Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
14 by david927 | 17 comments on Hacker News.
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
14 by david927 | 17 comments on Hacker News.
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
Here's how to get ChatGPT to stop being an overly flattering yes man
16 by miles | 1 comments on Hacker News.
16 by miles | 1 comments on Hacker News.
AI Helps Find a Cause of Alzheimer's Disease and Identify Therapeutic Candidate
12 by pedalpete | 6 comments on Hacker News.
12 by pedalpete | 6 comments on Hacker News.
National Archives Releases Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Records
42 by gnabgib | 24 comments on Hacker News.
42 by gnabgib | 24 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: I made a web-based, free alternative to Screen Studio
7 by johnwheeler | 0 comments on Hacker News.
7 by johnwheeler | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Ask HN: CS Degrees, do they matter again?
5 by platevoltage | 1 comments on Hacker News.
tldr; skip to the -------- Last time I "Asked HN", I was in a very different place. Fresh out of a bootcamp, right at the peak, and subsequent collapse of the Covid hiring. It didn't go well. However, another HN reader turned me on to Upwork, and over the last 2 years, I've been building modest freelancing career. I came from an automotive background where I made awful money, moved to the Bay Area, became a bike messenger in San Francisco because I didn't know what to do with myself, and once again made awful money. I had been a hobbyist programmer for years by this point, so I got sucked into the bootcamp racket. The program was great. I got what I needed out of it, although the certificate wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. I landed an ongoing contract on Upwork, which I still work on which really changed everything for me. I also landed an internship at Akamai as a Cloud Support Engineer, which never resulted in employment, but I'm not sure it's the type of work that I really want to be doing. It was more of a foot in the door type thing for me. Either way, I am now making a living off of software development. A lucrative living? no, but it works for my lifestyle. Several years ago, we were all told "You don't need a degree bro, degrees are obsolete bro, companies only care about what you know". I found out that this wasn't true the hard way, however now I at least have some professional experience to my name. The job market is bad for everyone right now. I'm not necessarily looking for a job ATM, but at some point, the grind and hustle of freelancing might either fizzle out, or I might just get tired of it. Now that that's out of the way, here is my question... ---------- I've thought about doing an online CS degree. It seems like this can be done for less than 15 grand, and also doable while still making money. Is this a bad idea? Is this a good idea? Is this necessary if I want to be employable in the future?
5 by platevoltage | 1 comments on Hacker News.
tldr; skip to the -------- Last time I "Asked HN", I was in a very different place. Fresh out of a bootcamp, right at the peak, and subsequent collapse of the Covid hiring. It didn't go well. However, another HN reader turned me on to Upwork, and over the last 2 years, I've been building modest freelancing career. I came from an automotive background where I made awful money, moved to the Bay Area, became a bike messenger in San Francisco because I didn't know what to do with myself, and once again made awful money. I had been a hobbyist programmer for years by this point, so I got sucked into the bootcamp racket. The program was great. I got what I needed out of it, although the certificate wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. I landed an ongoing contract on Upwork, which I still work on which really changed everything for me. I also landed an internship at Akamai as a Cloud Support Engineer, which never resulted in employment, but I'm not sure it's the type of work that I really want to be doing. It was more of a foot in the door type thing for me. Either way, I am now making a living off of software development. A lucrative living? no, but it works for my lifestyle. Several years ago, we were all told "You don't need a degree bro, degrees are obsolete bro, companies only care about what you know". I found out that this wasn't true the hard way, however now I at least have some professional experience to my name. The job market is bad for everyone right now. I'm not necessarily looking for a job ATM, but at some point, the grind and hustle of freelancing might either fizzle out, or I might just get tired of it. Now that that's out of the way, here is my question... ---------- I've thought about doing an online CS degree. It seems like this can be done for less than 15 grand, and also doable while still making money. Is this a bad idea? Is this a good idea? Is this necessary if I want to be employable in the future?
The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues
4 by c420 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
4 by c420 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
To 'Reclaim Future-Making', Amazon Workers Published Collection of SciFi Stories
7 by m463 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
7 by m463 | 3 comments on Hacker News.
The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain
11 by NaOH | 0 comments on Hacker News.
11 by NaOH | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Inference-Aware Fine-Tuning for Best-of-N Sampling in Large Language Models
5 by mfiguiere | 0 comments on Hacker News.
5 by mfiguiere | 0 comments on Hacker News.
Show HN: Cleverb.ee – open-source agent that writes a cited research report
8 by nickwatson | 1 comments on Hacker News.
8 by nickwatson | 1 comments on Hacker News.