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Phil Spencer: Xbox has 'never looked stronger,' announces yet more layoffs

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/our-platform-hardware-and-game-roadmap-have-never-looked-stronger-phil-spencer-says-as-microsoft-announces-another-round-of-mass-layoffs-at-its-gaming-division/
1•stalfosknight•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GhostCV – embed AI-readable text in your resume (without losing design)

https://www.ghost-cv.com/
1•kirchoni•2m ago•0 comments

Intel's former CEO launches a new AI benchmark that focuses on human flourishing

https://thenewstack.io/former-intel-ceos-new-ai-benchmark-focuses-on-human-flourishing/
1•flardinois•3m ago•0 comments

Chemical Process Produces Critical Battery Metals with No Waste

https://spectrum.ieee.org/nmc-battery-aspiring-materials
1•pseudolus•3m ago•0 comments

Gen Z glossary for Gen X managers: Here's what 'menty B' and 'cozzie livs' means

https://fortune.com/article/gen-z-glossary-gen-x-bosses/
1•Bluestein•3m ago•0 comments

Swipe, Scroll, Repeat: The Engineered Addiction

https://nabraj.com/blog/swipe-scroll-repeat-addiction/
1•coffeecoders•3m ago•0 comments

Red Hat Technical Writing Style Guide

https://stylepedia.net/style/
3•jumpocelot•5m ago•0 comments

Kawa: ECS – A fast and modern ECS for C++20 Looking for Feedback and Testers

https://github.com/superPuero/kawa_ecs
1•super_puero•8m ago•1 comments

Executed Chinese prisoners likely used in UK exhibition (2021)

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2021/01/25/executed-chinese-prisoners-likely-used-in-uk-exhibition
3•Michelangelo11•11m ago•0 comments

Tariffs turn techies topsyturvy as US braces for PC tax: American shipments flat

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/tariffs_deadline_us_pc_effects/
1•rntn•12m ago•0 comments

Layers of Lawyers and Liars

https://matthewbutterick.com/chron/layers-of-lawyers-and-liars.html
1•blueridge•12m ago•0 comments

Strategy

https://rohitgupta.in/blog/2025/07/10/Strategy/
1•reader12•12m ago•0 comments

The Middle Ages are making a political comeback

https://jewishworldreview.com/0725/wooldridge070825.php3
1•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

The AI startup frenzy: 'Everyone's pivoting, then pivoting again'

https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/699840/ellis-hamburger-meaning-ai-startup-consulting-snap-browser-company
1•Bluestein•17m ago•0 comments

Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020–2022 (2024)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01948-y
1•alphabetatango•18m ago•0 comments

Assessing Public Reach of the 2023 National Test of the Wireless Emergency Alert [pdf]

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2400/RRA2451-1/RAND_RRA2451-1.pdf
2•bkraz•18m ago•1 comments

Snippets Library

https://snippetslibrary.com/
2•dexodexo•19m ago•1 comments

AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds

https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-slows-down-some-experienced-software-developers-study-finds-2025-07-10/
9•OnionBlender•21m ago•2 comments

European Union Unveils Rules for Powerful A.I. Systems

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/business/ai-rules-europe.html
3•jmsflknr•24m ago•0 comments

Education 3.0

https://doc.searls.com/2025/07/09/education-3-0/
1•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

Fp8 runs ~100 tflops faster when the kernel name has "cutlass" in it

https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/pull/7298
3•mmastrac•26m ago•1 comments

Spacelift Raises $51M Series C to Redefine Enterprise Infrastructure Automation

https://spacelift.io/blog/series-c-infrastructure-automation
2•mariuszm•26m ago•0 comments

What Every Data Scientist Needs to Know About GPUs [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2ODgbJjlA
1•skadamat•27m ago•0 comments

Sweden and Norway racing to launch satellites from mainland Europe

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/europe-looks-nordic-space-race-scale-back-us-dependence-2025-07-10/
1•shark1•27m ago•0 comments

Bastille 1.0 – Bastille Day 2025

https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/releases/tag/1.0.20250714
1•mfro•29m ago•0 comments

The Lazy Marketer's Guide to Not Writing Terrible AI Prompts

https://aistackmarketer.substack.com/p/the-lazy-marketers-guide-to-not-writing
2•gk1•29m ago•0 comments

What Keeps the Lights On

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-electricity-system-works
1•Michelangelo11•31m ago•0 comments

Arm estimates a 14-fold increase in data center customers since 2021

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/arm-estimates-14-fold-increase-data-center-customers-since-2021-company-says-2025-07-09/
2•voxadam•31m ago•0 comments

Japan Wires the Ocean with an Earthquake-Sensing 'Nervous System'

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/japans-new-undersea-earthquake-detection-system-will-improve-tsunami/
2•Brajeshwar•31m ago•0 comments

Robot performs realistic gallbladder surgery 'with 100% accuracy'

https://news.sky.com/story/robot-performs-realistic-gallbladder-surgery-with-100-accuracy-13394823
1•Brajeshwar•31m ago•0 comments
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Show HN: Still coding in VC++ 6.0 after losing everything, living in a trailer

13•CodeAndExile•11h ago
Hey HN,

I spent 30 years writing CAD plugins in C++, mostly in Visual C++ 6.0. Then the industry collapsed. And I lost an intellectual lawsuit, my income dried up, and my marriage ended.

Now I live alone in a trailer in rural Canada — still writing code, still surviving, trying to crawl back.

This is a short video I made (50 seconds), documenting a quiet moment from this strange life. If you’ve ever hit rock bottom and kept going, you might relate.

https://youtube.com/shorts/dDLSd3pfIYI?feature=share

Thanks for watching. Just sharing — not selling anything.

Comments

CodeAndExile•11h ago
I’ve never posted here before. If anyone’s ever been through something similar, would love to hear from you, thank you
sherdil2022•11h ago
Feel for you, man. Respect.
CodeAndExile•11h ago
Thank you. It's been rough, but still coding. Messages like yours help more than you know.
sherdil2022•8h ago
I have also used VC++ (ATL, MFC etc) till about 2005 or so - and can relate to that time and dev journey.

You can relatively easily pick up other languages and frameworks, especially using LLMs. This would help with your marketability for jobs.

Email me if you want to brainstorm.

CodeAndExile•12m ago
Thanks, truly appreciate your message! yes, I’ve thought about picking up modern tools, especially LLMs. But at this point, I’m more focused on building something meaningful through YT. It’s a new path I’m exploring, maybe my last one.
CodeAndExile•10h ago
Thanks you all! I’m still using Visual C++ 6.0 mainly for AutoCAD plugin development (ObjectARX), targeting some legacy projects that are still alive. Happy to share more if anyone’s curious how to survive with a 25-year-old compiler today.