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  1. Ask HN: Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?

    5 days (or so) ago, I remember seeing 438k, now it is 391K. What happened to the ~47K? https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/ Is this a bug?

    8 points 2
  2. Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?

    Especially those who quit tech and went back from western countries to their (non-western) homeland, what do you do now? Are you happier than before? What are the reasons you left?

    14 points 3
  3. Tiled.art (Tessellation Art) (tiled.art)
    3 points 1
  4. Ask HN: Interviewing currently (or recently)? how have interviews changed?

    Not many job openings available, pay is bad etc - that seems to be the current reality of the job market. Those who are currently (or recently) interviewing, got job offers - what was the process like? Ignoring the…

    7 points 1
  5. Ask HN: Anyone Using Gleam in Production?

    What do you use it for? Do you use any frameworks like wisp, lustre etc? Any experience to share?

    10 points 2
  6. Ask HN: How to estimate (even rough) the effect of AI on environment?

    What are some ways to estimate how much (bad) effect my AI use is having on the environment, even if it is a rough estimate? I use Claude code, ChatGPT and Gemini. 1. Are there any APIs, datasets that can tell me per…

    1 points 0
  7. Congress Just Deleted Habeas Corpus from the Constitution on Its Website (abovethelaw.com)
    58 points 5
  8. Ex-CIA Whistleblower: "The NSA Audited the 2024 Election, Kamala Harris Won" (thiswillhold.substack.com)
    11 points 5
  9. Ask HN: Anyone is an "AI Engineer"? What does your job tasks include?

    Can you describe what your day looks like? What do you work on, what skills do you have?

    12 points 6
  10. Bike Sharing World Map (bikesharingworldmap.com)
    3 points 0
  11. Ask HN: If you are in your 40s or 50s, where would you move?

    Legacy brand countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia) do not seem like a good option these days. If you are in your 40s or 50s, have no money to invest but have software skills (not FAANG level, but good), what would be a…

    9 points 7
  12. Ask HN: Could we make a list of lesser known good-for-society projects?n

    Found this https://www.privacyguides.org/ in the who is hiring thread. Made me wonder how many such small, lesser known projects there are, doing great work for the good of society? Can we make a list of such projects?…

    5 points 3
  13. How do sites like ERank, Jungle Scout etc. get their data? Are they reliable?

    Do they get all their data by scraping or some other way? Is the data reliable?

    1 points 1
  14. Ask HN: Anyone learned art (drawing, caricature etc.) as an adult?

    Any form of art. Started with zero natural talent as an adult and got decently good at it? If yes, how did you do it?

    95 points 91
  15. Ask HN: What is your favorite explorable explanation? You made any? fav Tools?

    Has been going through this https://explorabl.es/ There are some fantastic articles there, along with tools etc. Am wondering if anyone is doing this full time? Can you share any of your favorites (made by you or…

    1 points 0
  16. Ask HN: Best resources on learning AI, LLMs etc. (both paid and free)

    There is a big push in my job to learn AI and apply them to our daily tasks, as much as we can. Personally, I am a bit skeptical about how much we can use it in my org. But it got me thinking - maybe I should explore…

    2 points 5
  17. Ask HN: How to tools like animaapp work that convert Figma to code?

    There are many tools these days that convert Figma to React, Figma to Wix etc. Example: https://www.animaapp.com/ Do these use Figma's API? How do these tools work?

    1 points 0
  18. Ask HN: Can you recommend an affordable, online CS uni program?

    This is more for paperwork purposes (recognizable by foreign governments for job/immigration etc purposes) than for actual learning (which I am planning to do on my own, mostly). Any program that you can recommend that:…

    2 points 3
  19. Ask HN: How are you preparing for the effects of AI, from a career perspective?

    I went on this YouTube rabbit hole, on AI. Watching (then reading) about the things that people have already built using OpenAI and other tools. I learned that there are YouTube channels with hundreds of videos making…

    4 points 2
  20. Ask HN: Best way to save and fast search small text?

    Something like emails, which are short text (with some images) or poems. Cheap and fast way to save and search tens of millions of these?

    2 points 0
  21. Mapping Diversity (30 European cities and 17 countries) (mappingdiversity.eu)
    2 points 0
  22. Ask HN: How to let users run code on a website, for learning? Like educative?

    Consider a site that teaches programming, say GoLang or Java. How to let users change the sample code and run it, like educative.io does? Do they have some kind of sandbox environment that runs in the background?

    2 points 4
  23. Ask HN: Could you recommend beginner Bioinformatics resources?

    Starting from zero knowledge. Any resources - books, courses etc would be helpful

    1 points 2
  24. Ask HN: What uncommon/unusual knowledge has improved your life, positively?

    My mother has been experimenting with bach flower remedies. I was quite skeptical at the beginning, but now that I have seen it working (it works very well, at least for the cases I saw), I now have more of an open…

    4 points 1
  25. Ask HN: How are you fighting apps for mundane things, extreme data collection?

    My building installed new washer dryers. To use them: 1. I need to download an app 2. I need to add my credit card, load up some amount (don't worry, there is "auto-refill" for my convenience, how thoughtful!) 3. I need…

    2 points 2