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Ask HN: Share your favorite examples of shell script abuse 2 by ofalkaed | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have a real soft spot for shell scripts with no sense of reality, exercises in a beginners enthusiasm. Like many, shell scripting was my introduction into programming and after learning bash and making those few simple scripts I learned it for I wanted to use it for everything to exploit my new knowledge. All these years later seeing the overly ambitious shell script never fails to bring back the excitement of those early successes and return a sense of scope to my own projects when bogged down in the details with nothing yet to show for it all. So share your favorite abuses or just any that come to mind. I just came across bed, the bash editor [0], I was really expecting a complete nightmare and a massive script that barely functioned but was pleasantly surprised by how short and clean it is. Despite being essentially useless (beyond as an exercise) you could use it as an editor,

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Brex Now Charging Foreign Transaction Fees 2 by kennethologist | 0 comments on Hacker News. A few of my clients are Brex customers and having a meeting with one this morning revealed that Brex is now charging up to 3% on foreign charges. Haven't seen anything official from the company. So just a heads up for any Brex customers who do business in foreign (non-US) countries know that you'll get charge 3% going forward.

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Ask HN: Is GPT-4 down for you? 2 by yreg | 1 comments on Hacker News. The status page[0] pretends everything is fine, but I (and many other users[1]) haven't been able to use it for ~12 hours. There was no official acknowledgement from OpenAI and I'm curious how widescale this problem is. [0] - https://ift.tt/I9txkZB [1] - https://ift.tt/ndXJ0DO

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How to get started learning modern AI? 3 by gofaifan | 1 comments on Hacker News. Neural networks! Bah! If I wanted a black box design that I don't understand, I would make one! I want rules and symbolic processing that offers repeatable results and expected outcomes! ...and maybe there's still a place for that. But for someone who has been possibly foolish and ignoring neural network-oriented AI, where's the best place to start learning? Go back to the basics of recurrent neural networks, deep learning texts, and so forth? Or is there a shortcut into the hip and popular transformer-based technology at this point?

Ask HN: Startup Domicile in 2023? 2 by tjstebbing | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm an Aussie, and looking to launch a new startup in the next month. 12 months ago I would have opened a Delaware but the global economy is techtonically shifting with the rise of the Yuan, and overinflated USD. I think I need to seriously consider if anything attached strongly to the US or China is a wise move right now. Nationalistic hats-off if possible, where are the best places to domicile a new startup in the current climate?

Ask HN: What should a stuck dev do? 2 by throwaway0129u4 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I am struggling with finding work and having thoughts about whether or not I should keep going or start thinking about switching careers. Any advice/perspective is appreciated. I am a 40+ year old self-taught software developer. I've been doing front-end/full stack development for most of my 10+ year career. I was also struggling heavily with undiagnosed ADHD and the emotional dysregulation that comes with it for most of my life. I finally discovered it 3+ years ago after around 5 years in therapy and have put in an incredible amount of work since then to learn how to manage it all effectively. Through this process, I've also come to find a real joy in my work. Now I just need a good job to get my life back on track. I have been interviewing since December or so and have realized that I do not approach this work in my head the same as engineers that have gone through typical school a

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Ask HN: Can you think of a sci-fi novel that feels like ChatGPT now? 2 by pedrodelfino | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Is OpenAI going to make jobs obsolete? 3 by azeezbecomepro | 3 comments on Hacker News. What do you really think about it?

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Ask HN: Any good ideas Figma to Angular implementation? 2 by rkuodys | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, we have a project to migrate from figma to (existing) angular product. What is the fastest way of doing this? Found multiple tools that do not work. It seems like all the components are here- frameworks, generative AI, design system. And yet it is not connecting into easy design to product flow. What am I missing? Can you share your experiences how to migrate new design into products in the most efficient way? Any tips or hints are much appreciated

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Will wealthier people access better AIs? 2 by parisivy | 6 comments on Hacker News. Today, billionaires and middle-class everyday people use the same phones. Will that be the case with AIs?

