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Hi everyone, I’m FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, and I’m here to discuss security updates for IoT devices and how you can make a difference by filing comments with the FCC. As you know, serious vulnerabilities are…

I'm a 24 y/o full stack engineer (I know some of you are rolling your eyes right now, just highlighting that I have experience on frontend apps as well as backend architecture). I've been working professionally for ~7…

In May of 1963, I started my first full-time job as a computer programmer for Mitchell Engineering Company, a supplier of steel buildings. At Mitchell, I developed programs in Fortran II on an IBM 1620 mostly to improve…

I'm very interested in what types of interesting data structures are out there HN. Totally your preference. I'll start: bloom filters. Lets you test if a value is definitely NOT in a list of pre-stored values (or…

Hey HN, I'll probably get a lot of flak for this. Sorry. I'm an average developer looking for ways to work as little as humanely possible. The pandemic made me realize that I do not care about working anymore. The…

I was reflecting today about how often I think about Freakonomics. I don't study it religiously. I read it one time more than 10 years ago. I can only remember maybe a single specific anecdote from the book. And yet the…

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen.…

I have Raspberry Pi and I mainly use it for VPN and piHole. I’m curious if you have one, have you found it useful? What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

I have been working as a software developer for almost two decades. I have received multiple promotions. I make decent money, 3x - 4x my area's median salary, so I live a comfortable life. I have never been fired or…

I have a gmail account that I rarely use, but I know the password. I enter it correctly and get the following message: You’re trying to sign in on a device Google doesn’t recognize, and we don’t have enough information…

A lot of what hackers do takes years of building knowledge upon knowledge. That's also true for physicists, marketers, salespeople, managers, etc. Are there any quick wins that 30 ~ 60 minutes of intense concentration…

Reddit constantly hassles me to use their app on mobile. Why do they care so much? I really don’t want to use their app. I just wish they’d give up and let me use the browser in peace.

Howdy HackerNews! Dustin Kirkland here, Product Manager for Ubuntu as an OS platform (long time listener, first time caller). I'm interested in HackerNews feedback and feature requests for the Ubuntu 17.10 development…

Indonesia is currently in chaos. Earlier today, the government blocked access to Twitter & Discord knowing news spread mainly through those channels. Usually we can use Cloudflare's WARP to avoid it, but just today they…

I joined Google straight from college 6 years ago as a SWE, and by now I'm used to the style of work of "do the minimal work possible to do the job", I never challenge myself to deeply learn about what I'm doing, it's…

For those who are still under lockdown, what are you working on / building / learning? I've been making excessive amounts of bread.

What's an area that people think is up and coming? (e.g. like social networks were in 2004, mobile apps in 2010, or vlogging in 2014) I've finished several projects simultaneously and I'm looking to work in an area with…

I'm incredibly fortunate to have a chairman on our board who brings so much clarity of thought to the business. He's unemotional yet thoughtful. If he doesn't have an immediate answer for something, he instinctively…

Has anyone here fully swapped Claude/GPT for a local model as their main coding tool, not just for side experiments? If so, please share your setup and performance (e.g tok/s)

To people who work at Amazon, how much do you make? I work at Amazon, and my pay is below. Discussing pay is awkward, so most people don't. But this creates an imbalance of power in salary talks. A person I trust who…

What is the main thing that made your business take off and start to see success that you're kicking yourself you didn't start doing it much earlier? Thanks HN!

I’m Jared, one of the partners at YC. When I joined YC, one of the things that I most wanted to do was to help make hiring and getting hired suck less. I have a business reason and a personal reason for this. The…

Always wondered this. Sometimes I feel the need to do something else outside my field, and possibly get some money out of it.