Hacker Wisdom

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

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Can Software Be Durable?

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-320/version_id-471906/Microsoft-Office-2007.html

http://literateprogramming.com/

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

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

CrushFTP zero-day alert – patch now

https://www.crushftp.com/crush11wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=CompromiseJuly2025

What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

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://savewithfolio.com/

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108970

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

Which SaaS have you been able to replace with AI?

https://x.com/jharohit/status/1945756661706330574

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://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/cafe-market-report

https://imgur.com/a/EhBepi1

Will AI models over time converge into the same system?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07987

What's the competitive advantage these days?

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/swe-level-framework.html

Does anyone have OpenBSD projects looking for unpaid/paid help?

https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/

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

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

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