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Ask HN: Is it possible to get hired as an African software engineer
I know the job marker is pretty rough these days, but still, I'm wondering.Is it possible for a western company to hire me, as an African, perhaps remotely?I have been lured by websites like Mercor, etc... offering nice remote work, but I figured out that they mostly wanted my data.Is it possible for me to get hired at all or should I just try entrepreneurship and mainly focus on copying ideas...
Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?
Hello all, been trying to switch away from Claude Code and have been trailing this:- Harness: Opencode (via Openchamber) - Subscription: GitHub Copilot (50$) - API Usage (beyond subscription): Open router - Free models: Opencode goHere's the models I've trialed and like:- Large (alternative to Opus): GPT 5.3 Codex - Medium (alternative to Sonnet): Minimax 2.7 - Smol: GPT 5.4 minithese models...
Ask HN: What's Your AI Workflow?
Hello, I'm a junior engineer and has seen more and more people pivot to AI for agentic coding. Just wanted to know how you all use AI (if at all). Particularly interested in workflows you use to deliver quickly and fight AI-isms, such as skills, tools, harnesses, MCP, etc...Thank you
Very WIP and no docs, but I hope it will be helpful someday
Ask HN: Do you stay away from Contributor Licence Agreements?
Hello everyone. So a while ago I stumbled upon Shopify's Polaris, which is a React UI framework. It seemed like a nice project overall, and while I appreciate it being an open source project (they didn't have to do that), it has a weird licence which is basically a modified version of the MIT licence but with a clause that prevents competitive usage.Now, the other interesting bit is that the...
(note this is with Vercel's [proprietary] build cache, it takes longer when there's no build cache)
Spotify didn't release wrapped this year for some countries for no reason
Spotify wrapped, the story like thing that shows you the stats of what you've been listening to every year like what artists/songs/genres you've been listening to the whole year just dropped.but the thing that's not talked about anywhere is that Spotify wrapped didn't release in some countries/regions where it was released previous years such as Rwanda, Venezuela, Bangladesh etc.This is a bfd...
Show HN: Annex: Gnome Shell Extensions Website Redesign (Fresh/Deno)
Vercel not granting publish access to arg AUTHOR
Show HN: Written: Typographic Tools for Strings
Show HN: I made a REST API client in JavaScript
You can find the project on GitHub: https://github.com/vixalien/ruhuka. Any ideas are welcome.