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Happy New Year 2025 HN 8 by martynvandijke | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, this site always drags me back to visit it everyday. So for that Happy New year !

Ask HN: Best way to follow a HNer posts and comments? 2 by 9woc | 0 comments on Hacker News. There are some HNers that are very insightful and I would like to be able to be notified when they make a post or comment. Is there an easy way to do that?

Happy New Year 3 by appwiz | 1 comments on Hacker News. What are your predictions for 2025?

Is there such a thing as "private, interactive databases" for SaaS's 2 by alliewithane | 1 comments on Hacker News. So i've been building a product and my clients really hate the idea that their code is stored on my database (unencrypted). The problem is that I need to process the data in the background often and thus I cannot store it end-to-end encrypted. Is there any service that allows you to deploy some sort of database that only the client accesses and at the same time allows me to process it somehow maybe via apis?

What are some use cases for braids as a data structure? 2 by ababababaa | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just wondering

What is your bet in 2025? 2 by anh690136 | 2 comments on Hacker News. What tech, product, or project are you betting on for 2025?

Ask HN: Why do some medicines come as pills and others as capsules? 2 by litoE | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Can ipkvm bypass IT at work? 2 by YAhms | 0 comments on Hacker News. Im thinking of buying ipkvm like jetkvm and connecting it to my work pc And then connecting to it from home using tailscale Hypothetically speeking is it detectable ? If so is there any workaround ?

Ask HN: In the age of AI, what's the most important thing a dev should learn? 4 by miletus | 6 comments on Hacker News.

What would it take for Bitcoin to fail? 5 by enether | 9 comments on Hacker News. Serious question. It has been called dead so many times, but I am beginning to think that due to the network effect, switching costs and increasing rate of adoption it would take a black swan event to take it down.

$250 remaining of L&D budget – what to spend on? 3 by czatt | 4 comments on Hacker News. Currently learning basic SQL (for free on Code Academy), already have a Coursera subscription for business courses. Interested in different forms of learning (MOOCs don't really engage me that well). My background is in finance and I would like to learn more about product development and strategy. Also really keen on starting some new hobbies this year, so bite-sized learning of a variety of things would be great (to help me find something to deep-dive into!). Books are fair game, as well as courses and productivity tools for this budget. Really anything that can be sold as professional or skill development, doesn't have to be associated with my role or the company.

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Deserves More Attention on HN 3 by miles | 0 comments on Hacker News. The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) has received little attention on HN, despite the on-again, off-again[1] threat of imminent draconian penalties[2] for many small business owners (only around 20% of whom have complied[3]). Perhaps these opening lines from the USDC E.D. Texas, Sherman Division's recent opinion[4] may spark some interest and thoughtful discussion (or at least awareness for the many business owners here): > “Great nations, like great men, should keep their word.” Fed. Power Comm'n v. Tuscarora Indian Nation, 362 U.S. 99, 142, 80 S.Ct. 543, 4 L.Ed.2d 584 (1960) (Black, J., dissenting). Ours is a written Constitution. The promises it makes to the People and the States alike are not hidden. The Court must enforce them. “The powers of the legislature are defined, and limited: and ․ those limits may not be mistaken, or forgotten, the [C]onstitution is wri...

Ask HN: How best to get adoption for a new devtools product for software eng? 2 by nisthana | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Will captive portals be in jeopardy due to browser policies? 3 by juanse | 0 comments on Hacker News. It seems all the currents ways of configuring Raspberry Pi wifi through the phone are based in captive portals. At the same time, it looks like browsers, starting by Chrome are restrincting more and more any use but the standard. I am concerned, that having a product based on this, and been a headless system, at some point they will lose suddenly the ability to be connected to wifi, making it unusable. Any thought? Are they going to go that far?

Iwantmydomain.com randomly refunded all of my domains and locked me out 5 by mdatelle | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is a heads up to stay away from this shady company. Yesterday evening I saw a bunch of refund emails come through for every domain I hold with them. I tried to login to my account to see what was going on and I was locked out! I checked a few of the websites using these domains and they were all down including my email addresses based on those domains. Even my personal domain I use for family email addresses is down and the whois shows ClientHold as the status. I've always been in good standing with them and actually just purchased a couple more domains a few days ago with no issues. Those were refunded too! I have an app and a consulting side business that are all inaccessible now and their support still hasn't responded. I wasn't aware of the recent itch.io fiasco until I started looking into issues with them last night. I never would have expected so...

Ask HN: Is any recent hourly social media activity data available? 2 by ActVen | 0 comments on Hacker News. I think it would be really fascinating and maybe a bit shocking if we could see hourly reddit comments, x posts, etc graphed over periods where the OpenAI API was down. Anyone seen anything like this?

Ask HN: Ideas are cheap, so what ideas can make $100k/year? 4 by findingMeaning | 0 comments on Hacker News. As AI agents get better and better, we are all in the verse of having our day to day work changed in radical way. Thus, I would like to know what boring business exists that are so commonplace yet can manage $100k/year? It could be anything and any domain! Since it all boils to execution, I want to understand where there are values. What is value in general?

Ask HN: Where should I go to look for Investors? 2 by vednig | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hey, hope you're doing fine, I'm Ved, I'm a 20 year old founder who is working on DoShare Cloud we launched our first tool this year in March which received a significant interest from the internet community. We understood there was a problem in the market that nobody was looking at, so we identified the problem and built a solution(partially built still needs a lot of features to be generally usable) we validated the idea with waitlist got a lot of feedback, but we were moving very fast we burned through a lot of cash fast. Which in turn let to delayed salary which stopped a lot of work(new features) and impacted the overall momentum of direction product line was headed in. After successful launch of DoShare Personal Cloud we were hit by payment gateway issues(Stripe is invite-only here - I messaged them multiple times) We're now just initial founders and one person still worki...

