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Ask HN: Has anyone used ChatGPT for interviewing? 2 by phernandez | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been wondering, specifically for leetcode type questions, has anyone used ChatGPT during the interview to help solve the problem? If you did, did you disclose this with the interviewer?

FYI: If you log into Reddit with the Redesign Opted Out, it Opts you in 4 by Racing0461 | 4 comments on Hacker News. you might have noticed something a bit disconcerting. If you log into Reddit with the Redesign Opted Out, as I've discovered, the platform will actually opt you back in, automatically. It's not just a technical hiccup or a bug that's slipped under the radar. This, it seems, is a deliberate dark pattern.

Ask HN: Does a new board member need to sign a contract? 4 by findhumane | 4 comments on Hacker News. My new startup is going well: traction, revenue, etc. I want to add some people to the board of directors to qualify for a grant. They've agreed informally and I shared the By Laws. I use Clerky and there's a process to add a member to the board, but it's just a board resolution with the existing members (just myself currently). The new board member doesn't have to sign anything as part of that process which I found surprising. I emailed Clerky and they didn't offer any specific guidance. Is it common for a new board member to sign some contract when agreeing to become a board member? I have high trust for these new members, so that's not an issue, but it just seems a bit odd to me for it to be so informal that they don't have to sign anything. If an agreement is common, are there any templates out there? If not, any services you might suggest for a bare ...

Ask HN: Would you load balance traffic without CDN 4 by 0xdeafbeef | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have an average traffic of 5 Gbps to the service. Currently, I'm using managed Kubernetes in GCE and paying $20,000 for traffic. I'm planning to move to another provider, but the question is how to handle load balancing. My idea is to create several A DNS records and let the client choose a random IP, but this is incompatible with Cloudflare, as it uses round-robin under the hood. After testing, it seems like Cloudflare sends all the requests to the first record. So, the second solution is to create several sub-domains and choose randomly from them. All managed load balancers will cost a ton, so that's not the way. Is there any better solution? Ideally I'd like to have one ip without any client load balancing

Ask HN: Which Lemmy communities and instances are you visiting daily? 3 by tikkun | 2 comments on Hacker News. I haven't signed up for Lemmy yet, it felt a bit inaccessible to me, but I saw this guide to lemmy (reposted in a comment below) on subredditstats and it made me curious about it. Which Lemmy communities, and on what instance, do you visit daily?

Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors? 4 by hiAndrewQuinn | 1 comments on Hacker News. I finished my EE degree back in 2020, but I never really got the sense I was working harder than my friends in CS. If anything I felt we sparkies had it a bit easier, because although the computations could be tricky and precise, we didn't usually have classes that required proof-flavored thinking similar to those infamous data structures and algorithms classes the CS kids did (well, okay, most of us did, but that was by elective choice and a minor in math in my case). Some chatter on Twitter is making it sound like most people believe the opposite to be true. So I pose it to you, hackers: Which one do you think requires more work, and under what circumstances/presuppositions?

How do you handle a bunch of email tasks? 2 by yitzshapiro | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone, I've been thinking about how we often use our email inboxes as a sort of to-do list. We leave emails unread or flag them to remind ourselves of tasks we need to complete. But is this really the best way to manage our tasks? I'm curious about your experiences. Are you okay with using your inbox as a to-do list, or does it feel too cluttered? How do you keep track of tasks that come from your emails? In the spirit of full disclosure, I've been exploring this topic in depth as part of a project I'm working on: dojj.io We're looking at ways to streamline this process, using AI to help manage tasks more effectively. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Have you found any strategies or tools that help you manage your inbox tasks effectively? Any insights would be really valuable. Looking forward to hearing from you!

Ask HN: What are your favorite profiling tools in your language of choice? 3 by pkkm | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why is HN not reachable through IPv6? 5 by codethief | 4 comments on Hacker News. It's 2023 and it looks like news.ycombinator.com lacks an AAAA record. Why?

Ask HN: What is your blogging stack? 2 by aiunboxed | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am thinking about starting a new blog, as a dev my heart says to go with making one from scratch but my mind says to rely on ghost / substack.. What do you guys use ?

Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses 5 by mr_o47 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN, What are some one man boring internet businesses you have encountered or know about

Ask HN: Is creating an OAuth app frustrating, time-consuming, and shit? 7 by Manik_agg | 2 comments on Hacker News. At Poozle (https://ift.tt/xoeTz7d), I have created over 40+ OAuth apps and have dreaded every time we had to build them. Everything with Oauth is shit! You have to fill out numerous application details and finding the right scopes is a nightmare. Once you submit an application, there is often too much back-and-forth before the app is finally approved. Possible Solution: I am considering to build an AI-powered browser extension for myself that automates the Oauth process with the following features: 1. Auto-Fill: Pre-fills 80% of the information required to create your app. 2. Scopes: Suggests scopes based on your use case and helps you understand them better. Let me know your thoughts in comments, let me know if you folks want to try it out, I will reach out to you.(https://ift.tt/j3kfhp2).

Ask HN: I think most SaaS can work well SQLite. Prove me wrong 3 by sh_tomer | 2 comments on Hacker News. I think most SaaS vendors over-complicate things, especially in the beginning of the startup journey. Using simple technologies like SQLite can significantly reduce the complexity of the project, when compared to other database technologies. what do you think?

A nice trick for small unicity constraint index in PostgreSQL 2 by LLyaudet | 0 comments on Hacker News. I found this nice trick and thought it may interest others. Imagine you have a few foreign keys in a table which together form a primary key in the database theory meaning (a minimal set of columns that yields uniqueness of rows). It may be costly in space and time to have a unique constraint on these foreign keys. But for example in Django you would not expect a huge number of sites or logistics centers, etc. If you know you data well, there are always some parameters tables which are small (less than 256 or less than 65536 rows), compared to exploitation tables (the daily data increase linked to activity). Now look at generated columns magic on a simple example: test_db=# CREATE TABLE site_center ( id INT PRIMARY KEY GENERATED ALWAYS AS ((COALESCE(center_id, 0) << 8) + site_id) STORED, site_id INT NOT NULL, center_id INT ); test_db=# insert into site_center (site_id) VALU...

