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Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station
What Happened at Alameda Research
Emergency SOS via satellite
Emergency SOS via satellite
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
Building an e-ink weather display for our home
Tell HN: Employers are not desperate to hire developers
I'm in the middle of a job search and wanted to share my impression after discussions like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33563083.<p>I'm an unemployed mid/senior-level developer in the U.S. with a mediocre but solid portfolio and passable social skills. I've applied for many jobs at normal non-FAANG places, almost all of which were a decent match for my background, and employers don't seem desperate. Lots of no responses or form rejections, several places where I was rejected after either the initial or tech screen. I haven't gotten to the negotiation phase yet anywhere. When I asked, most seemed serious about hiring: they just got a new round of funding, there was a backlog of work, something, but still no hire. Also almost no response from external recruiters, and very little inbound LinkedIn messaging from anyone.<p>I'm not complaining, it's just how the grind is. I'm getting enough traction that I'm sure it's just a numbers game. But the employers are not desperate.<p>If you are a candidate without a golden resume or big network and need a job, then definitely don't get complacent because of HNers telling you that $100k-150k jobs are falling off trees. Put together a decent portfolio and then get those applications numbers up from day one. My personal goal is at least 100 applications before seriously considering pivoting to something else.
FTX collapse, Tether operations have links to online-poker cheating scandals
Making a Go program faster with a one-character change
Making a Go program faster with a one-character change
Meta fires a software engineer two days after he relocated from India to Canada
FTX’s balance sheet was bad
Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made a topic finally click?
Sometimes it takes a book or a course (or explanation from a mentor) for a topic to finally click for you that you were struggling with for a long time.<p>For me, it was Stanford's EE261 course that made Fourier Transform click for me. Here is the link: <a href="https://see.stanford.edu/course/ee261" rel="nofollow">https://see.stanford.edu/course/ee261</a><p>Similarly for deep learning it was fast.ai courses.<p>For programming it was How to Design Programs at www.htdp.org.<p>Your topic of choice may be anything, not necessarily CS.
Crypto exchange AAX suspends withdrawals
Why does calloc exist? (2016)
FTX balance sheet, revealed