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Ask HN: I lack Motivation. What should I do? 2 by rammy1234 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am unable to focus and I am not interested to code or learn new thing. I used to enjoy these activities. I love figuring out inner working of tools I use. Now Iam try to ride the wave. I’m a father of 2.

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Ask HN: How would you set up a computer to protect against state-level actors? 2 by c1sc0 | 6 comments on Hacker News. How would you setup your computer to work on a project that may be seen as threatening by state-level actors? See: situation in Russia, China, ... What are your tips?

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Ask HN: Bookmarks for Hacker News? 2 by snshn | 2 comments on Hacker News. I constantly find myself wishing there was a way to "save" or "star" posts on this website. Favorites and bookmarks are good and all, but it's just not the same, especially when you remember seeing something on HN, but don't remember the site name or exact title to find it easily.

Ask HN: What do you want to see in a mass-layoff notice? 3 by sequoia | 0 comments on Hacker News. Every time there's a mass layoff notice linked here people are really angry at one or more phrasings contained in the announcement. Most recently[0], people objected to the CEO expressing regret over the layoffs and referring to employees per company lingo (googlers, metamates, in this case "birds"). I've also seen complaints about timing of layoffs (i.e. near holidays even if they're 8 weeks away), timing of public notifications (public statements too soon, public statements too late), the method of private notification (big mass email is too abrupt, telling people one by one leaves people in suspense, cutting off systems access is too abrupt despite being a reasonable security practice in most cases ). So what does everyone want to see in a mass-layoff notice? I invite everyone (especially critics) to try their hand in the comments: write a public notice about l

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Ask HN: How do you like to version datasets for production ML systems? 4 by wskish | 1 comments on Hacker News. At my previous company (industrial ai vision platform) we had an ad-hoc mechanism for continuously versioning datasets for user applications that we built internally several years ago. I am curious how folks are versioning datasets now in practice. Platforms like Hugging Face and Weights and Biases seem to provide good abstractions for dataset versioning. Any feedback on the suitability of these for production systems, or other systems, patterns, or best practices that you have found to work well?

Ask HN: Learning robotics/electronics beyond Arduino? 3 by darksaints | 0 comments on Hacker News. Background on me: I am a fairly adaptable person with a background in supply chain management but making a living as a data engineer. I've done some machine learning work, a lot of data work, and I've also done quite a bit of mathematical optimization work (LP, MIP, IP, CP). Mostly working within the Java and/or Python ecosystems, but have done a bit of Rust and F# as well. I'm currently trying to learn electronics / robotics / control theory and I'm struggling a bit as I feel like I've fallen into a gap between extreme beginner and extreme expert. I guess to some extent that is normal, but it seems like everywhere I go for help on something new I get pushed back into the Arduino ecosystem. I'm sure it's possible to take Arduino to a much bigger level, but I'd like to learn some more intermediate concepts like: * How to write code targeting a non-Arduino

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ISO Advice from Bioinformaticians 2 by sophia__r | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am a recent BSc in biology grad and I am considering a career in bioinformatics, genomics, or proteomics. Over the past few months, I have started to teach myself the basics of programming. I was hoping to get in contact with anyone currently working in any of these fields to better understand what the job looks like and what the best next steps might be. Also looking for an internship that might help me better understand what it is like to work in the field, but most seem only open to MSc and PhD grads. I am more than willing to continue my education once I get a better feel whether it is the industry for me. Any advice, tips, or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so why? 2 by ciwchris | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don't remember the timeline. I believe browsing Pinterest anonymously was always limited, therefore I pretty much always avoided this site. At some point LinkedIn changed to require a login to view profiles, well most of the time. Maybe this change occurred around the time Microsoft bought them. I avoid LinkedIn too. At some point both Instagram and Twitter also started aggressively limiting content for anonymous users. Medium and Substack have been increasingly nagging and/or limiting content too. Spotify seems to be trying to increasingly cross sell podcasts and audio books. Just within the last week they've also made multiple attempts to get me to enable push notifications for various communication. And then just this morning I browsed Indeed to keep an eye on what's going on in the local area and found they are limiting search results to one page without logging

Ask HN: Many SaaS tools does your website use and for what 2 by devdiary | 1 comments on Hacker News. These days, websites are using way too many SaaS tools for analytics, advertising, remarketing, etc. The reports I'm reading quote alarmingly high number so I thought why not ask amazing entrepreneurs and devs here, how many SaaS tools does your website has integrated? A rough figure would do. Also it would be good to discuss, how does the future looks like.