Ask HN: How to monetize a Browser Extension without making users pay or leave? 2 by throwawayadvsec | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I have a cool idea for a browser extension. I tried to make it a website at first to add ads, but a browser extension seems more appropriate. How could I make money off a browser extension without making the users pay and without using dark patterns that would make the users flee?

What's your favourite unknown newsletter? 3 by joshelgar | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are your favourite (good) newsletters that don't have many followers. It seems that every newsletter I come across has 150k+ subscribers after starting 2 months ago, so would love to hear about some lesser-known newsletters that have great content.

Tell HN: OpenAI removed free trial from pricing page 2 by tagawa | 1 comments on Hacker News. In the latest Wayback Machine snapshot (27th July 2023) of the OpenAI pricing page, there's a "Simple and flexible" section that says you can "start experimenting with $5 in free credit that can be used during your first 3 months." https://ift.tt/3emUh78 As of today (28th July 2023), that section is no longer there. https://ift.tt/jmaYEP4 The free trial is still mentioned in the help pages (e.g. https://ift.tt/vr80bis ) but could they be phasing it out?

Is the appearance of “precard” in my Stripe account considered money laundering? 2 by zengweihu | 1 comments on Hacker News. I suddenly noticed that there are many "precard" transactions in my Stripe payments. My Stripe account manager told me that I am suspected of money laundering and my account has been closed. However, they did not ask us to intercept "precard" transactions.

$650 in our Stripe account has been fully refunded to the customer 3 by shmilycustom | 1 comments on Hacker News. Stripe forcefully refunded most of the funds in our account. We tried to send them proof of shipment, but they just sent us back templates repeatedly. Has Stripe started using AI to replace human responses?

Ask HN: What features do you think are missing from Goodreads? 2 by imheretolearn | 1 comments on Hacker News. What features do you think for a good book reading community are missing on reddit, 4chan etc?

How did OpenAI crawl the web so effectively without getting blocked? 4 by BrownSol | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Where can I get OpenAI model weights that used my ShareAlike content? 2 by startupsfail | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve created and contributed to the Wikipedia content, which I’ve shared with the copyleft Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license. I understand that nearly all OpenAI GPT models had used Wikipedia either directly, or indirectly. And as derived works, these also should be available under the same ShareAlike license, with no additional constraints. Where can I download the weights of all the OpenAI models, which had used my ShareAlike-licensed data?

Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting? 9 by imadkhan | 5 comments on Hacker News. I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I've been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years. I've had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails. So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.

Ask HN: Should the government provide email to its citizen? 5 by nathan_phoenix | 4 comments on Hacker News. In this day and age email is basically a necessity. To use any online service (and increasingly common for offline ones) an email address is required at the minimum. Currently those are provided by private corporations. But will, or even should, governments step in and offer this service to their citizens just like with regular mail? Came to this idea thinking about the development of the postal service and immediately thought of it as a natural continuation/evolution, but the more I think the more gotchas I see with it. Like what to use as the email identifier (people change names and places, random number are hard to remember, etc), how to stop bad actors from spamming everyone, what if someone uses it to send objectionable content, etc.

Ask HN: Can we sell SAFEs for startups as futures contracts? 3 by mixeden | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Have you successfully raised prices? 4 by presidentender | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious: has anyone successfully raised prices without backlash, especially as a product-led b2b company? I regularly see subscription price increases for streaming services and the like, but I'm curious whether anyone has accomplished something similar with SaaS without too much turnover.

Ask HN: Anyone else getting continuous adverts from YouTube? 2 by darkclouds | 3 comments on Hacker News. As per the title, anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube, making it impossible to watch anything on Youtube? Cant jump forward as it goes straight to an advert, even started watching youtube channels in the search list, but the youtube controls keep changing as well as well as dissappearing. One even managed to crash the computer, wiped out the screen, the keyboard, the mouse. Keep getting an Eon advert over and over again, 20 seconds long, singing away something about time is running out, and then immediately after the Eon advert loads of junk adverts for spurious health conditions which all seem to be voiced over by the same bloke?

Ash HN: Who is cloning my GitHub repo? 3 by puttycat | 3 comments on Hacker News. I have several github repos that frequently get cloned according to the Insights > Traffic page. These repos are of no special interest to anyone, at least not on a level that will make regular cloning beneficial. My best guess was that these are crawlers that regularly clone all repos on github, but the clones aren't evenly spaced so it doesn't look automatic. Are these git clone-crawlers after all?

Are people using TikTok resume? 3 by rprasojo | 0 comments on Hacker News. Was it taking off or shutdown?

Ask HN: What do FP languages have that JavaScript doesn't? 2 by muunbo | 2 comments on Hacker News. Whenever I read a functional programming tutorial or course, it always sings the praises of how there's an amazing REPL you can use to experiment with your code, or it will teach how to map and reduce over sequences, or first-class functions, or currying. The problem for me is, all of these awesome features already exist in popular languages like JS and Python. Then there's the "purity" side of things. For e.g. tutorials for Haskell and Clojure say that "mutation and side effects are not allowed" which makes for a more predictable program. But in my experience, I can totally just re-define variables in the REPL and no one stops me. I don't even get a warning. So I'm not sure if I'm missing something, but so far it doesn't feel so different from writing fancy ES6 syntax. The last thing is "macros". This one seems to be actually ...

Ask HN: Who are you”, “Who is this” texts 3 by supportengineer | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been getting these kinds of texts more often. They are probably scams or phishing, but It got me thinking, If your phone or the cellular phone network was inadvertently making extra copies of texts and sending them to the wrong people, how would you ever know?

Ask HN: Inventory Management Software Stack for Small Businesses? 2 by appplication | 0 comments on Hacker News. I apologize if this isn't the typical question here, but I figure at least some people on here have side hustles or are aware of companies doing cool things in this space. Please feel free to redirect or remove if there is a better place for this question. Basically, a friend of mine has an import/export business reselling various items. Everything they do is manual right now, but the general business flow: - Customers submit orders via some app - Payments are processed manually via bank details - Inventory is manually tracked, shipped overseas via some carrier (that does not provide tracking) and then delivered last mile to customers - There are two types of inventory: in stock items (have it ready to ship) and pre-order only. Pre-order items are ordered from vendors only after customers place an order. What I'm looking for: - Some way to scan barcodes, and get i...

