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c17r··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
You want to post in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156682 not here
c17r··on CSRF protection without tokens or hidden form fields
I just tried with the "links" browser and I get a "Update your browser. Your browser isn't supported anymore. To continue your search, upgrade to a recent version"
c17r··on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
As far as I've understood/remember SSO was logging on with a single ID and not logging on a single time.
c17r··on Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?
Best I've seen is from the venerable Jon Skeet: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...
c17r··on The death of Glitch, the birth of Slack
Don't forget Blogger
c17r··on How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in a running inter (2017)
You can also do:

    $ ls [files ...]
    $ ^ls^rm
c17r··on Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun
An HN "item" is not just posts but everything: posts, comments, the parts of a poll, etc.

Still an impressive number

c17r··on Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later
> The soundtrack was literally written on the way to the recording studio, and you can tell

You can still listen to the soundtrack on Amazon Music :-)

I bought both the DVD and the soundtrack back in the day. While it's no Grammy winner, there are a couple of good ones in there

c17r··on Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later
There's also "E-Dreams" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262021/
c17r··on Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later
I don't have that one but I do have the 8-episode "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley" from 2012.

Also "Startup.com" from 2001

And "e-Dreams" from 2001

c17r··on Show HN: Squabblr – A Twitter/Reddit hybrid platform
It's https://squabblr.co (no m)

The HN link has it correct but the body has it wrong

c17r··on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
According to Bitwarden, 479 accounts
c17r··on Effective Immediately: A central hub for people who've been recently laid off (2020)
When I was freelancing, I would have a Master Service Agreement that spelled out the "rules of engagement" and the actual work was in a Statement Of Work that lasted roughly 3 months. Gave each party the ability to pull the rip cord
c17r··on How to read Hacker News threads with most recent comments first
This is a handy way to search for things in the monthly "Who's Hiring" threads
c17r··on Ask HN: Sublime Text users, what plugins are you using?
Diagram: https://github.com/jvantuyl/sublime_diagram_plugin

DiffTabs: https://packagecontrol.io/packages/DiffTabs

HTMLPrettify: https://github.com/victorporof/Sublime-HTMLPrettify

Outline: https://github.com/warmdev/SublimeOutline

PlainTasks: https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks

c17r··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
https://github.com/inertiajs/inertia-django
c17r··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022)
FYI, Engineering Manager isn't listed on the careers page
c17r··on Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
SRE jokingly stands for "SysAdmin, Really Expensive"
c17r··on Why companies move off Heroku (besides the cost)
- piku https://github.com/piku/piku

- caprover https://caprover.com/

c17r··on My lazy Wordle strategy: same words every time
ALIEN

ROUST

gets all the vowels plus some very common consonants

c17r··on Ack is a grep-like source code search tool
If it's just searching through a single project inside an IDE, I agree with you.

But I have a Livegrep instance setup to index all 1000 repos into a single search space and it's still nigh instantaneous.

c17r··on Ack is a grep-like source code search tool
Livegrep https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep is my weapon of choice these days.
c17r··on Lesson: Stop saying “Hi” and waiting for a response
Reminds me a bit of Scott Hanselman's "One Email Rule" https://www.hanselman.com/blog/one-email-rule-have-a-separat... that requires a bit of training on other people's part (for the good of all)
c17r··on Lufthansa confirmed that 18k flights had been flown empty to keep slots
Saw somewhere last week that Air Brussels did the same thing with 3,000 flights

Edit: it was HN apparently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29818050

c17r··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
I play Twenty on an almost daily basis. It's my go-to for quick time killer.
c17r··on How to build a second brain as a software developer
I have this problem as well. The more I try to settle on a single system, the more my brain wants to run wild.
c17r··on Show HN: Escape Team
well, it's loading now but the document is taking around 10s to load.
c17r··on Show HN: Escape Team
Doesn't come up for me, timed out
c17r··on It feels like America is running out of everything
I installed the same ones in all our bathrooms. I fell in love with it after a business trip to India. It took until the TP shortage for my partner to agree and now they love it as well.
c17r··on Show HN: Display a bell emoji on HN comments you haven't read yet
I use https://www.hnreplies.com/ for that
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