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Tell HN: Happy New Year to Everyone 4 by ekianjo | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just passed midnight here. Have a great year everyone!

Ask HN: How to work with disengaged coworkers? 2 by gtirloni | 2 comments on Hacker News. If you have to work with other coworker(s) that, for whatever reason, are disengaged and you can't do anything about what makes them disengaged. How do you handle that and stay motivated yourself?

Happy New Year HN! 115 by thunderbong | 22 comments on Hacker News. I spend too much time on HN. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only place which feels worth visiting multiple times a day! Wishing everyone a great 2024!

Ask HN: AI Course 101 for a total noob 2 by codegeek | 1 comments on Hacker News. I can do some wrappers using OpenAI but if one wanted to learn fundamentals of AI including things like how to train a model etc, what are some of the best resources/tutorial/courses online ? Willing to pay for quality as well.

Ask HN: In 2024, become an expert in Docker or Podman? 2 by profwalkstr | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a DevOps and need to up my container game. I plan to become an expert in Docker but Podman is a serious contender. It looks like Podman might have a bright future since Red Hat is investing a lot of money in it while Docker is still scratching their heads looking for a business model that the community won't reject. Podman seems to have a better financial future outlook since it's subsidized by Red Hat's OpenShift strategy. Although I know Docker is the "standandard" and Podman sometimes has incompatibilities with Docker which it shouldn't have. HN folks seem to prefer Podman instead of Docker. What's the smartest choice here? Invest my time to become an expert in Docker or Podman?

Ask HN: Did Slack/Discord help the engagement for your open-source project? 2 by Oras | 0 comments on Hacker News. A lot of open-source projects use Slack or Discord to create a community. If you have an open-source project: 1. Have you used any of these platforms to create an active community for your project? 2. What challenges did you face while building the community? 3. If you had to start again, would you still use the same platform or opt for something different?

Ask HN: Where to go after learning "beginner" CS like coding? 4 by MarioCircuit | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello all, I'm a high school senior and a longtime lurker. You can guess by my presence here that I'm interested in all things CS, as a hobby if not necessarily a profession, but I've got no idea what to actually do with that interest. I've done all the "beginner" stuff like learning Java/Python, making scripts and projects for my own computer, trying archlinux on a VM. I've taken all the CS courses at my school (they're frustratingly shallow) and I just don't know how to go from playing with my own glorified "Hello World" scripts in noob world to actually making projects people use, seriously tinkering with my computer, etc. Seeing that post from a week or so back about the 16 year old self-hosting with their own servers was kind of my wakeup call. While I've been twiddling my thumbs dreaming of doing something li

Ask HN: What talks do you consider real gems? 5 by divan | 4 comments on Hacker News. What are the talks that you consider real gems? The kind that sticks with you for a long time either due to the exceptional content or delivery. Some insightful and impactful talks that have influenced your thinking or work. These could be from YouTube, tech conferences, or any other source — preference for the fresh stuff from 2023, but not necessarily. Please share your top picks and couple of words of why they stood out to you. Thanks!

Ask HN: How does Google Widevine work under the hood? 4 by mkgeorge7 | 0 comments on Hacker News. In an attempt to watch a movie together with a friend over Zoom, I found that while screen sharing, HBO Max (via the browser) blacked out the entire screen in a preemptive effort to combat bad actors from exploiting copyrighted material. I did some digging and found the source of this technology: Google Widevine. I tried circumventing this restriction and visited HBO Max from Brave browser, but even there, I was prompted to download this extension lest I wouldn't be able to access the site. I'm a web developer, so a couple of questions come to mind: 1)How exactly would any browser environment be privy to me using a screen sharing via another mac app, zoom? Some preliminary research suggests that browsers can't tap into the ScreenCaptureKit API, which has me a little perplexed. I'm curious to know what information is being ingested by a browser when I screen share via zoo

Tell HN: SSL Error on Startupschool.org 2 by sergiotapia | 1 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/6lYLSjP Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information from sso-auth.startupschool.org (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards). Learn more NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

Ask HN: Have you landed a job from Twitter/X? 3 by blueridge | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just curious if anyone has any stories about positive exchanges and connections that have led to contract gigs or full-time employment?

Ask HN: Good resources to plan the right plugin architecture 2 by devdiary | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am seeking solution to plan architecture to support new addon that can enhance the value of an existing web app. In current form, the solution is npm packages. We build npm packages that use the product's SDK to interact with its api but when we also want to have a ui component, it becomes a circular dependency. Also there are multiple common components copied across various packages that are common among all. The goal is to decouple tiny functionalities from the main codebase while maintaining the common functionalities in the core project. Appreciate your suggestions and resources.