Tell HN: I finished the short story I started as a comment in 2018 3 by jaronilan | 0 comments on Hacker News. Here it is: https://ift.tt/xM0jHWS And here is the comment from 2018 (on an account I lost access to): https://ift.tt/7hjOG68

Ask HN: Name an AI agent that you find useful 2 by itamarcode | 3 comments on Hacker News. It all started with BabyAGI and AutoGPT, and since then there are already dozens of AI agents. Which one did you try? Did you find any useful ones? What is missing? What technical capability do you think is missing?

Ask HN: IBM Model M Keyboard Alternative? 10 by laserstrahl | 19 comments on Hacker News. I heard about Unicomp's Keyboards [1]. But since there's no used to sell, i wantes to look for IBM Models M orginals. My question is: Which model to avoid? Are there any? Would connect it to a PS/2 adapter. I don't like the normal mechanical keeb market, because they're loud. [1]: https://ift.tt/7Cglq3Z

Ask HN: Are You Using Wayland? 6 by sosodev | 7 comments on Hacker News. I've recently been on a quest to find my ideal Linux desktop setup. I'm running kernel 6.4.3, the latest stable version of KDE plasma, and the latest stable version of mesa. Yet it still seems like Wayland just isn't practical. I regularly run into bugs or incompatibilities that just don't happen with X11.

Ask HN: devenv vs. devbox? (Nix tooling) 5 by Nezteb | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been getting into Nix/NixOS for the last couple months, and I keep seeing [devenv](https://devenv.sh) and [devbox](https://ift.tt/FrId6Hk) mentioned as good tools for local development. The main difference between them seems to be that devenv uses the Nix language and containers whereas devbox uses JSON and wraps `nix-shell`. There are probably more differences I'm missing. So far I've only found one HN thread with more than a couple comments that compare the two: https://ift.tt/g2DAfGK I wanted to see what the community thought; which tool do you prefer, and why?

Ask HN: Lowest Number of Background Processes 2 by kklisura | 1 comments on Hacker News. What is the lowest number of background processes/services/daemons that you can have on OS (OSX, Desktop linux, Windows) and still have a usable OS?

Ask HN: Do you meditate? How? Results? 3 by fuzztester | 4 comments on Hacker News. Question inspired by this comment on the currently top post on HN about attention spans: https://ift.tt/FLZSb68

Ask HN: How to Find a Mentor? 2 by motwanimo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a computer vision engineer at a pre-seed startup in London. I feel stuck. I have a lot of drive but I'm not sure what to focus on. I enjoy my work at the company but would like to grow financially. I believe I need some guidance. Do you have a mentor? How did you find one? What are the steps that I can take to find a mentor?

Ask HN: What books or courses do you know similar to "From Nand to Tetris"? 3 by r-physicist | 0 comments on Hacker News. As Richard Feynman famously said: "What I cannot create, I do not understand." I like to learn things to bare bones. But almost all courses are shallow. Now I am learning https://ift.tt/PmtI3Zo and it's fantastic by structure and explanation. In the past, I also completed JS and HTML courses by Anthony Alicea on Udemy. These courses also follow a similar approach to truly understanding how things work under the hood. What other books/courses could you recommend from any area of programming?

Ash HN: My country is undergoing a coup, which encryption software should I use? 7 by botencat | 1 comments on Hacker News. My country (Israel) is going through a coup d'état, which would result in a regime that can use surveillance without going through the courts. Israel has one the most advanced surveillance capabilities, that has long been used to target other peoples and nations, but as far as is known, not its own people. This might now change. I am trying to prepare in advance with encryption software, and optimally a way to communicate if traditional networks go down. Unfortunately other nations have gone through similar situations recently, so I'm wondering if there's a known guideline for these situations.

Ask HN: Looking for a Firefox compatible extension for voice controlled actions 7 by bryanrasmussen | 0 comments on Hacker News. Basically I would like to have an extension where I could say "click publish" and it will find the button with the text publish and click it. Is there anything like this for FF, I ask because the FF voice repo got shut down a couple years ago and haven't found a competitor.

Ask HN: Founding a remote-first startup – takeaways and tips? 5 by soroushjp | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm currently considering founding a new startup in a fully distributed fashion, where the first team members would be located across geographies and (to a less broad extent) across timezones. A lot of the tips online about remote-first orgs are targeted towards orgs at a later stage where they already have a mature product and are focused on maintenance/growth. This new startup would be in the early discover (pre-product market fit) stage. I'd like to hear experiences & tips from startup founders/employees that started from team member #1 as remote and before they found product-market fit. What worked for you? What didn't? Would you found a remote-first startup again given the chance? Other details, in case helpful to think about: * NewCo's product would be in AI space and purely digital * NewCo's customers would be globally spread out, with a decent con...

Math PhD to ML Engineer 4 by varane | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm stuck in a weird career-life situation, hoping someone can give me insights on what to do. Question: How do I best prepare for getting an ML engineer role after a math PhD? Kaggle, open-source, something else? Should I become proficient in PyTorch? Just implement a bunch of ML papers in my personal github? Context: I'm considering transitioning into tech industry after I complete my math PhD in 18 months. I have done enough research already to get a PhD so I'm just waiting until my advisor's funding runs out and also hopefully, the tech industry starts hiring well again. I have done ICPC in college and can solve leetcode mediums reasonably fast, but I don't have ML engineering experience. My advisor doesn't allow internships so that's not feasible (not great, but that's life). Why career change? I'm not interested to go the professor route, tenure track jobs in math are incre...

