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Ask HN: Junior dev and I don't want to compete in this job market. Any advice? 3 by thirdacc | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm about to finish my BS in CS from WGU (remote accredited college, about as good as a state school, not a target school). I've struggled with health issues for many years which made remote the only option for a long, long time. Health is better now, but I'm still scarred. Long story short, health and living situation made me lose nice full-stack remote dev job, networking opportunities, my confidence, and my motivation to compete in this job market. As I said, my health is better, but my will to grind leetcode and apply to a million job listings that might not even be real is gone. It's not just time-consuming, it's demoralizing and messing with my head big time And as I said, I have no network. Remote is no longer a requirement for me, but flexible or second/third shift jobs are ideal. Sleep schedule is still a struggle, even now. I...

Ask HN: Where are all those industry changing AI products? 3 by lamuswawir | 1 comments on Hacker News. I have been following the current summer of AI, and the progress made in a few years in breathtaking (at least to me). We have open sources models like SAM, and the recent SAM 2 under Apache License, and the Qwen models, Llama etc etc. It has been a few years now and there seems to be a lot of potential for these technologies. You can speculate at how they're going to change various industries, but where are those products? It feels like the current technology is more of empowering the knowledge worker but than a drop-in replacement, hence the copilot for everything. If you know of some interesting things happening around the current AI tech, I am all ears.

Ask HN: Did LLMs Ruin APIs on the Web? 3 by websap | 1 comments on Hacker News. Saw this post on HN earlier today, https://ift.tt/f0RvIBY Separately the entire Reddit debacle of shutting down API access a few months ago, followed by the reports that Perplexity doesn't honor robots.txt, certain LLMs training on Youtube content, and Github Copilot being trained on opensource code without any opt-in. It just seems the tech is getting partitioned into a few different pieces in this space: 1. Data Custodians - Reddit, Yelp, etc that have a lot of organically generated data. 2. Model owners - OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, etc. that try to get licenses from data custodians to be able to make useful assistants. 3. Infra providers - AWS, Azure, Nvidia, AMD, etc. that plan to provide both of the cohorts above with compute. If I take this lens to the current crop of companies, it seems certain companies are really well positioned: 1. Apple - Apple has a near monopoly on the mobile device mar...

Run Google Gemma 2 2B 100% Locally 4 by esleightholm | 3 comments on Hacker News. Google just released Gemma 2 2B and you can run it on Mac (and other devices), 100% local, powered by llama.cpp! 1. brew install llama.cpp 2. ./llama-cli --hf-repo google/gemma-2-2b-it-GGUF \ --hf-file 2b_it_v2.gguf \ -p "Write a poem about cats as a labrador" -cnv With this, I created a Local RAG Knowledge and Answering System with Google Gemma 2 2B and Marqo. Check it out: https://ift.tt/mzk6C0c Link also in the comments!

Launch: Wandercay - Travel community, trip sharing and planning 2 by wandercay | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I'm Edward, Founder at Wandercay (https://ift.tt/LVxbmGt) Wandercay is a platform for sharing trip itineraries and travel photos in a more organized and concise way. Our goal is to enable travelers to plan their trips by browsing through other traveler’s and AI generated itineraries for inspiration and then using them as a basis for their own planning. The platform is aimed at those who like to see trip itineraries at a glance, rather than reading through long blog posts and articles. For me, planning a vacation has always taken a lot of time, reading through posts on blogs, social media and other websites to get inspiration. After having the attractions, figuring out where everything is on a map and then organizing their ordering on Google Maps and Sheets was frustrating. Many times, if a friend had already gone to a destination that I wanted to go to, I wou...

Ask HN: Have AI learn my own business Knowledge(verity of formats) for chat bot 3 by crazymoka | 3 comments on Hacker News. Edit. Rephrased the question. I'm looking for the best way to train from my business knowledge base for openAI, Llama, or Claude on my own private business knowledge base. That data will then be used in a chatbot(maybe whatsapp) on my website that will either create an appointment for call, send follow up email with more information, or directly connect to an real agent. I will use it to update my CRM information too. Knowledge comes in all kinds of formats, PDF, Excel, Power Point Slides, Videos. Looking for some advice on how to do this on a budget. I am a programmer so I do not mind getting my hands dirty or even running my own server that can do most of the work. But if there is a 3rd party service or open source tool that does most of this, I'm happy to give it a shot too. Thanks.

Ask HN: How do I save my content from AI crawlers? 3 by srameshc | 5 comments on Hacker News. I am building something where we (a very small team) are creating content the old fashioned way and for each content it takes us a lot of effort. If I wanted to be publicly viewable but I am equally worried about AI crawlers now. Is putting the content behind auth the only way or are there other means ?

Ask HN: Can the philosophy and vision of BDFL projects transcend their leaders? 2 by dgb23 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I admire projects like Linux, Zig and others who are based on a strong vision that are maintained by their authors. This kind of patronage, often paired with a non-profit financial/legal structure ensures that these kinds of projects stay true to their core qualities. In large parts because there's someone who can say "No". But what is done in these kinds projects to ensure their philosophy and vision is maintained without them, (for whatever reason)? What are the success stories or failures? I'm thinking of Java and Go in particular as success stories to a high degree, especially in terms of stability guarantees. It's astounding how careful and skillful these languages have been developing under their new stewardship. What are comparable projects that were initially maintained in a BDFL-style and what is their story after they've been pas...

