News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

spacebuffer

spacebuffer on Hacker News

Ask HN: What trades can I learn at home?

Posted by spacebuffer on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:34PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am a mid level software engineer, currently I am working in SWE but I am worried I'll be out of a job in a few years. I am honing my skills without AI in case the prediction that hiring will pick back up in a few years but I need a plan B.I am looking to learn a trade job/skill so I can sustain myself in the future. everyone is talking about plumbing but that sounds daunting and I don't know...

( Read More... | 4 comments | 5 points | on HN )
Re:Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:49PM (#47496760)
the leaves one is really nice.
Re:Some Words on WigglyPaint on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:13PM (#47302158)
this sounds very effective. I obviously understand you wouldn't want to explain how LLM detection works, but would it be possible to know which forge your using?
Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 reces... on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:52PM (#47281587)
I am in my 20s. At the moment I've got a part time job, but I am preparing myself for the worse. In the next few years I am planning to volunteer at farms through workaway. Maybe one day I can become self sustainable,tech and nutrition wise

also getting into plumbing, curious to see what others are doing in this regard.

Re:Password managers less secure than promised on Saturday February 21, 2026 @06:03PM (#47105887)
What to do if my house catches on fire, including my computer where the passwords are stored?
Re:Keep Android Open on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:11PM (#47093236)
For me as a desktop linux poweruser, I find this potential transition pretty intimidating, I've never flashed a phone with a custom rom let alone switch to a completely different OS, and I am not sure if the phone can even be reset to its original OS, if things go south.
Re:Prism on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @06:53PM (#46788952)
I'd use git in this case, I am sure there are other reasons to use overleaf otherwise it wouldn't exist but this seems like a solved issue with git.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @05:56PM (#46625116)
I love your site! the typography is very nice, especially the body typeface

Ask HN: Which tech stack for creative blogs?

Posted by spacebuffer on Saturday January 10, 2026 @10:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.

by creative blogs: I mean ones where you can customize specific article pages easily, to change the styling, add interactive demos, etc..Examples:1. this Reuters article https://www.reuters.com/graphics/TENNIS- WIMBLEDON/GRAPHIC/lbvggkzjmvq/2. anything by Bartosz CiechanowskiFor my blog (yusuf.fyi) I used to MDX to do this, but I have since moved on from the react ecosystem and want something...

( Read More... | 1 comment | on HN )
Re:Magit Is Amazing on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @03:07PM (#45660193)
Neogit is a magit inspired client for neovim. really worth checking out
Re:What Are RFCs? The Forgotten Blueprints of the Internet on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:02PM (#45636374)
Tangent questions:

- What RFCs are useful to read if I want to learn networking well

- I heard that the best way to learn low-level programming is by rebuilding already existing programs. what high quality RFCs can I use as a guide to code-my-own <so and so program>

Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choose Your Ow... on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @02:24PM (#45350908)
Any particular books you recommend? people keep mentioning _how to win friends and influence people_ and I am not sure if it's just mindless productivity gurus hype
Re:9 Things I Learned in 90 Years – From the Creator of Choose Your Ow... on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @11:10AM (#45348190)
> 3) to consider what others may be thinking and feeling

Personally I find myself often considering how other people might feel too much and end up being a people pleaser, so I need to work on that aspect of my social skills

Re:The Elegance of Movement in Silksong on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @09:59AM (#45182022)
8 Years ago an indie studio released Hollow Knight, and it became a critically acclaimed game.

~ a year later the team announced a DLC called silksong but silksong grew so much that they decided to turn it to a full sequel.

The game went through so much delays that it's release became sort of a meme

Re:The Elegance of Movement in Silksong on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:17PM (#45174767)
I also didn't like hollow knight despite loving hades and dead cells (somewhat similar) although I only played it for ~ 2 hours

I am loving silksong so far however

Ask HN: How to take notes and learn from them?

Posted by spacebuffer on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:01AM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I've been trying to actually take notes with obsidian and I can't figure out how. let's say I am a newcomer to astronomy and I begin to look into the topic through popscience videos or short articles, every time I come across a new thing to learn I make a note as such: The zenith is the center of the night sky and it is used for orienting.. so on and so forth Maybe even throw in a couple...

( Read More... | 10 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: rm-safely – A shell alias that moves files to trash instea... on Sunday September 07, 2025 @03:14PM (#45161270)
I don't think aliasing rm is a good idea because you might get used to rm=safe and cause a problem on an ssh server where this utility isn't installed
Re:Poisoning Well for LLMs on Saturday September 06, 2025 @06:52AM (#45148204)
Here you go: https://chatgpt.com/share/68bc125a-9e9c-8005-9c9f-298dbd541d...
Re:The Day I Kissed Comment Culture Goodbye on Friday September 05, 2025 @06:09PM (#45144235)
Anyone know any forums where you can be sure you're talking to humans and feel like you're in a close knit community?

I am not talking about reddit subs, maybe something more niche, even for hobbies outside computing.

The only place where I felt in company of real humans is a couple of niche IRC channels, where someone without fail always asks me how my day is going whenever I join, I am looking for places like that.

Re:Poisoning Well for LLMs on Friday September 05, 2025 @05:49PM (#45144049)
Your initial comment made sense after reading through the openai docpage. so I opened up my site to add those to robots.txt, turns out I had added all 3 of those user-agents to my robots file [0], out of curiosity I asked chatgpt about my site and it did scrape it, it even mentioned articles that have been published after adding the robots file

[0]: https://yusuf.fyi/robots.txt

Older »