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US takes 10% stake in Intel

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/intel-goverment-equity-stake.html
1•givemeethekeys•43s ago•0 comments

Show HN: Line of Code Analyzer

https://github.com/Reim-developer/Sephera
1•reimisdev•2m ago•0 comments

Trump Signals Fourth Delay of TikTok Ban

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/business/trump-tiktok-ban-deadline.html
1•mitchbob•2m ago•1 comments

Steve Mann: My "Augmediated" Life: 35 years wearing computerized eyewear (2013)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/steve-mann-my-augmediated-life
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•0 comments

Meta Announces a Partnership with Midjourney

https://twitter.com/alexandr_wang/status/1958983843169673367
1•lnyan•3m ago•0 comments

Better Control over Your Copilot Code Suggestions

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/better-control-over-your-copilot-code-suggestions/
1•ibobev•4m ago•0 comments

Tolkien Against the Grain

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/tolkien-against-the-grain/
1•omnibrain•6m ago•0 comments

From $479 to $2,800 a month for ACA health insurance next year

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5511182/aca-tax-credits-health-insurance-open-enrollment
3•laurex•6m ago•0 comments

The Minecraft bank that lost $200,000 in 3 minutes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-wO16cvDok
1•lawrenceyan•7m ago•0 comments

MySQL / MariaDB: Waiting for query cache lock (2022)

https://shatteredsilicon.net/mysql-waiting-for-query-cache-lock/
1•tanelpoder•7m ago•0 comments

I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

https://www.openmymind.net/Im-Too-Dumb-For-Zigs-New-IO-Interface/
1•ibobev•7m ago•0 comments

The Jobs AI Is Replacing the Fastest

https://gizmodo.com/the-jobs-ai-is-replacing-the-fastest-2000645918
1•CharlesW•8m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's X Agrees to Settlements with Former Employees

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/elon-musk-x-settlements.html
1•donohoe•8m ago•0 comments

A Process to Trick ChatGPT into Agency

1•morpheos137•10m ago•0 comments

Meta set to unveil first consumer-ready smart glasses with a display, wristband

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/meta-hypernova-ar-glasses-wristband.html
1•rntn•13m ago•0 comments

Those who stay will be champions

https://tombrady.com/posts/those-who-stay-will-be-champions
1•pbardea•14m ago•0 comments

Building a Distributed Filesystem for Scalable Research

https://www.hudsonrivertrading.com/hrtbeat/distributed-filesystem-for-scalable-research/
1•Redoubts•14m ago•0 comments

FBI warns of Russian hacks targeting US critical infrastructure

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-warns-russian-hacks-targeting-us-critical-infrastructure-2025-08-20/
2•rbanffy•15m ago•0 comments

Zeux.io – Do not disrespect the fractal

https://zeux.io/2025/08/22/do-not-disrespect-the-fractal/
1•ibobev•15m ago•0 comments

Skymont in Gaming Workloads – By Chester Lam

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/skymont-in-gaming-workloads
1•rbanffy•16m ago•0 comments

EU to curb AI chip flows to China as part of US trade deal

https://www.scmp.com/news/us/economy-trade-business/article/3322707/eu-curb-ai-chip-flows-china-part-us-trade-deal
1•rbanffy•17m ago•0 comments

The Making of Gemini Plays Pokémon

https://blog.jcz.dev/the-making-of-gemini-plays-pokemon
3•swyx•19m ago•1 comments

GitHub – 2swap/swaptube: YouTube video renderer

https://github.com/2swap/swaptube
1•tobr•20m ago•1 comments

Amazon Built the Soviet Dream [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mayoL3XbKwA
1•phibr0•21m ago•0 comments

First release candidate of SQL Server 2025 is now available

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2025/08/22/accelerating-sql-server-2025-momentum-announcing-the-first-release-candidate/
1•vyrotek•22m ago•0 comments

Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments That Failed to Replicate

https://aethermug.com/posts/famous-cognitive-psychology-experiments-that-failed-to-replicate
1•oatsandsugar•22m ago•1 comments

Interactive Ecosystem Simulation: Mote [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0H3NHxVI
1•pbardea•22m ago•0 comments

Toying with Poisoned Search Results Fed to an LLM

https://github.com/rehanzo/poisoned-search-llm
1•Rehanzo•24m ago•0 comments

BMW's next EV is its most sustainable car yet–here's why

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/how-bmw-slashed-the-carbon-footprint-of-its-next-ev-the-2026-ix3/
1•PaulHoule•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Octos – web-based dynamic wallpaper engine

https://github.com/underpig1/octos
5•diegotundra•29m ago•0 comments
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Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers – August 2025

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/essential-reading-august-2025
38•ghuntley•2h ago

Comments

namanyayg•2h ago
Feels great to be featured here!
rschiavone•2h ago
I've found your blog by chance here on HN and it's been extremely useful in helping me navigate, as a software engineer, the new world of AI coding agents, so thank you for that!
wrs•2h ago
If current computer science curricula is accurately described here as “syntax memorization” then we’re already in deep trouble. I hope that’s just throwaway snark. (Though this whole thing reads very much like an LLM wrote it, and LLMs can’t be snarky, though they can sound snarky.)
m3ch4m4n•2h ago
Yeh, "Computer science curricula must evolve from syntax memorization..." starting with this right out of the gate makes me either deeply worried or sincerely skeptical about the following thoughts of the author.

My experience is that people fresh from getting their computer science degrees had the opposite problem where they didn't have enough practical courses coding something real to set them up for success in the real world.

lukeinator42•2h ago
Exactly this. At the university I went to a comp sci degree was mostly theoretical with a substantial overlap with mathematics (we could even substitute a certain amount of high level comp sci classes for mathematics classes if we wanted). When I took electives such as intro level neuroscience classes I was unprepared for the levels of memorization required.
slipperydippery•1h ago
I have a CS degree and have been in the industry for 25 years and man I hope "memorize syntax" was never supposed to be a notable component of any of that, because I certainly haven't....
HacklesRaised•2h ago
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z3c0•2h ago
Prompt engineers who realized that nobody is buying their bullshit.

Cleaned up of hype, it's just a JavaScript developer who spends their time arguing with APIs in a more literal fashion than those before.

brcmthrowaway•1h ago
Think this is a natural extension of the commodification of SWEs over the last 10-20 years as the newest easy way to make six figures
z3c0•1h ago
Indeed. I can't fault people for wanting to give their careers a boost in these increasingly trying times. As someone who stepped into analytics just in time to catch the wave (10 years ago), I can understand why someone would want to hop aboard.

That said, I at least took the time to learn the maths.

9dev•1h ago
It’s the third and super rare evolution of prompt engineers, you only get it with level 40 context engineers. There’s a trick though: If you leave an egg in the day care, sometimes a shiny Agentic Engineer hatches!
apwell23•1h ago
ppl using agents for work
dang•20m ago
Can you please not do this here?

It's fine to ask questions and/or make substantive points thoughtfully, of course. But snarky oneliners, name-calling, etc., more or less poisons what we're trying for on the site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

eikenberry•1h ago
> Half expect 90% AI-written code within 2 years, half within 5 years [..]

Generated, not written. IMO this is an important distinction as developers know that generated code has limitations that differentiate it from hand written code. I'm sure this is a result of the quote being from people who aren't developers (usually CEOs), but when addressing developers it would be best to align the vocabulary to the audience.

hlieberman•1h ago
Instead of reading it, just assign one of the agents to read it for you.