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Peon Training feature piggybacks on AI coding session

https://github.com/PeonPing/peon-ping
1•mthwsjc_•47s ago•0 comments

Governor: Extensible CLI for security-auditing AI-generated applications

https://github.com/ulsc/governor
1•ulsc•2m ago•0 comments

Suicide Linux (2009)

https://qntm.org/suicide
2•icwtyjj•2m ago•0 comments

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free thanks to its fan community

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/unreal-tournament-2004-is-now-available-for-free-thanks-to-its-...
1•donutshop•2m ago•0 comments

The Three Juggling Acts (Strategic, Lazy, and Survival)

https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-407-the-three-juggling-acts-strategic
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

Discovering Domains via NS Correlation

https://interrupt.sh/blog/discovering-domains-via-ns-correlation/
1•arwt•3m ago•0 comments

App builder market trends and statistics

https://getmocha.com/blog/ai-app-builder-statistics/
3•nichochar•4m ago•0 comments

Glimpse – A Clean Architecture Pattern for Django and Coding Agents

https://medium.com/@radoslaw_jan/a-glimpse-of-cleaner-architecture-for-django-projects-c31295529eb5
1•novagalileo•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PicoGPT v2 – GPT in <40 lines of vanilla JS running from a QR code

https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/picogpt
1•kuberwastaken•11m ago•1 comments

Programming in Prison: My Redemption Arc

https://www.ck-7vn.dev/blog/Home
3•CK-7vn•11m ago•1 comments

Show HN: RuneScapeCN (open source) – UI kit with authentic OSRS styling

https://github.com/alns0dev/runescapecn
1•alns0•12m ago•0 comments

Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers

https://www.lirbank.com/harnessing-postgres-race-conditions
2•lirbank•13m ago•0 comments

Let's Practice (Bsd.rd)

https://openbsdjumpstart.org/bsd.rd/
1•todsacerdoti•13m ago•0 comments

Outcome Engineering: The O16g Manifesto

https://o16g.com/
1•mooreds•13m ago•0 comments

The Internet Is Dead

https://joinkith.com/#the-internet-is-dead
1•elliotbnvl•14m ago•0 comments

Zero Knowledge (About) Encryption: Security Analysis of Cloud Password Managers

https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058
2•gnabgib•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?

2•jrs235•17m ago•1 comments

Simple non-hype agentic coding workflow for well-established codebases

https://alyosha.net/posts/simple-non-hype-agentic-coding-workflow-that-works-for-well-established...
1•nkzd•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SafeClaw – Sleep-by-default AI assistant with runtime tool permissions

https://github.com/rawalrahul/safeclaw
1•rawaldelhi•20m ago•0 comments

"King Me": A Defense of King-Making in Board Game Design [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UraJElx1ebg
1•euthymiclabs•20m ago•0 comments

Petri Nets as a Universal Abstraction

https://book.pflow.xyz/
1•orksliver•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built a multi-agent Think Tank that calls out my bad decisions

https://github.com/dharmarajatulya1-hub/agent-think-tank
1•atulya_techtea•20m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why is YouTube's recommendation system so bad?

3•mr-pink•21m ago•2 comments

Mad: Watch agents do research live

https://briankitano.com/mad/
1•bkitano19•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Business Lead Finder – Scrape Google Maps and Yelp for Leads

https://apify.com/original_xenomorph/business-lead-finder
1•harborbuilds•21m ago•0 comments

Rust CLI Generate and validate .env files from one spec – self-documenting envs

https://crates.io/crates/envgen/1.0.0
2•SteveMorin•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Irondiff-Visual Config Diff for Cisco/Juniper/PfSense with Slack Alerts

https://irondiff.com
1•MattRos•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Telescope now queries Kubernetes logs directly

https://github.com/iamtelescope/telescope/releases/tag/v0.0.24
3•r0b3r4•22m ago•0 comments

The Century of the Maxxer

https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-century-of-the-maxxer
1•wawayanda•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: ViewLint – Lint UI, Not Code

https://github.com/EvanZhouDev/viewlint
1•EvanZhouDev•22m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

"I Was a Director at Amex When They Started Replacing Us with $30K Workers" [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5fXrPMGM5E
47•only-one1701•1h ago

Comments

functionmouse•1h ago
It seems our enemies are making a mistake.
only-one1701•1h ago
What enemies?
quacked•1h ago
The two American political parties are so perfectly shielded by their own ideological blinders to avoid any possibility of national protectionism against offshoring and outsourcing that I don't think there will ever be any kind of movement against this.

The conservative base is unfriendly to foreigners and foreign cultures, and claims to prefer American-made goods and services, but will immediately guillotine any internal party member who causes consumer prices to raise substantially--which they would have to do in order to support American workers creating products rather than our offshored counterparts. And the business owners and shareholders who love to outsource generally aren't true blue voters.

The liberal base is in theory pro-union and pro-worker, but will immediately guillotine any internal party member who suggests economic discrimination in favor of native-born industries and workers.

epolanski•1h ago
I really find the state of American (but not only) politics dreadful where everything is seen under the lenses of conservatives vs liberals.