Ask HN: What books do you want to read over again? 5 by arjun_krishna1 | 3 comments on Hacker News. For me "The Godfather" by Mario Puzo, "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card and the Bhagvad Gita

Ask HN: Why is my web server being attacked? 4 by litoE | 6 comments on Hacker News. I run a small Web server. It's a vanity project, very low traffic - less than 50 pages served per day. Strictly HTML - no CGI, no PHP, nothing. For the past couple of weeks the server has been the target of a SYN Flood attack. Also very low volume - 100-150 SYN packets (with forged IP addresses) received per hour. I have all the usual mitigations in place and the attack is not affecting the server. However, I am curious why it's being attacked. I have not received any "ransom" email, the server does not host anything that is even mildly controversial and the forged IP addresses are always different and from all over the world so I'm not being used to flood some other server. Can anyone suggest a purpose for this attack?

Ask HN: E-ink tablet recommendations for self-hosted sync 2 by arcza | 1 comments on Hacker News. I was looking at the reMarkable and noticed ddvk/rmfakecloud made a project to self-host the interface. It looks promising, but I'm not tied into reMarkable yet. What device would folks go for if starting out today? The only core requirement is self-hosted sync. (reasons: privacy, vendor lock-in, Evernote failed, etc)

Ask HN: Seeking lost gems of the web: what have you been unable to find again? 5 by maremmano | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone! I'm curious about what interesting or important content have you searched on the internet for but just can't seem to find anymore? This could be an old video, a long-lost website, or even a piece of vital information that's disappeared. I'm eager to hear about the digital treasures you and we've lost! (can be a video, a website, a resources, or some important information). Thank you for your time.

Could Google Bard Disrupt Universities? 2 by daly | 0 comments on Hacker News. Step 1 Google collects a bunch of playlists. Bard classifies them as "networking", split by sub-topic (queueing theory, congestion handling, DNS, TCP/UDP, hardware types, wireless vs wired vs quantum, etc.) Step 2 is for Bard to summarize each lecture and create a 1-page summary of the important points as well as a syllabus of each course. Step 3 is a use the lectures as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) so Bard is able to interactively answer questions about networking before, during, and/or after the lectures. Step 4 is for Bard to create (or find) github repositories related to the course as well as the whole subject of networking. So now Bard IS the teacher. Iterate by topic. Step 5 is to have Bard create a "canonical version" of network lectures that it has self-generated, curated by experts in the field. Now you've disrupted all the Universities. I suspect tha

Ask HN: Platform for kids to learn how to code 3 by golanggeek | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’m trying to find a platform where my kids can start learning coding esp. that makes it more interesting and engaging for them.

Ask HN: Sustainability and open air heated swimming pools 2 by profsummergig | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm traveling through a state well-known world-wide for its virtue-signaling on sustainability (climate/environmental). My motel has an open air heated swimming pool and hot tub. And it's cold outside. All of yesterday, I was the only person who used either. Two vats containing thousands of gallons of water. One heated to a very high temperature, the other to a slightly lower temperature. All year long, 24/7. Steam constantly rising from both. How do they (the state's government/activists/citizens) justify this? Is this energy coming from a green source and cannot be used elsewhere?

Ask HN: Share your favorite software blog posts of 2023 6 by devta | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey folks, I'm on the lookout for standout software engineering blog posts this year! Interested in anything from system scaling to crafty architectures, optimization, programming languages, and cool features. Whether it's from open-source projects, companies, or individuals, what are your absolute favorite blogs for tech insights in 2023? P.S. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Ask HN: What will you be working on over xmas? 6 by etewiah | 8 comments on Hacker News. Merry xmas everyone. I'll be stuck at home coding most of the day. Who else will be in that situation and what will you be working on?

Ask HN: Resources to learn boring architecture for a small startup? 3 by dondraper36 | 0 comments on Hacker News. The title might sound dumb, but the real goal is to learn more and eventually get better at simple system designs like in the terrific posts below: https://ift.tt/G5YoxNX https://ift.tt/vAoWbLl There are a lot of resources on distributed systems and interview preparation where the focus is on FAANG scale, distributed setups, exobytes of data, which is cool if you are working on such a project but most likely you are not. I am not, for example. I really admire these articles because their authors have such a great understanding of many different aspects of development. While reading them, I noted to myself that I personally can't even answer with confidence what a single reasonably fat server can handle with just a web server and Postgres. I have also always worked with managed DBs because it so happened that the companies I worked for are active cloud users. Even wor

Ask HN: What's HN Tech Stack? 5 by tumidpandora | 3 comments on Hacker News. Apologies if redundant, asking out of curiosity.

If only someone told me this before my first startup 44 by johnrushx | 9 comments on Hacker News. 1. Validate idea first. I wasted at least 5 years building stuff nobody needed. 2. Kill your EGO. It's not about me, but the user. I must want what the user wants, not what I want. 3. Don't chaise investors, chase users, and then investors will be chasing you. 4. Never hire managers. Only hire doers until PMF. 5. Landing page is the least important thing in a startup. 6. Hire only fullstack devs. There is nothing less productive in this world than a team of developers. 7. Chase global market from day 1. You'll win or fail despite the market you target in most cases, so go for bigger upside. 8. Do SEO from day 2. As early as you can. I ignored this for 14 years. It's my biggest regret. 9. Sell features, before building them. Ask existing users if they want this feature. I run DMs with 10-20 users every day, where I chat about all my ideas and features I wanna add. 10. Hir

Ask HN: What's New in GANs? 2 by jakeinspace | 0 comments on Hacker News. I remember about 7 years ago, generative adversarial networks were the next big thing in ML. Then transformers came along, which from my outside perspective seem to have siphoned off a large chunk of research effort from across the field. Are GANs still an area of significant research and real-world use these days? I always thought the underlying idea was beautiful in its simplicity.

