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I've been working with coding agents for a few years and became increasingly frustrated by the way it pushes you towards a solution. So I built rubberduck ( https://userubberduck.c…

Hi HN! I'm Alex. I've been building rubberduck, a software design tool, for the last few months. Here's a 2.5 min demo if you want to skip ahead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_…

I'm not very familiar with the concept of tarpitting. How do they get the bot to run CPU intensive code? By passing in extra Javascript? Can this affect a bot that doesn't run any …

I thought Google's SRE book ( https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html ) was incredible. Probably a good place to start.

One of the things I keep reading about functional languages is how they make reasoning about code easier and how this is particularly useful for distributed systems. Given that Go …

In my case, I lost one of them.

Don't believe so, no. The lottery is supposed to be blind though, so no company has any edge for any given applicant. That said, one strategy some companies take is to pack in as m…

Just to add some context to this since I was a bit confused. The H-1B goes through the lottery to see which applications get seen by immigration. This seems to be the approval rate…

Are you talking about the earpods? I just bought the iPhone XR and I got the earpods but I didn't see any lightning adaptor. Now I have two earphones, one that only works on my pho…

>Other crowd founding venue charge around 5 % which is the level i would personally feel comfortable with. 5% is $0.5 which right off the bat assumes payment processing is separate…

Donations are not tax-deductible for now. We might do that later if people ask for it. 30% includes all payment processing costs and other costs for both users and projects, so the…

One thing I'm not seeing here is people giving freely simply because you created something they value. You will never become a billionaire through this mechanism but I suspect you …

Disclaimer: I'm working on a platform that allows you to contribute to open source as a whole and which distributes your money proportionally to how much you care about various pro…

Hey everyone, this is Alex from SeedAndDew. The idea here to give people a way to contribute to open source as a whole with the revenue being distributed in proportion to how much …

I work for a large company that has an internal logging environment and I'm trying to figure out what the external equivalent is. Basically, I want to add logging statements throug…