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Ancient Secrets

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/ancient-secrets
1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

The April every AI plan broke

https://thefinancialengineer.substack.com/p/the-april-every-ai-plan-broke
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

CRUD Is Broken

https://sawyer-p.me/crud-is-broken
1•bencornia•4m ago•0 comments

Today-dsa – a local-first engine that tells me what to study today

https://github.com/rasha-hantash/today-dsa
1•rasha1•9m ago•0 comments

Jon Caramanica is a bad cliché

https://bradmehldau.substack.com/p/jon-caramanica-is-a-bad-cliche
1•paulpauper•12m ago•0 comments

Why Dunkin' Donuts Failed in India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/why-dunkin-failed-in-india/articleshow/1...
1•paulpauper•13m ago•0 comments

RAG Eval Comparing Vertex/Bedrock/Azure/OpenAI

https://github.com/colon-md/retrievalci
1•colon-md•13m ago•1 comments

Codex Pets for People in a Hurry

https://www.augmentedswe.com/p/how-to-use-codex-pets
1•wordsaboutcode•15m ago•0 comments

Graft – semantic memory for AI agents, without the LLM

https://github.com/AEndrix03/Graft
1•AEndrix03•15m ago•0 comments

Onboarding with LLMs

https://newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/how-to-use-ai-to-onboard-into-a-codebase
1•wordsaboutcode•15m ago•1 comments

A Wild Ghost Blog Appears

https://allenc.com/a-wild-ghost-blog-appears/
1•allenc•24m ago•1 comments

Thinking Machines: AI that can respond during the interaction

https://medium.com/seeds-for-the-future/a-new-way-to-interact-with-ai-interaction-models-2941f173...
2•hungryclaw•32m ago•0 comments

Can we code our way out of gentrification?

https://www.freerange.city/p/can-we-code-our-way-out-of-gentrification
2•burlesona•35m ago•0 comments

Mistral AI's NPM package was compromised

https://github.com/mistralai/client-ts/issues/217
1•logickkk1•44m ago•0 comments

Senior Product Engineer

https://revieve.factorialhr.com/job_posting/product-engineer-299899
1•seharetimad•48m ago•0 comments

Brain scans reveal how people with autistic traits connect differently

https://www.psypost.org/brain-scans-reveal-how-people-with-autistic-traits-connect-differently/
1•1317•50m ago•0 comments

Linux bitten by second vulnerability in as many weeks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/linux-bitten-by-second-severe-vulnerability-in-as-many-w...
1•jnord•50m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ProvisioningIQ – Continuous Benchmarks of AWS/Azure/GCP Latency

https://provisioningiq.appswireless.com/
1•syed786•53m ago•0 comments

Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

https://tanstack.com/blog/npm-supply-chain-compromise-postmortem
7•carlos-menezes•54m ago•2 comments

Anxiety vs Depression

https://silence.bearblog.dev/anxiety-vs-depression/
2•thejamesbox•55m ago•1 comments

Legacy preference bans may not increase college diversity, researchers say

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-legacy-college-diversity.html
2•PaulHoule•55m ago•0 comments

Designing GPUs for Developers: A Conversation with Godot

https://blog.imaginationtech.com/designing-gpus-for-developers-a-conversation-with-godot
1•danbolt•55m ago•0 comments

GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/gm-just-laid-off-hundreds-of-it-workers-to-hire-those-with-stro...
31•jnord•56m ago•38 comments

Intel Reenters DRAM Race? A Closer Look at the Z-Angle Memory

https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/02/03/news-intel-reenters-dram-race-a-closer-look-at-the-z-a...
2•jeffufl•58m ago•1 comments

Hermes Agent Background Computer Use on macOS via SkyLight Private SPIs

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/computer-use
1•simonpure•59m ago•0 comments

When My Father's Canary Flew Away

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/science/dementia-memory-brain-injury.html
1•gmays•1h ago•0 comments

Star Wars: Fall of the Empire by Stern Pinball

https://sternpinball.com/game/star-wars-fall-of-the-empire/
2•pentagrama•1h ago•0 comments

Why LLMs Make Learning to Code More Important, Not Less

https://senthil.learntosolveit.com/posts/2026/05/10/why-llms-make-learning-to-code-more-important...
1•orsenthil•1h ago•2 comments

What do you NOT like about Cursor / VSCode / Claude Code desktop / Codex / etc.?

1•nokturn•1h ago•12 comments

Show HN: NodeDB – High Perfomance Multi-Model Database

https://github.com/nodedb-lab/nodedb
1•fs90•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills

https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/11/gm-just-laid-off-hundreds-of-it-workers-to-hire-those-with-stronger-ai-skills/
28•jnord•56m ago

