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Does anybody else have the feeling HN somehow became "programmer news" along the way? I remember when it was "startup news" and mostly for startup founders. Then it became "Hacker …

Browsing Fiverr I see all these social media manager gigs. Can these people really do something useful for a startup?

I'm always curious to broaden my musical taste. But I would not want to let that site log into my Slotify account. Gnoosic is a site I love. It creates AI based recommendations wit…

Is the USLC always updated with the latest books? What would be the legal background of using their index?

What is the main feature of Goodreads? Is it discussing new books? If so, what is the reason people want to discuss new books? Anybody here who does it? If so: Why do you do it? An…

You won't have to use hot air if you go with a phone with replaceable battery. They are fewer these days, but they still exist: https://www.productchart.com/smartphones/sets/3

I know about them. But I would have to root my phone to install them. And that means trusting some binary blob from someone on the internet. So I would not do it.

some of the function names make me want to stab people What would be an example? My only real gripe with PHP is the annotation syntax What do you mean? Afaik there is no "annotatio…

No, I can not remember having a race condition regarding startup scripts.

By that logic, no mistakes can ever be criticized. I explained, why systemd is a step in the wrong direction in mutiple ways. That has nothing to do with habbits.

Everything I know about systemd is bad. When I want to write a script that runs on startup, I expect that I can just put (or link) it in some directory where the scripts are that g…

Easier said then done if that would mean synchronizing database and filesystem that is heavily written to.

Is there no way at all to reach Amazon EC2 instances in us-east-1 or is just the default route to the internet broken? Is there any way for the owners of the instances to reach the…

For personalized movie recommendations http://www.gnovies.com is a nice alternative. I wonder if movie reviews could be done via ActivityPub somehow.

I would like to code WebAssembly by hand. Are there any good tools / tutorials on this?

I didn't even know Etsy is a public traded company. What are some other companies that are basically 'a website' that are publically traded?

Desktop apps are much more intrusive then web apps.

I have been coding for decades now and never had a use case for a linked list.

So how do we decide if qwerty or dvorak is fitter?

Eric, how is your service tied to GitHub? As far as I understand it, you simply are a matchmaker for developers and advertisers. And you track clicks to the advertisers urls. Where…