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Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•36s ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•8m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
3•keepamovin•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•13m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
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How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•20m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•23m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
2•breve•24m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•27m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•28m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

1•ReviewShield•31m ago•1 comments

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https://afelyon.com/
1•AbduNebu•32m ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
6•tempodox•33m ago•2 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•37m ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•40m ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
7•petethomas•43m ago•2 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
1•thunderbong•48m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
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RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
3•init0•1h ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•1h ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-r...
2•fkdk•1h ago•0 comments

I've used AI to write 100% of my code for a year as an engineer

https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1qxvobt/ive_used_ai_to_write_100_of_my_code_for_1_ye...
2•ukuina•1h ago•1 comments

Looking for 4 Autistic Co-Founders for AI Startup (Equity-Based)

1•au-ai-aisl•1h ago•1 comments

AI-native capabilities, a new API Catalog, and updated plans and pricing

https://blog.postman.com/new-capabilities-march-2026/
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?

https://www.tedsanders.com/what-changed-in-tech-from-2010-to-2020/
3•endorphine•1h ago•0 comments

From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics

https://wesmckinney.com/blog/agent-ergonomics/
1•Anon84•1h ago•0 comments

Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sphere
1•cyanf•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Just People in a Room

https://www.bonnycode.com/posts/just-people-in-a-room/
15•bhollis•5mo ago

Comments

codingdave•5mo ago
The anecdotes shared here are mildly interesting. But there is not much storytelling that pulls it all together. That is probably why it didn't get much attention the first 2 times it was posted. The author probably has internalized the connectivity between the stories so well that they did not notice that while some of it was written into the article, mostly their writing jumps from anecdote to anecdote without building upon an overall story/thesis/argument/point.

Rather than posting it multiple times and having a friend re-post it for you (which is, admittedly, an assumption based on OP and the author sharing the same work history), I'd recommend putting some energy into figuring out why this post is not garnering the attention the author clearly desires. As mentioned, I think it is just being too close to the writing to see the gaps in the writing style.

bhollis•5mo ago
An incorrect assumption (though it was nice to have seen a familiar face when I came across it) but good to know what you think of it. I assumed HN deduped posts but I guess not.
riehwvfbk•5mo ago
I guess the kind of hubris that the author calls out applies to writing just as well as code.

However, you may be right that this post is not likely to have a lot of engagement, and the problem is lack of shared context. The average HN visitor dreams of working for a FAANG, even if it's Amazon. They are unlikely to relate. For someone who's experienced the cesspool firsthand though, this post felt visceral and very lucid.

One can't dilute all writing for the average bear in the name of engagement - that would mean loss of substance.

jackalnom•5mo ago
I appreciate the feedback. I once presented a promotion document to a room of Amazon VPs, and the first words uttered were “this is the biggest pile of shit I’ve ever read in my life”. So you are in good company with your critique, although you were much kinder :).

Fwiw, I had no idea other people were posting on hackernews, and certainly didn’t ask anyone to. I’m also not sure why I would do that? I might only add, in the gentlest way possible and only the slightest of irony, that this is exactly the type of assuming wrong intentions the essay is referring to that we all do from time to time.

Cheers, Lucas (author of above blog)

codingdave•5mo ago
Fair enough. I appreciate the calling out of my irony. :)

I see so many people aggressively push self-promotion on HN, breaking the rules and etiquette, trying to force visibility of their own content that I may have gotten a bit jaded about it. It is refreshing to see someone who is being more reasonable, and a good critique of my own reactions.

nis0s•5mo ago
I often think what happens in organizations where groups validate their bad decisions. Is it one influential leader who makes it happen, or is it a series of meetings between well-meaning people who stack one bad decision over another, and all of a sudden you have the justification for something like the Tuskegee experiments. I mean, they too were just people in a room.
elliotto•5mo ago
One of the most important game theory results is that in a hostile environment, asshole behaviour is rewarded, and the net group utility sucks. But in a supportive environment, virtuous behaviour is rewarded, and group utility skyrockets.
sublinear•5mo ago
Once the org chart is deep enough, the leadership won't understand the business anymore and everything starts falling apart.

There are plenty of rotten bastards in the middle who don't belong there and know they don't belong there.

In my experience the heads down workers towards the bottom of the org chart are far more likely to see the 10k ft view clearly just by being there long enough compared to existing middle management who may have been there for too long.

riehwvfbk•5mo ago
My version of "why Amazon is like this" is simpler. Think of their Supreme Leader. Good guy or a-hole? That one is easy to answer.

Now, what kind of right-hand man he's going to click with? What will their lieutenants be like? And what kind of people they will promote? And what kind of company will their company be?

Amazon is the kind of fish that rots starting from the head.