15:[[37233492,{"by":"hellothere1337","descendants":44,"id":37233492,"kids":[37234855,37236946,37233515,37235822,37235687,37234669,37234903,37236267,37246032,37234229,37235022,37237874,37235250,37234756,37235128,37234727],"score":28,"text":"Heya HN, I was wondering. What trades jobs would best fit someone with 10 years of experience in software engineering, mainly fullstack web.","time":1692781669,"title":"Ask HN: Career in trades for possible ex-programmers","type":"story"}],[34717814,{"by":"py4","descendants":39,"id":34717814,"kids":[34718975,34718549,34718555,34718118,34718133,34718339,34718262,34718079,34718198,34718212,34718685,34718801,34718140,34718189,34718224,34718874,34718192,34718128,34718120,34718298,34720218,34718204,34718103,34719029,34720145],"score":31,"text":"Not sure it's related to my ADD or not but it's been a while the whole cycle of [wake up, work, {gym/hobby}, cook, youtube, sleep, repeat] gives me a sense of mundaneness (except when I socialize). I feel like a prisoner in the repetition of life. How do you add surprise/novelty to your everyday life? (if you do)","time":1675902012,"title":"Ask HN: How do you add novelty to your days?","type":"story"}],[33928587,{"by":"Catapulter","descendants":3,"id":33928587,"kids":[33930263,33943943,33929037],"score":8,"text":"What would you recommend to do for one person SaaS in order to minimize amount of time spend on things such as:

- Payments. I don't want to spend time on registering in different states, sending tax return, and want to us a company which covers it for me. Stripe obviously won't work, since it's not a merchant of record. I have heard good things about paddle, but are there any other alternatives?

- Accounting. I want it to be as simple as possible. As far as I see, the easiest one is the pass through LLC.

- LLC. Does it make sense to incorporate in Delaware, or use my home state (I am in NYS).

If you have a single person SaaS, would be nice to learn how you handle all of the above.","time":1670633958,"title":"Ask HN: How to implement payment and other for one person SaaS","type":"story"}],[33671435,{"by":"rntn","descendants":7,"id":33671435,"kids":[33671437,33675095,33673219,33677985],"score":7,"time":1668874519,"title":"Where Lawns Are Outlawed (and Dug Up, and Carted Away)","type":"story","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/climate/las-vegas-lawn-grass-ban.html"}],[33306110,{"by":"meowmiau","descendants":17,"id":33306110,"kids":[33307709,33311932,33308009,33308517,33307338,33312070,33311896,33306590,33338805,33320844],"score":19,"text":"I recently got into the 'problem' of having to decide between two job offers.

* One pays significantly more (double~trippel leftover money after Tax/CoL), but the job is less interesting (java, spring-boot, transaction systems).\n * The other pays good/acceptable, but works with more interesting technologies (ML and embedded software)

Note: Less interesting != boring, I don't apply for jobs I know I won't like for sure. Although I wonder if the java ecosystem and development approach is something I like long term.

I usually follow my interests, but there was never this steep a difference in payment.

Pondering this decision made me wonder, what various groups think about this - my friends don't have a clear opinion, I can guess what the FIRE crowd considers, so I wondered how HN prioritizes their offers.

So, how do you prioritize?","time":1666524127,"title":"Ask HN: How do you prioritize Job offers by money and interest?","type":"story"}],[31654089,{"by":"tonmoy","descendants":16,"id":31654089,"kids":[31658321,31654128,31655074,31655814,31656165,31656285,31669933,31673962,31657684,31661913],"score":25,"text":"At my work I get a couple of weeks of low intensity work for every 4-6 months when I have about 20 hours/week I can spend time on doing side projects or maybe learn something new. In the past I have taken on multiple projects that couldn’t be finished in 2 weeks and when I come back to them 4 months later I would have to basically start from scratch due to lose of flow hence it would be difficult to get motivated. Is there anything useful I can do that may be helpful for the world in these two weeks. I’m not too concerned about putting stuff on my resume. My primary goal is to be useful and secondary is to have fun. While I feel I do have a pretty good knowledge of algos and data structures, being a hardware engineer (RTL, HDL etc) my software skills, especially knowing the latest frameworks are not the strongest for sure.","time":1654609003,"title":"Ask HN: Any “useful” side project ideas?","type":"story"}],[20527534,{"by":"SoftwarePatent","descendants":3,"id":20527534,"kids":[20527648,20528002,20528960],"score":1,"text":"I'm currently changing my NYC spending from "comfortable software engineer salary" to "startup founder" to prepare for someday leaving my job and concentrating on a startup. Current plan is to move to decrease rent (maybe go back to having roommates), cook instead of seamless, ride my bike more, and try to decrease my student loan payments.

