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Posted by
dandrew5 on Thursday January 22, 2026 @10:20PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://dan-lovelace.github.io/hn-blocklist/
I made a simple, customizable bookmarklet for removing HN submissions based on their title contents. I have it configured to remove AI-related posts at the moment but anybody with a little regex knowledge can customize it to their needs. Hope it helps someone.GitHub repository: https://github.com/dan-lovelace/hn-blocklist
I'm also interested in hiding AI posts. Is anybody doing this with success that can share what they use?
Thanks for the tip. I've enrolled in an A1 class with Goethe Institute starting in April. In your opinion, how difficult would it be to rent or potentially own a home on a single engineering salary? Looking at prices on
https://www.immobilienscout24.de/, it does not seem possible after accounting for taxes. A salary of 60k ends up being about 3.2k net per month. If renting a home takes 2k of that, I may need to reconsider my country of choice.
Could you expand a little? Are you referring to the workaholism some Americans have? Personally, I've always sought out companies that value a healthy work/life balance and am relieved to hear Europeans companies value it so highly.
Aside from being too enthusiastic about work, what other gaps in engineering/work culture exist?
Posted by
dandrew5 on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:21PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I currently reside in the US and am looking to move to Europe (most likely Germany) some time in the next three years. Has anybody made this journey and have some insights to share?I'm particularly wondering if there are any technical skills I should hone to give me leverage in the job market when the time comes. Or opposite, any "bad habits" I may have picked up from US companies that simply...
How would you know? I also submitted a deletion request to that airport identity service Clear to avoid missing a flight one time. I received an email "Your request has been received" and nothing else. Is there a way we can validate our information is actually deleted?
Keeping it classic, nice. How do you manage the dust?
Posted by
dandrew5 on Saturday March 15, 2025 @02:46PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I've been using a dry erase whiteboard for decades and am in the market for something different. Someone mentioned in another thread they were using some kind of magnetic board (maybe it wasn't magnets, I can't remember 100%) but I can't find anything like this online.Anybody have any recommendations?
Posted by
dandrew5 on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @01:34PM
from the developers.google.com dept.
Imagine a native desktop app that let you build a UI with very basic elements, à la Visual Basic, and behind each of those elements is an associated AWS CLI command. Such that "aws s3 ls" attached to a list element would render an account's buckets.
The AWS APIs are so expansive, a product like this could offer a complete replacement for the default web console and maybe even charge for it. Does anyone know if such a solution exists? Perhaps some more generic "shell-to-ui" application? If not, I'm interested in building one if anybody would like to contribute.
For your Reddit posts, did you target a subreddit that might have interest in the extension or did you use one meant specifically for extension development/promotion? If the latter, which one?
Great call on expanding to other add-ons stores. I'll need to look into compatibility and find a Windows machine to test...
I'm in the process of adding payments as well and I'm starting things off with Stripe. Specifically, their payment links and subscriptions features. Longer term, I may switch, and am building things in a way that migration will be easy.
Yes, I have a monetization plan in mind.
Great ideas, thanks. I've had similar success searching for common problems using Google, finding the highest-positioned Reddit result, and leaving a response with a link.
I've added my contact email to my profile, thank you.
Thanks for the idea of sharing the extension but I'd like to focus any discussion around growth itself.
As for being concerned about a rugpull, I definitely get it. My approach is to keep as much of the product open source as possible and be very transparent around any ownership changes.
Posted by
dandrew5 on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I maintain a handful of browser extensions and one of them is gaining traction. I'm now looking for marketing avenues and curious to hear from anyone that may have gone down this path before.Since it appears the Firefox and Chrome stores themselves don't offer any kind of visibility-boosting features, are there any other tools/services you've found useful to increase the number of active weekly...
True, good documentation is a rare thing. If the hype does hold and the current trajectory of things stays somewhat the same, I think it will be inevitable that the definition of "good documentation" will change. If it were geared towards a machine audience, I wonder if it would increase reliability and reduce hallucination.
I could imagine a hybrid approach as well where there are two versions: one for humans and one for machines. If respected, the crawlers could look for a special <meta> tag of sorts that points them to the machine version.
Posted by
dandrew5 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.
The more I lean into LLMs for my daily job, the less I find myself reading published documentation. A lot of time has historically been put into having really good, human-readable docs but I'm wondering if that will shift. If a service's documentation was written in a way optimized for training, what might it look like?
Adding optional user sign-in to my word replacer browser extension:
https://github.com/dan-lovelace/word-replacer-max. This is a precursor to adding generative replacement suggestions based on search terms. Even further, I'd like it to eventually analyze and de-trigger/disarm the copy on websites more broadly without having to define specific words or phrases.
Web Components are fun. I've played around with Lit, which some people have mentioned. Anybody tried Stencil? It looks similar from the outside but wondering how it plays out mid/late-term.
Posted by
dandrew5 on Saturday July 27, 2024 @11:33PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/dan-lovelace/web-extension-boilerplate
This is a generator project I'm working on for making browser extensions. It's about as "one click" as it gets for anyone with Node installed and wanting to see what web extensions are all about.
New Hackers, I like it. A Hacker News clone strictly for new developers. Instead of articles, the links just map to posts on r/programmerhumor
Welcome btw!
Marketing yourself is more important now than ever. The advent of AI has created a noise problem at the hiring level on both sides: applicants are leveraging tools to generate necessary documents (targeted resumes, cover letters, social profiles), recruiters are using scanning tools to weed out anything that doesn't contain the magical keywords or phrases.
Not at the moment but the scanning feature is client-side only and does not rely on any external services. It uses jsQR[0] to handle parsing directly in the browser. One way to use it and be sure would be to load the page and disable the site's network connection using developer tools before giving camera access. Once done, allow camera permission, perform the scan then kill the page.
[0] https://github.com/cozmo/jsQR