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What does computer literacy mean for 2026?

https://sjg.io/writing/the-2026-computer-literate-bar/
12•simonjgreen•3mo ago

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vaylian•3mo ago
This is mostly computer literacy for people who are already committed to using office and AI products from Microsoft, Google and Apple. For those people the article provides good actionable advice. But I like to contest that this is required to achieve "computer literacy in 2026". In many cases, AI is a vehicle for sending your personal and business data to a Big Tech cloud. Depending on the tasks that you need to perform, AI may not be a significant help.
CrispinS•3mo ago
I suppose it's fitting that an article concerned largely with AI was written largely by AI. (I noticed a lot of GPT-isms.)

I mean, it is mostly solid advice, e.g. asking AI to cite sources (and checking them!) and asking about the assumptions it's making.

And on the subject of automating things or making things more efficient, I'd extend that to a general reminder that just because things are the way the are, doesn't mean they have to be that way.

Which sounds obvious, but it's so easy to get used to a situation in your life that you don't like, but it's not so horrendous that you're motivated to do something about it. And then it just becomes background and you forget that there's the possibility of a better reality.

Speaking from many personal experiences here...

Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
1•jbegley•3m ago•0 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net
1•dallen97•10m ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
1•PaulHoule•11m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
1•y1n0•13m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
1•tolerance•13m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•14m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
2•linkdd•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•19m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•20m ago•0 comments

AI-powered text correction for macOS

https://taipo.app/
1•neuling•24m ago•1 comments

AppSecMaster – Learn Application Security with hands on challenges

https://www.appsecmaster.net/en
1•aqeisi•25m ago•1 comments

Fibonacci Number Certificates

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/05/fibonacci-certificate/
1•y1n0•27m ago•0 comments

AI Overviews are killing the web search, and there's nothing we can do about it

https://www.neowin.net/editorials/ai-overviews-are-killing-the-web-search-and-theres-nothing-we-c...
3•bundie•32m ago•1 comments

City skylines need an upgrade in the face of climate stress

https://theconversation.com/city-skylines-need-an-upgrade-in-the-face-of-climate-stress-267763
3•gnabgib•32m ago•0 comments

1979: The Model World of Robert Symes [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmDxmxhrGDc
1•xqcgrek2•37m ago•0 comments

Satellites Have a Lot of Room

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/02/02/satellites-have-a-lot-of-room/
2•y1n0•37m ago•0 comments

1980s Farm Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_farm_crisis
4•calebhwin•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FSID - Identifier for files and directories (like ISBN for Books)

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/fsid
1•modinfo•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Holy Grail: Open-Source Autonomous Development Agent

https://github.com/dakotalock/holygrailopensource
1•Moriarty2026•50m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Minecraft Creeper meets 90s Tamagotchi

https://github.com/danielbrendel/krepagotchi-game
1•foxiel•57m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Termiteam – Control center for multiple AI agent terminals

https://github.com/NetanelBaruch/termiteam
1•Netanelbaruch•58m ago•0 comments

The only U.S. particle collider shuts down

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/particle-collider-shuts-down-brookhaven
2•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Why do purchased B2B email lists still have such poor deliverability?

1•solarisos•1h ago•3 comments

Show HN: Remotion directory (videos and prompts)

https://www.remotion.directory/
1•rokbenko•1h ago•0 comments

Portable C Compiler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_C_Compiler
2•guerrilla•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Kokki – A "Dual-Core" System Prompt to Reduce LLM Hallucinations

1•Ginsabo•1h ago•0 comments

Software Engineering Transformation 2026

https://mfranc.com/blog/ai-2026/
1•michal-franc•1h ago•0 comments

Microsoft purges Win11 printer drivers, devices on borrowed time

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/microsoft-stops-distrubitng-legacy-v3-and-v4-pr...
4•rolph•1h ago•1 comments

Lunch with the FT: Tarek Mansour

https://www.ft.com/content/a4cebf4c-c26c-48bb-82c8-5701d8256282
2•hhs•1h ago•0 comments