Ask HN: How do you learn digital marketing? 2 by Gooblebrai | 3 comments on Hacker News. As a developer, I find marketing learning resources very uneasy. Unlike programming, that have concrete tutorials with specific outcomes, marketing tutorials seem to be a bunch of concepts that I can't figure out how "legit" they are. There's no way to fake a "for loop" in programming but any marketing guru can invent that "you need 5 likes within 10 minutes for the algorithm to bless you" or things like that. I feel like there's a lack of evidence behind many marketing techniques. I think I need to approach it in a different way with a different mindset. Did any developer here mastered digital marketing? How did you do it?

Ask HN: What are the best resources today for learning AI/LLMs 3 by geph2021 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I know of a few resources, but I'm sure there are others and would love to gather some pointers from the HN crowd. These come to mind: https://course.fast.ai/ https://ift.tt/nUxEFX8 Andrej Karpathy youtube and github: https://www.youtube.com/@AndrejKarpathy/videos

Ask HN: How to find job as Maths graduate with little other qualifications? 2 by LinusInverse | 1 comments on Hacker News. I apologize if this question is to open-ended or otherwise inappropriate to the “Ask HN” format. I’m a student of Mathematics in Germany, at the very end of my Master’s (thesis submitted & defended, awaiting gradation) but have not managed to secure any job offer up till now, in spite of having tried for quite some time now. At this point I feel somewhat at a loss, so I was hoping that anybody on here knowledgeable about the job market in Germany would perhaps have an idea as to what (if anything) I might be doing wrong or what other avenues I could consider that I’ve missed so far. My main problem is likely that I have almost nothing to show in the way of “hard” skills and practical qualification besides the Maths degree. I did work part-time for most of my studies, but mostly stuff like generic office work or watching kids at an after-school care. When my ...

Ask HN: How to find a non-startup, non-corporate programming job? 2 by chenger | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, I've been a corporate programmer my entire professional life. I'm curious how people find less / non-corporate software jobs. I'm not really looking for a startup, but more something that is stable and yet involves more thoughtful programming / engineering, less sprint-driven. I know these jobs are out there and I see people post about them, but I'm not really sure how to find one.

Does anyone know of any websites that let you download entire suno playlists? 2 by stormlightkalad | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've seen song downloaders but I've yet to find one that lets you download whole playlists. can someone find or make one? either comment here or dm me on myminifactory: @NightmareNest

Ask HN: How to create a portfolio without design skills? 3 by CM30 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Okay, I've realised recently that not having a portfolio isn't exactly ideal if you're working in tech, especially given how many jobs seem to expect it now. So I've been planning out a personal site with portfolio, blog, etc to actually list the things I've been working on in one place. Unfortunately, there's one problem I'm running into. That being, my art/design skills are basically nonexistent. Regardless of how many attempts I make at designing websites or apps, design just does not come naturally at all, and even thinking of how to lay out a UI feels impossible without outright copying others. So how do you create a site with no design skills at all? The development side of things isn't really an issue, and I'm willing to learn whatever tech is needed for that side of things, but actually designing it is proving a challenge. I also don't reall...

Ask HN: Business logic is slowing us down 3 by headwind | 4 comments on Hacker News. As developers, we're caught between keeping up with our internal stakeholders (operations, business, and data teams) and satisfying external end users. We spend a nontrivial amount of time maintaining our code to keep up with complex, ever-changing business logic. Do we really need a code change for changing what triggers which user notifications or for updating how something gets named/logged in the database? Unfortunately, maintaining code is also not considered valuable work. We're valued for pushing out new features, and keeping existing features up to date with changing business logic is considered short work. To be great devs, we need to understand our users (including internal stakeholders) and our industry domain. But we also need a better way to empower business teams to control and manage the business logic, while clearing the runway for devs to build the next feature. How has your...

Ask HN: Terminal RSS Reader 3 by FergusArgyll | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm a long time feedly user but I like to have a terminal based FOSS backup for everything. I've tried Newsboat but I've been having some issues with it. Any other ones I should try?

Tell HN: I am going to host "Real Analysis" book club meetings 4 by susam | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN! After two successful book club meetings on analytic number theory and Emacs in 2021 and 2022-2023, respectively, I am going to a host a new series of book club meetings. This new series of book club meetings is going to be on Real Analysis. This is going to be a multi-month journey where we are going to cover topics like sequences and series, functions and continuity, calculus, logarithmic functions, exponential functions, circular functions, etc. The first meeting is scheduled at 19:00 UTC today, i.e., about 40 minutes from the time of sharing this post. If you are interested in this type of thing, please see https://ift.tt/YwnfUS9 for more details.

Ask HN: How did you convince people to pay for your software 2 by ubikocha | 1 comments on Hacker News. With so many builders and founders here I am hoping to learn early sales. We are building an MVP and reaching out to potential ICPs to see if they would be interested. We mention how our software can add value and help them gain traction. Since our software is not ready users can not try themselves. However, we execute the process manually behind the scene. We have one person who paid us and others mentioned what could add value. Our software is for marketing people. How do I convince them that we add value and it is worth paying for. Looking for ideas, strategies and understand what works.

Ask HN: Is active music cancelation possible? 2 by solardev | 0 comments on Hacker News. Any audio engineers out there? I don't know enough about waveforms, but I was wondering if it might be possible to combine active noise cancelation techniques (as in Airpods or other headphones) with music fingerprinting and waveform inversion in order to make headphones that can cancel out music? For example, let's you say you want to go to a coffee shop, but don't like the music that they play. Regular active noise cancelation headphones can filter out some of the background noise already, but what if they could also recognize the song that's playing (using existing fingerprinting techniques), download it, invert the waveform and then use the microphone to measure delay and frequency shifts in real time and try to destructively cancel it out? (Only for the headphones wearer, not the actual source of the music. My hope is that while regular noise cancelation works best on repeti...

