Hacker Wisdom

A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.

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How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?

https://employees.theworknumber.com/employee-data-freeze

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft#/media/File:Wage_theft_versus_other_property_crimes.png

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

https://leaderbiography.com/soham-parekh/

https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/pol/fraud/resistance.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27454589

https://reddit.com/r/overemployed

https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/who-is-soham-parekh-the-serial-moonlighter-silicon-valley-startups-cant-stop-hiring/

https://thesohamparekh.com/

https://x.com/search?q=Free%20luigi&src=typed_query

https://x.com/Suhail/status/1940287384131969067

https://x.com/Suhail/status/1940441569276158190

https://x.com/var_epsilon/status/1940492841232584745

Tell HN: I Lost Joy of Programming

https://paulgraham.com/hp.html

https://pragprog.com/titles/cfcar2/the-passionate-programmer-2nd-edition/

https://productdriven.com/book

What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Australia?

https://procreate.com

Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?

https://amzn.to/3GDvpXg

https://ao.com/product/wnc25410gb-bosch-series-8-idos-washer-dryer-white-100417-2.aspx

https://archive.is/DcQeM

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/speed-queen-tc5-classic-top-load-washer-white/6505836.p

https://www.coolblue.nl/wasmachines/filter/bediening-via-app:nee

https://www.did.ie/products/electrolux-8kg-1400rpm-freestanding-washing-machine-white-efi61841b

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

https://www.envistaforensics.com/knowledge-center/insights/articles/dryer-fires-common-causes-and-prevention-tips/

https://www.isfixable.com/

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-wont-connect-my-dishwasher-your-stupid-cloud

https://www.maytagcommerciallaundry.com/mclstorefront/mcl/en_US/Washers/c/Washers?q=:name-asc:subCategoriesNames:Top-load+Washers:Segment:OPLIndustrySegment:region:North+America

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44489170

Proposal: GUI-first, text-based mechanical CAD inspired by software engineering

https://dune3d.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Design_Alliance

https://github.com/hannobraun/fornjot

https://github.com/severak/graph-paper

https://github.com/yuanxun-yx/SplitCAD

https://www.godsvg.com/

https://www.shapr3d.com/history-of-cad/introduction

https://solvespace.com

https://spacemice.org/index.php?title=Gallery

Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/ai-artisans-and-brainrot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporating_cloud

What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?

https://aloe.inc

https://blog.transitapp.com/how-we-built-the-worlds-prettiest-auto-generated-transit-maps-12d0c6fa502f/

https://cardog.app

https://www.coveo.com/en/company/about-us

https://defang.io

https://flare.io

https://www.getjobber.com

https://getmysa.com/

https://getsafety.com

https://www.helcim.com/

https://www.landr.com/

https://layerzero.network/

https://lumen5.com/

https://lunchmoney.app/

https://www.magicboard.ai

https://maplebilling.com/

https://www.mytwiddler.com/

https://plotly.com/about-us/

https://sabotagestudio.com/

https://www.sanctuary.ai/

https://shakepay.com/

https://www.sidefx.com/

https://www.sourcebot.dev/

https://spare.com/

https://sparxhockey.com/

https://sphyrnasecurity.com/

https://www.trykeep.com

https://urbanlogiq.com/

https://vention.io

https://voicecast.app/

https://xiphos.com/

Advice for Starting a Hacker Space?

https://devhack.net/

https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/attachments/1003_Building%20a%20Hacker%20Space.pdf

https://github.com/larsweiler/Hackerspace-Design-Patterns/blob/master/Hacker-Space-Design-Patterns.pdf

https://www.maker-works.com/operations-book

https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/DweebDen

Are there any noteworthy LinkedIn alternatives?

https://tallo.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAdXyPYKQo

Took a break after burnout – what now?

https://youtu.be/XamC7-Pt8N0?si=FNQgQJSfnxlFEcK5

Is every company's internal wiki just broken by default?

https://koliber.com/articles/engineering-documentation-best-practices

Super Simple "Hallucination Traps" to detect interview cheaters

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/21/columbia-student-suspended-over-interview-cheating-tool-raises-5-3m-to-cheat-on-everything/

How many communities HN it devs in C language?

https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/phono-in-terminal-image-viewer-rgb-c-textmode

https://jvns.ca/blog/2013/11/29/what-happens-when-you-run-a-unix-program/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29591993

https://savannah.nongnu.org/p/alisp

Is there a business for extracting US tech talent?

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/

https://fra.europa.eu/en/news/2023/black-people-eu-face-ever-more-racism

https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-03-republicans-cutting-medicare-not-only-medicaid/

Why did not numpy copy the J rank concept?

https://numba.pydata.org/numba-doc/dev/user/vectorize.html

What old or outdated software have you never found a replacement for?

https://archive.clickrepair.org/software_info/clickrepair.html

https://github.com/dozius/winsplit-revolution

https://hdrmaps.com/blog/autopano-giga-is-now-free/

https://imgur.com/gallery/word-97-word-2003-under-wine-on-ubuntu-AgKGOuS

http://inception-app.com

https://innovationdilation.com/

https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/libreoffice-vs-openoffice/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/image-composite-editor/

http://pollenpub.com

https://workflowy.com/

https://www.ysoft.com/be3d

MiniNAS Experience

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465319

HN was much more interesting a year ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/active

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44484996

https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/

What are the best resources to help with health insurance denials?

https://content.naic.org/state-insurance-departments

Tell HN: A fake, highly obfuscated Solidity VSCode plugin found on marketplace

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=JuanBlanco.solidity

How do I buy a typewriter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660042

mTLS vs. HTTP Message Signatures: Tradeoffs in Securing HTTP Requests

https://victoronsoftware.com/posts/mtls-vs-http-signature/

Are there any good WASM-based sites for learning Bash, Linux and CLI?

https://edubart.github.io/webcm/

What clever tools/scripts do you use to manage development environments?

https://doocot.sh/

https://flox.dev

https://github.com/chalet-dev/chalet

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=owenfarrell.vscode-vault

https://mise.jdx.dev/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg