Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell — and Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing

Issue #1025 — January 28, 2023

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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell news.ycombinator.com \| points: 501 \| comments: 598

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Erlang’s not about lightweight processes and message passing github.com \| points: 384 \| comments: 221

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Apple: The only big tech giant going against the job cuts tide blog.pragmaticengineer.com \| points: 384 \| comments: 367

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Lytro Unlock – Making a bad camera slightly better github.com \| points: 339 \| comments: 65

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DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request github.com \| points: 329 \| comments: 91

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OsmAnd (OpenStreetMap) 4.3 for Android is fast with a new rendering engine osmand.net \| points: 324 \| comments: 125

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A dinosaur with a remarkably preserved face arstechnica.com \| points: 305 \| comments: 57

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The Mystery of the Dune Font fontsinuse.com \| points: 277 \| comments: 76

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MusicLM: Generating music from text arxiv.org \| points: 261 \| comments: 96

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Forking Chrome to render in a terminal fathy.fr \| points: 257 \| comments: 27

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ChatGPT and the Enshittening of Knowledge castlebridge.ie \| points: 257 \| comments: 261

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PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever gizmodo.com \| points: 255 \| comments: 203

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Slack is the opposite of organizational memory (2018) abe-winter.github.io \| points: 246 \| comments: 186

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SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released sqlalchemy.org \| points: 245 \| comments: 74

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Sci-Hub: knowledge as a human right sci-hub.ru \| points: 244 \| comments: 101

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“They wanted my Instagram handle, and somehow they’ve now got it.” mastodon.social \| points: 243 \| comments: 92

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Contracts you should never sign vadimkravcenko.com \| points: 238 \| comments: 238

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Apple’s Mac security is so good, it’s sending used M1 MacBooks to the scrap heap macworld.com \| points: 213 \| comments: 370

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Thoughts on what a next Rust compiler would do matklad.github.io \| points: 211 \| comments: 138

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The Galaga no-fire-cheat mystery (2012) jasoneckert.github.io \| points: 200 \| comments: 93

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