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Ask HN: How optimistic are you about the future of tech?

2•julienreszka•2h ago

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binary132•1h ago
Very.

I think that we are currently undergoing a sort of Cambrian explosion of awful slop that will inevitably starve itself of resources and die off.

After that process completes, a small core of human-only, anti-“social”, resilient software will remain efficient and usable.

This software will serve as the foundation for a future that prioritizes efficiency (both of hardware and financial resources), maintainability, extensibility, etc.

Much of what we imagine as futuristic software features today will be tomorrow’s corny yesteryear. Tomorrow’s software will be much more utilitarian.

Unfortunately, most users will still probably be trapped in dark-patterned software like Facebook, but the ever-increasing abusiveness of such platforms for the sake of extracting profit growth from a stable or shrinking userbase will drive more and more people to the new world.

2025 was the third hottest year on record

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/14/2025-was-the-third-hottest-year-on-re...
1•andsoitis•1m ago•0 comments

Bethesda's former Elder Scrolls loremaster on why he left

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/bethesdas-former-elder-scrolls-loremaster-on-why-...
1•cainxinth•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source AI workflows for high converting social media videos

https://github.com/gptmarket/ai-workflows
1•tadasg•3m ago•0 comments

NATO members face tariffs increasing to 25% until Greenland purchase deal struck

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/17/trump-greenland-tariffs-nato.html
2•pseudolus•5m ago•1 comments

Dagwood Sandwich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagwood_sandwich
1•thunderbong•6m ago•0 comments

Claude Growing a Tomato Plant

https://autoncorp.com/biodome/
1•moebrowne•11m ago•0 comments

We Were Never Good Programmers

https://idiallo.com/blog/we-were-never-good-programmers
2•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

How to make a Blockbuster VHS sleeve for any movie

https://www.popsci.com/technology/how-to-make-blockbuster-sleeve/
1•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Why the EU is ready to drop high tariffs on China-made EVs

https://restofworld.org/2026/why-the-eu-is-ready-to-drop-high-tariffs-on-china-made-evs/
1•Brajeshwar•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LifeCal – Life Calendar Live Wallpaper

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bufferlabs.lifecal&hl=en_US
1•sumit-paul•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Reddit GDPR Export Viewer – Built After Ban, Unban, Reban

https://github.com/guilamu/reddit-gdpr-export-viewer
2•guilamu•15m ago•1 comments

A project planner designed for developers

https://getfrostbyte.dev/
2•thamiltonsmith•17m ago•0 comments

Musk's Starlink faces high-profile security test in Iran crackdown

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/01/17/tech/starlink-internet-test-iran-analysis/
4•everybodyknows•20m ago•0 comments

OpenAI to Test Targeted Ads in ChatGPT, Stepping Up Revenue Push

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/openai-to-test-targeted-ads-in-chatgpt-steppin...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•21m ago•0 comments

How much TV is too much TV?

https://www.ft.com/content/12f57e3c-c824-4c4c-bab0-7cd9321a8be7
1•7777777phil•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Purchasing a "Premium" Domain

1•devld•22m ago•1 comments

Trump to impose tariffs on European nations over Greenland

https://www.dw.com/en/trump-to-impose-tariffs-on-european-nations-over-greenland/a-75549367
7•lysace•24m ago•5 comments

Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed

https://twitter.com/IterIntellectus/status/2012220254504530043
1•bilsbie•24m ago•1 comments

Don't Try to Step-Function Everyone All at Once (2024)

https://staysaasy.com/startups/2024/06/12/focused-growth.html
1•speckx•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Evolution of my humble library of games built with my own engine

https://carimbo.games/
1•delduca•26m ago•0 comments

Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland

https://apnews.com/article/denmark-greenland-us-trump-4ad99ea3975a8b62d37bd04961feda55
66•2OEH8eoCRo0•27m ago•41 comments

WorldCat (OCLC)

https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat.html
1•bookofjoe•27m ago•0 comments

L for the Price of One: On the Benefits of Using more than t+1 Parties in Thres [pdf]

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/061.pdf
1•todsacerdoti•27m ago•0 comments

TTY and Buffering

https://mattrighetti.com/2026/01/12/tty-and-buffering
2•mattrighetti•28m ago•0 comments

What are you doing for your health this year?

1•Newhouser•31m ago•0 comments

Parallelizable threshold ECDSA with more than t+1 parties

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/061
1•badcryptobitch•32m ago•0 comments

The integrated explicit analytic number theory network

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/01/15/the-integrated-explicit-analytic-number-theory-network/
2•taubek•35m ago•0 comments

The Year Everything Changed

https://networkgames.fyi/the-year-everything-changed
1•daniloc•36m ago•0 comments

A minimal hackable implementation of policy gradients (GRPO, PPO, REINFORCE)

https://github.com/zafstojano/policy-gradients
1•starzmustdie•36m ago•0 comments

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm
8•Tachyooon•37m ago•0 comments