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Ask HN: How do you get users (and keep them)? 2 by dontoni | 1 comments on Hacker News. What are the best strategies you know of? How do you then boost word of mouth?

AK HN: Is the Era of Hackers/Startups Over? 3 by legitster | 3 comments on Hacker News. As a longtime HN user. I've noticed a drastic shift in the last few years in the industry. The glamour of a "hot startup" has gone away in lieu of the inevitably of big corporations and big platforms. Being a programmer doesn't seem as desirable or command nearly the respect that it did just a decade ago. The "hacker ethos" seems to be in decline, for any number of interconnected reasons: - The rise of AI - High interest rates - Dooming/decline of tech optimism - Decline of the open internet and the rise of proprietary services - Abandonment by tech leaders - Diminishing returns of software on human productivity - Generational changes Does anyone else share this feeling? Temporarily or as a fundamental shift? To that end, to what purpose is HN if the idea of a "hacker" goes away? It's hard not to understand the sudden shift of HN posts being political new...

Ask HN: Firefox may be selling our data. Can you recommend an alternative? 10 by devilsdata | 8 comments on Hacker News. Firefox just made a change their TOS copy that implies that they may begin selling our data [^1]. I'm a web developer– which means I need access to browser tools, and the 1Password extension. Are there privacy-focused forks of Firefox or an alternative browser you can recommend? - [1] https://ift.tt/F3H2LOM

What Happened to This Post? 3 by beretguy | 4 comments on Hacker News. What happened to this post? https://ift.tt/JGEmyHI It had 15 upvotes last time I saw it. It led to this link: https://ift.tt/9OtVDjR Now it’s just empty.

Ask HN: Crowd sourced grocery inflation tracker? 2 by jesusshreds | 0 comments on Hacker News. Are there any sites where you can upload grocery receipts and see locations/prices over time? I imagine you could OCR a store location and item prices from a receipt photo/scan, and do some cool data visualizations about prices and locations, maybe publish a data feed for researchers. If not, free project idea -- I'm not going to build it, I just want to use it.

I'm a 20 Yo Founder Seeking a Desk: Any Free Workspaces Out There? 2 by stellamettifogo | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey everyone! I’m a 20 yo founder looking for a desk to work from because my room is too small and dark, and I really want to be more productive. Since I start working at 7 AM and most libraries don’t open until 10, I haven’t found a good spot yet. I’m on a tight budget with rent, so I’d need to find something free. Does anyone have any leads on a place where I could work? Any suggestions would be super helpful! Thanks!

Ask HN: Is there a risk of e.g. AWS/GCP services getting "tariffed" in Europe? 4 by lysace | 11 comments on Hacker News. The White house has recently communicated its desire to impose onto Europe a "25% tariff on cars and all other things": https://ift.tt/sz5Dv6c Now, Europe doesn't really buy that many things from the US. What we do buy is services. For the HN crowd this generally means e.g. AWS/GCP services. I work for a EU company with a (un)healthy AWS spend. Workloads are all in EU zones. What is the likely outcome here, in case the EU decides to put some kind of "tariffs" on digital services from the US in their inevitable response? Would AWS likely be able to avoid those tariffs for non-US workloads?

Has anyone tried building tools without coding? 6 by gonzor | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been writing code for over 10 years. I love how fast I can ship with Cursor. I've been excited about the idea that I might not need to write code anymore. However, every time I tried no-code tools in the past, they just wouldn’t work well enough. Well, I tried again. I used to put ideas on the back burner, blaming a lack of time. That excuse doesn’t hold anymore. So I recently decided to turn two small ideas for my personal use into reality: - Airbnb Sort by Price Extension - Spotify macOS Notification Center Widget Given their small scope, I assumed AI could handle them. I used o3 Mini High, which was the best coding model until 3.7. Airbnb Sorter At first, sorting data on the initial load had hiccups, but after a few iterations, the model produced fully functional code. The only thing I had to manually provide was the HTML element IDs. Overall, great experience. It was my first ti...

Ask HN: Are you scared too that AI will replace white collar jobs? 2 by noname120 | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: If you work for Elon Musk, what keeps you motivated? 6 by hedayet | 6 comments on Hacker News. Many brilliant people work for Musk at companies like Tesla and SpaceX. Given the recent controversies surrounding him, I'm genuinely curious—how do they stay motivated to do their best work?

Ask HN: How do you use LLMs to make life easier? 3 by theF00l | 2 comments on Hacker News. For example I'm learning German and I realised I can give Claude a list of the words I heard in a documentary to get plural form, article, definition, example sentence etc, in a csv I can import to Anki.

Ask HN: Why mining power is useless for LLM training? 3 by chaoz_ | 0 comments on Hacker News. I don't know anything about crypto, but why is it technically so difficult to transform hash function computations into (at least partially) decentralized LLM training? Have there been any attempts to make it at least somewhat useful?

Ask HN: Why do you trust Kagi? 6 by monroewalker | 7 comments on Hacker News. I frequently see high praise for Kagi here, both for the quality of the search results as well as the ostensibly customer-friendly business decisions. For the people that use their search and trust the company - why? Not to say I don’t trust them or trust them less than any other company claiming to be privacy and security focused, just would like to know how others made their decision. The obvious strawman argument seems to be that since they charge for search, their business model is based on subscriptions rather than monetizing search data. Nothing would stop a company from charging for search AND selling data

Ask HN: What's Your Cursor Setup? 3 by cloudking | 0 comments on Hacker News. What’s your Cursor setup? I'm curious, what tweaks or integrations have you set up to make your coding flow smoother? Custom prompts, rules, MCP servers etc. Adding rules that describe the project functionality, architecture and folder structure has proved beneficial in reducing mistakes, adding context to tasks. (hint: you can ask the agent to generate these if they don't exist) So far I've found one useful MCP https://ift.tt/7ehlkow that helps the agent gather info from the browser during tasks (e.g screenshots, console logs, network errors) to help debug.

