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What does computer literacy mean for 2026?

https://sjg.io/writing/the-2026-computer-literate-bar/
9•simonjgreen•1w ago

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vaylian•2h ago
This is mostly computer literacy for people who are already committed to using office and AI products from Microsoft, Google and Apple. For those people the article provides good actionable advice. But I like to contest that this is required to achieve "computer literacy in 2026". In many cases, AI is a vehicle for sending your personal and business data to a Big Tech cloud. Depending on the tasks that you need to perform, AI may not be a significant help.
CrispinS•2h ago
I suppose it's fitting that an article concerned largely with AI was written largely by AI. (I noticed a lot of GPT-isms.)

I mean, it is mostly solid advice, e.g. asking AI to cite sources (and checking them!) and asking about the assumptions it's making.

And on the subject of automating things or making things more efficient, I'd extend that to a general reminder that just because things are the way the are, doesn't mean they have to be that way.

Which sounds obvious, but it's so easy to get used to a situation in your life that you don't like, but it's not so horrendous that you're motivated to do something about it. And then it just becomes background and you forget that there's the possibility of a better reality.

Speaking from many personal experiences here...

Developers are choosing older AI models, and the data explains why

https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/developers-are-choosing-older-ai-models-and-16b-tokens-of-data-e...
59•knes•6d ago•42 comments

Mr TIFF

https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/
573•speckx•10h ago•69 comments

Hypothesis: Property-Based Testing for Python

https://hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
93•lwhsiao•6h ago•60 comments

Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX

https://press.asus.com/news/press-releases/asus-proart-display-8k-pa32kcx-availability/
78•Roachma•1w ago•74 comments

RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization

https://riscv.org/blog/risc-v-jtc1-pas-submitter/
122•jrepinc•5d ago•46 comments

This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/on-this-day-in-1988-the-morris-worm-sli...
378•canucker2016•18h ago•167 comments

Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-talks-to-me-about-vision-pro-personas-where-is-our-virt...
134•dmarcos•5d ago•45 comments

Bluetui – A TUI for managing Bluetooth on Linux

https://github.com/pythops/bluetui
137•birdculture•9h ago•24 comments

SPy: An interpreter and compiler for a fast statically typed variant of Python

https://antocuni.eu/2025/10/29/inside-spy-part-1-motivations-and-goals/
14•og_kalu•5d ago•2 comments

Pg_lake: Postgres with Iceberg and data lake access

https://github.com/Snowflake-Labs/pg_lake
327•plaur782•17h ago•96 comments

Grayskull: A tiny computer vision library in C for embedded systems, etc.

https://github.com/zserge/grayskull
96•gurjeet•10h ago•7 comments

The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251104-00/?p=111758
26•zdw•6h ago•9 comments

Patching 68K Software – SimpleText

https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/patching-68k-software-simpletext.4793/
87•mmoogle•10h ago•9 comments

By the Power of Grayscale

https://zserge.com/posts/grayskull/
191•surprisetalk•4d ago•36 comments

Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/...
206•jhatax•6h ago•114 comments

Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It

https://cognition.ai/blog/codemaps
251•janpio•15h ago•86 comments

UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ups-plane-crash-louisville-kentucky/
99•jnsaff2•10h ago•91 comments

Whole Earth Index

https://wholeearth.info/
203•bookofjoe•1w ago•39 comments

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/dhs_wants_to_collect_biometric_data/
263•SanjayMehta•9h ago•161 comments

I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars

https://rameerez.com/send-this-article-to-your-friend-who-still-thinks-the-cloud-is-a-good-idea/
263•sebnun•12h ago•234 comments

Vectorizing for Fun and Performance

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/vectorizing-fun-and-performance
27•rinostroh•6d ago•1 comments

Preventing Kubernetes from Pulling the Pause Image from the Internet

https://kyle.cascade.family/posts/preventing-kubernetes-from-pulling-the-pause-image-from-the-int...
32•meatmanek•6h ago•23 comments

Google Removed 749M Anna's Archive URLs from Its Search Results

https://torrentfreak.com/google-removed-749-million-annas-archive-urls-from-its-search-results/
228•gslin•10h ago•94 comments

Launch HN: Plexe (YC X25) – Build production-grade ML models from prompts

https://www.plexe.ai/
75•vaibhavdubey97•16h ago•28 comments

Inside an Isotemp OCXO107-10 Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2025/10/26/Inside-an-Isotemp-OCXO107-10.html
31•zdw•1w ago•1 comments

Frozen String Literals: Past, Present, Future?

https://byroot.github.io/ruby/performance/2025/10/28/string-literals.html
51•Bogdanp•1w ago•19 comments

The Hackers Manifesto (The Conscience of a Hacker) (1986)

https://phrack.org/issues/7/3
6•OuterVale•57m ago•0 comments

Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-ms reads and 15 GB/s upload

https://blog.wilsonl.in/blobd/
36•charlieirish•22h ago•7 comments

Singing bus horns in West Sumatra

https://www.auralarchipelago.com/auralarchipelago/kalason
74•Kaibeezy•1w ago•10 comments

NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware

https://github.com/codykociemba/NoLongerEvil-Thermostat
357•mukti•16h ago•127 comments