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"What I had been calling “Linux knowledge” was actually two different things bundled together: understanding of how systems work, and familiarity with where things live on a partic…

Today I vibe coded a webapp that is simultaneously capable of being hosted for free on github pages, uses a 22mb model (small enough to run in browser) to do semantic search across…

- you don't come back every month for the next three years advertising the same job without hiring anyone for it Placing a $100 bounty for anyone who can extend the "HN Hiring Pro"…

3. Collision w/ meteorite or other debris

I don't see the analytics eng on your site?

I'm sorry, UTC+12? Eastern Russia?

This could be a product. I'd pay for an app that fwd'd messages from other apps and gave me a wikipedia feed to scroll on the elevator / other places where the phone is a social re…

The only AWS service I still use is SES, for sending emails from client applications. Surely that can be self hosted? Can anyone reccommend a competitor?

Location: Seattle, WA Remote: Yes (Remote / Hybrid / In-Office) Willing to relocate: Yes (would prefer to relocate) Technologies: Full-stack web (Postgres, Express, React, Node), C…

Let's assume good intent and that the problem came up without foreknowledge of the solution (which I think is endemic whether or not it is the case here) How would you reccomend so…

I'm trying to register as a Microsoft partner so I can verify my windows desktop app and not show users the "the app is trying to light your computer ablaze" messages on startup, a…

To explain better, there's basically 3 jobs avaliable in this kind of work right now, all of which I've interviewed for and been not selected with varying degrees of frusturation. …

It's almost 100% secretarial workflow automation. Someone is currently being paid to click, drag, etc. I collapse that into a single button and charge for the button.

Very cool. I make a consulting business out of packaging selenium scripts into windows apps for small businesses, do you have any desire to turn this into a saleable product?

Thank you!

I did your challenge problem, hosted it on my server, and sent you an email to a chorous of crickets.

Any thoughts on Nix for this?

I'm still junior, as in I spend more time reading docs than writing code because most code I have to write is stuff I haven't written before. IMO, first impression? This is just a …

Yep, this is pretty much exactly what I'm looking for, thanks! As a though experiment, how could NixOS be packaged with this for consumer users?

I see both of your points here. I also have lost muscle memory on nix-rebuild-shell, and it's a technical onboarding to get that back. What I'm hoping for is a graphical installer …

This is a great note for AI developers, but my use case around NixOS is targetted to consumer users. The value is in self-hosted services (clouds, VPNs, etc.) without needing to be…

You're misunderstanding, and it's a great opportunity for me to clarify: I want a graphical installer for applications within NixOS. Currently NixOS applications are added by editi…