22:[[39828023,{"by":"roeles","descendants":1,"id":39828023,"kids":[39830565],"score":1,"text":"$23","time":1711462157,"title":"Ask HN: Learning about hardware fault detection","type":"story"}],[37175023,{"by":"donnie12345","descendants":6,"id":37175023,"kids":[37203341,37177904,37177538,37179243,37175966,37175167],"score":3,"text":"Can you identify the companies where you encountered poorly written software and those with well-written software during your work experience?

Don't take anything personally.","time":1692363607,"title":"Highlight companies with notably poor/good software from your work experience","type":"story"}],[30991725,{"by":"Phileosopher","descendants":64,"id":30991725,"kids":[30995998,30993472,30996355,30993380,30993284,30993675,30995906,30993746,30994588,30993739,30997530,30997231,30996454,31005739,31014517,30994952,30998857,30994205,31004467,30992946,30995795,30994704,31006771,30994537,30997397,30992886,30999220,30996129,30997513,30992989,30995730,30993463,30993868,31015694,30993475,31018782,30996812,31000541,30993925,30992751,30994996,30996905,30995226,30999516,30995760,30996869],"score":52,"text":"I've always been curious about the demography behind this social network. After all, not everyone who's a "hacker" is in a tech startup or cybersecurity, right?

So, what do you do for a living? Is it the culmination of a series of interesting jobs all over the map, or have you had a Steady Eddie job for a decade or two?

And, more abstractly, what do you want to do? Are you living the dream, are you chasing a dream, or have you given up on chasing that dream?","time":1649696597,"title":"Ask HN: What do you do for a living?","type":"story"}],[27673530,{"by":"mateo1","descendants":15,"id":27673530,"kids":[27678301,27682205,27687634,27673819,27681425,27706077,27673731,27705731,27675674,27694162,27682198,27675110,27673596],"score":10,"text":"It's been 5 years. I can't stop noticing how every moment of every day these annoying little shadows drift in my field of vision. They're subtle, but they do affect my eye coordination, which in turn affects my focus. Not being able to direct my attention while reading text is just detrimental in so many ways. If you've had them, how do you deal with them? Do they affect your work?","time":1624957699,"title":"Ask HN: How do you deal with eye floaters?","type":"story"}],[25533682,{"by":"hn_asker","descendants":5,"id":25533682,"kids":[25533907,25543785,25542281],"score":5,"text":"My friend's daughter is stuck in the hospital. She has no access to a computer/internet and is pining to learn to program to pass the time.

What books do you recommend (particularly Java and Javascript) to learn in this offline context? Any alternatives to books?","time":1608863661,"title":"Ask HN: Learning How to Program Offline","type":"story"}],[25516488,{"by":"iforgottherest","descendants":15,"id":25516488,"kids":[25516801,25516600,25516534,25516696,25517574,25519047,25516537,25543735,25521675,25523985,25519472,25518145,25516751,25518003,25516881],"score":11,"time":1608722032,"title":"Ask HN: Do you use dedicated paper notebooks? For what purpose?","type":"story"}],[25441664,{"by":"priyanshuraj","descendants":204,"id":25441664,"kids":[25442005,25442267,25441886,25444015,25442042,25443340,25442054,25441895,25442360,25443725,25444778,25441899,25441730,25441674,25442555,25445069,25442375,25442900,25442177,25442006,25444817,25443820,25442059,25441971,25443191,25444783,25443424,25443098,25442338,25449453,25442725,25444624,25447602,25445621,25442577,25443142,25441964,25445245,25445090,25442258,25442831,25442028,25442062,25443419,25443969,25443221,25446222,25444941,25442606,25443781,25444723,25443953,25443949,25442024,25442243,25442155,25441989,25443033,25442128,25443586,25443982,25443838,25444852,25449421,25456372,25456393,25444396,25442877,25444112,25443815],"score":222,"text":"There are multiple versions of Lisp. Multiple compilers. What is a good one for someone new to pick?

I use VS Code and Vim. Are they suitable for learning Lisp?","time":1608120822,"title":"Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?","type":"story"}],[24644420,{"by":"KiranRao0","descendants":8,"id":24644420,"kids":[24645100,24644687,24674263,24650849,24648675,24647570],"score":16,"text":"My example is a scuba diving. The open water courses took about 5 days (2 in pool, 3 at sea) and was a great experience. I can now confidently go diving anywhere and explore areas I never thought possible.

Does have other similar style of courses they'd like to share?","time":1601502719,"title":"Ask HN: What are your favorite weeklong courses not related to work?","type":"story"}],[24498854,{"by":"markus_zhang","descendants":7,"id":24498854,"kids":[24615503,24499094,24502755,24527691,24507106,24502291,24511606],"score":11,"text":"Hi HN parents, I'm wondering how you expose STEM topics to your kids?

On my side, I think I picked the interest as my parents frequently took me to Natural Museums when I was 5 and I was super interest to dinosaurs and palentology in general at the time. We also sit together every Sat night to watch a few episodes of palentology programs (probably BBC or something else but there was many years ago). I never studied in that field but nevertheless I think that was one good trick to get kids into STEM and I'll probably do the same for mine.

What's your trick? I really believe that every kid is naturally interested in STEM but needs some guidance.","time":1600296175,"title":"Ask HN: For parents, how do you expose your kids to STEM?","type":"story"}],[24226021,{"by":"kaptain","descendants":14,"id":24226021,"kids":[24230665,24227356,24232302,24254526,24227533,24243946,24226271,24228245],"score":14,"text":"I'm looking to contribute to an organization focused on protecting the environment and fighting climate change. I'm looking at 350.org and other organizations online. The problem is that I don't get a real sense of how effective these organizations are. What's a good organization to donate to?","time":1597945029,"title":"Ask HN: What's a climate change organization you would recommend donating to?","type":"story"}]]

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