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At what point should software engineers unionize?

2•onlyhumans•4h ago
With AI triggering layoffs, seems now is better than later. Curious what the downsides would be if we collectively rejected the use of AI or demanded a 3-4 day work week due to efficiency gains.

As an aside, I was surprised there isn’t a SaaS tool to organize and execute this using your corporate email

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dovys•2h ago
Do we have examples of unions in high-paying jobs? Even if so, with the market cooling off it would be a hard sell

Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping it to the US

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-xai-power-plant-overseas-to-power-1-million-gpus
2•taubek•11m ago•1 comments

CU Randomness Beacon

https://random.colorado.edu/
1•wello•11m ago•0 comments

Accordion Revival

https://accordionrevival.com/
1•praash•13m ago•0 comments

Laid-off workers should use LLMs to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec

https://www.theverge.com/news/698468/xbox-exec-reccommends-ai-to-laid-off-staff
1•aaviator42•13m ago•0 comments

Songs with Great Lyrics You Probably Haven't Considered

https://medium.com/luminasticity/songs-with-great-lyrics-you-probably-havent-considered-d49c185371de
1•bryanrasmussen•16m ago•0 comments

AI could create a 'Mad Max' scenario where everyone's skills are worthless

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-threatens-skills-with-mad-max-economy-warns-top-economist-2025-7
1•Bluestein•16m ago•0 comments

What a Hacker Stole from Me

https://mynoise.net/blog.php
1•gregsadetsky•20m ago•0 comments

The only time HN is this interested in Bitcoin is when there's a bubble (2017)

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hacker-news-bitcoin.html
7•dnpp123•23m ago•0 comments

A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

https://initcoder.com/posts/37-year-old-learning-cs/
2•chbkall•25m ago•0 comments

Product of Additive Inverses

https://susam.net/product-of-additive-inverses.html
1•blenderob•27m ago•0 comments

Making My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/making-my-own-hacktoberfest-t-shirts/
1•blenderob•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What clever tools/scripts do you use to manage envs?

1•sebst•29m ago•0 comments

Trial Court Decides Case Based on AI-Hallucinated Caselaw

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/trial-court-decides-case-based-on-ai-hallucinated-caselaw/
5•Bluestein•31m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Bitcoin price and HN Bitcoin news correlation?

1•dnpp123•34m ago•0 comments

Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems

https://www.gecode.org/
3•gjvc•34m ago•2 comments

Tantacrul on Finale: how music software dies. [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqaon6YHzaU
1•fanf2•36m ago•0 comments

xAI just dropped their official Python SDK

https://github.com/xai-org/xai-sdk-python
1•Arindam1729•38m ago•0 comments

Judge: You can't ban DEI grants without bothering to define DEI

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/doge-told-the-nih-which-grants-to-cancel-with-no-scientific-review/
2•bundie•39m ago•1 comments

KDE fixes blurry screens by snapping near-1x scale factors back to 1x on Wayland

https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-is-fixing-blurry-screens-by-snapping-almost-1x-scale-factors-back-to-1x-on-wayland/
1•bundie•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-CLI-Log – Seamlessly Log Your AI CLI Conversations to Markdown

https://github.com/alingse/ai-cli-log
1•alingse•46m ago•0 comments

74% of New Webpages Include AI Content (Study of 900k Pages)

https://ahrefs.com/blog/what-percentage-of-new-content-is-ai-generated/
2•jankydev•51m ago•3 comments

Bumble's AI icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law

https://noyb.eu/en/bumbles-ai-icebreakers-are-mainly-breaking-eu-law
2•BaudouinVH•52m ago•0 comments

All You Can Eat Economics for AI Coders

https://everything.intellectronica.net/p/all-you-can-eat-economics-for-ai-coders
1•intellectronica•54m ago•0 comments

Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific Controversy

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/proof-that-adult-brains-make-new-neurons-settles-scientific-controversy/
5•Bluestein•55m ago•0 comments

Google Chrome: Critical Security Allowed Attackers Access Using Crafter HTML

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6554
1•nitinreddy88•55m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to pivot to new ICP or Industry?

1•jurissoftware•58m ago•0 comments

EU and Germany Push for a New World Trade Organization

https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-germany-push-for-a-new-world-trade-organization/a-73143928
1•doener•59m ago•0 comments

OpenLens2030

https://github.com/Nimbler98/OpenLens2030
1•thisiskeyword•59m ago•0 comments

Nvidia's legendary GeForce GTX 10-series cards might lose support soon

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2833469/nvidias-legendary-gtx-10-series-cards-might-lose-support-soon.html
1•taubek•1h ago•0 comments

Taming agentic engineering – Prompts are code, .json/.md files are state

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-06-02-prompts-are-code/
2•tosh•1h ago•0 comments