Hacker Wisdom
A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.
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How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?
https://www.divepod.to
https://flux-kontext.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599228
Why did my free tools site with 600 tools make almost $0 after 2 years?
https://www.kodytools.com/commission-calculator
Who is looking for a cofounder in London?
https://www.meetup.com/find/?location=gb--17--London&source=EVENTS&keywords=startup&eventType=inPerson
FreeToolSuite – 200 growing collection of genuinely useful free online tools
https://freetoolsuite.com/
How you network in NYC as a founder from out of town
https://lu.ma/5r0f1n1k
How do you name your product? Are there any standardized ways?
https://bilgu.com/tools/ai-generated-names
https://www.tomswift.info/homepage/rocket2.html
Claude Code–style agent, but Aider-like and model-agnostic?
https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router
https://github.com/opencode-ai/opencode
Why is virtualization still not solved?
https://www.arthurkoziel.com/qemu-ubuntu-20-04/
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
https://github.com/evansm7/vftool
https://github.com/KhaosT/SimpleVM
https://omakub.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Bananas
What is so good about MCP servers?
https://modelcontextprotocol.info/specification/
Why do Cursor, Windsurf and Claude Code dominate the conversation?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect
https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
https://github.com/onestardao/WFGY
https://huggingface.co/spaces/galileo-ai/agent-leaderboard
https://x.com/sawyerhood/status/1945865702159925734
https://youtu.be/Lon0oRRqB6A?t=334
Good Starting OS for Children?
https://web.archive.org/web/20170223012445/http://v3.sk/~lkundrak/netbsd-sk_cz-howto/summary-en.html
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
Why is Gmail so incompetent at basic search?
https://flux-kontext.io/
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=33707
https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/
https://marcoapp.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://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/modern-mainframe-development/9781098107017/
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
https://seedance.one/
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.imagen4.org/
https://www.nomic.ai/blog/posts/gpt4all-scaling-test-time-compute
https://zed.dev/blog/fastest-ai-code-editor