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akshaykumar90on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

I am making a minimal Pocket/Instapaper/Pinboard replacement. It supports tags as a first-class feature and no-feed as an anti-feature.

akshaykumar90on Pinboard vs. Raindrop

Great comparison. I am working on Savory which tries to keep it very simple and might be interesting to folks looking to jump off Pinboard: https://getsavory.co/. There is a chrome extension to save links and tags are a first-class citizen. There is no support for archiving or sharing yet, but it is something I want to add soon.

akshaykumar90on Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

The decision to lay off must be made months ago. The point about setting a new record is to convey and reassure future growth potential to investors and employees (who are also stock holders).

akshaykumar90on Ask HN: Understanding How Databases Work

These are just 2 recent links from my bookmarks:

- How a SQL database works <https://calpaterson.com/how-a-sql-database-works.html>

- Making a change to SQLite source code <https://brunocalza.me/making-a-change-to-sqlite-source-code/>

I can recommend following Phil Eaton on twitter: https://twitter.com/phil_eaton. They post lots of nitty gritty posts about database development. I likely discovered the above links via their feed.

akshaykumar90on Ask HN: Where do you host images for your blog or landing pages?

OP here. All answers are good. I was looking for a lay of the land and appreciate all the options people are chipping in with.

akshaykumar90on Anatomy of Linux Dynamic Libraries

Can you share a link if available?

akshaykumar90on I tracked everything I read on the internet for a year

Great writeup. I too have a long reading list - currently at 133.

I use my own little side project (Savory) to track the list. When I come across a page that I don't have the time or energy to finish right now, I save it and add the "reading" tag to it. When I have free time, I can open the reading tag and pick up something new to read.

The best part is that I usually add a couple more tags (e.g. "security" or "economics" etc.) when I save a link. This way, the reading list allows me to filter by topic. It has been an unexpected hack to attack the growing list, since I am usually able to finish multiple articles in a single run, all in the same topic, because there is usually a link between them even when I might have saved them days or weeks apart.

Anyway I like how OP actually has a reading history. I really need to add something similar in Savory. Right now, when I finish reading something, I just remove the "reading" tag and I don't get a neat history.

akshaykumar90on Ask HN: Location based pay is killing my motivation, how do others handle it?

> people earn more in San Francisco because the rent is a gazillion dollars

It's actually the other way around. Rent is a gazillion dollars because people are paid so much and the housing supply is very limited.

akshaykumar90on Modern JavaScript Tutorial

That's the joke.

akshaykumar90on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Companies will have to setup a local entity in your country of residence to pay you.

akshaykumar90on Inbox Zero Using Getpocket

I am working on something similar to Pocket: https://getsavory.co/. It's early days for Savory -- you can only save links from Chrome so far.

After you install the extension, you simply bookmark your tabs (using the keyboard shortcut or clicking the star icon) and they show up in Savory. The app is centered around tags and we are planning to add more features depending on what users want. I would love to get feedback if you want to give it a try.

akshaykumar90on Just how far can you travel by bus from London in 24 hours?

To everyone looking for the answer:

It was Morecambe, UK -- after 21hrs and 24mins.

akshaykumar90on Ask HN: How do you deal with information addiction?

I was in the same boat till recently. For me, it was Hacker News that felt like this infinite firehose. I felt anxiety if I did not read HN some day—like information was slipping away from me forever.

This is what I did:

- Rely more on my Twitter timeline. I follow <200 people and have my timeline show tweets in chronological order and I am able to "catch-up" once every day. I only check it in the morning.

- Subscribe to some link-aggregator newsletters, like hackernewsletter, that sends a weekly digest of interesting links every Friday.

- But most importantly, just come to terms with information overload that we all are living through right now and it's ok if you miss out sometimes. If it was important, you will come across it later. :)

akshaykumar90on MIT OpenCourseWare

I want to call out the Introduction to Algorithms [0] course which was the gateway drug into the online courses for me back in ~2009. I learnt CS from this and other open courses from MIT and Berkeley and would forever be grateful for these resources.

[0]: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...

akshaykumar90on Ask HN: What (side-)project are you working on?

I am building Savory to save my open tabs and bookmarks for later. It lets you add tags to organize and quickly find the link when you need it. It is similar to other bookmark managers like pinboard and delicious (rip).

https://getsavory.co/

akshaykumar90on Delicious back online in read-only mode

I loved delicious and was really mad when Yahoo ran it into the ground. I never found anything like that since. Some time ago I started my own project trying to recreate the tagging experience that was central to delicious. The landing page is still a work-in-progress but feel free to check it out: https://getsavory.co/.

akshaykumar90on Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

If it is even remotely related, it is not spam.

akshaykumar90on Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years

That would be https://whimsical.com/.

akshaykumar90on Larder.io – Bookmarking for Developers

If you are looking for a minimal, fast bookmark manager, check out https://getsavory.co/.