I Built an Insulin Calculator WebApp in One Afternoon Using AI Tools 2 by aflussing | 1 comments on Hacker News. I recently developed an Insulin Calculator WebApp that calculates insulin dosage based on food carbohydrate content. By integrating the Open Food Facts API and leveraging AI tools like ChatGPT and Vercel v0 Chatbot AI, I built and deployed the entire project in one afternoon. The app features a modern UI with internationalization and theme switching. Check out the live demo https://ift.tt/O9mhXHA and the code on GitHub https://ift.tt/68m0dYp. I’d love to hear your thoughts and any feedback on further improvements!

Ask HN: How will AI affect learning programming? 2 by kirso | 0 comments on Hacker News. Beyond just programming language fundamentals, what will be the way how to learn coding considering the AI tools will be available? What will be the shift in your opinion, if any?

Ask HN: What happened to all those metaverse projects from 2022? 6 by herval | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: My father passed away. How do deal with the grief? 6 by gogo61 | 3 comments on Hacker News. It has been one month since he passed and i have been continuously crying. I am writing this with tears in my eye.

Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work? 5 by throw81398475 | 1 comments on Hacker News. That's all. Savings are getting low, and I'm going to be struggling to pay rent soon. I'm curious what other kinds of work other former developers got into and if they like it. Cheers.

Ask HN: Have you written or consumed OpenAPI Arazzo specification? 4 by sb13 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I recently came across the Arazzo specification within the OpenAPI initiative. It defines a standard to express workflows involving multiple APIs. A couple of main use cases here are automatic API invocation with LLMs and automated tests. I want to auto generate API tests based on these specs and would like to see other examples. Is anyone here writing or consuming Arazzo specs? Reference: https://ift.tt/ANrRl19

Ask HN: Tips on how to find great technical recruiters to land the right job? 2 by Glimjaur | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Are there online communities for single-owner run companies? 3 by indulona | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am wondering if there are any online communities(discord, slack, forums) for people who have single-handedly built and run their online businesses - AND it is not a cesspool of never-ending promos and garbage ads ala linkedin?

Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) 2 by david927 | 0 comments on Hacker News. What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Tell HN: Five random IndieWeb blog links on your terminal 2 by susam | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello HN! I believe some of you might have come across this pretty interesting post about discovering IndieWeb blogs, one blog at a time: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43139953 > That post is actually a link to < https://indieblog.page/ >, which features an impressive list of independently maintained personal websites and blogs with RSS feeds. I was wondering, if instead of discovering one blog at a time, I could discover five blogs at once, directly from my terminal! Turns out the website has < https://indieblog.page/random > which picks a random blog and redirects you to it. It has daily feeds of N random posts too, where N = 1, 3, 5, and 10. But if, like me, you'd like to have five random blogs suggested in your terminal, here is a quick shell one-liner I'd like to share. It fetches the random blog picker page five times, cleans up the URLs a bit, a...

Ask HN: A retrofitted C dialect? 5 by anqurvanillapy | 13 comments on Hacker News. Hi I'm Anqur, a senior software engineer with different backgrounds where development in C was often an important part of my work. E.g. 1) Game: A Chinese/Vietnam game with C/C++ for making server/client, Lua for scripting [1]. 2) Embedded systems: Switch/router with network stack all written in C [2]. 3) (Networked) file system: Ceph FS client, which is a kernel module. [3] (I left some unnecessary details in links, but are true projects I used to work on.) Recently, there's a hot topic about Rust and C in kernel and a message [4] just draws my attention, where it talks about the "Rust" experiment in kernel development: > I'd like to understand what the goal of this Rust "experiment" is: If we want to fix existing issues with memory safety we need to do that for existing code and find ways to retrofit it. So for many years, I keep thinking about having a new C diale...

Ask HN: Why is it taking so long to build computer controlling agents? 2 by louisfialho | 5 comments on Hacker News. I'm not a PhD but I assume training computer controlling agents is a straightforward problem as we can define clear tasks (e.g. schedule appointment with details xyz or buy product xyz) on real or generated websites and just let the models figure our where to click (through vlm) and learn through RL. What am I missing, why isn't this a solved problem by now?

Ask HN: Is anyone still using Coldfusion? 4 by tnolet | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is the Zed editor open source? 4 by znpy | 0 comments on Hacker News. I wanted to give Zed (https://zed.dev / https://ift.tt/QzFwtXT) a try. I downloaded a binary release from https://ift.tt/H2xCloI and I'm presented with LONG license agreement. I'm particularly alarmed by this section: > 2.2. License Limitations > > You agree that You shall not: (a) exceed the scope of the licenses granted in Section 2.1; (b) make copies of the Editor; (c) distribute, sublicense, assign, delegate, rent, lease, sell, time-share or otherwise transfer the benefits of, use under, or rights to, the license granted in Section 2.1; (d) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble or otherwise attempt to learn the source code, structure or algorithms underlying the Editor, except to the extent required to be permitted under applicable law; (e) modify, translate or create derivative works of the Editor; or (f) remove any copyright, trademark, patent or other proprietary notice that appe...

Ask HN: Why is Cursor IDE accessing all my env vars? 2 by iyn | 1 comments on Hacker News. Recently I tried playing with https://www.cursor.com/ but got spooked by the LuLu alert (https://ift.tt/71T9UZj) when launching the app, where the process args included "JSON.stringify(process.env)" part, see screenshot here: https://ift.tt/Ld65K0a Is this... normal? I don't understand why they might want to serialize/access all of my env vars. Does anyone have a suggestion for that behaviour? I'm probably missing some reasonable explanation, happy to learn more. I've been running a lot of stuff in VMs lately anyway, but don't want to end up having to spin up a VM for the core app like a code editor. How do you all deal with untrusted (but not really malware-level untrusted) software?

