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March 1, 2022 (4y ago)
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  1. Ask HN: What questions do you ask a startup during an interview?

    I have never worked at a startup and am interviewing with one. I’d like to ask some questions to suss out whether it’ll go belly up in the near future. Also, it’d be nice to determine if it’s absolutely nuts there. What…

    1 points 1
  2. Ask HN: What was your best interview experience?

    As an interviewee, regardless of whether you got the job or not.

    16 points 17
  3. Ask HN: What are your personal red flags when you're interviewing at a company?

    The sort of stuff where if an employee interviewer says it you think to yourself “nope, this isn’t the place for me.”

    36 points 132
  4. Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

    Ideally “success” defined as extra income, but I’d also love to hear about projects that you have that are successful in other ways

    32 points 26
  5. Ask HN: What's your preferred RSS to newsletter solution?

    Trying to find a low friction, low cost way to send my blog posts out as emails to subscribers. Thanks!

    3 points 2
  6. Ask HN: Why isn't Laravel used in more enterprise apps?

    At least from my experience looking for jobs in the US, I rarely see Laravel come up in an enterprise tech stack. Why is this?

    10 points 14
  7. IRS makes Direct File permanent (nextgov.com)
    4 points 1
  8. Ask HN: What's an interesting, esoteric programming field?
    36 points 21
  9. The ChatGPT wrapper product boom is an uncanny valley hellscape (pcloadletter.dev)
    72 points 27
  10. Show HN: Easy Laptop Finder full laptop list (easylaptopfinder.com)

    Last time I posted my laptop finder idea (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39653971) I got some great feedback. I made some adjustments to the algorithm being used to display recommendations, filtered out some…

    6 points 9
  11. Show HN: I made a website even my tech un-savvy parents can use to find a laptop (easylaptopfinder.com)

    Whenever my parents need a new laptop, they ask me for a recommendation because they’re not very tech savvy. Last time around, I had a realization that I’m fairly algorithmic with my recommendations: I gather…

    11 points 11
  12. Ask HN: Is QA outsourced to India more than other tech roles? If so, why?
    4 points 2
  13. Ask HN: Are web front ends especially glitchy these days?
    2 points 0
  14. Impact-based performance evaluation in big tech is terrible (pcloadletter.dev)
    1 points 0
  15. Ask HN: Do you think software quality is going downhill? If so, why?
    24 points 31
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  17. Ask HN: Why does Verizon's landing page ship 16MB of JavaScript to my browser?
    2 points 2
  18. The pursuit of cutting-edge JS frameworks resulted in a less accessible web (easylaptopfinder.com)
    55 points 27
  19. Should you buy inexpensive laptops frequently or expensive ones for longterm? (easylaptopfinder.com)
    8 points 3
  20. 10x Engineering for the Rest of Us (typeofnan.dev)
    3 points 0