Ask HN: Software-related part-time positions? 2 by Woberto | 1 comments on Hacker News. Sorry for the vague-ish title, I'm looking for a software-related (developerment, IT, data engineer, etc.) part-time position and would appreciate any information on them like: - Do they exist/how common are they? - Where are they best found? (Haven't seen them on "who's hiring" submissions) - What kind of positions might provide flexibility in location and work hours? Personally, I'm trying to earn a little more plus have something to do since I have time, though I'm sure part time work is of interest to people in various situations (don't need the money, only have limited time due to e.g. child-rearing, etc.)

Ask HN: How do you format / speed up a SSD? 2 by laserstrahl | 2 comments on Hacker News. I wanna know how to speed up or format old SSD's. Is there a program or a guide you can recommend? Windows or Linux.

Ask HN: Meta launched Threads without a desktop client. Was it a fatal mistake? 2 by andrewstuart | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Approximately what percent smaller would a non-JS/WASM web browser be? 3 by rajnathani | 0 comments on Hacker News. The question is in regarding the lines of code / binary size, of the output subset web browser. Essentially it comes down to just a modern HTML + CSS standards rendering engine.

Ask HN: How do I train a custom LLM/ChatGPT on my own documents? 2 by johntiger1 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Could've sworn there were 1 or 12 startups in the recent batch doing this...but can't find any off the top of my google search

Is Wikipedia Down? 5 by marcosfelt | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Using no-code tools to prototype faster in a startup? (e.g. Flutterflow) 3 by Fasaiph | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m a software engineer who has not done much mobile dev, and Flutterflow (no-code tool for mobile dev) makes mobile app dev + deployment so easy: https://flutterflow.io However, it costs quite a lot ($70/month), and I heard the Dart code it generates is not easily extendable. In the early stages of a startup, it’s way more important to iterate quickly and not worry about scalability, so I’m wondering if anyone has successfully used no-code tools and is willing to share experiences with them!

Ask HN: Who do I contact to prove serious hacking 3 by hackedcanadian | 4 comments on Hacker News. Myself and my family have been victims of a hacker group. All of our devices have been hacked and are being monitored, but I don't have the ability to prove this. I am a Canadian. I have contacted CSIS but they will not take my devices and require more proof on my end, which I am unable to provide. Who can I talk to to prove this?

Ask HN: Is it too soon to rely on LLM frameworks? Better to code it myself? 2 by behnamoh | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've seen many LLM libraries that aim to facilitate using LLMs. Langchain, LMQL, guidance, AIChat, TypeChat, etc. But a lot of times I think if I implement the desired functionality on my own, I'll be able to debug it more easily. Also, frameworks come and go, but the simple API call remains the same. Am I being too cautious here, or is it too early to start using LLM frameworks?

Ask HN: Do you ask for permissions before putting clients on your landing page? 2 by throwawayadvsec | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I was wondering if you were asking for permission before putting your previous clients names/logos on your landing page? without a testimonial, just like: Our clients: Logo 1. Logo 2. Logo 3

Ask HN: Do you use ETags for performance? 4 by willsmith72 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm in the process of improving the performance of my app. Some stuff can be browser-cached, some stuff can be public-cached, but the data doesn't change much, and when it does I want the user to get the latest. At some point I'll probably have to setup programmatic cache-busting with a CDN. People don't talk about ETags nearly as much, and I know it's not the same performance gain as a cache, but are people using them in the wild? My instinct is the performance gain from not downloading vs calculating the hash should be a clear win (if a small one).

Ask HN: What are some LLM prompts you've found useful? 2 by swagmoney1606 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'll give bonus points to cross-domain (i.e using a prompt for a task outside of computer science) I'll start with mine: All of these queries are for ChatGPT using GPT-4. tip-of-my-tongue-search: Hello. I am in a tip-of-my tongue situation, and it's your job to help me figure out what thing I'm describing. Vague descriptions of how I remember something will be given to you, and it's your job to help me figure out what I'm remembering. These memories may have inaccuracies or may be conflated with other memories. Your job is to help me figure out what I might be thinking of, by giving me suggestions. Tell me what you think I might be thinking of, and also what you think I might be remembering incorrectly. When you give me a list of things that might be what I'm thinking of, factor in your personal confidence in the result. For example, if you are unsur...

Ask HN: Favorite distributed systems engineering blog posts? 2 by goldinfra | 0 comments on Hacker News. In my experience, there are a few companies that create and operate distributed systems which are simple, elegant, reliable, high performance, and maintainable. And then there are most companies, where the distributed systems are the equivalent of sprawling spaghetti code. Bloated, slow, brittle, expensive, and always in need of excessive babysitting. I've read lots of great blog posts from the former companies over the years, but I'd like to do a deep dive right now and read any that I've missed. I figured it might help if I found an example of what I consider a good engineering blog is, and Discord came to mind: https://ift.tt/nVSvrNj

Female Software Engineers and Startup Founders? 7 by aabiji | 3 comments on Hacker News. The tech industry is male dominated. And while people's sex/gender shouldn't matter, after a while one can't help but notice. Lately I've been wondering about the prominent female software engineers, programmers or startup founders that are out there and I realised that I know of none. Do you guys know of any? As a female teen who's interested in programming and who wants to found a startup one day, the gender disparity makes me more hesitant to want to go deep into the industry. So however cheesy it may sound, having people like me that I could "look up" to would make me feel more encouraged about my ambitions.

Ask HN: Why can't I buy a MacBook that is connected to the cellular network 6 by CPLX | 4 comments on Hacker News. This just mystifies me. It's such a spectacularly and obviously useful addition, and technically almost trivial to implement, and yet it doesn't exist. My iPad Pro of course can do it, and so can my iPhone, but the totally maxed-out 16" MacBook Pro can't. I'm on the road constantly, and the ability to just use my laptop whenever/wherever I want without having to fuss with a hotspot, and to have graceful failover from wifi (like if I'm at a hotel on a Zoom call) would be worth quite a bit. I know I would pay basically any price for this, and I can't be the only one. And yet.