Ask HN: Did bandits go out of fashion? 5 by dira3 | 2 comments on Hacker News. About 10 years ago, multi-armed bandits (and especially contextual bandits) were really important for optimization and business use cases. But nowadays you hardly hear about it, despite optimization continuing to be a need. The only major open source library continues to be Vowpal Wabbit - and even that is not very robustly maintained or documented. What are people doing for bandits or optimization needs nowadays? And what are some active, Python-centric, open-source libraries with a strong user community and stable code?

Ask HN: Tired of startups – want a normal job. Help 7 by mertleee | 0 comments on Hacker News. All but the first few years out of school I spent the better part of my 20's working in startups. I've networked well enough, had some ups and some downs. Initially just working for startups as an IC eventually moving into product / technical product and later actually founding / co-founding two companies. One fizzled out, the other was acquired in a way I sort of made money. Recently the market has been a bit of a mess and although I took a break to avoid burnout I'm realizing startups (at least with my level of ability and intelligence) are likely just not a great way to make money. I'm newly 30 and starting to realize I kind of just want a life and a reasonable tech salary. Nothing insane, just something that could support me in a b-tier city with my own place where I have enough time to actually have a girlfriend and well... a normal life. I'm freaking out because t...

40 Years of Cisco, the Real Story Behind Cisco's "Innovative" Founding 4 by notchuckrobbins | 2 comments on Hacker News. Happy 40th Birthday, Cisco! Time for some truth-telling from a certified network nerd (CCIE gang represent!) who's had enough vendor Kool-Aid to float a datacenter. Let's skip the fairy tale version and dive into what really happened, shall we? That romantic story about two Stanford lovebirds inventing the multiprotocol router in their living room? Yeah, about that... The real story: A team of Stanford engineers, led by Bill Yeager, had already built and deployed working routers across campus. That core software? Written by Yeager. (Spoiler: It becomes the foundation for Cisco IOS.) Enter our "founders," Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who saw this Stanford-developed tech and thought, "Hey, this looks profitable!" While still cashing Stanford paychecks, they made some tweaks and started selling it. When Stanford's licensi...

Ask HN: event loops vs. greenthreading in modern languages 2 by hot_gril | 0 comments on Hacker News. Most explanations I've seen on "async programming" bury the reason why we're doing this in the first place. It's purely to avoid making OS threads wait on I/O in a concurrent application, such as a webserver. So languages or even libraries instead have various ways to switch tasks on a single thread. If OS threads were cheap enough to just spawn one for each request, this wouldn't be a thing. Some languages with built-in event loops have async/await syntax, like JS, C#(?), and now Python and Rust. This is convenient syntax. Java, ObjC, etc also had a lot of futures-based stuff that mangled up your code somewhat. Callbacks were also common in ObjC, which gave you crazy nesting. Either way, you're explicitly saying when it can switch tasks, aka what you expect to block. Golang has greenthreading ("goroutines") instead, and Java recently got them...

Ask HN: Opinion on efforts to find prior art on outrageous priced drugs 2 by JPLeRouzic | 0 comments on Hacker News. Dear HNers, You may have read this article: https://ift.tt/Yyq25WX To over-simplify the article, it's about a non-profit that financed pre-clinical studies on a genetic disease that strikes infants: SMA. https://ift.tt/16J4cnS Once the pre-clinical studies were finished, contacts with the non-profit were much less frequent, and in the end, the drug was approved by the FDA. The price is more than $2 million per dose. This drug, Zolgensma, involves administering an AAV9 virus capsid containing an SMN1 transgene. Today, commercial companies have mastered this technology, are very efficient, and can produce it at little cost. I wonder if there could be a collaborative effort to lower the price of such drugs. One way would be to find alternate providers but a main roadblock is the intellectual property. The first patents on this drug will expire in a few years (they we...

I have a itch to build HR tech product but I dont know how to get started 2 by syed01 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am entrepreneur based out of Toronto, Canada. It's 12:35 am right now, my two kids and wife are asleep and I am here typing this to get some answers and guidance. I started my first business back in 2016, it was HR tech product that aimed to digitize the staffing agencies, it didn't end up working due to legal disputes with founders and burn out. After that, I started IT/HR consulting business that I still run to this day but I still have itch to do HR tech product. Atm, I am thinking to build something that I can use internally for my recruitment with adding AI to the mix. I want to diversify my businesses and add product along with my service business. How can I get started? I feel like I am stuck in middle of Lake ontario with not sure which way to go.

LLMs all fail this NumPy indexing example 3 by minihat | 2 comments on Hacker News. When mixing basic slicing with an advanced index, NumPy moves the advanced index's subspace to the front, so in the example, A[0, :, B] produces a shape of (4, 2) rather than (2, 4). import numpy as np A = np.random.rand(1, 2, 2) B = np.array([0, 1, 0, 1]) C = A[0, :, B] print("C.shape:", C.shape) So far every LLM I've tried (Grok 3, o1, Gemini Pro) all predict (2, 4) and can't be persuaded otherwise.