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Ask HN: What is the outlook for a new career in ML or DS? 5 by MLwannabe | 1 comments on Hacker News. More specifically, I'm in my early 30s and have been disabled with post concussive syndrome and ME/CFS. I've been slowly hacking away at a math, coding and ML knowledgebase in concert with efforts to increase my work endurance, with the intention of accruing hard, demonstrable skills that could serve me well in any capacity. I assumed this was the most robust use of my limited energy because these skills could be used in almost any white collar position which uses computers to perform repetitive tasks or intersects with structured and unstructured data. At least, that was the idea x years ago. Now it seems we're on the verge of a centralizing and commoditizing revolution in ML and UX where entire swaths of knowledge producer skills will become obsolete. Where will that leave people trying for either ML engineer or more data analysis focused DS roles? Or even just everyda

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Ask HN: Options for self-hosted media cataloguing tools? 2 by Rumperuu | 1 comments on Hacker News. I currently track my media through a variety of sites (e.g., Goodreads for books, Letterboxd for films). I want to: a) move from these services to something self-hosted; and b) combine all the various types of media into a single catalogue. The only two self-hosted tools for this that I've found so far are Bookwyrm and Koillection. Bookwyrm has interesting social features through ActivityPub, but as far as I can tell it isn't extensible to media other than books. Koillection is content-agnostic, but doesn't come with any default media types (inconvenient) doesn't appear to have any sort of import function for the data I export from the sites I'm currently using (dealbreaker). The key features I would like are: • visually customisable; • record notes for each item catalogued; • automatically retrieves cover art; and • provides CSV importing. Can anyone suggest anyth

Ask HN: Is there a curated catalog of Mastodon servers? 3 by BerislavLopac | 3 comments on Hacker News. With the mass migration from Twitter to Mastodon, I'm curious if there is a Website where one can research which Mastodon instance to join? Not just a simple list of servers, but also who owns/administers it, does it prefer certain types of members etc - ideally searchable with tags, labels and similar...

Ask HN: Where to research on what B2B apps to build? 2 by Existenceblinks | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm been in software industry for just 10 years. Ideas are very limited. It's mostly marketing heavy needs; tools for helping flooding social media feeds. And analytics, site builders, cms, docs generators, api testing, little CRM, etc. I think that's it. All are very saturated (I know .. 10 years ago people also said that). Tech-enabled business seems to want websites, cms mostly which has plenty of off-shelf. Niche markets, most of the time, are too niche. Not worth building apps for. "Yet another x is still good if that market is huge" .. doesn't sound good to me, because at some point it's just not good. Thanks.

Tell HN: Apple refuses to delete a personal domain Apple ID that I didn't create 6 by archb | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have a personal domain with catch-all email enabled. Someone signed up for an Apple ID with a scrambled (random) username on that domain, and I got notified about it on my inbox. This happens every few months and I have usually ignored them because my understanding is that Apple wouldn't allow usage of that Apple ID if the email address is not verified. Since this happens every few months, I decided to act on it this time: instead of clicking on "verify now" on the email I received, I worked through the password reset flow and managed to set a new password to the account. However, attempting to delete the Apple ID account prompts for answers to security questions, which I don't have because I did not create the account in the first place. There's a flow to reset security questions as well, but that prompts for an answer to the existing

Ask HN: How do you satisfy your curiosity on the net 2 by HellDunkel | 0 comments on Hacker News. I myself use no app but instead direct browse to: 1. sites of local newspapers (it‘s a distraction i struggle to quit) 2. twitter (without app)- i do like twitter more than the newspapers but it’s also a distraction. 3. i browse verge.com and polygon (hardly read a whole piece there). i think this is about the visuals more than anything. i dont stay long. 4. HN: I skim the comments first if unsure about reading a piece. Here i probably read more than any other source. i wish there was better ways.

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Ask HN: How's the job hunt going? (For those laid off) 12 by thunkle | 2 comments on Hacker News. For those laid off, how is the job hunt going? I haven't been able to start yet, but likely this next week I'll start studying and getting ready.

Ask HN: What are you giving this year? What are you asking for this year? 2 by japhyr | 0 comments on Hacker News. I always get good ideas for what to give, and what to ask for, from HN threads. Are you giving, or asking for anything interesting this year?

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Ask HN: Is there a site that is just a text scratchpad? 3 by leros | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for a site that is basically just a text editor. It doesn't need to save, support multiple files, etc. I just want to type in xyz.com and copy/paste some text. Google Docs is too complicated and slow to load. Does something like this exist?

Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders 23 by kdragon | 3 comments on Hacker News. I have been seeing a lot of shilling for mastadon lately, so I thought I would step in and shill Nostr for a bit. https://ift.tt/pDSOGLw Fun facts about Nostr: * Nostr stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". It is an odd acronym, but I like it. * Nostr uses websockets and relays to build a really simple P2P network. We also steal a few ideas from bitcoin (ECDSA ids, schnorr-signed events). * Relays are simply dumb data stores for events that clients publish and subscribe to. * Clients don't trust relays to be honest, so all events are self-signed. Your pubkey is your userid. * It is stupid simple to build a Nostr client. You can easily do it in less than 400 lines of JavaScript. And it runs in the browser. (shameless self plug) https://ift.tt/hDunQew * Nostr is powerful enough to host chat apps very easily. Here is a rip of Telegram, running

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Ask HN: How do you deal with HN FOMO? 5 by albelfio | 3 comments on Hacker News. Like some of you, I am an avid reader of HN, and I spend definitely too much time on it. I am going on holidays and I don’t want to engage with it, but at the same time I don’t want to lose great content. Have you guys found a solution?

Ask HN: What rate do you pay your contract developer? 2 by codingclaws | 2 comments on Hacker News. If you hired a contract developer, what rate did you agree to pay them? Please include the job and stack if possible.

Ask HN: How do you keep track of dev tools shared on HN? 2 by Olshansky | 1 comments on Hacker News. *tl;dr* I see amazing tools, platforms and services on Hacker News every day, but I struggle to find what I need when the time comes. *Example:* I need to migrate a few cron jobs I have running on free dynos on heroku since the free tier is shutting down. In practice, all I need is a tiny server that periodically triggers a python script. *Context:* There are so many alternatives popping up on HN ever day, but because I don't use them, it falls through the cracks. I've tried using bookmarks (in chrome), taking notes (in notion), search indexers (hn.algolia.com), but haven't been consistent with any one. I can always Google for things, but I struggle to find some amazing tools/platforms/services that I recall seeing on the front page. *Current solution:* I'm currently looking into using into n8n.io to schedule the jobs and fly.io to host it, but it is per the recommend

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Ask HN: How does Cloudflare DNS filter Google results? 3 by hnthrow10282910 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Upon testing Cloudflare for families on 1.1.1.3, which filters explicit contents, I noticed Google results are obfuscated as well. For example, typing in Porn yields no porn results. How is this possible with just DNS if the site uses TLS and the connection is still secure? For this to be possible, wouldn’t they need to have a valid DV cert impersonating Google?

Ask HN: HN Favourites Missing 4 by prakhar897 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I had close to 200 favourites, now its only showing 31. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

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Ask HN: Anyone had their Cloudflare credit card information stolen recently? 2 by ftufek | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just noticed that there was an unauthorized charge on my company debit card that was only used at Cloudflare. Thankfully it was declined because they had the wrong expiration date, but it's really strange to me, especially since we haven't used that card in months (we use one card per merchant, this one was dedicated to CF), so I'm really curious to see if anyone had that happen recently? Whoever found the number tried to spend 15$ at zulily which I'm guessing they are using to test the card.

Ask HNs: Is GCP fully booked this thanksgiving? 3 by samfisher83 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am getting this error: A e2-highcpu-2 VM instance is currently unavailable in the us-east4-c zone. Alternatively, you can try your request again with a different VM hardware configuration or at a later time. For more information, see the troubleshooting documentation. You don't really get support from google on the cheaper machines. Is all of GCP being used for black friday stuff?

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Ask HN: How are you doing remote I-9 verification in the US? 2 by numbsafari | 0 comments on Hacker News. Looking at a number of different options. I see that GitLab is using what is now Equifax (at least, based on their public documents). There are some other options out there. I'd like to find a solution or firm that addresses the oddball California requirement that the "authorized representative" be a bonded/insured "immigration consultant". Thanks for your replies.

Ask HN: Would you like to join a mob programming group? 4 by mac_was | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been thinking of setting up a fully remote mob programming group and looking for a few people to join. We could meet on zoom or use some other tool and tackle together some interesting issues from GitHub or pick an interesting project and work on it. I'm a full stack dev and that is a sort of project I'm interested in working on. I'm UK based and would love to meet during the week after 8 PM as I have kids and want to put them to bed. If you're interested reply with an email or ping me on telegram - username is mac_tele Want the first meeting to happen next Thursday at 8:30 PM UK time I'll set up a mailing group where we will agree on the tools to use and pick the first task to work on. I'm not interested in opinions about mob programming, I have very positive experience with remote sessions :)

Ask HN: What languages are you using for ML work other then Python? 2 by StefanWestfal | 1 comments on Hacker News. As question suggests, I am curious about but language and tooling people use for ML other then good old Python. I mainly use, and still like, Python but I it is fun to try something new.