Most people I know, everywhere in the world have mixed views on most topics.

Let alone the fact that ideologies tend to change, modern rights are way more populist and economically-socialist than they were 2 decades ago. See Poland, Hungary, Italy, etc, where governments make money fall on the poorest, on the elderly, etc ignoring their historical electorate (middle class).

refulgentis•1h ago
People one-on-one have heterodox views, no one likes to think they just take it all wholesale from some amorphous ideology without a leader.

If I could filter "conservatives are X and liberals are Y and it makes no sense" type thought, I would, because it's a driver of this impression.

quacked•1h ago
I agree, but the fact of the matter is that for voting purposes there are two "teams" in the US, and they vote and argue in public down pretty well-defined ideological lines. If you know the two or three most strongly-held moral-political beliefs of an American, it's highly likely that you can guess another 150 sociopolitical beliefs they at least profess to hold to their friends.
functionmouse•1h ago
You must understand, we're only allowed to vote for good cop or bad cop over here.
rayiner•1h ago
Excellent analysis.
lenerdenator•1h ago
> The conservative base is unfriendly to foreigners and foreign cultures, and claims to prefer American-made goods and services, but will immediately guillotine any internal party member who causes consumer prices to raise substantially--which they would have to do in order to support American workers creating products rather than our offshored counterparts.

Currently, the head of the party is raising and lowering tariffs at will, so I don't quite think this holds anymore.

wat10000•1h ago
He is able to do so only to the extent that he can convince them that prices aren't rising, or he's not causing it.
lenerdenator•54m ago
He's able to do that.
wat10000•44m ago
For now. It remains to be seen how long it will last.
stronglikedan•1h ago
In my opinion, it's because the two party divide has reached the point of extremism on both sides, and extremists act on emotion rather than logic or reason. Up until a couple of decades ago, they both did a good job of keeping their more extreme members out of sight and mind. Now they're embracing and amplifying them.
gorbachev•33m ago
It's not extremism. It's plain old American capitalism.

Both parties are being funded by the same people, so both parties play ball with the same set of funders.

epolanski•1h ago
That's how capitalism works, eventually everything gets moved where it's more efficient.

Obviously, time and time again has proven that outsourcing is not always more efficient.

recursivedoubts•1h ago
So then that's not how capitalism works, is it?
jen20•1h ago
It is, if you add the word "perceived" to the original post.
epolanski•38m ago
Why wouldn't it?
mcphage•25m ago
American capitalism doesn’t worry about long timescales, beyond a year or two.
democracy•22m ago
It's not math, it's pressure down the chain of command - you had to be outsourcing or at least trying to. Same as now - you have to be trying to "AI" and report improvements as this is what everyone wants to hear.
OutOfHere•1h ago
Between AI and outsourcing, desk jobs in the US can risk disappearing altogether. Do not count on them, and do not expect you to be owed anything. Go in every day knowing that day can be your last day there, and you will be at peace. Find your own alternate paths.
lanstin•1h ago
If this was about a useful part of the economy rather than financialized credit access, I would care. Paying 10x to US residents to provide a better Amex experience really doesn’t incentivize anything that is long term useful. Now when materials scientists and skilled scientific technicians are fired from US based jobs, well that is a problem. The economy in the US has fallen prey to the demands of irreality based capital which is seeking, not profit, not good products and healthy trade, but seeking to extract capital and to erect legislative barriers to Adam Smith style competition (between innovative small businesses striving to find an innovative way to push product utility up a bit). If you can’t brag about the good your job is doing for people, life, or history, try again.
givemeethekeys•51m ago
Let this be a lesson. If you're dumb enough to say "how high?" when they ask you to jump, you will always get steamrolled. Always!

This poor fellow talks about what happened to him as if it's something new. This form of outsourcing has been exploited ever since the internet became fast enough!

If anything, it's possible that AI will result in all those Indian offices being shut down.

Don't work harder than your boss. Find a leader who is worth following.

llmslave•43m ago
I worked there a long time ago. Indian VPs were taking kickbacks from consulting firms to hire their devs, it was an open secret. Whole divisions of the company are 95% Indian.

I wont expose the group here, but there's a broad network of technology directors from Amex, that have all been hiring and promoting eachother for 20 years. Very tight nit networks of nepotism, in some cases, brother and sister working together

All that really matters is the Amex brand, and so all the tech was considered back office, and unimportant.

Also, once a company enters some kind of monopoly status, very little matters in the quality of their product.

spwa4•39m ago
That pretty much describes Indian work culture/ethic. Let's say "aggressive" work hours, and you just let your manager claim whatever he wants and agree with it, against everyone. "Yes", "Yes, sir".

And then, yeah, when the time comes that the work needs to be delivered, odds of it actually being done, let's say 50/50 at best.

Does your manager even want to know the truth? Mine does, but that's only the case because I changed managers 4 times before I found one that I can reasonably believe tells the truth to his superiors.

democracy•29m ago
Is amex still alive? The worst company I dealt with - both professionally for data integration and personally took me a year to make them fix their own mistakes and close my accounts.
josefritzishere•28m ago
Outside of corporate cards I've never seen an AMEX in the real world.