What should I expect from moving tech jobs from USA to Europe? 24 by tech_lizzard | 17 comments on Hacker News. 11 yoe Senior Software Developer here, I'm working at a non FAANG job, 180k. I'm looking at moving to Europe in the next few months. The salaries look about 1/3 of what I make, and yet the cost of living seems to be the same with higher taxes. While I'm willing to sacrifice that to move, I'm wondering if there's a best of both worlds approach? Perhaps get a FAANG job and relocate first day? It would be nice to just keep my job and work remote late nights, but I think I need a work visa to live over in Europe , and that needs to be sponsored by a European company. Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

If C++ cmpler became smarter would't be opinionated as rust borrowchecker? 2 by itissid | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm not well versed with either language as I was reading the article published https://ift.tt/AtYT8oD I suddenly thought of the forward looking trajectory of the idea of making c++ compiler smart(er) as to ease the burden of memory copying (section 3) with zero overhead. If one traces this arc it means that one day c++ compilers would be equivalent to the borrow checker? That is to say they would throw compile time errors for using some construct in c++ that copied instead of moved?

Ask HN: What do you wish you knew when you started your first programming job? 3 by lackita | 1 comments on Hacker News.

What are the best online activities to do with friends remotely? 3 by baochicabowwow | 0 comments on Hacker News. Like the title says, my friends live pretty far so we don't often meet up given work and family schedules. What are some ways you kept in touch with your friends?

Ask HN: Can I really create a company around my open-source software? 3 by darkhorse13 | 0 comments on Hacker News. This is a serious question because I'll be the first to admit, I'm not a great business person. Also genuinely not trying to just promote my software either, but looking for some advice and feedback. I recently built and launched Forms.md, which is an open source JS library that lets you create multi-step forms and surveys. The forms themselves are very similar to what you would find on Typeform. The library works anywhere you can run JS, so it works with all web tech stacks: Django, Rails, React, Angular, etc. The library itself is just the front-end form builder, there is no backend because I expect people to just submit their forms directly to their database as that should be fairly easy to set up. It's also licensed under Apache-2.0. Website: https://forms.md Repo: https://ift.tt/4zut0bO Some backstory, this was initially known as blocks.md, and I was c...

Ask HN: What are the most important AI papers/ online resources of 2024/2025? 4 by swilliams231 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Please post links to these resources in this discussion if you can. Thanks for the help everyone.

Ask HN: Is there a individualistic alt to e/acc? 3 by dantraztrev | 2 comments on Hacker News. E/acc (effective acceleration) seems focused on pushing technological progress for the greater good. Are there any frameworks or philosophies that emphasize accelerationism but with a more individualistic approach?

Ask HN: Small Ideas vs. Big Ideas? 24 by amukbils | 20 comments on Hacker News. I've been thinking about this one for a while, does it make sense to work on small ideas? Something like a utility a PDF converter or a small game and attempt to make it into an asset generating $10K - $30K in MRR? Or is it better to aim for building something as big as you can? My thinking around that is it's pretty much the same effort to build something small or something big (especially since you have to start small to go big). Might as well go for the big ideas. But curious if others have different views (or similar for that matter)?

Looks Like It's Time for All of Us to Come Together and Here's Why It Matters 2 by managedcode | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey .NET developers! You know how it goes - we've all been there with open source projects. Forking, patching, writing our own solutions. And constantly running into the same realization: doing this alone is... challenging? When your PR sits for months without a response. When you find that perfect library, but it hasn't been updated in 4 years. When suddenly your favorite tool changes its license. So we thought - why not create a community where we can solve all this together? What we're offering: - Maintaining useful projects together - Sharing experience and knowledge - Mentoring newcomers in open source - Finding mentors for your growth - Creating tools that are actually needed in daily work We've already started working on several projects for everyday tasks. But most importantly - we want to create a place where: - Your contributio...

Ask HN: How to Make a MVP Video? 2 by rafadetoni | 0 comments on Hacker News. How do you create those MVP videos that zoom in and out? YC is full of them! One example: ycombinator.com/companies/ergo

Ask HN: Language After Python and C? 2 by greenfield101 | 0 comments on Hacker News. For someone in the DS/ML sphere is there anything beyond Python and C/C++ (and SQL ofc) that would be valuable to learn?

Ask HN: Advice for someone entering their 30s 3 by marclave | 2 comments on Hacker News. ive been spending a lot of time reflecting on what i want to be focused on in my 30s, aside from company/career but also family/relationships/hobbies & was curious what y'all are experiencing or experienced being in your 30s.

Ask HN: Riding the Roller Coaster of Development Tooling 3 by bronlund | 9 comments on Hacker News. There are so much happening these days that I feel I have to make an effort in order to not fall behind. And when I stumble upon a new tool, framework or platform or whatever which seems to make a difference, I think; this sounds real neat, let's check it out. Then, when I try to figure out how, there it comes: "npm blah blah blah", and my heart just sinks. And I regret not being more vocal about how stupid this whole node thing was when it startet. And I wonder how many years we are going to have to deal with this stuff. My question is this: Is it just me? Am I just being an old fart? Or do the HN community feel the same way?

Microsoft 365 costs are too much 5 by HarshaaVardhan | 2 comments on Hacker News. Fellow founders, anyone else fed up with M365 turning into a commodity cash drain? What once felt like a premium productivity suite now feels like another unavoidable bill—with pricing hikes and a labyrinth of licensing options that seem designed to make us overpay. The recent price bumps and constant misselling of features force us to jump through hoops, all while we’re busy scaling our startups. I’ve started cutting the fat by regularly auditing our licenses, matching team roles to the right plan, and even considering one-off purchase alternatives where it makes sense. Has anyone else found clever workarounds or discovered any tool that offers real value? Would love to swap notes on keeping M365 costs under control.

Ask HN: What commit message conventions do you follow? 5 by rishikeshs | 8 comments on Hacker News. I'm new to the world of programming and came to know about commit conventions. Just wanted to know what conventions do you use.

