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AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•43s ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
1•gurjeet•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•2m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•3m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•5m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•5m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•6m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
1•mooreds•7m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•8m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•8m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•9m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•9m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•11m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•11m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•12m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•13m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•13m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•14m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•14m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•17m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•17m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•18m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•18m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•20m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•20m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•21m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The worst programming language of all time [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGB-hjc2Gc
15•todsacerdoti•2mo ago

Comments

Rochus•2mo ago
Well, essenitally a Rust fan explaining for two hours why he doesn't like C++.
stOneskull•2mo ago
rust is hardly mentioned.. javascript gets more attention. he seems to be an expert and i think it's hilarious.
Rochus•2mo ago
> rust is hardly mentioned

Until the fundamental quintessence in the final minutes, which puts everything said before it into perspective.

stOneskull•2mo ago
it's the obvious comparison to make, and he's still critical of rust. i think he wishes he had it years earlier. his frustration with c++ has a mass.. that comes from a whole lot of energy spent.
Rochus•2mo ago
> it's the obvious comparison to make

Why do you think that? I think these two languages have pretty little in common besides a few (remote) syntactical similarities. Both languages have their merrits and weaknesses, but I don't think that one is able to fully replace the other. I would rather compare C++ to Ada or D.

whytevuhuni•2mo ago
That's a very unusual take. Rust (in its 1.0 form) was precisely made to replace C++, since the goal was to replace as much of Firefox's code as possible with it.

Also, if you cannot afford a GC, then languages like Ada and D are indeed decent alternatives... but D without a GC is very limited, Ada without SPARK is not as safe nor as ergonomic, and Ada with SPARK is very difficult to scale to larger projects.

Rochus•2mo ago
> Rust (in its 1.0 form) was precisely made to replace C++

And yet, the Rust we have today (which is a completely different language than what Hoare originally intended, long before its 1.0 form), requires a complete redesign and rewrite of a system written in C++. The "rewrite everything" dogma and the extreme complexity of the borrow checker were not part of Hoare's original language.

> but D without a GC is very limited

Why? It's pretty much the same object model as C++, and actually was D indeed designed to be a better C++ and a better C, even by an expert who had many years of experience in writing a commercial C++ compiler. There is no need for a GC if you migrate C++ code; you can still do manual memory management and incrementally switch to GC. Unlike Rust, which requires complex binding generators (like cxx or bindgen) to talk to C++, D has native C++ interoperability built into the compiler, so it indeed supports incremental migration.

> Ada without SPARK is not as safe nor as ergonomic, and Ada with SPARK is very difficult to scale to larger projects.

SPARK is usually used for the safety critical parts of a system, not a whole system. It is a subset of and more limited than Ada. But Ada by itself is already much safer than C++, because you can capture the semantics of a system much closer due to the more precise language features. It also has features which help to avoid dynamic allocations, bounds issues, etc. And even Ada is semantically closer to C++ than Rust.

diimdeep•2mo ago
There a lot of low information hate and minuscule effort content that farms impressions that is out there and even here being upvoted to front page, but this full feature length video is deliberate high information hate and it is awesome, not without it's drawbacks but a single man can only do so much.
joshluca•2mo ago
This guy knows C++ 9/10, -1 point for using gross AI generated pic
hhutw•2mo ago
This is like the best C++ tutorial that covers all those niche corner edge cases that I had to learn from a hundred different Even More Effective C++ books