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Thread for 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42509408 Thread for 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613 Thread for 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…

I'd recommend reading "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker, it was a game changer for me.

Looking at my own goals for this year I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613, > I am thinking to go through as many of Andrew Ng's deep learning courses as I can.…

Thread for 2024: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782613 Thread for 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33873800 I'd like to take on VR dev alongside my existing journ…

I recommend using Feedly to organize and browse your RSS feeds. I've been using it for over a decade now!

Thanks! For PDF form filling, I use the APIs that pdf-lib [0] exposes. That includes text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns and options lists. Give it a try and let me k…

Inspired by a similar thread asked a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33873800 I'm thinking to split my online learning in two parts: marketable skills (1) and just-f…

In case you are looking for a simple entirely in-browser PDF editor, I just released PrivatePDF - https://github.com/photown/private-pdf It supports basic operations such as fillin…

I just released a minimal browser-based PDF editor intended for your exact usecase - https://github.com/photown/private-pdf Let me know what you think!

I created this tool to make it quick and easy to sign PDF contracts, without having to deal with installing additional software and without worrying that my PDFs will get uploaded …

One idea was a workout mobile app with achievements (badges) - Duo Lingo for workouts. You pick a ready-made workout plan (or create your own) and it gives you badges to reward you…

I have a full-time job as a software engineer. I'm in my 20s, and my eventual goal is to create something of my own (a software project) on the side which can earn me money, so tha…

I have a full-time job as a software engineer. I'm in my 20s, and my eventual goal is to create something of my own (a software project) on the side which can earn me money, so tha…

In another comment on this thread they explained that space and time are parts of the same vector, , with velocity being the speed of light. Here you mentioned time is frozen at th…

Not really. Before posting the question here I searched HN for recent similar questions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Even though some of them ar…

Inspired by another post 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

I've been looking at eating regimes, for example aiming to lose fat, gaining muscle, etc., but there are many different resources on the web which often conflict with each other. W…

1) I'm a software engineer, have a good foundation in mathematics and physics. I could use a refresher on the electrical engineering area of physics though. 2) What I want to do - …