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Xkcd: Game AIs

https://xkcd.com/1002/
1•ravenical•1m ago•0 comments

Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-finally-pulls-the-plug-on-legacy-p...
1•ValdikSS•1m ago•0 comments

From Offloading to Engagement (Study on Generative AI)

https://www.mdpi.com/2306-5729/10/11/172
1•boshomi•3m ago•1 comments

AI for People

https://justsitandgrin.im/posts/ai-for-people/
1•dive•4m ago•0 comments

Rome is studded with cannon balls (2022)

https://essenceofrome.com/rome-is-studded-with-cannon-balls
1•thomassmith65•9m ago•0 comments

8-piece tablebase development on Lichess (op1 partial)

https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/op1-partial-8-piece-tablebase-available/1ptPBDpC
2•somethingp•11m ago•0 comments

US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws

https://www.brusselstimes.com/1957195/us-to-fund-far-right-forces-in-europe-tbtb
3•saubeidl•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Have AI companies replaced their own SaaS usage with agents?

1•tuxpenguine•15m ago•0 comments

pi-nes

https://twitter.com/thomasmustier/status/2018362041506132205
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Crew – Multi-agent orchestration tool for AI-assisted development

https://github.com/garnetliu/crew
1•gl2334•17m ago•0 comments

New hire fixed a problem so fast, their boss left to become a yoga instructor

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/on_call/
1•Brajeshwar•19m ago•0 comments

Four horsemen of the AI-pocalypse line up capex bigger than Israel's GDP

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/06/ai_capex_plans/
1•Brajeshwar•19m ago•0 comments

A free Dynamic QR Code generator (no expiring links)

https://free-dynamic-qr-generator.com/
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nextTick but for React.js

https://suhaotian.github.io/use-next-tick/
1•jeremy_su•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an AI-Powered Pull Request Review Tool

https://github.com/HighGarden-Studio/HighReview
1•highgarden•22m ago•0 comments

Git-am applies commit message diffs

https://lore.kernel.org/git/bcqvh7ahjjgzpgxwnr4kh3hfkksfruf54refyry3ha7qk7dldf@fij5calmscvm/
1•rkta•24m ago•0 comments

ClawEmail: 1min setup for OpenClaw agents with Gmail, Docs

https://clawemail.com
1•aleks5678•31m ago•1 comments

UnAutomating the Economy: More Labor but at What Cost?

https://www.greshm.org/blog/unautomating-the-economy/
1•Suncho•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Gettorr – Stream magnet links in the browser via WebRTC (no install)

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Statin drugs safer than previously thought

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1•stareatgoats•41m ago•0 comments

Handy when you just want to distract yourself for a moment

https://d6.h5go.life/
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More States Are Taking Aim at a Controversial Early Reading Method

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2•lelanthran•44m ago•0 comments

AI will not save developer productivity

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4125409/ai-will-not-save-developer-productivity.html
1•indentit•49m ago•0 comments

How I do and don't use agents

https://twitter.com/jessfraz/status/2019975917863661760
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BTDUex Safe? The Back End Withdrawal Anomalies

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1•IO0oI•1h ago•1 comments

PR to support XMPP channels in OpenClaw

https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/pull/9741
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Twenty: A Modern Alternative to Salesforce

https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Raspberry Pi: More memory-driven price rises

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/more-memory-driven-price-rises/
2•calcifer•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are young technically minded people reading?

18•drdec•1mo ago
When I was young we read books like Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman, Neuromancer by William Gibson and So You Want to be a Mathematician by Paul Halmos. What books are popular with young technically minded people today?

Comments

chistev•1mo ago
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html
chasenjohnson•1mo ago
I just got through Abundance by Ezra Klein and thoroughly enjoyed it.
antinomicus•1mo ago
Do you believe in his ideas? I think the abundist philosophy is a fake moustache and a coat of paint on third way neoliberalism, which has proven time and again to have utterly failed as a political strategy in our current era. Ezra Klein’s ideas mostly feel tired, recycled, boring, outdated, and rudderless. We need true labor reform in this country, not less regulations and more trust in “altruistic developers”.
tptacek•1mo ago
Pretty rude response, right?
sloaken•1mo ago
It is an opinion. Interestingly because of that opinion I am actually looking at the book. At least reading the Wiki summary.
tptacek•1mo ago
The original commenter answered the question of the thread: "here's a book I'm reading". They got in response a screed about "neoliberal" politics. That the response is wrong is besides the point: it was a really rude way to respond to someone recommending a book. The civil and productive way to write that response would have been to recommend in addition another, countervailing book.
worldsavior•1mo ago
He's trying to have discussion, who are you to tell people how to communicate?
tptacek•1mo ago
Sure, it's just a totally different conversation than what the thread's about, and a super rude one. I'm not the boss of him, but I guess I get to have off-topic conversations too. "Next time, on book recommendation threas, recommend another book, instead of writing a screed about how bad the politics of some other book are."
worldsavior•1mo ago
It's an opportunity to discuss, should he create a new thread to discuss this book and maybe the same person will see this thread? Kinda weird, especially when this doesn't hurt anyone.
bluecheese452•1mo ago
His comment was way less rude and way more productive than your comment.
tptacek•1mo ago
Agree to disagree.
bluecheese452•1mo ago
Rude
bcx76•1mo ago
Mostly the Kardashian book club recos. Learn video editing in 3 days etc.
andyjohnson0•1mo ago
I'm pretty technically minded, but first I should probably ask: what's the age cut-off for "young"?
drdec•1mo ago
My secret agenda is to get gift ideas for my college aged child
sloaken•1mo ago
Ah good plan, I like it.

I will be following your lead.

toomuchtodo•1mo ago
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Lapsa•1mo ago
your mind
operatorius•1mo ago
At the moment I'm reading:

* Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

* Bessel van der Kolk - The Body Keeps the Score

coolfox•1mo ago
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
s1mplicissimus•1mo ago
It's not very current, but I remember this being one of my favorite books back in college:

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

by Carl Sagan

andrei_says_•1mo ago
The ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson explores technological and societal solutions to climate collapse in a novel form.

Starts in somewhat current time and follows humanity’s trajectory for the next 30-ish years.

I found it especially interesting because it does expose and address the socioeconomic issues preventing us from taking action on climate.

elnatro•1mo ago
Good premise. The stereotypes he wrote about Spain were atrocious.
closetkantian•1mo ago
I'd recommend Careless People, if you haven't read it.
mghackerlady•1mo ago
I can't speak for every young person, but for me mostly the same things older technically minded people were reading. Currently I've been reading Tanenbaums Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
segmondy•1mo ago
anything and everything that piques their interest
jerlendds•1mo ago
Some books Ive been reading/plan to read: https://studium.dev/books
firefax•1mo ago
I feel like what's interesting to the technically minded will stay evergreen? (You mentioned Neuromancer for example)

"A Brief History of Time" was one of my favorite books as a pre-teen beginning to wonder how the world works.

On the fiction side I've heard good things about Cory Doctorow's works -- I purchased a copy of "Little Brother" a while back and enjoyed it. Maybe not as high literature as 1984 or Catch 22 but it was engaging and if I had kids I'd gift it to them when they were the right age.