15:[[30668506,{"by":"DevToRecruiter","descendants":243,"id":30668506,"kids":[30668581,30668529,30668769,30668620,30668608,30668830,30668990,30669465,30677855,30668655,30674568,30668630,30668627,30668875,30668727,30668764,30669001,30668538,30668765,30669019,30668706,30668718,30669662,30671884,30668813,30668564,30668742,30668636,30668721,30669090,30668872,30668709,30668970,30670324,30675880,30668543,30669078,30669034,30668547,30669764,30668968,30669807,30668785,30668933,30668685,30668748,30668802,30668584,30668720,30668762,30670723,30668788,30668678,30669366,30668823,30668661,30668868,30668871,30668676,30669005,30668959,30668779,30668664,30669009,30668658,30669179,30668527,30670824,30678284,30668805,30668917,30669224,30668861,30679720,30673177,30668847,30670588,30668833,30668906,30668931,30669002,30668834,30673080,30669203,30668812,30668626,30668881,30668971,30668800,30673542,30668656,30682226,30668730,30668624,30668908,30668937,30668818,30669082,30668936,30668746,30668951,30668733,30668905,30668594,30668893,30668531,30668877,30668707,30670438,30671934,30668819,30681439,30668898,30668811,30668796,30674713,30668635,30668956,30668900,30674785,30668548,30668651,30668621,30668570,30668949],"score":314,"text":"I don't know if this is the right place for this but here are my stats. I'm a 32yo male, divorced with 2 kids whom I have little access to at the moment. My childhood friendships have withered, my divorce left me untrusting of women (at least for now). I work alone and don't have many opportunities to meet new people organically.

The thing is I don't even like hanging out with people most of the time but I get into this space where it feels like a biological necessity.

Does anyone have any tips on how to give myself attention? Or, in other words, how can I learn to be alone without feeling lonely? I feel like I need this lifeskill in order to proceed in my life.

I have a pattern of loneliness pushing me into making very foolish decisions.","time":1647231888,"title":"Ask HN: I'm So Lonely","type":"story"}],[30391945,{"by":"amichail","descendants":16,"id":30391945,"kids":[30392624,30391973,30392415,30391991,30393025,30393218,30392357,30392025,30399381,30392029,30392082,30392812,30392041,30392372,30392079,30392388,30392236],"score":4,"text":"There are far more insects than human beings, so how does one explain the amazing luck of being a human being and not an insect?","time":1645223117,"title":"Ask HN: How to explain the luck of being a human being and not an insect?","type":"story"}],[30391640,{"by":"curiousEagle","descendants":11,"id":30391640,"kids":[30391717,30393713,30392060,30392117,30392786,30391693,30392297],"score":9,"text":"$16","time":1645221402,"title":"Ask HN: What are some companies that value quality code?","type":"story"}],[30386675,{"by":"riskyattitude","descendants":46,"id":30386675,"kids":[30388911,30389364,30388491,30390770,30388197,30389588,30389566,30392568,30388732,30391577,30388525,30387211,30388473,30391253,30388959,30388505,30386875,30387395,30388773,30395471,30390477,30390237,30390223,30392145,30395236,30390024,30386801],"score":33,"text":"I’m soon 21 year old with no job, dropped out of education and living with my parents doing freelancing

I’m doing all i can to not get full-time employed. My biggest fear is mediocracy

I want to live a purposeful life and my biggest wish is to contribute to something meaningful and useful to others

Unfortunately in reality my life depends on meaningless work for corporate overlords

With NDA’s and IP-ownership clauses, i don’t own anything and i can’t talk about anything

My plan currently is to pour 100% of my resources into my own ideas. And at this point i don’t care whether they fail or not, i just want to try

