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mindwork··on Uninstall the NightOwl app
Little Snitch would help detecting to which IPs and addresses app connects and allow to block those connections
mindwork··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
For a green card holder, with Russian girlfriend. If they get married and petition for family reunion, how long will it take her to get in US? Are there any routes to speed up this process?
mindwork··on Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?
Diablo I. I was immersed in this grim, dark world by visuals, music and sounds. Gameplay was a revelation for me as well
mindwork··on Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing to?
- https://golangweekly.com/

- https://blog.bytebytego.com/

- Inside Tech

- TLDR Web Dev

A mix of news and tech articles

mindwork··on How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries
https://10kbclub.com/

https://250kb.club/

https://1mb.club/

mindwork··on DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube
Instead of crowdsourcing you can download captions for the video and send it to chatgpt to make a title for you.
mindwork··on DeArrow: Crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube
Can confirm. My youtube experience became infinitely better after I installed unhooked and shorts blocker extensions
mindwork··on Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?
376 items accumulated over 12 years using password manager and multiple cleanup runs. I think top for me was around 480.

It was hard to find it in the new version of 1password

mindwork··on Conway's Game of Life digital clock
I'm constantly blown away by the fact that such a simple rules can lead to complex systems such as this. Changed my perspective on a lot of things after that
mindwork··on Ask HN: How do you become smarter?
1. Find leverage

2. Do less, but better

3. Get healthy

mindwork··on Not by AI
Everything is a remix
mindwork··on I'm a very slow thinker (2016)
This article had huge influence on me when I first read it. It helped me to understand that I'm not alone, and that there are people like that in the world. That thinking slow is not a mental deficiency or lack of something, but rather different way of processing information. There was nothing wrong with me. And it gave me the hope that people who think slow can be successful too. You just have to play your strengths and cover for your weaknesses.
mindwork··on Show HN: PodText.ai – Search anything said on a podcast, highlight text to play
wow, I had the same idea as my next home project. I put off working on it for too long. And this looks exactly as what I was hoping to achieve. Guess I have to find another idea. As mentioned in the comments there are so many great services in this space.

I had this problem of vaguely remembering something on the podcast that I listen to, and I wanted to find it by keywords. Using podtext.ai I was able to do it. So I consider it solved

mindwork··on Ask HN: How do you deal with information and internet addiction?
In order to change the behavior, first you need to grow the context and understanding of why you want to do this, what are downsides, what tropes do you want to avoid.

I recommend reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport and Essentialism by Greg McKeown.

First understand the problem and all the aspects of it. Then action will foolow

mindwork··on Transmission v4.0
I disagree. I was using that because it had RSS integration. Since then - RSS integration got broken for me.

Also there is something wrong with their scheduler/thread performance. Any time I add any torrents to the downloads, GUI starts to pause for multiple seconds at a time. At this point it's unusable unless you are willing to wait multiple seconds for any action that you want to do. I don't know whats wrong, but it shouldn't happen on Mac

mindwork··on Monocle: A pocket sized open-source AR device
I'm confused why there is no YouTube in the social media section on the site. Demo video is what I need the most to make a decision about buying a product
mindwork··on Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
I had the same idea for a startup. Never moved on it though. On a hackathon investor told me that it would be a mess to break in to music licensing for different companies
mindwork··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
I keep hearing good things about Oura ring, but I'm fended off by subscription model for the hardware that you buy and own. Is there any way around that? I don't want to pay for Yet Another Subscription
mindwork··on Ask HN: What's your home network setup?
I just got Unifi Dream Router and started playing with it a day ago. So far I've got: home, guest and IoT networks set up. PiHole and VPN server running on my Synology NAS server. I want to add captive portal for my guest network and move VPN server to the router itself. Forwarding some ports to access Synology from the internet with custom domain name. DDNS on synology. Pretty simple but I look forward to expand with my home server. Also in plans to setup second Synology box offsite and connect them via Point to Point VPN or tailscale
mindwork··on Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
There was no problem with my Airpods pro gen 1, but I bought new gen 2 version just because I wanted to support Apple for making such a great product. I never leave the house without them. Got it on sale for thanksgiving holidays
mindwork··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
I went in some coffeeshop in Iceland, and when I got there I saw locked wifi. I guessed the password which was related to the coffeeshop name and it worked from the first time. Thats my proudest 'hack'

And the luckiest hacks were when I was editing diablo 2 save files with HEX editor in FAR commander and getting tons of super cool items in the process. And sometimes a broken save file

mindwork··on Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
Question: Can robot injure human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm?