Ask HN: ChatGPT Down? 10 by franze | 7 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are you working on this Christmas Eve? 2 by riddleronroof | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What are you working on (December 2024)? 5 by vitaly-pavlenko | 3 comments on Hacker News. What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Ask HN: What to do when you're out of money and can't find a job? 10 by whoshiring57392 | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I have reached the point of extreme desperation. I'm 39 years old, and I have been building software for 20+ years (started coding when I was 12), and I have multiple GitHub projects with 1000+ stars, and numerous with 100+. I have published 2 programming books, and have worked at some top companies. I have been trying to find a job for the past 2 years, but I have been unable to get a single job offer after doing 100+ interviews. My last real job ended in 2019, so my resume has a 5 year gap that probably looks suspicious. In those 5+ years I started multiple (failed) businesses and spent all my savings in trying to bootstrap a small business that would provide a living for me. This looks like a huge red flag to most recruiters, but I think the HN crowd would understand. At this point I have about a month of runway left before I can't pay rent ...

A Better Way of Defense with Csurf 2 by vitalipom | 0 comments on Hacker News. Csurf might be deprecated in the npm main repository, but it does not cancel the fact that this is still a great lib for CSRF Tokens in NodeJS. While striving to find and provide a straight route path for assured security on the websites, I have come up with a Context Design Pattern for CSRF Tokens, which is very simple but might be not what you think or not what you are used to. In the traditional approach, to defend against foreign links that target i.e. deleting your users’ profiles while clicking a link, we know that CSRF Tokens is the answer. But what happens when the links are on your website, e.g. in the HTML formatted posts or comments section? Well, I suggested the following to Chat GPT and the machine has fallen for it! Think of csurf lib’s cookie being sent with the string “posts-cookie-token” while in the posts or comments section along with a CSRF Tokens. The cookie is a session identifier an...

Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG 2 by myrigole | 1 comments on Hacker News. Build Your Own AI-Powered Document Chatbot in Minutes with Simple RAG! Ever wished you could ask a chatbot questions about any research paper or document? Now you can, with our simple Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) framework! This project leverages Gradio, LangChain, and Chroma-based vector databases to help you easily load, split, and search through PDFs for accurate, context-aware answers. Key Features: Document Loader: Effortlessly load PDFs for analysis. Text Splitting: Efficiently chunk documents for better processing. Vector Store: Powered by HuggingFaceEmbeddings for accurate retrieval. Retrieval-Based Question Answering: Get contextually relevant responses. Gradio Interface: Simple and user-friendly interface for querying. Perfect For: Answering questions about AI research papers. Customizing Q&A systems for any document type. Check it out and start buil...

Ask HN: How does programming affect your emotional state? 4 by djacobs7 | 3 comments on Hacker News. When I am coding for a long time, my emotional state tends to reflect the code. If it's not compiling when I think it should, I get frustrated. If everything is acting predictably, like I expect it to, I feel great. After a day of programming, it takes me a while to get used to talking to a human being. During the day, my feelings reflect those of a computer - it is dry and unemotional, so I am too. Does anyone else experience similar things? How do you deal?

Ask HN: Linux on Snapdragon X Laptops? 3 by bjourne | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm considering buying one due to their reasonable price and impressive power/performance ratio. So I wonder if anyone has been able to run a Linux desktop on Snapdragon X laptops?

Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how do you do it? 3 by zackoverflow | 6 comments on Hacker News. I am totally fascinated by programmers who don't use many of the IDE features I take for granted today: autocomplete, language servers, and recently copilot So to the devs who don't use these tools, how do you do it? Do you just remember every type and field in a codebase? What does your flow look like? One example is that I cannot live without the language server go-to-definition feature. What do you do if you need to look up the definition/implementation of some function which is in some other file?

Ask HN: Are you crosssing the Amazon picket line? If no, where are you shopping? 2 by jMyles | 2 comments on Hacker News. Feels like such a bougie question, but I just wonder: have any of y'all discovered an online shopping experience with quick shipping and broad product selection that competes well with Amazon? I'm a long-time newegg user, so I use that for computer components. But what about for general household goods, tools, dry goods, cleaning supplies, etc? Is there a good place to buy where workers aren't striking?

Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack? 3 by dheera | 0 comments on Hacker News. Have any of you taken a career break or gap year just to hack on interesting projects? I'm thinking about doing this for my own mental health, whether they be open source projects, fun projects, or projects that might be eventually monetizable and turn into a business (but without the pressure to necessarily do so). After burnout in the corporate world it would be nice to just do what I feel like doing for a while. Financially, I'm good to do this for a certain amount of time, but at some point I'll need to work again -- my savings is fine for some years, but nowhere close to retirement. Have any of you taken this kind of gap? Did you ever feel that your lack of a line on your resume caused the constant influx of recruiter emails to slowly start dwindling, and your "I can always get a job" lifeline started vanishing at some point? Or did you feel it was a no...

I want to build from a prebuilt AI to help with coding 3 by kayduyenma | 0 comments on Hacker News. Been coding and now I want to crack into AI with sth that's convenient and don't suck for privacy. I've checked out: - HP Z8 Fury G5: https://ift.tt/jyzTEtK - Dell R940xa: https://ift.tt/JUdlihv - AnonAI On-premise: https://ift.tt/27o64gC Want to check out more options around $15k. I'm looking for something that's easy to set up, private for data analysis and is convenient to use without requiring endless config tweaks. Any options beyond those? Thanks.

Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls 9 by thoughtcritical | 6 comments on Hacker News. with very little help by mods in the last year? Blocking tons of perp accounts is tiresome but really the only way to use it now. Will it eventually become some really odd platform where 90% of the posts/accounts are shills/bots/trolls shitposting narratives devoid of any critical thought? That does seem to be where it is currently headed.

Ask HN: Predictions for 2025 3 by uncomplexity_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. 2024 has been a wild ride with lots of development inside and outside AI. What are your predictions for this coming year?

