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Study finds no clear advantage for trans women over cisgender women in sports
Moltbook are exposing their database to the public
OpenClaw and Moltbook let attackers walk through the front door
Moltbook Database Leak Exposes API Keys, Puts Agents at Risk
I'm sick of being a 10x programmer
The Beginners' Happiness Club
Ask HN: How to deal with 0.1X programmer colleagues?
I worked at tech-team-of-one startups for years. Now I'm working at a big organisation.In the last sprint, I chalked up 41 story points. The rest of the team (3 other devs and a mostly hands-off tech lead) collectively achieved 9 story points. That's 1 medium-sized ticket each over the space of a fortnight. Everyone has a good excuse, but they ALWAYS have a good excuse.It's driving me nuts. I'm...
Re:Ask HN: What do you listen to while you code?
on Thursday February 25, 2021 @08:23AM (#26262439)
Silence. As much silence as possible. I want to drown in it.
Re:Ask HN: How do agencies manage employee downtime between projects?
on Sunday March 10, 2019 @08:21AM (#19351660)
I think it's a combination of:
- Build assumptions about down time into your pricing model - Aim for big projects where adding or removing 1 developer to smooth your resourcing isn't a problem - Always be taking on more projects than you can staff, and use freelancers to fill the gap - Use the down time to to reskill your developers - Have a homegrown product that gets worked on in down time
Re:Ask HN: Recommendations on books and documentaries on tech companie...
on Friday June 01, 2018 @11:26AM (#17206175)
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson.
The list of people covered starts at Ada Lovelace and covers Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Tim Berners-Lee and a bunch more
Ask HN: Sources of remote jobs for people based in UK?
I'm a developer and I'm about to move to the middle of nowhere. I'm looking for remote work, but most of the job boards dedicated to remote work I've found online are for companies based in the US which seem to make the implicit assumption that you're a US citizen.Are there any remote-focussed job boards that allow you to specify the country the employer is based in, so I can limit my results...
Re:Ask HN: How to hire early engineers?
on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:39AM (#16791342)
Agreed. Your options are:
1) Beg and borrow from the people who love and trust you in the hope that either (a) you'll repay them or (b) they'll forgive you - this is known as a friends and family round.
2) Find some rich people and convince them that they will make lots of money (in tax-efficient ways) if they lend it to you - this is known as an angel round.
3) (In some countries this is still possible) Go to the bank and explain to them the viability of your idea.
Re:Ask HN: What jobs will exist in 10 years that don't exist now?
on Thursday October 19, 2017 @08:17AM (#15507225)
"Premium User Interface" - you know how when you ring up a bank and essentially they're just reading you stuff on screen and typing your answers in? They're basically just an extra layer of UI. AI and text-to-speech will increasingly make that redundant, but it'll mean the UX will get demonstrably worse. So some companies will pride themselves on retaining those real humans as the front end of the UI, even though all they're doing is relaying information to and from the computer.
Ask HN: Are Glassdoor reviews a reliable indicator of a company's culture?
A particularly negative review of a London startup[0] by a former employee has been doing the rounds on social media recently. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a couple of extremely positive reviews by current employees have suddenly cropped up for that company as well. So positive they feel a bit like HR plants. But then again, the original feels like a gleeful hatchet-job and is maybe a bit extreme...