Ask HN: How do you know that it's time to shutdown your startup? 2 by switchstance | 2 comments on Hacker News. I started Bestlist.com around two years ago. It is a search and discovery app that allows users to find the best of anything. The idea came about after I had grown tired of the current state of search, where a query often resulted in SEO-optimized blog posts instead of the desired information. In a nutshell, Bestlist works by taking the user’s query, scraping the internet for reputable articles and social media posts relating to the query and extracting the mentioned “listings.” To form our ranking, we take many factors into account. We look at occurrences, the listing’s ratings on various sites, sentiment regarding the listing, and a few other things. Our results are not perfect, but we’re improving them on a daily basis. We launched on Producthunt with lackluster results. After talking with users and getting feedback, the main issue I see is that people all have thei

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Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? 4 by World_Peace | 0 comments on Hacker News. This question was asked a few years ago (https://ift.tt/FkL6gd1) by committed, and I'm curious what it looks nowadays. > How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started? > Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income. > Have any recent trends affected your business?

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Ask HN: My full name and address are in a spam email, sent to my iFit mail alias 2 by appel | 2 comments on Hacker News. Sorry for the weirdly worded title, had to cram a lot in there whilst staying below the char limit. My wife and I have been subscribed to the iFit family plan for about three years. I just received an obvious spam message, but the concerning thing is that it was sent to the gmail alias I exclusively use for iFit (myname+ifit.com@gmail.com), and the body contains my full name and address. Luckily, the phone number is not correct. https://ift.tt/N9CfrsM Am I right to be a little freaked out about this? Or is there a perfectly good explanation?

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Ask HN: Is “AI” being over hyped to paper over incompetence in IT? 3 by precompute | 1 comments on Hacker News. LLMs and other media-generators ("AI") are egregores of the output by competent people in the last three decades. Seeing how, even with faster computers, software is getting worse and less reliable, is LLM usage seen as a hedge against diminishing standards of the software engineering discipline?

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Toasting to following your Dreams – My Girlfriend's UX/UI design debut 3 by kamy22 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm thrilled to share with you all a personal milestone in my life that I feel compelled to celebrate. My girlfriend, Julia, has been pursuing her dream of becoming a UX/UI designer for almost a year now while working in logistics, and today she has finally published her first project! I can't express how proud I am of her for putting in the hard work to make her dream a reality. It's not easy to balance work and study (you know, sleepless nights to chase a dream), but she has done it with great determination. Now that Julia has completed her first project, she's excited to take the next step in her journey and is actively searching for job opportunities in UX/UI design. If any of you have any leads or know of any open positions in this field, we would be immensely grateful for any advice or guidance you can offer. I know some of you may think it's

Unpopular opinions about ChatGPT and Plugins 3 by bundie | 2 comments on Hacker News. ChatGPT is a powerful language model that can help us with a lot of tasks, but with great power comes great responsibility. That being said, what are your unpopular opinions about ChatGPT-4 and the plugins that come with it? Do you think ChatGPT is overrated? Are there any plugins that you find useless or even harmful? Do you think the ethics of using ChatGPT are being properly considered? Are there any alternative language models or plugins that you think are better than ChatGPT? Do you think ChatGPT is being developed too quickly, and that OpenAI should slow down and consider the consequences of their work?

Ask HN: Where can I find a list of self-hosted LLMs? 4 by robopsychology | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am playing about with open source self-hosted LLMs but can't find a definitive list. Do any exist? Fwiw my project is comparing LLMs performance on Project Euler problems however so far I only have FLAN-T5 running locally (and it sucks at Project Euler, unless I'm using it completely terribly!) https://ift.tt/G3kzxTK

Ask HN: Is it safe to send my work code to ChatGPT? 4 by ReFruity | 5 comments on Hacker News. Is there some licensing/NDA aspects I should be aware of before I send the code from work to ChatGPT? Can there be any consequences?