AdSkipper – free and open source tool that you love 8 by mileta_dulovic | 1 comments on Hacker News. Let me start this by saying that I don't sell anything, I am not seeking any money or fame. I am just trying to help the community. Everything here is fully free and open source. TLDR; Extension that bypasses YouTube ads, and is fully undetectable by their system. Works on every browser out there, with Safari support on the way. All links are at the bottom of the post Hi everyone. I am web dev with over 6 years of experience in the field. About 7-8 months ago I created https://adskipper.me, a browser extension that will skip YouTube ads automatically. After seeing that it works without an issue, and since I saw that uBlock is failing steadily (I am not hating, I am just stating the fact that more and more users have issues with it, including me), I decided to put it up on Chrome and Firefox web stores, and make it open source on GitHub (link below) It is not working as regular ad

Ask HN: Is Firefox team too small to do serious security tests? 2 by urlwolf | 1 comments on Hacker News. With the year coming to an end, I was thinking about what would make me switch away from FF. There's only one thing: security. With a dwindling market share, and a C-suite that seems to be distracted at best, the risk is that the team is too small. What do you think? Looking at raw numbers of cve reports, FF is doing better than chrome: https://ift.tt/txPDorW https://ift.tt/2uEz1oA But the severity of those reports is another matter. One single report could make a night and day difference.

Why is GUI programming so hard? 2 by tripleo1 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Some smart guy (may or may not be Rich Hickey) was allegedly heard to have said about GUI programming, "I don't do that kind of stuff." Over the years, I have observed the fact that some /many things about GUI is/are just unnecessarily stupid. See Jgoodies-binding, and more recently elm-lang and htmx for unexamples of this. btw, rip

Ask HN: Better to submit scientific paper here than a news story about it? 7 by bookofjoe | 4 comments on Hacker News. I ask because when I submit a news story, there's often a predominantly negative tone to the comments because of any number of reasons: clickbait headline, inaccuracies, writer's knowledge base and credentials, misinterpretation of scientific results, methodology, etc. Yet when I submit original scientific papers, far more often than not they pass through HN unremarked, as if they never appeared.

Ask HN: Hosted Spam Filtering Services 2 by gtirloni | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for a low volume, paid or not, spam filtering service to put in front of my MX. Any recommendations?

Ask HN: What's your favourite podcast/newsletter for the industry you work in? 2 by user0x1d | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are your go-to "test" questions when evaluating a new LLM? 2 by johntiger1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Do you have a go-to question (or several) to check if an LLM knows its stuff? For me, I ask a simple question: "What is Operation Konrad III" which most LLMs fail due to the (relative) obscurity of the event.

Ask HN: What's your self-care routine? 3 by sieste | 3 comments on Hacker News. Like most I'm on a constant journey of Looking After Myself. These days this includes running, strength training, spending time with friends and family, something resembling meditation, fasting, drawing, eating well, and more. I'm wondering what individuals do to care for their physical and mental health without it becoming a full time job. What are your routines, hacks and rituals?

Ask HN: What are your book recommendations from 2023? 5 by amrrs | 1 comments on Hacker News.

I salute everyone on call/working production support through the holidays 3 by waynesoftware | 1 comments on Hacker News. Thank you for keeping systems available and safe. I've been there many times in the past, including having to fly at the last minute to a non-internet-connected data center in NJ to babysit an emergency production bug fix that took the entire holiday to create, install, verify, and monitor.

Ask HN: Vite or NextJS? 3 by chadash | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am building a new project from scratch. I have a backend already written in Python/FastAPI. I have React/Typescript experience with CRA and Vite (and I prefer the latter). I haven't used NextJS before, but I'm interested in learning more about it. I'm thinking of using it and figuring it out as I go along, but I'm wondering how much time I should expect this to set me back? If I'm already familiar with React, will NextJS take me a few hours to pickup? A few days? Weeks? I understand that this is a broad question and everyone has different capacity to learn, but I'm trying to get a rough sense since I don't want to push off deadlines too much.

