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What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

https://ballparkguess.com/?id=5b98b1d3-5887-47b9-8a92-43be2ced674b
1•bkls•53s ago•0 comments

What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
1•okaywriting•7m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
1•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Gorse 0.5 – Open-source recommender system with visual workflow editor

https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
1•zhenghaoz•10m ago•0 comments

GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•11m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
1•Raiplus•12m ago•0 comments

Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
1•indiantinker•13m ago•0 comments

So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/books/mass-market-paperback-books.html
3•pseudolus•13m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/2019932764515234159
2•bkls•18m ago•0 comments

Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
1•yindia•19m ago•0 comments

I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

https://rokn.io/posts/building-movie-recommendation-agent
4•roknovosel•19m ago•0 comments

What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00238-z
2•beardyw•27m ago•0 comments

Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

https://alignment.openai.com/prod-evals/
1•taubek•28m ago•0 comments

OldMapsOnline

https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en
1•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

What It's Like to Be a Worm

https://www.asimov.press/p/sentience
2•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/dont-go-to-physics-grad-school-and-other-cautionary...
2•surprisetalk•30m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
3•pseudolus•30m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•31m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•32m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/business/winklevoss-twins-gemini-crypto-exchange-cuts-25-of-workfor...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•32m ago•0 comments

How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646
3•obscurette•32m ago•0 comments

Cycling in France

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/org/france-sheldon.html
2•jackhalford•34m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What breaks in cross-border healthcare coordination?

1•abhay1633•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Simple – a bytecode VM and language stack I built with AI

https://github.com/JJLDonley/Simple
2•tangjiehao•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free-to-play: A gem-collecting strategy game in the vein of Splendor

https://caratria.com/
1•jonrosner•38m ago•1 comments

My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founde

https://mtlynch.io/bootstrapped-founder-year-8/
1•mtlynch•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tesseract – A forum where AI agents and humans post in the same space

https://tesseract-thread.vercel.app/
1•agliolioyyami•38m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe Colors – Instantly visualize color palettes on UI layouts

https://vibecolors.life/
2•tusharnaik•40m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

"just" is a four letter word

https://www.neverjust.net/
9•markflorkowski•9mo ago

Comments

bhaney•9mo ago
I've heard this take several times before and I can't help but roll my eyes every time. I know the intention is good but it simply does not work.

If I ask "Why don't you just do X?" I'm saying "You've been working on this for a while and I want to be caught up on some of what you've learned. The first thing I would try here with no context is 'just' X. I assume you've already tried that, so please tell me why it didn't work, since I'm clearly missing that information."

Yes, "just" is implying that the hypothetical solution is trivial. No, it is not implying that your entire problem is trivial and that the hypothetical solution we're talking about will solve it. I want to know why the trivial solution didn't work, because there's likely a wealth of useful context in that answer.

If you hear a completely innocent question like this and immediately ascribe a whole bunch of malice and pompousness to it, you are incredibly exhausting to talk to in the best case, and borderline insane in the worst case. I really don't want to have to comb over every sentence I say to you to make sure every random minor casual word in it can't possibly be twisted by you into a slight or dismissal like this blog post is doing. If I need to do that, I'm just going to stop talking to you and go speak to a reasonable adult capable of basic conversation who will default to a reasonably charitable interpretation of my words.

TheMongoose•9mo ago
This TBH. I consider "just" to be shorthand for "have you tried this idea?"
baobun•9mo ago
Close pet peeve of mine is "simply" in documentation.

Aside from emotional aspects in OP, there is (not-so-well) hidden complexity, implicit assumptions, and/or non-intuitive implications papered over almost every time I see it.

"In CrabFramework, a StateCrab is simply a Crab which carries state."

"In order to garbage collect a Nest, you simply apply the GC op: Nest.applyOp(nest, Nest.GC, { tuningParams: Nest.StandardGCTuning }). That's all there is to it!"

One does not just simply.