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The overall idea is to chart out the thousands of Mini PCs by benchmark and reveal the Pareto Front so you can get the most Compute per Dollar. Definitely a labor of love as I have a number of Mini PCs for my "homelab"…

Hey HN! About a month ago I launched https://words.zip - a little (infinite) word search game - it's been very slowly growing, but now has over 300,000 words found! Lots of cool things people are doing, using it as a…

Hi HN! This is a word search game I launched in the beginning of this year - didn't get much traction then, but it's been posted around a bit (right now getting some traffic from kottke.org) and now has over 12,000…

Just a fun free little pastime where you can find words on an infinite grid of random letters. I find it relaxing to play before bed! Hope you enjoy too - I cleared the board today so lots of room to grow.

I used to use https://doc.new when I needed to write quick scratchpad notes, but it takes like two seconds for Google Docs to be interactable, and ends up polluting my Drive with a bunch of "Untitled Docs". Lately I've…

Hey HN! I posted this on April 1st when it launched, and though it didn't get traction here, it was a minor hit on reddit! Now that we've got a few thousand monkeys under our belt, wanted to give it another shot here!…

Hey HN! I've been working on this concept on and off for about a year, and challenged myself to actually release it in time for April Fools as I tend to just hoard projects. It's a simulator of the Infinite Monkey…

I'm an independent developer looking to launch a project soon that I'm excited about. I'll obviously post it here as a Show HN, and maybe in a few subreddits - but I'm out of the loop on where and how to reach more…

There was a recent thread on HN that got my attention - "what were the best books you read in th last decade". I decided that in 2020 I should read a handful of these. I just finished my first one - "Why We Sleep". I…

Sorry for the typical, unoriginal advice thread. BACKSTORY: 25 years old. Not married. I've spent the last 3 years working at a FAANG company - more or less right out of college. For the first 2.5 years I lived at home…

I (a 25 year old software developer) am constantly working on side projects. Most of them ideas for applications - but even other, more creative pursuits. However, unless the project is something that can be completed…

I'm a sophomore currently majoring in IT, and I have absolutely no idea what I want to do. I switch between wanting to focus on security, to mobile development to system administration to game development. It seems like…