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Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:22AM (#50128766)
you have to take into account that reddit in general is completely Anti-Elon. He could cure cancer and folks on that site would find a way to blame billionares.
Re:Midjourney Medical on Thursday June 18, 2026 @09:18AM (#48584858)
this is why i always come to hacker news for the expert opinions. thank you for being critical yet optimistic.
Re:Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:19PM (#48447319)
i try to keep my comments on here positive, but man, my experience using this product has been awful.
Re:GitHub Actions down again today on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @08:19AM (#48278743)
github actions themselves can be self hosted, its quite nice actually to be able to keep your same patterns as cloud hosted actions and with one line change to the yaml have it running on your own hardware. I do this for actions that take 6-7 hours so I am not burning through the 3000 minutes that come free with my account.
thank you for your commitment to open source.
Re:I hacked Casio F-91W digital watch on Friday January 09, 2026 @09:46AM (#46554390)
i love this and its something i had always wanted to try. I am actually kind of ticket off at chatgpt as i asked it about 6 months ago how something like this work and it told me it physically wasnt possible. maybe i need to improve my prompting.
Re:Anthropic reportedly preparing for $300B IPO on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @10:31AM (#46135644)
that wework s1 was gold
love this line FTA: "Is It Worth It? For 99.999% of use cases: absolutely not."
Re:Microsoft Azure Outage on Wednesday October 29, 2025 @12:32PM (#45749228)
cost cutting attempts
i like this a lot. any chance you can do the settings in as a url parameter so we can bookmark our preferred configuration?
if you are based in the USA, most stores have 30 day return policies. perhaps order them, try at home, and return if you they arent a fit for your situation
Re:Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader on Friday December 20, 2024 @11:42AM (#42472568)
this is why HN is the best
Re:Bypassing airport security via SQL injection on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:31PM (#41396012)
Agreed that they wanted to fully understand the extent of the hack before disclosing
Re:It's Getting Harder to Die on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:48PM (#40832626)
Thanks for sharing. Helps a little bit
Re:It's Getting Harder to Die on Friday June 28, 2024 @05:54PM (#40825678)
Watched my grandfather pass in the same way. Didn’t seem right to let him pass of basically lack of food and hydration after 95 years even though also terminal. I just wanted to see him comfortable and he was far from it.
Re:Ship Something Every Day on Monday June 10, 2024 @10:46PM (#40641744)
A side benefit from this is that there is now a prerequisite that your ci/cd pipelines are always operational
would be just as effective with .05 btc
Re:Let's Encrypt Acme API Outage on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:26PM (#36343840)
this is why i will always love hacker news. thank you
Re:Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:29AM (#35628637)
i feel as though these days prices fail to return back to normal after sharp spikes like they have in the past, anecdotally
Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @09:13AM (#35302314)
do you mind elaborating?
Ctrl+F, Yerba Mate, zero results. I'm ashamed of you all HN!
i see this as more of 'quick and dirty' type approach, which there is often still value in
Re:Mainnet Merge Announcement on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:55PM (#32588471)
Thank you for all your work on Ethereum.
Id recommend either some time off, or change of scenery as best paths forward. While not a complete solution, it will may help with - stagnant salary - work life balance - isolation

And on the "rock star" comment, I wouldn't sweat it. Been in software 20 years now and wouldn't consider myself elite either. Plenty of opportunities out there for experienced and reliable programers that dont require you to cram for LeetCode or DS & Algos. Oh, and we all piece code together from multiple sources and there is no shame in that.

Re:Cat Printer on Friday March 25, 2022 @01:31PM (#30804967)
great now make it print github issues
Re:Man given genetically modified pig heart dies on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @04:16PM (#30620079)
top comment currently references he was near multiple organ failure prior to the transplant.
Re:Some tiny personal programs I've written on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:24PM (#30619512)
I'd like to add that OP has some incredible easy to understand "zines" that help explain technical topics like http, dns, containers etc.
Re:Some tiny personal programs I've written on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:19PM (#30619462)
id love to get their honest opinion on the 'no hard feelings' part
im pro workers rights but it does seem like this person was trespassing right?
Re:Did I just lose half a million dollars? on Sunday January 30, 2022 @11:34AM (#30138563)
are you sure the deposit function isnt automatically called?

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