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Thank you so much. I was trying to work with a local firm up here in the PNW but they have little experience in this area. I now have an appointment for a consult with that firm yo…

Ouch. Yes, this sounds exactly like what happened to me. I am on an installment plan. Have been paying this down for a bit now, but it is becoming an increasingly difficult financi…

Hi, tldr; got in early at a startup. exercised stock for ~$6k. got valued at ~$90k+, received a 1099 for that. company subsequently declined in value, now the stock might never be …

Hello HN. I’ve been out of the solo indie hacking game for over ten years. I always wanted to branch out from building CRUD APIs and web apps into game development. But I always fo…

I've been looking for a new contract/client for the past three months, to no avail. The market seems to have really dried up compared to the last several years. I'd love to co-foun…

Location: Portland, Oregon Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, AWS, HTML/CSS, PostgreSQL, etc Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanti…

Thanks. I'm actually a huge fan of Muhammad Yunus' microloans program. I've had ~ $400 on a loan rotation at kiva.org for some time now.

That would be cool if that's all a project needed to get off the ground. Also wouldn't be surprised if someone just needed it to buy ramen noodles or hosting for a few months.

I'll accept that it might be "dumb" to you, but it's definitely not a joke. More than 1.3 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day. Sure most of them will not have computers/…

Thank you.

Hi. Shanti here from The Shanti Fund. I'll just leave this here for more visibility. I've always been passionate about startups and working with founders. Wanting to get involved b…

Hello. Can you send me your info? shantibraford @ gmail I'm looking for a designer who can collaborate on jobs with me.

Hello, I'm looking for a web designer or two who isn't afraid to get their hands dirty in rails-land. Familiarity with git is also a plus. Does anyone know the best place to find s…

Indeed. I once spent several hours debugging a desktop client application that relied on a correct system time. Finally, we noticed the user's system time was set to several weeks …

Pinterest has recently banned pro-Ana/Mia pins. I could see something like Pinry being useful for creating communities that respect freedom of speech / information / image posting,…

In case you have no idea what you're doing when it comes to security, and would like to learn a few basics, using Stripe's Capture the Flag game as a fun playground.

This article is so laughably bad, I had to doublecheck and make sure I wasn't reading The Onion.

Let's try to find some common ground here: First: If you use a Master Lock (heh or an old pen-hackable Kryptonite lock) on your Bank Vault, obviously you are at fault. Doesn't matt…

Want to understand what's going on here psychologically? To some people, whenever anyone is making a profit, however small ... some people believe that someone, somewhere, has to b…

They say most successful CEOs score highly on tests for being a sociopath. I think this guy could be on his way to the Fortune 400!

Coming back to ruby development after several years off. I'd be open to other frameworks, but don't feel like learning a new language at the moment.