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Ask HN: What do you do as a 50yo+ programmer not ready to quit?

3•tracker1•1h ago
I'm self taught, 51yo and been going through some recent health issues. I'm in the job market in a second tier city, and eerything feels upside dowm.

How do I deal with the current market that seems fixated on AI graded leet code pre-screenings? I mean if you give me an actual 1:1 or meaningful homework I have no problem. But these pre screens feell like a challenge between rote memorization and gotcha schenarios with missing details.

I'm not against AI, I've found it incredibly usedful. But it just feels like a race to the bottom that I want to get out of, while seeing job rates that look like they're from decades passed. I just want a solid job, around a solid concept that I can deliver on with an exceptional eye for detail. I never thought about or ever want to retire. I'd get too bored. I have spent my entire career reading, experimenting and improving... I don't want to be pigeon-holed or grouped into the types that just stopped in place and gave up.

Smart delegation pipeline for AI agents (up to 15-20% on costs)

https://github.com/aeppling/rtk-pipeline-laya-delegate
1•adriencloud•2m ago•3 comments

Google outage hits websites and apps as some bank customers report issues

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c58jd2kjp93xt
3•whyleyc•3m ago•0 comments

Google cloud outage takes down banks

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5•paweladamczuk•6m ago•1 comments

How to save money on tokens for your AI agents

https://terraphim.ai/posts/save-money-tokens-ai-agents/
1•alexmikhalev•8m ago•0 comments

Crisp Sandwich Day

https://vole.wtf/crisp-sandwich-day/
1•DamonHD•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Faztudo, a local chat for coordinating the coding agents CLIs

https://thiagodefreitas.github.io/faztudo/
1•thiagodefreitas•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Make AI coding agents verify its own work

https://github.com/reticlehq/reticle
4•dshekhar17•12m ago•1 comments

A Fast IPv4 Parser, in Swift

https://blog.mahdibm.com/posts/a-very-fast-ipv4-parser-in-swift/
2•joshcsimmons•13m ago•0 comments

Google Cloud is down in the Europe-west2 region

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj
3•matthieu_bl•15m ago•2 comments

How Do Airports Prepare for Disaster? With Fake Screams and Cloth Dummies

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1•gumby•16m ago•0 comments

17k Lines of New Rust Kernel Code Heading into Linux 7.4

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Rust
3•doener•18m ago•0 comments

An RL agent learning to land a Falcon 9 on a droneship in simulation

https://twitter.com/breeg554/status/2112484802222072189
1•dawidkielbasa•19m ago•0 comments

DeepInfer, our in-house inference framework, now open source

https://twitter.com/deepseek_ai/status/2112476496283775135
2•awasum_yannick•19m ago•2 comments

Nvidia Vera's System Architecture: Pushing Bandwidth

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidia-veras-system-architecture
1•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

Japan launches mission to bring home a piece of the Martian moon Phobos

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1•rbanffy•20m ago•0 comments

Demystifying Spherical Harmonics: An Optimization Approach

https://andrew-helmer.github.io/demystifying-spherical-harmonics/
1•dverlaeckt80•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Family quality-of-life score for every US county (108 indicators)

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2•tiagoantunespt•26m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A giant pixel map of London

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3•ktoyame•27m ago•0 comments

Revolut Partially Unavailable

https://www.revolut.com/en-US/system-status/
4•chopin•30m ago•2 comments

Study: New AI tool can predict cancer survival by a single patient selfie

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/19/ai-tool-predict-cancer-survival-patient-selfie
2•giuliomagnifico•31m ago•0 comments

Hackers steal 421,000 emails belonging to members of Germany's far-right AfD

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2•whiteboardr•33m ago•0 comments

Revolut (bank) down since 3 hours

https://www.reddit.com/r/Revolut/comments/1xaklod/is_revolut_down/
4•m3nu•34m ago•0 comments

Google Cloud Service Disruption in UK

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1•giamma•34m ago•1 comments

GitHub's new license gate can block merges. Roll it out carefully

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2•gongoro•37m ago•0 comments

Revolut down as users report app not working

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxdd8mm6qy4mo
18•baal80spam•37m ago•4 comments

Twilight at the Banyan Tree

https://meniir.itch.io/twilight-at-the-banyan-tree
1•altilunium•38m ago•0 comments

I Did This Without Your Knowledge

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3375SZNGA5dKHQMie/i-did-this-without-your-knowledge
1•-_-•38m ago•0 comments

Amazon to fund 12 small nuclear reactors at former Indiana coal plant\

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2•mpweiher•39m ago•0 comments

You can control this robot (for free)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jorcg0Bx3Cw
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Stateless Agents: How to make AI work for teams

https://busabase.com/blog/how-to-make-ai-work-for-teams
1•poppylorry•43m ago•0 comments