News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

Siah

Re:Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @04:39PM (#47508858)
Not me
My biggest source of procrastination is Hacker News!

Ask HN: unpaid UX internships

Is it possible to find a non-paid UX internship for somebody with no background in HCI?A friend of mine lives in the valley and has done some very basic UI work here and there. She is looking for a non-paid internship to refine her skills and gain more experience. I am wondering if it is even possible to find such internship positions?

( Read More... | 2 comments | 5 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: An editor that let's me write without distraction on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @08:31PM (#4232234)
What font are they using. That is nice alas I use Linux and I also virtualize a windows 7. Is there a similar application for Linux or Win?

Ask HN: An editor that let's me write without distraction

I am a writer and I am often too distracted by things like formatting my text, pagination or things that have nothing to do with my writing like gmail notifications on my chrome. I am wondering if the HN community knows about a text editor that let's me write without much distraction. Something that has a spellchecker and a nice font and not much else. If it can shut off my internet while I am...

( Read More... | 13 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: How to setup a secure server on Amazon EC2 on Sunday May 08, 2011 @10:54PM (#2527367)
Are there Amazon AMI's that are already configured and are secure?

Ask HN: How to setup a secure server on Amazon EC2

I have been looking at scalable web hosting solutions and I am interested in starting a web server on Amazon's EC2. It is simply because I can run many of my processes in the background and reduce the amount of online processing.I have no experience in setting up and checking for security holes in my Apache server. I am wondering what is the best practice for setting up a secure webserver on...

( Read More... | 2 comments | 2 points | on HN )

Ask HN: How should I register my business

My friend and I have been working as independent energy consultants for about a year now and we are planning to incorporate to be able to extend our services. We both got our PhDs last year and we want to eventually make a research facility that can develop and sell new technologies.My quick question is that in order to register our company what should we do. And what type of company should we...

( Read More... | no comments | 3 points | on HN )
Re:On Becoming a Scientist on Saturday December 25, 2010 @10:40PM (#2039948)
His feed is working just use this link (http://openresearch.wordpress.com/feed/) or if you are using google reader just add his weblog url to your reader (http://openresearch.wordpress.com/)