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laroseon Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1

I've been tracking this as well [1], and there's indeed a clear difference between pre-2023 and 2023 onward.

laroseon Ask HN: Will you help create a void-filler for the defunct hnbadges.netlify.app?

Regarding the HN to sqlite part, I'm writing a "syncer" that continuously updates data from HN to a local sqlite database. Its goal is to enable anyone to have a local copy of the HN dataset to build various projects (like yours) on top of it. I'm about to release it as an open-source project and would love to collaborate to make sure it supports your use case. I couldn't find an email address in your profile, so please reach out if you're interested.

laroseon Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

Not LLM-based, but I built https://hn.lixiasearch.com . Feel free to use it as a comparison point :)

laroseon Changelog-Driven Releases

Oops, that's just bad writing from me. Should be clearer now that they aren't cancelling each other. Thanks!

laroseon Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?

Same! You may enjoy "Everyday Engineering: Understanding the Marvels of Daily Life" from The Great Courses [0]. It's free on Kanopy through many libraries.

[0]: https://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/everyday-engineering...

laroseon Ask HN: How do you backup your personal data? (2022)

I use Oak Backup (https://www.oakbackup.com) and backup to S3.

laroseon YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

Indeed. And you don't even need to create a PR to "inject" commits into a GitHub repo. You just need to fork it and push to your fork. See https://mathieularose.com/github-commit-injection

laroseon Ask HN: What algorithms should I research to code a conference scheduling app

Your problem is a scheduling problem. It has been well studied in operations research [1] / mathematical optimization [2].

Basically, you formulate your problem as a integer programming model [3] and use a solver [4] to solve it. You should check PuLP [5].

You can also ask your question at OR Exchange [6].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations_research

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_optimization_software

[5] https://pythonhosted.org/PuLP/

[6] https://www.or-exchange.org/

laroseon Ask HN: What are the services you use to monitor your website/service/api?

I use https://attomon.com (disclaimer: I'm the creator)

I'm also interested in hearing what you like and don't like about your current website monitoring solution.

laroseon What are you working on?

https://attomon.com - Website monitoring

https://maitreinvestisseur.ca (French) - Why and how to invest using low-cost index funds.

laroseon Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data

I did something similar to gpg-encrypt: https://github.com/larose/eef/

It's a wrapper for gpg to edit encrypted files.

laroseon Ask HN: Do you log your time at work?

Yes, I use https://github.com/larose/utt

Disclosure: I'm the author.