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The software quality for legacy car manufacturers still seems to be lagging behind what I'd expect from modern and functional design in this day and age. I have a BMW and both the iDrive 8.5 software and the App seem to…

I'm in the market to get some new contact lenses. Have a doctor's appointment tomorrow and will be asking for samples. I prefer daily contact lenses and I need toric lenses. Currently using Cooper Vision and they aren't…

I'm old school and like to wear a regular watch from time to time. The Apple watch is useful to track my daily healthy. I really wish Apple made a device that could just serve as a fitness tracker, no notifications or…

I've been a software engineer for over 10 years. Most of my life has been spent working on backend systems, RPC services, workflow based systems, the last 5 years have been building infrastructure for FAANG companies. I…

Saw this post on HN earlier today, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41104597 Separately the entire Reddit debacle of shutting down API access a few months ago, followed by the reports that Perplexity doesn't honor…

Is it actually meaningfully safer for a user to use Firefox over Chrome? It feels like Chrome being made by Google can employ more folks, respond to 0-days, with integrations for Google accounts, it provides a decent…

Reddit like - 8 years ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/s/Try6dl5GfP ChatGPT (this was not a Bing search) Screenshot - https://ibb.co/Jjf62vD

I’m asking from the perspective of technology. I understand the economics between console and mobile games are different.

It would make reading and interacting with articles so much easier?

I've been working on giving up alcohol and drugs (weed). I've curtailed my want to smoke weed, by understanding that it mainly comes from the place of escapism. Its a great way for me to procrastinate. Alcohol has been…

Looks like Reddit has gone dark. I logged out and deleted the apps. How are things internally?

Edge, Firefox, Brave and Chrome are now trying to become more than web browsers. They are trying to control the user experience by pushing ads, services, and their own agenda for how the web should be. Brave tries to do…

I understand the crypto-currency market saw a sudden increase of capital which lead to scams and fraud. While this is terrible, but this is a side-affect of new technology, even something as old as email, still has this…

Hi HN, I'm a senior level contributor at a late-stage private company. I've previously worked at a FAANG company for a decade and my take was that most software managers, especially software managers that directly…

I was working at a FAANG for the last ~10 years and just moved to a late stage startup. I've realized while I'm immensely fortunate work at a FAANG and enjoy it, I was still underpaid for my role and contributions. At…

Most of the gnarly things I've had to deal with while building and operations K8s clusters and related infrastructure is around stateful apps. Most modern cloud applications and services rely on a set of services for…

I work on a Kubernetes based infrastructure platform and am interested to know what issues do service developers face. We can constrain the conversation to stateless services and batch workloads, keeping DBs outside,…

I'm currently a staff/senior level engineer for a FAANG in America. I have expertise in cloud infrastructure and building backend services - apis, workflows, stream/message consumers, etc. I've been doing the same job…

It seems like I made a big mistake not moving to Austin in 2020. Housing prices are off the hook in Seattle. Most of the inventory is old shitty houses, that need a lot of $$$, love and care to make then livable, let…