dandrew5

I use a bookmarklet for this: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hn-blocklist

I use a bookmarklet for this https://dan-lovelace.github.io/hn-blocklist/. Just added simonw's website to the blocklist as well.

I'm also interested in hiding AI posts. Is anybody doing this with success that can share what they use?

Thanks for the tip. I've enrolled in an A1 class with Goethe Institute starting in April. In your opinion, how difficult would it be to rent or potentially own a home on a single engineering salary? Looking at prices on https://www.immobilienscout24.de/, it does not seem possible after accounting for taxes. A salary of 60k ends up being about 3.2k net per month. If renting a home takes 2k of that, I may need to reconsider my country of choice.

Could you expand a little? Are you referring to the workaholism some Americans have? Personally, I've always sought out companies that value a healthy work/life balance and am relieved to hear Europeans companies value it so highly.

Aside from being too enthusiastic about work, what other gaps in engineering/work culture exist?

How would you know? I also submitted a deletion request to that airport identity service Clear to avoid missing a flight one time. I received an email "Your request has been received" and nothing else. Is there a way we can validate our information is actually deleted?

Keeping it classic, nice. How do you manage the dust?

Imagine a native desktop app that let you build a UI with very basic elements, à la Visual Basic, and behind each of those elements is an associated AWS CLI command. Such that "aws s3 ls" attached to a list element would render an account's buckets.

The AWS APIs are so expansive, a product like this could offer a complete replacement for the default web console and maybe even charge for it. Does anyone know if such a solution exists? Perhaps some more generic "shell-to-ui" application? If not, I'm interested in building one if anybody would like to contribute.

For your Reddit posts, did you target a subreddit that might have interest in the extension or did you use one meant specifically for extension development/promotion? If the latter, which one?

Great call on expanding to other add-ons stores. I'll need to look into compatibility and find a Windows machine to test...

I'm in the process of adding payments as well and I'm starting things off with Stripe. Specifically, their payment links and subscriptions features. Longer term, I may switch, and am building things in a way that migration will be easy.

Yes, I have a monetization plan in mind.

Great ideas, thanks. I've had similar success searching for common problems using Google, finding the highest-positioned Reddit result, and leaving a response with a link.

I've added my contact email to my profile, thank you.

Thanks for the idea of sharing the extension but I'd like to focus any discussion around growth itself.

As for being concerned about a rugpull, I definitely get it. My approach is to keep as much of the product open source as possible and be very transparent around any ownership changes.

True, good documentation is a rare thing. If the hype does hold and the current trajectory of things stays somewhat the same, I think it will be inevitable that the definition of "good documentation" will change. If it were geared towards a machine audience, I wonder if it would increase reliability and reduce hallucination.

I could imagine a hybrid approach as well where there are two versions: one for humans and one for machines. If respected, the crawlers could look for a special <meta> tag of sorts that points them to the machine version.

Adding optional user sign-in to my word replacer browser extension: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/word-replacer-max. This is a precursor to adding generative replacement suggestions based on search terms. Even further, I'd like it to eventually analyze and de-trigger/disarm the copy on websites more broadly without having to define specific words or phrases.

Web Components are fun. I've played around with Lit, which some people have mentioned. Anybody tried Stencil? It looks similar from the outside but wondering how it plays out mid/late-term.

New Hackers, I like it. A Hacker News clone strictly for new developers. Instead of articles, the links just map to posts on r/programmerhumor

Welcome btw!

Marketing yourself is more important now than ever. The advent of AI has created a noise problem at the hiring level on both sides: applicants are leveraging tools to generate necessary documents (targeted resumes, cover letters, social profiles), recruiters are using scanning tools to weed out anything that doesn't contain the magical keywords or phrases.

Not at the moment but the scanning feature is client-side only and does not rely on any external services. It uses jsQR[0] to handle parsing directly in the browser. One way to use it and be sure would be to load the page and disable the site's network connection using developer tools before giving camera access. Once done, allow camera permission, perform the scan then kill the page.

[0] https://github.com/cozmo/jsQR

I made something that achieves the same thing[1] except it uses Google's Programmable Search Engines. It's self-hosted and you can configure it the same way as the article using the `%s` string substitution.

[1] https://github.com/dan-lovelace/giggle

I do this by creating a markdown file on my desktop and opening it in VSCode alongside whatever project I'm working on. Once open, I right click the file's tab in VSCode and click "Pin" which locks it into its own tab container. I can then reference it quickly and it doesn't get in the way of other open files. To search, just Cmd+F.

This reminds me of an old idea I called Reverse MFA where the person you're talking to over the phone must provide a valid 6 digit number before you give out personal details like birthday, SSN, etc.

Same. I bought a Vive a few weeks ago but it is currently in the mail being returned. The technology as it is today is just not quite there yet, in my opinion. The biggest letdown was the lack of peripheral vision. To see something clearly, I'd have to move my whole head to face it head-on directly. Doing some research, I discovered that is just the way it works right now. It will be interesting to see if the VP has an answer to this problem.

Thanks for these. I should have clarified, I'm more interested in something that will alert me when newly-discovered vulnerabilities surface. The systems I maintain are protected [enough] today but a new hack could drop that doesn't make mainstream media and I may not hear about it. We have annual security audits but it would be nice to patch things immediately. Aside from subscribing to a security forum/discord/slack, I'm wondering what other methods folks are employing to solve this.

And then the next best use of your time and resources is to prioritize the fastest possible patching cadence, since the vast majority of attacks target disclosed vulnerabilities.

Just curious, do you leverage any tools to decide when to patch or is it time-interval based? We currently attempt[0] to update our packages quarterly but it would be nice to have a tool alert us of known vulnerabilities so we can take action on them immediately.

[0] "Attempt" meaning we can't always upgrade immediately if the latest version contains difficult-to-implement breaking changes or if it's a X.0.0 release that we don't yet trust

Here's another extension you may be interested in[0]. It allows total customization if you don't mind writing a bit of HTML, though it ships with some decent defaults. It's also not 1:1 feature complete with HN but it suits my needs just fine.

[0] https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hacker-news-pro

Is there anything stopping them from adding a turbine system to the kite that would continuously spin (when there's wind ofc) instead of reeling it in/out?

Same! Coincidentally, I recently backed up my Angelfire site from the late '90s. A lot of the original links were missing but thankfully they provide a `sitemap.xml` and I used HTTrack to make a local copy.