Ask HN: Why did Commodore have a better Basic line editor than Apple? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. Apparently, the Apple Basic line editor was quite unintuitive.

Ask HN: Reasonable reasons to refuse coding assessments 5 by b20000 | 2 comments on Hacker News. For those of you with ~20 years of experience as engineers, how have you explained you do not do timed coding interviews? have you offered other types of assessments such as a take home instead or a walkthrough of personal code? Please share your experiences and type of company and role level for context.

Ask HN: What do you use LLMs for? 2 by RND_RandoM | 6 comments on Hacker News. Just wanted to start a small discussion about why you use LLMs and which model works best for your use case. I am asking because I am concerned that there is little use for LLMs apart from doing role play, helping with coding, and answering general questions

Ask HN: Why are job adverts misleading about WFH? 2 by accengaged | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm trying to find a proper list of WFH (Work from Home) jobs, specifically in Australia. I think it's misleading to have an option for "Location" as "Work from Home" then allow ads that don't fit this description. I've used https://seek.com.au however I'm finding that it's increasingly normal for employers to advertise their jobs as "Hybrid WFH" with some being as bad as 1-day per week out of the office. If I wanted a "Hybrid WFH" selection, I would happily choose that. It's like these companies think gaming the system will magically stop employees from reading job adverts. Personally I'm just doing it out of curiosity - I've been in a WFH role for a while now and think a hybrid option might be better overall for mental / physical health but I'm still annoyed at this weird culture of false-advertising roles to...

Ask HN: What Is the SQLite of Queues? 3 by dinobones | 1 comments on Hacker News. I love how simple and lightweight sqlite is. I'm looking for an open source queue solution with similar qualities. All I really want are topics/messages/publishers/subscribers. That's it. I do not want to run ZooKeeper.

Ask HN: Discovering that I am mediocre 6 by throwaway_2823 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm 35 years old and tired of feeling like I'm "white knuckling" my way through life. Math, programming, engineering, etc... has never been easy for me and I've always had to work exceptionally hard to even be on par with others, it's only my innate interest in these subjects and refusal to give up as to why I'm working as a software engineer now. Despite all this work I still am just very mediocre, and I've reached the point where I'm so exhausted from trying so hard for so long that I'm ready to accept that. I've always had a really hard time with equating my value in life directly to whatever it is that I "do", so essentially ever since I was 12 this has been tied to school performance and then work. I don't want to continue down this path of working so hard just to be ok at whatever it is I do at the expense of personal relationships...

Ask HN: How to become a custom software vendor of major banks? 2 by b20000 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What's up with the ChatGPT spam here lately? 4 by pona-a | 6 comments on Hacker News. I noticed in the past few days a large uptick in probably ChatGPT-generated comments. These accounts have low or negative karma, were registered in the past few months, and seem to just rephrase the title or the contents with some faux "questions" at the end. Had anyone found reasonable heuristic to block them? Can someone maybe collect a small dataset to train a classifier? If HN becomes a target for this, manual moderation may quickly prove insufficient.

Ask HN: How do you predict the AI will evolve in 2, 5, and 10 years? 2 by mznmel | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious about the community's predictions for AI. How do you envision the AI landscape changing in the next 2, 5, and 10 years, particularly regarding Large Language Models (LLMs)? What key milestones or breakthroughs do you expect in each timeframe, and how might LLMs advance or be applied differently? What potential new applications you think will emerges soon?, and how you think AI might transform various industries and our daily lives.

Ask HN: Lesser-known/underrated cool new web-oriented tech? 4 by lambdaba | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been surveying the space lately and I re/discovered some really powerful new-ish tech which woke up my tech taste buds and am now looking for more such "tasty" tech (sorry I guess I'm due for a meal soon :P) Example as starters: - Qwik and resumable web apps (https://qwik.dev/) - SurrealDB, maximally flexible multi-model DB w/ realtime capabilities (https://surrealdb.com/) There are others, but I'm trying to keep to the starkest examples and not to influence the discussion too much. I do think this is the best place to ask such questions - I'm explicitly interested in cutting-edge tech, but the edge doesn't have to be excessively sharp ;).

What App to Use for Notes? 2 by bigbaldhead | 3 comments on Hacker News. hi, I'm looking for an app for notes, E2E and open source, and which has synchronization, do you have any ideas? I now use standardnotes, I found notesnook but until they do an audit I won't use it, I'll keep some scripts inside (python, java and go) as well as things to do. sorry for my english

Ask HN: What does engineering leadership typically do wrong? 6 by AlwaysNewb23 | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Should a risk assessment list all dependent tools? 4 by kidbomb | 1 comments on Hacker News. With the whole Crowdstrike fiasco, I wonder how IT analysts can properly communicate the risks of having a 3rd party service malfunction to leadership. For example, most of us operate in the AWS space, and are aware of the risk of regional failures. While some choose to accept the risk, some instead have multi-regional deployments. Should all these (Saas) tools be listed in a risk assessment matrix listing whether the risk can be eliminated/mitigated, or at least transferred? And if we are accepting the risk, what is the impact?

