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I'm looking at buying a new car, and I'm noticing the ones that fit my needs (mainly Subarus and Toyotas for their AWD) have ridiculously intrusive and finnicky "safety" features that involves a camera and collecting a…

Hey HN! Just curious what kinds of skills you think are worth really picking up and learning that can help with your career that are not technical but are still more than soft-skills (i.e., skills that aren't the…

I've run into this situation before where I join a team and person X begins helping me with something, then person Y comes along and says, "Oh yeah we have a documentation page for this, it's buried here." Or a…

My university is shifting away from allowing SMS as a 2FA option for accounts starting in March. I'm aware that there is now a well known "hack" that involves rerouting SMS 2FA texts to an attacker's own device, but…

I'm in my undergrad for Computer Science and have about two semesters left before graduation. I'm working in the power industry right now as a software engineer (C#/.NET mostly), and I got this nagging feeling that I…

When learning, there's kind of two contradicting schools of thought. On one hand, I'm told to slow down and really understand the material. This takes a lot of time. And on the other, I'm told to not worry about getting…

I've been mulling over the issue of being blocked when working on problems, and identifying the ways we become unblocked. For me at least, I've found the biggest "unblocker" has been when I have someone to bounce ideas…

There's been incessant speculation on whether or not AI is coming for our jobs. I've seen both sides of it. One side is displayed as, "We're doomed and will be out of jobs soon," while the other side is expressed as,…