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Lately I've found myself watching a lot of recorded technical talks on YouTube. I prefer text for learning about something in detail, but I've found recorded talks more helpful when I want a broader overview of a topic, or if I want an intro to something outside my usual interests. (They also mak...

I am not sure how common it is in Silicon Valley, but in India following questions are very common and I really find it difficult to understand why interviewer is asking them and what exactly he expects to understand from me: 1. What are your hobbies? (this usually means non-tech hobbies if you h...

So, slight rant on why I ask. My provider, [OpenMailbox](https://openmailbox.org), has pissed me off. Their service went down without any warning, and then was replaced by what was clearly a beta, and had reliability problems like one too. What really ticked me off though, was IMAP and SMTP were mad...

Christmas is coming up, and I know some of you have experience helping children/nieces/nephews/etc learn programming. Mind sharing? Are there any kid friendly books, toys, kits, or other such gifts you have experience with and would recommend? What approaches have you used to generate interest...

There used to be a great bot, but it died and never came back. Would love to find a working one! (Am getting a bit tired of reading HN headlines. ^_^) EDIT: if it helps, source code for the [dead bot](https://botsin.space/@lobsters) is here: https://git.fuwafuwa.moe/albino/lobstertoot

The three-day conference [Øredev](http://oredev.org/2018/home) starts tomorrow. Anyone else going, and possibly interested in meeting up? I for one, am looking forward to the TLA+ talk, courtesy of @hwayne.

While experimenting with some fairly math-intensive computer graphics (signed distance fields and procedural texture generation) I realized that I needed a refresher on algebra, calculus and trig. I'm well covered in linear and geometric algebra, but I'd like something that I can use as a reference ...

I recently heard about [Building Git](https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/) from James Coglan. His store page makes it sound like it could be a great learning exercise, but the price tag is high enough to keep me from buying on a whim. Have any of you picked this up? What language are you worki...

I'd like to adopt a client-side error reporting tool for our web application. Currently we only know about production errors when users complain, which sucks. We use Datadog heavily for our server monitoring, but don't necessarily need compatibility with that for the web client (but might be nic...

Lobsters on my phone just requested location permissions. Has anyone run into this? [Screenshot](https://i.imgur.com/X3REMoh.png)

Sometimes I crave the experience of grabbing a random dataset and exploring it. I have some favorite sources for satisfying this urge, but I'd love to hear recommendations from other crustaceans, especially sources in areas of your personal interest / expertise.

I'm in Hanoi for next few weeks. If anyone else is too, would be fun to chat about software, programming languages, philosophy - or jam 🎼 - over a salted coffee. To anyone else reading - I recommend a visit, it's a fascinating and energetic place! And it has unbelievable numbers of nicely desig...

A friend of mine is about to be promoted to a very senior management position, with multiple layers of management between her and engineers.<p>She&#x27;s asked for some reading recommendation on managing managers in a technology company (communication, setting goals&#x2F;KPIs, meaningful feedback, c...

I want ask about Outpainting API.<p>I try Replicate Outpainting before. But result not very good. Can see edge very clear. Not natural. So I want ask, any good Outpainting API provider you can recommend? I hope find API with better effect.<p>Thank you very much for help! I appreciate any suggestion.

Hi I am organising an open event for public to celebrate a festival, in which more than 3000 are expected to come. I need to count how many people are coming in and outgoing from the event. I can have a camera attached at the entrance with a top view. Software&#x2F;library can use ai or image proces...

In particular, trying to learn C and run basic code snippets&#x2F;small programs on my iPad.

How are _strategic_ ideas and recommendations raised and assessed in your company? Do you present them in a forum, via email, follow some sort of established business case process?

Preferably sci-fi or fantasy. The longer the better.

I&#x27;ve recorded around a dozen or so short (2-ish) minute videos demonstrating my platform.<p>However, I feel like my voice isn&#x27;t really that good lol. I am wondering if there&#x27;s some AI narration service I can use by just having it sound really professional.<p>Thanks!

Hi Hackers! I am working on a problem on a code review tool for designers and have a use case I am trying to solve with GenAI but not able to solve well. LLM models are trained on huge corpus of text, and many multimodal models also on images with text caption that can identify objects in the images...

Anything other than the Harvard course

I&#x27;m looking for an API to load logos.<p>The logos should be the icon. I.e. fairly small &amp; without any text, suitable for display next to the company name.<p>I found a whole bunch of them out there [1], but none of them are consistent enough to show to users without someone vetting them fir...

If you had to recommend just three books to anyone — regardless of their age, background, education level, financial situation, or life circumstances — what would they be?<p>Books that you think everyone should read at least once. Not necessarily the &quot;best&quot; or most famous ones, but the one...

I use the typical ChatGPT and Gemini LLMs a lot but to be honest, I am still waiting for a proper agent, something that can take over more complex tasks, maybe spawning sub-agents along the way.<p>Just today I tried to transcribe a short audio file and had to Google for a converter mp4-&gt;mp3 first...

Hey HN,<p>Can you help me which portable DAP to buy? I used the rockbox derivates. But dunno which one I should use. The modern ones would be too pricey. Like the shanling etc. But maybe you can tell me how do you listen to FLAC music on the go? Is there anything I can buy?

I&#x27;m in a long career break to work on my own stuff because my financial situation allows it, but I&#x27;ve found one job I&#x27;d like to apply for. My LinkedIn profile is extremely neglected and I&#x27;ve never put any effort into that sort of presentation, self promotion, or online presence i...