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Ask HN: How do you use AI for learning?

This is an interesting use case that gets talked about much less, and potentially one that is more useful than software development. Especially now that everyone is relying heavily on AI and even forgetting things they used to know.Have you explored this yourself or found any existing workflows for mastering technologies, concepts, theory, basically everything that we have traditionally learned...

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Ask HN: How to identify potential projects that have real demand and interest?

When browsing GitHub issues and discussions of large libraries and frameworks, it’s often easy to spot topics that attract a lot of attention and go on for months or even years. These are usually complex bugs, missing features, or controversial design decisions and limitations that frustrate a large number of users. Also, there are the obvious problems that every user encounters right after...

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Ask HN: Code quality in projects developed with intensive use of AI tools

Have you had the opportunity to carefully analyze code from such projects, whether open-source or within companies? What have you seen "in the wild"?How would you rate the quality of that code: high, low, or average? How would you compare those projects to conventional, "hand-made by humans" ones? What makes them stand out or gives them away?What’s your overall conclusion, does this represent a...

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Ask HN: What does your project research and planning process look like?

If your motivation is to build something functional but also to learn something new - to get the most out of the whole endeavor - you probably don’t want to be doing the same thing for decades, but rather to keep learning and experimenting with new ideas and technologies.What does your process of digging through the internet, searching for and analyzing similar existing projects and solutions,...

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Re:Nevermind, an album on major chords on Monday May 05, 2025 @03:21AM (#43892638)
Not sure Im following.

What is the point of the thread. Github page HTML or music theory.

Re:Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform on Friday August 30, 2024 @09:11AM (#41400352)
Last time i tried to use Dokku as Docker container it was unusable, Nginx, Traefik, Mongo, https all plugins with bugs, 2 weeks wasted on debugging without result.

Ask HN: Best budget equipment for conferencing calls for interviews?

I experimented a lot with this, it can be pretty challenging especially in artificial light conditions which is often necessary because of time zones. Both laptop builtin camera and Logitech C920 are awful in artificial light conditions.Also moderately expensive equipment, bellow $150 usd, so no $1k usd mirrorless cameras.Also I only use Linux, because sometimes I have to demo and run code I...

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Ask HN: Recurring developers and companies in the "Who is hiring/hired" threads

If you compare threads within a year you can notice lot of developers re-posting their offers from month to month, some of them have pretty strong profiles and still it happens. I don't believe that all of them are that much picky, and especially incapable for work or to pass a reasonable interview.Similar for companies, some of them have pretty small teams and very common tech stack but still...

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Re:Ask HN: Who's Hiring in the EU? on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:29AM (#39286408)
I follow.
Re:Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:27AM (#39286398)
I follow.
interesting

Ask HN: Are you building a personal brand as a developer?

Whether related to your name or online pseudonym, you have been working for years to make it known and recognizable, either by creating content, writing a blog, a YouTube channel, creating notable projects, speaking at conferences, etc. any constant public work behind a recognizable name.Do you think this is good and important or not? Will this eventually lead to people coming to you to offer...

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Ask HN: Have you ever built and sold a software yourself?

Does anyone of you have practical experience of coding something and selling it once or many times? Software can be anything and everything, from custom or CMS websites, browser extensions, plugins for existing software, specialized software for specific niches, embedded, cloud... practically anything.To describe any of the aspects of the process, what is made to be sold once, what can be sold...

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Ask HN: Personal side project that helped you the most in your career?

Do you think that investing time in personal side projects is a good way to advance your career faster, or could that time and energy be spent in a better way? Did you have a project that significantly pushed your career forward and in what ways did it contribute to you? You can describe what the project was about, how much time it took, and a link if it is public.

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Ask HN: What elements should a side project have for senior-level web developer?

If one were to invest 3-6 months into improving a CV and applying new knowledge and experience into a demonstrable form which perspectives can be used to determine which path to take to maximize the outcome? For a full stack web developer.A few examples:- search ads for the ideal job and study their requirements closely and try to cover them all as much as possible- build a small Saas, think of...

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