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Re:GNU Midnight Commander on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:03AM (#45287325)
I have been using ‘yazi’ for a few months and I love it
As a submarine veteran, I can already tell the U.S.S New Jersey is going to get the nickname “U.S.S Jersey Shore” by the crew one of my shipmates was on an SSGN and he said there was always some kind of intersex drama when there’s both male and female on a boat
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Monday August 26, 2024 @09:19AM (#41356852)
Starting classes in my first semester of undergrad for a computer science major in Boston :) wish me luck!
Re:ChatGPT quality strangely gotten worse on Friday August 02, 2024 @08:38PM (#41143859)
Switched to Claude a few days ago because I was noticing the same thing
Re:Dumb website only lets one user in at a time on Monday July 08, 2024 @04:49PM (#40909534)
Should definitely add a chat function so people can yell at the guy taking forever
The one thing that always gets me, is a lot of companies want this or that many years of experience with x or y. What exactly can be construed as experience, if you have not yet worked for a company doing x or y? Could you count anything you do in college for that experience on your resume?
I actually want to reflect the question back to you. I am a 27 y/o wanna-be software developer. Getting ready to start college for a CS degree. Is there any advice YOU have for ME?
Re:Ask HN: Is am online Master's equal to a regular one? on Thursday June 27, 2024 @07:03AM (#40809198)
Depends on the institution. I’m sure that there are many actual scams advertising an online Masters degree you can earn that isn’t real, but a Masters degree earned from an accredited degree-granting institution, whether in-person or online, is in fact real. Accredited universities probably would not offer an online Masters degree(that costs tens of thousands of dollars in some cases, mind you) if it did not hold the same weight as an in-person Masters degree.

If you’re worried about the job competition impact, I would suggest focusing on your in-person/on-site achievements when building your resume.

Re:Ball: A ball that lives in your dock on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @11:59AM (#40801471)
As cool and fun as this is, the OP is honestly one of my favorite developers. The app “Feeeed” on iOS is such a game-changer of an RSS reader, and any feedback I’ve had in the past, he’s responded promptly and respectfully. Glad to see this trending on HN.
What field of mathematics is this?
Why do you think this will occur?
If you can recall it, do you remember the math problem in question? And could you loosely explain how you transformed it?(just with general concepts or keywords for my own curiosity. I love math, and seeing how different problems can relate to each other in unexpected ways. For example, when the sum of two quadratic roots gives the width of a given rectangle. Like this problem: A rectangle has an area of 32ft² . Its width is 4ft less than its length. What is the width? A = l(w) and 32 = l(l - 4). I’ll spare you the work shown, but l = 8 and l = -4. … (8) + (-4) = 4 = w
Thanks for this resource! And the advice! Thanks parent comment for your advice too!

Ask HN: What skills do you think will be most in-demand in 10 years?

I’m preparing to go to college, and would like to hear some people’s thoughts on what skills would be valuable to have in ten years, from an IT perspective. I’m initially majoring in computer science, and have thought of doing quantum computing electives/research opportunities. What do you think will be the skills to have in 10 years?

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Re:Bouba/Kiki Effect on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:44AM (#40704607)
While reading this comment, I was thinking "tuesday is blue, friday? Definitely orange" and then read you saying (Friday was orange) a split second later
Re:Bouba/Kiki Effect on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:41AM (#40704591)
It's actually fucking insane that I'm seeing this pop up on HN right now, I literally just watched a VSauce video (posted like a year ago) explaining this bouba/kiki effect!
I can see your concern with GPL-family being like a virus. Indeed, it is very restrictive and contributors may not want to get involved due to the logistical overhead of trying to add features to/improve it.

Addressing your concern about not being paid for your work, this is an age-old problem with open source. It's hard to make money off a product that is freely available to download. A good rule of thumb is to make users feel like they _want_ to give you money, instead of making them feel like they _have_ to give you money.

Some options you have if you want to keep it open source but still make money:

1. Do the dual licensing approach, and use one open source license of your choice, and one commercial license to allow businesses to use your engine in their proprietary software. 2. Donations link in the open source software 3. Paid technical support/Freemium model 4. Paid training programs to train users to become an expert with your engine 5. Early access subscription model: create a system where users can pay a monthly subscription fee in order to get new features earlier than official release.

Ask HN: What is a good website/app for math practice?

Hello friends, I am looking for a website or app good for practicing math with. Ideally it would have an interface like taking a test, where it gives you one multiple choice problem and after solving gives you a new one. I would like to be able to have practice questions for anything from high school Algebra 1 all the way to advanced mathematics like calculus and linear algebra. Any...

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Right now it displays an error message saying its a "dead link" on my phone. Using Safari.
This is more of a frontend thing and not entirely relevant, but just having the ability to select a part of a LLM's response and quickly get a definition or overview of the selected text would be immensely useful.

There's many times where I just want a deeper understanding of individual terms or concepts in the conversation, and I don't want to ask about them in the same conversation so as to preserve context. Also don't want to jump between conversations. Having them in the same interface would be awesome.

Use FreeTube
Based on my knowledge (which I'm still a novice, so take that for what it's worth), GPL v3.0 is fairly protective license. Although it has limits when it comes to liability, it has clauses that protect you from misappropriation and anyone who uses your rendering engine must include the very same license, and also acknowledge you as the author as per its Copyright Notice requirement. This license also has a Source Code Availability requirement, which requires that the source code for your engine be made available openly.
Now its more believable that a shrimp fried that rice.

Ask HN: What are your favorite YouTube channels?

Title explains it all. Please list your favorite channels. Could be educational, informative, entertaining, etc. I'll start.SEA, History of the Universe, Anton Petrov, Pursuit of Wonder, Fireship, Louiss Rossman, Basically Homeless, TechLinked, SomeOrdinaryGamers, ExplainingComputers

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Re:Ask HN: How do I change the world? on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:52PM (#40550470)
It has already been said, but a good start to finding problems you want to solve is by looking at problems you experience. Say, for example, you get annoyed with navigating different unique web pages trying to look for one piece of information(e.g. a contact phone number) buried in directories that have different names. You could try to solve that problem by creating a web crawler whose purpose is to find that piece of information on unique web pages that are in the same industry to create for people who don't want to experience that same navigational hell that you did.

I think the essence of problem solving is not wanting your peers to have to experience the same bullshit that you do.

Re:RSS Is Awesome on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:11AM (#40439591)
A great RSS reader for iOS/iPhone users is an app called 'Feeeed'. Especially for users concerned about privacy/customizability. The developer Nate, such a great guy. He responds to all of my feedback if I sent it, and probably most importantly, actually provides a visible feedback link so you can actually give feedback, unlike most major apps locking feedback behind first jumping through automated customer service hoops and loops. Again it's 'Feeeed' on the App Store.
Re:BrainBridge head transplant system [video] on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @06:58AM (#40439511)
Does this have to do with that mad scientist / neurosurgeon guy that got fired from his job at that university after 20 years after he started saying he was gonna put the paraplegic programmers head on a new body? And then the paraplegic programmer got a hot Russian wife for some reason so he dropped out of the operation?
Re:Hugging Face style web page on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @06:57AM (#40365236)
Could you not just yoink it from 'view source' or 'inspect element'?

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