17:[[44216123,{"by":"upmind","descendants":82,"id":44216123,"kids":[44217485,44216247,44220970,44216339,44216238,44216305,44217190,44216300,44216478,44216304,44218157,44217589,44217596,44220158,44218841,44277669,44217692,44217044,44217811,44218080,44218155,44220419,44216446,44216806,44216223,44216672,44218797,44218898,44218277,44216569],"score":249,"text":"Hi all,\nI was wondering what books/courses/projects one might do to learn CUDA programming.

(To be frank, the main reason is a lot of companies I'd wish to work for require CUDA experience -- this shouldn't change your answers hopefully, just wanted to provide some context )","time":1749379955,"title":"Ask HN: How to learn CUDA to professional level","type":"story"}],[44071321,{"by":"xeonmc","descendants":289,"id":44071321,"kids":[44103380,44104030,44104311,44086207,44106132,44103745,44104204,44104170,44103657,44105711,44104770,44103773,44104205,44103444,44105301,44105141,44106932,44103931,44105279,44104355,44105733,44105206,44104301,44104503,44105946,44104233,44104447,44175318,44104184,44103637,44093676,44103884,44103421,44105606,44104705,44104455,44105497,44142487,44110929,44104806,44104297,44109373,44104379,44104659,44105324,44104566,44105705,44071366,44110180,44103681,44110673,44106502,44104651,44104749,44110539,44105045,44103701,44105550,44107550,44106557,44104104,44104622,44105391,44106560,44106364,44109098,44104869,44103788,44103559,44104556,44103866,44109603,44110483,44104706,44104755,44105584,44107819,44104791,44105573,44105361,44106043,44107976,44105220,44105114,44176127,44106811,44082492,44104822,44103318,44117082,44104419,44103414,44107120,44103663,44103610,44107222,44108955,44144211,44104641,44106161,44103766,44103682,44108044,44106843,44109770,44104275,44110496,44128019,44105293,44108878,44105892,44105471,44104230,44105567,44104585,44105634,44104288,44104912,44104149,44103690,44116759,44110985,44105227,44104560,44104548,44103628,44082802,44103480,44105956,44105189,44104468,44112471,44104325,44071433,44105460,44105308,44106036,44106124,44105613,44105544,44106239,44104578,44108859,44106363,44103430,44105349,44106413,44103594,44104401,44105216,44103470,44107811,44103855,44103861,44105856,44104927,44104522,44104570,44103846,44106458,44105869,44103939,44103802,44103468,44104744,44105845,44103664,44103703,44104309,44107040,44105644,44108330,44107697,44107508,44107161,44106254,44103820,44103730,44103325,44104422,44110631,44083999,44104793,44104673,44105455,44105603,44103578],"score":279,"text":"$18","time":1747992826,"title":"Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?","type":"story"}],[43976045,{"by":"dennisy","descendants":96,"id":43976045,"kids":[43979069,43976961,43976624,43976664,43977819,43976324,43976662,43983964,43977682,43998198,43977688,43976652,44026191,43976897,43976914,44024497,43977003,43988525,43978817,43977732,43980008,43977881,43981177,44012620,43978376,43976789,43977766,43979144,44027601,43976869,43979793,43990330,43976552,43984196,43976944,44001163,43989785,43977444,43978394,43981786,44014951,43977048,43980923,43980257,43993597,43984520,43978483,43978468,43978055,43976988,43982518,43978383,44001319,43976134],"score":67,"text":"Each day I (and I assume most knowledge workers, devs, creatives) read many articles, papers, code snippets, AI responses, discord messages etc.

At the end of the day some of this information is most likely lodged in your brain and the digital version can be discarded. However some of it should be retained manually in some system - or at least I feel it should.

