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leonhardon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

Can you elaborate? Which currencies and how do the lending pools work?

leonhardon Young adults and mental health: Is more childhood independence the answer?

Thank you!

leonhardon Young adults and mental health: Is more childhood independence the answer?

How did you improve your conflict management skills and do you have any particular lessons to share?

leonhardon A simple guide on words to avoid in government

That’s really interesting thanks for sharing

As a German native speaker reading the first few examples this just sounds a lot like literal translations from German that I hear a lot of German speakers use when their English level isn’t that advanced (as I often perceive it to be the case for politicians as well) or only used at work and not gained from using/being exposed to English in native/cultural contexts:

Actor – Aktoren (commonly used fancy word in German government communication)

Actorness (not a direct translation but very common in German to make any noun into a different one through pre-/suffixes)

Actual – aktuell (means current and definitely not actual)

Adequate – adequat (means appropriate and definitely not adequate)

leonhardon TikTok’s Secret Sauce

I was wondering that as well and recently came across this long article in the Economist [0] which goes quite into depth how precisely engineered those videos are to capture attention

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20221109233539/https://www.econo...

leonhardon How friendships change in adulthood

What kind of secondary connections were those the second time if I may ask? I might be in this situation soon and wondering if I can direct it in some way.

leonhardon Show HN: Crawlee – Web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js

I‘m very new to web scraping, can you explain what the use cases are for each and how you can switch between them? As far as I understood you can use HTTP scraping for static websites and need some kind of browser/headless browser to scrape dynamically rendered websites. How would you do that with plain HTTP? By figuring out the ajax network requests and then sending those directly?

leonhardon The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

A bit off-topic but as a non-native, what are the rules the New Yorker is following with the spelling of some words?

reëntry, coöperation, teen-ager

Have never seen that before

leonhardon Old jokes

ohh ok that makes sense, thank you

leonhardon Old jokes

  whats a fish with no eyes.

  dead

That one I found way too funny haha

leonhardon Old jokes

Ok I’ll bite. I don’t get it but I also don’t even think you’re racist, I’m just completely lost. Maybe it’s a non-native English issue? Please elaborate

leonhardon GnuCash – Open-source personal and small-business accounting software

Do you have suggestions for similar software that uses the EU/UK Open Banking APIs? Would really be interested.

leonhardon Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just paid for content

Never heard of this. Where would one find such a service?

leonhardon Beanstalk Farms stablecoin project loses $182M to exploit

Out of interest, which crypto projects are the ones you describe as legitimate and trustworthy?

leonhardon Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

Would be very interested in that blog post or some more detail haha

Did it have some kind of decision making functionality to decide which people to like?

leonhardon Terrible things I'd do with your money

Interesting, thank you

leonhardon Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

What did you use for that Tinder script? Is it just based on the web version of it with some scraping?

leonhardon Terrible things I'd do with your money

Could you name some of those interesting and well-funded startups? I find it really hard to find them naturally but would love to get to know some more.