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I built this as a side project and mentioned it in a heavily upvoted comment[1], the top comment was "this is astrology for devs". Everyone is entitled to their opinion but our tea…

magnesium glycinate (and/or a liquid IV or equivalent before bed) helped my restless legs

The problem with DOGE is it fired the bureaucrats but didn't eliminate the bureaucracy. Thus we're stuck in a situation where the systems that used to work are crippled by lack of …

the minimum dose of monjaro (2.5mg injection once/week) can often be enough

The classic Mcsweeney's for the HN crowd is "E-mail Addresses That Would Be Really Annoying to Give Out Over the Phone" https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/e-mail-addresses-that-wo…

1. i'm notoriously bad about filing expense reports for my own companies. i built a macos desktop app which integrates with Plaid and keeps track of the things i need to expense, u…

Thanks for compiling this. "A 100 to 300 kW beam has perhaps one to three seconds of dwell on a hardened, ablating, plasma-shrouded glide body. That is orders of magnitude short of…

We're working on a large Rust codebase, heavily assisted development with Claude and Codex, and one critical workflow is after you have written a spec, have the other LLM critique …

I love these niche sites! my friend recently started this for Tinned Fish (absolutely and solely for the love of the fish and with no plans to monetize.) He loves that a few random…

i tried to stop using y'all when i got my first job at MSFT, having grown up in the South; then 10 years later I realized it's perfect for Corporate America given it's gender neutr…

re: binary attestation: "Whether the server rejects that outright or just logs it is an open question" ...what we did at Snap was just wait for 8-24 hours before acting on a signal…

I'm literally guest lecturing at a Harvard class tomorrow on systemic failures in decision making, using the Columbia and Challenger disasters as case studies, and changed my slide…

Each ‘role’ (CTO, family manager, etc) is run in a separate claude instance and they don’t share context, which helps keep them on task.

i built my own version of this called 'threethings' (per pmarca's essay on the subject of personal productivity). i gave an ec2 claude instance access to a folder that is synced wi…

probably a longer answer is warranted, but we keep it simple - everyone pays - which essentially eliminates ghosting and self-selects for people who are serious about a search for …

Sitch App | Founding Product Manager | NYC-area HYBRID (2-3 days/week in NYC near Union Square) | Full-time Sitch is a new type of concierge dating app. We're using AI + Humans to …

This is because the older films were co-written with Owen Wilson. Once they stopped collaborating, Anderson's later films are unbalanced - they have the whimsical aesthetic, but ar…

i'm not sure this is true, for instance NYC ranks as the second most disabled-friendly city https://www.amny.com/lifestyle/new-york-city-ranks-2nd-in-a-...

Sitch App | Engineer | NYC-area HYBRID (2 days/week in Brooklyn) | Full-time | Python + Django + Flutter + Rust Sitch is a new type of concierge dating app. We're using AI + Humans…

A surprisingly high number of medical studies will not include women because the study doesn't want to account for "outliers" like pregnancy and menstrual cycles[0]. This is bound …