Hacker Wisdom
A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.
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Weirdest Computer Architecture?
https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_complete.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_processor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_logic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_computing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rekursiv
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconventional_computing
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid
https://www.greenarraychips.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20221029042214if_/http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_65e4_microprocessor_final_design_spec_may_10_1982.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXN7jTNGQIw
Best way to learn robotics with a 10 year old?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B014KTSMLA/
https://www.amazon.com/Apitor-App-Enabled-Dinosaur-Building-Multiple/dp/B0CHHVN17M
https://www.birdbraintechnologies.com/products/finch-robot-2-0/
https://circuitmess.com
https://www.crunchlabs.com/products/hack-pack-subscription
https://education.lego.com/en-us/products/lego-education-spike-prime-set/45678/
https://education.makeblock.com/mbot2/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Mindstorms
https://www.firstinspires.org/
https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/products/toys/robotics
https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public
https://github.com/hrc2/blossom-public/wiki
https://github.com/thomashiemstra/fred
https://github.com/trzy/robot-arm
https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Build-a-Battebot-With-Cardboard-and-Arduino/
https://www.instructables.com/Naked-Singularity-Beetleweight-Wedge-Combat-Robot/
https://meetedison.com/
https://microblocks.fun/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902205
https://ni.srht.site/nxt-python/latest/handbook/overview.html
https://www.pololu.com/category/2/robot-kits
https://www.robomindacademy.com
https://shop.teamwitchdoctor.com/products/camp-witch-doctor
https://www.studica.com
https://upperstory.com/en/spintronics/
https://www.vexrobotics.com/
https://wiki.microblocks.fun/en/boards/supported
https://youtu.be/ZMQbHMgK2rw?feature=shared
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftyB954_r4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVzK3VaYxS8
I built a Yubikey-based domain controller. Is it sellable?
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/access-management/what-is-an-identity-provider/
https://defguard.net
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2013/04/24/marketing-for-people-who-would-rather-be-building-stuff/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-fs/ad-fs-overview
https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3324
https://www.nitrokey.com/
Why did Commodore have a better Basic line editor than Apple?
https://youtu.be/P17ej57-B9w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enHF9lMseP8
What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
https://unstract.com/llmwhisperer/
What Is the SQLite of Queues?
https://github.com/softwaremill/elasticmq
https://github.com/yudhasubki/blockqueue
https://nats.io
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/mqueue.h.html
https://zeromq.org/
Will peer to peer services overtake centralised corporations?
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2007/06/nanobarter.html
How did Wiz.io grow so fast?
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1a1jn00hc
Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-survey-us-public-beliefs
https://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/light.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BofA_Securities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_betting
https://www.forbes.com/profile/safra-catz/
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/05/26
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/holy-heck-this-is-hard-8ebe864174
https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/big-tech/2022/11/25/dublin-based-twitter-executive-gets-injunction-to-prevent-dismissal/
https://www.irs.gov/filing/federal-income-tax-rates-and-brackets
https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/
https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Software-Engineer/Entry-Level-Engineer/country/United-States/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41048205
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/trimodal-nature-of-tech-compensation
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/24Tables/html/SF.aspx
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free
https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7de186ce44f6a868056098e4478db8ab
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/pmf-framework/
https://smartasset.com/financial-advisor/tax-cliff
https://www.teamblind.com/post/My-experience-getting-offers-in-2024-nO7wjJxJ
https://web.archive.org/web/20220601160702/https://swim.afiexplorer.com/
https://zzzbears.com
Best resources to learn about Search and Information retrieval
https://medium.com/@dtunkelang
https://project-a.github.io/on-site-search-design-patterns-for-e-commerce/
How do you predict the AI will evolve in 2, 5, and 10 years?
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Bitgrid
Is there room for a new email hosting service?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbox_by_Gmail
https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278122-Mail-rules
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40924055
https://proton.me/support/sieve-advanced-custom-filters
https://pushover.net/
https://streamable.com/8anw1v
https://support.mailroute.net/hc/en-us/articles/29234826754835-Configuring-Apple-Mail-Clients-for-MailRoute-Email-and-SMTP-Auth-Services-using-mobileconfig-profile-MacOS-iOS-iPadOS-Mail-app-iPhone-iPad
https://www.wired.com/story/protonmail-amends-policy-after-giving-up-activists-data/
How can I do my research as a GPU poor?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06035
https://github.com/evilsocket/cake
What are your worst pain points when dealing with scientific literature?
https://consensus.app/search
https://notebooklm.google.com/
https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=JB+Heywood&btnG=
How can I oversee an e-com website development?
