Hacker News: Ask HNhttps://news.ycombinator.com/askHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 29 Mar 2024 07:02:30 +0000<![CDATA[Ask HN: How do I improve my emotional intelligence]]>I feel like I’m very self aware, both internally and externally. I know that what I will say (because of the way I will say it) will be delivered badly and probably make the person sad/angry, but I cannot find a way of fixing the words I use! I feel like I have a big problem with my emotional intelligence. To fix this, I am looking for a book that is what “The mom test” is to customer discovery, but to Emotional Intelligence. What I mean by this is a book that actually contains suggestions of what to say, word by word, and how to be able to think and articulate what the other person might come to think. Any suggestions?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856254

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:25:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856254user0x1dhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856254https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39856254
<![CDATA[Ask HN: Are there any real world blockchain / crypto use cases already?]]>A common critique regarding the crypto space is that except for "store of value", no use cases have emerged yet.

Let's check this out!

Any HN users, who use blockchain technology? And if so, what for?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852389

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:56:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852389ArtTimeInvestorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852389https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39852389
<![CDATA[Ask HN: Should Banks Phish Their Own Customers]]>At my previous job, the bank used GoPhishMe to conduct internal phishing tests on employees. Clicking a dubious link or downloading a shady file led to an informative email about the dangers and tricks used by real cybercriminals.

What are your thoughts on extending this practice to bank customers?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851838

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:18:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851838jwallyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851838https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851838
<![CDATA[Ask HN: Who's getting their job applications rejected?]]>I'm in the US. I tell you what, it's been a tough season for me. I've applied to a dozen positions (senior, full-stack or backend) at mid-to-large companies. Not start-ups. I've interviewed and solved the problems yet I keep getting rejected.

Is anyone else having a similar experience or is it just me?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851136

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:29:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851136typeofhumanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39851136
<![CDATA[Ask HN: How hard is it to find a job after trying to start your own thing]]>I have always had an entrepreneurial itch but have spent the last 10 years of my career as an employee. I feel like it’s now or never for me to try entrepreneurship but I’m also nervous that I would be doing irreparable damage to my career. I’m curious to hear from others that have had this experience, how hard would it be to go back if things don’t pan out?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39850396

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:28:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39850396jklein11https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39850396https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39850396
<![CDATA[Ask HN: My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do?]]>My cofounder and I started the company 9 months ago. We are on 4 year 1 cliff vesting schedule. This coming June 2024, we'll finish the 1 year cliff. However he only commited 6 months out of this 1 year. And I can't blame him for that as none of us has expected this scenario. What should I do?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848868

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:29:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848868WatermelonSkihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848868https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848868
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What things are happening in ML that we can't hear over the din of LLMs?]]>What are some exciting things that are happening in the #ML #DataScience world that we are not able to hear over the din of LLMs?

I notice that Cynthia rudin is continuing to produce great stuff on explainable AI.

What else is going on that is not GPT/Diffusion/MultiModal?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847

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Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:25:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847afliphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848847
<![CDATA[Ask HN: Do you feel scummy making AI products?]]>I've made a couple AI websites/CLIs recently using Google Gemini (because it's free).

I've felt a bit weird making them because I feel I'm profiting off of "the AI hype train" rather than genuine interest in a product. While I'm not making any money off my projects, my analytics tell me I'm getting 10-20x more traffic on my AI-related projects than my other ones.

I'm just curious - does anyone feel similar to me?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842148

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:33:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842148radeeyatehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842148https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39842148
<![CDATA[Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?]]>When you're a tiny team of developers working on something beyond MVP level and beyond heroku — managing your CI, deployments/rollbacks, DBs etc. looks like a nightmare to me without Devops expertise.

I want to understand what kind of challenges you all are facing with regards to this. And any tools, practices, you’ll are using to reduce this pain? Ex- How do you deploy resources? How do you define architecture? How do you manage your environments, observability?, etc.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836124

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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:14:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836124tj1516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836124https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39836124
<![CDATA[Are we all doomed? Why?]]>I think it's become clear the great age where being a software developer meant you could never be unemployed is done.

One of my favorite podcasts (Soft Skills Engineering) has been talking about it for months. My article about how to easily find a job as a dev, which got me literally hundreds of e-mails of thanks, no longer makes sense https://gcj.io/blog/how-to-get-a-better-dev-job/.

I myself have just been laid off, and since I was foreseeing the decline of the company, I have been firing CVs away for MONTHS and couldn't find any decent offer. Not even a half decent one. Hell, a friend who's worked at Twitter, among others, can't find a job.

Is this AI? Is it a temporary decline of the market? Caused by what?

Is there still any niche where we can be employed faster as we could just a year ago? Are we all going to die?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39831589

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:04:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39831589gcjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39831589https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39831589
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?]]>I see so many AI product launches. Is there anyone who is working on non-AI products?

