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Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

2026-04-19 @ 10:55:38Points: 14Comments: 8

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7

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Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?

2026-04-19 @ 09:17:12Points: 48Comments: 24

I’m focused on helping SMEs sort out the messy back-office parts of the business: spreadsheet glue, brittle internal workflows, poor reporting, awkward integrations, backend/platform problems, and AI workflows that need to do real work rather than just look good in a demo.

I’m not really interested in becoming a generic agency. I’d rather work with businesses that already feel operational pain and need someone technical to help untangle it properly.

For those of you who’ve made this jump:

* how did you get your first real project? * what kind of outreach actually worked? * did your first few clients come from network, content, cold outreach, partnerships, subcontracting, or somewhere else?

Also, if anyone knows SMEs or operators dealing with this sort of mess, I’d be glad to chat.

As a gesture of goodwill, I’m offering the first 5 clients 10 hours free to help get an initial project moving.

You can find me over at https://crescita.cc

SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)

2026-04-19 @ 08:45:48Points: 73Comments: 30

Binary GCD

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The seven programming ur-languages

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Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702

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The world in which IPv6 was a good design

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Zero-Copy GPU Inference from WebAssembly on Apple Silicon

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My first impressions on ROCm and Strix Halo

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NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers

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Optimizing Ruby Path Methods

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Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design

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College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work

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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

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Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

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Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner

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Why Japan has such good railways

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State of Kdenlive

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Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975

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What are skiplists good for?

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Binary Dependencies: Identifying the Hidden Packages We All Depend On

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Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC

2026-04-16 @ 17:13:50Points: 50Comments: 23

Dizzying Spiral Staircase with Single Guardrail Once Led to Top of Eiffel Tower

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Game devs explain the tricks involved with letting you pause a game

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Updating Gun Rocket through 10 years of Unity Engine

2026-04-16 @ 12:00:00Points: 89Comments: 38

Sumida Aquarium Posts 2026 Penguin Relationship Chart, with Drama and Breakups

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Metatextual Literacy

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Modern Common Lisp with FSet

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It's cool to care (2025)

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