Is someone trying to steal credit for inventing the eTicket? 2 by rexarex | 0 comments on Hacker News. The eTicket is what we use for flights today instead of physical, paper tickets printed on special paper. My understanding of the lore is that it was invented by Southwest Airlines or a company they acquired. That's what I heard on a How I Built This podcast episode with the founder of JetBlue. It's also mentioned in this research paper here https://ift.tt/RB63DSb Strangely, when I was googling I found what I suspect to be planted misinformation in a Bangkok Post article where someone named Joel Goheen claims to have invented the eTicket on JRG Airlines (https://ift.tt/bTyawJM). JRG Airlines does not exist, and appear to be just the initials of Joel R Goheen. However, he appears on a U.S. Patent for eTicketing for 1994 the same time they started using eTickets. (https://ift.tt/tzSTHf2) I think it's really strange. I did some googling of his name and eTicket and there ap...

Ask HN: What's your preferred logging stack in Kubernetes 8 by ryanisnan | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm looking for advice and insight on what y'all might use for an internally hosted logging solution in Kubernetes. Currently we use a self-hosted Graylog setup, but are finding it difficult to maintain as our system grows. Here's our current setup: - Multiple clusters - Logs aggregated to a single Graylog setup, itself running in Kubernetes - Logs are sent to Graylog via Fluentbit Some problems we've had are: - Index management in Graylog's ElasticSearch cluster is a PITA when you have many differently shaped log forms going to shared indices (managing separate indices per source is also a pain) - Management of MongoDB in Kubernetes is frustrating and has been a reliability challenge I'd love for us to be able to use a hosted logging solution but $$$ obviously. I'm aware of many other alternatives, but one of the things I've painfully lear...

Ask HN: Any good resources for Generative Chemistry? 3 by glowingvoices | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What's the best YouTube lecture you've seen recently? 4 by kamphey | 4 comments on Hacker News. What's the best youtube lecture you've seen recently? I just finished Brandon Sanderson's Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy so looking for more to dive into for a few hours a day.

Ask HN: What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell? 2 by hackerthemonkey | 0 comments on Hacker News. What resources do you recommend for learning Haskell? I am working my way through “Learn You a Haskell for the greater good” I also have a side project to learn things by doing, but was wondering what the most recommended learning sources were which people found very useful.

Ask HN: How often do your projects involve real team work vs working in silos? 2 by ashu1461 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have seen this to be very rare when I am working very closely with another team member to launch something, often times it is working in silos on projects or modules which you own. How is it in your case ?

Ask HN: What's the consensus on "unit" testing LLM prompts? 2 by thiht | 0 comments on Hacker News. LLMs are notoriously non deterministic, which makes it hard for us developers to trust them as a tool in a backend, where we usually expect determinism. I’m in a situation where using an LLM makes sense from a technical perspective, but I’m wondering if there are good practice on testing, besides manual testing: - I want to ensure my prompt does what I want 100% of the time - I want to ensure I don’t get regressions as my prompt evolve, or when updating the version of the LLM I use, or even if I switch to another LLM The ideas I have in mind are: - forcing the LLM to return JSON with a strict definition - running a fixed set of tests periodically with my prompt and checking I get the expected result Are there specificities with LLM prompt testing I should be aware of? Are some good practices emerging?

Ask HN: Fastest way to launch web app 2 by smarri | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN. I have a handful of web projects that I want to launch to get user feedback. Each requires user log and authentication, the ability to store and retrieve user content, payment functionality, and to scale with user demand, (all done securely). Is there a single provider or service that offers this off the shelf? I don't want to have to build it all myself as I was to test my ideas quickly. Thank you

Ask HN: How to deal with tech lead stealing your work? 3 by throwawayci111 | 1 comments on Hacker News. This has happened a dozen times in the past six months: I'm assigned a ticket, submit a PR, request review. Keep reminding the team I need a review but only the tech lead actually reviews anything. A few week passes, tech lead submits a PR for a barely related ticket and, instead of cherry-picking my commit, simply copy and paste my code into a new commit that he authors, commits to the main branch without any reviews and closes his ticket. I have to abandon my PR without any reviews and close the ticket saying it was made redundant by the other newer ticket/PR the tech lead worked on. He always likes to work evenings and weekends and always seems unavailable. Which is not a problem for me but making me waste my time and not even get proper credit is making me consider finding a new job (this is not the only weird thing I see here, but don't want to make this a long post)....

Ask HN: People who were alive when walkmen were introduced. What was it like? 5 by TealMyEal | 2 comments on Hacker News. As the title goes, I was chatting with a friend when we saw someone wearing a VR headset in public. We wondered what it was like when people first started carrying around Walkmans. The idea of a Walkman is to isolate you from the rest of the environment with audio. What was that like for the rest of the people in public? I think of the people sitting on a park bench, seeing someone walking by with a Walkman for the first time.

Ask HN: Is it possible for the world to lose track of what time it is? 7 by lopatin | 2 comments on Hacker News. Say there's some world wide computer glitch and the clocks have to be reset. Is it possible that we lose track of exactly how many seconds passed since the epoch?

Ask HN: What are the analytics services you are using in your Desktop Apps? 2 by vednig | 0 comments on Hacker News. I know Google Analytics is available for almost every platform. But considering from privacy standpoint, what are other services that provide nice dashboard, exporting data and data collection for Desktop Apps with Crashanalytics included. Also, how have you implemented logs?

