15:[[39050279,{"by":"hifromLA","descendants":92,"id":39050279,"kids":[39055192,39051443,39050952,39051457,39051918,39051250,39062327,39052167,39053424,39052310,39061503,39052005,39050475,39053643,39052400,39051578,39050824,39051930,39054754,39051245,39054193,39058914,39052449,39051307,39052395,39050474,39053285,39050549],"score":56,"text":"It’s obvious the game has changed and while no one has a crystal ball, I’m curious what you all are focusing on to stay employed in tech.","time":1705625802,"title":"Ask HN: What are you doing to stay employable in tech in the next 1-5 years?","type":"story"}],[38951566,{"by":"johnrushx","descendants":1,"id":38951566,"kids":[38951667],"score":5,"text":"1) Go to Google Search Console

2) Open "Performance" page

3) Sort the "Queries" tab by "Impressions"

4) In the top 20, find top 5 queries with "CTR" < 50%

5) Insert them to your home page hero, h1/h2 & meta tags","time":1704977571,"title":"The lowest-hanging SEO fruit I do in 5 min which always works","type":"story"}],[38925972,{"by":"javicrespo1","descendants":7,"id":38925972,"kids":[38927706,38926303,38927415,38926391],"score":3,"text":"$16","time":1704807282,"title":"Show HN: I created a platform to write SEO-driven articles in seconds using AI","type":"story","url":"https://www.postbrainer.com"}],[38921187,{"by":"akkyyann","descendants":6,"id":38921187,"kids":[38921371,38921409,38921301,38921759],"score":1,"text":"I've been wanting to make a few ecommerce sites for some friends/family of mine, but I haven't seen any affordable solutions for developers. A few developers have asked this question and people normally suggest to go with Shopify. Shopify's basic plan is $40/month though, which is too expensive for the people I've talked to. I have no experience with Wordpress as well, which seems to be an other option. As a new software engineer, making an entire platform like Shopify seems too daunting. Are there any affordable solutions for a developer who wants to make an ecommerce site? Or would I just have to make my own with something like React + Node + Stripe for payments? Thank you!","time":1704764940,"title":"Ask HN: What's the best way to make an ecommerce site from scratch?","type":"story"}],[38826289,{"by":"gtirloni","descendants":13,"id":38826289,"kids":[38830319,38827316,38826894,38828091,38826321],"score":4,"text":"If you have to work with other coworker(s) that, for whatever reason, are disengaged and you can't do anything about what makes them disengaged. How do you handle that and stay motivated yourself?","time":1704047645,"title":"Ask HN: How to work with disengaged coworkers?","type":"story"}],[38648597,{"by":"nathan_tarbert","descendants":5,"id":38648597,"kids":[38648664,38648836],"score":1,"time":1702594819,"title":"Ask HN: What is the best way to host an Express app monorepo","type":"story"}],[38596104,{"by":"widenrun","descendants":5,"id":38596104,"kids":[38597548,38596857,38596561,38597136,38596421],"score":4,"text":"While the long-term benefits of bilingualism are obvious, I can only imagine how hard it is for a young kid to deal with the differences, accents, making friends, feeling confident...

If you grew up bilingual, what advice would you give to a parent raising a bilingual toddler?","time":1702251205,"title":"Ask HN: What advice would you offer to parents raising bilingual children?","type":"story"}],[38581862,{"by":"OulaX","descendants":42,"id":38581862,"kids":[38583591,38585146,38582975,38582655,38582295,38582899,38581990,38583447,38581897,38582890,38586032,38591327,38585504,38583984,38583687,38583767,38583429,38585961,38584966,38587037,38584730,38590972,38584980,38582948,38582265,38584273,38583966,38585516,38584395],"score":53,"text":"I've spent most of my teenage years tinkering around with programming, afterwards I spent 4 years pursuing my CS degree.

I worked as a tutor for 2 years, and a software engineer for 2 years.

Now, I got a job in a field that's not related to software engineering, let alone computer science, getting this job instead of a software engineering one has a lot of reasons and is not worth getting into to be honest.

Recently, I started to feel bad, really bad, because I was feeling like I've been slowly drifting away from software engineering, and all of the hard work I've made and the time I spent learning it is going to waste.

I want to start working on a side project but I no idea comes to mind!

