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Re:AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it on Sunday February 08, 2026 @10:26AM (#46935073)
testing is quite creative too btw
Re:Lenovo Support – Hot Garbage on Saturday December 06, 2025 @05:18PM (#46177073)
Wow lucky you! I wish I'd had the same experience :(

Lenovo Support – Hot Garbage

I bought my machine first-hand from Lenovo 6ish weeks ago and have just sent them a letter threatening court action unless I get a refund, after their technician left it in a worse state than he found it in.Has anyone else suffered through their incompetence?

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Re:Is just a tough market or am I unhireable now? on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:25PM (#45350921)
Do you need visa sponsorship OP? That might be making things substantially tougher
Re:H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @08:06PM (#44883241)
Time to smash offshoring too. Any American company that offshores jobs should be delisted from all American stock exchanges and banned from doing business in the United States.
Isn't the Prime Minister of Israel wanted by the Hague?
Re:Ask HN: Copilot Makes Me Dumb on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:35AM (#44670519)
Read through everything it suggests and critique it yourself. If you can't be bothered to do that then that is on you.
Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:25PM (#44627858)
you mean two owners of a massive petrol station chain. What's dodgy about them?
Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality on Sunday July 20, 2025 @02:04PM (#44627663)
China is a developed country! This dialogue about Chinese people and clean water is bizarre
Re:The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality on Sunday July 20, 2025 @01:59PM (#44627616)
Lmao how can you say 'poor Indian and Chinese people' in the same sentence? China is a first world country
Aren't browsers starting to ship with built-in LLMs? I don't know much about this but if so then surely your extension won't need to send queries to LLM APIs?
Any chance Trump could do this for software 'produced in foreign lands'?
Can you release it for firefox too please?

An Ode to the Lost Magic of the 2010s ZIRP Startups

("ZIRP" means "Zero Interest Rate Policy btw)It really is incredible how suddenly the world changes. Many of us are now unemployed, facing layoffs, taking salary cuts and enduring grueling work environments to try and get through the worst tech recession since 2008.I myself now work in a fusty, old and stable government department in Europe.But I once worked for a couple of 2010s ZIRP startups....

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Re:Show HN: Simplifying Backend Testing with qapir.io on Saturday March 01, 2025 @05:59AM (#43218089)
Why doesn't your homepage tell me what your product does? Why should I have to sign up to find out?

I need to know about the value your product provides before I decide on whether to sign up or not.

Re:The Profitable Startup on Friday February 21, 2025 @05:38PM (#43133926)
I've heard it said that for investors, finding the companies that need money is easy. But the real gold is in finding the companies that don't
Re:jQuery Is Seriously Underrated on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @04:56PM (#42858578)
Thanks for this. As I said - I am not a front-end professional. I'm just a nerd who plays around with technology.

jQuery Is Seriously Underrated

The mainstream opinion seems to be that jQuery is outdated because vanilla JavaScript can work uniformally across virtually all modern browsers.But I've been playing around with jQuery for the first time and wow - it's much more enjoyable to work with than vanilla JavaScript is.Granted I don't work with JavaScript professionally (I use Java at work) so I might be overlooking jQuery cons that...

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Isn't it sad?

Ask HN: Where can I find human-generated content now that I've quit Reddit?

I am so used to appending 'reddit' to the end of every Google search that I am now at a loss as to where I can find human content that isn't SEO optimised (and bullshit).I've had enough of Reddit - partly because it's so full of spam and bots and general bullshit. I've blocked my browser from accessing Reddit, to ensure I kick the habit.I've tried using duckduckgo instead of google search but...

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process on Sunday December 29, 2024 @11:46AM (#42541030)
This should be a Ask HN. Do you want to post it?

"Ask HN: How are those of you over 50 years of age getting jobs?"

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