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If your safety/shelter tier is at risk, the last thing you need to see is the LinkedIn feed.

The submission is cool because it opens the comments even if you just happen upon some article that also happens to have a HN discussion. That said, when I read the headline I thou…

Even if you can get it approved you are adding surface area to your annual security audits, adding another vendor that needs to be disclosed on security assessments, spreading your…

For what it's worth I genuinely loved your landing page. I casually clicked through and got an immediate unexpected chuckle at the giant animated crab. It's obviously AI assisted b…

Feels like lately most of the time is spent arguing about or at least worrying about whether or not AI is going to replace all software developers.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. There's also nothing stopping us from stigmatizing the use of smartphones in public. Even a slight discouragement of it would be progress. I…

I know someone[0] who is working on exactly this right now: https://fossilrepo.io/ I don't think he's got public sign ups turned on yet. Maybe hit him up on the Twitter for more in…

Quietly has not so quietly become an AI slop calling card.

Teams is insane. You want a new entry in a bulleted list? Hit the enter key. If you dare. I had managed to be on Slack exclusively for at least 10 years. Recent acquisition has me …

Nitpicky, but he’s rounding the edges, not the corners. And yes, why are they so sharp? I seem to recall my wife having the plastic MacBook that came out circa 2006 and the edges o…

I spend well over that of my employers money on pentesting every year. I’m absolutely certain Claude could perform as good or better a job using what’s available today. It had cros…

Yeah, flying my family of 5 to Hawaii using skymiles accrued on my Amex. Totally a scam. They’re basically interchangeable with cash. I don’t get the issue. The main frustration I …

Quietly adopting the em dash is the move that humans who know, make.

I find walking can be a similar experience. It really crystalized for me this summer while walking the Camino de Santiago because of the effect of exploring another country. When y…

100% Though I will say, HN is a pretty great source of information about major outages like the recent AWS and Cloudflare issues. I had a moment this morning where I thought, oh, i…

I need a portable mini 5G cell tower in a backpack form factor so that I can have 5G service indoors no matter where I am.

Yes. I once interviewed a developer who’s previous job was maintaining the .NET application that used an Excel sheet as the brain for decisions about where to drill for oil on the …

You can buy a sheet of LED blocking stickers on Amazon for a few bucks. I keep some in my suitcase and leave every hotel room a little better than I found it.

You aren’t wrong. Up until a couple of weeks ago it was $299. Once. Forever. That was the whole idea. Very cool that they open sourced it. MIT license too. https://x.com/dhh/status…

This is really amazing to see trending on HN. I spent a couple days in Pontevedra this summer while walking the Camino de Santiago. It was absolutely delightful and what I experien…

Nice, I’ll have to put my (employer’s) money where my mouth is and try it out tomorrow. Thanks!

If this integrated with AWS for billing, usage, and IAM purposes it would be a no brainer to have my team trying this out today.

Well, it works. Unfortunately it doesn’t remove sponsored content in the videos. I’m paying for an ad free experience, but I’m still hearing about AC1. Annoying.

This is amazing! I am vacationing in Spain and rented, I think, the same model as you. A BMW X2 M something or other. Absolutely rock bottom by far the worst driving experience eve…

Marketing mail is a significant (maybe 25%) portion of the USPS revenue and very profitable. They have a strong disincentive to reduce the stream of junk mail going to your home.