Answer: To explain, the robot can injure a human being by its action, but it can also allow a human being to come to harm by its inaction.

Q: Can a robot be a moral agent?

A: Yes

-- That didn't answer my question robot

mindwork··on Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)
Question: Will the reapers come in our lifetime to harvest us?

Answer: To explain, the reapers are the people who harvest the crops of the earth. The crops are the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people who harvest the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people. The reapers are the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people who harvest the people.

- I think I got it in the loop. Referenced Mass effect

mindwork··on Ask HN: URL format for blog posts - which format is best?
My thinking would be this:

* If you have a subdomain for your blog(example: blog.mydomain.com) then you don't need /posts

* if you don't have subdomain, you can use /posts, to distinguish between regular pages of your site and blog articles. Because you might have mydomain.com/about and mydomain.com/contact pages

* Don't put metadata such as publish dates as it can be modified or changed in the future. Also it's relative.

* As for example 3, you would probably need it in case when you have lots of articles and there might be a slug collision. I wouldn't worry about that unless you are media organization

mindwork··on What is the simple and modern way to build web app in 2022?
The question is why are you building it? - If you care about getting project off the ground, then you can use this link: (https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology-slides) - If you care about learning new framework or language or keeping up with industry, there are plenty of articles around. Just yesterday I watched a video called "My Bleeding Edge Tech Stack for 2025" from Fireship. Might be a good start if you are in to frontend
mindwork··on Being swamped is normal and not impressive
I ended up in the hospital as well because of the startup that I tried to co-found. 9 years later I still have side effects of that. I was reading your story with interest
mindwork··on Ask HN: I'm in a rut. How did you get out of yours?
+1 for CBT. Exercise and good diet might take you so far, but not all the way. If you won't work on your mind, and the problems that accumulated there you won't go 100%.

What helped me out is finding a good information about CBT and its principles, where it explained clearly in simple terms. After that - actually doing the work myself. I did journal different situations that produced strong negative emotions or body reactions throughout the day for 3 months. Event-Thought-Emotion-Reaction. That helped out to find running themes in my head. Then afterwards every 2 weeks I went through the journal and wrote down alternative thoughts for it.

Remember when you going to the talk therapist you are expecting them to solve your problem, to give you the pill that solves everything. That won't work. You must do the job in the first place. With good information you don't even need to go to the therapist, you just need to be desperate enough that you start actually working on it. At least that what worked for me. Meditation is also pretty good, but same as exercise won't take you all the way there

mindwork··on Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?
I'm using Feedly. Checking it once a couple of weeks and happy about my flow. Here are the blogs that I follow: - https://jvns.ca/atom.xml - http://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml - https://blog.kowalczyk.info/atom.xml - https://ashfurrow.com/feed.xml - https://sneak.berlin/feed.xml - https://sookocheff.com/index.xml - https://www.hanselman.com/blog/feed/rss - https://zachholman.com/atom.xml - https://www.wezm.net/v2/rss.xml - https://alexdanco.com/feed/ - https://tyler.io/feed/ - https://tylertringas.com/feed/
mindwork··on Times are great for programmers now. How does it end?
Programming skills are more universal and don't depend on the country. Whereas lawyers and doctors have different standards and laws to operate on. It would be tough for immigrant to justify to spending 4-7 years studying laws of another country just to take a chance with H-1. If you fail to obtain that you virtually unemployable by your country and need to spend more time learning laws of you country
mindwork··on Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
I was not aware of that, somehow I missed that news. Thanks I'm too will be looking for alternative. Based on comments here PIA looks as good alternative and also cheaper
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