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AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
1•nyc111•6s ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•1m ago•0 comments

Moltbook isn't real but it can still hurt you

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-moltbook-isnt-real-but
1•theahura•4m ago•0 comments

Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs

https://zenodo.org/login/?next=%2Fme%2Fuploads%3Fq%3D%26f%3Dshared_with_me%25253Afalse%26l%3Dlist...
1•andrespi•6m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
1•samuel246•8m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•8m ago•0 comments

Abstractions Are in the Eye of the Beholder

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/29/abstractions-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
2•whack•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Routed Attention – 75-99% savings by routing between O(N) and O(N²)

https://zenodo.org/records/18518956
1•MikeBee•9m ago•0 comments

We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•10m ago•0 comments

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...
2•geox•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•13m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/
2•jerpint•13m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•15m ago•0 comments

I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
2•breadwithjam•18m ago•0 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•18m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•21m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•21m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•22m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
3•vkelk•22m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
2•mmoogle•23m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•24m ago•0 comments

Would you use an e-commerce platform that shares transaction fees with users?

https://moondala.one/
1•HamoodBahzar•26m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – a way to manage multiple Claude Code instances in containers

https://github.com/ykdojo/safeclaw
3•ykdojo•29m ago•0 comments

The Future of the Global Open-Source AI Ecosystem: From DeepSeek to AI+

https://huggingface.co/blog/huggingface/one-year-since-the-deepseek-moment-blog-3
3•gmays•29m ago•0 comments

The Evolution of the Interface

https://www.asktog.com/columns/038MacUITrends.html
2•dhruv3006•31m ago•1 comments

Azure: Virtual network routing appliance overview

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-routing-appliance-overview
3•mariuz•31m ago•0 comments

Seedance2 – multi-shot AI video generation

https://www.genstory.app/story-template/seedance2-ai-story-generator
2•RyanMu•35m ago•1 comments

Πfs – The Data-Free Filesystem

https://github.com/philipl/pifs
2•ravenical•38m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Staging is a wasteful lie: the case for the mono-environment

https://www.tomwphillips.co.uk/2026/01/staging-is-a-wasteful-lie-the-case-for-the-mono-environment/
3•tomwphillips•1mo ago

Comments

liamph•4w ago
Great article. I appreciate the recognition that there are other software- development models which may make more sense for specific scenarios. Some projects do not need 99.999% uptime if it's going to double the cost, and some do.

The name "mono-environment" might be misleading for some, as "mono" might be understood to mean that there is only one environment in total.

The practice of "development-in-production" is becoming increasingly rare but it is worth mentioning. That would be where there is no separate development environment at all. I'm not recommending it in 2026! This method is sometimes chosen because the cost of setting up a development environment that is a good match with production is too high. Similar to what the article says about the downsides of staging, sometimes the cost of creating and maintaining a separate dev environment is high, and the risk of breaking production is acceptable.

An example is when a small team inherits a complex but stable legacy project, they only need to make a few cosmetic changes, it is nearing its end of life, and some outages are tolerable. If there is no dev environment already, why invest in creating it?

Returning to my point about "mono" meaning "one" - naming is hard. I would prefer to use names which more clearly distinguish between these environment topologies. I would suggest "dev-in-prod" and "dev-plus-prod".

tomwphillips•4w ago
Author here, thanks for reading. Yes, naming is tricky. By mono-environment, I mean that there is one _long-lived_ environment to which we deploy software.