frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
1•Willingham•5m ago•0 comments

The Big Hunger by Walter J Miller, Jr. (1952)

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•7m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•11m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
1•mooreds•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Was my first management job bad, or is this what management is like?

1•Buttons840•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

1•pinkmuffinere•15m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•19m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•21m ago•0 comments

Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash into India in Quest for AI Supremacy

https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremac...
1•saikatsg•21m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•21m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
3•archb•23m ago•0 comments

From Human Thought to Machine Coordination

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202602/from-human-thought-to-machine-coo...
1•walterbell•24m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: RMA Dashboard fast SAST results for monorepos (SARIF and triage)

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Source code graphRAG for Java/Kotlin development based on jQAssistant

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•30m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
3•dragandj•32m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•32m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are you using specialized agents to accelerate your work?

1•otterley•34m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•34m ago•0 comments

DavMail Pop/IMAP/SMTP/Caldav/Carddav/LDAP Exchange Gateway

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•35m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•37m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Tharos – CLI to find and autofix security bugs using local LLMs

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•38m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•38m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•38m ago•1 comments

Interactive Unboxing of J Dilla's Donuts

https://donuts20.vercel.app
1•sngahane•40m ago•0 comments

OneCourt helps blind and low-vision fans to track Super Bowl live

https://www.dezeen.com/2026/02/06/onecourt-tactile-device-super-bowl-blind-low-vision-fans/
1•gaws•41m ago•0 comments

Rudolf Vrba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Vrba
1•mooreds•42m ago•0 comments

Autism Incidence in Girls and Boys May Be Nearly Equal, Study Suggests

https://www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/autism/119747
1•paulpauper•43m ago•0 comments

Wellness Hotels Discovery Application

https://aurio.place/
1•cherrylinedev•44m ago•1 comments

NASA delays moon rocket launch by a month after fuel leaks during test

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/03/nasa-delays-moon-rocket-launch-month-fuel-leaks-a...
2•mooreds•44m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

McKinsey Leans on AI to Make PowerPoints, Draft Proposals

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-02/mckinsey-leans-on-ai-to-make-powerpoints-faster-draft-proposals
33•JumpCrisscross•7mo ago

Comments

afavour•7mo ago
2025 winner for “most on-brand revelation”
cosmicgadget•7mo ago
If formulaic slide decks weren't bad enough, we're going to get ones specifically designed to be formulaic.

Eh whatever as long as the bot respects minimum font size.

smartbit•7mo ago
https://archive.is/e9F5T
aussiegreenie•7mo ago
Ah, yes, the $1,000,000 AI slide deck.

NOW WITH MORE BANALITY.

xt00•7mo ago
Makes sense — the people getting the presentation will just use AI to summarize it :)
fshafique•7mo ago
Does somebody have a breakdown of an analyst's tasks and the percentage of time or money spent on each? Was it 50% data gathering, analysis, and projections, and 50% on making PowerPoints?

And anyone seen a McKinsey slide? How information dense are these things?

darth_avocado•7mo ago
At the end of the day, it’s just made up nonsense that costs millions of dollars. I’d rather have ChatGPT make it up than fresh out of college “Senior Consultant”.
NoPicklez•7mo ago
The truth is that basically all consultancies including most office jobs will be using AI to help make powerpoints, proposals and reports.

No different to anyone else using it help them code, write their own articles, emails, proposals, business cases etc

How this is made specific to McKinsey is beyond me, given that Microsoft has CoPilot built into its office suite everything should be doing this already.

satisfice•7mo ago
I wonder what business these big consultants are really in. I can’t believe anyone takes them seriously. So what is it? Money laundering? Kickbacks? Maybe they are a massive excuse manufacturing and blame displacement engine?

Now they use AI to produce even sloppier slop than the slop they slopped non-stop in elder days. The bullshit industry is really getting efficient.

southernplaces7•7mo ago
>Maybe they are a massive excuse manufacturing and blame displacement engine

I think you nailed it with those last ones. It has become legally entrenched in many industries to cautiously do all things with triple-armoured managerial ass covering firmly in place. This is seen as necessary for offsetting both legal and financial blame from a possible multi-pronged combo attack by shareholders, executives, media and regulators.

McKinsey and its ilk offer the armouring and blame deflection in one, for a fee or two.

huksley•7mo ago
Tangentially, is there a tool to automatically generate or change Google Slides? I think Google AI still can't do it.
euroderf•7mo ago
We recommend that all carbon-based employees be terminated.

With varying levels of extreme prejudice.