Tell HN: Setting reader view as default will vastly improve your web experience 3 by carlosjobim | 5 comments on Hacker News. A lot has been said about the shabby state of the modern web - especially the user-hostile design and littering of advertisements. But there is a solution built into the browser, that's called reader view. Maybe some of you use it sometimes, but I'm here to say that it should be set as standard in your browser for all websites. Every article loads with the article right there, in a font and format that's suitable to read and no distractions. If an article has images, they're perfectly inserted in the reader view. If an article has YouTube videos, they're perfectly inserted in the reader view. Bright or dark mode under your control, as well as font and font size. If you feel like you're missing anything by using reader mode - you're not missing anything. It's like switching from watching movies with ad-breaks to using streaming....

Ask HN: Where can I learn about card processing fees? 2 by openbydesign | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is there a comprehensive guide or course to understand the costs/mechanisms involved in card processing? My specific focus is on finding out about Foreign Transaction Processing fees - fees levied by bank when I use my card on a website which processed my card outside of my country (AU) but still takes AUD only as payment. --- Context: I bought airline tickets recently and used Paypal as the card processor. My bank charged me hefty foreign transaction fees for it because as per the bank Paypal processed the card outside of AU. They are not interested in taking a complaint and keep hanging up me claiming I agreed to the Cards T&C's which puts a 3% fee on such transactions, and bank cant help because it costs fees and so they must pass it on to me. The airlines denies they have anything to do with this as they only quotes and priced in AUD, had no one else complained about it, ...

Ask HN: How is the Software Engineer market for 45 year olds? 7 by greenerpasture | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been a software engineer at my (large) company for a long time, in a very highly technical job at what you would call "staff level". So far everything went well, but factors outside of my control start to turn things sour. It's not an issue pertaining to my individual role, just general developments in our particular part of the company. I'm thinking about seeing what else is there. Before I go into disappointment, what is the market like when you are 45 or older?

Ask HN: A Finance Tracker 4 by Ayouby | 4 comments on Hacker News. Im looking for a way to consolidate my finances. Something with small business support. GnuCash is ancient and is too technical for me. Firefly involves self-hosting which I don't want to deal with. Things like Quickbooks, are for small businesses, I want something more inclusive. I have CSV files that I want to import each month and have the software do some auto-categorisation. How do you track your finances?

Ask HN: What are the best tools for automating web form data entry? 2 by xupybd | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What’s the Future of LLM Apps? 2 by mbowcut2 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Here’s a possible use I foresee: The LLM app that wins will go beyond the chat interface. It may start as a text prompt but it will build its own interface to meet the needs of the user. So if you need to shop for a car it build an interface that pulls car data from relevant sites/api’s and displays it in a useful way. It’ll create a way to buy or contact the seller. It will be able to answer any questions you have. Etc. Imagine an app that can morph into any app you may need. That’s the future of LLMs.

Ask HN: Anyone got a YC AI batch interview offer/rejection yet? 4 by schappim | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why did HN add a black strip on top? 3 by ilya_m | 3 comments on Hacker News. Is this in acknowledgement of Kevin Mitnick's untimely passing?

Twitter now lists job postings for some companies 3 by tikkun | 2 comments on Hacker News. For example: https://twitter.com/vercel/jobs

Ask HN: What is the point of Front end Framework? 2 by j1br | 1 comments on Hacker News. What are the key strengths of front-end frameworks that set them apart and drive their popularity? With so many frameworks out there, what motivates their diversity? Also, for both large and small-scale projects, is it viable to forego front-end frameworks and rely solely on HTML, JS, and CSS? As a junior web dev, I'm curious because I haven't encountered scenarios where front-end frameworks were a clear necessity, but I'm open to insights from the experienced HN community!

Tell HN: Parrot abandoned their Bebop and Disco drones 3 by tetris11 | 0 comments on Hacker News. [ What ] The FreeFlight Pro[1] app used to fly the Bebop and Disco drones no longer synchronizes with the Parrot servers. The Bebop drone was released in 2015, and the app worked until 2020. The app requires an online login for you to sign in with your Parrot account, so that you can access the drone lying right next to you. [ What about open source solutions? ] Ardupilot[2] is a fantastic arduino-based autopilot framework that supports all sorts of autonomous vehicles (quadcopters, planes, cars, submarines...). It has attracted all sorts of talented developers such as Peter Barker and Andrew Tridgell (yes, that tridge[3]). For the Disco, the camera can be controlled and streamed by native scripts in the plane itself, that can run alongside the autopilot. For the Bebop and Bebop2, no such hack reliably exists[4]. The fantastic 3800x3188 pixel fisheye camera (selectively cropped for ...

Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn about being a VC investor? 2 by Anon84 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m sure there are many VCs here at HN (and many people who they invested in) so I figured this must be the best place to ask. How can one who is interested in VC (from the investor perspective) learn the rudiments? What are the best books, blogs, courses, etc?

Fastest growing categories and companies across Y Combinator's portfolio in 2023 2 by abhilashcho | 1 comments on Hacker News. Just did a study on Y Combinator's portfolio to identify the fastest-growing US-based startups as well as categories, based on headcount growth, in 2023. Universe of companies : All YC portfolio companies that have raised more than $5m in funding and have more than 10 employees. A total of about 350 companies. Fastest growing industries by median headcount growth : - Aviation & Aerospace 6.80% - Medical Device 6.21% - Biotechnology 5.85% - Transportation/Trucking 5.40% - Insurance 4.84% Fastest growing categories by median headcount growth : - Recruiting 9% - Supply Chain Management 8.12% - Productivity Tools 8.05% - Aerospace 6.83% - Biotechnology 6.80% AI, Data, and Robots : The top startups in the industries above are leveraging AI, data and robots to improve processes in specific industries. Top Growth Companies : Deel (global HR and payroll)...

Ask HN: How do you find airline tickets? 9 by capableweb | 5 comments on Hacker News. Popular among my group seems to be: - Google Flights - Kayak - ITA Matrix (which shockingly still seems to be online) Is there any new great options out there for finding cheap flights?

Tell HN: WhatsApp Is Down? 20 by worldsavior | 15 comments on Hacker News. Seems to me it is.

