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Before You Sign: Three Hidden Pitfalls in Your Physician Employment Contract
You spent over a decade training to practice medicine. You should not sign away your career in an afternoon. Yet that happens ...<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1545262722-9e0d80a0bc01?crop=entropy&cs=srgb&fm=jpg&ixid=MXwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjZ8fHxlbnwwfHwyfA&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=85' />
AI job boom favors men as female employment growth stalls
New data reveals a widening gender gap in AI-exposed jobs, with men seeing higher employment growth than women—especially ...<img src='https://images.pexels.com/photos/5198201/pexels-photo-5198201.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=1200' />
I can use these 3 essential apps on any Windows PC without installing anything
I have a number of Windows computers around my home. Some are media centers, others handle my outdoor cameras and smart home, and some are just for basic office work. I’m also the person in my circle of friends and family who gets the call when there is a technology problem. Basically, this means I’m working on other people’s PCs pretty frequently. I don’t particula
We're entering the post-GPU era of PC gaming, but it may not save you any money
I've dedicated the better part of the last decade to covering graphics cards. New launches, new features, new capabilities. Disappointments and amazing developments. Ever-rising prices, worse in 2026 than we've ever seen them.
I replaced these 4 app subscriptions with free Obsidian plugins
Most subscription apps are genuinely useful, but after a while the monthly fees add up to a number that's hard to ignore when you realize half of what you're paying for is syncing your own data back to you. Each app solves a real problem, and you have to keep paying for it every month. But you can get a lot of the same features in Obsidian for free.
These Minecraft models make for perfect 3D printing weekend projects (Oct 23 - 25)
Minecraft_’s blocky, pixelated aesthetic transfers surprisingly well to 3D printing. You don’t need to worry about making models look realistic or be concerned with curves if you’re a Minecraft_ fan who wants to bring Mojang’s intoxicating world to life.
Why We Ditched Invoicing SaaS and Built an Open-Source Client-Side Billing Engine
As an independent software developer or digital designer, few tasks feel as needlessly frustrating as sending an invoice.You’ve completed the sprint, delivered the prototypes or merged the pull requests, and now you just need to request payment. Yet, the software landscape gives you two deeply flawed choices:The $30/month SaaS Subscription Trap: Platforms like FreshBooks, QuickBooks, or HoneyBook start simple, then lock you into recurring monthly fees just to generate 3 to 5 basic PDF invoices.
Building a 29-skill map from an append-only answer log
I build satultra, a digital SAT practice site. After a practice test, most tools lead with one number, and a 1290 says how you did, not what to study next.The digital SAT is built around 29 skills: College Board's question bank lists 10 in Reading and Writing and 19 in Math. If every answer is filed under one of them, the results page can show where the points went. Here's how that works in a React and Firestore app: one taxonomy file, an append-only event log, pure reducers and a planner.
A small thing about URLSearchParams
Some URLs have the same query parameter more than once.For example:/products?tag=javascript&tag=cssThis is pretty normal for things like filters, where someone can select multiple options.But there's a small detail with URLSearchParams that is easy to miss.const params = new URLSearchParams( "tag=javascript&tag=css");console.log(params.get("tag"));This prints:javascriptNot an array, and not the last value. Just the first one.If you want all the values, there's a separate method:console.
Distort HTML with SVG's feDisplacementMap
Look at those text effects: wow would you build them?My first answer, somewhere in the 2000s, would have been Flash. A timeline, some easing curves, spooky rippling text for every band MySpace page. 🤘 After Flash came many other options: jQuery plugins, canvas pixel picking, shaders in a giant WebGL library for one ripple of text.Luckily today all you need fits in two SVG primitives and one line of CSS.For a while now, you can apply SVG filters to regular HTML:filter: url(#my-filter)The browser
Veloce-Engine: The Two-Line Demo Your Restaurant Vendor Should Have Sent You First
Every restaurant platform pitch starts the same way: 40-minute call, screen share, "I'll have my team follow up." The Veloce-Engine page does the opposite — it puts a working reservation manager on the page and lets you break it.Try it: https://reggiebro.github.io/WorkflowAlpha.ai/veloce-engine/Scroll to the demo, add a reservation, flip its status from Pending to Confirmed, then delete it. Everything you just did is the same state machine your front-of-house team will use every day. The in
Our seven-day freshness filter was measuring the wrong thing
In the last post about the UK's Fuel Finder feed, we wrote that price_last_updated means "last changed", not "last confirmed", and that we therefore let only prices from the last seven days into our averages.The first half was right. The second half was a mistake, and it took six weeks of history to see it. The number that kept shrinkingEvery average on fuelpricetoday.co.uk carries the number of stations behind it. For unleaded, outside motorway services:DayStations in the feedChanged in th
I gave Home Assistant a physical color wheel, and now I flip through albums like it's 2008
I loved my first Walkman to the point where I used it until it fell apart, but my favorite music player was still my iPod. There was nothing quite like flipping through the albums in the Cover Flow view by spinning my thumb around the click wheel. When I found an old remote that had its own wheel-style input, I wondered if I could bring those days back.
Ask HN: How have LLMs changed freelance dev?
From Upwork to those serving their network, how have LLMs changed the market?<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1682019231860-6a0168c1e14e?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MTV8fEZyZWVsYW5jZXxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNjgyNTg5NjIy&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&q=80&w=1080' />
More than 100 hopefuls flock to cafe to apply for single job
The manager of the cafe says it "shows how the job market is at the minute".<img src='https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1661758108294-aaa3a219294b?crop=entropy&cs=tinysrgb&fit=max&fm=jpg&ixid=MnwyMzg1fDB8MXxzZWFyY2h8MjJ8fEpvYiUyME1hcmtldHxlbnwwfHwyfHwxNjYyMDI4MDUz&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&q=80&w=1080' />
Android batteries grew 5x since 2008, so why are we still charging every night?
The HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) was the world's first commercially available Android smartphone, released back in October 2008 with a modest 1,150 mAh battery. If you used it moderately for calls, emails, and occasional web browsing, you were lucky enough to get through the day. Fast-forward to today: my daily Android phone packs a massive 5000 mAh battery, almost five
This GEEKOM mini PC makes me wonder why people even buy desktops
I've been building PCs for over 20 years, so naturally, I get why people do it: it's fun, and you get a great computer at the end. But beyond the fun, is there any reason to spend the time and money anymore when a plug-and-play mini PC can absolutely replace your daily driver for almost anything but gaming?
3 genuinely insane things I've done with the help of AI agents
AI agents have moved well beyond answering questions. They can now open folders, write code, and click through websites on your behalf. Here are three of the wildest things I’ve handed over to them, and what each one taught me about where this technology actually helps.
3 Galaxy Watch apps and watch faces the open-source community ported to Pixel Watch
Community developers have ported Samsung Galaxy Watch apps and watch faces to other Wear OS watches, including the Pixel Watch. Here are some of the most useful ported apps.
Antivirus apps aren’t just unnecessary on Windows, they often slow down your PC
<p>Once, putting Windows on the Internet without installing antivirus was practically inviting disaster.</p><img src='https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2026/09/windows-11-virus-and-threat-protection.jpg' />