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The Engineer to Executive Translation Layer

https://refactoring.fm/p/the-engineer-executive-translation
11•lucidplot•2h ago

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lucidplot•2h ago
Non-paywalled version: https://www.annashipman.co.uk/jfdi/engineer-exec-translation...
ale•1h ago
If you’re a CTO who needs and engineering translator then maybe you’re the wrong person for the role.
aturek•1h ago
From TFA:

> Many CTOs, like me, have a strong engineering background, and so I will understand some of the requests you make without needing further explanation.

jet98•1h ago
Amen
jgbuddy•1h ago
Just don't work for non-technical people, problem solved. They're usually less successful anyways
thesumofall•1h ago
I‘m a technical exec and most of the advice rings true. Somewhere the translation from technical goals to business goals has to happen. Good leads will help with that and good engineers will come prepared
KK7NIL•1h ago
I was expecting this to be a transformer model fine-tuned to translate engineering to exec speak.
lucidplot•1h ago
how hard could that really be to implement

East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
188•robertvc•6h ago•57 comments

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
656•todotask2•8h ago•315 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
300•jaas•7h ago•187 comments

Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/install-md-standard-for-llm-executable-installation
15•npmipg•1h ago•33 comments

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/net-ntlmv1-deprecation-rainbow-tables
31•linolevan•1h ago•17 comments

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
325•embedding-shape•8h ago•142 comments

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html
274•bookofjoe•9h ago•152 comments

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
35•vitaelabitur•1d ago•5 comments

Just the Browser

https://justthebrowser.com/
458•cl3misch•11h ago•230 comments

Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

https://raulnegron.me/2025/wii-news-pr/
24•todsacerdoti•10h ago•3 comments

Lock-Picking Robot

https://github.com/etinaude/Lock-Picking-Robot
231•p44v9n•4d ago•106 comments

Reading across books with Claude Code

https://pieterma.es/syntopic-reading-claude/
39•gmays•4h ago•14 comments

STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
549•tanelpoder•5h ago•396 comments

Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/slop-is-everywhere-for-those-with-eyes-to-see/
135•speckx•3h ago•79 comments

Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains

https://www.shimmer.care/indy-redirect
59•christalwang•7h ago•71 comments

CLI's completion should know what options you've typed

https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2026/optique-context-aware-cli-completion
8•dahlia•3d ago•1 comments

HTTP RateLimit Headers

https://dotat.at/@/2026-01-13-http-ratelimit.html
7•zdw•2d ago•3 comments

Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing

https://www.robinlinacre.com/recommend_duckdb/
184•tosh•12h ago•70 comments

Zep AI (Agent Context Engineering, YC W24) Is Hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/zep-ai/jobs/
1•roseway4•6h ago

Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3780063.3780066
95•rbanffy•9h ago•126 comments

Fix the two-party system with proportional representation

https://agrarianparty.org/platform/peoples-act
7•tedkimble•54m ago•2 comments

Drawbot: Let's hack something cute (2025)

https://www.atredis.com/blog/2025/9/30/drawbot-lets-hack-something-cute
13•notmine1337•1h ago•4 comments

Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1053142/8ec93e58d5d3cc06/
101•todsacerdoti•8h ago•32 comments

Elasticsearch was never a database

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database
83•jamesgresql•5d ago•70 comments

Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format

https://github.com/microsoft/igvm
18•ingve•1d ago•0 comments

We Gave Our Browser Agent a 3MB Data Warehouse

https://100x.bot/a/we-gave-our-browser-agent-a-3mb-data-warehouse
17•shardullavekar•1d ago•2 comments

Brain: PC virus [audio]

https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct7479
11•andsoitis•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: 1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code

https://github.com/21st-dev/1code
43•Bunas•1d ago•23 comments

LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet

https://social.kernel.org/notice/B2JlhcxNTfI8oDVoyO
128•luu•2h ago•74 comments

Our approach to advertising

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-advertising-and-expanding-access/
183•rvz•5h ago•146 comments