I can get back to school and wage-slavery at any point in my life later

Do you have any tips? My parents are very upset. Maybe i should try to get investors on board so i could stop worrying about money for a while? Otherwise my existence makes no sense","time":1645196952,"title":"Ask HN: Leaving to work on my own. Tips?","type":"story"}],[30381000,{"by":"sohkamyung","descendants":727,"id":30381000,"kids":[30381314,30382945,30385790,30381239,30382034,30383027,30384398,30381360,30381313,30381695,30382081,30381465,30385841,30381502,30381563,30382802,30382593,30383865,30384275,30381392,30392714,30383834,30384783,30383444,30384119,30381661,30384888,30382176,30381680,30382757,30382243,30386548,30383210,30383953,30384477,30385039,30397567,30381555,30382126,30386444,30382871,30382404,30383858,30392210,30381341,30384838,30382205,30382806,30383201,30383230,30382681,30382644,30383074,30383120,30381756,30391403,30382601,30383308,30386423,30382167,30383794,30384500,30383256,30383031,30383552,30382314,30381926,30382921,30384357,30382478,30383886,30384353,30382354,30385629,30383630,30383450,30390365,30384529,30381622,30393353,30382996,30386081,30382164,30385363,30382298],"score":755,"time":1645146337,"title":"Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories","type":"story","url":"https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-busts-myths-about-how-humans-burn-calories-and-why"}],[30373171,{"by":"warrenm","descendants":233,"id":30373171,"kids":[30374463,30373224,30373309,30373293,30373281,30373324,30375039,30373562,30375177,30374411,30377017,30373391,30373350,30373306,30373229,30373331,30377347,30375872,30374284,30400892,30373806,30374994,30374587,30374308,30374008,30374078,30380705,30381719,30377759,30375834,30373713,30373471,30384386,30373398,30379432,30375964,30376976,30374804,30374061,30373776,30378040,30377878,30373752,30373595,30378377,30375854,30373967,30379938,30377423,30377228,30376800,30374423,30375125,30373818,30373971,30373597,30373864,30373337,30373399,30375441,30373593],"score":192,"text":"The last thing I found was this Show HN post from 2016 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11080539)","time":1645106921,"title":"Ask HN: Why doesn't HN alert users in some manner to new replies?","type":"story"}],[30364669,{"by":"KoftaBob","descendants":454,"id":30364669,"kids":[30365592,30365459,30365869,30365966,30365705,30365721,30366239,30365607,30366208,30365725,30365683,30365880,30365689,30365594,30366062,30366598,30365647,30366072,30365660,30366317,30366242,30366560,30365837,30365847,30367149,30369063,30365696,30366058,30367588,30366038,30372744,30365958,30366004,30367974,30366231,30366115,30365638,30365934,30366249,30366057,30365992,30366283,30366229,30366181,30368661,30365724,30366218,30366293,30366346,30366707,30366196,30366029,30366379,30366487,30371434,30365998,30366224,30366348,30366890,30366040,30366299,30382518,30366365,30366864,30367503,30367017,30366506,30373268,30367742,30366116,30366888,30366084,30366073,30365917,30366297,30365731,30365794],"score":365,"time":1645040294,"title":"New York is using cameras with microphones to ticket loud cars","type":"story","url":"https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a39105913/new-york-automated-sound-tickets/"}],[30362149,{"by":"garritfra","descendants":19,"id":30362149,"kids":[30362633,30362298,30362535,30362372,30363008,30362251,30362382,30362188,30362180,30362504],"score":39,"text":"I noticed that there's a black above the navbar of HN. Is that a bug or does it have a meaning?","time":1645029466,"title":"Ask HN: Why is there a black bar on HN?","type":"story"}],[30359627,{"by":"hardcorenobody","descendants":51,"id":30359627,"kids":[30361010,30360865,30359999,30360080,30360086,30360478,30360435,30360891,30360207,30361545,30360938,30361338,30359916,30359976,30360405,30361078,30360311,30360410,30359881,30361398,30359668,30359803],"score":19,"text":"$17","time":1645017889,"title":"Ask HN: Stuck as a CS Major. Is there a way out?","type":"story"}],[30353792,{"by":"roznoshchik","descendants":59,"id":30353792,"kids":[30354573,30354132,30353839,30354300,30354113,30354212,30354348,30354418,30354120,30354502,30354342,30353924,30354961,30354172,30354351,30354390,30354114,30354499,30354326,30354496,30353881,30354035,30356927,30357458,30356482,30353931,30355400,30354491,30354133,30354145,30354098,30353959,30354299],"score":55,"text":"I haven't been able to get this idea out of my mind that to be a successful CEO, you need to be a sociopath. Somehow it feels like decent people with decent products just don't make it.","time":1644964356,"title":"Why do I feel like you need to be a sociopath to succeed?","type":"story"}],[30331019,{"by":"pseudolus","descendants":329,"id":30331019,"kids":[30331862,30331683,30331593,30331677,30331644,30332175,30331801,30331466,30338992,30331932,30331629,30332730,30332528,30331724,30332245,30331536,30331502,30331315,30332077,30334020,30332586,30331486,30331937],"score":164,"time":1644840380,"title":"Pedestrian deaths spike in U.S. as reckless driving surges","type":"story","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/us/pedestrian-deaths-pandemic.html"}],[30314980,{"by":"halestock","descendants":32,"id":30314980,"kids":[30315220,30315053,30315729,30315408,30315148,30315369,30318131,30315033,30315098,30315172],"score":7,"time":1644690416,"title":"Ask HN: If you were in a software developers' union, what would you fight for?","type":"story"}],[30312812,{"by":"shivekkhurana","descendants":11,"id":30312812,"kids":[30313237,30313662,30314761,30369241,30313220,30312999,30344761,30313706],"score":9,"text":"I have been using (vanilla) Emacs as my primary editor for the last 4 years.

I have an elaborate setup for writing Clojure, Javascript and Rust [https://github.com/shivekkhurana/.emacs.d]. But sometimes it just breaks down.\nEither it throws an error that I can't debug.

Or it stops activating modes that I hooked to specific buffers. TBH, I don't even know what major and minor modes are. And if two major modes can be active at the same time?

1. What are some good resources on Emacs?\n2. If you use Emacs as your primary editor, how long did it take you to understand enough internals to be able to debug issues?\n3. If you use doom/spacemacs, do you feel the bloat?