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Ask HN: Why do tombstones show the least interesting info about the deceased? 3 by amichail | 5 comments on Hacker News. Why not list their major accomplishments?

Ask HN: Tech Bloggers – what's more important – consistency or quality? 6 by skwee357 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey Tech bloggers of HN! I'm trying to focus more on my technical blog about software engineering, and I was wondering, what is more important - consistency or quality? Based on my observations, if I produce quality content, this necessarily means that consistency suffers. On the other hand, I've heard that consistency is rewarded regardless of quality (assuming quality is not trash and occasional high quality content is published). What is your experience? And what are some other ways to reach a wider audience? Thanks! [Edit] - Just to clarify 2 things: 1. I'm primarily interested in opinions of people who own their content (i.e. publish on their own website) and not trying to beat some platform algorithm. and 2. When I say consistency - I still mean quality, but obviously when you post once a week, the quality will suffer as opposed to posting onc

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Ask HN: Suggestions for Building a Code Generation 2 by patrick91 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi there! I was looking into building a generic code generation tool, that would take a GraphQL schema in and would build code in Python, JavaScript, etc. I've built something like this using a template engine like Jinja, but I'm not sure if that's the best approach, part of me wants to use AST for the languages and a printer to get the AST to code, but I don't, I'm open for suggestions The idea is to also make it easy to built your own codegen output using plugins

Ask HN: How would you travel on an airline with your life's data and devices? 8 by walrus_pen | 8 comments on Hacker News. I am moving to a new country and it will require travelling by plane with all of my possessions. That includes many laptops, Raspberry Pis, routers, hard drives, USB drives, and SD cards. I think that this may firstly look suspicious, and secondly I am concerned about something being implanted on any one of the devices or drives if they are ever out of my sight, or being "asked" if they can be viewed (i.e. being compelled to give in to plugging in the drives). What would you do? Encrypt all the drives? Transfer almost two terabytes to encrypted cloud storage (which provider?)? What about the laptops (I have 4, one Android tablet, two iPads, a current and old phone)? I could ship these in the post ahead of time. Though I don't think if it's any safer.

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Do you ever feel like you've had enough of working in the IT industry? 2 by xil3 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been working in IT (software developer, architect, devops) for around 20 years now. I've dabbled in pretty much everything. I actually had a passion for it all - I enjoyed every second of what I did. The excitement of learning all that new technology and building something was amazing. Fast forward to present day - I feel like I've lost that passion I had for technology. I don't feel like working in the industry anymore. Has anyone else gone through this? I'm thinking of what else I can do with my life. I could focus on my current hobbies and start a business based on those. Not because of money, but because I'm looking for that excitement again.

Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal? 2 by krithix | 0 comments on Hacker News. What is an item you're waiting to go on sale before you buy it?

Tell HN: Hacker News has a search bar for algolia at the bottom of the page 2 by texaslonghorn5 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Everyone always mentions hn.algolia.com search which I sometimes use. Today I learned that if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page on hacker news, there's a search bar which you can type into, and it will directly route your search to algolia!

Ask HN: How do evaluate a Senior engineer? 2 by triyambakam | 2 comments on Hacker News. At my current company I am a Senior engineer and I have been through three interview loops recently and all concluded that I was not Senior enough. That could be a fair assessment. And if it is, how can I get there? You don't know me, but there must be certain ways that are commonly looked for that I am lacking, either in communication or actual technical experience. That's the optimistic view on it. The pessimistic view is that in all of these interviews I never perceived that the interviewers were greatly better than my own ability. As one example, walking through my take home project one engineer asked me about a kind of React gotcha. I said I wasn't quite sure, and then he admitted that he only just come across that in their own code recently. But I felt like it had already counted against me, even though he himself hadn't known about it. I guess it felt like I should have be

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What story from the PDP-8 era would make a good script? 6 by jtode | 3 comments on Hacker News. I mess around with writing sometimes and I was just gazing at some pics of a PDP-8 - so gorgeous, and clearly the real world inspiration for all the "panel of blinking lights" computers we watched in 70s-80s SF. Got me wondering - we've had way too many shows now dealing with modern digital culture (hello Silicon Valley). There's been some attempts to tell stories from the early days of micro computers (Halt And Catch Fire for instance), and that makes sense, given that those are the machines that many GenX played with at home or at school. But Hollywood's version of Silicon Valley - Silvercon Valley? - has yet to celebrate the Minicomputer and Mainframe eras in a real way. They have done a bit of deep diving into the 50s, but only in the form of standard issue Genius Porn where the computer operators who broke wartime codes were like Harry Potter characters or somet

Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? 18 by ForgotIdAgain | 3 comments on Hacker News. List of scenes that I am particularly fond of: - Minecrat computer engineering: Culminated with this playable 3d simplified minecraft clone (CPU+GPU) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BP7DhHTU-I - Shader computing scene: More of a subculture of an already marvelous subculture, people are finding weird ways to compute with shader https://ift.tt/OdFowWB Risc V emulator in a shader https://ift.tt/7Jb8kjz Object detection in a shader - Cellular automata: people finding awesome patterns, some great project: https://ift.tt/yrdHTOu https://ift.tt/GUFJvyK - TAS/Speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBK1sq1BQ2Q Insane game exploit which uses only player input in order to inject an elaborate rom hack with network functionality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9dTmzRAL_4 Another insane one which work by switching game (!!) during the run - "Can it run Doom" Scene: https://twit

Ask HN: What happens tech industry in pro-longed high interest rate environment? 2 by rafiki6 | 2 comments on Hacker News. The modern 'tech' industry (i.e. companies that primarily sell software based services), has grown and thrived in a sub 7% fed fund rate environment (which we are fast approaching and will likely need to surpass to fight inflation). Presumably this worked because many tech based businesses were seen as massive high risk bets that were unproven. VCs were the primary source of funds and many relied heavily on leverage upstream. Without low rates the VC based funding model will need to change, and companies may need to seek funding from more traditional sources where revenue matters much more upfront. This might mean premature optimization on business models leading to more moderate growth and less of a focus on hypergrowth and global scale. Does this mean the hypergrowth era is over?

Ask HN: Is AMP Dead? 5 by brntsllvn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Official blog updated infrequently. GitHub doesn't show much activity. Changelog mentions some recent stuff but hard to tell if it's more than just one person. Official domain has many broken examples and demos.

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Making an Open Source Newsletter App 3 by uziiuzair | 1 comments on Hacker News. Would it be beneficial to anyone if I create an open source alternative to Mailchimp? I never liked their pricing structure, and have relied on Sendgrid to send out newsletters for a few months. I dislike sendgrid's clunky UI which tends to lag, and not record user inputs often skipping some of your actions (like deleting lists). I'm checking out existing projects out there, and trying out SendPortal right now. A lot of the existing free tools often lack basic services like Segmenting user lists. (shocker) I'm thinking about making something simple and useful which would utilize AWS SES. I could make something for myself in a jiffy. So I would love to know if others are interested too.

Ask HN: Best No/Low-code solution to creating a notification service? 6 by VoxelBoy | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone, I'm a game developer with a web/mobile business idea and very little time on his hands due to being a single parent. I'm looking the solution that requires the least effort to creating an MVP of this project. Summary: "Send push notification when a new software/package version is available". Parts needed (as far as I can imagine): - Simple website for accounts/signups and managing of preferences (for which software/packages to receive notifications for). - Backend for checking RSS feeds, json files, or scraping simple websites to check software/packages' latest versions. - Payment/billing system. - Mobile app for users to receive push notifications - Push notification service I've played around with IFTTT and Zapier to create some simple prototypes but to glue all the parts together seems like a daunting task, especially considering

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Ask HN: Is it time for a new Storybook? 2 by samhuk | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm sure many have heard of Storybook [0]. I've used it pretty much since the start from ~2016 (back when Angular was cargo-culting it like mad). I've always had generally negative experiences with it: 1) Messy Javascript API resulting in inexpressive storybook files, particularly for big frameworks like Angular and big components. 2) Slow AF with webpack/terser/etc. And that's before you start bolting on crazy addons like compodoc. 3) Tries to solve so many different problems (just a subjective opinion of mine). 4) Insane levels of "framework magic", particularly when I've used it with Angular, but also in other scenarios too. --- So, I wanted to ask HN to gauge the appetite for a similar but not same kind of Storybook: 1) Extremely expressive Javascript API. Think Jest. 2) Go CLI (allowing direct interface with ESBuild, etc.). 3) ESBuild-centric (rather than webpack, or w

Ask HN: What is the thing you've build you regret the most? 4 by Octabrain | 3 comments on Hacker News. Given the very interesting comments on the "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?", I was wondering about something similar: Things you regret based on ethical implications, bad technical decisions you made convinced you were right but regret/cringe about later, failures on miscalculations on budgets that provoked a bad outcome in the company etc whatever. Thanks in advance.

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Ask HN: What‘s the most basic, objective news site/aggregator? 3 by recvonline | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am done with too biased news (US, Canada, Germany). I would still like to get updated, once a day, on major „news“ or events. Is Reuters the place to ho? I would like a HN style news site, sans the comments. Just so I know major developments.