Ask HN: Seeking Book 3 by grostiq | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello All, Many years ago I came across a book from a female Researcher which was basically using low-level mathematics to model low-level type 'circuits' or 'functions'. Not circuits in the electrical sense but I do know this researcher eventually did work for some Intelligence Agencies as part of extensions to her work. Problem I have is I have searched high and low via various search engines though with proliferation of AI texts it has increased the noise level. If anyone is familiar with this book it would be much appreciated.

LinkedIn is the worst social media I've ever seen 8 by bitreducer | 2 comments on Hacker News. Besides being full of AI-generated, useless content, the platform is also riddled with dark patterns. I'm a newcomer, I’d never used LinkedIn before until I joined three months ago. Since then, I've been banned twice and shadow-banned several times. 1) Right after I created my account, I got shadow-banned. My friends couldn’t find me, and my profile wasn’t accessible via direct link. This issue wasn’t resolved until I contacted support; they confirmed that restrictions had been placed on my account and then removed them. 2) I shouldn’t even have to mention this, but as a professional in my field, after that incident I always ended up on the very last pages of search results for keywords related to my field. People without those keywords in their resumes, or whose work isn’t at all related to the field, kept being ranked ahead of me. I can’t say I was deliberately pessimized, bu...

Ask HN: Is anybody building an alternative transformer? 6 by taiboku256 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Curious if anybody out there is trying to build a new model/architecture that would succeed the transformer? I geek out on this subject in my spare time. Curious if anybody else is doing so and if you're willing to share ideas?

Why do startups often have blog pages? is it for SEO? 8 by the_alphalaser | 12 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Do you think AI is being hyped by "Surprisers"? 2 by enpera | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi,HN There is an internet meme in Japan called “Odrokiya(驚き屋)” who are overly surprised by the release of OpenAI and overstate the usefulness of AI. Should we think of AI as being hyped by such people?

Ask HN: How common it is to earn six figures as a software engineer in USA? 3 by StefanBatory | 1 comments on Hacker News. I acknowledge this is something I could have checked; and I did, according to various websites, the median for software engineer is around 100k to 130k. But I'm interested in your perspective on this. How much of it is dependent on region, and experience? If you do earn that, how long it has taken you to earn that salary and what your expertise is? I won't lie, hearing about earnings in USA do make be a bit jealous.

Ask HN: What did you bookmark recently? 2 by zachrip | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Is there a way to use Baidu cloud legally from US/EU? 2 by taosx | 0 comments on Hacker News. Baidu added support for Deepseek R1 at an attractive rate[1]: $0.27 Mtok for input $1.09 Mtok for output Is there a way to use it legally and without a Chinese phone number preferably? 1. https://ift.tt/JcoWnG8

Release of XOC Compiler Framework: A Powerful, Commercially-Proven Solution 3 by steven_known | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone, I am thrilled to announce the release of the XOC Compiler Framework 1.6.0, a retargetable compiler infrastructure licensed under the BSD license. This release marks a significant milestone in the evolution of XOC, which has been powering commercial compilers and achieving remarkable performance and stability in production environments. About XOC Compiler Framework The XOC Compiler Framework is an industry-grade compiler infrastructure designed to support the compilation and analysis of both static languages (such as C, C++, Java) and dynamic languages (such as JavaScript). It is the result of independent research and development efforts and has been battle-tested in real-world applications, including Alibaba's YunOS/AliOS mobile operating system and Cambricon's proprietary compiler for AI chips. XOC is based on the open-source compiler fr...

Ask HN: What's the best implementation of Conway's Game of Life? 10 by jakemanger | 8 comments on Hacker News. Anyone else, like me, at one point try to implement Conway's Game of Life? If you have, what is the best implementation you've found? Mine has to be this continuous version that makes pretty crazy looking creatures: https://ift.tt/5eDk83I .

Ask HN: Former Employees' RSUs at Risk After Startup's IPO 8 by jameskuang | 4 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, A group of us, former employees of a startup that recently went public on Nasdaq, are seeking advice on how to navigate an unexpected RSU settlement process. We would appreciate insights from those with experience in equity compensation, tax law, or corporate governance. * The Situation We worked at a startup for several years and were granted Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). These fully vested upon the company’s IPO in 2024, but the company has set the settlement date as March 15, 2025 (185 days post-IPO, However, we are not allowed to sell the shares until April, if we were to receive them). This means we will only receive the shares then, but there are some aspects of the process that we are unsure about. * Key Questions We Have 1⃣ Prepaying Taxes in Cash: We have been asked to wire a tax prepayment directly to the company’s bank account before receiving our shares...

Ask HN: What do you run instead of Datadog? 3 by theorlandog | 3 comments on Hacker News. Datadog has turned into an ever loving piece of shit. I am sick of their sales team grabbing us by the ankles and "Accidentally" charging for services we don't use. Now, this morning they changed something with their AWS integration that is causing 10X the API calls against our accounts (and thus, 10X guardduty costs on our end analyzing those API requests). I have had enough of their bullshit and want to find a new vendor. What is everyone using for cloud scale logging and monitoring these days that isn't one of Splunk (cost prohibitive), Sumo-Logic (Also assholes), or Datadog? It would be nice to just self host a service that stored logs in S3 using iceberg format. However, I don't think such a tool exists.

Ask HN: Has anyone used DeepSeek in production? 2 by emgeee | 0 comments on Hacker News. There's been a lot of hype about the model for it's low inference costs and chain of thought reasoning but has anyone had actual success using it for production use-cases?

Ask HN: Who has settled disputes in court, and won economically? 4 by doctorpangloss | 1 comments on Hacker News. This means your legal fees and opportunity costs were outweighed by a reasonable person's valuation of what you gained.

Ask HN: Can you recommend a good nuclear power plant simulator? 3 by dimastopel | 2 comments on Hacker News. Preferably a game that can run on Linux (not a must). Tried Nucleares but it doesn't run well on Linux using the latest Proton. Looking to learn, in detail, about how NPP works through operating it.

