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I've been on HN under different aliases since 2010 and over the last couple of years I feel like the quality of HN has nosed dived and so has my enjoyment. For the first time ever I questioned today whether I should…

I'm not sure this is the right place to raise this but over the past few months ChatGPT has been lying to me and gaslighting me about the data it's collecting about me. I'm very sensitive about my privacy and I have…

I'm not sure how normal this is, but I think almost exclusively in abstract representations of concepts in my head and rarely ever use words. This means while I often feel I have a good understanding of something and…

I love using IntelliJ's "Code With Me" feature for remote pair programming, but often I'll get a message from a developer needing a little help with a small piece of code. They're often using different IDEs, and often…

I recently got a foo.bar invite and have been progressing fairly well, but the challenges are now starting to take up a significant amount of my headspace and free time. Obviously if it results in an interview with…

I don't know if this has always been the way or if it's just something I've been noticing more recently, but almost every political conversation I get into anymore seems to result in the other person arguing that the…

The market here in the UK is awful for contractors right now – both in terms of the quantity of jobs and the rates. I'm wondering if anyone here has had luck (or tips) finding US contract roles while based in the UK/EU?…

Today I woke up and my brain isn't engaging. This probably happens once a month or so. I slept well and caffeinated upon awaking but things are hazy today. Speech is slow, reasoning is impaired, ability to concentrate…

About a decade ago I ran a blog focused on AI where I would try to post interesting practical tutorials for people to learn from. But around 2012ish with the launch of professional e-learning sites like Coursera I…

I struggle to see how the majority of digital knowledge-work jobs will survive the continued progress AI over the next several years. Even if you believe there's a chance not all digital knowledge-work jobs (coders,…

I've been asked to explain code via screenshare of some projects I've been involved with. I find communicating code projects verbally weird. Any code of reasonable complexity in my opinion is much better communicated…

I enjoy listening to new and interesting music, but it can be hard to find stuff that's unique. Is there one song or one piece of music you think everyone should listen to because of how interesting / unique it is? I'm…

I started my software engineering career as a PHP developer about 15 years ago. Looking back now I understand why PHP had a bad reputation - the language objectively had a lot of problems and the PHP ecosystem in the…

I've always struggled to sleep. I remember hating bedtime as a kid because I could never sleep so I'd just lay there for hours every night bored out of my mind. I probably slept for about 5-6 hours on average as a kid…

As I've become more senior I've struggled more with working with less experienced (and in some cases maybe less talented?) devs. A lot of things we do as developers are quite easy to build in one way or another. The…

Say I'm starting a new frontend project and I'm trying to decide whether to go with React or Vue. I might read some blogs or maybe search for a relevant discussion thread on here or Reddit, but what would be handy is…

Hi HN, I've just got out of a meeting and like almost every non-technical meeting I have next to no idea what the discussion was about. I find a lot of non-technical meetings go something like this: "Hi guys, as you…

When Microsoft released Teams a few years back many people seem to believe Slack's best days were behind them. Around that time the company I was working for decided to migrate from Slack to Teams simply because it was…

I've seen some posts here about preparing for a nuclear attack, but I don't think I'm prepared mentally for war of any kind. I grew up in the UK during the 90s so I've obviously had a very sheltered life. The two most…