Ask HN: How to get all the IP's I have used to access the Amazon Store? 2 by LinuxBender | 0 comments on Hacker News. I want something like Google Takeout, but for the Amazon store. Does this exist and will it show every IP that has used my account?

Would you pay $19 for this Mac menubar app? 5 by mightyalex | 2 comments on Hacker News. I recently developed TotalsApp.com, a macOS menubar app that pulls real-time revenue from Stripe, Paddle, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, and Polar. It shows your earnings at a glance without needing to open dashboards or log in. It’s a one-time purchase for $19, and you own it forever. I’m curious, do you think this is fair for creators and small business owners? If not, what would you pay?

Ask HN: What does OpenAI's O3 Arc result mean for the field? 3 by ottaborra | 0 comments on Hacker News. From 1.criticism of how inadequate the transformer architecture is 2.depletion of training data 3.improvements to the attention mechanism 4. AGI supposedly being miles away where does the new results put the field and what avenues need more focus and what others need less focus to the point of complete cutoff?

Ask HN: How to Get Fiber Installed 2 by b8 | 2 comments on Hacker News. The only ISP we have is Cox, and they only offer Copper Cable with low speeds. I've tried filing FCC availability complaints, but they were fruitless to get Cox to install Fiber at our neighborhood. I've also attempted to do the same for ATT and another local ISP who offers Fiber within 1 mile of us without success. Is there anything else I can try to get fiber at our house? I read about a person setting up their own ISP due to lack of Fiber accessibility, but I AFAIK there isn't government grants offering the same incentives that Michigan does. I live in Louisiana, Baton Rouge area. I've tried the T-Mobile 5G wireless internet, but the speeds are insufficient to stream 4k connect even with a cat 6 wired connection.

Ask HN: Why do we care about message privacy but let AI listen to our meetings? 4 by librarian1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Signal and Telegram are built around private, encrypted communication. But every time, I join the meeting I see some random AI note-taker bot. It basically transcribes the most precise things ever - your meetings. Why people stopped to care that their data - their voice, their meeting voice are processed on servers somewhere?

Ask HN: How do you work with people who are "not quite smart"? 2 by charles_f | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hey, This is a touchy subject, and that might be a lack of awareness or empathy from my part. But trust that it comes from a genuine willingness of making things better for everyone. We all work with people who we find "not as good", have different ways or work ethics. After being told for decades that this is usually a problem with communication or point of view, I had somewhat internalized the idea. And it is often true, but what I've realized as of late, is that there's a category of people who are not just working a different way, but are - to put it bluntly - plainly not smart. What I'm talking about is people below average when it comes to understanding concepts, or conceptualizing altogether. Their intuition is always twisted and wrong. Completely lack critical feedback. Work needs to be decomposed for them in extremely precise steps if yo...

Ask HN: With O3 progression, how should we plan our careers 4 by whizusukite | 2 comments on Hacker News. With the advent of new O3 progressions, what are some recommendations for early/mid-career software engineers to maximize their job growth prospects in the future? What skills will be more sought after? What skills will be the most important? It seems more generic software engineer roles may become more saturated. Curious to hear other thoughts on this.

Passkeys are primarily about vendor lock-in 5 by srevenant | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hear me out, THEN tell me how wrong I am :D With Microsoft's latest admission that they're FORCING everybody to use passkeys, it really gives one a moment of pause to reflect. In the mad rush to "improve security" many people seem to be missing the entire point in this debate. Passwords are "something you know" Passkeys are "something you have" These two things are individual factors, and are not exclusive. Infact, "MFA" is to use two factors, not just one; and that is where the security comes from. Switching to Passkey is nominal, at best, without having a second factor to keep it MFA. If you care about security, don't delude yourself in thinking passkey alone is some sort of holy grail, it's not. However, the push to replace passwords with passkeys is a fundamental shift in security paramount to changing gravity. And I, at least, think it...

Ask HN: Are any other languages as big as C++? 4 by codingclaws | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been relearning C++ over the last week and it seems absolutely massive. Do any other languages come close to its size?

Soylent powder subscriptions delayed for three months 3 by aendruk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just sharing emails I’ve received since I don’t see it announced elsewhere: 2024-11-27 Update on your Soylent Original Powder subscription Hi there, We’re reaching out to let you know that your subscription for Soylent Original Powder will be delayed until the beginning of January. Demand for our Meal Powders recently has been higher than we had planned for, thus causing an inventory shortage. We completely understand these product shortages continue to be frustrating, and we hope you can accept our deepest apologies. Your experience is top-of-mind for us, and we continue to make structural and process changes internally to resolve these issues for the future. If you have an outstanding order already placed, it will ship as soon as inventory is received. If you’d rather have it canceled to receive a refund, let us know by responding to this email and we’ll process your request. Let us kno...

AutoMQ: A Cloud-Native Kafka Alternative with 95% Cost Savings over Confluent 3 by Honestsoul | 1 comments on Hacker News. Apache Kafka is critical for real-time streaming, but its costs, especially with Confluent, can be prohibitive. AutoMQ offers a fresh take: a cloud-native Kafka implementation that reduces costs by rethinking traditional architectures. Preconditions for Comparison Peak Throughput: 0.1 GB/s Average Throughput: 0.01 GB/s Monthly Data Transfer: 25,920 GB Storage Volume: 2,592 GB Architecture: Multi-AZ (AWS) Data Retention: 3 Days Key Cost Differences: Confluent Total: $17,369/month AutoMQ Total: $718/month (95.8% less) How? Stateless Brokers: No shared-nothing overhead. Shared Storage: Amazon S3 eliminates cross-AZ replication costs. Elastic Scaling: Decouples compute and storage for efficiency. Core Benefits: Massive cost savings: Compute (-94.7%), Network (-99%), Storage (-78.3%). Simpler operations with cloud-native scaling. Retains Kafka's core performance ...