Ask HN: What hardware are you running for your home server? 8 by Nilrem404 | 13 comments on Hacker News. Obviously interested in all of it, but here is what I am rally trying to solve: I live in an apartment, so unfortunately I cannot run full fat rack mounted equipment for space, heat, and noise reasons. Also, a partner who isn't keen on the sight of it I was thinking maybe some small thinkcenter or dell micro PCs + a NAS (Thinking QNAP because they are cheaper). Lower TDP would be great too. Power costs are a concern. Thinking about Nextcloud, plex, jellyfin, home assistant, local backups, etc... I know that it evolves quickly

MacBook Air vs. pro for development work 4 by bjacobt | 1 comments on Hacker News. My 2015 15" MBP is showing its age after 8 years of use (almost daily) and I'm in search of a new macbook and can anyone share their experiences with the newer M2 macs? I've narrowed it down to 1. 15" M2 Macbook Air with 24GB RAM & 1 TB hard disk - $2099 2. 16" M2 PRO Macbook Pro with 32GB RAM & 1 TB hard disk - $3099 3. 16" M2 MAX Macbook Pro with 32GB RAM & 1 TB hard disk - $3249 (Costco) I prefer the AIR for it's price, but I'm worried if it is a good laptop for my use? My current laptop has its fan on high speed all the time and I'm worried if AIR can handle the load. I'm not concerned about weight/size and prefer to have a machine that works for a few years. I'll have dual monitor setup with laptop display and 27" 4k external monitor I have these applications open daily 1. MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook & MS Teams + Zoom 2....

Ask HN: Anyone else notice that HN isn’t full of JavaScript frameworks lately? 37 by jjdeveloper | 23 comments on Hacker News. Does this mean we are slowing down and things will mature? Hopefully.

Ask HN: CoPilot or such users, give us a review of your experience using it. 2 by WheelsAtLarge | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Any UK/EU contractors have any luck finding US contracts? 3 by kypro | 0 comments on Hacker News. The market here in the UK is awful for contractors right now – both in terms of the quantity of jobs and the rates. I'm wondering if anyone here has had luck (or tips) finding US contract roles while based in the UK/EU? I'd be more than happy to work US office times, but obviously I would be looking for a role that's happy for me to work remote.

Ask HN: How can I get better at writing production-level Python? 10 by legobridge | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for resources that could help me write better, more professional code in Python. I've worked extensively as a software developer in Java before, so I am aware of the many things that go into writing "real" code (as opposed to what one writes for Leetcode or even an academic project), from little things like using the right annotations, to bigger ones like dependency injection frameworks. I've used Python for Leetcode, scripting, isolated ML work, writing little games, etc., and I've read and practiced much of PEP8, so it's not that I write bad Python code. But I do feel that I could be doing so much better (since I've done better in Java) and I'd like to get to that level of proficiency as soon as I can. In that vein, I'm looking for any resources that have worked for any of you and you think would be suited for me. Than...

What's the difference between YC 1.1 and 1.2 SAFE? 2 by amnikelashley | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Why are technical interviews legal while IQ tests are not in the US? 3 by amichail | 14 comments on Hacker News. Technical interviews often ask you to solve a problem on the spot quickly while someone is watching you. Doing well on this activity is probably highly correlated with having a high IQ. However, this is not how people work in practice and so the work may not need such a high IQ. So why are such technical interviews legal in the US if IQ tests are not?

Ask HN: What ever happened to the “coming wave” of delivery drones? 2 by cgb223 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I feel like a few years ago all the rage was that Amazon and other retailers were going to deliver things via drones, straight to your doorstep Food delivery companies as well seemed to be testing out robots that would bring your food to you albeit in a more sidewalk bound way Its been a few years and I have yet to have a single thing drone delivered to my house What happened to that alternate future? Are companies still working on it? Or did we move on from that idea for some reasons we discovered?

Quivr and automate tedious tasks using gpt3.5-turbo 2 by mpichardo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I love automating things. Quill AI and dili are new yc companies that are automating tedious knowledge worker tasks. I am looking to build something similar automation workflow for another industry that is not finance. Anyone want to chat about it?

Ask HN: Those with engineering blogs with 5k+ views/month – show and tell 3 by polalavik | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How do y’all manage your computer hostnames? 2 by sohalsdr | 3 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been using a particular hostname scheme for a while now, but it isn’t really cutting it, as I’m running out of good hostnames. I like the idea of very friendly hostnames (a clean name I can easily use to identify a certain system), but part of me wants to be a little more descriptive, especially since I have a lot of devices that I use on a regular basis and that are identified on things like GitHub and Tailscale via their hostname. I’m curious about how other people manage (or don’t manage) the hostnames for their computers and servers.

Ask HN: Looking for new hobbies to relax, grow or make friends, any ideas? 7 by matthewfelgate | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm a man in my late 30s, looking for some new hobbies to try that will help me relax, grow, and make friends. I'm open to anything, but I'm particularly interested in hobbies that are: - Relaxing. I don't do this enough. Maybe something outside? - Social. I want to make new friends. - Challenging. I want to learn new things and challenge myself. (eg learning a new skill) I'm not sure where to start, so I'm hoping for some suggestions from the community. What are your favourite hobbies? What do you recommend for someone who is looking for something new? I'm particularly interested in hobbies that can help me relax, as I'm not very good at it and don't do it enough. I'm also looking for hobbies that can help me grow my skills or knowledge, or that can help me meet new people. I'm open to any suggestions, so please feel...

Using ChatGPT to inject malicious code into Open Source projects 4 by surume | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just a thought on a potential attack using ChatGPT. GPT-4's coding skills are really amazing, but they also open a potential avenue for attack on Open Source projects. SCENARIO: Attacker scans open issues of popular open source libraries for easy to solve problems. Using ChatGPT Premium with Web-browsing, ChatGPT may be able to come up with a solution, or at least 70 - 80% of the solution almost instantly. The attacker can then create a Pull Request and add some malicious code to it (think of the solutions to the Underhanded C contest) which have a decent chance of being overlooked by the dev team. WHY THIS IS DIFFERENT: By leveraging ChatGPT with Web Browsing, attackers can increase the volume (and possibly the quality) of attacks against popular open source projects.

Ask HN: Best place to sell domain names? 2 by obaid | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have a few domain names that I have been holding on to for a few years and I think it's about time to let them go. Wondering if there is a good marketplace to just list them and make some cash for a new hobby.

