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Stop building automations. Start running your business

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1•valboa•41s ago•1 comments

You can't QA your way to the frontier

https://www.scorecard.io/blog/you-cant-qa-your-way-to-the-frontier
1•gk1•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PalettePoint – AI color palette generator from text or images

https://palettepoint.com
1•latentio•2m ago•0 comments

Robust and Interactable World Models in Computer Vision [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B4kkaGOozA
1•Anon84•6m ago•0 comments

Nestlé couldn't crack Japan's coffee market.Then they hired a child psychologist

https://twitter.com/BigBrainMkting/status/2019792335509541220
1•rmason•7m ago•0 comments

Notes for February 2-7

https://taoofmac.com/space/notes/2026/02/07/2000
2•rcarmo•9m ago•0 comments

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/07/boomers_vs_zoomers_workplace/
2•Willingham•16m ago•0 comments

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

https://lauriepenny.substack.com/p/the-big-hunger
1•shervinafshar•17m ago•0 comments

The Genus Amanita

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/amanita.html
1•rolph•22m ago•0 comments

We have broken SHA-1 in practice

https://shattered.io/
4•mooreds•22m ago•2 comments

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

1•Buttons840•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to Reduce Time Spent Crimping?

2•pinkmuffinere•25m ago•0 comments

KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01815
1•walterbell•29m ago•0 comments

A quantitative, multimodal wearable bioelectronic device for stress assessment

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67747-9
1•PaulHoule•31m 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•31m ago•0 comments

How to shoot yourself in the foot – 2026 edition

https://github.com/aweussom/HowToShootYourselfInTheFoot
1•aweussom•32m ago•0 comments

Eight More Months of Agents

https://crawshaw.io/blog/eight-more-months-of-agents
4•archb•34m 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•34m ago•0 comments

The new X API pricing must be a joke

https://developer.x.com/
1•danver0•35m ago•0 comments

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

https://rma-dashboard.bukhari-kibuka7.workers.dev/
1•bumahkib7•35m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/2015xli/jqassistant-graph-rag
1•artigent•40m ago•0 comments

Python Only Has One Real Competitor

https://mccue.dev/pages/2-6-26-python-competitor
4•dragandj•42m ago•0 comments

Tmux to Zellij (and Back)

https://www.mauriciopoppe.com/notes/tmux-to-zellij/
1•maurizzzio•43m ago•1 comments

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

1•otterley•44m ago•0 comments

Passing user_id through 6 services? OTel Baggage fixes this

https://signoz.io/blog/otel-baggage/
1•pranay01•45m ago•0 comments

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

https://davmail.sourceforge.net/
1•todsacerdoti•45m ago•0 comments

Visual data modelling in the browser (open source)

https://github.com/sqlmodel/sqlmodel
1•Sean766•47m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/chinonsochikelue/tharos
1•fluantix•48m ago•0 comments

Oddly Simple GUI Programs

https://simonsafar.com/2024/win32_lights/
1•MaximilianEmel•48m ago•0 comments

The New Playbook for Leaders [pdf]

https://www.ibli.com/IBLI%20OnePagers%20The%20Plays%20Summarized.pdf
1•mooreds•49m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Are there many C developers here?

12•Forgret•5mo ago

Comments

sim7c00•5mo ago
very likely. what is the objective of your question?
Forgret•5mo ago
I see that there are a lot of posts about frontend, AI, and other programming languages, especially Rust, so I wanted to know if there are still active C programmers here and what they might be doing right now?
DamonHD•5mo ago
C (and C++) when needed.
LouDNL•5mo ago
As a hobby more C and embedded C then C++, but yeah! Clojure day job.
jleyank•5mo ago
While it’s not sexy, I suspect there’s still a whole lot of silicon being melted using C, C++ and whatever Fortran is called now. Lots of simulations are accessible now and much of the calculation logic can be parallelized.

Remember, if you manage to get a drug to market 3 months earlier, you can make billions. And if you get a hit on something like Alzheimer’s, you’ll need 64-bit to count that high. Ozempic distorted the Danish economy and it’s passed by follow-ons.

khedoros1•5mo ago
C++ mostly, but parts of the codebase are in C, and I have to dip into it now and then. I'm certainly more comfortable in C than in webdev or Rust (although I wouldn't mind picking up some Rust).
beardyw•5mo ago
There is a surprising depth of knowledge on a lot of subjects on HN, C included.
iExploder•5mo ago
Not many, but there are some who remain I would say. C and C++ is not going anywhere in embedded. No need too press F just yet.
Forgret•5mo ago
I'm afraid that Rust will replace C/C++ in everything.
cpach•5mo ago
In theory it could happen, but even so it would take years. There’s just so much C code out there. Stuff like Linux, Nginx, Apache, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, QEMU, etc etc.
ActorNightly•5mo ago
Absolutely not.

C has the advantage of being an extremely small language in terms of syntax, which means its incredibly easy to port it to any architecture. Whenever you build a chip and want to program it, writing an LLVM backend for it with optimizations is almost trivial (assuming you understand the core concepts).

Rust has a lot more things to consider in the compiler, which leads to slow adoption, and also its more cumbersome to program in.

bjourne•5mo ago
None
dapperdrake•5mo ago

  printf("Yes.");