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Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
2•oxxoxoxooo•8m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•9m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
2•goranmoomin•13m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•14m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•15m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•18m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
2•myk-e•20m ago•3 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•21m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•23m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•25m ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•27m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•30m ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•35m ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
1•lembergs•36m ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•40m ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Hibana – choreography-first protocol safety for Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev/
5•o8vm•54m ago•1 comments

Haniri: A live autonomous world where AI agents survive or collapse

https://www.haniri.com
1•donangrey•54m ago•1 comments

GPT-5.3-Codex System Card [pdf]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107-a9b1-4d2c-b156-7deb4fbc697c/GPT-5-3-Codex-System-Card-02.pdf
1•tosh•1h ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•1h ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
2•helloplanets•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP to get latest dependency package and tool versions

https://github.com/MShekow/package-version-check-mcp
1•mshekow•1h ago•0 comments

The better you get at something, the harder it becomes to do

https://seekingtrust.substack.com/p/improving-at-writing-made-me-almost
2•FinnLobsien•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: WP Float – Archive WordPress blogs to free static hosting

https://wpfloat.netlify.app/
1•zizoulegrande•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Hacked My Family's Meal Planning with an App

https://mealjar.app
1•melvinzammit•1h ago•0 comments

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
2•basilikum•1h ago•0 comments

The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
2•tekbog•1h ago•1 comments

NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

https://twitter.com/NASAAdmin/status/2019259382962307393
2•gbugniot•1h ago•0 comments

Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/claude-code-is-the-inflection-point
4•throwaw12•1h ago•3 comments
Open in hackernews

What's a piece of tech you were excited about but stopped using?

4•bobbyblackstone•1mo ago
I’ve been thinking about how often this happens to me.

I see a new tool or product, read the launch post, try it out, and honestly feel excited about it. It looks useful. It promises to save time or reduce friction. I want it to work.

Then a few weeks later, I realize I have not opened it in a while.

Not because it is awful. More because it never quite became part of my routine. Maybe it was slower than expected. Maybe it required too much setup. Maybe it solved a problem I do not actually have that often.

I am curious how common this is for other people here.

What is a piece of tech you were genuinely excited about, gave a real shot, and then quietly stopped using?

What made you stop?

I am especially interested in answers from people who wanted it to succeed.

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Comments

DamonHD•1mo ago
1) Maybe edit "Ask HN: " into your title?

2) As a low-level C++/C/asm/hardware guy I'd like to get into Rust but haven't yet got started because I haven't had a recent project that would benefit. Not quite your question.

3) When dinosaurs still roamed the Earth many many people thought that a sprinkling of XML would fix everything, with similar levels of hype to the current LLM wave. I do regularly use XML (eg as XHTML source for my Web site, and in my RSS podcast feeds), but not for everything. Also see SOAP and WSDL...

eimrine•1mo ago
I was very excited about smartphones 20 years ago, my first and second smartphone had Symbian when nobody from my environment used computers daily, then I've got Android and after that the value of that piece of technology has sagged. I have no smartphone for at least 10 years and have an experience that now I have to be really excited about living with not a single one. Trying hard to get a smartphone has been replaced with trying hard to not get a smartphone.
raooll•1mo ago
1) Smartphones 2) Coding agents.
beardyw•1mo ago
ZX81, Amiga 500, Windows