These days, HN itself is decent enough, but the majority of posts aren't about cutting-edge software development.
Where do you go these days for cutting-edge news and info focused on the vanguard of software development?
These days, HN itself is decent enough, but the majority of posts aren't about cutting-edge software development.
Where do you go these days for cutting-edge news and info focused on the vanguard of software development?
The basic process is fetching https://hnrss.org/newest then piping each item through gpt-4.1-mini with just the URL and title (I think fetching each actual page is overkill and a bit greedy) and asking it to figure out if something is likely to be development related. If it's a confident yes, that item then gets into the final feed. It cuts the firehose down quite a bit just with that simple approach.
For more traditional dev stuff, I've been getting good signal from newsletters like Changelog, TLDR, and Morning Brew's tech section. Not as real-time as the old blog days but decent curation.
Reddit's r/MachineLearning and r/programming can be hit or miss but sometimes catch things early. GitHub trending is also underrated for spotting new tools.
It’s basically a big list of online news sources pulled straight from allainews.com, and it gives you links, article summaries, etc, plus RSS feeds. You can set up your feed by topic, which is super helpful, and it pulls in trending and real-time news too.
dtagames•8mo ago
You're already here.
TimTheTinker•8mo ago
dtagames•8mo ago
AI has already changed everything about how I write code, think about code, budget for code, debug and refactor code, etc. If you're doing that, too, I know the HN audience would welcome hearing from you.
My stuff is niche on my personal blog[0] (indie game dev), but I write about bigger AI topics on Medium[1]. All of this stuff has got to eventually filter down to individual use cases, but perhaps the philosophy of software is changing?
Is it too soon to call out some early victims? I don't think we need any more new languages or data formats. Ever. Text is going to be MD so there go proprietary text markup formats. Data is JSON, full stop. (Speaking for web apps here).
Also going away are endless tweaks to UI frameworks as customers (dev and non-dev) will be "drawing" and defining their own dynamic UIs through the prompts they write. On the backside, those prompts will turn into multiple tool calls to perhaps unexplored APIs via MCP -- a complete inversion of the client-server control model we're used to.
If there's a better place to write or read about this stuff, I'd love to hear about it, too!
[0] https://davidbethune.com/blog
[1] https://medium.com/@mimixco/list/ai-library-e2fcb2e18159
TimTheTinker•8mo ago
> Those new tools and techniques are the future of software development.
If that's the case, you may have to count me out. I'm glad to use LLMs to automate the easy/boring parts out, but I'm not outsourcing my technical creativity -- that's a significant part of who I am as a human. If that means I'm out of a job, so be it. My body is slowing down in middle age, but if I had to choose, I'd rather finish my working years breaking my back in the trades serving people in ways that are meaningful to both me and my customers.