New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?
Ask HN: How do small companies do recruitment?
6 by lbriner | 4 comments on Hacker News.
I am based in the UK and find it hard to find good developers/designers/product people. Although we advertise on our web site, unless people are looking quite specifically, they are unlikely to find the adverts (unlike FANGs which would attract candidates directly). Also, Recruiters tend to be a poor and expensive solution. It is hard to tell the good from those who just claim to be good and we get a lot of noise from them. Also, I'm not sure that the best candidates just call a random recruiter to find them a job. What are others doing to both find jobs and to recruit?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why the Obsession with Note Taking?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why the Obsession with Note Taking?
Ask HN: Why the Obsession with Note Taking?
82 by dmje | 86 comments on Hacker News.
If there's one thing absolutely guaranteed to get a gazillion comments on HN, it's a post about either 1) note taking software, 2) note taking methodology 3) a combination of the two. I'm kinda fascinated by this, in large part because I'm sucked in by it too. I can't count the number of apps I've tried, or the dopamine rush when installing a new one. What's this about? Do we all secretly believe we can be truly better people if we can just get this right ? Or are we just endlessly curious about what everyone else does? Tell me, I need to understand myself better!

New top story on Hacker News: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

New top story on Hacker News: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge
75 by nixass | 42 comments on Hacker News.
Last Windows 11 update changed default browser to Edge, default Chrome search-engine to Bing and changed "restore previous tabs" setting to "always open Bing on startup" So they basically messed around with third-party software settings to push their shitty products. This is pathetic, predatory and should be illegal. How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
Ask HN: Career change for elderly UK ex-convict?
41 by throwaway301010 | 23 comments on Hacker News.
I'm looking to get back into an IT career but I have lots of serious impediments. I'd like to ask HN readers for their views on my hopeless(?) situation. Am an ex-solicitor. I got out of UK jail a couple of years ago, I did some whitecollar stuff and I have a permanently un-unspent conviction for money-laundering. I'm over 60 with law & a science degree plus several post-grad qualifications. I'm currently doing a masters in data science for interest. I used to be a programmer back in the 80s and keep up with the topic (Erlang, OCaml, F#, Python Golang etc). I'll never pass jobs with DBS checks due to convictions. plus I guess I'll never get a job coding due to ageism (I'd wondered about COBOL but banks and government wouldn't take me), and I dont fancy doing all the BS prep needed for interviews anyway. But I like stats ML and data so I'd love to try for that. But the age and convictions are a serious problems. I don't imagine anyone on HN has anyone with my collection of problems but does anyone have any suggestions that might help?

New top story on Hacker News: How to read research paper, textbook, long text content?

New top story on Hacker News: How to read research paper, textbook, long text content?
How to read research paper, textbook, long text content?
8 by shivajikobardan | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I can read less text content easily. my way of reading it is to make slides of all those texts and learn from the slides. But I have issue with reading huge huge texts as you know in this case it will require too much time when I do this. Is there way to simplify this reading style? eg-: of sth that I want to read is this. https://ift.tt/3tbd6zC... It takes me 45 minutes to read 3 paragraph and comprehend it at least. If I go that way, you can imagine, how long it takes me to read a research paper. Probably a week to read a research paper lol. Even reading articles in internet is a hassle for me if they are longer. If I just read what I need to learn it is easy as it will be few paragraphs but if I have to learn sth else long it is pain to me as I can't do it timely manner. Are there any udemy courses that teach how to read textbooks for university students that you are aware of?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing?

New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing?
Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing?
20 by supermatt | 13 comments on Hacker News.
I have been learning cad with fusion360, and have already designed, fabricated and built a number of small items for my own (personal) use around the farm. To date, this has meant prototyping with the 3d printer, outsourcing laser cutting of steel (up to 10mm thickness) and welding parts by hand. Its been mainly small tractor attachments/brackets/etc. I am becoming a bit more adventurous with my designs, and have started designing some ideas that would need to be injection moulded to be of any real practical use. There are also some aspects of the design that I believe would need to be rotomoulded to reduce material usage and weight to acceptable levels. How can I move to this "next level" of prototyping and small scale manufacture? Is this something I can achieve myself with (limited) investment in specific machinery (budget ~15k USD)? Im only looking at small runs - but a number of parts, which I would assume would make more commercial offerings expensive?

Wordle Is a Love Story

Wordle Is a Love Story
The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner.

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