Ask HN: Making Microsoft Teams Bearable 2 by jxf | 5 comments on Hacker News. My company was recently acquired. The acquiring company uses Microsoft Teams. I'm not excited about this. For those of you who have been on a similar transition, what tips or tricks do you have for: * making Teams more effective as a communications medium * being able to stay on top of recent conversations * managing notifications/interruptions Browser extensions? Specific settings you'd turn on or off? Open to any ideas at all here.

Ask HN: Will you help create a void-filler for the defunct hnbadges.netlify.app? 2 by metadat | 0 comments on Hacker News. HN Badges was a website which displayed interesting stats and achievements for each subscribed HN account. It's been defunct for a few months now. This makes me sad. Here is an example of what it looked like for the patio11 account: https://ift.tt/gO0uB9N Is there an existing effort to develop an alternative? It could probably be a simple python app + SQLite or Postgres DB + slow scraper backend. If there isn't one, maybe I'll start something. It would be great if the thing is open-source so it can't be killed randomly like what's happened with hnbadges.netlify. https://ift.tt/aMkqF1E

Ask HN: OSS / Did you ever ask somebody for help with your project successfully? 2 by lichtenberger | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Do startups investors still require Delaware companies? vs. Int'l? 3 by echan00 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Can DDG make more Mistral AI models available um ddg AI? 3 by verdona | 0 comments on Hacker News. Well, they already use a smaller model of the mistral, is there any chance they will make the Mixtral 8x22B, Codestral 22B or even Mixtral Large for free use on your website? I mean, They already run Llama 3 is already good enough, but I wish I could see how far this goes; And the operating cost of the 8X22B is lower than that of the Llama, right?

Ask HN: Google Trends is worthless now, is there an alternative? 4 by johng | 0 comments on Hacker News. The recent post about mouthwash potentially being harmful got me thinking about the mouthwash I've been using for the past 6 months. Therabreath. When I first decided to try it, it was a single bottle at HEB or Target and I had never heard of it. Felt like giving something new a try, it said it didn't burn like regular mouth wash so I gave it a try. I ended up really liking it and I've been using it ever since. At least twice when checking out the teller has asked me about it and said that they've noticed lots of people getting it. The stores now have like 5 different flavors of it... so I'm assuming it's selling. I went to Google Trends to see if it was becoming popular but I notice now that Google Trends is worthless... last few times I've tried to use it, it seems like it has almost no data. What is everyone using as an alternative now a days?

Ask HN: How to get design partner for B2B tech idea? 2 by ajabhish | 0 comments on Hacker News. As a part of side project, I'm building a coding workflow solution and want to start with something small, so picked code review. I'm wondering how to get design partners for this project.

Ask HN: Any tools to do generic WiFi imaging? 10 by selfsimilar | 3 comments on Hacker News. I have an older house (1950s) and I'd really like to see behind my walls without physically excavating so I can try to run some wires without encountering surprise obstructions. There are tools which use WifI to do detect humans[1] (https://ift.tt/KlFzdmZ) [2](https://ift.tt/T6WcalF) but I'm looking for a way to use Wifi for more general imaging. There's a paper from 2017 ("Holography of WiFi Radiation)[https://ift.tt/tTYAGDS] and many other scholarly papers about object detection via WiFi, but I haven't been able to find any off-the-shelf products/projects that would just build a 3D environmental density map without any object detection. The resolution doesn't have to be great - not looking for millimeter scale features e.g. structural weakness. Is there anything out there that comes close? Given recent archaeological uses of drone LIDAR and satellite tomography, I ...

How to choose what a programming language to learn first 2 by pupontech | 1 comments on Hacker News. Looking to pivot from IT into programming and super overwhelmed by the choices. How do I begin to choose a language so I can advance into tutorial hell erm learning.

Ask HN: Struggling with poor memory and executive function. What to do? 2 by regainmemory | 3 comments on Hacker News. In my late 30s and have always struggled to effectively build a career, network, life. Has only occurred to me that this may due to what seems to be a deficiency in my memory. I've had a wealth of experiences, both good and bad, but few have found their way into my mental models of how the world works, and so I keep making the same mistakes or am unable to effectively navigate my way to a specific goal. From learning new topics & skills, to learning how to network, to learning the dynamics of how an organization and how to navigate various relationships, to making well-reasoned and effective decisions, my mind often feels like mush, totally blinded to the realities of the world. I feel I've been stuck both cognitively and emotionally at a late-teen stage. Poor emotional regulation, difficulties with thinking in nuanced details, constantly flying at 1000 ...

Ask HN: Do you have home solar? 7 by mmayberry | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi! I'm one of the co-founders of Jasmine Energy (YC S22) and I'm looking for people who have installed solar panels on their home. If thats you, would you be open to sharing the documents you received from your installer? We're working on a new tool at Jasmine Energy that may be able to help you find rebates and incentives buried deep in those documents.

Ask HN: How do you go about finding a job? 6 by bobbywilson0 | 1 comments on Hacker News. The primary way I've found work in the past is usually through my professional network in some way (15+ years experience). I have landed a couple on linkedin (recruiter connections), and a couple through a random recruiter message. I do see lots of jobs posted and I have activated premium so I can see how many apply, and it looks like for the top jobs (faang and hot startups) there are hundreds of applicants just through linkedin. It got me thinking about how many companies actually hire directly through job listings. I know that times are different than in the past, but I'm curious what the HN community's experience has been recently.

Ash HN: What are some good resources on building a relational database? 3 by ashwin110 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was hoping to build a simple relational database as a side project, focussing mainly on learning how the internals and the algorithms used work, as I never plan to make this a published product of any sort. So far I have the CMU Advanced DB course (https://ift.tt/gd0y4Xf) and the Database Internals book. While I'm learning a lot about how databases work, I have no clue how to start writing my own, so I was wondering if there were any resources for building a relational database, I've only found some for KV Stores. Hopefully something less intimidating to get started than having to read SQLite code.

Ask HN: Most accurate scientific book on Human Sleep? 2 by gautamsomani | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am someone who is suffering from sleep problems since many years. And I want to know more on this topic. I read, at few places online including HN, that the book "Why We Sleep" is not completely accurate. Can someone recommend an ever more accurate book? Or "Why We Sleep" is the most accurate, albeit flawed, book out there? I am also open to any series of articles/podcast or any scientific author to follow over a long time to learn about human sleep. I understand that not everything may apply to me, but still, learning is a good thing.

Samsung declares different TBW for same SSD model on different markets 5 by the4anoni | 1 comments on Hacker News. (All credits for this finding go to mat_swat user from IThardware.pl forum) UK: https://ift.tt/6hMoABG US: https://ift.tt/AKs32nr PL: https://ift.tt/iWjhNdx On Polish Samsung site same SSD (990 Pro 4TB) is advertised with TBW of 1200TB, while on US and UK sites 2400TB. As can be found on this screenshot (use google translate) https://ift.tt/X31pT7R Samsung claims this is not an error on their site, and devices for different markets may have different specs. Source: https://ift.tt/9CpL1ef

Ask HN: How do you prepare for interviews? 3 by cipheraidev | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm trying to create a tool that helps people with preparing for interviews. I just released the first version, but based on my analytics and some interviews, I've realized that no one really cared for the tool since it didn't solve a big problem people had. Now, I'd like to understand the problems/challenges people face when preparing for interviews, so if you could answer some questions, that would be greatly appreciated! - What industry are you in (i.e, SWE, product, etc...) and how do you usually prepare for interviews? - In your last interview prep cycle, what was the biggest challenge you faced when preparing for interviews? - What tools do you usually use to prepare for interviews (i.e., leetcode, exponent, algoexport)? - Name one thing you dislike about those tools, and one thing you like about those tools Thank you in advance!

Ask HN: Experience with Large K8s Clusters? 2 by mch82 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve read “considerations for large clusters” (https://ift.tt/EB4qDWG). Can anyone share practical examples or stories about working with large clusters? How do you decide when to partition k8s workloads across clusters? Are there general rules/heuristics that are helpful?

Tell HN: your next idea should focus on aged care 4 by thornjm | 2 comments on Hacker News. I’m a nobody in a medicine role but with a previous career in engineering. I’ve just had a poorly thought out mild epiphany realizing what’s been staring me (and I’m sure everyone else) in the face: There is a huge burden of simple care tasks assisting people with transferring, mobility, dressing, showering, feeding, memory, medications etc. Individually: The carer role is hard, physical, foul, violent, confronting, and worst of all 24/7. Systemically: Half of the health system is clogged full of people admitted for social / care issues rather than medical issues. The population is aging and people are living longer with more severe deficits. There is a huge volume of exploited laborers keeping the system afloat. It’s almost certainly a technical impossibility to solve a fraction of these problems and a large proportion of them likely need socially acceptable and safe human-robot interactions...

Ask HN: How to grow concert visuals business? 4 by nuclearsugar | 3 comments on Hacker News. I'm tired of working full-time at companies that waste my talent and energy. I want to work for myself. As a side hustle for the last few years, I've been designing custom concert visuals and releasing them on a monthly schedule. I've released 48 VJ packs so far and created a following within the niche community of VJs. These VJ performers then remix my visuals into their live performances at concerts. My setup is unique in that you can download every VJ pack by becoming a member on Patreon. I want to take it to the next level and make it into a full-time business but I'm struggling to figure out next steps. It would be helpful to get an outsider's perspective since there are so few people doing this line of work and I feel a bit lost. As far as I can see, there are two routes to go down: 1) Create custom visuals for touring musicians. Should I find a rep or agency to rep...

Ask HN: How do you find new games to play? 6 by Innovatize | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm trying to break down the mental processes that occur when trying to find new games to play. If you could answer a few of these questions, that would be greatly appreciated! :D - How do you usually discover new games? - What are aspects of games that you enjoy? - Do you think finding new games to play is easy? If not, what do you wish was easier to find new games? - What's your most recent favorite game? How did you find that game?

Ask HN: Freelancer's Dilemma – Client Won't Pay Despite Clear Agreement 4 by alexliu518 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm a freelancer working on various software development projects through different platforms. Recently, I completed a significant project for a client outside of these platforms, and they're now refusing to pay the final invoice. Despite having a clear written agreement and delivering everything as agreed, they're ignoring my emails and calls. Has anyone here faced a similar situation? How did you handle it? Any advice on legal actions, or ways to secure payment upfront in future projects? Appreciate any tips or resources that could help! Thanks in advance!

Ask HN: What's your favorite n8n use case? 3 by spikey_sanju | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey, what do you use n8n for? I'm curious to know how others are automating their workflows with this tool!

Ask HN: Alternatives to Fastmail? 3 by chiefalchemist | 0 comments on Hacker News. A year or two ago I cut the Gmail cord for all the usual (privacy) reasons. I had seen FastMail mentioned here and went with FM. Unfortunately, the relationship isn't working out. 1) They seem to have a hyper-sensitive spam filter to the point things are refused and never even make it into spam. E.g., A client's newsletter I subscribe to suddenly stopped showing up. 2) Their app on my phone is now randomly logging me out and asking that I log back in. PITA I need to switch. Soon. Suggestion?

Ask HN: How to build software to last 20 years? 50 years? 100 years? 4 by thesuperbigfrog | 8 comments on Hacker News. There are many old buildings that are still in use today: https://ift.tt/3c7qJlN While software longevity is not subject to weather and natural disasters, there are forces that impact software longevity: http://laputan.org/mud/ If you needed to build software that does its job and stands the test of time, what choices would you make? What programming language(s) would you use? Why?

Ask HN: Resources to Get Started with RaspberryPi? 3 by sujayk_33 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Please share any resources you may have to get started with Raspberry Pi.

Ask HN: What advice would you give for someone who just turned 30? 3 by Venkatesh10 | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Build spec for home LLM box? 2 by ActorNightly | 0 comments on Hacker News. Ive been out of the loop a bit on running models at home (with Ollama and such). I want to build an air cooled home server to run the bigger parameter models (like llama3 70b which is 40gb with quantization to 4bits). It seems like running 2 3090s or 4090s is the way to go for this. 1) Does Ollama support loading the model across multiple gpus? 2) Anyone have a general parts list that I can copy that works well? Id prefer to go with 3 gpus but I feel like cooling may be an issue.

Ask HN: Why are 404 Media posts auto-killed? 4 by DanAtC | 4 comments on Hacker News. I know the Vice-adjacent hyperbole of their articles is a bit much, but I enjoy reading the HN tear down of why the reporting is or isn't accurate or newsworthy.

Ask HN: What are the most underrated skills in tech? 4 by alexliu518 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I’m curious to hear from the community about the skills that you think are currently underrated in the tech industry. We often hear about the importance of programming languages, frameworks, and data science, but what are some of the less talked about skills that have a big impact? Whether it’s a soft skill, a niche technical expertise, or a particular approach to problem-solving, I’d love to learn about what you think makes a difference but doesn’t get enough attention. Looking forward to your insights!

Ask HN: A Reddit alternative only for humans; how would you do it? 3 by punkpeye | 6 comments on Hacker News. I keep thinking about this idea of figuring out a forum format that has checks in place to ensure that every participant is an actual human, as opposed to an automated bot. I have had a ton of crazy ideas for how I would execute it, ranging from simply requiring to have government ID to requiring to have webcam on while using the website (to collect biometrics). I am interested to hear from the community if (however crazy or restrictive, sci-fi) ideas that would allow to create a forum online that's only for humans.

Tool that can bring MFST "recall" feature" to any PC platform with added privacy 6 by dsaed | 1 comments on Hacker News. saw few redditers discussing a tool that has pretty much the same usecase of "recall" feature of mfst with lot's of smaller models embedded inside to restrict AI to pick any sensitive info. what's your view?

Tell HN: The Australian housing market, open to the world, is going up $900/day 4 by andrewstuart | 1 comments on Hacker News. Anyone in the world may buy housing in Australia. And the prices are going up at an astounding rate. In some suburbs, house prices are accelerating up to $880/day. Australia is also one of three countries in the world where real estate is exempt from money laundering reporting laws, so likely criminal cash is flooding in from Russia, China, Burma, anywhere in the world that has dirty money that needs cleaning. Money is pouring in from rich people in countries where economies are crashing. Prices are absolutely skyrocketing, supply is nowhere near keeping up with demand and the government is running a massive immigration program. These house prices are going to accelerate to the moon. What does all this add up to? It's a terrible thing if you are an ordinary Australia who hoped to own a home. It's a miracle if you are a landlord in Australia. It's...

Ask HN: Anyone daily driving Asahi Linux for work? 6 by jiwidi | 2 comments on Hacker News. How is the support, stability and daily task performance? Battery? GPU Support for video playback or still in CPU? I always look back at my old acer laptop with arch and i3 as my most productive environment but couldn't daily run it at work as every now and then screen sharing or video wouldnt work due to driver update and stall a meeting.

Ask HN: What's Your Opinion of iOS Development? 2 by codingclaws | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am considering building an app for iOS, iPadOS and macOS and want to know what other developers think about the Apple developer experience in 2024. I built an iOS app about a decade ago and it wasn't the best experience.

Ask HN: Browser-Based LLM Models? 3 by lulzury | 3 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone know if there are there any plans for browsers to natively integrate LLMs, LLM APIs, or LLM models like Llama for local use by web applications? I feel there's a large opportunity here for a more privacy-friendly, on-device solution that doesn't send the user's data to OpenAI. Is RAM the current main limitation?

Ask HN: Should I remove work experience from resume? 2 by throwaway19917 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm 40 years old and worked in programming for 20 years now. I don't want to follow the management track. Should I remove experience from my resume to avoid ageism in automated resume filters? So far I'm not getting a lot of responses to my applications (or almost instantaneous rejections).

Ask HN: Why Google shut down business.site website feature? 13 by ms7892 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I was wondering why Google shut down the business.website feature it helped me to bring a handful of orders for my local bakery. Any clue or insight why Google did this?

Ask HN: Did you lose your passion? 4 by nwhnwh | 4 comments on Hacker News. About coding... and maybe about life as well.

Does anyone remember Blue Origin? What are they even doing for a decade? 3 by user90131313 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I dont understand how they are so behind?