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/overview/
https://www.nngroup.com/reports/ecommerce-user-experience/
Strategies to Reduce AI Hallucinations?
https://docs.unstract.com/editions/cloud_edition#llmchallenge-use-llm-applications-with-confidence
https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2024-07-07-hallucination/
Is there a list of grey-hair-friendly IT companies?
https://app.careerpuck.com/job-board/avalara
https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1503504D:US
https://github.com/remoteintech/remote-jobs
http://jobs.universityofcalifornia.edu/?action=search
https://www.levels.fyi/benefits/Maternity-Leave/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230790
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How technically complex are social media algorithms?
https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
Hardware engineers – would you rather use a procedural version of labVIEW?
https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/product/measurement-studio.html
Attention HN: What's the Best Way to Find a Good Dev for Your Startup?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-dhawan-68702388/
https://s3.amazonaws.com/Publicpdf/Hiring_An_A_Player_Developer_final+(1).pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20131208173349/http://thefoundation.com/devsearch/
What mesh routers should I recommend to my parents?
https://eero.com/eero-plus
Looking for a cheap hosted BI tool like Metabase for my startup
https://observablehq.com
What registrars are in use with startup and big tech domain holdings?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40877561
What tools do you recommend for working on Windows?
https://christitus.com/windows-tool/
https://www.dcmembers.com/skwire/download/splat/
https://github.com/MachinaCore/CygwinPortable
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16784850
https://ninite.com/
https://stackoverflow.com/a/47078501/117030
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20449316/how-add-context-menu-item-to-windows-explorer-for-folders
https://sumatrapdfreader.org
How to prevent lockout from Google Account in case of phone theft?
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/183723?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/183723?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop
Lesser-known/underrated cool new web-oriented tech?
https://atomicdata.dev/
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/serverless-image-handler/
https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/transform-images/
https://pocketbase.io/
https://rakkasjs.org/
Is an All-in-One Database the Future?
https://hyper-db.de/
https://www.secoda.co/blog/is-an-all-in-one-database-the-future
LLM agents for structured data from databases?
https://github.com/FalkorDB/GraphRAG-SDK
What do you use LLMs for?
https://kagi.com/summarizer
Employee-owned company vs. Corporate Structure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
https://github.com/hng/tech-coops
Is there a way to hack YouTube landing page to see only certain topics?
https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
https://invidious.projectsegfau.lt/
Why doesn't HN have a dark-theme?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
https://excuse-seven.vercel.app
https://github.com/vishaldpatel/HNDarkMode
https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23197966
https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css
https://uso.kkx.one/style/71155
Am I crazy or is Android development awful?
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/jb-mr0-release/core/java/android/widget/TextView.java
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/jb-mr0-release/core/java/android/widget/TextView.java#8333
https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/main/+/main:frameworks/base/core/java/android/widget/TextView.java;drc=6e44f0cd4f0b4de5118d605eac7c3f90003128d2;l=10947
https://developer.android.com/about/versions/15/behavior-changes-all#16-kb
https://developer.android.com/build/migrate-to-kotlin-dsl
https://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/TextPaint
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/text
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/learner-english/caked
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_times
https://github.com/containers/podman/discussions/17717
https://github.com/cyberkernelofficial/docker-in-termux
https://github.com/kevmo314/kineticstreamer
https://github.com/smuzani/android-minimalist-template
https://www.google.com/search?q=termux+usb+webcam
http://landley.net/toybox/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742719
https://opencv.org/android/
https://picolisp.com/wiki/?pilbox
https://recorder.easeus.com/screen-recording-resource/macos-sonoma-issues.html
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78244976/package-resolved-gets-deleted-on-branch-switching
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t6L-FlfeaI&t=0s
Why is there no email client based on Markdown?
https://buttondown.email/features/markdown