Ask HN: Is there a G2 for AI businesses? 2 by toblio | 0 comments on Hacker News. I want to advertise my ai but can't find anything.

Ask HN: Should countries try to increase birth rate in the era of automation? 2 by sidaxon | 1 comments on Hacker News. Demographic winter is a relevant topic discussed today. Countries are worried about things like workforce shortage or who's gonna pay the retirement of old people -- that's why some countries are pushing to reform retirement, making old people work more years. But, it also seems obvious to me that we are seeing a new industrial revolution that'll wipe a lot of jobs, so less human work will be necessary. So, why create more people, if more people will be not that necessary in the future?

Ask HN: What's new in theoretical CS these days? 2 by nhgiang | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just curious

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Ask HN: Senior engineers, how do you deal with poorly written software? 3 by kovezd | 7 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: How do you cope with the speed of GPT news/advancement? 2 by szemy2 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Airbnb can charge you anything and there is nothing you can do about it 5 by tomas789 | 2 comments on Hacker News. As a part time digital nomad, I use AirBnB quite oftern. It just happened to me that something broke during our stay. Host submited a claim to AirBnB about that (which is Ok) and they included a few other supposedly broken things. Fortunately I took some pictures before departure. I submited those to AirBnB as part of the mediation process they have. So far so good. And the result? A single person reviewed the case and concluded that I should pay for everything. I asked them to review it again as they probably missed that picture. The response was that I agree in T&C that their decision is final and they will not be reviewing again. I asked to escalate the issue but the answer (from the same person who reviewed it) was the same. I understand they have to draw the line somewhere but a single person deciding whether you need to pay something without any way o

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Ask HN: Why isn't score notation used much in music software nowadays? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are current music visualizations better?

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Ask HN: Just installed a custom Android ROM in my old smartphone – now what? 3 by textinterface | 3 comments on Hacker News. You have that old smartphone kept in a drawer. One day you decide you want to install a newer OS on it because it is stuck on Android 7 or something. Not that the phone was being used anyway, but why not? It's Sunday and you're bored. After lots of research and work, you finally make it, and it's delightful: your old phone is fast again, and bloatware free. This was fun! But... Then what? What creative uses can you come up with for your old Android phone that is now new again, given that you already have a newer phone for your regular use?

Ask HN: How do you handle your “personality” at work? 8 by hominidonearth | 4 comments on Hacker News. Kind of difficult title to write but this is constantly something that's on my mind in the professional sense. I'm a software dev and don't have concerns with my technical abilities per se but am always second guessing how I behave or present my personality at work. I'm always professional and that's not explicitly a concern but am rather focused about "showing too much personality". I've literally always wanted to work as an engineer since I was a child and am genuinely happy and grateful to be able to work in a technical role (am the type who does not _optimize_ for pay because I gain more enjoyment just doing the job - yes pay is important too and that's not lost on me). To elaborate on this I'd describe myself as usually "excitable" or "jolly" in social situations because I genuinely enjoy talking/conversing with oth

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Ask HN: Where to Start Contributing OSS? 2 by sgundo | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I am software engineer. And, as the time is passing I would like to get into the Open Source world. What are the best OSS projects to contribute to? I am searching for a good community to start from. I am at a good level with Python and JavaScript, and I have an understanding of C++ and Golang. But I am not scared of learning new languages if it's needed. Any suggestions are welcome! :)

Ask HN: Can we have a separate section for AI posts just like the 'ASK' sections 5 by samstave | 3 comments on Hacker News. AI articles are abundant in the feed - can we get a submit for "AI HN:" and group posts there?

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Ask HN: Are archive.ph links essentially plagiarizing subscription content? 3 by jjtheblunt | 2 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Want to create a drawing app, where do I start? 2 by aristofun | 2 comments on Hacker News. I see tons of "Build %cool_tech_name% yourself in %cool_language%" material on the internet. But struggle to find anything for those who want to create their own Photoshop graphics editor. Where can I find good guides/books to algorithms and ideas that make a 2D drawing app?

