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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•9m ago•0 comments

Atlas: Manage your database schema as code

https://github.com/ariga/atlas
1•quectophoton•12m ago•0 comments

Geist Pixel

https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-geist-pixel
1•helloplanets•15m ago•0 comments

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

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1•mshekow•23m ago•0 comments

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

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2•FinnLobsien•24m ago•0 comments

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

https://mealjar.app
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Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

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The Future of Systems

https://novlabs.ai/mission/
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NASA now allowing astronauts to bring their smartphones on space missions

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Claude Code Is the Inflection Point

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Show HN: MicroClaw – Agentic AI Assistant for Telegram, Built in Rust

https://github.com/microclaw/microclaw
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Show HN: Omni-BLAS – 4x faster matrix multiplication via Monte Carlo sampling

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The AI-Ready Software Developer: Conclusion – Same Game, Different Dice

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1•lifeisstillgood•38m ago•0 comments

AI Agent Automates Google Stock Analysis from Financial Reports

https://pardusai.org/view/54c6646b9e273bbe103b76256a91a7f30da624062a8a6eeb16febfe403efd078
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Voxtral Realtime 4B Pure C Implementation

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I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery [video]

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U.S. CBP Reported Employee Arrests (FY2020 – FYTD)

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Study of 150 developers shows AI generated code no harder to maintain long term

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Spotify now requires premium accounts for developer mode API access

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When Albert Einstein Moved to Princeton

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Agents.md as a Dark Signal

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System time, clocks, and their syncing in macOS

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McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter

https://turtleware.eu/posts/McCLIM-and-7GUIs---Part-1-The-Counter.html
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So whats the next word, then? Almost-no-math intro to transformer models

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Ed Zitron: The Hater's Guide to Microsoft

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UK infants ill after drinking contaminated baby formula of Nestle and Danone

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c931rxnwn3lo
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Show HN: Android-based audio player for seniors – Homer Audio Player

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3•cinusek•1h ago•2 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.

bb.

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