Ask HN: Anyone pursuing this AI image idea (images to list of insured losses)? 6 by mgav | 7 comments on Hacker News. The idea is for AI to interpret photos and videos and create a detailed and accurate list of exactly what was lost, so claimants can collect the full value of their insured losses. Excerpt: “…Losing one’s home in a fire is devastating, with the first priority being to find somewhere to live. The trauma is then compounded by the onerous requirement of most insurance carriers to submit an exhaustive list of lost belongings — “with line items as specific as the number and brand of toothbrushes in a bathroom,” according to a report about unfair insurance practices.…” Link to article: https://ift.tt/OJdYhRX... Thanks @codingdave for suggesting this as an "Ask HN" post ( https://ift.tt/w4o3pUC ).

YC Batch, Application Public? 2 by pfounder | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I work in big tech, and I am considering applying to the YC Spring Batch, whose deadline is tomorrow. I am still unsure whether I should quit my job at big tech for founding the start-up, because of family reasons that I should get more info in the next few weeks. My main fear is that my employer would know that I applied to the latest YC batch, and then I would get into trouble (or fired) if I decide to stay in my current job. Does anyone have experienced this? What happens if I get accepted but decide not to join the batch? I would apply with cofounders. Can I "sell" my part of the company to my cofounders if I get accepted but decide to stay in my current job? Would all of this be private and my big tech company not know this? Thanks for any info!

My fears leading Product Led Growth 2 by chany2 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Taking on the PLG Role Back in 2022, I started leading PLG at my company. PLG was becoming a significant trend in the tech industry. Venture capital was pouring into PLG strategies due to their potential for rapid growth in SaaS tools. I believe I'd be a good fit because of my experience in founding my own SaaS back in 2016 and my consumer viral growth skills. But I soon realized there was still much to learn. My Biggest Worry: Hitting Sales Targets One of my main concerns was meeting our PLG revenue goals. Our objective was to make the PLG motion self-sustainable. Our sales team is moving upmarket towards bigger enterprise customers, so PLG is helping disrupt the market, generate brand awareness, and create some buzz against the incumbent. Hitting sales numbers can be tricky, especially when you're giving away your tool for free at first. We had to figure out the whole journey for customers using o...

Ask HN: Wantrepreneur who's run out of energy/ideas. What now? 3 by mmarian | 8 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been trying to launch startups on the side for the past 3 years, indie hacker style. Many evenings and weekends were burnt. Yet I gained very little traction, and made a big fat 0 dollars. Having taken a break in December, I now find that I can’t get back into working on any ideas I have on my list. Mostly because I’m realizing that they don’t solve a pressing need. I still want to start something of my own, but I don’t know what to do next. Here are some of the things I’ve tried in the past: - Switched careers (from sales to dev) to better prepare myself for starting a tech business. Realized that tech is the easy part. - Looked for business cofounders. Everyone who was open to partnering wasn’t willing to validate their ideas; they just wanted me to build the whole thing in one go. - Joined a startup accelerator. Found it’s like playing the lottery. So here I am, askin...

Ask HN: Examples of O1 pro DeepResearch proving its worth? 4 by ChaitanyaSai | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey all! We use all the LLMs fairly heavily. We see their promise and are aware of their pitfalls. Wondering if DeepResearch really is a major step up compared to the rest or even our jerry-rigged prompt chains. If you've used it and have found a significant upside, can you please share your experience. An actual output would be wonderful. Thank you!

Ask HN: Anyone at Shopify? You OK with Nazi Merch? 9 by srmarm | 1 comments on Hacker News. So Kanye West has taken out an advert on the superbowl inviting people to go to his website (https://yeezy.com/) - there is a single product - a tshirt with a swastika. The SKU is HH01. The store is hosted by shopify and it's been a few hours now - surely they know about it and this is at best tacit acceptance?

Quick but powerful research for AI agents with data scrapping and selenium 4 by alexvomwald | 1 comments on Hacker News. got curious about what software businesses actually use and how much revenue they might be pulling in, so I built a scraper to dig into it. Using Google Maps listings, reviews, and booking systems, I mapped out an industry’s landscape. I scraped businesses across the U.S., analyzed reviews to estimate customer volume and revenue, and tracked booking software by checking subdomains and site elements. Connecting the dots between businesses and their software providers, I estimated MRR, ARR, and potential exit multiples. This gave a solid market overview, showing which booking software is most common, how tech-savvy businesses are, and rough revenue estimates based on customer activity. I put everything—scraper code, SQL tables, and sample data—on GitHub if you want to check it out or improve it. GitHub Repo: github.com/alexdelbosque/data-crawler-smbs Has anyone else...

Advice on getting a competitor as a potential co-founder 5 by aadebola | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm a solo founder of an e-commerce platform with some traction. I'm open to finding a co-founder and was recently introduced to another solo founder who is effectively a competitor, but with some more traction than me. We're considering joining forces as co-founders, but I have a few concerns: 1. Fast Compatibility Check: We don't have the time or bandwidth for lengthy trial collaborations. How can we quickly assess if we're a good fit as co-founders? 2. Sharing Competitive Secrets: To make this work, we'd have to disclose sensitive information about our business strategies. How do we protect ourselves if it doesn't work out? 3. Potential Fallout: What steps should we take to ensure a clean and fair exit plan if the partnership doesn't succeed? Any advice on structuring this process and making a well-informed decision would be greatly appreciated!

