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gigantinoon Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations

Now could you make one for urban noises? (e.g. traffic, trash truck, drunk guys at 3AM etc)

gigantinoon The Amazon forest has an almost 3x year-on-year increase in fires in February

I thought the same, funnily enough they just changed the title :)

When I was young I tried to make my own alarm clock.

My masterplan was to print the time to the display (starting from 8 AM), wait a second and print the next value. All manually, obviously.

I remember eventually giving up because it was getting too boring. I think I discovered about loops a year after the event.

Great times :)

gigantinoon Fake Brit till You Make it

Had a good laugh, great job! :)

gigantinoon How do you browse Hacker News?

I use my own custom client since I couldn't find anything that satisfied me enough, and the ones that looked nice didn't work without JS. You can find it over at https://hn.gigantino.dev, while the source is at https://github.com/gigantino/hn

gigantinoon Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data

I personally believe that the salaries and quality of life in Switzerland make it the best place for programmers in EU.

gigantinoon Show HN: Historical HN Hiring Data

I absolutely love it! You are missing Switzerland though which probably has the most interesting programming landscape in Europe.

gigantinoon Show HN: Gitgpt – Natural Language Git

Absolutely wasted opportunity. You could have called it "Chat GitPT"

gigantinoon Ask HN: Did you tell your employer you use AI to do your work?

Had an interview with a company the other day, I stated that I loved using ChatGPT to view problems from another perspective and to quickly write boilerplate code. They ended up hiring me, so I guess they didn't mind? At the end of they day it's just another tool, exactly like your IDE's autocompletion.

gigantinoon Ask HN: How do you manage your digital footprint in 2023?

I've been using Revolut and their disposable cards for over two years now, but I never liked it as much as Privacy.com since they didn't allow you to set a spending limit. And well, if it wasn't for your comment I would have never discovered that Revolut actually implemented said feature. Thank you!

gigantinoon Ask HN: How do you manage your digital footprint in 2023?

Unfortunately it's available only in the US...

gigantinoon Ask HN-Beginner Arduino Kits

I started off with Arduino when I was 10 thanks to my dad so I could unironically say that I have 10 years of programming experience. You are a good dad man, your kid is going to remember your effort.

Anyhow, other than buying a kit you should also consider getting a book even though there are probably loads of tutorials on YouTube explaining all of the basics.