18:[[34857754,{"by":"ifyoubuildit","descendants":53,"id":34857754,"kids":[34857956,34858353,34860852,34858104,34858109,34858091,34858337,34858281,34860701,34867179,34857954,34861322,34858351,34866954,34864418,34858338,34858300,34858069,34858176,34860520,34858212,34859013,34865473,34857912,34863390,34859138,34858313],"score":25,"text":"Basically the title. I get the feeling from the news that the ruling class is driving us to war. What's a hacker to do?

For me, I've leaned heavily on the internet (especially youtube) as a superpower when it comes to learning all kinds of new things. I'm considering trying to archive as much as I can (even without war, I'm skeptical that the same quantity and quality of info will be freely available forever).

Other than that, I don't know. What would folks who had to go through WW2 have told themselves if they could have sent a message back in time?","time":1676816414,"title":"Ask HN: Are you preparing for WW3? If so, how? If not, why not?","type":"story"}],[34854488,{"by":"curious16","descendants":15,"id":34854488,"kids":[34854691,34859003,34854822,34857206,34855242,34858169,34855625,34885055],"score":8,"text":"As someone from a STEM field (non-CS/math) how do you learn programming and fundamentals of CS on your own by the side?

Is there any particular order of subjects you can follow?

Books or courses that were particularly helpful to you when you were in a similar situation?","time":1676781641,"title":"Ask HN: How to learn CS and programming on your own?","type":"story"}],[34856704,{"by":"donnie12345","descendants":33,"id":34856704,"kids":[34859950,34860301,34860777,34861165,34857244,34857944,34860734,34862353,34857129,34859748,34856734,34857623,34860756,34857063,34856721,34857966,34857413],"score":17,"text":"Don't mention ethnicity,race & religion,otherwise discussion will get derailed.

Were you forced to do an overtime ? Does this occur frequently?

And when that happens, are you paid overtime, are you given time off in lieu of, or just a pat on the back?

Give me your honest opinion.","time":1676806583,"title":"Are software developers always forced to do overtime when they miss a deadline?","type":"story"}],[34851984,{"by":"tomthe","descendants":5,"id":34851984,"kids":[34855596,34852123,34852341,34855379,34852347,34855728],"score":16,"text":"I read this comment two hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34849057

from a first glance, it is just a comment which casually recommends some links. But none of the links really work! \nI looked through the comment history, which is unsuspicious on a quick glance... but none of the links work! And some comments are also bogus. This is clearly the work of some large language model.

But why? Maybe it is just a "funny" weekend project, but it clearly crosses an ethical line (not into deeply illegal, but into deeply ...not nice?!).","time":1676761216,"title":"Tell HN: There are GPT-based bots on HN commenting sophisticated nonsense","type":"story"}],[34849735,{"by":"truetaurus","descendants":6,"id":34849735,"kids":[34849928,34850066,34849785,34849807,34850262,34849788,34849956,34849758],"score":14,"text":"I am seeing no new tweets for a while (Europe)","time":1676745905,"title":"Twitter Down?","type":"story"}],[34846803,{"by":"talkingtab","descendants":7,"id":34846803,"kids":[34847275,34849886,34856684,34861089,34851899,34853471,34913425],"score":16,"text":"I've run a couple web servers for years with nodejs. I'm thinking of using Deno instead for a new project and wondering what Deno can't do. I use Postgres, Cors. Nothing really tricky, but just wondering if anyone has tried this and has experience arguing against this choice.","time":1676727040,"title":"Ask HN: What can't Deno do that Node can","type":"story"}],[34849347,{"by":"deostroll","descendants":6,"id":34849347,"kids":[34852035,34849778,34856984,34851993,34849793,34856872,34850486],"score":11,"text":"Already own a virtual machine instance (5 usd/month) and hosting a few simple services and website.

The website is single page. No complex backend. At most it fetches stuff from another web service and does some crawling/crunching. I don't expect high loads here.

Mainly asking for the website self-hosting purpose only.

Can I downgrade here? Also just wondering what do most people use a 1cpu 0.5gb machine for? VPN? Personal website? Or something else?","time":1676743929,"title":"Ask HN: What to run on a 1cpu 0.5gb RAM machine?","type":"story"}],[34847215,{"by":"gaborme","descendants":7,"id":34847215,"kids":[34855602,34860295,34848093,34848281,34849260],"score":8,"text":"The idea is to create to-dos for each email and show reply suggestions. It will also detect who is responsible for the task.

A friend of mine had this idea for years, and with the latest AI, we built a prototype. It is a Gmail chrome extension for now.