Ask HN: Books about lifelong engineering/technology career 2 by saas_startup | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for books/blogs that cover a lifelong career in technology (or engineering). Most of the materials typically focus on singular engineering achievement (building Apple I/II (like iWoz) or sending a rocket to the moon (any books about Von Braun) rather than focusing how one builds a life-long career. The closest I ever found was a post by Will Larson: https://ift.tt/x34ySgC

Ask HN: How can I think more like an engineer? 3 by highwayman47 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve always been an analyst, but think I was meant to be an engineer. So I'm looking to cultivate a more engineering-centric mindset. I've always admired the problem-solving approach, systematic thinking, and creativity that engineers bring to the table. Could you recommend some books that are particularly good at teaching or illustrating these skills?

Ask HN: Finding interesting work if disenchanted with "big tech" & "VC-backed" 3 by AbstractH24 | 1 comments on Hacker News. For a long time i opted out of big tech and worked at startups because i liked being on small collaborative teams building cool impactful things. More and more I’m sick of VC backed startups as well, because I see how VC money is a deal with the devil that incentivizes people to focus on scale, valuations and exits rather than quality and intrinsic reward from creating a good product. This has rapidly accelerated as I watch VC unabashedly fall in line with this new presidential administration. Not sure where to turn next though. I could walk away from tech and join a niche legacy industry, but there some much interesting stuff that I’d be closed off to as a result. As much as I’m looking for an answer, curious if anyone else finds themselves asking the same questions.

Any experience selling AMIs on AWS Marketplace? 3 by thephyber | 0 comments on Hacker News. AWS Marketplace allows AWS users to buy AMIs, containers, among other things (SaaS, consulting, etc). Does anyone here have experience selling goods (AMIs or containers)? Not interested in SaaS / service. It seems like there is potential here for good revenue, but the only small company I can find talking about this is Cloudnaut / Wittix. Obviously marketing in a large App Store is difficult, but does AMI renting work well for buyers? How do version upgrades work (for both buyers and sellers)?

Ask HN: Who Uses SDKs for Unity/Unreal/Godot? 3 by logscore | 0 comments on Hacker News. My co-founder and I have been working on SDK generators for application APIs, and we recently discovered that SDKs also exist in the game dev world. Honestly its probably dumb that we didnt know this, but we had never even considered the space so it was quite a blind spot So I have two questions: 1. For game devs: how common is it to use an SDK for Godot/Unity/Unreal/other, and what is that experience like? 2. To the SDK devs: what is the ecosystem/DX like for building game engine SDKs? The closest I've ever gotten to game dev was making a flash platforming game 10 years ago, so any insight is super appreciated.

Ask HN: Is there any way I can create an NFT from scratch? 2 by 01-_- | 3 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: People that write blog posts – why? 3 by NotAnOtter | 2 comments on Hacker News. Not for work, not for promoting your new project. People that write informational blog posts about their opnions on things, or projects they did with no monetary pursuit.. why? I mean it's a lot of work. And broadly speaking, you're more likely to get negative feedback than positive. And more often than either of those, you'll be ignored entirely. What's your motivation to set aside 3-300 hours writing something up?

Ask HN: Any "complete" books about developing CAD/CAM software/3D editors? 3 by ZevsVultAveHera | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am looking for literature describing concepts and implementations of computer aided design and generic 3D modeling. I have no idea about literature in this field. Does any "fundamental books" presenting more or less coherent analysis of this subjects exist? I'm also interested in ancient and highly theoretical publications.

Ask HN: Is Godaddy Running a Scam? 4 by bitlad | 7 comments on Hacker News. Recently, I was trying to a buy a domain for which we had bid in Godaddy. We bid the suggested price in Godaddy. Our bid was rejected buy the owner. That peaked my curiosity to check who actually owned the website. When we ran whois on the domain. The name that pops up is Wild West Domains, LLC [https://ift.tt/LAjxHZ2] When you look further, Godaddy's CEO is the CEO of Wild West Domains. Lot of the staff are part of this LLC. Just wondering what is it all about?

Ask HN: List of consumer AI hardware startups/companies? 3 by iotambat | 3 comments on Hacker News. just finished an internship as a design engineer/creative tech at Tesla, was thinking of where I wanted to go next, and in my mind that's somewhere in the ai consumer/consumer hardware space. I think there's a lot of novel problems to solve in that space that haven't been tackled before, but I'm not sure what companies to look into other than: - Humane AI - Rabbit - Rewind Pendant - Friend does anyone has any other consumer ai hardware startups/companies they recommend I look into? would be open to startups more so.

Ask HN: AI-Powered IDEs Streamlining Development–Or Making Us Work Harder? 2 by tzury | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’m heavily involved with AI across design, coding, research, and content creation, and I use paid plans with tools like Claude, OpenAI Pro, and Gemini. I interact with these systems primarily through a prompt UI—complete with custom system rules and project settings—and I’ve built up a repository of prompts that I continually fine-tune. My workflow is very task-oriented. I often have one AI generate code that another reviews and corrects, which lets me jump into entirely new areas quickly. I’ve also experimented with fully automated, idea-to-production platforms (like v0, Replit, and a few others). However, my experience with those has been mixed—they often end up requiring more manual effort than their vision-driven claims would suggest (though I expect they’ll catch up soon). So, I’m curious: Is it just me, or are these new AI-powered IDEs truly effective? Are you us...

Ask HN: Alternative to Shush? 3 by Carrok | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been using Shush[0] for years as a quick and easy way to mute and unmute my mic as needed for meetings with a global hotkey. It's last update was 2014, and it has only recently stopped working with latest macOS (rather impressive). Does anyone know of any similar solutions? [0] https://ift.tt/D4KwGam

Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels? 18 by trebeljahr | 7 comments on Hacker News. I'm searching for a travel blog that wrote a tutorial on how they created custom SVG animations for the routes he took along his trips. I've been banging my head against Google for a solid 3-4 hours at this point but it is pointless to try to search something there these days so I come here. I remember that the blogger in question was into photography and photographed the Te Whanganui-A-Hei (Cathedral Cove) in New Zealand during early morning with no people there and wrote a post about the process. And of course they had these small SVG animations of their trips at the top of their posts, with a map displaying the route they took, animating the path. They wrote a pretty in-depth article about how they accomplished this with the help of some custom JS and SVG animations too and I am after that article. If you know the name of the blog that would absolut...