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Ask HN: What games are your kids learning the most from? 2 by nchudleigh | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is SVB collapse orchestrated by crypto bros like Balaji? 3 by nothrowaways | 6 comments on Hacker News. SVB collapse is an artificial one aggravated by rumors. Is there a chance that crypto influencers could be behind this?

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Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time 2 by Mugiballa7 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone, I read this interesting article (https://ift.tt/Avh1eBG) on the decrease of the disruptive impact of science over time. This surprised me at first given the number of startups and predictions that are made about the future. I find that it raises important questions about how we can accelerate progress and innovation. I look forward to your thoughts.

Ask HN: Get a job or double down on my own business? 1 by ethicalsmacker | 3 comments on Hacker News. Currently my business (6+ years running) makes good money, but the economy is clearly impacting it. To the point where I wonder if it's best to get a full time job to do along side my business, or focus and double down the business as I have been. Anyone else in this situation? Is now a terrible time to get a job? Better off weathering the storm and coming out the other end better off?

Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge? 6 by platzhirsch | 2 comments on Hacker News. Recently, I have started interviewing interns in their final semester for an internship and to my surprise I frequently encounter a lack in what I would call foundational computer science knowledge. I don't mean data structures and algorithms, but for example * Database Systems (relational algebra, SQL) * Concurrent Programming * Network Programming It seems most are exposed to them partially through project work but without the base knowledge. Is this typical for CS undergraduate degrees because you get to pick your own classes?

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Ask HN: Anyone have a going Live Checklist? 2 by captaincrunch | 0 comments on Hacker News. I want to make my website live, but I was wondering if anyhone had some sort of list I can go through before I start advertising. Thanks! Mike (it's a Reltor CRM (AgentDesk.ca) if anyone is wondering)

Ask HN: Death to blatantly obstructuve popups. What do you think? 3 by pcostache | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I've slowly but surely started to dread these damn blatant popups - from cookies and product updates to free offers. It's just so damn annoying that they interrupt the flow of the user experience. I've been thinking of a few ways to make these popups way less "in your face", but still noticeable to a visitor interested in a site's product/service. Do you think anyone would pay for something like that, or do I just live in a bubble? Thanks!

Ask HN: How does IBM Watson compares to LLMs? 4 by wg0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Once upon a time, there was a Watson. By IBM. Whatever happened to that? Did it ever take off as a commercial enterprise product? How does it compare in its architecture to LLMs of the day?

And the Quote of the Year Award Goes to Grady Booch 3 by ChrisMarshallNY | 0 comments on Hacker News. When asked about Web3, in an Infoworld interview[0], Booch Sayeth: > Web3 is a flaming pile of feces orbiting a giant dripping hairball. [0] https://ift.tt/Ftebnpq

Ask HN: Where to learn the specifics of how GPT4-quality models are created? 3 by hn92726819 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have never followed AI/ML work. In my experience, all the AI/ML workers I've encountered seen to throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. Clearly, that is not how the GPT-3/GPT-4 models were built. Is there a resource that explicitly explains at a technical level the thought process behind a full implementation of a model like these? For example, why they chose to add an X-type layer here, or what layers they may have tweaked and why to improve 3.5 to 4's quality? I understand OpenAI is closed source. But I'm sure there isn't some secret sauce that only employees there know about that makes these models happen, so where does one learn this?

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Ask HN: Has anyone used Jupyter real time collaboration? 2 by aarondia | 0 comments on Hacker News. Particularly interested in your experience if you work at a large enterprise. Did your IT team have to get involved to enable Jupyter real time collaboration [1]? [1]https://ift.tt/iZdHMkO

