Hacker Wisdom
A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.
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Computer Animator and Amiga fanatic Dick Van Dyke turns 100
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_vapor_process
https://www.sciencealert.com/dick-van-dyke-credits-his-longevity-to-one-habit-and-its-backed-by-science
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVsNzqDk
How does a "you interview for US company, we do the work" scam work?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41641446
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/25/nx-s1-5479906/north-korea-identity-theft-sentencing
https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/1chm6g4/nris_outsourcing_their_entire_job_to_indians_what
AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging automation target
https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/
https://ledgeroptic.com
Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?
https://aiphrasefinder.com/common-chatgpt-phrases/
https://americanart.si.edu/blog/andrew-clemens-sand-art
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00025
https://blog.thms.uk/2023/02/mastodon-translation-options
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
https://hn-ai.org/
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Please%20don%27t%20author%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Please%20don%27t%20author%3Atomhow&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=generated%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://jampauchoa.substack.com/p/writing-with-ai-without-the-slop
https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/ECM_PRO_060886.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36735275
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704054
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652349
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164360
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46204895
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632#46205636
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46209137
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://niclas-nilsson.com/blog/40f2-empty-sharing
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
https://xkcd.com/810/
Referral to coach for fundraising for pre-revenue seed capital?
https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Il-how-startup-fundraising-works
Relatively SoTA LLM Agents from Scratch?
https://www.datocms-assets.com/64837/1763662397-1763646865-olmo_3_technical_report-1.pdf
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3712285.3759827
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceTB/smol-training-playbook
Practical Tips for Gemini 3
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/05/google-ai-mangles-news-headlines-in-discover-feed/
What hard problems are still underexplored?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number#Odd_perfect_numbers
What are young technically minded people reading?
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
https://studium.dev/books
What are you buying your kids for Christmas?
https://www.makeblock.com/pages/mbot-ultimate-robotics-kit
https://modutoy.com
https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/slimy-dissect-mini-frog-with-magnifying-glass/R2939925.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWFFaKxsz_s
Console.text() – SMS alerts when code executes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs29i2TR7AE
Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
https://github.com/obra/superpowers
Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?
https://www.unihertz.com/products/jelly-star