Ask HN: If you had to expatriate, which country and whats the plan? 5 by bloomingkales | 5 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Anyone on macOS 15.x having issues with gevent/greenlet? 2 by whalesalad | 1 comments on Hacker News. Been debugging an issue with a colleague for a few days now and we are coming up empty handed. Most of our production app relies on gevent. The application works on macOS 12.x, 13.x and on all flavors of Linux ... but as of now 15.x is causing some very hard to debug issues. I get a sense this has something to do with the way gevent is patching things like `socket`. Instead of seeing immediate feedback like a failure to connect to an external resource, the app just silently hangs/fails. I am reaching out here as a last ditch effort to try and see if anyone else in the community has experienced issues specifically in regards to the combo of macos 15 and gevent.

Ask HN: Is getting into elite schools are the only way to build great startups? 3 by azlan692 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey guys my name is Azlan. I'm studying at (OSU) Oregon state university, once i was very excited to get into stanford,MIT,Harvard but didn't get in. I have a good financial backing like he can give me 150k+ for my startup, and i have idea of AI HealthTech startup too, But i dont have network like elite school provides i don't want to waste my father's money. How can i make connections if i didn't get into elite schools is there any way that i can get to know best VC's and best Entrepreneurs because Network=Networth. Or it's over for me, You can be brutally honest with me no need of fake motivation. Your suggestions will make me stronger because i'll apply to get transfer in top schools.

Ask HN: Has anyone used Devin for web-dev? 4 by vsroy | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm thinking of purchasing the Devin subscription, so I can give it screenshots of a web-app, and have it just implement the flows. But ... I don't know if it will be capable of doing so. Has anyone used Devin for this type of thing?

Ask HN: Better ways to extract skills from job postings? 2 by azeusCC | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I’m building a job aggregator with a live data platform that provides in-depth market analysis. I’m currently focused on improving how I extract skills from job postings. While my current extraction setup achieves ~90% accuracy, it struggles with edge cases and lacks flexibility, particularly when skills are phrased in unexpected ways. 1.The Problem: 1.1: Lack of flexibility: The system only captures predefined phrases. If a job post says something like "proficiency in spreadsheets" or "experience with advanced reporting tools", it misses that Excel is likely required. 1.2: Manual maintenance: Constantly updating JSON files to account for new variations is tedious and unsustainable as the project grows. 2.Current Setup: 2.1: Keyword-based extraction: I maintain a JSON file with predefined skill variations. Example: "programming_languages": { "J...

2024 Lichess Recap 3 by benatkin | 1 comments on Hacker News. There isn't any official page for this that I can find, but I thought HN might enjoy the 2024 Lichess recap, it's a really nicely done recap of the year on Lichess. I'll post a link to a video I found in a search and a couple forum posts in the comments.

Ask HN: LLM agent to firewall vulnerable FOSS libs? 6 by ATechGuy | 2 comments on Hacker News. As software providers, we use several FOSS libraries. These libraries require periodical security bug fixing, which requires shipping a new release. We are building an LLM agent that can block these security bugs at runtime (like a firewall so to speak) and prevent attackers from exploiting security bugs in vulnerable libraries. Are there any pitfalls that we must avoid? Your feedback is welcome.

Cyberattacks on healthcare systems are putting patient lives at risk 5 by biohackerking | 1 comments on Hacker News. Cyberattacks on healthcare systems are increasing, threatening patient safety and disrupting services. Here’s why it matters: • Delays in care: When systems go offline, healthcare providers lose access to electronic health records, leading to treatment delays and reliance on manual processes. • Financial damage: Healthcare organizations face substantial financial losses due to operational disruptions and the costs associated with data breaches. • Data breaches: Cyberattacks can expose sensitive patient information, leading to privacy violations and potential identity theft. Recent example: In February 2024, Change Healthcare, a major health technology company, suffered a ransomware attack that compromised the personal data of over 100 million individuals, making it one of the largest healthcare data breaches in history. What can be done? • Strengthen cybersecurity mea...

Ask HN: How do I get the most out of an analyst job? 2 by Qision | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I recently started a new position as a "program analyst" in the context of software for public administration in EU. There are two teams involved in the project, team A who are basically like product owners and architects, doing the conception and deciding of the priorities, and team B, the devs, who actually make the software. My job in team B is to act as an interface between team A and the devs, I'm supposed to have a good overview of the project, keep track of the progress made in the code (bugs, new features etc.) so I can update team A on what's going on and in the end synchronize the teams. I also have to manage our git repo. It was clear from the beginning that I am not supposed to code. Overall I don't feel super enthusiastic about the project itself but I must admit that for a junior the working conditions are really good (working hours, holidays and s...

Ask HN: Do LLM errors increase likelihood of future mistakes? 2 by pingou | 0 comments on Hacker News. Imagine you ask the same question twice to a LLM. Due to the randomness of the replies, it gives you a correct answer and a wrong answer. If you ask an unrelated question in the same thread, isn't it more likely to give a wrong answer in the case where it already gave a wrong answer for the first question? This is because someone who gave a wrong answer once is more likely to give a wrong answer again, and LLMs mostly predict text. If that is the case, would telling the LLM that it made a mistake make it more likely to give another wrong answer for an unrelated question, compared to not acknowledging anything? This is because it might "confirm" the idea that the role the LLM is "playing" is of someone who gives bad answers.

Ask HN: Is building a palliative AI companion for people with dementia ethical? 4 by motohagiography | 1 comments on Hacker News. What features could make it more ethical?

Can anyone help me make an e-ink laptop? Is there a rake on my lawn? 3 by singlepaynews | 4 comments on Hacker News. I think this is ultimately a pretty simple project, ~$3000 and some soldering/bios-ing. The plan is to buy these: - https://ift.tt/oy0IGPV - https://ift.tt/i2UpFAt - https://ift.tt/aRji4CK And do this: — https://ift.tt/uNDavJi Is there a rake on my lawn? I have flashed cards before to hack a GoPro 8, soldered on breadboards, and partitioned drives, but always as a hobbyist, never professionally; and the dream here is to have an end product that I can use professionally.

Ask HN: How do you find part time work? 51 by leros | 11 comments on Hacker News. I have a project that I'm working on turning into a small business. I've done some part-time work (retainers and project-based) over the past year and it's gone well. It's relatively high pay for part-time work, leaving me time and flexibility to work on my own project. The thing, I haven't really put much work into finding this kind of work. I've had a few opportunities land in my lap pretty nicely. Now, I need to seek out more work like this. I have ideas, but I'm curious to see how others are finding part-time work. Ideally, I would get 10-15/hr a week retainers, but project-based work is ok too. The key is that I can keep getting the work with consistency. My corporate career was a cross between engineering and product management. I truly believe my best utility is the cross-over of the two. I'd be happy to do part-time leadership for small teams, take on independent...

Ask HN: Who Has an Interesting Job? 5 by nizbiz | 3 comments on Hacker News. If your work brings you a sense of fulfillment, interest, or enjoyment I would love to hear more about it and what about your job allows you to feel this way. I have realized I am someone who needs at least one of these things to be happy with work, and I’m currently not getting any of them. This next year I would like to seriously make an effort to get on track to change this for myself.

Ask HN: How do you cover healthcare as a founder? (US Only) 6 by deputychina | 6 comments on Hacker News. Got a family of 3 while I work on my startup. Somehow we are surviving for Month over Month but healthcare costs are through the roof. I am seeing premiums from $1170/mo for basic plan that must meet family deductible of $12k (or individual $6k). That means total out of pocket will be around total out of pocket cost are $18k to $26k. There are two cheap plans but appointments and in-network coverage is non-existent. We haven't raised VC round. That is another battle. How do you cover for healthcare in the US? Just cost of healthcare stressing me out while I build the company. Are there any cheap cost care available? We are in Washington state if that matters. Let me know if you know anything that I might have overlooked.

I Track My Health Data in Markdown: Lessons in Digital Longevity 7 by biohackerking | 4 comments on Hacker News. I’ve spent years tracking my sleep, diet, and exercise with apps and wearables. But here’s the problem: when an app gets discontinued or stops syncing, the data—and all the insights—disappear. That’s why I’ve adopted a “file over app” philosophy for health tracking. Instead of relying on apps, I save everything in open, accessible formats like Markdown or CSV. These files are local, portable, and universally readable—ensuring my data outlives any app or platform. Here’s how I do it: • Workouts, meals, and sleep logs go into plain text notes. • Trends and averages (e.g., weekly sleep hours) are calculated in Google Sheets. • Files sync to the cloud (Google Drive) and back up locally. For example, my sleep log might look like this: ### Sleep Log (December 2024) - 12/01: 7.5 hrs (11:00 PM - 6:30 AM) - 12/02: 6 hrs (12:30 AM - 6:30 AM) - Felt tired, adjusted bedtime. - 12/03:...

Ask HN: Any working Chrome extensions that delay loading of YouTube? 2 by whatever0124 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Recently I decided to limit the amount of time I waste on youtube, reddit, etc. but blocking it altogether is too restrictive (sometimes it's useful - for example for background music or some tutorials). There are several chrome extensions that supposedly let you delay loading of choosen websites, but: 1. most of them have a google warning that they might be removed for "breaking the rules" 2. none of them work correctly. They don't block the first time you enter a website, and they don't block when you click links on the same domain. They work the best when you refresh, but even then - not always. Similar extensions on firefox work perfectly. At this point I'm starting to get paranoid and think Google blocked this functionality on purpose (but then it wouldn't also be blocked for reddit and other websites so it's probably not on purpo...

Ask HN: What's a good alternative to The Verge now it's login-gated? 2 by mnfrmcddlykrnl | 2 comments on Hacker News. For the last few years I’ve mainly just checked The Verge for the latest tech news. Alas, I will not be creating an account just to browse.

Ask HN: How does HN post ranking algorithm work? 2 by amarcheschi | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm curious because a recent post with a lot of upvotes debating healthcare suddernly disappeared from my home feed the post: https://ift.tt/28zZSXk

Tell HN: ChatGPT's real-time video and enhanced voice is incredible 3 by TIPSIO | 0 comments on Hacker News. The new real-time video and voice feature on the ChatGPT iPhone app is super impressive. You forget quickly and it feels almost like speaking to a real person via Face Time. Spooky. I highly recommend testing to experience yourself.

Ask HN: What should I do with meet.hn? 20 by sirobg | 14 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! A few weeks ago, meet.hn was released. We are now about 1700 hackers willing to meet each other in almost 700 locations worldwide. Since then, some community requested features and bug fixes have been implemented. - locations are now searchable and not restricted to a simplistic city-country pair - locations work with diacritics and diverse languages - new socials: personal website, email, Mastodon, Discord, GitLab, Google Scholar, YouTube, etc. - upon user request, I can now showcase your local meetups on your location listing, as it's done for Old Toronto: [1] About actual meetings, I'm aware of around a dozen so far, but I think many more occurred. Why am I writing this post? About 80% of the ~1700 signups happened in the first 36 hours after launch. As expected, signups dropped pretty quickly, and now it gains about one new user every other day. I think a ton of global value (and lo...

Ask HN: Ideas for spending $8k in Anthropic credits? 2 by benneo | 1 comments on Hacker News. so far i'm thinking: build an app and charge subscription, open source data labeling on hugging face, long-running task/agents with computer use or MCP. any other ideas/suggestions?

Ask HN: What percentage of HN users have JavaScript disabled? 5 by busymom0 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Is it worth doing some extra work to have a site work both with and without JS?

Ask HN: Why don't mobile apps use pure black for dark mode? 2 by rahimnathwani | 1 comments on Hacker News. I know I probably shouldn't read on my smartphone before going to sleep, but I do. My phone (a recent Pixel) has an OLED screen, so black pixels emit no light at all. I would have hoped that dark mode would mean mobile apps for reading (e.g. Substack) would use a black background, but many of them use something almost black. But I don't want my phone to act as a flashlight. Readwise Reader works well, except: - Sometimes I decide I must read the original page (due to some formatting or features that don't work in the Reader view). - (Sometimes only?) articles I sent to reader via email don't show up in Dark Mode, even if I manually select it Firefox with the Dark Reader extension works well, except that the top and bottom bars aren't quite black (even though Dark Reader can make the page background black). Am I doing something wrong? Or is my preference...

ChatGPT Down in Denmark? EU? 3 by ionwake | 2 comments on Hacker News. Can anyone else log in? I get an SSO error.

Ask HN: Are there any courses specifically for software architecture? 3 by mattyreed1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are there any online courses specifically for software application architecture (rather than learning syntax, math, etc.)?

Ask HN: How do I rebuild at 36yo after a checkered career of undiagnosed ADHD? 10 by poorinterview | 6 comments on Hacker News. Could really use your advice / encouragement. After 36 years of spinning my wheels unfocused, scatterbrained, and anxious, I was finally and recently diagnosed with ADHD. Medication has begun and I've noticed some improvements, but there's still a long way to go. My struggle with ADHD and its severe deficiencies in executive function and memory have made it near impossible to: 1) accrue knowledge & experience in real-time across my career, 2) recollect the information that may have actually made it through to my brain, 3) play long-term strategic games, resulting in a lot of burned bridges and unfinished projects. In an effort to jumpstart my career, I've spent the past year applying to jobs in my field and while there's been a good bit of traction as far as being invited to interview, my interview performance is so laughably abysmal. I ...

Ask HN: Is the freemium model the future for AI-platforms? 2 by __01000010 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Due to the associated costs of integrating LLMs into products, many services rely on free trials that convert into monthly subscription plans. Does it make sense to introduce something in-between? For example, after having used the Cursor IDE, I'm still hesitant to pay for a subscription. If Cursor offered a freemium model supported by ads, e.g., in the chat tab, I would gladly tolerate them to use the service for free. Function calling agents are only getting smarted and can be configured to determine the relevant moments to serve ads during interactions, using high-level contextual + demographic information. Also, ads would be showcased separately from the LLM's response, with clear messaging to as why they were shown. Does this approach make sense? Could it make freemium models sustainable without much disruption to the user experience? The visuals on my website is the ...

Devin Is Actually Good? 3 by Kylejeong21 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Seems like Devin is actually way better than expected. Been watching Twitter demos and startups using devin effectively to ship more code faster. It's like Cursor x Greptile. Devin reviews your code and makes changes that it sees fit, and can help your dev team do tedious work faster. I can see lots of startups using devin now in tandem with existing AI code gen tools to be more of a dev assistant rather than replacing the engineer entirely. We're still a ways away from AGI, but devin actually is turning out to be a step in the right direction in terms of code gen. My only gripe is the hefty $500 a month starting fee to use it. I hope they drop a free version/ or at least a free trial for more people to have access in the future. What are your thoughts?

Ask HN: Other websites using HN's forum software (news.arc)? 3 by Rendello | 2 comments on Hacker News. .

What Books do you enjoy in physical form? 5 by treatmesubj | 0 comments on Hacker News. My Grandmother asks what (physical) book I'd like for Christmas each year. Last year I asked for Pro Git. This year I might ask for Data Structures & Algorithms in Python. I listen to countless audio-books, but don't find myself sitting down to read a physical book except for this strange tech-knowledge niche, where I can learn without it feeling like laptop-work-overtime because it's a physical book. Do you like any particular books in physical form?

Google ads appeal process is broken? 4 by growthwtf | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi there HN. I'm posting this in case anybody who has a Google contact or works at Google themselves would be able to help. My account was automatically suspended after signup because I needed to submit verification papers for my company. I did that successfully and then they asked me for a verification that I own the billing account. I do have that information but when I go to submit that I simply get a 500 error with "something went wrong". Unfortunately in this situation Google Ads also disables your ability to contact support so I'm a bit out of luck here. Funny enough, I was actually on the call with a google accounts rep when I was signing up and he pretty much hung up on me after I got suspended (live, with him) and has been dodging my call and emails. I assume he's just not incentivized or perhaps enabled to help out with things like this. I'm not participating in any k...

Why login to get public data? 2 by rupestrecampos | 0 comments on Hacker News. Brazilian government is making difficult to download data (requesting login or captchas or putting slow servers) and they say is a MUST to check this data before trading with farms. So why would you not let people download the data if they do not have one option on it?

Visual Product Search: Combining React Native, Cloud Vision, Algolia, and Remix 2 by iliashad | 0 comments on Hacker News. As part of my journey learning react native, I was thinking about building something cool that is related to the thing I enjoy talking about which is Shopify. So, I decided to add a feature to the Shop app. that will allow user search in Shopify stores product catalog using an image instead of the keywords. The workflow: A user scrolling through Instagram and the found a product that they like Take a screenshot of it Open the mobile app, click on the camera icon. Select the image and let the magic happen Get a list back of similar looking products across different Shopify store (in our case, it’ll be one Shopify Store) Full article: https://ift.tt/t1hdIQe Github Repo: https://ift.tt/1rW2vgo

Ask HN: What SOM Makes Startups Attractive to VCs? 3 by djokester | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm working on a healthcare startup targeting doctors, hospitals, and clinical trials. I've built a bottom-up approximation of market size and have estimated my Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Available Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM). I have two questions for the community: What SOM is considered attractive to VCs investing in startups? Is there a threshold (e.g., $100M, $200M, etc.) that investors typically look for? What percentage of SOM should a startup aim to capture within 5 years to be viewed as a good investment opportunity? I’d love to hear from founders, investors, or anyone who’s been through this journey in healthcare or similar industries. Any benchmarks, advice, or resources would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance for sharing your insights!

Ask HN: What are the best gifts you've given your toddler? 2 by lilatree | 0 comments on Hacker News. As this is a brainy crowd (and Christmas approaching), thought I’d ask. At first my head went to gifts that stimulate growth or build specific skills but anything that you’ve found merit in would be great to hear about.

Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older? 4 by amichail | 3 comments on Hacker News. Does it matter whether you are doing retro gaming or retro programming?

Ask HN: Nineteen Year Old Seeking Career Advice 4 by judiciously | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hi everyone. I'm a second year in college and I'm really struggling with having a career vision for myself. I enjoy many subjects including programming, biology, physics, math, chemistry, medicine, electrical engineering (robotics) and everything in between. I could see myself pursuing any of these fields yet I realize that the US college system essentially guides you to commit to one (or two) fields and get a job. Some advice I've seriously considered is just reading and learning as much as possible then starting a company when I come across an opportunity [0]. Yet my main qualm with this strategy is lack of job security. I.e., what do I do if the startup fails? Also, is it worth it to go to graduate school or medical school? How do I decide? Thank you in advance for any advice and I'd love to clarify if I've been unclear Thank you [0]: https://ift.tt/pC7X8ZR

Ask HN: Anyone else loving the new Google Chat? 3 by uncomplexity_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. So basically I got frustrated with other messaging platforms: - on messenger, it's full of ads and unnecessary features like filters on calls, and the video chat is bad quality. message is now unsearchable. - on whatsapp, same thing, it's now also unsearchable. - on telegram, great ux and its strength lies in its bot api but i had a hard time signing up with new accounts (it bans aggressively now). - on slack, good contender, but for work only, not personal stuff. telegram used to be my bias but it started getting enshitified in the past three years since they started monetizing it aggressively. on twitter / x, it's not searchable too, it crashes on my android. but i like how it's monetized in a way that it makes me pay $1 monthly to prove im not a bot, and i can pay extra to remove all ads and have a smooth xp. I discovered that Google Chat is now integrated in the Gmail ...

Ask HN: How are you using LLMs while coding or everyday work 3 by mraza007 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I would love to hear your tips on how to efficiently use LLMs while coding or even learning

LLM Prompt Engineering 2 by nexgenboss | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone, I've been following the incredible energy around AI here for a while now, and I'm reaching out because I believe my unique skillset could be a valuable asset to many companies in this space. My background is a bit unconventional: for years before ChatGPT and the current AI boom, I worked as an academic tutor, but with a very specific focus – mastering the art of the prompt. I helped students dissect complex assignment instructions, craft effective responses, and ultimately achieve outstanding results. You could say I was doing human-powered prompt engineering long before it became a buzzword. The emergence of tools like ChatGPT felt truly serendipitous, as my years of experience had already provided me with a deep, intuitive understanding of prompt generation, optimization, contextual understanding, and result analysis. I've essentially been doing manually what many companies are now strivi...

Ask HN: Best dev environment for C in 2024? 2 by labarilem | 4 comments on Hacker News. Accepting suggestions about anything: IDEs, compilers, editors, editor extensions, etc.

How much you could learn from just building a calculator in JavaScript 2 by bilalcg | 0 comments on Hacker News. After researching for quite a while on tutorials teaching how to build a basic calculator in JavaScript, I've come to the conclusion that almost no one is doing this in the right way. The reader doesn't get to learn about designing/wireframing the calculator; good programming practices; the thinking process of solving problems in the calculator; the inevitable process of refactoring; and whatnot. There is so much potential for a newbie in building just this single project that I can't tell you! Honestly, it's for real!! You could start off really really simple and then slowly and gradually, but eventually, turn the calculator into a highly complex, scientific beast. And that is a difficult feat to achieve in the process of which, you'll learn countless of invaluable skills. To list a few concepts: you get to exercise your skills in designing, the HTML ...

Ask HN: Oracle vs. Deno. What does this mean for us? 2 by whatamidoingyo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm on Deno's side for this, of course, but also kind of annoyed by it. What are the chances Oracle starts attacking everyone using the "JavaScript" trademark? See: https://ift.tt/gKPJdW0

Responses to input should be immediate and should assure the user 4 by MetaWhirledPeas | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are your ground rules for user interfaces? Here are some I decided on: 1. Responses to input should be immediate and should assure the user of which input occurred 2. Once displayed, controls should not change position without user input 3. Buttons should be unambiguous 4. Selections should be unambiguous 5. Controls and content should conform to accessibility standards ------------------------------------------------------ Story time for #1: My Mom's Fire TV "Alexa, channel 11" The TV does nothing A spinning animation appears (Loading ~something~ but what? Did it even hear me correctly?) A half minute later, the TV arrives on channel 11 ^^^ This is particularly problematic when you get the command wrong. ------------------------------------------------------ Story time for #2: Azure Portal Load Application Insights (a log viewer) Go to click on a fi...

Ask HN: How is the M4 MacBook Pro Nano-texture screen for long coding so far? 2 by imbnwa | 0 comments on Hacker News. Am looking to get into these but have seen conflicting reports about how the nano-texture material interacts with font rendering. Am curious if anyone has empirical experience doing long coding sessions on these just yet.

Bitcoin's Market Cap is over $2T now 2 by ArtTimeInvestor | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Did Google/Alphabet ever try to build a Starlink? 4 by govideo | 3 comments on Hacker News. Seems like something like Starlink would have come out of Google/Alphabet, at least at first blush. They did have Project Loon (internet access via big balloons) and talked about space tethers/elevators. Seems like a natural idea for (early) Google. Any insights into why nothing like it happened?

What Are the Latest Scraping APIs or Services/Websites? 3 by jdcampolargo | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on a large web scraping project and looking to avoid building custom scrapers for every site using something like BeautifulSoup. Anyone have recommendations for up-to-date scraping APIs or platforms that work well with a variety of websites?

