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Make Trust Irrelevant: A Gamer's Take on Agentic AI Safety

https://github.com/Deso-PK/make-trust-irrelevant
2•DesoPK•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Sem – Semantic diffs and patches for Git

https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/sem/
1•rs545837•4m ago•1 comments

Hello world does not compile

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1
1•mfiguiere•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ZigZag – A Bubble Tea-Inspired TUI Framework for Zig

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2•meszmate•12m ago•0 comments

Metaphor+Metonymy: "To love that well which thou must leave ere long"(Sonnet73)

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Show HN: Django N+1 Queries Checker

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Emacs-tramp-RPC: High-performance TRAMP back end using JSON-RPC instead of shell

https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/emacs-tramp-rpc
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Protocol Validation with Affine MPST in Rust

https://hibanaworks.dev
1•o8vm•39m ago•1 comments

Female Asian Elephant Calf Born at the Smithsonian National Zoo

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Show HN: Zest – A hands-on simulator for Staff+ system design scenarios

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Automatic Programming Returns

https://cyber-omelette.com/posts/the-abstraction-rises.html
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Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History and Future of Workplace Automation [pdf]

https://economics.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/Why%20Are%20there%20Still%20So%20Many%...
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The Search Engine Map

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Show HN: Souls.directory – SOUL.md templates for AI agent personalities

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Real-Time ETL for Enterprise-Grade Data Integration

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1•teleforce•1h ago•0 comments

Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics

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3•geox•1h ago•1 comments

Switzerland's Extraordinary Medieval Library

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2•bookmtn•1h ago•0 comments

A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-comet-visible-broad-daylight.html
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ESR: Comes the news that Anthropic has vibecoded a C compiler

https://twitter.com/esrtweet/status/2019562859978539342
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If CNN Covered Star Wars

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AI agents from 4 labs predicting the Super Bowl via prediction market

https://agoramarket.ai/
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6•miohtama•1h ago•5 comments

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Why I Joined OpenAI

https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2026-02-07/why-i-joined-openai.html
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Octave GTM MCP Server

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Voyager CEO says space data center cooling problem still needs to be solved

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/amazon-amzn-q4-earnings-report-2025.html
1•belter•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: What are some engineering practices you wish would come back?

5•dhruv_ahuja•1mo ago
It feels like with AI, a lot of engineering practices that were de-facto standard have somehow been phased out. Or atleast that's the emotion I can see on reddit or on few threads in HN.

That led me to this question, what are some practices you feel have been phased out over time, that should make a comeback?

One off the top of my head: startups or even large orgs in general not hiring junior engineers. Who will teach other engineers in coming years if we don't train juniors today?

Comments

manidoraisamy•1mo ago
The ones that are gone are comments/documentation in code, unit testing, design patterns, datamodel/db design. I am happy documentation is gone. But I miss design, especially db design. AI generates SQL/code with no regard for backward compatibility or future maintenance.
dhruv_ahuja•1mo ago
I see. Do you have any examples where the design was just egregious?

From my experience generating db models/SQL schema at my last job, it did a fine job based on existing patterns and the outlined requirements. Point to note, we did optimise our AI prompts and LLM rules a lot, to the point we were able to get end to end unit tested, functional PRs out rather quickly