What approaches do people use to consolidate and store this information to allow all tabs etc to be closed for the next work day?","time":1747160609,"title":"Ask HN: How do you store the knowledge gained in a day?","type":"story"}],[43374632,{"by":"RicoElectrico","descendants":2,"id":43374632,"kids":[43402444,43375896],"score":9,"text":"Here's an idea for anyone in search for a project: Some papers define a lot of ad-hoc variable symbols. It would be easier to follow them if one could hover over a symbol used in an equation and see its definition, just like in an IDE.","time":1742066790,"title":"Tell HN: I wish there was \"IntelliSense\" for math-heavy papers","type":"story"}],[43384017,{"by":"irishmansevilla","descendants":11,"id":43384017,"kids":[43384800,43385251,43390901,43386184,43390884,43393312,43391745,43388732,43389783],"score":5,"time":1742171835,"title":"Ask HN: What Is the Ideal Keyboard / Layout for Programming","type":"story"}],[43343473,{"by":"ttd","descendants":79,"id":43343473,"kids":[43344855,43343665,43343611,43343628,43351613,43371432,43343750,43343578,43345098,43347290,43370087,43343584,43343547,43370737,43345233,43343729,43344747,43371471,43343919,43353392,43343734,43344692,43346699,43346508,43350170,43344613,43370305,43370961,43343565,43372719,43343568,43374284,43343987,43348069,43370209,43373373,43345734,43343588,43370094,43346085,43343838,43343606,43370170,43351200,43344235,43343615,43343876,43345139,43343798,43357586,43343599,43343640],"score":61,"text":"I've been working on a diagramming tool [1] and wanted to get some thoughts from people who regularly make architecture and other technical diagrams. I know my own experiences but I'm quite curious to hear others.

I'm guessing for a lot of people draw.io and Excalidraw are probably the go-to. If you use draw.io (or something else), what do you like about it, or what do you wish was better?

[1] - https://app.vexlio.com/ for the curious","time":1741788872,"title":"Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?","type":"story"}],[43209784,{"by":"legitster","descendants":11,"id":43209784,"kids":[43210039,43210027,43223340,43220992,43346143,43216638,43210384,43209822],"score":11,"text":"As a longtime HN user. I've noticed a drastic shift in the last few years in the industry. The glamour of a "hot startup" has gone away in lieu of the inevitably of big corporations and big platforms. Being a programmer doesn't seem as desirable or command nearly the respect that it did just a decade ago.

The "hacker ethos" seems to be in decline, for any number of interconnected reasons:

- The rise of AI

- High interest rates

- Dooming/decline of tech optimism

- Decline of the open internet and the rise of proprietary services

- Abandonment by tech leaders

- Diminishing returns of software on human productivity

- Generational changes

Does anyone else share this feeling? Temporarily or as a fundamental shift?

To that end, to what purpose is HN if the idea of a "hacker" goes away? It's hard not to understand the sudden shift of HN posts being political news, but what other topics are more broadly relevant to tech people right now?","time":1740773389,"title":"AK HN: Is the Era of Hackers/Startups Over?","type":"story"}],[43201627,{"by":"samrohn","descendants":6,"id":43201627,"kids":[43202571,43308491,43233460,43203529,43208043,43206441],"score":11,"text":"I'm looking to build an LLM-based chatbot that can answer questions using a set of internal PDF documents. Has anyone worked on a similar use case with good success? \nWhat approach and LLM stack did you use to solve this - RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), fine-tuning, or embedding-based search?","time":1740716185,"title":"Ask HN: Best LLM Stack for Q&A over Internal PDFs?","type":"story"}],[43299636,{"by":"rahmansahinler1","descendants":29,"id":43299636,"kids":[43300394,43299825,43301186,43304086,43308224,43307645,43300765,43300951,43299706,43300915,43302031,43300049,43303633,43317473,43337996,43300308,43330496,43301448,43301254,43306292],"score":10,"text":"As a developer building my own product, I take a lot of notes—code snippets, Linux commands, and general technical info. I've tried many apps, but none feel just right.

Here’s what I think a good note-taking app must have:

A note section where I can add text and images\nEasy organization with sections\nA quick search to find related notes\nA bonus would be the ability to retrieve answers from my notes.