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Ask HN: Does anyone use Terraform to deploy Kubernetes services in a large org? 5 by sandspit | 1 comments on Hacker News. Terraform supports Kubernetes service provisioning, but I've never seen anyone talk about using it at scale. On the surface, I worry a bit that there could be some impedance mismatch or bugginess, due to the layering-on of two state management solutions. Curious how it works in practice.

Ask HN: Is there an author who made a successful startup after publishing? 4 by vdfs | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hope my question make sense, just wondering if there is someone who published a book in startup topic and followed his book to make something successful, as opposite to publishing a book after running a successful startup

Ask HN: Is there a tool to follow all the people I follow in Twitter in Mastodon 2 by yangikan | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have started using Mastodon, but a big pain is following the same people I have been following in Twitter. Some of them have Mastodon ids too, but it is a pain to manually find their Mastodon ids and follow them. Is there a lookup service that will automatically do this?

Ask HN: What was your take-away from job loss? 2 by cantrembermyact | 0 comments on Hacker News. For those who have been fired, laid off, let go, edged out, or otherwise, what did you take away from your experience?

Ask HN: What's your freelancing company/business setup? 2 by Mystery-Machine | 3 comments on Hacker News. Most of my clients are in USA and I have a small SaaS (~$500 MRR) with most of its users from USA. I'm checking my options to have minimal bureaucracy overhead (for me) and minimum expenses (taxes, lawyers, accountants, etc.). I'm thinking of opening an LLC in Wyoming or Delaware. As far as I understand, I could pay myself dividend and have zero profits so I'd only pay dividend taxes in my home country - Croatia, which is 10%. I know this question has been asked several times and I've read almost all of those past threads, but it's still not 100% clear to me that I have it right. I just don't want to end up with something like C-Corp.[0][1][2] I'm sure there are people with ton of experience here so I'm looking for your help. Did you use Stripe Atlas? Something else? Should I open outside of USA (Canada? Croatia? Estonia? Singapore?) Thank you

Ask HN: What to do when your Amazon recruiter ghosts you? 2 by thrwAwyAmzGhst | 2 comments on Hacker News. I had an Amazon "phone interview" which was a video call on Chime, with general background questions, live coding exercises and "Leadership Principles" questions. I don't think it was perfect, but I don't think it was bad either. However it has been over a week and I have 0 feedback from my recruiter even though I sent 2 follow-up emails. On the application tracking website it still says "under consideration", but I'm starting to get worried especially with recent layoff news. Should I be worried, or is this normal?

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Ask HN: What's the Future of Web3? 3 by ahmedfromtunis | 1 comments on Hacker News. There was a time, earlier this year, when everyone I knew was talking about NFTs and the decentralized internet. Companies, conferences and even VC firms specializing in the future of internet sprung everywhere, even here in my small north african country. Cryptocurrencies are, at least from what I can see, are losing steam. The collapse of FTX, and apparently other exchanges to follow, has proven to be shocking enough for some people to have second thoughts. In the midst of all of this, where does the web3 stand? I admit that I know so little about this new tech/paradigm that I have to google it whenever I have to speak about it, so maybe all of this has no impact? Does it even matter?

Ask HN: Tips/Places to learn to touch type properly 2 by littlethrowaway | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've never really properly learned to touch type and I'd like to. I've spent time improving and then I just regress again. I'm definitely not good at numbers and symbols which is annoying for programming! I've tried: 1. GNU typist -> https://ift.tt/vjWPrSt 2. Keybr.com gtypist I actually found OK, keybr seemed to get stuck and never gave me new letters (possibly I was doing something incorrectly). Questions: 1. Do you have a decent program to recommend 2. Is it better to concentrate on accuracy first and then speed? 3. How to improve fast with "coding" type training? Thanks! [edit formatting]

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Ask HN: What options do you have for external db backup? 2 by waspight | 0 comments on Hacker News. Using aws RDS or any other cloud managed database you get their built in automated backups. But I would like to have a backup separated from aws as well. What options are there out there for db backup only solutions?

Ask HN: LinkedIn Data Gone 2 by samuraijack | 1 comments on Hacker News. My linkedin profile shows -1 connections. The connections list is empty. Just me, or something going on with linkedin?

Is Gimp.org Down? 3 by squarefoot | 1 comments on Hacker News. It returns: ------------ Application is not available The application is currently not serving requests at this endpoint. It may not have been started or is still starting. Possible reasons you are seeing this page: The host doesn't exist. Make sure the hostname was typed correctly and that a route matching this hostname exists. The host exists, but doesn't have a matching path. Check if the URL path was typed correctly and that the route was created using the desired path. Route and path matches, but all pods are down. Make sure that the resources exposed by this route (pods, services, deployment configs, etc) have at least one pod running. ------------ It resolves correctly to the right addresses (8.43.85.3|.4|.5 ), all returning the same error.