If so what are you working on?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:25:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695jackedEngineerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39829695
<![CDATA[AI is driving me to suicide]]>Just the title. I don't have any hopes whatsoever for my future anymore after having worked hard to reach the point I am, and the future looks as bleak as ever. Reading AI shit every single day, even when it's hyped, and knowing it's coming for everyone no matter its actual capabilities is driving me insane - I don't get what the point of existing is anymore if the only two paths left in life are either a rat race to death and being reduce to a mere commodity for menial tasks that cannot be automated with current technology, or basically not having anything to do whatsoever because you cost too much and AI can do whatever you do at an acceptable quality.

It's been months I'm going to sleep hoping not to wake up.

Thank you for reading my blog post


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39826334

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:58:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39826334bru3shttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39826334https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39826334
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What do y'all make of Netflix's 3 Body problem?]]>I never thought the books could be replicated for television, but I have to admit — this is pretty good work all things considered.

Kudos to the writers for stitching a compelling show, despite some liberties.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824057

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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:36:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824057trojanalerthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39824057
<![CDATA[Would you pay for a phone built for you?]]>Ever feel like your phone is loaded with features you never use? Imagine a phone you could customize to your exact needs. No more bloatware, just the features you want and the power you need.

This could mean choosing your preferred operating system, getting a monster battery for gaming, or prioritizing a top-notch camera for photography.

Would you be interested in a phone you could customize to your specific needs? What features would be most important to you in a customizable phone?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39821040

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:40:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39821040ganeshdolehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39821040https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39821040
<![CDATA[Ask HN: What is a HN unpopular opinion that you hold?]]>I'm curious what opinions you personally hold that the HN readers would generally disagree with you about.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:19:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836jppopehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820836
<![CDATA[Ask HN: When was the last time you used your tech skills for a real life task?]]>Personally, I compute in 3 ways:

1. Professionally 2. Recreationally 3. Personally

Personally as in, I need to accomplish a task in my normal life, and I use my computer skills to solve it in a way a non-techie wouldn't be able to.

For example, today on Reddit someone asked: "Is there a word, in english, that has the letter ‘V’ and is not followed by a vowel?"

So I ran this on my mac:

    egrep '^[a-z].*v[^eaiouy]' /usr/share/dict/words
The part at the beginning means that the first letter should be lowercase (imo proper nouns don't really count)

And voila, a buttload of them showed up!

I've also used my cybersecurity knowledge to gain access to devices who's security was protecting me from myself, and done the same for many friends.

I enjoy things like that. What about you? Any such small personal tales?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820296

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:21:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820296sdsdhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820296https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39820296
<![CDATA[Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server]]>What I want to do: get hands on experience hosting and maintaining a linux server (perf, sec, etc). I love the abstraction cloud services provided to enable me to build stuff without having to understand the nitty-gritty - but I think the knowledge will help. Rent a server on the cloud for about $10/mo if possible, build an application for personal use with everything residing on the server. Nothing critical.

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Why: I've always wanted to. I read some HN posts this week that have inspired me to finally make the leap. For eg,

- I read this and realised I don't know what any of these commands are (I've always used Windows), and it's time to start. https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-03-24/linux-crisis-tools.html

- The SingleFile post. I already built one with Supabase that I use now, but I want to do one with the CLI, my own DB etc.

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Where I'm at: I have quite a bit of experience building both FE and BE for applications, mostly utilizing cloud services (serverless, hosted DBs etc). I've also hosted a few applications locally for personal use but not open to the internet, like Postgres and Nginx (all windows). Some devOps experience. Serious about security but no hands on experience with networking, I want to actually understand and reduce the attack surface and so on without just flipping a switch.

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What I'm asking for: Any suggestions how to go about it, resources, links, advice - please feel free to share your experiences as well. Thanks!


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816789

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:28:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816789ctxchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816789https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39816789
<![CDATA[Ask HN: How do you find smart people without a network?]]>At my startup we've recently closed our first round of funding and we are starting to look for employee number one.

This will be a Software Engineer, beeing a dev myself i've started to explore my network without much luck. How do you find talented people?


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815456

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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 12:27:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815456nerder92https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815456https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39815456
<![CDATA[Ask HN: Better Alternatives Than Passwords?]]>im not talking about no password manager or auth either something more seamless.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810519

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Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:05:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810519anon115https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810519https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39810519
<![CDATA[Ask HN: How common is developer burnout? Have you ever been burnt out?]]>When I graduated from college I found a job working for a Fortune 500 where I completed a pretty complex project. I was there for two years and it felt like a stressful meat grinder. The experience was so bad that I quickly pivoted to a less stressful role, and have been there for quite some time now.

This has got me wondering: how stressful do people find the software industry at large? There seems to be a big draw for young developers to try to go FAANG, but honestly, these companies just sound like another high-performance meat grinder. You get paid a lot but are constantly under scrutiny. And smaller companies are all going pseudo-agile to try to squeeze every last ounce from their developers.

This makes me wonder if finding a low-key, sane culture is the key to sustainability in the industry, and avoiding burn out.


Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809061

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Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:19:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809061Desafinadohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809061https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809061