Ask HN: How do you catch up to the research of LLMs/Transformers etc.? 3 by praveen9920 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have been trying to catch up on research that has happened in the last 5 to 10 years on transformers, GANs, LLMs, etc. There are some amazing resources out there explaining some of the aspects. I also started reading original papers for better context. However, most of them refer to previous papers and I feel like I am falling into the rabbit hole and discovering more research. How do you catch up to the fast-moving research? Here are some resources I use: 1. https://ift.tt/iHQvd4S 2. Two minutes papers ( Youtube ) 3. https://ift.tt/yVIOKga 4. https://ift.tt/hFWejkq ( for finding references )

Ask HN: What is something that had the largest positive impact on your life? 3 by hellohihello135 | 6 comments on Hacker News. Could be a person, book, diet, lifestyle change or really anything you think had a very positive impact on your life.

Ask HN: Are you (still) excited about LLMs? 5 by pkdpic | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who do you get career advice from? 3 by pkdpic | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been a bit surprised at how little interest in mentorship / advice giving I've encountered since career pivoting into software development. I feel like I'm at a big crossroads where choosing between a straight-forward remote pretty isolated position building practical government LLM tools with ideal work-life balance, and hopping back into startup land with one of the new much sexier ai startups that seem to be going into hiring mode. I'm a dad and spending time with my kid, taking care of myself etc is obviously the top priority, but it's hard to judge if it's a long-term career mistake not to jump ship to a more exciting project with more energized peers that could provide a better professional network etc. Details aside I just realized that even though I feel like I know a lot of people in tech from Recurse Center, conferences, highschool etc no one has shown any parti

Ask HN: What is must-have for a systems programming language? 2 by mrbait | 3 comments on Hacker News. Obviously, any systems language must have predictable memory layout for at least a subset of its types, including atomic (as in primitive) and composite types -- but probably it's not quite necessary (nor possible) for function types. What are other language features that are similarly crucial? I'd argue even arrays are kinda optional, since they can be encoded as `Array = exists (n: Size, a: Type); (repeat a > take n > reduce ((x, y) -> (x, y)))`

Ask HN: How to focus on learning instead of just finishing tasks in university? 2 by tripdout | 4 comments on Hacker News. I often find that, instead of actually understanding concepts that are taught in university, I only know enough to complete the assigned work or solve the questions on the exam. In other words, I know what to do in order to solve the types of questions we're going to have to solve in an exam, but I don't have a real, longer-term understanding of the concepts (or even much of an understanding at all when it's possible to follow steps to solve certain types of problems). This is coming from a CS degree that teaches a lot of theoretical math concepts. Even for questions where you have to prove something, I often just understand what the proof should look like and what it should include, but I sometimes don't truly 'get' it. It's also hard to find time to do deeper investigations into concepts when that time spent isn't going to incre

Ask HN: What are the boring parts of software development? 2 by devstein | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, we are building Dosu (https://dosu.dev/) to help software engineers with all the boring, "engineering knowledge work" that happens outside the IDE. Everything from fielding technical questions from sales to helping product groom the backlog. What types of boring "engineering knowledge work" would you like to see automated?

DietPi released a new version 8.25 2 by StephanStS | 0 comments on Hacker News. DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts. The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://ift.tt/6O84NWj The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/ Wikipedia: https://ift.tt/59xUBkJ The project released the new version DietPi v8.25 on December 16th, 2023. The highlights of this version are: Orange Pi 3B, PINE64 STAR64: SBCs newly supported Raspberry Pi, Quartz64: Kernel upgrade NZBGet: Migrated to the repository of the new project maintainer Fixes and updates for Proxmox, DietPi-Update, DietPi-Backup, Ampache, Kodi, TasmoAdmin The full release notes can be found at: https://ift.tt/j34VNIA

How reverse engineering Silicon With AI? 2 by ahmetak | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, I am just wondering why not we are building new AI/ML to completely build silicone scheme from images of it ? I mean we can ptychography of any chipset. And there is many Open IP so AI can interpret the circuits. As you know producing the chip not to much, we can accept to pay the engineering and advertising of them however monopoly of GPU/CPU is not acceptable. Lets talk and create road map or trash this idea.

Ask HN: Why SSL certs are not decentralized? 3 by devneelpatel | 3 comments on Hacker News. Maybe a noob question: Why SSL/TLS certs are not decentralized? Is it not possible to set public key in DNS TXT record and have private key on the server. Would that not solve encryption? Why do we need SSL / TLS certs from a CA like LetsEncrypt?

Ask HN: What email service are you using these days? 8 by voidhorse | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm considering switching email providers and realized I don't really know what services people use these days, excluding the big one that begins with a g. What are the HN community's current recs when it comes to email?

How to maximize a free time at work? 5 by r_loboda | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi, everyone! I really like studying computer science. I try to learn whenever I have free time. But here’s the thing—I work at a hotel front desk, and I often have time when no one is using the computer. The problem is, people interrupt me a lot. So, I only get short 5-10 minute breaks every 30 minutes to do my work. It’s tough to learn because of these interruptions; I can’t concentrate well. Any suggestions to make learning easier in this situation?

Ask HN: How to figure out a good direction/goals for the year ahead? 22 by ChildOfChaos | 18 comments on Hacker News. I always tend to fall into the trap of overthinking this. As someone that can always perceive all different angles and options when thinking about something, it's something I really struggle with and I become overwhelmed. I'm very interested in the idea of having a great year, being ambitious, achieving a lot in that year etc, really moving my life forward rather than languishing but I always struggle to articulate what that would mean, how I should achieve that, what I need to change etc and when I start trying to think about it, I quickly become overwhelmed. My excitement and interest in doing this, quickly becomes a hindrance as my perfectionist tendencies tend to kick in and I try to look at it from every angle and have no idea what I should do. I read articles / watch youtube videos and everyone has a different process and different journaling prompts et

Ask HN: What are you using to accept payment for a simple SaaS? 2 by johntiger1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Setting up a new project and looking to add recurring billing for users. What's the fastest/easiest way to set this up?

Ask HN: How to get started with practical hardware? 2 by thepablohansen | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! For a long time, I've wanted to learn how to build projects which "bridge" the gap between software and hardware. I've learned to solder decently well and operate 3d printers, but have found myself absolutely stumped with progressing to a real practical project. Sample projects which get me excited: microcontroller to turn coffee machine on some basic SMS controlled minibot- really anything practical, so I can start to deeply understand the harware construction process / first principles of hardware. Are there any seminal (and practical) guides, books, or projects which could get a software engineer well-acquainted with the basics of hardware?

Ask HN: Where do I get the data to have an LLM help me grow food? 3 by shaburn | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Cloudflare is experiencing elevated 5xx responses 23 by danielandrews43 | 6 comments on Hacker News. appears to be down for many websites see https://ift.tt/iHrhtSN

Tell HN: The weirdest thing happened using ChatGPT – I saw the guy behind it 2 by andrewstuart | 2 comments on Hacker News. This just happened whilst using ChatGPT: https://ift.tt/RyClcD2 The only reasonable conclusion is for some reason the AI who writes the code decided to reveal itself to me.

Ask HN: What to do with $70k expiring Google Cloud credits? 3 by dizzydes | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What is the best way to get into Physics as a coder? 4 by whitepaint | 10 comments on Hacker News. I don't know anything about Physics.

Questions on ad-free/tracker-free web browsing experience 2 by secretforest | 3 comments on Hacker News. What with ads, tracking, and such at an all-time high, and manifest 3 coming for Chrome (and derivatives), and YouTube blocking users that won't view ads, I've done the usual like Pi-hole, SmartTube, FreeTube, Violent Monkey, uBlock Origin, etc. but I'm looking for something more, something that I don't have to maintain. Is there a service, or a type of hosted "proxy" out there whereby one can connect and this is done via DNS, etc., where one is given a "sanitized" web experience? I imagine whoever pulls this off could become fairly well off.

Ask HN: What are some great examples of bi-directional diagram/code projects? 2 by thesurlydev | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've always been interested in this space and there seem to be few examples. Specifically, I'm looking for an example that shows how to use something like codemirror and a drag and drop interface. A change in one would be reflected in the other.

Tell HN: People laid off in my company due to IRS Section 174 changes 7 by strobby | 1 comments on Hacker News. 30 engineers were laid off from the company I work for that does consulting for a US customer. The reason given was that the company’s runway got blown up due to the inflated tax bill they received as a consequence of Section 174 changes that require software development to be capitalized and amortized over 15 years (international). Sharing this here as I don’t see much noise about this issue here or on mainstream media and just wondering how other small business and startups are handling this. More info: https://ift.tt/CdNvHYs

Ask HN: Almost unusable code generated by ChatGPT recently 4 by illegalmemory | 3 comments on Hacker News. Lately, I've noticed issues with ChatGPT generating code that is nearly unusable, often leaving massive gaps in the code and prompting me to fill them up. Have you experienced similar outputs?

Ask HN: What changes to X/Twitter have you noticed in the last year? 6 by riadsila | 4 comments on Hacker News. There's been a lot of chatter about the decreased performance of the platform. I would love to hear about what trends or changes you've noticed.

Ask HN: How to find a useful dev job? 3 by UgR32zKhQTZFKPW | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am a go developer that got laid off recently. Most of the offers I see are from crypto startups that I find useless. I am looking for a remote go position and I want to contribute to something useful. I worked for one of these useless company in the past and it makes me feel terrible at the end of the day. Now that I have a bit of money saved up, I don't really mind to get payed less.

Ask HN: What open-source alternative is there for Canva 4 by nathan_tarbert | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm a power Canva user but I have a passion for open-source and just like buying local, I try to use open-source whenever I can. Is there anything out there that stands up to Canva as an alternative? Thanks in advance!

Ask HN: Best books you read in 2023 5 by neddinn | 3 comments on Hacker News. What are the best books you’ve read in 2023? And why? Prev: https://ift.tt/Q2LpDbM

Ask HN: Is programming dead because of LLMs? 2 by akkad33 | 6 comments on Hacker News. Usually people say programmers are not just coders but those that translate requirements into code through communication etc as a rebuttal to the AI threat, so to speak, but also you do not have to know to program to tell ChatGPT to write code. So is there any use learning programming in 2023?

