Ask HN: Did anyone else see an avalanche of old email appear in Gmail? by DamnInteresting

This past Wednesday something strange happened to my main email address, which is a POP3 mailbox that is pulled into Gmail. Something came unstuck, and a bit over 10,000 messages slowly piled into my inbox throughout the day, with dates from 2023 and 2024.All but a handful of these were spam, and Gmail wasn’t marking

ByHackTechMay 16, 20250Comments

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Ask HN: Anyone with experience using scoped CSS? by cies

In my experience CSS is still a major time sink on large web projects. The main things being:1) CSS links to HTML based on strings (ids and class names) so we cannot catch typos or automate rename-refactorings, and2) CSS is not scoped (every rule works on every element).The lack of scoping aggravates the pain of

ByHackTechMay 16, 20250Comments

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Ask HN: Has anyone switched from NextAuth.js to BetterAuth? by humphrey_liu

Hi HN,I’m working on a new project where I need to implement authentication in a Next.js app. In my previous project, I used NextAuth.js — it worked well, but I ran into some limitations when trying to support multi-tenant auth and integrate custom flows.I recently came across BetterAuth and it looks promising — simpler APIs

ByHackTechApril 30, 20250Comments

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Ask HN: Is anyone still using Coldfusion? by tnolet

Ask HN: Is anyone still using Coldfusion?

ByHackTechFebruary 22, 20250Comments

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“A calculator app? Anyone could make that.” by greg7mdp

“A calculator app? Anyone could make that.” Not true. A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That’s much, much harder than it sounds. What I’m about to tell you is the greatest calculator app development story ever told. That picture is from iOS calculator. Notice anything? It’s wrong. (10^100)

ByHackTechFebruary 16, 20250Comments

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Ask HN: Anyone else find LLM related posts causing them to lose interest in HN by 3vidence

Loved this site for a long time, always felt like I could come to learn something interesting and find niche topics and experts.Feels like posts have overwhelmingly been on LLMs for the past few years and I've just lost interest.Makes me sad, this was really my favorite site.

ByHackTechJanuary 26, 20250Comments

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Anyone heard of SalaryScript? Debating if I should pre-order by tzeng

WHAT’S INSIDE Step-by-Step Negotiation Tactics to Maximize Your Next Job Offer Level up your negotiation skills with scripts used by top tech talent to earn 20% – 60% more Field-Tested Tactics Packed with real-world strategies and scripts that have been used successfully by tech professionals to secure high increases in their offers. Field-Tested Tactics Packed

ByHackTechJanuary 7, 20250Comments

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Ask HN: Anyone in Faro, Portugal? by codingclaws

I'm moving there soon and was wondering if any developers want to meet up.

ByHackTechNovember 15, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: Anyone lost a lot of money with NFTs/Cryptos? What’s your story? by agent008t

I remember 2 years ago there were a lot of posts/comments from people having significant chunks of their net worth (e.g. 3M$ out of 4M$) in NFTs or cryptos.Were you one of them? Would be interesting to hear your story. Was it a wild ride for you? How did you manage? What are you doing

ByHackTechOctober 24, 20230Comments

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Ask HN: Anyone Using MacBook Air M2 24GB for Developement? by gls2ro

I am planning to change my Macbook as it is old and Intel-based.Current problems: – Cannot do Video calls with share screen – live coding – because it gets throttled – Cannot use both laptop display and external monitor – because it gets throttledI have an external fan that I use to be able to

ByHackTechOctober 13, 20230Comments

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