Hacker News Digest

https://archive.is/wCM2x > Even in a world brimming with easy distractions—TikTok, Pornhub, Candy Crush, Sudoku—people still manage to meet for drinks, work out at the gym, go on dates, muddle through real life.They actually don't. Everything from dating and fitness to manufactur

Jin-su spent most of his time trying to secure fraudulent identities which he could use to apply for jobs. He would first pose as Chinese, and contact people in Hungary, Turkey and other countries to ask them to use their identity in exchange for a percentage of his earnings, h

This is the main reason I quit freelancing. Working 3-4 hours was great. Money was decent. There's groups for freelancers and solopreneurs and such. But they're not on your side, they're just peers.Eventually I think life stagnates. Working for a unicorn had its downs, but there'

Archive link: https://archive.ph/DtYEQ > a previous commitment from the National Institutes of Health to support a clinical trial of the novel therapy in HIV-infected children being withdrawnWhen seeking funding as a scientist, do they have to only ask their own government or is

With the rise of these retro-looking websites, I feel it's possible again to start using a browser from the '90s. Someone should make a static-site social media platform for full compatibility. Argh, Yahoo is happening again!(For the youth, this is basically what Yahoo was, origi

I am worried about the future of native UI technologies on Windows. Traditionally at least the developers of operating systems have eaten their own dogfood and have at least tried to implement well-performing & visually consistent native applications to serve as an example to oth

Interesting blog.. Is it not strange to see a post with 126 points and zero comment?"in nearly all of these societies everyone got married and was expected to get around to having children because the community required them rather than necessarily because they wanted to."I wonde

Here's a guide to help you get started contributing:https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/tree/master/Docu...Here are the latest Web Platform (WPT) tests:https://wpt.fyi/results/?run_id=6292901677236224There is a Discord if you want to ask questions:https://discord.gg/c8JEZ

A really good accompaniment to this is Carruth's "C++, bounds checking, performance, and compilers" [1]:> ... strong belief that bounds checks couldn’t realistically be made cheap enough to enable by default. However, so far they are looking very affordable. From the above post,

Tried this out with Cline using my own API key (Cerebras is also available as a provider for Qwen3 Coder via via openrouter here: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder) and realized that without caching, this becomes very expensive very quickly. Specifically, after each new tool