Any tips to cope with this, what would of you done if you were in my place?","time":1702129419,"title":"Ask HN: Slowly Losing Interest in Software Engineering, should I be worried?","type":"story"}],[38561511,{"by":"nathan_tarbert","descendants":2,"id":38561511,"kids":[38567652,38561821],"score":1,"time":1701981587,"title":"Ask HN: What tool is the best for scheduling social media posts?","type":"story"}],[38507568,{"by":"jellyfishbeaver","descendants":36,"id":38507568,"kids":[38509076,38509332,38508878,38507663,38509528,38508876,38510682,38509581,38508673,38519874,38508495,38522498,38510513,38510664,38507796,38508669,38513481,38515376,38508420,38511113,38509514,38509836,38508530,38510749,38507813,38509988,38509031,38510737,38507788,38508409],"score":63,"text":"$17","time":1701616139,"title":"Ask HN: How to admit that you don't want to be on the manager track anymore?","type":"story"}],[38482194,{"by":"behnamoh","descendants":2,"id":38482194,"kids":[38482417,38482443],"score":1,"text":"Something about Apple's targeting seems off. On one hand, they have different tiers of M-chips, supposedly for different customer groups. But then they have MacBook "Pros" with 8GB RAM, which is definitely problematic for ordinary users. On the other hand, they offer one of the most efficient and powerful chips, 99% of which ordinary users won't ever utilize.

It'd make more sense if Apple produced MacBooks with at least 16GB/32GB RAM in 3 tiers:

- Offer 75% of their current M-chip power for ordinary users (≥16/32GB RAM).

- Offer 150% of their current Pro chip for mid-power users (≥32/64GB RAM).

- Offer 200% for really pro users (≥64GB RAM).","time":1701396936,"title":"Ask HN: Are Apple's M-series MacBooks over-powered for ordinary users?","type":"story"}],[38412408,{"by":"bhu1st","descendants":4,"id":38412408,"kids":[38413337,38415613,38412529,38419233,38418103,38415927],"score":2,"text":"Given that the said contractor can adjust to any work schedule and has a decent tech stack foundation what would convince you or not to bring in a developer contractor overseas on your remote team?

Do open-source contributions help bridge the trust? What else?

Asking for a friend and myself.","time":1700904916,"title":"Ask HN: Why would you hire a overseas contractor?","type":"story"}],[38203128,{"by":"_448","descendants":98,"id":38203128,"kids":[38205782,38203230,38204720,38203451,38205346,38203500,38204111,38203471,38204972,38204592,38205718,38206542,38206080,38204825,38203164,38206772,38205581,38203849,38206477,38205219,38221221,38203846,38206385,38203556,38203514,38204883,38203634,38216501,38205211,38204294,38208879,38204869,38205282,38204148,38209286,38204375,38204665],"score":102,"text":"I am interested in understanding how would a solo tech founder hire the initial sales, marketing, operations, cyber security and DevOps team members?

Assuming that I don't know anything about or have zero experience in the skill-sets I am hiring for, how does one start? What questions to ask, what to look for and where to look for the talent?","time":1699524608,"title":"Ask HN: As a first-time solopreneur how would you go about hiring the first team","type":"story"}],[38190475,{"by":"msoad","descendants":3,"id":38190475,"kids":[38190820,38190625],"score":4,"text":"$18","time":1699452506,"title":"Ask HN: Navigating a Lucrative but Unfulfilling Role – When to Jump Ship?","type":"story"}],[38098672,{"by":"anon8588","descendants":8,"id":38098672,"kids":[38098829,38099318,38109845,38098795,38098824],"score":4,"text":"My sign up form is being filled by automated bots/scripts that are signing up using other people's emails. This means that the confirmation email my app sends out get flagged by the email owners as spam, hurting my domain reputation and email sending limits.

So far, I've tried Google Recaptcha which has reduced the rate but has not eliminated it, even at the maximum filtering level. The rate of fake sign ups is still high enough to cause email reputation problems for me. What do I do?","time":1698849091,"title":"Ask HN: My signup form is being bombarded by bots. What do I do?","type":"story"}],[37935932,{"by":"squigz","descendants":43,"id":37935932,"kids":[37945511,37938782,37944742,37937298,37936849,37936766,37936647,37945742,37963309,37940007,37943186,37936204,37961794,37956211,37955097,37946604,37954941,37954783,37941348,37952449,37936381],"score":35,"text":"YouTube is stepping up the anti-adblock nonsense and will be disabling playback after 3 videos

Personally, this sort of arms race is only going to cause me to not use YouTube

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/assets/47215043/f76f8ea2-3dd4-43ef-8293-353243cc5863

(Apologies if this was shared already)","time":1697669891,"title":"Tell HN: YouTube disabling playback after 3 videos","type":"story"}],[37894806,{"by":"moomoo11","descendants":8,"id":37894806,"kids":[37895276,37896096,37903604,37899613,37904861,37907217,37903918,37894837],"score":9,"text":"I'm using what I know best, just wondering what others are using. Seems like people are returning to the "basics" and KISS.