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Ask HN: Scriptable iPhone Redialer Interface? (For reaching state govt.) 3 by MrWiffles | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm trying to get into the hold queue for a certain state government office that is (very) badly run. Long story short, you call the number and it puts you through around ~3.5 minutes of pre-recorded nonsense only to be told "We're sorry, but we have too many calls to help you at this time. Please call back later." and then hang up on you. Not place you in a hold queue, literally hang up on you. This is not a joke, exaggeration or lie, this is quite real. The thing is, if you get REAL lucky, you MIGHT just make it through to the hold queue after all. There's a slight variation in the way the pre-recorded message plays out in the first minute or two if you happen to make it through, but it's all based on unknowable and unpredictable call volume from potentially hundreds of thousands of other people all at the same time and the line is only ope

Aks HN: Can additional processor core be emulated on SSD for more compute power? 2 by amts | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am thinking how to buy a ThinkPad on a budget and it may come with only 2 i5 processor cores, but with 480GB or 980GB SSDs. Is 2 core (with 8GB RAM) enough for beginner-to-intermediate programming? (How) Can an additional processor core be emulated on a free SSD space if more computational power is needed (similar to a swap partition for RAM)? When I was curious about defi, I remember there was a cryptocurrency ~chia, which used hard disks for computing/hashing, but this wears them out quicker. I'd like to have some type of CPU core emulation on an SSD to turn on temporarily if using some compute intensive ML etc (given that compute time may not be of top priority).

How to articulate work against business objectives 2 by hiven | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, This might sound simple, but I think it’s harder than it seems to effectively articulate how your work is aligned to the business objectives or OKRs. Are there any frameworks, methodologies or otherwise advice on how to do this. This is to effectively put forward a clear answer when being questioned c by management on how your work supports the business outcomes.

Ask HN: What Do You Use for a Personal Database 7 by Crontab | 10 comments on Hacker News. I was curious what the members of HN use when they need a personal database. There seems to be a lot of choices between SQL, NoSQL, and web based tools. If anyone would like to say what they use, and why they chose it, I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks in advance.

Ask HN: Should theoretical CS be considered math since it is not a science? 2 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. Shouldn't theoretical computer scientists be part of the math dept. at universities?

Ask HN: How relevant is cross-browser testing anymore? 11 by sachinjain | 11 comments on Hacker News. Given that most of the new companies adopt modern frameworks like React, Angular, Vue which are quite stable across browsers unlike jQuery, Backbone days when the same code worked in Chrome but not Firefox for various reasons. Just wanted to pick your brains on what do you think how relevant is cross-browser testing. Do we really need to test our code on 50ish Chrome versions, 25is Firefox versions and so on.

Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to 1 week? 2 by amukbils | 6 comments on Hacker News. I have lots of ideas and I want to try them out. Some of the are rather small and some are big, but they all need: 1. Auth 2. Subscription 3. Dashboard Is there an easy way to basically scaffold an entire SaaS project to cut development time to 1 week and focus only on building the product, not all the other stuff? Using Auth0 and Stripe and what not does cut dev time but still requires a lot of work for a new project. Any ideas?

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Tell HN: The German job market is crashing 34 by Sladik | 34 comments on Hacker News. If we looked at the German Job Market as if it were the stock market, we would say that it's crashing! On the following link you can see my pet project where I have been scrapping the major job offer portal in Germany for over one year. In the last two weeks it has lost 33% percent of all posted job offers and it keeps dropping as a rock :-( Dashboard: https://jobmarketanalytics.com/#months=%2212%22&technology=%... Source Code: https://ift.tt/sQIT8il Slide Deck: https://ift.tt/waZsVLK Important! If it is offline, please refer to this image: https://ift.tt/p34HvWu

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Ask HN: Getting back to the hiring scene post-hiatus (& all the tech layoffs)? 5 by rabbits_unite | 10 comments on Hacker News. 3 years ago I quit my job at a big tech company in order to attend to a family issue. And after that and with the pandemic, I realized I needed some time away from work to try and catch up to my life as a person, as I used to work a lot, and use some of my savings early. I was hoping to get back to working later this year or early next year, but the news looks more and more grim by the day, with all those tech layoffs in the tens of thousands, and the warnings of recession. I worked as an IC lead for many years, as well as a technical manager. And I mostly specialized in backend algorithmic and machine learning systems. I kept myself sharp in some areas, but I'm also realistic that someone who has been away for that long is not a desirable resume. I'm looking for some observations, big and small, on where the tech community is at right now, what