Anyone have any other ideas or tips? I've been a digital nomad before so I might do that too for a while once I get some traction, but I really like it here in New York for a lot of reasons, the QoL here is just phenomenal, best in the world.","time":1564076343,"title":"Ask HN: NYC tips to reduce burn rate?","type":"story"}],[19144606,{"by":"harekaze","descendants":108,"id":19144606,"kids":[19145005,19144756,19144773,19144699,19144896,19144803,19144788,19146254,19145850,19145135,19144794,19145180,19145062,19145939,19145002,19145101,19144771,19144870,19144825,19144708,19144795,19144814],"score":48,"time":1549987411,"title":"Solution to Harvard’s admissions problem is simple: run a lottery","type":"story","url":"https://qz.com/1520155/harvard-needs-to-introduce-a-lottery-for-truly-fair-admissions/"}],[16079032,{"by":"zmatilsky","descendants":4,"id":16079032,"kids":[16079089,16080988,16079255,16080291],"score":5,"text":"I frequently have small intervals of time (less than 5 minutes) during the workday. I try to fill this time productively by doing things like Duolingo or a few minutes of deep breathing, but was wondering if others had useful suggestions. Thanks!","time":1515165141,"title":"Ask HN: Productive Time Wasters?","type":"story"}],[15072430,{"by":"ajc-sorin","descendants":2,"id":15072430,"kids":[15084337,15072583],"score":3,"text":"I saw a lot of disappointment regarding Mozilla's recent proposal to collect user data, but I'm interested in seeing alternative ways for them fund innovation and development in their browser.","time":1503410303,"title":"Ask HN: How would you fund Firefox while preserving user privacy?","type":"story"}],[14867983,{"by":"ahmedfromtunis","descendants":3,"id":14867983,"kids":[14868257,14868158,14868233],"score":2,"text":"I'm currently working on a (hobby-)side project that I started last March; It's already functional (since several versions back actually) and even deployed to our company's server where some of my colleagues are using it, since it solves some real world problems. (The legal part is all sorted out, no worries about that part.)

The product is 95% finished (some logging and error handling to do), and thought about turning it into a SaaS product, just to see how it would fare.

The problem is that I got bored. What's supposed to be done in a day, still unfinished a week later. Not because of some nasty bugs, or technical problems. It's just that I no longer that excited.

In such circumstances, what do you do?","time":1501179573,"title":"Ask HN: What do you do when you get bored from a “successful” side project?","type":"story"}],[14401091,{"by":"throwawaybagbag","descendants":3,"id":14401091,"kids":[14401131,14401247,14401290],"score":2,"time":1495547046,"title":"Ask HN: How to prevent losing confidence in the idea few days after starting up","type":"story"}],[11442992,{"by":"heyyouyou","descendants":19,"id":11442992,"kids":[11443109,11443255,11443448,11460537,11453271,11446342,11443080,11443397,11443099,11443425,11443038,11443449],"score":10,"text":"Hi HN,\nI am 25 years old and working as a programmer for 2 years now. I have a good amount of money saved up (>75 k cash) and I am planning on quitting my job and trying to figure out what to do next. I don't hate my job I make good money and I get to save a lot. But I don't love it either. I have a couple of ideas for startups and some random apps that could potentially make money and I am planning to quit in the coming months. I wanted to know from other people who have been in the same situation, what are the most common pitfalls? Is having 75k enough of a runway? If I fail how long is the average job search? What are some things I should know about before quitting? What are the most common reasons people fail?

