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  1. Ask HN: Why would people in town be upset about a datacenter being installed?

    They are working on installing a new data center in town, a bunch of the townsfolk are going all NIMBY to try and stop it, I'm trying to understand why? I've toured a datacenter in California and it was a pretty…

    4 points 5
  2. Taking Credit for the Idea (jonpauluritis.com)
    2 points 0
  3. Ask HN: Are there any engineering orgs that use incentives?

    I came from a sales background, and we were constantly using incentives to improve output from the team... when I moved into software a decade ago I found that incentives programs were basically unused. That seems…

    3 points 7
  4. Demolishing the Oldest House in Nevada (jonpauluritis.com)
    2 points 0
  5. Small Teams (2025) (ntik.me)
    3 points 0
  6. There Is No Budget for Books (jonpauluritis.com)
    2 points 0
  7. Take Care of Yourself First (jonpauluritis.com)
    2 points 0
  8. Inca Stone Masonry (earthasweknowit.com)
    172 points 15
  9. Ask HN: What economic reasoning is there that bigCos have an advantage post-AI?

    I've been following a lot of the discussion surrounding transformation in the market/world following the impact of LLMs (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44892283) and there seems to be a forgone conclusion…

    1 points 2
  10. Why are there still 7 continents? (jonpauluritis.com)
    33 points 14
  11. Ask HN: Why the quality improvement for the HN frontpage on the weekends

    I've noticed that I enjoy reading HN sooooo much more on the weekends and that the quality of articles and resources is significantly better. My question is why?

    2 points 6
  12. Ask HN: Where do you find/post blog articles?

    I've done a full stop on social media to come back to the web where can I find more interesting content and also contribute back?

    3 points 4
  13. What does a California accent sound like? (youtu.be)
    1 points 0
  14. Ask HN: Looking to interview homeschoolers to improve my stack and as a piece

    Hi there! I'm wondering if anyone in the HN community would be willing to have a conversation about their experiences homeschooling, their "homeschool stack", and where they see homeschool going. This is not product…

    4 points 0
  15. Ask HN: Anyone switching to security due to LLMs?

    Just curious if any developers are considering switching over to InfoSec considering the increase in code that is being generated by LLMs. It occurred to me theres probably going to be a bigger need in light of…

    4 points 3
  16. Ask HN: Rough timelines to issue PIPs, and terminations

    This isn't a problem I'm currently dealing with, but I've recently noticed that there doesn't seem to be strong mental models around this particular problem... so I'm curious: What timelines do you use or recommend to…

    2 points 1
  17. Best Practices Are Dead. Long Live Best Practices (jonpauluritis.com)
    1 points 1
  18. Ask HN: Does Attention (from LLMs) work well on any other data types?

    Just wondering if theres any other research out there of applying the attention mechanism from large language models to any other data types (spitballing but like weather data, or IoT data, etc). If there is research on…

    1 points 0
  19. Ask HN: Demos are easy; Engineering is hard. What are you favorite examples?

    what are your favorite examples of where a demo caught peoples attention then it failed to materialize as a real thing?

    3 points 6
  20. Ask HN: What is replacing SEO for discoverability?

    Obviously things are changing pretty fast and a huge chunk of inquiries that would have been answered with search results are just LLM answers now. If you want people to find your product/service in 2024 how do you get…

    39 points 19
  21. Ask HN: What would be the effects of a tax on unrealized capital gains?

    Theres been some discussion recently about taxing people on unrealized capital gains. I know the proposals are unrealistic... but I'm just wondering what the possible outcomes are that I might not be thinking about. How…

    4 points 1
  22. Some Thoughts on "Tech Debt" (jonpauluritis.com)
    2 points 0
  23. What makes you not give up on life? (jonpauluritis.com)
    1 points 5
  24. Ask HN: Why did Apple stop working on EVs?

    Curious if anyone knows anything about the situation. The news articles on the topic suck. I'm assuming theres some sort of financial or technological reason that they stopped development.

    7 points 20
  25. Say something that will surprise people and be useful (jonpauluritis.com)
    2 points 0