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    Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

    by whoishiring · 1 day ago

    Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format:

      Location:
      Remote:
      Willing to relocate:
      Technologies:
      Résumé/CV:
      Email:
    
    Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here.

    Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities.

    There's a site for searching these posts at https://www.wantstobehired.com.

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    Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

    by whoishiring · 1 day ago

    Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and ONSITE when remote work is not an option.

    Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. One post per company. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

    Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to replying to applicants.

    Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

    Readers: please only email if you are personally interested in the job.

    Searchers: try https://dheerajck.github.io/hnwhoishiring/, http://nchelluri.github.io/hnjobs/, https://hnresumetojobs.com, https://hnhired.fly.dev, https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/, https://hnjobs.emilburzo.com, or this (unofficial) Chrome extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-hiring-pro/mpfal....

    Don't miss this other fine thread: Who wants to be hired? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857487

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    Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?

    by blenderob · about 11 hours ago

    Inspired by this Ask HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834977

    But I'm going further back in time to see if there is anybody here who still uses slide rules?

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    Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)

    by locusofself · about 3 hours ago

    Hey HN,

    I'm on a quest for a distraction-free writing device and considering a super cheap laptop which I can just run vim/nano on.

    I'd like: - Excellent battery life - Good keyboard - Sleep/wake capabilities (why is this so hard with Linux?)

    I'm thinking some kind of chromebook? Maybe an old thinkpad?

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    Ask HN: Anyone have a "sovereign" solution for phone calls?

    by kldg · about 12 hours ago

    I've been working on an SMTP/email server lately, and while Google and some others imply a lot of frowny-faces and put quotation marks around tests "passing" for not using a corporate relay, does at least let me communicate with the broader ecosystem.

    Phone calls, however, seem like a tougher nut to crack. SIP URIs would let me kinda-sorta communicate with the broader ecosystem, but many phones and software seem to have dropped support for it; only a tiny % of those typically using the PSTN (that is, a "normal phone") would be able to call or receive calls to/from my addresses -- but it would be able to be directly and neatly integrated into the email server, which is a big plus.

    I will probably still implement SIP URIs and VOIP support into the email server on principle, but I wonder if anyone has any alternatives to consider. Ideally, I would be able to communicate on the PSTN, but this seems like a lost cause.

    Also curious about anyone using VOIP for work whether or not they allow or block SIP URIs from external networks. I maintained our VOIP server at work more than a decade ago, but it was a "side-project" due to working at an SMB where I wore many hats and couldn't specialize in anything; I wasn't even aware of SIP URIs at the time.

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    Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?

    by speedylight · 4 days ago

    I’ve noticed that most physical scientific and graphing calculators are easily outdone in terms of performance, capability and ease of use by the likes of Desmos and the default calculators on OS’es like the iOS, Android, and Windows.

    It kind of makes me wonder whether people still use physical calculators from Texas Instruments, Casio, etc

    If you do, I’d love to know why and how it is different/better for you than the ones I’ve mentioned and others like them and vice verse.

    Cheers!

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    Signal Is Down

    by Daniel_sk · about 9 hours ago

    Status page shows it's up (https://status.signal.org).

    Edit: status now updated to "Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible.")

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    Kernighan on Programming

    by chrisjj · 1 day ago

    "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it"

    This has been a timely PSA.

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    Ask HN: OpenClaw users, what is your token spend?

    by 8cvor6j844qw_d6 · 1 day ago

    Running OpenClaw with Anthrophic API and it burned through ~USD 50 in one day.

    What are other OpenClaw users seeing? Anyone found effective ways to cut costs (model tiering, caching, etc.)?

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    Ask HN: What's your preferred Python tool to convert Markdown to print ready PDF

    by eon01 · about 4 hours ago

    especially for technical books with code

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