Ask HN: Who Should I Publish With? 3 by toombowoombo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm considering writing a book and I want to learn more about the publishing process. What should I keep track of?

Ask HN: What is the threshold for being a techie? 4 by toombowoombo | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Pareidolia (walls) and (visual) LLMs. Has anyone made any efforts? 2 by ziggyzecat | 1 comments on Hacker News.

How to do growth for a B2C SaaS startup 2 by kartik0204 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have just joined a new job in a new gen ai company where I am tasked to lead the growth. Till date I have worked with B2B SAAS and I have no idea what to do next. The startup generates UI UX designs with the help of AI

Happy Independence Day, US HN Users 2 by chirau | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What book bit, stung and shook you deeply? 2 by leobg | 0 comments on Hacker News. Someone here quoted Kafka [1] on what types of books to read: Books that “bite and sting”. That “wake us up with a blow to the head”. And which “affect us like a disaster, that hurts us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves”. Ever read a book like that? Which was it? How did it affect you? What did reading it do to you? [1] Brief an Oskar Pollak, 27. Januar 1904. , https://ift.tt/Dg8H6fj. English (ChatGPT): "I believe one should only read those books which bite and sting. If the book we are reading does not wake us up with a blow to the head, then why read the book? To make us happy, as you write? My God, we would be just as happy if we had no books, and those books that make us happy, we could write ourselves if necessary. But we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that hurts us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like if we...

Ask HN: Recommended front end stack for complete beginner? 4 by altdataseller | 7 comments on Hacker News. If you had zero frontend experience, needed to create a web app with medium complexity in less than 2 months (its no figma but its not a static website either), what stack would you recommend?

Ask HN: What domain registrar and DNS provider do you use? (July 2024) 2 by jayFellows | 0 comments on Hacker News. Previous discussion (Feb 2020): https://ift.tt/NI2bd5o (most recent i could find... please share link if there's one more recent)

Ask HN: How to get back my domains with Porkbun after fraudulent dispute 9 by shlomo_z | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I have been using Porkbun domains for almost a year, and have been really happy. Until, recently, I ran into an issue. My friend paid for a domain for me using his credit card. At the time, I didn't think twice. But, alas, someone made unauthorized charges on his card, and my friend disputed a bunch of charges. Unfortunately, that included charges for three domains that I bought from Porkbun. I didn't know about all this until a bit later when I got an email from porkbun saying my account was in queue for suspension unless I quickly tried contacting them but they couldn't help over the phone, and said I must email them. I did. Without anything getting resolved within 24 hours, all my sites went down. Not just the ones that were disputed, all of them on the account. "Okay, hopefully this will be resolved soon. I will try to stay calm." So I ema...

Ask HN: Would requiring musicians to release only singles improve music quality? 2 by amichail | 3 comments on Hacker News. Indie game developers don't release entire collections of games. Why should musicians release collections of songs?

Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs? 2 by ashfernandez | 1 comments on Hacker News. Howdy folks. Has anyone here had success with using LinkedIn APIs to utilize people's Linkedin profile information? What do I mean exactly? Looking to see if anyone has had success finding LinkedIn APIs to: 1. Pull profile information such as name, company, work history, education (currently, you can do this as a PDF download, but it requires users to manually do this) 2. Pull company information on their company LinkedIn page such as the 'About' section and website Has anyone had success finding LinkedIn APIs to do this? If so, what did you have to do to get access? Thank you!

Ask HN: What were interviews like before Leetcode? 8 by zkirby | 26 comments on Hacker News. In the process of recruiting right now and I'm happy to see more and more companies are moving towards non-leetcode style interviews. As a child of the leetcode generation, this got me thinking - what kind of technical questions were asked before leetcode? Were algorithmic "gotcha" questions still asked? Were the questions easier? Was the bar just higher? I'm also guessing there was no 'coderpad' or 'hackerrank' - was everything just done on a whiteboard and pseudo-coded?

Ask HN: Software license "free for human consumption; not for AI"? 2 by squircle | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Should I use React for a personal portfolio? 7 by numcap | 5 comments on Hacker News. I want to create a personal portfolio website for my personal projects, and to show off my programming skills for employers. I was wondering if using ReactJS with SASS instead of plain HTML, CSS, and JS would be okay for something like this, or would it be overkill using React for a small project like this.

Mental health in shambles – should I quit? 3 by anxious_ape | 7 comments on Hacker News. New grad here. 4 months ago I began my first full time job at Amazon - was an RO after 2 successful internships. Lately, I've been battling a huge uptick in anxiety, both in and outside of work. I feel like I can't interact with any of my colleagues without masking an internal panic. I feel like my company sees me not as a human but as a set of metrics to be judged and compared against. I feel my humanity is sucked away under the guise of corporate kool-aid principals such as "Customer Obsession". I feel precarious knowing any health related issues may be used against me. I shutter at the concept of on-call. It's not so much the mental rumination that puts me over the edge, but the fact that the stress has spilled over into physical pains. I have a history of psychosomatic pain, and I have recently begun to experience this again. How bad does it look to quit this job after ...

Ask HN: How do you find a "boring" tech job? 4 by afflicted | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've worked at startups as an engineer for several years now and I'm sick of it. The stress vs. what I get out of it isn't worth it anymore, and it significantly impacted my health in the process. I want a boring job with boring tech at a larger boring company with stability and predictability. I just don't know where to begin looking. How do I figure this out?