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homechart.app 5mo ago

Show HN: Homechart – Manage calendars, meals, budgets, tasks and more

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candid.dev 6mo ago

Many hells of WebDAV

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nanda.media.mit.edu 11mo ago

State of AI in Business 2025 [pdf]

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issu.dev 1y ago

Show HN: Issu - CLI for Markdown issue management and time tracking

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candid.dev 1y ago

Please, stop asking us to open source our products

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ads.apple.com 1y ago

Apple Search Ads Is Now Apple Ads

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tunlr.dev 1y ago

Show HN: Tunlr – Expose local environments globally with self-hosted infra

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Any hope for removable, rechargable battery standards?

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etcha.dev 2y ago

Show HN: EtchaOS – Secure, immutable, in-memory remixes of popular Linux distros

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Do you regularly use GenAI product features?

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candid.dev 2y ago

Taming Command Line Chaos: Macros to the Rescue

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ccadb.my.salesforce-sites.com 2y ago

Mozilla's Included CA Certificate List

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rotx.dev 2y ago

Show HN: Rot – Secure Secrets Management for the Modern Sysadmin

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candid.dev 2y ago

Becoming an AI Company

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www.linkedin.com 2y ago

Weaveworks is shutting down

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www.physicalism.com 2y ago

Non-Materialist Physicalism

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: Simple QEMU container for building/testing cloud-init VMs

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github.com 2y ago

Show HN: Rot - Offline secrets management

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www.23andme.com 2y ago

Tell HN: 23andme Updated ToS After Breach to Prevent Class Actions

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www.ciphersbyritter.com 2y ago

How LED String Lights Work

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etcha.dev 2y ago

Show HN: Etcha – Infinite scale, serverless config management

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etcha.dev 2y ago

Show HN: Etcha, Infinite Scale Config Management for Distributed Platforms

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candid.dev 2y ago

Navigating Software Licensing

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candid.dev 2y ago

Don't Procrastinate, Iterate

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yaml8n.dev 2y ago

Show HN: Type Safe Localizations Using Google Cloud Translate

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github.com 2y ago

Copyleft license that infects dependent or operational software

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www.climate.gov 3y ago

Global Climate Dashboard

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: How are you avoiding LLM anxiety with your side projects?

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www.hashicorp.com 3y ago

Terraform Pricing Changes

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datatracker.ietf.org 3y ago

Proposal to distribute IPv6 /64 subnets to hosts via DHCP-PD

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The Brand Age 5 months ago

More and more I realize I am completely obvlious to all of the class signaling happening here. I couldn't imagine spending that much on anything, let alone a watch. And I certainly wouldn't think someone wearing that did, either.

I feel bad for the folks who pick up on stuff like this, that must be a heavy weight to bear constantly comparing yourself to other people.

I'm getting some kind of chrome security warning when using zscaler now. Discussing all of this with non-techies, I think folks are overwhelmed by all of the security warnings they get and have stopped paying attention to them.

So what's the point of doing all of this if there isn't some kind of corresponding education on responsible computer use? There needs to be some personal responsibility here, you can't protect people against everything.

Colocating data and discounts. Cross cloud transfers are painful, and Google has a ton of on-cloud easy button integrations with Gemini and their data products.

I mean, they are? GCP usage/revenue is growing faster than AWS and Azure. Mostly driven by Gemini pushing folks onto the platform and them deciding "why not move everything else too".

The "time to market" folks finally have everything they could hope for, let's see all of that business value they claim is being missed due to pesky things like security, quality, and scalability checks.

Why Go Can't Try 5 months ago

every type must have a default/zero value in Go

Hot take, maybe, but this is one of the few "mistakes" I see with Go. It makes adding QoL things like you mentioned difficult, requires shoehorning pointers to allow for an unset condition, some types don't have a safe default/zero value like maps, and makes comparisons (especially generic) overly complex.

The irony of living in poverty and then owning a house that you list on Airbnb "for extra income". And deluding yourself into the key to financial success is being a bag holder for rich people, yikes.

This guy sounds like another "everything sucks but I got mine and everyone else should figure out how to get theirs". I get the struggle but I didn't really see him demonstrate empathy for others in his situation.

They just need to put all of the engineers on HN out of work.

I think you've crossed the line from being an AI maxi to just rage baiting. This comment is a pointless anecdote at best, please take your ridiculous FOMO takes elsewhere.

I hate the nanny state behavior of docker build and not being allowed to modify files/data outside of the build container and cache, like having a NFS mount for sharing data in the build or copying files out of the build.

Let me have side effects, I'm a consenting adult and understand the consequences!!!

I'm SE and there are quite a few tax breaks available, especially if you structure as a S-Corp. The hard part is figuring out what all tax breaks are available as they're constantly changing, like last year you can deduct dental insurance premiums.

I still pay an eye watering amount, and being SE shows you the brutality of the system (estimated taxes are insane, especially the payment schedule for them when you're NET 30/60).

The specification for most systems _is the code_. English cannot describe business rules as succinctly as code, and most business rules end up being implied from a spec rather than directly specified, at least in my experience.

The thought of converting an app back into a spec document or list of feature requests seems crazy to me.

What does prompting quality even mean, empirically? I feel like the LLM providers could/should provide prompt scoring as some kind of metric and provide hints to users on ways they can improve (possibly including ways the LLM is specifically trained to act for a given prompt).

If this could ever happen, there will be no point in GUI apps anymore, your AI assistant or what have you will just interact with everything on your behalf and/or present you with some kind of master interface for everything.

I don't see a bunch of small agents in the future, instead just one per device or user. Maybe there will be a fleeting moment for GUI/local apps to tie into some local, OS LLM library (or some kind of WebLLM spec) to leverage this local agent in your app.

Here's to hoping the IOU purchase orders for RAM and SSDs get cancelled... Though I think folks are hedging that this will happen and limiting new suppliers.