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  1. Ask HN: Would you introduce someone to programing

    A random guy asked me what I did for a living today, he then mentioned he would like to learn to program too. My first instinct would be to point him to learning JavaScript but I'd like to see what HN thinks

    12 points 14
  2. Ask HN: Is it possible to become fluent in Mandarin

    I've always struggled with languages, but Chinese is rather captivating. Has anyone started late, say 30s and become fluent. I actually find it much easier than Korean or Japanese ( mainly owing to Chinese having an…

    2 points 3
  3. LG has decided to pull out of the smartphone business (androidauthority.com)
    44 points 32
  4. Ask HN: Cheapest/easiest way to host a static site?

    This is more of a thought experiment, I know a multitude of ways to do this which require loads of setup, jumping through AWS hoops, etc. I'd like ideally way to deploy to a hosted service with a single command. Imagine…

    451 points 506
  5. Ask HN: Anyone building Raspberry Pi programs in Rust?

    Right now I've been writing everything in Python, but from what I can tell Rust can perform exponentially better, particularly on the Raspberry Pi Zero. Running Python scripts work fine , but it feels sorta fragile for…

    1 points 0
  6. Ubuntu Makes Flutter ‘Default Choice’ for Future Desktop Apps (omgubuntu.co.uk)
    2 points 0
  7. Ask HN: Cheapest way to buy a Raspberry Pi Zero ( with shipping)

    So I'm seeing a lot of places to buy the PI zero , but it ends up being like $5 to ship a $5 product. Amazon gets around this by hiking the price by $5 or so and offering free shipping. Aside from visiting a physical…

    4 points 7
  8. Fry’s Electronics is shutting its doors for good (theverge.com)
    2 points 3
  9. Learning to speak a language, without learning to read it

    Basically, I've looked at a few apps which allow you to study Asian languages, without actually learning the writing systems. So you'll have Chinese, but you'll just have the romanization of the words. this is awesome…

    1 points 5
  10. Ask HN: Anyway to run pip install directly in a AWS Lambda environment

    Basically I need to install a bunch of python packages for my lambda to work. I know you should pack it locally and then upload it, but I was hopping to skip this step

    1 points 0
  11. Ask HN: Anyone here retire early, how do you like it

    Long story short, I plan to try and save up a million dollars within the next decade. I then figure I could move ether to SEA or Central America and live out the rest of my days only programing for fun. Life seems too…

    15 points 20
  12. Ask HN: How to hire a social media manager for a game

    Basically I know I'll need to maintain things like a discord and a subreddit to promote my game. But considering I still have a day job , I won't have time for this. My dream person would manage all social media for the…

    1 points 0
  13. Ask HN: Is a show HN with a Steam game okay

    Hi everybody, I'm looking forward to publishing a very small game fairly soonish. Is everyone generally cool with me posting a link to a steam page where you can download the game. I know this website tends to be very…

    1 points 6
  14. Ask HN: Best way to use Git with non technical team members

    So for my next project , I want to use git , but i'd have at least 2 team members who just aren't technical. Is their a best way to go about this ?

    2 points 6