ask HN: How concerned are you about a debt crisis? 6 by bhag2066 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?

Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM? 5 by s3arch | 1 comments on Hacker News. I could be wrong with what I say here. It's just the situation made me feel so. Looks like AI learnt almost everything there is in the internet and textbooks today. I lost hope of learning anything new out there to make a reasonable difference and impact. Choose any topic AI knows. Its interpretation is far better than what I can come up with by myself. I feel robbed of my intellectual freedom to express and be accepted by others as others depend on AI for everything. I recently started studying physics fundamentals to find solace. These fundamentals cannot be found through AI. No LLM can precisely measure and compare, but instead only predict. But this is mostly an intellectual exercise. I can't do a living from it. I am a software engineer with average skills. I get paid reasonably okay as it helps me survive. Nothing more than that. But AI can make my world ...