Ask HN: Have you ever had a "middle-out epiphany"? 3 by hashim | 4 comments on Hacker News. In S01E08 of Silicon Valley, during a certain scene about phallic physics, the founder of Pied Piper suddenly has an epiphany about "middle-out compression", leading to the revolutionary compression algorithm that ends up saving their arses and getting them funded. Have you ever had a groundbreaking idea come to you like an epiphany, all at once - as opposed to gradually through deliberate brainstorming - that solved a major technical problem for you, and what was it?

Ask HN: Is ChatGPT making tech publishing obsolete? 3 by karmasimida | 1 comments on Hacker News. By tech publishing I mean the books from Manning and Oreilly. I was shopping those books of late, but somehow I found it is harder to convince myself they are useful comparing to ChatGPT

Ask HN: Best Cloud GPU Platform? 2 by catasaurus | 0 comments on Hacker News. Many options exist, but I have been annoyed with how finicky some can be. All I need is a well-priced cloud GPU platform, with a good command-line utility like fly.io Would be cool if I could just use said tool to say send a Python file, and include something like a poetry pyproject.toml to set up the environment + info about what type of server I want it to run on (GPU, etc), and just have it run the file on their servers and send the output back to the command line tool + have cloud storage that the programs can output files too (like model weights).

Ask HN: Why haven't we seen a race to the bottom in SaaS pricing? 3 by majani | 3 comments on Hacker News. A lot of SaaS products are making money hand over fist yet they seem easily replicable. Furthermore, most SaaS companies don't seem to have network effects or any particularly large switching costs. Given these dynamics, why haven't we seen a race to rock bottom SaaS prices in and around $1 like we did with games and paid apps?

Ask HN: I mastered a trade, how do I keep that up while working towards another? 2 by cristeigabriel | 1 comments on Hacker News. I made the question broad, I'm intetested in how one can be a master at something, in perpetual re-actualization, and somehow make time for another "trade" to work towards (not for work necessarily, but passion)

Ask HN: What charity have you recently donated to? 3 by JCharante | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'll start. I realized that I'm numb to buying something for myself that costs $20, but I know I can help if I donate that $20 instead. There's a dog rescue that also has a casual F&B business in the same place so you can hang out with friends for brunch while surrounded by 20 dogs. Most of these dogs are ready for adoption and you can meet your new family member here, while the rest are recovering from medical conditions that they're being treated from. It's the only ethical "dog cafe" that I've ever seen and they use the proceeds to house the dogs and provide neutering & vaccines drives to underprivileged areas.

Ask HN: Useful AI tools that changed your daily life? 5 by yewenjie | 1 comments on Hacker News. After more than a year of ChatGPT, I haven't found a convincing AI product that does significantly more than plain LLM APIs. There must be some tools that do more, right? Like there has to be a personal assistant with long term memory that can integrate with other things? Please recommend any AI tool or product that has changed work or life for you.

Please help me with my Database choice 2 by appalam | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am planning to make an mobile app (no web apps) for ios and android. It is a flashcard app and I am going to use swiftui and kotlin. The flashcards are around a million in number, organised into 19 subjects, 5-10sections each, 10-20chapters under each section and several subtopics under each chapter. An user will study daily from multiple chapters and subtopics from various subjects. I need to store that data and use it to run a spaced repetition algorithm and give dailycards for review. this will help them achieve spaced recall for effective memory. I may achieve 50,000 MAUs soon after launch. In future I will also be adding question banks to the app. I am confused about going with mongo + realm or postgres + sqllite. Please help me choose. My users will be primarily from asia.

Ask HN: How do you do personal backups in 2023? (Google and Dropbox issues) 3 by cl42 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I love the idea of seamless backups and have been using Dropbox for a few years... It is completely broken with OS X Sonoma. The recent complaints about Google Drive files going missing also doesn't build confidence. What are folks using for backups? Ideally automated processes. Thank you.

Try Our AI Assistant at 650-460-2286 – Feedback Welcome 3 by z61a | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello Hacker News community, We're developing an AI Assistant designed specifically for restaurant operations. It’s crafted to take orders via phone calls and directly input them into the restaurant's POS system, effectively bridging the gap between customer interaction and order processing. We need your help to fine-tune it: - If you're in the US, please call 650-460-2286. Feel free to place a mock order or inquire about menu items. - We'd appreciate your feedback on the experience. Your insights are crucial for us to improve the product. Thanks for your help! JZ & Tony

Ask HN: What fuel for my data furnace? 3 by heartag | 4 comments on Hacker News. I have a server with two old 6-core Xeon CPUs in it. In winter I used to run it full tilt on SETI and get a noticeable bump in room temperature. Now that SETI is mothballed, what charity or mining software would you recommend I run? Anything more productive than re-calculating pi is my goal.

Ask HN: Are companies taking longer to extend offers? 2 by a_lifters_life | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: How Do You Get over Worthlessness Feeling After Restructuring? 3 by tw3999482 | 10 comments on Hacker News. After 5 years working in a very successful product line, core to the company, the Engineering department decided to restructure the teams to decrease payroll burden and my team got dismantled. It was purely investor pressure to make the company worth more for an eventual sale. I found out I was the only one kept to keep the lights on a particular system. The system still generates lots of money, but C-level wants to invest in other options. It was made very clear that there's no opportunity for me to improve on it or work on my domain area. Now Im stuck in a thankless maintenance role and doing duties outside of my job description. Worst yet, now I have to be always on-call so nothing fails. Im trying to look for a new job, but between raising two small kids and the stress of on-call duty, I dont feel like I have energy or time to interview around. I also found out

Ask HN: 3 years ago the end of Centos Linux was announced, where are we now? 4 by porjo | 2 comments on Hacker News. In December 2020 Redhat announced [0] "The future of the CentOS Project is CentOS Stream". In response to that several new projects emerged to continue the Centos Linux tradition, notably Alma Linux and Rocky Linux. Where have Centos users amongst the HN community ended up? Are you still downstream of RHEL using one of these new projects, or have you moved upstream of RHEL by adopting Centos Stream, or maybe you've moved away from Redhat ecosystem altogether? [0] https://ift.tt/XrFvxhO

Tell HN: Amazon AWS abuse report form returns "Something went wrong" 3 by buccal | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, Is it me or every most of the major internet service provider are trying to evade the question of abuse of their services. It can be seen when Microsoft hosts phishing files in their cloud storage with no way to report the abuse or response from their abuse contact in IP WHOIS. Google is similar in that regard where the images in phishing e-mails are hosted in Google cloud storage or Gmail is used for sending obvious inheritance millions spam. Last instance of abuse evasion is with Amazon AWS. I receive several spam e-mails from their SES and when reported to email-abuse@amazon.com it is unnoticed and keep getting same spam messages for a few years already. To try something different I tried Amazon AWS (https://ift.tt/FgQiIcq) abuse report form and received "Something went wrong" message when I tried to submit it from different browsers and IPs. A

Ask HN: Best of Open-Source 3 by sujayk_33 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Do you have any open-source projects in mind that make you wonder about them being open-source, like too cool still open-sourced?

Ask HN: Do you think GPT-5 will release before Gemini Ultra? Will it be better? 11 by SeanAnderson | 8 comments on Hacker News. I saw a decent amount of excitement today regarding Gemini Ultra, but it appears to be a few months out still. Google says rumors for GPT-5 release date is Dec, but I'm not sure I buy that at all. It feels a ways away to me. I'm trying to decide if there will be a window of time in which OpenAI loses its lead to Gemini, or if they'll squeak out a new release, with better stats, prior to Gemini Ultra going live. What do you think will happen?

Ask HN: How did you land your first job? 2 by sujayk_33 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm looking for my first job and I thought I'd ask you guys how you got your first offer.

Ask HN: What's a strong tech opinion you have that few agree with you on? 6 by atleastoptimal | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Leave and exercise shares (and get poor), or stay put (and get bored)? 2 by marloc | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm currently the Head of Product at a startup in the Series A stage. Like many others, we feel the recession, but we're not complaining. We have a few years of runway. We're mainly experiencing a significant slowdown in our growth. Our ARR hasn't changed much this year. This essentially means that our Series B funding round is pushed back to 2025 (if it happens at all) I'm in a pretty good position, enjoy a good working environment, and have earned the trust of my founders. However, I'm increasingly feeling bored and eager to take on new challenges. After four years here, it feels like I've explored all aspects of my role. Yet, I find myself feeling somewhat trapped by my company shares. They are currently worth $200,000, and exercising them would cost me $25,000. While I do have the funds, it's a substantial chunk of my savings

Combating Loneliness in the Digital Age: Can New Social Platforms Help? 3 by YT-Main | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello Hacker News community, I've spent a considerable amount of time grappling with a pervasive issue in our tech-centric society: the growing sense of loneliness and social isolation, particularly among younger adults. It's a paradox of our times – we're more connected online than ever before, yet many of us feel increasingly isolated. The problem is more pronounced than we might realize. A 2020 study by Cigna threw up some alarming statistics: a significant portion of the population reports feeling a deep sense of loneliness. This isn't just about the quantity of interactions; it's the quality that's missing. Traditional social media, despite its potential to connect us, often ends up fostering a cycle of passive engagement, where meaningful interactions are few and far between something I experienced firsthand as a 20-year-old. As a response t

Ask HN: What extra-ordinary presents can you think of for kids? 3 by mezod | 2 comments on Hacker News. Let's say for ages 5-10y. More on the education, discovery, spark curiosity side of things (This is HN after all!) :) Got any suggestions?

