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  1. Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025) (soapstone.mradford.com)
    98 points 49
  2. Ask HN: Have you naturally stopped using AI?

    Initially impressed by "agentic" AI, I binged it quite a bit at first, but have unintentionally/naturally found myself reducing my usage to zero. Has anyone experienced a natural decline- to the point of being off of AI…

    3 points 6
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  4. Ask HN: Would denormalizing a string prevent AI/LLM consumption?

    Hi. With burgeoning AI, I don't particularly like the idea of my persona being unwittingly scraped into an AI corpus. Would denormalizing a string to unicode help prevent AI from matching text in a prompt? For example,…

    1 points 1
  5. Search using your terms, verbatim (search.googleblog.com)
    2 points 0
  6. Keep dotfiles in sync across multiple machines (soapstone.mradford.com)
    1 points 0
  7. Make Hacker News an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    1 points 0
  8. Turn Hacker News into an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    1 points 0
  9. Turn Hacker News into an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    2 points 0
  10. Turn Hacker News into an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    2 points 0
  11. Ask HN: What are some strategies to create positivity in the engineering cycle?

    The process of software engineering is rife with negativity. Some examples: - Code review is important, but it is a necessarily a critique, and sustained code review can wear both submitter and reviewer down. - Bugs…

    3 points 5
  12. Turn Hacker News into an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    2 points 0
  13. Turn Hacker News into an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    4 points 0
  14. Turn Hacker News into an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    2 points 2
  15. Spearhead the RSS Resurgence, Turn Hacker News into an RSS Feed (soapstone.mradford.com)
    2 points 0
  16. Quick start guide for using Skipper as a reverse proxy (soapstone.mradford.com)
    2 points 0
  17. Yeahboi – The Dopest Guide to Three.js (soapstone.mradford.com)
    4 points 0
  18. Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in DNS (serv.from.zone)
    4 points 1
  19. Show HN: CNAME serv.from.zone – Serve a site out of DNS (serv.from.zone)
    10 points 2
  20. Compiz: Ubuntu Desktop's little known best friend (code.mradford.com)
    199 points 120
  21. Accuse your peers and coworkers of bad code (github.com)

    This is a hackathon project, created in ~30 minutes. Code hasn't been touched since, our team is at Zendcon.

    1 points 0
  22. Ask HN: Should I advise my coworkers against working with my family member?

    I've landed my dream job as a software engineer. I've worked at the company for 6 months. Everything is going great. We're a very small company, only about 15 people. I am currently living in my parent's extra house…

    8 points 10
  23. NoIP Update: Details on Microsoft Takeover (noip.com)
    4 points 0
  24. Ask HN: A question about ethics in Computer Science

    I work for a university, programming software for a certain discipline. I inherited the software only in the last month, and it would be generous to call it poorly programmed. I am confident that I can improve it…

    1 points 4
  25. Ask HN: How effective are third party resume services?

    I ask as a job seeker and not as an employer. A lot of companies are using third party resume services like Resumator these days. Are they effective? If so, I assume it is best to just submit my resume as is and let the…

    1 points 0