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AdobiWanKenobi

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    Show HN: Despatch – Project management for systems thinking, not just software

    I've been experimenting with a project management tool for disciplines that use systems thinking, so government services, infrastructure, energy, (non-software) engineering. Things…

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    Ask HN: So like should I ring people? How do I get the foot in the door?

    I didn't go to Stanford, I'm not VC investor bait. I'm not a YouTuber or influencer. I'm an engineer by background. In theory the easiest business to start is an agency/services ba…

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    Show HN: A $4/mo AI todo app – 3 todos free, pay for the 4th

    The world needed another todo app. So I built one. It's an MCP server. You paste one URL into Claude (Desktop, claude.ai, or API) and manage tasks through conversation. "Add take o…

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    Ask HN: How to avoid the build trap but also avoid doing nothing

    Hello! I have a couple project ideas that I am working on. 1) Is a clear enterprise customer product and I know who to speak to get further validation before I build. 2) A product …

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    Ask HN: How do you find and format public data for your apps?

    I'm working on a project that sources a lot of publically accessible but unprocessed, unformatted and unconsolidated data. Currently I'm just running Brave API + Crawlee (Playwrigh…

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    Ask HN: Why was BeerMe selected by for YC F24?

    Can someone explain to me what made BeerMe special and something that YC thought was worthwhile investing in. I remember seeing the original LinkedIn post back in November 2024 whe…

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    Comment #44164831

    Don't do a degree or two like I did. Just build shit, get yourself a 3D printer and some electronics, and again just build shit. The only maths you'll need at the beginning is basi…

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    Comment #43050816

    I mean £21k student stipend and job prospects of £26k-£42k (assuming not finance or AI) can you blame them.

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    Comment #42635697

    >Hot take: CE is a better foundation for programming than CS Not at my uni for sure. First (and only) microcontroller that we actually programmed that wasnt an arduino was in the f…

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    Outside of the dissertation no not really. Best we did was in the group projects where at most we attached a couple sensors and maybe a motor to an arduino. *Technically I did a ro…

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    Comment #42635640

    I will self-teach of course, my issue is why do I have to do it from absolute scratch if I literally have a degree in the field.

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    >But university isn’t about leaning to uses tool and apply it somewhere else, it’s about the underlying concepts and the people you get exposed to. You’re not wrong at all on the s…

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    >Have you tried using an Arduino or similar first? That’s why I went to uni to do EE/Robotics. I wanted the next step, suffice to say I did not get the next step from university. I…

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    I didn't add the Ask HN thing, my bad. I'm still getting used to the site.

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    How do non-software engineers feel upon reflection, about their degrees?

    To set the scene: I wanted to build my own devboard for my own projects. I'm sat here looking at my screen after having opened KiCAD with some of the documentation for an STM32H7 M…

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    A rant about the state of open-source drones and Ardupilot

    I cannot tell you how many issues I have had with ArduPilot. It just never works out of the box, I have wasted so many hours writing parameters and debugging issues to the point I …