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How to create work from home opportunities in the locality you live? How to generate leads for this? My first thought was something like digitalization of the public courts. It is …

Today's models are far from autonomous thinking machines. It is a cognitive bias among the masses that agree. It is just a giant calculator. It predicts "the most probable next wor…

Anybody out there who has tried to convert js to ast and back and got OOM?! (I tried @babel/parser). I pray this one doesn't disappoint. Oh, and comments!!! My general observation …

Did anyone do an analysis on what happens after the test? Like in nodejs if we keep the application running after the so called test and left it idle for 1 or more hours. Does the …

We are thinking of an alternate way to make loopback 3 faster. Not the way loopback 4 is today.

A raspberry-pi might do better than this calculator. Besides comparing different things, a calculator's main design goal should be to assist with calculations and last for a long t…

The language died because of Microsoft tried to woo java developers into using the .net ecosystem. So whenever the CLR got more features, C# (rather than VB) started supporting the…

Not sure if AutoHotKey is the tool for this, but, I am looking for a functionality such that, when I get a ping from MS Teams (say), I want some other system in my home network to …

Harari doesn't pose the question to the reader! Europe's obsessions with exploration and conquests were driven by the scientific revolution. He does say that China could have very …

It was a DIY pre-covid project. It was meant for me to locate my bike in an open-air parking lot meant for two-wheelers. The circuit wasn't perfect. Here are some videos/pics: http…

They used to host Oracle Virtual Box images. Now I don't find the site updating itself. It was my go-to place to quickly download and experiment with linux distros without the hass…

[Non-contributory commment] Who else thought the bear was an owl?

Is no one irked by some capitalistic policies/monopoly by giant corporations? For e.g. you ask the voice assistant to play a song, it will deny that request saying that you need to…

Well, I certainly hope that the Hacker News FM podcast on spotify doesn't come to an end. But as long as stuff is on the internet and accessible, I don't see the point of denying p…

Read a good article about UPI from here long while back: https://blog.setu.co/articles/upi-103-the-settlement The above is the explanation to inter-bank settlement processes. This …

Already own a virtual machine instance (5 usd/month) and hosting a few simple services and website. The website is single page. No complex backend. At most it fetches stuff from an…

This paper covers only one aspect - estimating demand. But the cost of the EV batteries is another affair. Recently it has come to light several human rights violations involved wi…

The fun part is mainly dependent on the leaders and culture. If they are serious about agile then you finally fit/assimilate into that work style. But without opportunities to comm…

How does this code work? primes = InfiniteAIArray() Is the context determined from the variable name? If so is this through a kind of reflection?

Complexity is one end of the spectrum. Browser APIs for various stuff like animation, video, audio, webgl, etc is not that easy for developers to consume. Often most of these featu…

Amazing. No comments so far. This is not the first time a topic of this nature was posted on HN. (Or perhaps my search skills are poor). Anyway, what speaker suggests for now is th…

Suppose a GoI website is geo-blocked such that only the citizens of India can access it. Now that a global vpn company has removed its servers out of India, does it mean its custom…