Hacker Wisdom
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How to find non-popular blogs and forums?
https://kagi.com/smallweb
https://micro.blog/discover
https://www.rxjourney.net
https://wiby.me
Where can I sell a dataset I've created?
https://gumroad.com
Is there a way to get uBlock Origin on Chrome >= 138?
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ublock-origin-lite/ddkjiahejlhfcafbddmgiahcphecmpfh?hl=en&pli=1
https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline#june_2025_chrome_mv2_deprecation_enterprise_rollout
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/About-Google-Chrome's-%22This-extension-may-soon-no-longer-be-supported%22
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
https://www.404media.co/the-200-sites-an-ice-surveillance-contractor-is-monitoring/
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights
https://apnews.com/article/us-army-veteran-immigration-raid-53cb22251a01599a0c4d1a8d5650d050
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/visa-integrity-fee-what-to-know-about-new-travel-fee-to-enter-the-us-.html
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/marco-rubio-may-have-just-banned
https://extraordinary.com/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2025/07/09/attorneys-say-they-cant-see-immigration-clients-at-alligator-alcatraz/
https://www.hoover.org/research/peter-thiel-straussian-momen
https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/search/recent-search
https://ifspp.substack.com/p/data-on-how-america-sold-out-its
https://immigrationforum.org/article/denaturalization-fact-sheet/
https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/05/09/nashua-german-american-returns-home-after-being-detained-for-two-months-by-ice-family-says/
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts
https://www.praxisnation.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/tnvisa/comments/1lerikw/nonengineering_degrees_may_no_longer_qualify_for/
https://sam.gov/opp/83693d33244e424191f58271c7faf72b/view
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/legal/visa-law0/visa-bulletin.html
https://www.uscis.gov/forms/all-forms/how-do-i-request-premium-processing
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter-3
https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary-workers/o-1-visa-individuals-with-extraordinary-ability-or-achievement
What is a great project based Rails tutorial for 2025?
https://rails-tutorial.evilmartians.io/
Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/the-ibm-mainframe-how-it-runs-and-why-it-survives/
https://blogs.oracle.com/peoplesoft/post/take-note-significant-changes-for-peoplesoft-cobol-using-micro-focus-compilers
http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/gradient.c
https://www.cobolcopilot.com/
https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-z-mainframe
https://ctrl-c.us/posts/highlight
https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/hJHCAaiL0so/m/kG3BHV6QFfIJ
https://www.ibm.com/products/z/resources/zxplore
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479536
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787828
https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/retro.pdf
https://prog21.dadgum.com/143.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/cobol/
https://research.ibm.com/blog/watsonx-code-assistant-for-z-is-the-rosetta-stone-for-mainframes
What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/folio-save-now-read-later/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
https://aldur.blog/micros/2025/07/07/pocket/
https://bukmark.me/
https://cubox.cc
https://curi.ooo/
https://fabric.so
https://fika.bar
https://github.com/ArchiveBox/pocket-exporter#-pocket-alternatives
https://github.com/DominikPieper/obsidian-ReadItLater
https://github.com/GeoffreyPlitt/saveit
https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep
https://github.com/koreader/koreader/wiki/Installation-on-Kobo-devices
https://github.com/wallabag/ios-app/issues/185#issuecomment-2999634033
https://histre.com/
https://icannwiki.org/.ooo
https://link.horse
https://linkding.link/
https://linksort.com/
https://linkwarden.app
https://ln.ht/
https://mozaic.link
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=idlewords
https://obsidian.md/clipper
https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket
https://pinboard.in
https://raindrop.io/
https://read.oinam.com/bookmark/39/content
https://readeck.org/en/
https://reading.ashishb.net
https://readwise.io/
https://reederapp.com/
https://savewithfolio.com/
https://support.apple.com/en-us/108970
https://wallabag.org
How do I prevent AI from reading/training off my content?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/
Why do we still flatten embedding spaces?
https://github.com/Intrinsical-AI/geometric-aware-retrieval-v2
https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY
https://nlp.stanford.edu/projects/glove/
What's Your Useful Local LLM Stack?
https://aider.chat/docs/install/optional.html#enable-playwright
http://ciar.org/h/g3
https://docs.openwebui.com/
https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile
https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/gpt4all-scaling-test-time-compute
https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor
What could I build to make your life a little easier?
https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems
https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/cafe-market-report
https://imgur.com/a/EhBepi1
Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt
https://github.com/paulhoule/gastrodon/issues/10
https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news
https://github.com/simonw/tools/blob/main/hacker-news-filtered.html
https://github.com/simonw/tools/commit/ccde4586a1d95ce9f561580e83c5dafa0eda0935
https://github.com/simonw/tools/commit/f95b306be7b584f38825607ca6ac253885b4010f
https://www.hackernews.coffee/
https://hcker.news/?filter=top30&exclude=llm%2C+vibe%2C+openai%2C+anthropic%2C+claude%2C+chatgpt%2C+agent%2C+gemini%2C+mistral%2C+AI%2C+slop%2C+mcp%2C+deepseek
https://hn.algolia.com/
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22erlang%20day%22&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20major%20ongoing%20topic&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=false&query=-llm%20-openai%20-gemini%20-ai%20-mcp&sort=byDate&type=story
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=2048
https://kraa.io/vibecoding
https://lessnews.dev
https://lobste.rs
https://lobste.rs/
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-05-14
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261825
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44454305
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44571740#44572312
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726248
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/
https://ontology2.com/essays/HackerNewsForHackers/
https://salamisushi.go-here.nl
https://techne.app
https://tools.simonwillison.net/hacker-news-filtered
What's the competitive advantage these days?
https://7powers.com/
https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html
Which SaaS have you been able to replace with AI?
https://x.com/jharohit/status/1945756661706330574
Does anyone have OpenBSD projects looking for unpaid/paid help?
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/
Will AI models over time converge into the same system?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987
Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network
https://affine.pro/
https://anytype.io
https://blog.padi.com/talk-to-whales-with-ai/
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3179-understanding-local-network-privacy#Local-network-operations
https://docmost.com
https://getoutline.com
https://github.com/no-instructions/y-sweet
https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb
https://github.com/nperez0111/teleportal
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/346505950
http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/notion/jobs/6345904003
https://lookaway.app
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26113444
https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes
https://www.reddit.com/r/Notion/comments/1i4ypl8/comment/m8otss2/
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/1d041lu/hey_hey_hey/
https://relay.md
https://thymer.com
https://thymer.com/plugins
Can Software Be Durable?
https://12factor.net/backing-services
https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-320/version_id-471906/Microsoft-Office-2007.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program
http://literateprogramming.com/
How do you stay on top of AI tech?
https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/
https://huggingface.co/papers/date/2025-07-15
https://news.smol.ai/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44559627
https://simonwillison.net
https://youtu.be/uU_WeER2PSs
https://www.youtube.com/@aiexplained-official
https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen
How are you tracking dev productivity without feeling micromanaging?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law