Ask HN: I'm feeling awe, unsettled and disoriented by GPT-4. How about you? 5 by alexdong | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm in my mid-40s. For the last 25 years, I can pretty much predict what's going to happen in the next few years. If I made a mistake, it's often because I was over-optimistic about my predictions. e.g. ARM CPU in 2000; Smartphones in 2001 (Microsoft's Compact Framework 1.0); etc. What happened with GPT-4 shocked me so deeply that, yesterday morning, I caught myself forgetting to give way at a busy intersection. (I've never received any tickets in my life) This afternoon, I finally had some alone time. So I went into the garden and work on my feelings. Here is a list of the emotions that are swelling up in me, (using the Junto Emotional Chart) Awe-struck (for obvious reasons) Astounded Triumphant (the sci-fi vision has finally come true in our lifetime) Perplexed (wow, how comes it's coming at us so fast!) Anxious (of the cascading effect

Short Text for Individuals? 2 by makingdecisions | 1 comments on Hacker News. Is there some way to send short texts from one individual to another individual? Say, between two friends. Or from one guy to 10 of his friends? In other words, a much simpler, B2C version of the short-text things that B2B businesses use (Twilio, SlickText, TextMagic, etc.)

CVE-2023-21036: The Acropalypse 6 by ColinWright | 1 comments on Hacker News. Apparently for 5+ years the cropping / editing tools for screenshots on Google Pixel phones was only overwriting the start of the screenshot PNG file, but not truncating. All screenshots shared for the past 5+ years might have data recoverable from them. Demo available at https://ift.tt/CnFJXqc Google still hasn't communicated anything on this.

Tell HN: Apple Subscription Trials 3 by noncoml | 1 comments on Hacker News. A bit of unfair practice from Apple that I thought to bring to HN attention. Normally when you get a trial on a subscription for any third party app/service, you still have access to it until the end of trial period, even if you cancel the subscription. For Apple services however, like Apple TV, your trial period ends immediately and you lose access as soon as you cancel the subscription.

Ask HN: Are you still using Alfred? 2 by rpastuszak | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Has anyone used an M1 Mac Mini as a server and liked it? 2 by dwrodri | 2 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Will the coming GPT revolution require significantly more energy? 5 by beepbooptheory | 7 comments on Hacker News. Just something I am thinking about, wondering if we can even know. If we completely replaced and/or augmented, e.g., web search with GPT(-like) models, would there be substantially more energy needed in order to sustain this? (Or less, or about the same?)

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I need your help. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around ChatGPT 5 by complianceowl | 6 comments on Hacker News. Background: I work in Compliance and have for 8-years. A while back, I saw that there was a need, in Compliance, for people who know data analytics and who can build out systems that prevent and detect corporate wrongdoing. I decided to pursue a bachelors in Data Analytics for this reason. I have about a year and a half-ish left. But my mind is having a hard time reconciling my pursuit of a data analytics bachelor's degree with the capabilities of ChatGPT. I keep reading real, legitimate stories of how ChatGPT was able to all-together replace programmers for projects like developing micro services, websites, etc. I understand that programmers still need to validate the code, and I'm not saying I even understand to what degree programmers are being replaced, but I can't help but feel like my pursuit of a formal bachelor's degree or even continui

Ask HN: If Greenspun had written rules 1-9 what would they be? 2 by Decabytes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Can I stop OpenAI from using my website data as training data? 8 by nutanc | 1 comments on Hacker News. So OpenAI says that we cant use the data generated by OpenAI API to train competing models. Can I have a similar ToS for my website so that I don't allow OpenAI to train on my website data for the next versions of GPT?

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Ask HN: Which ideological software factions do you know of, and do you like any? 3 by unix_hacker | 4 comments on Hacker News. What I specifically mean is a programming community with values that transcend the projects that they maintain. In some cases, these values precede the projects themselves, and the projects are merely a tool for advancing the values. I use "faction" instead of a "community" because there is an ideological bent to them. It's not merely a community that manages a couple of helpful open source projects. Here are the ones that I know of: 1. GNU: it advocates for an OS that is libre, and can be studied and modified and shared by anyone. It has idiosyncratic attributes, like the use of Lisp as an extension language. 2. OpenBSD: unlike the FreeBSD community which is largely about FreeBSD, OpenBSD has several different projects that share a core ethos of security and correctness. Some of these projects (like Game of Trees) aren't even off

Advice on Interviewing for US Digital Service? 3 by throwaway_45321 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm preparing for an interview with the US Digital Service for a Software Engineer role in about a month. I have concerns preparing for a technical interview. Tech interviews in the private sector can be pretty brutal and I would like some time to prepare. Has anyone been through the process or is working there now? Any advice or recommendations on how to best prepare?

