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Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes [$35–>free]
Hello HN community,in 2017 I started a project that would become MonsterWriter. First envisioned as a semi-structured wiki it became a writing application specialized for scientific content. It is a perfect tool if you write your thesis. While it is focused on technical content, you can still see the knowledge management spirit in it.One or two years ago, my wife joined me in my efforts and redesigned the whole project and we recently released it as MonsterWriter2.To celebrate this milestone we
Ask HN: Tips and Are there any job prospects in malware reverse engineering?
Hello HN,<p>I'm a dev studying in my free-time security and malware reverse engineering mainly because I think it's an interesting subject, and so I was wondering,<p>if I wanted to make it my main job, do you have tips to go about it and is there demand for it ?<p>Would you recommend some kind of RE certification, or maybe I should start writing a blog about it and try to use that as leverage for interviews ?
Ask HN: How do you get a job in 2024?
Hey HN,I have been trying to find a new job for the past year and I have been struggling a great deal. I have managed to get a handful of interviews, but none of them resulted in an offer. In a couple cases the only feedback I received was "you seem great, but we need something different right now".I don't have unreasonable salary expectations, but I expect the salary to cover my living expenses at a minimum. I don't live extravagantly, I'm in a 450sqft apartment in a ba
Show HN: Ayin – An open-source photo editing software
Hello HN, I'm Fares A. Bakhit a junior CS student at Cairo University and I'm happy to announce my latest project,"Ayin" is an open-source photo editing software available on Windows, Linux, and MacOS (Only a Windows build is available now on GitHub but you can compile it yourself to other platforms) with an interactive real-time graphical user interface.Feel free to use and study the source code of Ayin, it's available on GitHub under the GPLv3 open-source license.I
Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes
Hello HN,in 2017 I started a project that would become MonsterWriter. First envisioned as a semi-structured wiki it became a writing application specialized for scientific content. It is a perfect tool if you write your thesis. While it is focused on technical content, you can still see the knowledge management spirit in it.One or two years ago, my wife joined me in my efforts and redesigned the whole project and we recently released it as MonsterWriter2.To celebrate this milestone we are giving
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Biden's FAFSA rollout is a disaster. Texas universities can help. | Editorial
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