Ask HN: Why isn't YouTube taking action against Roel Van de Paar? 4 by KomoD | 2 comments on Hacker News. Some context: Roel Van de Paar is a YouTube user who has been spamming the platform with videos for years. His channel has over 2 million videos, all of which are low-quality clips that are designed to appear in search results for technical terms, essentially just taking Stack Overflow questions and answers, all the videos start with the same pre-recorded clip of him talking for a bit and then it transitions into just the question text, and then to each answer. Here's an example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyyzi6l7n1U His spamming has had a negative impact on YouTube and it's search function. So my question is then, why hasn't YouTube taken any action against him or his channel?

How do companies organize or visualize their businesses? 2 by Thebasess | 0 comments on Hacker News. Im curious how YC companies, startups or even medium to large businesses organize themselves overall and keep track of or visualize everything? Is there a dashboard for your entire business?

Ask HN: Do we need more users to browse /newest on HN? 3 by notRobot | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Students who graduated this summer, how are you finding IT job market? 4 by ak_111 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Interesting/geeky home decor projects? 2 by traverseda | 0 comments on Hacker News. I hesitate to ask because I worry something like this will attract marketers, but are there any interesting home decor projects you've seen? I saw a fake nixie clock^1 on hackaday that used OLED modules to pretent to be nixie tubes. I've seen some incredibly expensive newspaper e-ink displays^2 Any interesting home decor projects you're aware of? 1: https://ift.tt/1J2ENaS 2: https://ift.tt/J7yAjwH

Ask HN: Who are some key people to follow in the VR/XR/spatial-computing fields? 2 by msndr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Some names that come to mind: Jaron Lanier, John Carmack, Michael Abrash. I'm sure there is a more exhaustive list.

Meta taskforce to combat trade of child sex abuse materials after damning report 3 by vogon_laureate | 0 comments on Hacker News. The SIO reported that Instagram has allowed users to search for terms that its own algorithms know could be linked to SG-CSAM, with a pop-up screen for users warning that “these results may contain images of child sexual abuse”. The screen gives users the option to “see results anyway”.

Ask HN: I get defensive when engineers critique my decisions, help 3 by haburka | 0 comments on Hacker News. I tend to be the lead on projects I run and I have a lot of experience in my field, and I try very hard to make technical decisions that are well justified and correct given the constraints and conditions of the project. Generally I’m fine when most engineers give advice or opinions but sometimes people will say things that I strongly disagree with and it seems that I need to spend time explaining why they’re wrong, which can be a bit difficult in a meeting. I find myself getting a bit overwhelmed and defensive if someone says something with a lot of conviction and it’s something I disagree with. I would much rather be indifferent and calmly consider their perspective and come up with some kind of appreciative response but its hard to be indifferent when I know I’ll have to build the outcome of this decision. Any advice?

Ask HN: Do you taking screenshots frequently while using your computer? 2 by amichail | 7 comments on Hacker News. Maybe there's something on the screen that you might want to look at later?

What are the best online articles you’ve read 2 by Wherecombinator | 0 comments on Hacker News. This story of the MS Estonia comes up every once in a while and I think it’s the best writing I’ve ever read online. I’m just curious what others think is the best they’ve read https://ift.tt/1VHE7ZR

Ask HN: Open-source, self-hosted alternatives to Hansei/Whismer/Documind 2 by ElectroNomad | 0 comments on Hacker News. I swear I saw an open source project for GPT-powered, self-hosted document repository. Searched through entire "Show HN" to no avail.

Ask HN: Why is it assumed to be harder to bootstrap a Reddit-type site today? 2 by mustafa_pasi | 6 comments on Hacker News. Are today's users more demanding? Is it because they have a shorter attention span and would get too bored with a slower website? Is it just the discovery itself that would be hard? Is the market already over-saturated with options? What is your take?

Tell HN: Rust is the superglue 3 by itsmefaz | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am going through an existential crisis as a developer. I am looking to revamp my entire skillset to align more with where I believe the future of software engineering is heading. And during this phase, I encountered Rust and loved it, but I couldn't wrap my head around its existence. Rust has a good balance of low-level and high-level abstractions, but I didn't know where to use them. For web and mobile, there is the JS ecosystem. For machine learning, we have the Py ecosystem. I see members of the Rust community thinking of Rust as a replacement for these languages, instead the right approach is to focus on enhancing these languages and becoming the backbone for this two ecosystems. Rust is the superglue we needed!

Ask HN: How could I safely contact drug cartels? 5 by csears | 24 comments on Hacker News. Ok, this is going to sound a little weird, but bear with me. I have an idea that has the potential to reduce fentanyl deaths, reduce drug-related violence, and improve operating margins for drug cartels. I assume the cartel leaders are essentially profit motivated, and would be interested in something that would prevent their customers from dying, cut down on the violence that brings law enforcement attention, and improve their profit margins. I realize it sounds a little crazy, but, hypothetically, how would I safely go about setting up meetings with cartels? I'm not even sure where to start or what kind of lawyer to check with for advice. Email in my bio if you'd rather reach out directly. Thanks!

Ask HN: What's the longest uptime you have for a server? 2 by mekster | 0 comments on Hacker News. I once had a server I setup for a company's internal use and the other day I just looked at its uptime and it was around 3000 days which was interesting. What are your tips to keep a server running for a very long time? Do you ignore restart warnings after kernel updates? Do you actually actively maintain it or you just semi abandon it to let it keep going? What are the OS of those servers?

Ask HN: Are there any modern AI-assisted Interior Design / Layout remodel apps? 2 by damascus | 3 comments on Hacker News. I just bought a house that has a really weird layout. Previous owner had it split for a rental unit and I'm taking over the whole house. It needs a lot of work and I'm pretty handy when it comes to the work but not when it comes to know how to layout rooms / spaces and even less when it comes to design. I'm already looking for a professional interior designer but I'd also like to play with some layouts myself as well.

Ask HN: Who of you thinks they have what it takes to start a company? 2 by mstipetic | 1 comments on Hacker News. And what’s stopping you?

