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In the AI age, 'slow and steady' doesn't win

https://www.semafor.com/article/01/30/2026/in-the-ai-age-slow-and-steady-is-on-the-outs
1•mooreds•19s ago•0 comments

Administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-wont-let-student-deported-honduras-return-2...
1•petethomas•28s ago•0 comments

How were the NIST ECDSA curve parameters generated? (2023)

https://saweis.net/posts/nist-curve-seed-origins.html
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

AI, networks and Mechanical Turks (2025)

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/11/23/ai-networks-and-mechanical-turks
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Goto Considered Awesome [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UKVEUGEk6Y
1•linkdd•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built a Free AI LinkedIn Carousel Generator

https://carousel-ai.intellisell.ai/
1•troyethaniel•5m ago•0 comments

Implementing Auto Tiling with Just 5 Tiles

https://www.kyledunbar.dev/2026/02/05/Implementing-auto-tiling-with-just-5-tiles.html
1•todsacerdoti•6m ago•0 comments

Open Challange (Get all Universities involved

https://x.com/i/grok/share/3513b9001b8445e49e4795c93bcb1855
1•rwilliamspbgops•7m ago•0 comments

Apple Tried to Tamper Proof AirTag 2 Speakers – I Broke It [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLK6ixQpQsQ
2•gnabgib•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Vibe as a Code / VaaC – new approach to vibe coding

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gace/vaac
1•bstrama•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: More beautiful and usable Hacker News

https://twitter.com/shivamhwp/status/2020125417995436090
3•shivamhwp•10m ago•0 comments

Toledo Derailment Rescue [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPHh5yHxkfU
1•samsolomon•12m ago•0 comments

War Department Cuts Ties with Harvard University

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4399812/war-department-cuts-ties-with-harva...
5•geox•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory

https://github.com/localgpt-app/localgpt
1•yi_wang•17m ago•0 comments

A Bid-Based NFT Advertising Grid

https://bidsabillion.com/
1•chainbuilder•20m ago•1 comments

AI readability score for your documentation

https://docsalot.dev/tools/docsagent-score
1•fazkan•28m ago•0 comments

NASA Study: Non-Biologic Processes Don't Explain Mars Organics

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-ful...
2•bediger4000•31m ago•2 comments

I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74w48d8epgo
2•dabinat•31m ago•0 comments

X said it would give $1M to a user who had previously shared racist posts

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/x-pays-1-million-prize-creator-history-racist-posts-rcna257768
4•doener•34m ago•1 comments

155M US land parcel boundaries

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/landrecordsus/us-parcel-layer
2•tjwebbnorfolk•38m ago•0 comments

Private Inference

https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/
2•jbegley•42m ago•1 comments

Font Rendering from First Principles

https://mccloskeybr.com/articles/font_rendering.html
1•krapp•45m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Seedance 2.0 AI video generator for creators and ecommerce

https://seedance-2.net
1•dallen97•49m ago•0 comments

Wally: A fun, reliable voice assistant in the shape of a penguin

https://github.com/JLW-7/Wally
2•PaulHoule•50m ago•0 comments

Rewriting Pycparser with the Help of an LLM

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/rewriting-pycparser-with-the-help-of-an-llm/
2•y1n0•52m ago•0 comments

Lobsters Vibecoding Challenge

https://gist.github.com/MostAwesomeDude/bb8cbfd005a33f5dd262d1f20a63a693
2•tolerance•52m ago•0 comments

E-Commerce vs. Social Commerce

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•53m ago•1 comments

Avoiding Modern C++ – Anton Mikhailov [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShSGHb65f3M
2•linkdd•54m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AegisMind–AI system with 12 brain regions modeled on human neuroscience

https://www.aegismind.app
2•aegismind_app•58m ago•1 comments

Zig – Package Management Workflow Enhancements

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-02-06
1•Retro_Dev•1h ago•0 comments
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Ask HN: What skills and projects should an unemployed software dev focus on?

5•MITfather•1mo ago
My daughter is an MIT graduate and a junior software developer who’s currently unemployed. She has a solid academic foundation, but it’s been hard translating that into job offers in the current market.

I’m trying to understand what actually matters right now from a hiring perspective. Beyond brushing up on core CS, what specific skills should she focus on building? More importantly, what kinds of projects genuinely help at the junior level?

For example: – Are end-to-end projects more valuable than algorithm-heavy ones? – Are there particular domains where a well-executed project sends a strong signal? From your experience as interviewers or hiring managers, what projects actually make you stop and say, “this person is ready”?

Comments

N_Lens•1mo ago
Try focusing on software architecture and organisation/factoring since AI is an incredible force multiplier for these skills currently and foreseeably.
thinkingemote•1mo ago
When I hired people I looked for enthusiasm and passion. Devoting some time into things she's interested and personally invested in will make her stand out.

Even a fun COBOL program might make all the difference.

rvz•1mo ago
The most important skills post-AGI is a "proof of a track record":

* Showing open-source contributions to respected projects shows you know how to code, reasoning your patches in code-reviews and the ability to understand how to solve the problem which is a very strong signal.

* Building something that makes a significant amount of money, makes getting hired optional and shows you are aware of market demand, identifying a problem and being able to monetize it.

* Publishing research papers proves your ability to go beyond academia and to build on top of other's research areas to advance the field or come up with something original to show in conference meet-ups (NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, CVPR)

Unless it is a research career, the degree and where it came from matters far less.