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How to Start a Successful Freelance Business as a Software Developer (2017)

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/how-to-start-a-successful-freelance-business-as-a-software-developer
2•downbad_•8h ago

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anovikov•8h ago
For vast majority, it never worked. I know plenty of people who made it there and there were just two categories:

- Freelance platforms. Hard-mode multiaccounting (passport scans, rented RDP servers, auto clicking apps, drop cards, etc), hard squeeze tactics.

- One-time luck that ran after at one point, to never return.

"Networking" may work if you are a Stanford graduate hanging out in go-to places in the Valley, but not if you are a European, much less if you are an Indian. I never met a single person who could probably be my client. Most are too poor, the remaining ones are too smart.

I Turned a 1982 Vectrex into the Strangest Spotify Player [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aPy9STetpg
1•CharlesW•41s ago•0 comments

China plans to hit an asteroid with a Mach 26 projectile in planet defence test

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3360752/china-plans-hit-asteroid-mach-26-projecti...
1•larrysalibra•1m ago•0 comments

Oterminus

https://pooriat.github.io/oterminus/
1•PooriaT•2m ago•0 comments

wp2shell: Pre-Auth RCE in WordPress Core

https://own2pwn.fr/articles/appsec/wp2shell-wordpress-rce
1•skilled•3m ago•0 comments

Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes (2009)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8306631.stm
1•thunderbong•3m ago•0 comments

AI advice reduced "I don't know" answers from 44% to 3%

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5y6m4_v1
1•logickkk1•4m ago•0 comments

Platform engineering's new job: serving environments at agent speed

https://thenewstack.io/serving-environments-agent-speed/
1•Brajeshwar•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tab O' War, a TBH like piracy game

https://tow.urbanodx.com/
1•urbanogt5•5m ago•0 comments

Using Claude to manage static IP assignments

https://blog.herlein.com/post/unifi-fixed-hosts-skill/
1•gherlein•10m ago•0 comments

Do Language Models Plan Ahead for Future Tokens? (2024)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.00859
1•Alifatisk•12m ago•0 comments

Prompt Injection Attacks Are Thwarting AI Hacking Agents

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/now-defenders-are-embracing-the-prompt-injection-too/
1•joozio•13m ago•0 comments

Blick Editor

https://blickeditor.com/
2•lexoj•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rasptele – Manage a Raspberry Pi Docker Server from Telegram

https://github.com/maddhruv/rasptele
1•maddhruvhn•17m ago•0 comments

MIT warns automating Gen Z entry jobs may cost firms their future workforce

https://fortune.com/article/automating-gen-z-entry-level-jobs-could-backfire-mit-ai-researcher-an...
1•01-_-•20m ago•0 comments

OpenAI Acknowledges GPT-5.6 May Accidentally Delete Files

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4198216/openai-acknowledges-gpt-5-6-may-accidentally-delete-fil...
1•andrewl•20m ago•0 comments

vs. 386 vs. 486: The Difference Wasn't Speed – It Was This

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=1411
1•01-_-•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scorchsaver – a wildfire puzzle where you fight fire with backfires

https://scorchsaver.com
1•luciansecara•25m ago•0 comments

HuggingFace security incident: Guardrails vs. Open Models

https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026
2•benjiro29•27m ago•1 comments

Chris Huelsbeck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Huelsbeck
1•doener•28m ago•0 comments

The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired
4•LorenDB•29m ago•1 comments

The Adventures of Quik and Silva

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Quik_%26_Silva
1•doener•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Phosphor – a CRT TV video player for your Mac

https://github.com/JoAz111/Phosphor
1•JoAz111•31m ago•0 comments

Jeffersonian Transcription

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_analysis
1•kasperset•31m ago•1 comments

Even with an Edge, You Lose?

https://jappie.me/even-with-an-edge-you-lose.html
1•zeepthee•32m ago•0 comments

The Birth of Thickets

https://aneeshsathe.substack.com/p/the-birth-of-thickets
1•boredgargoyle•33m ago•0 comments

Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes

https://www.thedrive.com/news/how-texas-police-spent-4-5-million-on-four-chevy-tahoes
3•randycupertino•35m ago•2 comments

We need to talk about the open model situation

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-we-need-to-talk-about
1•theahura•37m ago•0 comments

Tools and Techniques of Show Card Writing

https://jamesgurney.substack.com/p/tools-and-techniques-of-show-card
1•Michelangelo11•40m ago•0 comments

ECC and DDR5

https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/07/19/ecc-ddr5/
1•zdw•42m ago•0 comments

Dough: Audio engine for live coding, written in a single C file

https://dough.strudel.cc/
1•lioeters•42m ago•0 comments