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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @08:01AM (#49695413)
https://www.dadjokepostcards.com — pick a dadjoke and a recipient, the joke gets printed and sent for you on a (real) postcard via USPS.

This is my "use AI to finally build that totally frivolous website you've had in the back of your mind for years" project.

$2 of every card sent benefits the Jazz Foundation of America.

Re:Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal on Friday October 03, 2025 @07:46AM (#45461785)
+1. Our kids' experience watching sports on TV is so much more cynical for it.

You'd think it would be relatively easy for the leagues to provide separate streams that omit gambling ads (and maybe sell that ad space to others).

Re:Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:00PM (#45396914)
Wild. I've been using iPhones for 17 years and it took until today for me to learn this. Thanks j_bum.
Re:Show HN: I spent 4 months building Duolingo but for your life on Saturday September 27, 2025 @10:18AM (#45395930)
Congrats, maghfoor. But the lack of price transparency is a real turn-off. Nothing on the website or in the App Store — you have to download the app to find out how much it will cost you.
Re:Opening up access to GOV.UK Forms: an online form builder on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:32AM (#37791300)
In the US government, take a look at https://www.usds.gov/apply and https://join.tts.gsa.gov/ — and there are many more opportunities emerging as the USG gets better at all of this.

More generally for federal and state/local government opportunities to use your technology expertise to make a difference, these folks are excellent: https://techtalentproject.org/tech-talent/

Re:The US government's web traffic on Thursday March 19, 2015 @02:15PM (#9233636)
This 18F blog post talks about the different types of roles people play on our team: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/ . The application form for the Presidential Innovation Fellowship program also calls out specific skills and domain expertise they're looking for: https://pif.gsa.gov/ . Cheers!
Abrams: I love you. Kasdan: I know.
Re:Enough with the JavaScript already on Monday July 15, 2013 @11:35AM (#6046217)
This deck is really hard to flip through on an iPhone. Nothing a little JavaScript couldn't fix.
Re:Somewhat Verbatim Conversation with a Startup Recruiter on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @10:04PM (#5988781)
The punch line is that after the in-person interview, they'll take more than a month to get back to you -- and then invite you back for another all-day.
Re:Ask HN: What gets you out of bed? on Friday May 31, 2013 @09:42AM (#5798510)
1 kids. 2 dog. If you can make your alarm clock jump up and down on my bed and/or lick my face, it's a winner.
I wonder how the results of this poll break down for non-parents vs. parents (or those actively planning to have kids). I'm guessing the latter have significantly higher targets.

Show HN: daring.is/early -- online shopping should just. be. easier.

All three of us hate (1) spending 10 hours Googling to figure out which [TV|coffeemaker|whatever] to buy, and (2) standing in a store aisle and browsing endless Amazon product reviews on our iPhones.We thought we could do better than the filter-by-spec sites that look like airplane dashboards and give you [generic|stale|suspect|lame] recommendations, so we're building our own.What's different...

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Re:Ask HN: Best Python web framework on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @10:47AM (#3766475)
Richard Jones did a nice presentation about this in August 2011, comparing 10 Python frameworks along a lot of useful metrics (perf, simplicity, size, documentation, etc) by developing the same "hello world"-ish app in each one. He even scored them at the end.

The slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/r1chardj0n3s/web-microframework-ba... -- they don't seem to be loading inline now but the PDF download still works. Video of the talk is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYjPIMe0BhA .

Spoiler alert: the winner was bottle.py, by a nose.