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State Department will delete Xitter posts from before Trump returned to office

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x
2•righthand•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Verifiable server roundtrip demo for a decision interruption system

https://github.com/veeduzyl-hue/decision-assistant-roundtrip-demo
1•veeduzyl•2m ago•0 comments

Impl Rust – Avro IDL Tool in Rust via Antlr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKvw73V394
1•todsacerdoti•2m ago•0 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
1•vinhnx•3m ago•0 comments

minikeyvalue

https://github.com/commaai/minikeyvalue/tree/prod
2•tosh•7m ago•0 comments

Neomacs: GPU-accelerated Emacs with inline video, WebKit, and terminal via wgpu

https://github.com/eval-exec/neomacs
1•evalexec•12m ago•0 comments

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https://moli-green.is/
2•ShinyaKoyano•16m ago•1 comments

How I grow my X presence?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrowthHacking/s/UEc8pAl61b
2•m00dy•17m ago•0 comments

What's the cost of the most expensive Super Bowl ad slot?

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What if you just did a startup instead?

https://alexaraki.substack.com/p/what-if-you-just-did-a-startup
3•okaywriting•25m ago•0 comments

Hacking up your own shell completion (2020)

https://www.feltrac.co/environment/2020/01/18/build-your-own-shell-completion.html
2•todsacerdoti•28m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/gorse-io/gorse
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GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive

https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
1•ms7892•29m ago•0 comments

Local Agent Bench: Test 11 small LLMs on tool-calling judgment, on CPU, no GPU

https://github.com/MikeVeerman/tool-calling-benchmark
1•MikeVeerman•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AboutMyProject – A public log for developer proof-of-work

https://aboutmyproject.com/
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Expertise, AI and Work of Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsxWl9iT1XU
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So Long to Cheap Books You Could Fit in Your Pocket

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3•pseudolus•31m ago•1 comments

PID Controller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%E2%80%93derivative_controller
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SpaceX Rocket Generates 100GW of Power, or 20% of US Electricity

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Kubernetes MCP Server

https://github.com/yindia/rootcause
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I Built a Movie Recommendation Agent to Solve Movie Nights with My Wife

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What were the first animals? The fierce sponge–jelly battle that just won't end

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Sidestepping Evaluation Awareness and Anticipating Misalignment

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OldMapsOnline

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What It's Like to Be a Worm

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Don't go to physics grad school and other cautionary tales

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2•surprisetalk•48m ago•0 comments

Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/randomly-quoting-ray-bradbury-did-not-save-lawyer-fro...
5•pseudolus•48m ago•0 comments

AI anxiety batters software execs, costing them combined $62B: report

https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/business/ai-anxiety-batters-software-execs-costing-them-62b-report/
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•49m ago•0 comments

Bogus Pipeline

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogus_pipeline
1•doener•50m ago•0 comments

Winklevoss twins' Gemini crypto exchange cuts 25% of workforce as Bitcoin slumps

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2•1vuio0pswjnm7•50m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Where do you stand on the better use of coding agents

2•mamdouh_ai•3mo ago
A question has been roaming my mind lately. On what is the better use of one's time and effort in approaching programming and development in general (career wise not nerdy wise).

It goes like this: Is it the better investment to focus more on abstract problem solving and understanding architectural, engineering and systematic thinking by the more utilizing natural language and only using coding agents once fully understanding the problem and the flow YOU CHOOSE and just let the agent as more of a translator. Because I know without I can do it it will just take time, but by utilizing AI I can have more throughput in the thinking described earlier and maybe in a longer term could be more beneficial since coding agents will only get better from now. I also believe you should do the debugging and understand why a thing went wrong, also understanding the code generated by AI.

The only regret feel is that by coding manually in a dull way you learn in a much harder way that could stick to your head better, but is it the best investment in this era? is there a better approach? I wanted to get this out of my mind and have more of a disscusion about it, because I am really interested in other's point of view.

Comments

roundedge•3mo ago
I have the same dilemma previously, to go learning coding the hard way that will stick better or go for system thinking, problem solving, etc. I would say thinking occurs before coding, coding is the last 10% of the whole project, thinking as in system thinking, problem solving, etc always come before that. So now I go for system thinking, domain-driven design rather than learning coding the hard way.