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Why Can't We Quit Excel

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-microsoft-excel-ai-software
3•petethomas•38m ago

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layer8•29m ago
https://archive.ph/rYv9i
FrankWilhoit•2m ago
Spreadsheets conceal dangling elses. That is why they are used, and it is also why their use is impermissible. It would be down to the auditors, but they are trained on Excel. When the auditors come into a company that has homebrew software that actually works, they refuse to sign unless the working software is replaced with SAP, or PeopleSoft, or some such, which can never work but which the auditors are trained on.

We need a canvas for input rather than textbox for all AI chatbots

1•nani98•32s ago•0 comments

SonicDE, the Sonic Desktop Environment

https://github.com/Sonic-DE
2•akagusu•3m ago•1 comments

MD Engine – No Code Game Creation Software

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1obMBxWPQ
1•bane•4m ago•0 comments

How come a post that got 7000 likes on Twitter, got zero interactions here?

1•andupotorac•5m ago•0 comments

Pouring Packages with Homebrew

https://lwn.net/Articles/1046236/
2•signa11•12m ago•0 comments

TanStack announces an AI product [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFaVCe5mSN8
1•ryanvogel•17m ago•1 comments

AV1 – Now Powering 30% of Netflix Streaming

https://netflixtechblog.com/av1-now-powering-30-of-netflix-streaming-02f592242d80
2•CharlesW•21m ago•0 comments

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

https://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/
1•cebert•21m ago•0 comments

Legal-tech co Harvey raises $160M at $8B led by A16Z (up $5B after $300M raise)

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/dealbook/harvey-legal-ai.html
1•thoughtpeddler•27m ago•0 comments

GBNet: XGBoost and LightGBM Modules for PyTorch

https://github.com/mthorrell/gbnet
2•GBNetMaintainer•27m ago•0 comments

Trick users and bypass warnings – Modern SVG Clickjacking attacks

https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/12/svg-clickjacking/
3•spartanatreyu•27m ago•0 comments

Enforced Amnesia as Way to Mitigate the Risk of Silent Suffering in Conscious AI

https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/tkachenko24a.html
1•yegortk•27m ago•1 comments

Bulldozed corpses and unmarked graves, CNN probes Gaza's missing aid seekers

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/middleeast/bulldozed-corpses-gaza-israel-zikim-aid-intl-vis-invs
2•hebelehubele•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SimpleURL – An Affordable URL Shortener with Branded Link and Analytics

1•ronakkhunt•29m ago•0 comments

"How can democracy function if 84% [NJ] believe elected officials are corrupt?"

https://prospect.org/2025/12/04/andy-kim-machine-again-corruption-new-jersey/
4•JMiao•29m ago•2 comments

Things to Look for in the Best Hytale Servers

https://hytaletop100.com/blog/10-things-to-look-for-in-the-best-hytale-servers
1•doobie12•32m ago•0 comments

An Instagram Alternative That Works Even with JavaScript Off

https://phofee.com/explore
3•LandenLove•33m ago•0 comments

The Dawn of the Renaissance Developer

https://thekernel.news/
2•cebert•35m ago•1 comments

"Thinking Models" vs. Structured Prompts (Cost and Latency Analysis)

https://reidkimball.com/case-studies/cutting-ai-feature-costs-by-61-percent/
1•reidkimball•36m ago•1 comments

pollcoro: header-only C++17 coroutine-ts library using polling instead of resume

https://github.com/TroyKomodo/pollcoro
2•arunc•36m ago•0 comments

Why Can't We Quit Excel

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-microsoft-excel-ai-software
3•petethomas•38m ago•2 comments

I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked

https://www.theguardian.com/food/commentisfree/2025/dec/04/recipe-book-sabzi-vegetables-yasmin-kh...
1•sea6ear•39m ago•0 comments

What Is a Package Manager?

https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/02/what-is-a-package-manager.html
2•todsacerdoti•39m ago•1 comments

Heatma.lol – A Multiplayer Strategy and Agility Webbrowser Clicking Game

https://www.heatmap.lol/
1•MajesticWombat•42m ago•0 comments

Guide to Paris

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/travel/paris-france-guide.html
1•whack•42m ago•1 comments

istwitterdownyet.com (2023)

https://web.archive.org/web/20230410173730/http://istwitterdownyet.com/
3•lysace•44m ago•5 comments

A Responsibility to the Industry

https://lmnt.me/blog/a-responsibility-to-the-industry.html
1•JSR_FDED•47m ago•0 comments

What is better: a lookup table or an enum type?

https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/lookup-table-or-enum-type/
2•todsacerdoti•47m ago•0 comments

Software Gets a New Layer

https://www.wreflection.com/p/software-gets-a-new-layer
1•nowflux•50m ago•0 comments

Seekdb – AI-Native search database

https://github.com/oceanbase/seekdb
2•synergy20•51m ago•0 comments