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Ask HN: Is anyone using GPT-4 to assist in reverse engineering machine code? 2 by politician | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Divide your cash across many accounts to keep it FDIC insured 3 by robomartin | 3 comments on Hacker News. This is a thing. Here's a service (no affiliation): https://ift.tt/rjhNmT9 Scroll down to where it says "Keep your cash FDIC insured". They will spread your funds across accounts and banks in order to stay within FDIC insured limits. You see a single virtual account. They handle the sausage making. Brilliant.

Ask HN: How do you think LLMs will affect society medium/long term? 35 by hn_throwaway_99 | 36 comments on Hacker News. I know obviously there is a ton of discussion about GPT-4 in the main announcement post, and while I'm blown away by a lot of these capabilities, I honestly don't understand how our capitalist system will survive this, long term. I'm not a Luddite, but it's pretty easy for me to see how this will get rid of the need for tons of jobs. People always love to say "technology replacing people has been happening since the beginning of time", but the change here (at least to me) is that the rate by which AI can fill jobs will (or has?) hit a tipping point where it will be faster than new jobs will pop up. How do other people feel about this? I've discounted tons of hype cycles in the past (crypto/Blockchain, Metaverse, etc.), even in cases where I was wrong (e.g. the importance of mobile), but this feels at least as consequential as the Inter

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Reddit Is Down 11 by msie | 2 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else? 3 by paganel | 4 comments on Hacker News. As the title says, curious if anyone else in here is experiencing a slightly slower HN. I'd say I started noticing it a couple of hours ago. Maybe it's because of so much stuff happening recently (OpenAI, FB layoffs etc) and the website not handling the load well?

Ask HN: Has GitHub Search always been broken? 2 by gtirloni | 1 comments on Hacker News. Very often, I search something and there are zero results. But when I click on different sections (code, repos, etc), some results start to show up. I think it has been like this forever and I can't remember when it worked properly. Maybe my memory is failing. With GitHub and Microsoft investing so much in OpenAI, what's stopping them from having the best code search in the industry?

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How to transition a team from Git-flow to trunk/CI-CD? 3 by chuie | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi all, this is my first job in a management position and I am feeling quite a bit of impostor syndrome, so I'd really love to get extra eyes on a plan to transition a team that uses git-flow with a weekly release cadence to transition to trunk and eventually ci/cd. First, there are regular problems that occur in and around releases, so this isn't busy work, some form of intervention is necessary, and because managing branch hell is part of the problem and something that git-flow is known for, moving to automation with continuous release sounds like a reasonable step. So my current plan is: Step 1: Keep current release schedule, but treat develop as if it were main. Add feature flags and minimum daily commit to develop. Step 2: Add CI/CD pipeline to non-live deployment, like blue green deployment. Step 3: Add unit/integration test gates to deployment of step 2. Step 4: Stay in hold

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Ask HN: What are the data compression characteristics of LLMs? 3 by DietaryNonsense | 2 comments on Hacker News. Disclaimer: I have only shallow knowledge of LLMs and machine learning algorithms and architecture in general. Once a model has been trained, the totality of it's knowledge is presumably encoded in it's weights, architecture, hyper-parameters, and so on. The size of all of this presumably being measurable in terms of number of bits. Accepting that the total "useful information" encoded may come with caveats about how to effectively query the model, in principal it seems like we can measure the amount of useful information that's encoded and retrievable from the model. I do sense a challenge in equating the "raw" and "useful" forms of information in this context. An English, text-only wikipedia article about "Shitake Mushrooms" may be 30kb but we could imagine that not all of that needs to be encoded in an LLM that accura

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Ask HN: How to get knowledgeable TurboTax support? 3 by orzig | 0 comments on Hacker News. Last year I got this guy who was fantastic. He spent an hour on the phone with me, had a ton of expertise, and did some additional research. But none of the 4 I've talked to this year are even reading the details of my questions, much less bringing expertise. Is there a secret to getting the good ones? (I agree that TT's lobbying is terrible, but let's talk about that on a different thread.)