For me I'm most productive in Go for all backend needs, and React or Svelte on UI. I'm using managed database, but otherwise deployed on bare metal instance that use embedded db to leverage SSD storage as cache and static assets on CDN.","time":1697417450,"title":"Ask HN: What tech stack are you using for MVPs, early products? (Q3 2023)","type":"story"}],[37869231,{"by":"jjdeveloper","descendants":2,"id":37869231,"kids":[37869425,37871453],"score":2,"text":"At my work I now have two stand up/micromanagement meetings each morning, sometimes three. Now there is talk about an end of day progress update. At this rate my progress updates will be that I spent a large chunk of the day giving progress updates.","time":1697195062,"title":"Ask HN: Anyone else have more than one stand up a day?","type":"story"}],[37756210,{"by":"chandler767","descendants":32,"id":37756210,"kids":[37756929,37756464,37756778,37756320,37764608,37773718,37756299,37780745,37756270],"score":17,"text":"Seems like the consensus is that you can do just fine (if not better) if your employees are remote. So why are some companies still trying to force workers back to the office knowing many would rather quit?","time":1696360439,"title":"Ask HN: Why are some companies still trying to force return to office?","type":"story"}],[37618258,{"by":"_fvh3","descendants":2,"id":37618258,"kids":[37618281,37618407],"score":1,"text":"I am in my last year of school, aiming for a career in CS, this means I will likely enter the job market in ~5+ years.

With the contracting CS job market and the rise of AI, it seems like it will be a lot harder to get entry level positions, I have seen loads of posts on HN of people struggling to find jobs, even at salaries below the market rate.

Is there anything I should be doing to get ahead of the competition, apart from the obligatory "build a portfolio" & "leetcode", would getting into a better university help/ what about paid degree apprenticeships? Any particular uni courses I should do? I have a few large scale (fairly unique) applications that I have yet to publish/ make public, any advice on this?","time":1695419438,"title":"Ask HN: How can I future-proof myself","type":"story"}],[37467846,{"by":"Mobil1","descendants":4,"id":37467846,"kids":[37467929,37467931],"score":1,"time":1694442664,"title":"Ask HN: Why does the audio in my Mercedes sound distorted?","type":"story"}],[37216276,{"by":"nowooski","descendants":9,"id":37216276,"kids":[37217278,37218624,37216955,37216616,37217754,37216547,37227474,37216550,37216518],"score":3,"time":1692657431,"title":"Ask HN: What temperature do you keep your home office for maximum productivity?","type":"story"}],[36998936,{"by":"ginnungagap","descendants":77,"id":36998936,"kids":[36999630,36999139,37000110,36999487,36999722,37000569,37000327,36999855,37000275,37000878,36998992,37000053,37000456,36999803,36999992,36999706,36999485,37000213,36999694,37000105,36999772,37007548,36999720,37000002,37022070,37000310,36999549,37002640,37000191,36999875,36999599,36999771,37000156,36999231],"score":34,"text":"$19","time":1691151547,"title":"Ask HN: For advice: I'm a mathematician looking for a plan B outside of academia","type":"story"}],[36811124,{"by":"Entalpi","descendants":3,"id":36811124,"kids":[36811348,36811476,36811206],"score":3,"text":"Context: Got a B.sc & M.sc in Computer Science as well as a couple of years of professional programming in the games industry.

How do I go about making a career switch into the field of AI, ML and the like? Side projects? Back to school? Coursera?

Anyone who has done something similar recently?","time":1689925520,"title":"Ask HN: How to Switch Career to ML?","type":"story"}],[36769843,{"by":"Quinzel","descendants":11,"id":36769843,"kids":[36773423,36774638,36803869,36772256,36770138,36770781,36770379],"score":4,"text":"I’m currently studying security, and decided to focus my efforts on the psychology of cybersecurity.

I realise hacking is just one aspect of that, but I was curious, what motivates hackers to hack things?","time":1689672433,"title":"Ask HN: What motivates hackers to hack things?","type":"story"}],[36721833,{"by":"iamflimflam1","descendants":7,"id":36721833,"kids":[36722021,36725713,36723771,36722153],"score":3,"text":"As a hobby I've been making YouTube videos on my electronic projects for a while. I can't help coming to the conclusion that I'm just making quite boring videos. I find them interesting, but the click through rates and average view duration tell me that they are not. What am I getting wrong? Why is this boring? https://youtu.be/glCIuOoFm7U","time":1689329314,"title":"Ask HN: Why is this video boring?","type":"story"}]]

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