HN is social media and I think most people recognize that.

It's just that HN is a social media that respects your time and doesn't try to get you addicted. For example, HN has a very useful 'noprocrast' feature and one of the co-founders, pg, has openly worried about HN's addictiveness in the past [0].

So while HN is social media, I feel like it's qualitatively different than other platforms.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

But that only demonstrates that it is addictive and everyone knows it. It's the exact kind of website that this New York state law is targeting.

It just seems like hn is very open about acknowledging that. They'll still very much be subject to the state law

That's a good point.

Would you personally be in favor of HN being regulated though? I'm not sure if I would.

Indie soda makers still have to print their ingredients on the can.

So yes, I think HN should still have to acknowledge that the website is addictive in accordance with this state law.

What has been causing you stress? (If you don’t mind me asking?)

It's nothing special. I'm an academic and usually I balance my desire to work / deadlines and family obligations. The last month I screwed up my management and got frustrated at both. I was holding that emotion even after crunch-time had passed.

Sometimes a lighthearted piece is all you need to remember to release. What's the saying? "The sea of bitterness is vast. Turn back, and you may yet see shore." I still love what I do, even if it got tougher than expected for a moment.

The top 3 programming books mentioned this year were

1. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs 2. Clean Code 3. Crafting Interpreters

Also, it’s quite fascinating how often fiction books were recommended! I wouldn’t’ve expected that on HN.

The world would be a better place if _Philosophy of Software Design_ would replace all mentions of the second book.

https://github.com/johnousterhout/aposd-vs-clean-code

I haven’t even read your recommendation and know you are right.

I’d be curious about sentiment analysis applied to these. I expect two of the listed to have very positive sentiment, and one generally negative in 2025.

> I expect two of the listed to have very positive sentiment, and one generally negative in 2025.

You are quite correct! Crafting Interpreters actually has the highest average sentiment score across all books with more than 10 comments. This is the average sentiment score of all three( range being -10 to 10) :

Crafting Interpreters(7.8) > SICP(4.3) > Clean Code(-3.2)

Favorited for next time I make a resume - thanks for making this! Hopefully I’ll never have to touch LaTeX ever again.

Thanks for this comment tick_tock :)

After reading this, I did some research and learned a lot. I never really considered that, by including many things under the same domain, that you're increasing your blast radius w.r.t security vulernabilites. Thanks for that

Was also news to me!

I get so much decision fatigue when choosing a course series on YouTube. On every technical topic, there are like 15 people making courses anywhere from 10 minutes to 10 hours.

I recently bought a course on the Spring Boot from codewithmosh. Despite spring boot being a dry subject, it was probably the best intro backend course I’d ever taken!

Reminds me of the legendary flow chart "How to measure things like a Canadian": https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/18xbabx/...

It's honestly more complicated than this.

> For example, the "Headingley Gaol" near Winnipeg.

Fellow Winnipeger here! I remember driving by that sign as a kid and being baffled by that word.

Canada is not just english-speaking, but also french speaking. We have TWO national languages, with equal importance.

This being said, I would suspect the english word gaol comes from the french word geôle.

According to Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaol), gaol and geôle have a common shared ancestor in Old French/Latin. It's not the result of Canada's multilingual nature.

I stayed in the Ottawa Jail Hostel in the former Carleton County Gaol. The receptionist sure acted like a warden.

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