Thanks!","time":1459983511,"title":"I am quitting my job. Is this a good idea?","type":"story"}],[10998486,{"by":"sama","descendants":522,"id":10998486,"kids":[11000572,10998804,11000709,10998840,10998968,11000551,11000558,10998829,11000502,11000678,11000744,11000630,11000428,10998763,10998914,11000437,10998962,11001364,10998994,11000922,10999013,11000999,11000085,11000376,10999009,11000668,11001233,11001869,10998726,11001358,10999183,11000931,10998926,11000634,10998851,10998764,10998541,10998951,10998940,10998917,11001471,11000030,10998801,11001495,10998848,11000834,11000545,10998928,11000891,11000491,11001483,11001138,10999154,11000530,11002721,10998936,11000546,11001247,11000735,10998963,11001128,11000498,10999527,11001767,10998993,11003323,11001974,10999051,10998742,10999757,11001185,11000842,11002987,10998658,11001606,11001718,11001457,10998761,11001904,11000499,11002312,10998805,11000531,11001106,11001991,11000819,11001493,10998923,10998737,11000899,11001997,10999095,10999359,11001681,11000442,11000524,11002817,10998821,11005329,11001415,11000788,11003127,10998814,11004218,11000750,11002378,11001006,11001118,11001004,10998894,11006255,11001092,11001240,11001745,11002665,11004689,11000540,11000938,11000939,11001081,11000845,11003025,11000480,11001287,11001132,11025235,11001197,10999170,11001409,11002614,11003106,11000573,11008311,11000618,11001096,11000977,11001824,10999065,10999484,11001387,11002798,11002919,11000644,10998871,11034581,11003444,11003789,11001933,11002548,11000472,10998510,11003164,11000729,10998973,10999259,11002766,11001046,11000538,11000785,11001952,11002583,11000527,10999002,11001304,11001609,10999132,11001496,10998844,11001812,11000632,11000575,11000748,11001899,10998957,10998904,11003924,11000965,11001430,11001377,10999167,11002141,11000529,10998758,11003799,11000928,10998716,11009963,11000549,11003417,10998809,11004914,10998797,11000823,11000582,11003045,11000710,11000470,10998766,11000759,11000671,10998712,11009185,11003032,11003917,11000884,11007044,11001748,11000994,11001282,11001776,11002372,11000726,11001145,11001898,11001519,11000853,11001140,11002716,10998734,11001122,11000550,10998934,11001504,11001295,11001870,11001611,11000871,11001716,11001077,11002630,11000925,11000749,11001889,11001449,11000829,11003339,10998960,11000932,10999059,11006775,11000814,11000835,11001383,11001195,11002063,11001712,11005917,11001500,11001577,10998903,11001429,11002663,11002244,11001351,11001349,11001173,11000962,10998919,11001227,11001297,10998859,11001224,10999940,11000940,11001248,11001494,11001575,11000473,11000790,11000640,11003342,11001566,11001583,11001602,11001601,10998921,10998913,11000497],"score":316,"text":"So far we've supported OpenAI and we will soon start the basic income project. We have a few ideas about what to do next, but we'd love to hear from the community about what we should be considering. Thanks!","time":1454101431,"title":"Ask HN: What should we fund at YC Research?","type":"story"}],[9353998,{"by":"junto","descendants":357,"id":9353998,"kids":[9355110,9354217,9355579,9355000,9354045,9354869,9354365,9354247,9354263,9354777,9355004,9355159,9354927,9354276,9355122,9354917,9356263,9356349,9356132,9355436,9354554,9354323,9355253,9354354,9355592,9355239,9354328,9355342,9354331,9355558,9355665,9355092,9355044,9355277,9355427,9354054,9354910,9355008,9355403,9354782,9356491,9356469,9354308,9355924,9355291,9354316,9354324,9355949,9354393,9354770,9356329,9357132,9354370,9355078,9355309,9355088,9355619,9355691,9354464,9354880,9355376,9354916,9355250,9354897,9358847,9356126,9355634,9354304,9355181,9354256,9357563,9354835,9358629,9354784,9404309,9355315,9354289,9354273,9404318,9354846,9354778,9355180,9355593,9355039,9354356,9355773,9356066,9354236,9357307,9354383,9354317,9354548,9355120,9354381,9356032,9359188,9359177,9355943,9355536,9354201,9354823,9354305,9355986,9354332,9355421,9355881,9355489,9355751,9367994,9367981,9358622,9354996,9356192,9355405,9354955,9354962,9355794,9356203,9355184,9355590,9354363,9357450,9355990,9356429,9355732,9354912,9354171,9356023,9356170,9354409,9356529,9355244,9355214,9354532,9356048,9354891,9358082,9359253,9354789,9355081,9354228,9379988,9357796,9355569,9355230,9354649,9354264,9355014,9355297,9367995,9354495],"score":205,"text":"I guess this is aimed more at older devs and admins who have been sitting at their computers for the last 20 years like me.

I'm starting to feel my age. I get tired quicker. My health isn't what it used to be. I get the feeling that staring at a computer screen and sitting down all day in an office is not particularly healthy.

Has anyone got any tips how to improve mental and physical well-being?","time":1428671230,"title":"Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?","type":"story"}]]

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