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Why Are We Still Doing This?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/
9•7777777phil•2h ago

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Schiendelman•1h ago
This page bothered me with two popups and an ad above the content before I got to start reading.
ericmcer•1h ago
He wants $7/mo to read hot takes like: "Anthropic turned $30 billion into $5 billion. That’s…bad. That’s just bad business."

Is this his first time looking into the tech industry?

tptacek•1h ago
Post Opus 4.5, this pundit who does not write software has concluded that the case for coding agents has gotten weaker, not stronger, to the point where we might as well declare the debate settled in his favor. It takes him 8,000 words to do so.
Havoc•1h ago
> boosters are no longer allowed to explain what’s good about AI using the future tense. You can no longer say […]

I look forward to seeing how author think he’s going to enforce the rules he dreamed up for other people. Honestly wth

TaupeRanger•1h ago
"You're not allowed to tell me that the fledgling technology that has been getting steadily better for the past 3 years is likely to continue getting better." ...and there's my cue to close the window.

Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511
83•terminalbraid•37m ago•55 comments

Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/microsofts-unhackable-xbox-one-has-been-h...
253•crtasm•3h ago•108 comments

Kagi Small Web

https://kagi.com/smallweb/
587•trueduke•8h ago•162 comments

Node.js needs a virtual file system

https://blog.platformatic.dev/why-nodejs-needs-a-virtual-file-system
117•voctor•4h ago•106 comments

'The Secret Agent': Exploring a Vibrant, yet Violent Brazil (2025)

https://theasc.com/articles/the-secret-agent-cinematography
34•tambourine_man•2h ago•3 comments

If you thought the code writing speed was your problem; you have bigger problems

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-b...
12•mooreds•54m ago•1 comments

Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code

https://peterlavigne.com/writing/verifying-ai-generated-code
25•peterlavigne•1d ago•20 comments

FFmpeg 8.1

https://ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8.1
228•gyan•3h ago•37 comments

Spice Data (YC S19) Is Hiring a Product Specialist

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/spice-data/jobs/P0e9MKz-product-specialist-new-grad
1•richard_pepper•1h ago

Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)

https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
116•mariuz•4d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Antfly: Distributed, Multimodal Search and Memory and Graphs in Go

https://github.com/antflydb/antfly
49•kingcauchy•2h ago•22 comments

Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only

https://www.Bracketmadness.ai
46•bwade818•5h ago•9 comments

Heart, head, life, fate

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/steven-shapin/heart-head-life-fate
9•Petiver•4d ago•1 comments

Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun

https://github.com/chenxin-yan/crust
25•jellyotsiro•13h ago•12 comments

Give Django your time and money, not your tokens

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/
342•dcreager•1d ago•130 comments

Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering

https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral
706•Poudlardo•21h ago•167 comments

Building a Shell

https://healeycodes.com/building-a-shell
130•ingve•8h ago•29 comments

GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano

https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano
80•meetpateltech•1h ago•29 comments

Efficient sparse computations using linear algebra aware compilers (2025)

https://www.osti.gov/biblio/3013883
48•matt_d•4d ago•6 comments

The Plumbing of Everyday Magic

https://plumbing-of-everyday-magic.hyperclay.com/
4•hannahilea•4d ago•0 comments

OpenSUSE Kalpa

https://kalpadesktop.org/
82•ogogmad•4h ago•55 comments

Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs

https://brianmoore.com/fontsmuggler/
120•lanewinfield•4d ago•63 comments

The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer

https://blog.voxagon.se/2026/03/13/teardown-multiplayer.html
196•lairv•4d ago•54 comments

Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it Open Source

https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor
115•zggf•10h ago•55 comments

What I Learned When I Started a Design Studio (2011)

https://www.subtraction.com/2011/12/12/when-i-started-a-design-studio/
19•colinprince•3d ago•1 comments

Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=LinkedIn+speak
1234•smitec•14h ago•286 comments

Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8AsTHfAG0
258•Anon84•4d ago•80 comments

Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc

https://engineering.fb.com/2026/03/02/data-infrastructure/investing-in-infrastructure-metas-renew...
494•hahahacorn•1d ago•223 comments

The American Healthcare Conundrum

https://github.com/rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum
488•rexroad•1d ago•552 comments

The “small web” is bigger than you might think

https://kevinboone.me/small_web_is_big.html
514•speckx•1d ago•215 comments