The dark side of music streaming 3 by fallinditch | 0 comments on Hacker News. Interesting podcast episode about how streaming platforms, especially Spotify, are being defrauded of billions of dollars in royalty payments via fake music and bot farm plays. [1] The podcast describes how a guy called Michael Smith was charged with fraud for this type of activity last year. [2] Some people estimate as much as 10% of Spotify royalties are fraudulent. I first noticed the weird phenomenon of loads of (short) similar songs by multiple fake artists on Spotify back in 2018. Robin Sloan wrote about his discovery of fake similar music [3] and put together a playlist of some of these nearly identical songs [4]. If you make a new playlist from Robin's playlist and then check out the songs that Spotify recommends based on what's in the playlist you will find tons of slight variations of the same (rather annoying) tune, mostly 47 seconds long. I got up to 79 tracks of basically the same mus...

Ask HN: Learning PySpark and Related Tools 2 by rookie123 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I have been working in the data-science and machine-learning domain for the past 8 years or so. I have not been exposed to tools such as PySpark etc. which are being asked frequently in job descriptions. What resource or certification can I use to get upto par on PySpark? Thanks!

Ask HN: What is your preferred general purpose AI agent? 2 by bag_boy | 0 comments on Hacker News. I build website on Webflow. I would like to point each button instance with specific text to a specific page. I have tried using OpenAI's Operator but it's doing a poor job.

Ask HN: How do you prompt the "advanced" models 4 by _jogicodes_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. I use the Windsurf IDE, which comes with integrated LLM chat and edit functionality. Ever since I switched to it two months ago and for the three months before that I was using Cursor (similar editor), I have always had better results with Claude. With the apparently more advanced reasoning models I thought that that would change. In Windsurf I have DeepSeek R1 as well as o3-mini available. I had thought that they would improve my outcomes to the prompts that I'm giving. They did not, far from it. Even though in benchmarks they consistently pull ahead of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, in reality, with the way I am prompting, Claude almost always comes up with the better solution. So much so, that I can't remember a time where Claude couldn't figure it out and then switching to another model fixed it for me. Because of the discrepancy between benchmarks and my own experience I am w...

Converge (YC S23) will review your YC application before you submit 2 by janhenr | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, We're the co-founders of Converge. YC was a turning point for us, and we believe that a large contributor to us getting in was the feedback we received from previous YC founders (e.g. founders of PostHog reviewed our application back in the day). Now that the next YC application deadline is in 8 days, we'd like to pay it forward by offering feedback on your application. If you’d like a fresh set of eyes, fill out this form: https://ift.tt/fiFmrnD We’ll do our best to respond with thoughts or suggestions.

Ask HN: Why isn't home IoT more widely adopted despite its benefits? 3 by Ed78320 | 6 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, first time posting here :) ! I love new tech, but I'm cautious about home IOT devices like assistants, smart bulbs, smart locks, (...), because of privacy and cybersecurity issues. Even though they offer benefits, they don't seem very popular in France. What do you think stops people from adopting personal IOT devices? Is it mostly privacy and cybersecurity, or is there another reason?

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) 28 by whoishiring | 105 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/aZplni5 .

Ask HN: Why does my iPhone show me ads relevant to a dinner conversation? 3 by dctoedt | 5 comments on Hacker News. Last night — for the second day in a row — I had a dinner-table conversation with my iPhone 16 in my pocket AND with microphone access "off" for essentially all apps including various Google apps and Facebook. Later, Facebook showed me ads relating to dinner-conversation topics. Example: Last night the conversation briefly included a discussion of fountain pens. A couple of hours later, Facebook showed me two different ads relating to fountain pens. I've not done anything online relating to fountain pens in many moons. Anyone know what's happening? (On my laptop I did a DuckDuckGo search using Safari, because I'm not sure I can trust Google about this; I also deleted all Google apps and Facebook from my phone.)

I Got Rickrolled by ChatGPT 2 by Rain_p | 0 comments on Hacker News. So i asked chatgpt to make me a redirect, and i tried it, but it fuking rick rolled me. https://ift.tt/FjntyAS

Ask HN: Cloudflare Sites Down? 3 by ricardbejarano | 1 comments on Hacker News. Stuff fronted by Cloudflare times out for me and a couple other peers in other geos. Anyone else?

Ask HN: Recommendations for Running LLMs Locally 2 by fallinditch | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi folks I'm looking for hardware recommendations for running LLMs locally. Specifically, best bang for bucks at the following price points: $2,000 $5,000 $10,000 What more could you do with a 10k budget than with a 5k budget? Thank you

Ask HN: Tariffs' Effect on Software Export and Consulting 11 by theyinwhy | 1 comments on Hacker News. With the February 1, 2025 tariffs coming, how will they affect software exports and coding consultancy work?

Ask HN: Modern alternatives to Guacamole as RDP gateway? 4 by rcarmo | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve had a long history with RDP (https://ift.tt/orODsZa) and use it extensively on Linux with the new GPU-accelerated xrdp builds, but I have been looking for a modern replacement to Apache Guacamole that can work as a direct web-to-RDP bastion without requiring a database container, Java or a lot of overhead, and all I can find are 3-4 year old Rust/WASM projects in various states of abandonment. Is there anything like that in active development? I know people will suggest KasmVNC, but that isn’t really what I am looking for (and the wire protocol isn’t as efficient as RDP).