Right now, I'm using MS OneNote, which works well for the first two. But as my notes grow, finding the right one becomes a challenge. Do you guys face the same issue? What methods or apps do you use?","time":1741436410,"title":"Ask HN: What note taking app do you guys using as a developer?","type":"story"}],[43125972,{"by":"notRobot","descendants":9,"id":43125972,"kids":[43126450,43126715,43126009,43126002,43141815,43128331,43128728],"score":3,"text":"The company that develops the software will get paid $50 per asset that it generates. Currently they pay designers $100 per asset.","time":1740133523,"title":"Ask HN: Got asked to build AI agent that replaces humans. Would you do it?","type":"story"}],[43132327,{"by":"br0gi3","descendants":21,"id":43132327,"kids":[43132582,43132411,43132689,43152237,43136266,43134993,43132456,43136099,43151726,43149160,43139643,43141287,43167395,43148882,43148170,43134326,43132712,43148086,43132544],"score":4,"text":"An age-old question. I've been testing out various browsers but haven't found one that truly satisfies me. Any recommendations?","time":1740168491,"title":"Ask HN: What browser do y'all use?","type":"story"}],[43134923,{"by":"linkdd","descendants":26,"id":43134923,"kids":[43135895,43135030,43135136,43137448,43143114,43142574,43136771,43144949,43141365,43141243,43140824,43140834,43135356,43147648,43137333],"score":5,"text":"I am on Windows 11, with WSL2. I have been a user of VS Code for a few years. And I was quite happy with it. I have yet to find another editor with the same level of integration with the languages I work with.

But since the last few weeks, I noticed a change of behavior. The VS Code Remote Server in the WSL starts to eat all the memory. I used to limit my WSL to 4GB of memory, I increased it to 8GB, and it still fills it up, and the swap, causing a huge disk load, making the whole computer extra slow, and the VS Code window becomes unresponsive. Often I either have to kill VS Code, sometimes the WSL itself.

It's so bad it became unusable. And honestly, 8GB for an editor? This is a joke.

I tried neovim, but the days when I enjoyed a vim-based setup are long gone, and honestly the integration with LSP servers is poor at best.

AFAIK, Sublime Text has no WSL integration.

Do you have any recommendations?","time":1740185395,"title":"Ask HN: Alternative to VS Code?","type":"story"}],[43137297,{"by":"xeonmc","descendants":14,"id":43137297,"kids":[43137723,43138628,43137551,43137409,43141170,43137376,43137764,43150821,43137617],"score":7,"text":"I am stuck on 128kbps connection for a while. The only website that loads without the server timing out is HackerNews.

I cannot even click on the commit history of a GitHub repo on the web, it seems to be some sort of bloated react interface for what amounts to an excruciatingly slow `git log`.

Cloning the entire repo is not feasible unless I know in advance that the repo is small, but I cannot know that unless I browse the log and directory beforehand.

I cannot search Google for advanced git commands, as Google times out 90% of the time, while 9% of the time it sends me to a captcha which is even more bloated to load and times out again.","time":1740213551,"title":"Ask HN: How can I browse public GitHub repos on 128kbps connection?","type":"story"}],[43084739,{"by":"_tbl6","descendants":29,"id":43084739,"kids":[43105795,43093707,43187100,43085089,43085063,43189069,43098867,43098041,43085457,43085871,43085048,43085034,43086835,43088046,43095584,43137430,43094051,43085078,43118756,43085058,43114753,43093529,43099294,43085043,43086788],"score":40,"text":"This should be interpreted in the broadest sense to include books like both American Kingpin and Practical Vim as examples.","time":1739839233,"title":"Ask HN: What fiction/non-fiction book should everyone read on the topic of CS?","type":"story"}],[43048698,{"by":"resource_waste","descendants":109,"id":43048698,"kids":[43070293,43070126,43070738,43070481,43072096,43069813,43070796,43069914,43076664,43071681,43070761,43070140,43070150,43072343,43082781,43070523,43072275,43070065,43071661,43086343,43074444,43081305,43079765,43074159,43071070,43118680,43069956,43069997,43071373,43070385,43082261,43074860,43072986,43070766,43072711,43070881,43073118,43070068,43085214,43098479,43070028,43070842,43049703,43073133,43069853,43088108,43082005,43069883,43084945,43074030,43070233,43074398,43072107,43070040,43070014,43062691,43073162,43070017,43070678,43070167,43072675,43069995,43048753,43048767,43048764,43070836,43072069,43072074,43070864],"score":206,"text":"I like reading philosophy, particularly from the authors rather than a secondhand account.

