iambateman

On this week of Thanksgiving, I want to say thank you to the HN community. Two things I enjoy…(1) reading people discussing their ideas at a level which goes well-beyond the typical internet discussion and (2) learning…

I was developing a web app on a domain ("secure.example.com") and I moved over to a newly-registered domain. Chrome flagged it as phishing. I've (1) submitted a request to Google via Search Console and (2) added a link…

For me, I wish everyone knew that a 2-lane road with a center turn lane has the same carrying capacity as a 4-lane road. There’s a lot of 4-lane road that could be a lot safer with no tradeoff. What fact would you like…

I’m an engineer with a software system that is very useful for larger companies. We’ve got a beta client who is ecstatic and now I’m trying to put on my sales hat. It’s comfy to camp in my shed and crank out another…

Hey HN, I need full-text search for a large amount of text data (500gb++). I've looked at Algolia, Meilisearch, Typesense, Elastic. From what I can tell, they all require a server which can keep everything in memory.…

I just joined Bluesky and I'm looking for interesting people to follow. Post your handle so we can follow you!

Over the last year I have gotten lazy with my evenings…wasting time on Twitter and YouTube. I’m recommitting to use the hour before bed to read and so I need recommendations…what are the best books you’ve ever read? It…

How do you curate the news you take in? I’ve been using google news for a while and it’s just a bunch of stories about weird ways people died. I’d like stories which are prioritized by… - key local events near me - very…

I regularly work on 4-5 projects in a day. Each has an IDE tab, dev site, SFTP connection, local database, etc. I feel like a lot of time goes to switching between projects. How do y’all handle that? Is there an app…

I am bullish on the future of AI and want to buy stock of companies which expect to benefit from its growth in the coming years. Who should I buy, and why?

It seems to me that the Chinese balloon is more of a PR problem than defense problem. The Chinese no doubt have plenty of satellites providing excellent coverage of the US from the air and I can’t imagine that having a…

This morning I saw a tweet about metformin being generally used by a lot of people. Then I googled it and Harvard medicine had an article praising it. So now I’m curious…what is your experience with it?

Hey, I need some feedback. I made a free web app that cuts out the life story from recipe websites. People complain about crappy recipe websites all the time…but when I tell them about my site, I am getting a lot of…

Two friends and I started a public library technology company in 2014. We are collectively majority shareholders but in 2020, we turned operations over to another shareholder, who is paid about $80k/year and has about…