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Basically I don't think Linux is usable without Chat GPT. There's always something minor that I need help fixing. Dealing with humans is rough. You get called names, skill issue, etc. Chat GPT listens and walks you…

I keep seeing dating app ads for I believe Boo. The ad has an Asian couple at a convention, and looks ok at first glance. Then the obvious issues start. The couple is holding hands, but it ends up looking like a blob of…

If someone gifted you a month salary to build whatever you wanted, what would you build ? A cat exercise tracking app ? A board game? A deck for your patio ? The goal isn't profit, although that would be nice. God knows…

I’m a very average developer, with a bit of free time. Since it’s cheaper than playing the lottery, I tend to pitch my side projects to YC every now and then. Right now I’m working on an open source card game, in my…

In this hypothetical assume all 3 are mid level. Not FAANG, but all are great software developers with an average of 8 years experience. Is 3 months enough to build something worth while. Your definition of success here…

After posting a thread last week asking about if anyone else gave up on trying to get rich, I got a very insightful reply. It was essentially "Figure out what people want, and line up clients before writing a line of…

Let me preference this by saying I'm comfortable where I'm at. I have a solid upper middle class job and I can afford to take vacations and travel. I'm doing much better than I could of ever hopped to when I was growing…

I'm building a project in Supabase right now and I'm strongly considering switching. One big issue I ran into is they suggest using hCaptcha to prevent abuse of anonymous user sign ups. The problem here is there isn't…

I have a vision, or rather a dream of a large network of open source games. Open source FPS's, open source turn base strategy games, etc. That could all be high quality and provide alternatives to the exploitive…

As a thought experiment, imagine your a founder and due to a weird tax code thing you can effectively deduct all employed salaries. You may offer up to 400K TC per employee. You must have a valuation of at least 1…

Hi all I'm looking to open source my project and while I used Firebase to get started, I don't feel right about using a closed source platform for an open source project. Should it be a drop in job ? It's a flutter web…

Basically I'm working on a small game, and I really want to open source the code. It's basically a framework/prototype that others can build upon. I was thinking MIT, but I want to avoid the following. MIT Base Game…

After a few comments mentioned I was probably wasting money using AWS Lightsail, I finally tried out Hetzner Cloud for hosting my Ghost Blogs. Since ARM is new and interesting, I picked the 4$ ARM Ubuntu server for…

To be fair, I'm using a new laptop and driver support just isn't their yet. https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-home/vivobook/asus-vivobook-s-14-oled-m5406/ But this is the type of thing that would probably get a normal…

Hi HN. I had the adventure of pre-ordering an Asus Laptop. https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/vivobook/asus-vivobook-s-14-oled-m5406/ I found a 50$ off promocode, and placed my order. About 2 weeks later I'm told…

And I've given up on figuring out why. I just brought a new Asus laptop with a AMD 300 series processor. https://www.asus.com/us/laptops/for-home/vivobook/asus-vivobook-s-14-oled-m5406/ First I tried to move my old…

Java

Kotlin

Swift

For professional use ? Hobbyist use ? I probably rely on Python and JS when I want to build a side project, but I prefer C# professionally.

Go

Flutter/Dart

OCAML