Would you use this?","time":1676730973,"title":"Ask HN: Would you use an app that turns emails into tasks and suggest replies?","type":"story"}],[34802589,{"by":"newsoul","descendants":268,"id":34802589,"kids":[34803022,34802849,34803154,34802703,34803000,34802748,34802821,34805600,34802900,34815274,34803472,34805950,34806568,34802860,34802976,34802795,34807797,34803239,34802818,34802763,34802998,34803159,34802720,34802874,34803149,34812592,34804508,34803007,34802992,34802990,34806537,34802943,34802938,34803224,34803258,34803115,34803058,34802912,34803073,34804242,34806803,34802793,34807162,34808224,34802951,34803039,34802729,34802942,34806734,34803169,34806978,34805017,34834728,34845522,34807551,34808293,34804953,34802768,34802997,34811083,34802800,34808236,34817459,34805904,34805109,34808398,34819859,34813826,34802822,34807008,34803180,34819838,34806593,34805054,34806247,34803700,34816080,34806026,34803513,34802839,34834614,34809017,34810985,34805774,34807696,34803576,34804916,34847376,34807775,34802917,34808873,34809579,34833083,34802758,34803042,34817409,34803011,34802852,34831951,34803518,34802805],"score":149,"text":"Also where did you learn and test that advice was infact true? Share your anecdotal experiences.","time":1676461787,"title":"Ask HN: What is the best advice you got on any aspect of life?","type":"story"}],[34820382,{"by":"nickgut0711","descendants":96,"id":34820382,"kids":[34821707,34821327,34821883,34822884,34821921,34821801,34822230,34820985,34821775,34822603,34821716,34833162,34821879,34822161,34821773,34822027,34821747,34820740,34821869,34823332,34821895,34821758,34821806,34822100,34840112,34832609,34822016,34821948,34824834,34821834,34838565,34821729,34822118,34821838,34822680,34822330,34831549,34821659,34825053,34822327,34821950,34831374,34835518,34821766,34822117,34822041,34822288,34829382,34828884,34836831,34831183,34840814,34821940,34823456,34843216,34846406,34822730,34821691],"score":103,"text":"Hi all. I'm currently trying to revamp the software documentation of a library that I'm trying to build. I would like to see examples of documentation that allows you to easily find the information you need. Thanks!","time":1676563247,"title":"Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you've come across?","type":"story"}],[34845400,{"by":"allie1","descendants":39,"id":34845400,"kids":[34847113,34846560,34846313,34855022,34846460,34846818,34848622,34854529,34858172,34847333,34846342,34858639,34850899,34850850,34854795,34846933,34847852,34846600,34845957,34872111,34847938,34846569,34846469,34847057,34850791,34846605,34846573,34850387,34848741],"score":35,"text":"For startup founders looking for market fit, or up to Series A/bootstrapped and growing, how often do you (or your team) write automated testing?

How do you go about it? Full coverage? End to end only? Integration only? How much dev time does it end up taking you?","time":1676712202,"title":"Ask HN: Founders, how much automated tests do you write?","type":"story"}],[34838822,{"by":"devtailz","descendants":40,"id":34838822,"kids":[34840567,34840561,34840929,34840953,34839043,34840343,34846274,34843717,34840944,34853681,34840164,34840866,34840155,34844196,34841040,34839370,34845113,34878467,34841114,34844933,34859038,34841030,34839957,34839722,34841232,34844796,34841418,34841193,34842784],"score":34,"text":"I'm curious to hear what kinds of deployment times everyone works with and what system they are running on. I would guess most have the same times for a staging environment vs. production, but if those are different please specify.

For example, I have a Next.js project currently deployed via Vercel and it's about 40-60 seconds before becoming available. I have heard stories of several minutes to deploy and would love to hear what kind of spread there is.","time":1676660385,"title":"Ask HN: How Long Does a Deployment Take at Your Company","type":"story"}],[34843137,{"by":"interstice","descendants":149,"id":34843137,"kids":[34843384,34843372,34846493,34845690,34843328,34843366,34846947,34843343,34843319,34843323,34843327,34843381,34843288,34843314,34847292,34845499,34843268,34843464,34843692,34843290,34846191,34848124,34843588,34843241,34843396,34861097,34843312,34843411,34847077,34847130,34845092,34845080,34843441,34847354,34846817,34843298,34849030,34855029,34858879,34845216,34843922,34848275,34843365,34846154,34851943,34847049,34861377,34853792,34845040,34843522,34843354,34847832,34850662,34846795,34844523,34843344,34846323,34843277,34900731,34844678,34843261,34854063,34843280,34850527,34844012,34843274,34843287,34844723,34932860,34843283,34843246,34843570,34843872,34850522,34843153],"score":81,"text":"Is it becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between an AI that ‘appears’ to think and one that does just by talking to it?

Is there a realistic framework for deciding when an AI had crossed that threshold? And is there an ethical framework for communicating with an AI like this once it arrives?

And even if there is one, will it be able to work with current market forces?","time":1676686249,"title":"Ask HN: What would it take for an AI to convince us it is conscious?","type":"story"}]]

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