Ask HN: Why number of upvotes is much higher these days? 5 by smusamashah | 1 comments on Hacker News. Has anyone else noticed relatively much higher number of votes on popular posts for past 2-3 weeks. Many posts on front page easily get ~100+ votes or 200-300. Has something changed?

Ask HN: What perfect software did you discover of recent? 5 by max_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. Of recently I discovered three tools that I would describe as perfect i.e solving my problem exactly. What services or products would you describe as perfect for your needs? The first was Arbitrage Calculator [1]. Its. A tool I used for sports betting Arbitrage to compute the arbitrage conditions & payouts. The second is Obsidian [2] This has completely replaced Google Keep as my notes taking app. The third has been Lithium [3]. I currently do 90% of my book reading in this app. The ergonomics of epub copies is just perfect and this is a perfect epub reader. Fourth is Scrivener. [4] Planning to write by first book with this. It's just perfect. Last is Button Down [5] This allowed me to add a subscription page on my statically hosted blog. And the minimalistic nature of the service made it perfect. [1]: https://ift.tt/QZ85LIx [2]: https://obsidian.md [3]: https://ift.tt/OoB1aDq [4

Ask HN: Experience using your user's Google Drive instead of a database? 6 by escot | 4 comments on Hacker News. There are several apps that will let you use their service without creating an account or storing any of your data with them. You sign up with google or dropbox etc, and the app will read/write everything to your storage provider. Have any of you done this? What has your experience been like? Have you found a way to make this work with multi-player? What storage provider has the best API for this?

ChatGPT is 1yo now. Which LLM framework(s) do you use in production and why? 2 by behnamoh | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've come across many LLM frameworks: Langchain, LlamaIndex, LMQL, guidance, Marvin, Instructor, etc. There's a lot of overlap between them and I don't know if any of them actually adds a value to LLM workflows in a way that's maintainable and robust. So far, I've been able to just build my own little libraries to use in some LLM applications (no RAG), but as I consider the more recent advancements in the field (guaranteed function calling, better RAG, agents and tool use, etc.), I wonder if using one of these frameworks would be a better approach compared to building everything on my own. I appreciate your thoughts and comments on this!

Ask HN: How many tasks are on your daily todo list? 3 by thepablohansen | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've found that the single highest leverage modification I've made to my daily schedule is decreasing the number of tasks on my todo list (which I write out each night for the proceeding day). Wondering what other people's experiences with daily todo lists have looked like.

Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? 36 by jessehorne | 48 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious to see what projects members of this community have worked on that contributed to them getting a job. What's the project? How did it help you land a job? Did the project itself get you the job or did it help in the interview process? Was the project work related to the job at all? Edit: Ya'll hirin'?

uBlock Origin rules for HN: removing MSM news sources reduces systemic stress 36 by h_o_o_t | 10 comments on Hacker News. I recently added some uBlock Origin rules for HN that remove news sources focusing principally on `The` News rather than technical topics and the net result has been a much more pleasurable experience on par with HN from a few years ago. I can read the `news` news in many places, and I do, but I like to come here for industry and niche technical topics. Many I've spoken to share this sentiment and I hope this is of benefit to anyone wishing to focus more on what they are interested in. You can block a source or keywords with the same rule: news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/{phrase1}|{phrase2}/):nth-ancestor(1) e.g. a brief sample of sites that are not principally about technology and recur somewhat frequently (choose your own): news.ycombinator.com##table:not(.fatitem) tr > td.title:has-text(/businessinsider.com|dailymail

Ask HN: Can I get a faster stack for $0? 5 by throwaway12933 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm broke and I want to start a SaaS. I can pay 0$. I spent a whole month coding my SaaS in laravel + livewire and it's been awesome. couldn't be any better. When it came to deployment I deployed the app to a free ec2 t2.micro but it sucked big time. tried using hostinger premium from a friend, but same. response time is very high om hostinger and on ec2 ram is getting full quickly. website is basic openai wrapper + crud, nothing fancy. I was thinking of hosting the landing page + main website on cloudflare pages using some static site generators. and the dashboard to be a htmx (hosted on cloudflare pages) + axum (rust backend) hosted on my ec2 t2.micro can I get any faster/lighter with $0? if I can handle 1000 requests/sec with t2.micro I would be happy

Ask HN: Can qubits be written to crystals as diffraction patterns? 3 by westurner | 1 comments on Hacker News. Coherence time is the operative limit to SOTA QC Quantum Computing. Holographic data storage already solves for binary digital data storage. Aren't diffraction patterns due to lattice irregularities effective wave functions? Presumably holography would have already solved for quantum data storage if diffraction is a sufficient analog if a wave function?

Ask HN: What is the best stack to find a job currently? 4 by ipaddr | 7 comments on Hacker News. React/Node, python/django, rust, ruby/rails, php/laravel, golang, something else?

I can fund a project and provide financial advices. Any great idea out there? 2 by NathanVix | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What's your rust web application stack you use in production today? 2 by 1oooqooq | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023) 4 by whoishiring | 3 comments on Hacker News. Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.