Ask HN: What Were the Differences Between Symbolics Genera and Xerox Interlisp-D 5 by linguae | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have experience with Scheme, Racket, and Common Lisp, including teaching undergraduate-level courses on programming language paradigms and principles. I am also an avid reader of programming language literature, and for years I've been impressed with what I've read about the Lisp machines of the 1980s, as well as projects inspired by them such as Apple's work on Newton (which started as a Lisp project until John Sculley made an executive decision to have C++ be the implementation language), SK8, and Dylan in the 1990s. However, having being born in the late 1980s, I never got to use a Lisp machine, and the only one I've seen is the LMI-LAMBDA machine in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. There's a lot of nostalgia, mystique, and praise surrounding the Symbolics Genera operating system, especially its development environment, ...

Ripple token is a not security when sold to the general public 5 by rlalwani | 4 comments on Hacker News. A federal judge ruled that the Ripple Labs Inc. token is a security when sold to institutional investors but not the general public, granting a partial win to the SEC in a long-awaited decision that could help determine the future of crypto regulation.

Ask HN: What YouTube channels do you watch with your kids? 3 by KennyFromIT | 1 comments on Hacker News. Parents of HN... What do you kids like to watch on YouTube? What do they like to watch that you also like to watch? Looking for a collection of interesting, educational, or just generally entertaining channels that will help me battle the kids toy and gamer influencer channels that they're hooked on.

Ask HN: For older devs, do you feel like you have missed your prime time? 4 by abdnafees | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am 27 years old. Did my bachelor's in CS in 2018. Worked in a non tech role for SAAS product for 3.5 years. Moved back to engineering last year. I am now working on a PHP backend and React on the front. I go through various forums and find that people DID A LOT of cool stuff while I was busy playing with Arduinos and OpenCV. I did learn about the kernel a bit but that's about it.The amount of development that I see people have gone through in the the last 5 years is insane. Sure, there is a lot of sugar coating but I still feel the amount of compute and resources that are available now might mark the point of no return. I hope I am making sense here.

You Can't Have a Free Software AI Stack 4 by Vox_Leone | 5 comments on Hacker News. A creeping crisis in free software? You've probably noticed by now that it's not possible to build a complete AI stack with free software. You can start building your dataset with free tools, in house, but soon you will run into difficulties with dataset annotation and model training. If your work is in CV area (my case) you can choose manual labeling with (merely) Open Source tools, or use a backend to automate the task [Tensorflow, PyTorch, JAX, etc., all proprietary]. Image annotation tools like [often require] working by pulling images from the cloud rather than your workstation. Then you soon find yourself making an account with Microsoft, Google or Amazon. Are you a genius with plenty of time to do everything on your premises? You won't escape Nvidia's [GeForce] or Intel's [Arc] tentacles. Then you go back to Tensorflow/PyTorch/OpenCV/Nvidia/Intel to train and put your m...

Ask HN: Best Dashboard for Small Startup? 2 by throwaway309155 | 0 comments on Hacker News. As a founder, I find myself daily navigating through several tools like Google Analytics, Sentry, JIRA, Retool, Firebase, and many others to track various aspects of my startup's operations. This constant switching is starting to become a significant time drain. I'm curious to hear from this community - what dashboards or tools are you using to consolidate this data into a single, easy-to-digest view? What do you like about them, and what are their downsides?

Plain old gzip+kNN outperforms BERT and other DNNs 3 by albert_e | 0 comments on Hacker News. As per this paper: “Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors Zhiying Jiang, Matthew Yang, Mikhail Tsirlin, Raphael Tang, Yiqin Dai, Jimmy Lin https://ift.tt/XQJhzW2 via: twitter.com/goodside/status/1679358632431853568

Ask HN: WHich tutorial/book to explain how CSS Layout work under the hood? 2 by revskill | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Predatorial old men preying on younger men at the workplace is misconduct 3 by Laccadive | 0 comments on Hacker News. There's a big scandal unfurling at the BBC in London about allegations against a highly respected and well-known BBC presenter (who is married with two kids) chasing after and harassing young men for gay sex. It all started after a concerned mother tried to complain to the BBC about the presenter supposedly taking advantage of her financially distressed drug addicted sun (and consequently fueling his drug habit). My understanding of the claims are: - A mother claims that a BBC presenter took advantage of her financially poor drug addicted son for sex by paying him over 35,000, though the son himself has stated the claims were rubbish (through some of the most expensive lawyers in London might I add). - Two other men have claimed that the presenter harassed them on social media. One claimed that the presenter chased him on third party apps after being rejected on ...

Tell HN: LinkedIn banned me because of my avatar, in the middle of my fundraise 78 by scrollaway | 41 comments on Hacker News. I've been on LinkedIn for a while with zero issues with my normal cartoon avatar (which I use absolutely everywhere). Then yesterday, in the middle of my new startup's fundraise, they hit me with an ID verification and banned my account + deleted my startup's page. My profile is missing. I have unanswered messages with people whose emails I don't have. Potential investors etc. Friends reaching out asking me why my profile is missing. They didn't tell me why. Still this morning I didn't know. Now they just responded with an email telling me my "appeal has been denied", and telling me that they removed my avatar for not complying with the TOS. Zero warning, just straight to ban. This is the avatar: https://leclan.ch (it's used with the author's permission)

Ask HN: Co-founder equity split methods? 6 by askhn2023 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am a solo founder that created a MVP with help from a friend. The product has both software and hardware. I wrote all the software and worked on the hardware with my friend. My friend designed the main PCB of the product. Now I wanted to bring my friend as a co-founder for a couple of reasons: 1. They have complimentary skills: hardware / PCB design. 2. I need a co-founder overall to improve productivity and need different inputs on many things. The problems: 1. Currently my friend can only commit 1 full day per week. Future commit depends on how things go. 2. I started the project long before my friend started helping design the PCB. (about 2 years before). 3. The software work is far more than the hardware work in this project. 4. If I split the equity, say 10%, for my friend as co-founder given their commit level. What happens when they increase their commit level in the future, say to 50% or e...