Ask HN: What is your RSS set-up? 2 by sherlock_h | 3 comments on Hacker News. My news diet consists of the following: * email newsletters (substack) * selected articles (a lot from Hackernews) * I also subscribe to some promotional newsletters (events, certain products). Not sure how I would fit these However, I have been struggling with keeping my inbox clean and readable with the newsletters and am considering to switch to an RSS reader. I have several criteria: 1. I need to be able to add one-off articles to the reader (such as finding an interesting article on Hackernews for later consumption). 2. I would love to be able to add rules. For example, if I don't read an article for several days, I would like it to disappear from my inbox (archived) or be marked as read so it doesn't clog my reading. 3. Needs to be accessible on computer (web/app) and mobile (ideally via app). Would love to hear how other people manage this. I'm also happy to pay for a good solution here.

Ask HN: Why are websites so insistent on you using their mobile app? 2 by arduinomancer | 4 comments on Hacker News. For example both Reddit/Twitter have big annoying reminders to use the mobile app What is it about using a mobile app vs. mobile website that is so beneficial for a company?

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Ask HN: Should I quit without a new job lined up? 10 by SoupDrinker | 14 comments on Hacker News. I'm a junior software engineer, almost 1 year into a job at $Bank. This is technically my 3rd job, my first being at $CompetingBank for 2.5 years and the 2nd being at $Bank but in a different role. 2nd job sucked, was in meetings 5/8 hours of the day, wasn't allowed to do anything outside of the strict confines of JIRA tickets ( no improving the dev / QA experience for myself or anyone else ), stuck with a manager and co-workers who nit-picked my code apart and treated me ( I felt ) like an idiot. Ended up being very little actual engineering work but having to stretch that out over a 8-10 hour work day, which drove me insane. The happiest time I can remember there was having to cover for 2 people so I actually had things to work on the entire week. Transferred out into a new role which turned out to be the opposite; way too much work, little to no time, same pay ( that's no

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Ask HN: What do you outsource for your personal life? 2 by TbobbyZ | 3 comments on Hacker News. Auto shipping household essentials via Amazon has been a big time saver. Getting groceries delivered is another. I wish there was a way to outsource managing my money and dealing with bills.

Make-Linux-fast-again.com DNS expires in a week 3 by jcelerier | 1 comments on Hacker News. It has cropped up here a few times so this is a notice, I won't renew it. I think it has served its goal ; nowadays everyone concerned should be running a kernel that supports mitigations=off or a CPU with hardware mitigations.

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Ask HN: What important truth do few people agree with you on? 3 by roschdal | 2 comments on Hacker News. What important truth do very few people agree with you on?

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Ask HN: Book Scanner Recommendations 2 by yonisto | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've bunch of books that I cannot find in PDF/EPUB format (books from the 80s and the 90s that are not in English). So I wish to scan them and later use an OCR to convert them. So I'm looking for recommendations about book scanners (Google search gave me some ideas about brands and actual features, but I couldn't find recommendations from people with actual experience) Thanks.

It amazes me how many people are blissfully unaware of the rampant tether fraud 4 by JSDevOps | 2 comments on Hacker News. It seems all anyone cares about with crypto is how much richer they get in dollar terms when cryptos go up. And yes, those who were busy explaining why Ethereum is garbage, **coin, etc, and why only they know better, would have been 10% richer in just 2 days. If crypto is supposed to replace other currencies, then you don't get richer if it is worth more in dollars. The entire point is to not use dollars. But nothing is priced in crypto. If it was, there wouldn't be enough supply. Also nobody would ever buy anything with it, because why spend 100 on something today when 50 will buy it tomorrow. So crypto has devolved into nothing more than a scheme to bid up whatever coin of the day becomes a MEME darling and FOMO kicks in. You don't want to lose out on getting rich, do you? Don't give me the crap that DeFi everything is around the corner. It'

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Ask HN: How would one go about building an API for fine tuning? 2 by samlhuillier | 0 comments on Hacker News. Let's say I wanted to build an API to let users upload images and the api would fine tune stable diffusion for them returning either a checkpoint or another api that let's them run inference on the fine-tuned model. Does anyone have any architecture considerations/issues they'd suggest? Two things I'm considering: - Would the problem with this approach of ad-hoc GPUs likely be cold boot? It would take a shit ton of time to load. Though with data center networks speeds that wouldn't be too much of an issue - considering the fine-tuning itself would likely dwarf boot times. - Is it possible to launch remote GPU instances ad-hoc from code? Is there a service that provides this service? Every time a call is made we'd spin up a GPU Maybe the best approach for a V1 is to use the AWS SDK or something similar to just launch instances as calls come in. Apprec