Ask HN: Who Needs Help?

I need help finding gigs, this year has been one of a kind. I have jobs I did last year that the client is finding it difficult to even pay for what has been done.

I am a software engineer with 12 years of experience. I put in the work and am also running my own business, and it's also tight making ends meet there. I just want part-time or full-time freelance remote work. I always deliver on my work.

Thanks in advance...

What I probably need most right now is honest feedback. I’ve been building something and I’m trying to understand if the idea actually makes sense outside my own head.

What do I need?

Right now I mainly need financial help (2,000 usd), to cover some important basic expenses in my life while I continue searching for work.

What's stopping me?

I'm a freelance web developer. I've been actively applying, reaching out, and trying to line up new work, but the gap has lasted longer than I expected and my savings ran out.

Why aren't I thriving?

Mostly timing and the unpredictability of freelance work.

I'm accepting USDC (BEP20) at:

0x9357fc346afe270faab8f873400a39cc9cdc6b3b

Thank you for the kindness.

Edit: Help would be very much appreciated. I'm in a very bad place at the moment.

Need help establishing if identity preservation is technically possible for LLMs, or if only information transfer so far.

Loneliness. Inability to break out of it. Feel the need of a partner, a woman to share life with (also feel the need for intimacy a lot), but simply can't find anyone. Can't even find friendship. Or when I do find friendship, it's not balanced, or doesn't feel right so I just get away. Spend most of my time in some sort of isolation.

Lots of problems that generate stress, but are not in themselves on the path to fulfillment or thriving. But they absolutely block me and have no choice but to deal with them. Things that could be solved by throwing money at them maybe, but even tho I'm safe and stable financially, that spending can easily get out of control in a HCOL area where I live. All my life I've tried to do everything myself (everything from home building, renovations, car/bike repairs, carpentry, electronic repairs etc) and have a significant aversion towards spending money in general.

Worries. Lots of worrying about scenarios that 98% never happen, but still give me sleepless nights.

Generally, lack of energy to solve all the issues, or fix things. I burn most of my energy in my physical job, having abandoned my tech career many years ago.

But I know that eventually it will all work out. I also have an intimate knowledge of what the causes of these circumstances are and what the solutions are. (hint: has to do with thoughts, and generally stem from childhood).

LE. And one other issue I have. The 2h deletion window is elapsing and I don't know if I want all this stuff associated with my username. Is it shame? Does it feel like I'm complaining about something? I know I can frame my circumstances in such a way that I would be in a very fortunate position. I have no material worries, I live in a place full of harmony in the Western world, I did have some very beautiful life experiences in the past, including a love story that absolutely changed me and my perspective on life. And above all, I have belief.

PPS. I just got reminded of one of the biggest sources of stress in my life. The freaking neighbor downstairs who slams the f'in door, even tho I asked as nicely as I could tens of time not to do that. And since it's a 120 y.o. building, and probably a majority of my net worth in it (and I'm concerned about the structural integrity over a long time period ...), it's making me so angry ... But I'll get this sorted eventually.

Need a tech co-founder who is passionate about XR, and has experience with Godot and 3D graphics programming.

Email: project.xr.app@proton.me

I'll help as much as I can too, by upvoting :)