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RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
2•oxxoxoxooo•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•4m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•9m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•10m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•13m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•15m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•16m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•18m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•20m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•22m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•25m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•30m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•31m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•35m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•47m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•49m ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•49m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
4•throwaw12•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
1•everettjf•1h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Start by Not Being a Terrible Software Engineer

https://caponte.io/2025/10/19/Start-By-Not-Being-Terrible/
1•0xCaponte•3mo ago

Comments

0xCaponte•3mo ago
Aiming to be a 10x developer by chasing every new tool and content is a recipe for burnout. A more effective strategy is inversion, focus not on being excellent, but on systematically avoiding common failures. For an engineer, this means prioritizing the elimination of bad habits that create poor code.
alganet•3mo ago
Clearness is a luxury good. I want to be able to demonstrate that I can do it, but I won't do it for free.
0xCaponte•3mo ago
I am not following, why for free?
alganet•3mo ago
I am sorry, there is a bunch of steps to that conclusion that I took for granted.

We seem to be in a moment that values more terrible engineers in volume than non-terrible engineers.

To me, it sounds very likely that if you're a not-terrible engineer, you won't be rewarded by that effort. Instead, you'll be hired or leveraged for value in the same batch as several other mixed-quality engineers, and rewarded as a maybe-terrible engineer.

Maybe I just want to be non-terrible if there's a viable reward for doing that.

That goes for jobs (you are hired to do something etc) and also for work like free software, open source, even portfolio work (stuff you do to display your skills). Maybe you want to do just enough to show that you can be a non-terrible engineer if the reward for acting that way is guaranteed, which today, it isn't (in my opinion).

0xCaponte•3mo ago
Yes, the steps in between made it all clear hahaha

I honestly have mixed feelings about what you said. I can see how that’s happening, but at the same time, I feel like it’s been going on for the last 5-10 years, especially during the dev boom on 2020 when anyone with a bootcamp could land a job. But market conditions aside, being non-terrible is, in my opinion, a personal decision based on what makes you happy, fulfills you, and meets the needs of your job. I’ve had periods and jobs where being non-terrible, but totally average was enough, and as you said, I wasn’t going to do more for free. In others, I wanted to go above and beyond because I was motivated or properly compensated. I guess it depends on the situation.

My main goal with the post, though, is that even if it covers some generic points, it can still help people who are trying to improve but failing. In most cases because they’re investing their effort in the wrong things. Lately, I’ve seen many newcomers and juniors trying to respond to the current job market by becoming “better” developers, but they’re just chasing the latest AI buzz word and stacks, not being great at any and also failing at the basics. I think that’s the key takeaway I wanted to share: if you take care of the basics and avoid overcomplicating your work or your team’s life you’re already above average and a non-terrible engineer.

alganet•3mo ago
Since you mentioned AI, I'll also give my perspective on that:

I'm concerned that it will, literally, suck the blood of good engineers to pump into bad ones.

Some 10 years ago, I would tell juniors that donating blood is a good thing to do and something they should aim for. I am not so sure about that anymore. Today I would teach them to sharpen wooden stakes.

I want promising junior developers to survive. That's an important prerequisite for being able to be a good developer. I don't want them to be too naive and die off.

0xCaponte•3mo ago
I have a similar view in that sense, I think that at the moment many companies are counting with AI taking over many of the senior level tasks and therefore not investing in that many juniors. If this assumption fails, there will be a lack of qualified seniors to take over when the current batch moves on; there will be juniors but not nearly as prepared or with the amount of experience needed, as they are currently struggling to get into the industry.