Thanks","time":1644674022,"title":"Ask HN: How to Get Good at Emacs?","type":"story"}],[30307706,{"by":"amichail","descendants":3,"id":30307706,"kids":[30307918,30307909,30309615,30307891],"score":1,"time":1644618075,"title":"Ask HN: Why take animals to Mars and increase the risk of a pandemic there?","type":"story"}],[30302291,{"by":"benstrumental","descendants":17,"id":30302291,"kids":[30303373,30305737,30305165,30305616,30306756,30303826],"score":175,"time":1644592190,"title":"An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf]","type":"story","url":"https://venhance.github.io/napkin/Napkin.pdf"}],[30302079,{"by":"mathgenius","descendants":671,"id":30302079,"kids":[30303189,30302667,30306121,30302643,30303960,30303823,30303769,30302436,30302762,30303724,30303318,30303023,30304235,30308705,30304414,30302851,30302888,30303897,30303310,30303387,30303033,30303215,30306064,30302885,30305713,30306079,30302975,30303047,30303204,30302785,30303402,30303202,30305031,30303136,30303981,30306779,30303055,30307640,30302796,30307574,30303427,30308675,30302701,30306416,30302709,30304240,30307484,30302780,30305917,30302459,30309321,30306853,30307724,30306203,30308001,30302825,30303117,30308889,30303137,30307475,30305268,30303125,30304671,30309062,30302146,30302563,30302832,30302602,30302987,30307354,30307364,30306172,30302634,30303626,30302628,30303673,30306948,30305366,30304466,30303642,30308862,30303316,30303143,30309137,30303382,30304522,30308079,30307316,30303426,30309157,30306276,30304315,30306796,30305807,30302752],"score":403,"time":1644591016,"title":"Why won’t anyone teach me math?","type":"story","url":"https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2022/02/stem-intro-courses-humanites-exploration"}],[30279736,{"by":"throwawaynay","descendants":50,"id":30279736,"kids":[30280815,30280845,30279863,30280843,30281813,30281210,30281444,30279961,30279921,30281540,30281939,30281786,30281635,30281833,30281026,30280944,30281076,30281119,30281195,30281049,30280981,30281398,30281389,30280573,30280963,30280974,30280366,30281329,30281636,30286992,30279768,30281827],"score":32,"text":"$18","time":1644446738,"title":"Ask HN: How do you cope with realizing you mostly wasted your potential?","type":"story"}],[30240428,{"by":"kylegill","descendants":96,"id":30240428,"kids":[30241832,30241039,30240460,30241962,30241275,30240910,30241549,30241622,30243835,30241364,30241752,30245319,30244894,30240776,30241232,30241690,30253798,30242508,30246826,30244533,30248072,30241129,30246592,30240844,30241283,30264595,30245765],"score":293,"time":1644208101,"title":"Managing People","type":"story","url":"https://klinger.io/posts/managing-people-%F0%9F%A4%AF"}],[30222708,{"by":"ushakov","descendants":100,"id":30222708,"kids":[30222912,30223383,30223633,30223325,30224870,30223726,30223289,30223277,30223421,30223660,30224952,30224986,30224930,30225237,30223752,30223252,30225101,30223804,30223489,30229058,30223243,30223194,30223794,30223788,30223671,30223614,30223635],"score":33,"text":"YouTube, Reddit, everywhere i see constant non-stop STEM-career propaganda

why does everyone NEED to learn how to code and pass tech interviews?","time":1644078664,"title":"Ask HN: Why do we push people into STEM?","type":"story"}],[30222765,{"by":"Victerius","descendants":4,"id":30222765,"kids":[30222936,30222849,30227160,30223527],"score":5,"time":1644078960,"title":"Ask HN: If you came with a user's manual, what would be in it?","type":"story"}],[30221790,{"by":"fleurjs","descendants":5,"id":30221790,"kids":[30224876,30222069,30221924,30221939,30222831],"score":5,"text":"I’m wondering if humans are capable of hating life in a large group. I notice that justified despair is labeled a mental illness. It makes me assume quality of life isn’t factored into the mental illness equation. I think that not doing so is wrong because it makes healthcare used as a scapegoat to ignore that certain quality of life shouldn’t be lived. Unless we humans think that any quality of life regardless of how bad should be lived?","time":1644073811,"title":"Ask HN: Are we allowed to hate life?","type":"story"}],[30218395,{"by":"ankit01-oss","descendants":73,"id":30218395,"kids":[30219591,30219813,30218971,30221677,30219421,30219990,30219573,30221561,30219266,30220101,30220455,30218897,30219075,30219727,30219301,30220093,30219299,30219788,30221090,30224466,30220893,30222033,30219691,30222539,30219367,30218765,30219899,30220432],"score":118,"time":1644042734,"title":"The Biggest Mistake I See Engineers Make","type":"story","url":"https://www.thezbook.com/the-biggest-mistake-i-see-engineers-make-2/"}],[30215855,{"by":"amichail","descendants":5,"id":30215855,"kids":[30217461,30216400,30216151],"score":3,"text":"CS professors are constantly putting down programming in their teaching. So how can this end well?","time":1644022770,"title":"Ask HN: Do CS degrees set you up to be disappointed with most programming jobs?","type":"story"}]]

user:	jimmyvalmer
created:	August 5, 2019
karma:	388