Can I use university provided laptop for working on my own startup? 3 by curor213 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I was given a laptop from the University where I am currently working towards my PhD. My professor approved a laptop for me from his available funds. The co-ordinator of the lab ordered it from Apples's website and it was first vetted and secured by the IT staff of the department. I am currently in my 3rd year and I came up with a product idea, unrelated to my dissertation. I am working on the idea using my university laptop, will that be an issue in the future, especially if I start full-time on my product (in case it works out).

Ask HN: How do I overcome hatred for product managers and solutions architects? 4 by a_broken_dev | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am hoping someone out there with more wisdom than me or more personal development that went through this same sort of issue and came out the other side better can help me get some perspective because this is really killing me... I'm just going to lay it out as best as I can, and please don't worry about offending me, if there's some cold hard truth I need to hear it's OK, just let me have it. I'm a software developer with about 15 years of experience with 70% of my background being in small companies and startups where my position was some form of "software dev" but I ended up doing the solutions architect work, interfacing with clients, working with the sales/owners, designing solutions, and implementing them too (with great success!). And I loved it, working with stakeholders and coming up with creative solutions really brin

75% of USDC is backed by US Treasury Bonds (Good News) 6 by louison11 | 3 comments on Hacker News. TLDR; 75% of the US dollars backing UDSC are held in US Treasury Bonds (virtually safest asset on the planet). The downside is thus very limited. There is a lot of FUD right now. But Circle (company responsible for the peg USDC <> USD) is actually very transparent and the data is independently audited every month (https://ift.tt/qsTO5jS Last month, Circle had $43.4B in assets. They've announced that $3.3B is exposed to SVB: that's approximately 7.6% of their assets (unclear how much they have right now, but it's in that horizon). In January, a total of $11.1B was held at banks (SVB+others). Everything else ($32.4B or approximately 75% of assets) is held in a fund as US Treasury Bonds. 75% of Circle's assets are thus basically insured by the US itself. Meaning that even if SVB were to give nothing back of the $3.3B it owes to Circle (unlikely, they'd at least g

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Ask HN: Which stack is as boring (good boring) and cheap in 2023 as PHP? 4 by alentred | 3 comments on Hacker News. It is 2023 and I want to develop a web app (backend) as a part of an MVP. Here's the twist: I want to: - use boring technology - iterate fast - deploy with minimal cost for now The web frameworks I have used recently (Spring, Rails, Express, Django, Flask, Elixir) coupled with Heroku, or Fly.io, or Kubernetes - they just don't cut it for me. Don't get me wrong: I have used most of the above in production and they fit and perform well, not for an MVP though. The closest I had it to my taste was with serverless (Zappa on AWS Lambda), but it felt like the framework was quite immature by the time. Some long time ago I have been using PHP. I only have vague memories of copying files over FTP, having my site deployed instantly, and at practically no cost (hey, even with a "shared" DB). Development was fun, but I don't know if I am romanticizing it n

Ask HN: Is there any current “web of trust” social media? 5 by throwwwaway69 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I want something like reddit or twitter or HN, but only where I see content from people I've "trusted" and second and third degree etc trusted people from my direct trusts. I don't really like reading reddit anymore because I'm not convinced a large majority of the content is genuine. Reading anything in the news or anything political or even product recommendations just seems overly astroturfed and not genuine. Facebook isn't really an option because Facebook still puts crap in your feed that has corporate interests, and people don't really friend strangers.