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Finland Is Ready for Russia. Is Anyone Else?

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-opinion-finland-is-ready-russia-arctic/
1•RyanShook•53s ago•0 comments

Get ready for takeoff with Uber and Joby

https://www.uber.com/us/en/newsroom/uber-air/
1•r-bt•1m ago•0 comments

Live AI Session Summaries in a Two-Line Tmux Status Bar

https://quickchat.ai/post/tmux-session-summaries-for-parallel-ai-agents
1•piotrgrudzien•1m ago•0 comments

Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/03/gut-brain-cognitive-decline.html
1•mustaphah•2m ago•0 comments

Should Sam Altman fear token compression?

3•Gillesray•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-Source GTM Skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor

https://github.com/athina-ai/goose-skills
1•hbamoria•4m ago•0 comments

DesiPeeps

https://desipeeps.com
1•saibuilds•5m ago•0 comments

Should Sam Altman fear token compression?

https://www.edgee.ai/blog/posts/2026-03-12-should-sam-altman-fear-token-compression-technology-or...
1•Gillesray•6m ago•1 comments

I wrote Gitleaks, now I'm maintaining Betterleaks

https://www.aikido.dev/blog/betterleaks-gitleaks-successor
2•zricethezav•6m ago•1 comments

Nvidia Fork of Godot Engine

https://github.com/NVIDIA-RTX/godot
1•throwaway2027•7m ago•0 comments

Hegger

https://hegger.party
1•davedx•7m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest?

2•SoftwareEn2•7m ago•1 comments

Save the Student Essay

https://openquestionsblog.substack.com/p/save-the-student-essay
1•voxleone•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: BoltzPay – fetch() that pays for AI agents (x402 and L402)

https://github.com/leventilo/boltzpay
1•leventilo•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stop AI Debugging with Print(). Use a Debugger

https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill
1•almogbaku•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude Status

https://github.com/gmr/claude-status
1•crad•11m ago•0 comments

AI isn't digital anymore. It's a 1-GW power problem

1•TheBottlenecker•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: OpenTabs – Your AI calls Slack's internal API through the browser

https://github.com/opentabs-dev/opentabs
1•Jbced•12m ago•0 comments

What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode

https://nango.dev/blog/learned-building-100-api-integrations-with-opencode
1•rguldener•14m ago•0 comments

Important Updates to GitHub Copilot for Students

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/189268
2•archb•14m ago•0 comments

We will come to regret our every use of AI

https://libresolutions.network/articles/ai-regret/
3•paulnpace•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Subagent-CLI – a CLI for managing multiple coding agents

1•otakumesi•15m ago•0 comments

What's My ΔE(OK) JND?

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/
2•sebg•16m ago•0 comments

Cynium

https://cynium.com/
2•falibout•17m ago•0 comments

Claude can now build interactive charts and diagrams, directly in the chat

https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2032124273587077133
2•tzury•18m ago•0 comments

I built a system that turns tax law from 100 regions into executable rules

https://www.getsphere.com/blog/building-tram
4•abowcut•19m ago•0 comments

Julian Shapiro: Landing Pages

https://www.julian.com/guide/startup/landing-pages
1•cat-whisperer•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: GitClassic, a fast, lightweight GitHub front end (pages under 14KB)

https://gitclassic.com
1•heythisischris•21m ago•1 comments

Notes on AI Led Growth (ALG)

https://arnon.dk/notes-on-ai-led-growth-alg/
1•arnon•22m ago•0 comments

Empathia – open-source social network where empathy is the only score

https://empathia.world
2•DeAeternum•22m ago•1 comments
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Ask HN: What's your experience working on software for science?

4•temporalparts•2h ago
Hi HN!

I'm giving an invited talk at APS March Meeting next week about the importance of software for progressing science. I have deep personal experiences, but I'd love to hear from this community!

Have you worked on scientific software? What was your experience? What went well? What went sideways? What advice do you have for others trying to make an impact?

Comments

jjgreen•2h ago
I have, a lot. Advice: "Actually you don't have time to not write some sodding tests"
temporalparts•1h ago
Would love to learn more! What did you work on (even vertical: chemistry, medicine, materials, physics, cosmology, etc.), notable stories?
lowenbjer•1h ago
I worked on lab automation and scientific software early in my career. One piece of advice: keep it ruthlessly simple. In most software a bug is a bad UX. In scientific software a bug can mean contaminated samples or months of invalidated research. Every unnecessary abstraction is another place for something to go wrong silently.
michael_pica•1h ago
I've done a lot of engineering software, and some software for science. I work with a lot of people in this space. On a whole I find it interesting that the defacto platform for these pursuits seems to be shifting away from MatLab and towards Python.

On a whole I think this is a good thing as there's less vendor lock-in and ultimately a smaller gap between the science software being developed and consumer/end-user software. This has also proven to help with collaboration between research and industry.