However I often run into that these come as scanned documents, Discourses on Livy and Politics Among Nations for example.

I would greatly benefit from turning these into text. I can snipping tool pages and put them in ChatGPT and it turns out perfect. If I used classic methods, it often screws up words. My final goal is to turn these into audiobooks, (or even just make it easier to copypaste for my personal notes)

Given the state of AI, I'm wondering what my options are. I don't mind paying.","time":1739543575,"title":"Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?","type":"story"}],[42657982,{"by":"LifeIsBio","descendants":48,"id":42657982,"kids":[42695457,42696098,42695984,42696527,42695713,42695815,42697275,42676446,42695472,42696325,42695406,42696501,42695818,42695507,42723122,42696755,42672860,42696785,42695444,42696566,42675086,42696550,42695619],"score":61,"text":"Inspired by this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42656184

I'm starting a new job in a few days as a senior PM at a ~1000 person company, but I've never been a PM before. My career path has been: PhD -> Engineer -> Founder.

My time as a founder has given me some unique perspective on products in my space, but I'm less experienced with the day-to-day of a PM in a medium sized company. My exposure has been second hand watching the PMs while I was an engineer. Any advice on how to help ensure things kick off well?","time":1736531724,"title":"Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior PM?","type":"story"}],[42651567,{"by":"kanodiaashu","descendants":26,"id":42651567,"kids":[42652106,42659435,42670801,42689130,42651722,42690166,42651834,42655572,42657005,42651634,42658874,42651714,42672904,42653047],"score":10,"text":"Everytime I start reading a book, I feel like uploading it in NotebookLM/ChatGPT to get QA; but these don't let me read in their app, and its not easy to get digital copies of books. I also want to ask questions adjacent to what I'm reading easily; I wonder if there are great apps/hacks people have for this.","time":1736472305,"title":"Ask HN: How are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025?","type":"story"}],[42422918,{"by":"martinbaun","descendants":19,"id":42422918,"kids":[42423204,42423856,42426006,42423627,42424701,42423035,42426352,42422995,42423026],"score":8,"text":"Every new project seems to be an AI project that's a wrapper ontop of ChatGPT or some library.

What are cool non-ai projects you're working on and why?\nAnd what tech is behind?

