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timmiton Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder

Will a team wise GitHub repo a better solution?

- free version control - one line set up

timmiton Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

I got a 48GB Ram MacBook, somehow I cannot even run a 20b model, I was suprised that you get 35b model locally.

timmiton Data centers in space makes no sense

This is my 2 cents, I have an engineer background, not space science background.

At earth or above sea, we use cooling to maintain the temperature below 60 degrees, or 80 or 100 or something.

Shadow of space is -157 degrees, the cooling design will be different.

timmiton Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://tradeinsight.info

Give users easy access to trade insights.

timmiton Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)

https://tradeinsight.info

To provide trading insights for users.

timmiton Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

:) Yeah

timmiton Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

My bad, TradeInsight without s. :(

Maybe this is why I didn't get customers, keeping typing it wrongly. :(

timmiton Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

I made a website to alert people about inside trading and congress trading, https://tradeinsight.info (updated)

Not $500/month yet, but towards it, the work flow is quite simple, the infrastructure is a bit complicated, need quite amount of time to maintain.

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Get notified whenever members of Congress trade, including Nancy Pelosi, Mark Green, Michael McCaul and more. Our platform tracks the trades of over 210 US politicians and strives to provide accurate and reliable information on their public stock trades

timmiton Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

I like this article, I just don't think it will work in capitalism world.

I could be wrong.

timmiton Show HN: File0 – An easier way to manage files in serverless apps

R u going to list on Product Hunt? or somewhere else?

timmiton Show HN: I built a website to create financial models for any stock online

Do you mind sharing what API do you use to fetch the stock price?

timmiton [dead]

Technically it is in 45 days, in average of last year, it is about 2 weeks.

https://pelositrade.com/politicians-trades/1d0c4282-521f-516...

timmiton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)

How does it work? Is it like a bounty hunting?

timmiton Show HN: Play a pen-and-paper game that is almost unknown in the US and Europe

Game rules are simple, great job to bring it online.

timmiton Pixel 8 Pro

For the people who cannot visit the url above, try this, https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-pixel-8-pro/

timmiton Skiff – Privacy-first end-to-end encrypted email

What is the differences between Skiff and ProtonMail?

timmiton What I learned after managing a small team for 2 years

I guess it would be better to rephrase it like

> Good, Well Indexed and Easy to Find documentation is everything.

timmiton Python: Just Write SQL

Based on my personal experience, I have seen some raw SQL codes about 200 to 1000 lines in some production source codes,

not readable at all, not easy to change, which is a terrible development experience.

I guess if it is simple CRUD, it does not give too much problem, but it will definitely work in a complex case.

timmiton Ask HN: (How much) do you get paid for being on call?

The place I used to work in, there is no pay for on-call at all, but give an alternative leave.

The culture the manager/boss want to give to me is that:

- `It is a bonus to have on-call opportunity, so that you can have alternative leave.`

BTW, this is one of the biggest software company in the country I stay, when I heard what he talked to me, I decided to leave this place.

> I did one on-call from 11PM to 1AM to fix one product issue, and they want to give me 1 hour alternative leave for my contribution. It is not fair.

Anyway, I wasn't there anyway. Be aware of this company/culture, `on-call opportunity is a bonus`, no matter how much they pay you.

timmiton Show HN: Quadratic – Open-Source Spreadsheet with Python, AI (WASM and WebGL)

Thanks for sharing, it is an interesting tool.

I was quite surprised that the AI feature is free for everyone's trial, I believe it is quite expensive.

The payload for consuming the GPT-4 is interesting as well, there are one 1 out of 7 messages were from users, the first 6 are all system promots.

Looks like it is an example for users to understand how to use the ai assitant.

{"role":"system","content":"For example if a user asks for a list of 3 months starting at Jan 2020, you reply [\"Jan 2020\", \"Feb 2020\", \"Mar 2020\"]."}

timmiton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)

Does Australia Sydney role do remote as well?

timmiton Launch HN: Depot (YC W23) – Fast Docker Builds in the Cloud

I guess this is a good point, we all can easily have a cheap VPS/EC2 to speed up own docker image build.

But maintaining a matrix of ARMv7, ARM64, X86/X64 instances, it is much more work to do. Than a simple powerful x64 instance.

timmiton Ask HN: Is anyone successfully self-hosting Firefox Sync?

https://send.vis.ee/

timmiton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)

  Location: New Zealand/Asutralia/Asia Pacific
  Remote: Preferred, not necessary
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: Languages(JS, TS, Node, Python, React, a bit go-lang and Java), DB(Postgres, Neo4j, SQL, DynamoDB) Infrastructure and Cloud(K8s, Docker, AWS)
  Résumé/CV: https://techtim42.com
  Email: contact@[use the domain above please]

Love opensource, please find my Github in the link above. Full Stack Dev, looking for some cool start-up to grow together, 7 years plus exp, professional in AI Product Integration.

timmiton Show HN: Signal-Android – A fork of Signal that provides SMS support

I like the idea, it will be good to have the SMS back and has Signal as only one message app.

timmiton Ask HN: Techwise, how did TikTok get so good?

No one mentioned the UX design of Tiktok?

From what I can recall, TikTok was the first one to let you to swipe to watch/switch videos, so users can easily be stuck on it, no matter the short video's quality is good or bad, interesting or boring. Since one single swipe, you changed to another, the cost is very low for user even the video quality is not good.

timmiton Microsoft Transitions U.S. FTEs to “Discretionary Time Off”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...

It is my first time to know that in US, there is a no law to make employees have minimum annul leave.

timmiton Ask HN: How is the job search coming along for people who got laid off?

Thanks for sharing, last year or early this year, job hunting is very easy, one month I got about 2 or 3 offers, but not it seems hard, and my current company planned to lay off people as well.

Probably need to repeat your journey