Comments

skywhopper•32m ago
This will never stop being the stupid approach. Destroy morale, lose institutional knowledge, waste months or years getting new folks up to speed, all for skills that could be developed in house and with targeted hiring by a functioning organization.
cosmotic•32m ago
They couldn't be bothered to train their staff?
jagged-chisel•27m ago
They hire anew to lower salaries, while also gaining staff with "stronger AI skills."
asdfman123•18m ago
Then they hire people with even higher salaries than the original devs to clean up the God awful mess.
2ndorderthought•27m ago
Laid off ai workers are cheaper. I saw a job posting for a vibe coder, 20 bucks an hour.
darth_avocado•12m ago
I don’t believe anyone trying to hire 20 bucks an hour for vibe coders is a serious employer. You’d make more money being a barista in some cities or a substitute teacher.
scorpioxy•23m ago
I found that sort of thinking is no longer a part of corporate culture(in AU at least). As in, investing in your staff and planning for the future. Resources are meant to be used and abused for benefit and that's it, consequences be damned.
thegreatpeter•18m ago
perhaps they tried that and the staff wasn't willing to be trained. have you ever worked at a company like that of that size?
AngryData•7m ago
Their tech positions were really the only common path to get continued raises and promotions starting from the bottom in GM for the past few decades. Most other positions only ever got hired from outside the company because internal hires expected raises for it, so to me this just looks like gm putting their tech department under the same self destructive hiring policies as the rest of the company.
scorpioxy•28m ago
> agent development, model engineering, AI-native workflows -- point directly at where large-enterprise demand is heading.

I don't understand these words. Does "AI-native workflow" mean vibe coding?

I am now seeing a lot of roles asking for "AI-enabled engineers". And I am not sure what that means either. I am sort of afraid to ask because the answer will probably confuse me even more. Maybe it's my understanding of what LLMs are and how they work that makes these words mean very little to me.

AIorNot•27m ago
Yup thats exactly what they want

Cheaper younger people who dont think vibe coding is bad

Is this a good idea - probably not

asdfman123•19m ago
It's a mistake. What you really want is senior engineers vibe coding.

It would be like hiring a junior to lead a team. They're the worst choice for that role.

2ndorderthought•26m ago
Yea it's vibe/agentic coding. That's what about half of the current jobs are right now. It's really sad. Saw a vibe coder job today, 20bucks an hour
johanneskanybal•16m ago
I mean agentic coding is a thing but anyone could learn that in a day or week. So the idea of throwing away people that could be the most productive with ai of course make no sense. But it's big corporations, not everything has to make sense. It's most likely a dressed up pure cost saving framed in 2026-lingo.
Loudergood•28m ago
Shameless investor signalling.
goalieca•27m ago
GM needs to focus on making better, safer, cheaper cars.
folkrav•26m ago
Unless they plan on scooping up AI researchers, I legitimately don't understand what "stronger AI skills" is even supposed to mean.
cosmicgadget•19m ago
People who can use Claude and its peers effectively. AI skills = prompting and slop troubleshooting.
nh43215rgb•22m ago
No AI No Life...
xvxvx•20m ago
Get a low paid entry level job at a company. Do a good job over many years, or decades. Raises, promotions etc brings your salary up to a decent level. The company can’t have that. They use AI to cut you and start over with another low paid noob.

Man, the only advice I can give people is do not sacrifice time with your loved ones for a company that doesn’t give a shit. Your kid is only going to graduate once. Those family vacations are priceless in the long run. Hell, I take time off to hang out with my dogs now and then. The job can wait.

torben-friis•16m ago
That's the neat part, many don't need to worry about missing their kid's graduation because they can't afford neither kids nor the safety to have them (home ownership, etc).
porphyra•17m ago
AI is a godsend for automotive coding.

It's really annoying how at some ASIL levels you need 100% code coverage of unit tests. With AI, all you have to do is to get your agent to generate the tests! Likewise with all the MISRA C requirements. Need your cyclomatic complexity to be less than 10? It's just one prompt away! Now your spaghetti code can easily satisfy the safety requirements with much less effort.

thot_experiment•13m ago
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not, but it seems insane to let the AI write the tests.

AI can't be held accountable, it shouldn't be writing the tests that determine whether car systems function correctly.

Insanity•12m ago
If you wouldn’t let AI run your nuclear power plant, you need to drink more of the AI kool-aid.
anonym29•9m ago
>AI can't be held accountable

I hear this all the time. Why does it matter? Punishing a human for making a mistake does not prevent mistakes, nor does it undo the harm of the mistake. A human saying "my bad, I messed up" and an AI saying "my bad, I messed up" are equally worthless, in a functional sense.

forgetfreeman•4m ago
"Punishing a human for making a mistake does not prevent mistakes" This statement suggests you don't believe in some combination of neuroplasticity as a concept or the arrow of time.
AngryData•13m ago
Best excuse they got to fire well paid and experienced proffessionals that have worked for them for decades and replace them with low paid new hires. But GM isn't in a great spot to be weathering any negative downstream effects. And after seeing how they treat employees for decades ill have zero sympathy for them when things go downhill.
cyberax•12m ago
Well, the US auto execs visited China and realized that their days are numbered. So why not extract as much profit as possible?

Firing people with institutional knowledge? So what? It's going to improve profits short-term.

WarmWash•11m ago
Probably should just replace their software engineers too. I don't mean to throw shade, but automotive software is so bad I'd bet my life that Claude could do better.

Nevermind that the update cycle seems to be 6-10 months for changes like "You can now reset your radio presets directly from the radio settings menu", while bugs with things like temperature control never get fixed.

lofaszvanitt•9m ago
Seems like there will be a small elite that wants to go up to a space station and shit on top of all the citizens below :D.