Tell HN: China has all your SMS 2FA 5 by 0xbadcafebee | 0 comments on Hacker News. As has been posted on HN recently[1], US officials are urging Americans to use encrypted apps for communication, as China has become deeply embedded in the American telecom system. The extent of the compromise is so deep that they don't know when they can remove all the Chinese hackers. It occurred to me as I was trying to log into a financial website that the default 2FA method was still SMS. SMS is famously not secure over telecom networks. But with the rise of this Chinese hack of American telecom systems, it seems clear that China has had access to all our SMS 2FA codes. And they will continue to have access for an undetermined amount of time. So this is a reminder that, if you're in the USA, and you use SMS 2FA, there's little stopping China from taking over your account. (Typically accounts are taken over by hackers by using account recovery steps, like secret answers [which are pred...

Ask HN: How much would you pay for local LLMs? 6 by nancy_le | 3 comments on Hacker News. I want to build a private AI setup for my company. Im thinking of hosting our model locally instead of in the cloud, using a server at the office that my team can access. Has anyone else done this and had success with it? This setup will be used internally for uncensored chat, coding, image gen and analysis. We're thinking of using a combo of hardware: - RTX 4090 GPU (heard it's a beast) - Threadripper Pro 5955WX (anyone used this one before?) - SSD NVMe 1TB What are your picks for a local AI setup? And what’s the minimum budget to achieve it?

How much would you pay for local LLMs? 3 by brody_slade_ai | 2 comments on Hacker News. I want to build a private AI setup for my company. I'm thinking of hosting our model locally instead of in the cloud, using a server at the office that my team can access. Has anyone else done this and had success with it? This setup will be used internally for uncensored chat, coding, image gen and analysis. We're thinking of using a combo of hardware: - RTX 4090 GPU - Threadripper Pro 5955WX (anyone used this one before?) - SSD NVMe 1TB What are your picks for a local AI setup? And what's the minimum budget to achieve it?

Is there any fugatto code? 2 by omnimuh730 | 0 comments on Hacker News. NVIDIA unveiled new AI model-fugatto. Is there any open-source code to customize?

AI Ticket Formatting Tool to help devs not waste time 2 by prestondavid | 0 comments on Hacker News. I work on my company's internal resources software (our intranet) as a dev. Employees within the company enter help tickets when something goes wrong. These tickets are often extremely vague and require follow-up. It seems no matter how meticulously we setup a form to eliminate this follow up, the tickets are still vague enough to require follow up in every case. I just want to be able to receive a ticket and then have a really good idea of how to solve it. To do this, I'm thinking of building an AI chat bot that will eliminate as much follow up as possible so that when an employee makes a really vague ticket, the ai chat bot responds by asking them to provide specific steps to replicate and etc. At the end of the day I get a cleanly formatted and specific ticket automatically posted to Jira that I can work on. Feel free to roast/destroy this idea reddit-style, but if you thi...

Ask HN: Should homes have the option to reject all mail delivery? 5 by amichail | 5 comments on Hacker News. Of course, you would still want packages delivered by courier, but why allow standard mail delivery to your home if you do everything online?

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024) 25 by whoishiring | 68 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: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. There's a site for searching these posts at https://ift.tt/9uPUXix .

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) 43 by whoishiring | 67 comments on Hacker News. NEW RULE: Please only post a job if you actually intend to fill a position and are committed to responding to everyone who applies. ---- Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option. Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does. Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job. Searchers: try https://ift.tt/JEMQapP , https://ift.tt/PrJGw6g , https://hnhired.fly.dev , https://ift.tt/ulyg6EO , https://ift.tt/S0ZhLFb , or this (unofficial) Chrome extension: https://ift.tt/Ot1SLzh... . Don't miss these other fine threads: ...

Ask HN: Why is China subsidizing every step of manufacturing? 2 by dtquad | 3 comments on Hacker News. Western hardware startups on X/Twitter have been posting about how they are doing CNC + anodizing + transport of parts from China for prices that are close to the material costs of the part. The only reason this is possible is because the Chinese state is subsidizing every value adding step of manufacturing. What I don't understand is what does the Chinese state get out of subsidizing my orders on cheap-chinese-cnc.cn and cheap-chinese-pcb.cn and why are other countries not doing it?

Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays? 5 by toomuchtodo | 0 comments on Hacker News. Happy holidays HN. I am hoping to continue the generosity, tradition, and good will of Alexander Thomas Drummond (u/atdrummond), who contributed tens of thousands of dollars to community members here during the Holidays to help people who were struggling [1]. Sadly, Alexander passed away earlier this year [2]. This is not a request for donations. I am content to finance this operation myself (although others are free to offer additional support). All I ask is that you let us know your financial needs and their general purpose so that we can maximize the number of people we can help. To be clear, while the original intent was to provide dinner expenses for the holidays, this need not be the only reason you ask for funds. Reasonable requests include: - Holiday housing - Toys/gifts for family members - Food - Travel assistance - Medical expenses - Entertainment for the family I understand that it can be...

How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from? 34 by prathameshgh | 31 comments on Hacker News. I am a fresh graduate data engineer working at a small company in the oil and drilling industry. I was hired 6 months ago as a freelance data engineer, and after proving myself through my work quality, I am now essentially functioning as a tech lead, with full responsibility and ownership of designing, implementing, and hiring for the projects I'm assigned. Our company is not a tech company, so I only have a couple of tech-oriented colleagues, and I barely interact with them. Now I directly report to the director of the company, who in all senses is awesome, with 40+ years of combined experience in some of the biggest oil and drilling companies globally. However, I have some strong FOMO about not being able to learn much technical stuff from my peers or seniors. I am trying my best to learn and pick things up on my own, learning design principles, getting code revie...

Ask HN: What's the one feature you'd want in a GitHub productivity tool? 2 by sakharesuraj07 | 5 comments on Hacker News. I’m building a tool that analyzes your GitHub activity to boost productivity. Before I start developing, I’d love to hear from the community: What’s the one feature you’d want most in a GitHub productivity tool? Drop your ideas below, and I’d really appreciate your feedback to help shape the tool!