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Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?

https://elsewhere.news/en/zhenfund/why-is-programming-so-captivating-yet-so-agonizing
8•ilreb•1h ago

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swader999•6m ago
Because you get to solve real problems people have. But you have to work with real people.
BadBadJellyBean•4m ago
I never found programming agonizing.
marginalia_nu•3m ago
Yeah same. I've been doing this for fun since I was like 9 years old. 30 years later it's still fun.
giancarlostoro•2m ago
You must not talk to other developers ;)

But seriously, sometimes its not the code, it's the human factor that's painful, other times, well it's JavaScript.

SpaceX Delays Major Flight Test Again in Post-IPO Spotlight

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-23/spacex-attempts-major-flight-test-again-in-pos...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•15s ago•0 comments

Alphabet's Future Spending Commitments Soar to $811B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-23/alphabet-s-future-spending-commitments-soar-to...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•2m ago•0 comments

Ural: Fresh start or final straw? (2025)

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/ural-fresh-start-or-beginning-of-the-end
1•YeGoblynQueenne•3m ago•0 comments

Local bookstore battles false Google AI Summary

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/were-open-local-bookstore-battles-false-google-ai-...
1•KentGeek•4m ago•0 comments

How the God of Israel Was Born

https://andreafontana.it/en/birth-god-israel-yahweh-el.html
1•trikko•5m ago•0 comments

EU Escalates TikTok Probe over Lack of Privacy Protections

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-24/eu-escalates-tiktok-probe-over-lack-of-teen-pr...
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•6m ago•0 comments

How AI is quietly making your team fragile

https://stvn.sh/writing/regression-to-the-mean
1•mooreds•6m ago•0 comments

ICC members set to vote on removing Karim Khan after barring defense team

https://thecradle.co/articles-id/38986
1•NordStreamYacht•7m ago•0 comments

Anyone else like llms.txt for architecture docs?

1•jbdamask•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Turn any recipe into 2-player mode

https://nommer.ai/
1•gghootch•10m ago•0 comments

Sidecar Steering Dampers

https://www.sidecars.org.uk/steering-dampers.html
1•YeGoblynQueenne•10m ago•0 comments

The loudest person wins architecture discussions

https://thehardparts.dev/red-flags/the-loudest-person-wins-architecture-discussions
2•ludovicianul•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: ShiftType – Tap Shift to switch input methods on macOS

https://apps.indiemaze.com/shifttype/
1•sebjones•13m ago•0 comments

I let an AI agent run my job search: the real numbers, including the LLM bill

https://find-best-job.com/en/blog/agent-job-search-real-numbers
2•viniciuscar•15m ago•0 comments

Pauli's exclusion principle is one wall of a polytope; we mapped all 799 corners

https://nutfieldsecurity.com/posts/ai-vacation-physics/
1•pizzadad•15m ago•1 comments

A Painful Update about our Team

https://www.patreon.com/jackconte/posts/painful-update-164628951
4•gpi•17m ago•0 comments

European firms plan exo-atmospheric interceptor for 2027 test

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/07/15/european-firms-plan-exo-atmospheric-intercep...
2•TechTechTech•17m ago•0 comments

OpenShell Kubernetes Operator

https://github.com/lensapp/openshell-k8s-operator
2•xfiler•18m ago•0 comments

Ah, the Codeberg Drama

https://gagliardoni.net/#20260724_codeberg_drama
3•tomgag•20m ago•0 comments

A Modern Interpretation of Live Streaming in the Cars 2 Cinematic Universe

https://moq.dev/blog/cars2/
1•surprisetalk•20m ago•0 comments

The assault on science funding continues

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/assault-science-funding-continues
4•tacomonstrous•21m ago•1 comments

Eight Newly Produced MQ-9 Reaper Drones Destroyed in Iranian Strike

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/
12•NordStreamYacht•24m ago•4 comments

Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-driver-for-turing-gpus/16520?page=18
4•m0do1•26m ago•0 comments

The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-collapse-at-netflix-signals-the
6•sleepyguy•26m ago•1 comments

Controlled Burns Have Saved Giant Sequoias

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/controlled-burns-sequoias
6•YaleE360•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AgentWatch – Local MCP proxy that catches agents leaking your data

https://github.com/dhanraj176/agentwatch
2•dhanrajpandya•27m ago•0 comments

Why hasn't AI increased unemployment?

https://twitter.com/PeterMcCrory/status/2079979321607745905
4•gk1•27m ago•3 comments

Perfect Transcribe (macOS)

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/perfect-transcribe/id6738916290?mt=12
2•emadda•28m ago•1 comments

LLMs Are Still Toxic, Stuck in the Past, and Bad at Math

https://www.eyosias.dev/blog/llms-are-still-toxic-and-bad-at-math
11•Eyosias_x5•29m ago•4 comments

China to boost wind and solar generation by more than 50% in five years

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-boost-wind-solar-generation-by-more-than-50-five-ye...
4•xbmcuser•34m ago•2 comments