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We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
185•ColinWright•1h ago•168 comments

I Write Games in C (yes, C)

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/
22•valyala•2h ago•6 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
124•AlexeyBrin•7h ago•24 comments

SectorC: A C Compiler in 512 bytes

https://xorvoid.com/sectorc.html
17•valyala•2h ago•1 comments

Stories from 25 Years of Software Development

https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
65•vinhnx•5h ago•9 comments

U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-sin...
155•alephnerd•2h ago•106 comments

OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III

https://openciv3.org/
833•klaussilveira•22h ago•250 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
119•1vuio0pswjnm7•8h ago•149 comments

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney

https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
57•thelok•4h ago•8 comments

The Waymo World Model

https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simula...
1061•xnx•1d ago•613 comments

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

https://rlhfbook.com/
79•onurkanbkrc•7h ago•5 comments

Brookhaven Lab's RHIC Concludes 25-Year Run with Final Collisions

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/brookhaven-labs-rhic-concludes-25-year-run-with-final-collis...
4•gnufx•57m ago•1 comments

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)

https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/
489•theblazehen•3d ago•177 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
212•jesperordrup•12h ago•72 comments

France's homegrown open source online office suite

https://github.com/suitenumerique
567•nar001•6h ago•259 comments

Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

https://blog.alaindichiappari.dev/p/software-engineering-is-back
226•alainrk•6h ago•354 comments

A Fresh Look at IBM 3270 Information Display System

https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
40•rbanffy•4d ago•7 comments

Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

https://github.com/Momciloo/fun-with-clip-path
10•momciloo•2h ago•0 comments

History and Timeline of the Proco Rat Pedal (2021)

https://web.archive.org/web/20211030011207/https://thejhsshow.com/articles/history-and-timeline-o...
19•brudgers•5d ago•4 comments

Selection Rather Than Prediction

https://voratiq.com/blog/selection-rather-than-prediction/
8•languid-photic•3d ago•1 comments

72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
29•marklit•5d ago•3 comments

Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/02/unseen-footage-of-atari-battlezone-cabinet-production/
114•videotopia•4d ago•33 comments

Where did all the starships go?

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/science-fiction-decline
77•speckx•4d ago•82 comments

Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
275•isitcontent•22h ago•38 comments

Learning from context is harder than we thought

https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
201•limoce•4d ago•112 comments

Monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI

https://github.com/pydantic/monty
288•dmpetrov•22h ago•155 comments

Show HN: Kappal – CLI to Run Docker Compose YML on Kubernetes for Local Dev

https://github.com/sandys/kappal
22•sandGorgon•2d ago•12 comments

Hackers (1995) Animated Experience

https://hackers-1995.vercel.app/
557•todsacerdoti•1d ago•269 comments

Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes

https://floedb.ai/blog/how-we-made-geo-joins-400-faster-with-h3-indexes
155•matheusalmeida•2d ago•48 comments

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info

https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
427•ostacke•1d ago•111 comments
Open in hackernews

Mission Impossible: Managing AI Agents in the Real World

https://medium.com/gitconnected/mission-impossible-managing-ai-agents-in-the-real-world-f8e7834833af
73•dtagames•9mo ago

Comments

spariev•9mo ago
The approach described resonates well with my (limited) experience using tools like Cursor/Cline and Aider, thanks for writing this up. It feels more like the waterfall-style method and it takes time to get used to it after years of test-driven/agile development.
falcor84•9mo ago
The nice thing is that you can easily go both ways - e.g. do full "vibe coding" to build a throw-away prototype, then ask the AI for help creating documentation and end-to-end tests for it, then collaborate with it to redesign the architecture, create a new implementation plan, and start coding from scratch.
nonrandomstring•9mo ago
I like the arts metaphor and enjoy the writing style. Understanding "AI" as a component in an ecosystem of materials, tools, techniques, plans, abandoned attempts and final products is helpful.
bufbupa•9mo ago
I'd wager this methodology is going to become very prevalent in enterprises going forward. Encoding all of the context necessary to recreate your entire application in "plans" or "rules" allows for much more rapid refactoring to address new business needs.

It also makes for much more fungible developers. Instead of having a few key engineers that know the system inside and out, that knowledge is encoded in markdown throughout the project, allowing new devs to ramp up by asking questions against the codebase and tracing the history of reasonings that led to the shape/implementation that exists today. It's like having near exhaustive design docs & documentation with change tracking included.

While it seems likely that developers will become more fungible (replaceable) going forward, I think being able to operate at this layer of abstraction & still having the capacity to drop down to the nitty gritty implementation details will make strong devs more valuable, rather than less.

whattheheckheck•9mo ago
It's the latest iteration of the Mechanistic Myth described in the book Software and the Mind, http://www.softwareandmind.com/
xg15•9mo ago
Is there a summary for what exactly he means with the "myth" in the context of software? The whole detour into the history of western science and philosophy is interesting but also quite expansive.