Cheers!","time":1734262698,"title":"Ask HN: Show your non-AI project","type":"story"}],[42030832,{"by":"gooob","descendants":310,"id":42030832,"kids":[42034690,42031680,42033931,42034012,42031049,42039707,42034778,42031266,42032450,42033902,42030893,42035765,42040984,42034426,42032689,42035138,42034135,42034736,42030973,42031450,42034647,42031595,42040539,42035095,42035185,42032050,42041538,42078562,42035146,42053410,42031431,42031010,42041549,42099100,42106937,42034847,42034369,42040554,42105611,42032136,42037268,42031324,42045418,42067653,42034444,42037393,42040386,42031090,42041116,42031766,42035456,42034102,42038180,42038008,42034060,42033781,42041771,42040446,42043925,42034461,42036988,42040782,42078575,42052366,42040826,42042231,42031028,42039603,42044402,42040062,42032725,42035945,42035371,42036642,42035222,42040002,42086300,42043816,42031915,42040616,42032582,42036066,42040035,42048888,42035868,42040124,42038499,42055764,42040441,42096206,42033840,42043246,42060043,42035067,42036107,42034435,42038444,42042358,42035267,42033211,42049647,42035281,42035486,42035557,42034655,42032215,42031446,42035887,42031719,42040516,42034633,42031424,42034725],"score":259,"text":"thought experiment: if the internet were to go down tomorrow for an indefinite period, what content would you most want to download and preserve?","time":1730601591,"title":"Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?","type":"story"}],[41902791,{"by":"epirogov","descendants":1,"id":41902791,"kids":[41902792],"score":2,"time":1729508137,"title":"Aspose Releases AWS Container for License-Free Document Processing","type":"story","url":"https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-zc64pent6p6lo"}],[41815050,{"by":"michelsedgh","descendants":21,"id":41815050,"kids":[41815145,41815433,41815403,41815464,41815747,41825972,41816243,41826975,41815415,41832961,41815350,41815785,41828662,41826993,41815391,41815274,41827688,41816122,41815598,41824445],"score":8,"time":1728690288,"title":"Ask HN: When was the last time you bought something you were excited to get it?","type":"story"}],[40528192,{"by":"phodo","descendants":90,"id":40528192,"kids":[40529996,40529501,40529146,40537612,40531138,40529193,40535585,40529380,40530990,40530859,40608694,40533883,40530530,40529607,40617855,40528985,40533534,40531173,40529239,40532665,40559760,40530614,40531714,40532241,40530921,40533472,40528956,40532485,40529216,40529689,40535649,40543878,40533017,40530116,40530343,40543076,40529092,40528532,40531037],"score":257,"text":"As the title says, I have many PDFs - mostly scans via Scansnap - but also non-scans. These are sensitive in nature, e.g. bills, documents, etc. I would like a local-first AI solution that allows me to say things like: "show me all tax documents for August 2023" or "show my home title". Ideally it is Mac software that can access iCloud too, since that where I store it all. I would prefer to not do any tagging. I would like to optimize on recall over precision, so False Positives in the search results are ok. What are modern approaches to do this, without hacking one up on my own?","time":1717100645,"title":"Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?","type":"story"}],[40144596,{"by":"epirogov","descendants":1,"id":40144596,"kids":[40144597],"score":2,"time":1713967797,"title":"Aspose dramatically reduces prices with plugin packages","type":"story","url":"https://products.aspose.org/pdf/"}],[39874558,{"by":"rkwz","descendants":8,"id":39874558,"kids":[39883633,39876341,39875575,39875304,39896635,39883125,39886281,39879315,39880146],"score":14,"time":1711804499,"title":"Ask HN: Recommended lightweight apps like Paint.NET, Notepad++, SumatraPDF etc","type":"story"}],[39364537,{"by":"exBarrelSpoiler","descendants":62,"id":39364537,"kids":[39366149,39366489,39368628,39370340,39367790,39364763,39367902,39365100,39369155,39368514,39368100,39368633,39374067,39373768,39372477,39377368,39368658,39365442,39368682,39368500,39369186,39366010,39370166,39364847,39369730,39369038,39368841,39367474,39372595,39365869,39371187,39364873,39368584,39368575],"score":68,"text":"Has anyone left software engineering to study something not in the sciences? How did that go?","time":1707868511,"title":"Ask HN: Anyone left software to study non-STEM subjects?","type":"story"}],[39335132,{"by":"newsoul","descendants":12,"id":39335132,"kids":[39335656,39336888,39349469,39336223,39336911,39335267,39335671,39335330,39370911,39335187],"score":9,"text":"I am asking not only about learning what is taught in classes for solving ideal problems. I am talking about the real engineering like a hobbyist who actually understands what works in real life and how to build it properly.","time":1707661093,"title":"Ask HN: What is the best way to get into building electronics as a programmer?","type":"story"}],[39370226,{"by":"jilles","descendants":89,"id":39370226,"kids":[39370327,39380370,39370371,39370498,39456238,39371989,39370507,39370648,39370914,39370815,39372862,39370505,39371213,39370416,39371490,39370477,39370570,39371331,39370422,39373040,39370717,39370444,39370363,39370874,39386419,39370409,39371389,39375018,39370981,39370506,39370441,39371291,39372249,39372338,39370963,39370536,39370904,39371008],"score":59,"text":"Hi folks,

Recently I have ventured into technical writing. At the company I work for, documentation is scattered around ~4 different tools.

1. Google Docs\n2. Confluence\n3. GitHub (READMEs)\n4. Slack

Each of those serves a purpose of course, Google Docs are very collaborative, Confluence is our source of truth, GitHub is mostly for engineering and finally Slack usually has some threads you can find if you run into certain issues.

I am not suggesting we should put all of this into a single tool, but I am wondering if there is a methodology for organizing documentation. I am aware of Diataxis, and want us to use this for certain services / products. What I am looking for in this ASK HN post though, is an overarching methodology of organizing all documentation.","time":1707921471,"title":"Ask HN: How do you organize software documentation at work?","type":"story"}]]

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