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My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
57•hhh•2h ago•15 comments

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-mimic
204•kensai•4h ago•27 comments

It's getting harder to focus every day

https://glyphack.com/attention/
321•peykar•5h ago•163 comments

Flux 3

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3
430•ThouYS•7h ago•110 comments

India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dr...
51•sohkamyung•4d ago•5 comments

IRGC Claims It Destroyed Amazon's Bahrain Data Center

https://houseofsaud.com/irgc-claims-destroyed-amazon-bahrain-data-center/
57•thisislife2•4h ago•21 comments

The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival

https://technicshistory.com/2026/07/24/the-ibm-pc-part-1-arrival/
29•cfmcdonald•2h ago•6 comments

Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab

https://timharek.no/blog/kaizen-4/
3•meysamazad•18m ago•0 comments

Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds

https://ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop-in-replacement-for-bun-using-modern-zig-with-sub-1s-incremental-b...
109•kristoff_it•4h ago•74 comments

Patreon laying off 20% of staff

https://www.patreon.com/jackconte/posts/painful-update-164628951
95•gpi•1h ago•119 comments

Nothing works and everyone is euphoric

https://ptrchm.com/posts/nothing-works-and-everyone-is-euphoric/
193•pchm•4h ago•149 comments

Programming language file extensions that match ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code

https://www.bruh.ltd/blog/programming-language-file-extensions-that-match-an-iso-3166-1-alpha-2-c...
18•speckx•1h ago•6 comments

Claude Cookbook

https://platform.claude.com/cookbook/
171•saikatsg•8h ago•83 comments

Em dashes are fucking amazing

https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing
72•surprisetalk•1h ago•65 comments

Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?

https://elsewhere.news/en/zhenfund/why-is-programming-so-captivating-yet-so-agonizing
15•ilreb•1h ago•8 comments

Game of Trees – Git-based version control from OpenBSD folks

https://www.gameoftrees.org/
26•gregnavis•3h ago•1 comments

Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/computational-chemistry-locally
27•crescit_eundo•2d ago•16 comments

Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

422•adam_rida•18h ago•203 comments

Oracle fires 21,000 employees to fund AI spending

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442
13•DemiGuru•31m ago•2 comments

How Do We Stop Vibe Coding?

https://alexklos.ca/blog/how-do-we-stop-vibe-coding
18•prohobo•3h ago•18 comments

Tangleflow: Converts GitHub Actions workflows to tangled workflows and back

https://github.com/43081j/tangleflow
19•wertyk•2d ago•7 comments

The story behind APC-2

https://teenage.engineering/now
5•firloop•3d ago•0 comments

The Book Prize Index

https://book-prize-index.vercel.app
38•Luc•5h ago•3 comments

I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year

https://www.alexhyett.com/videos/tried-building-app-with-ai-it-took-a-year/
53•surprisetalk•2h ago•48 comments

Writing by hand is good for your brain

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your
1374•dwwoelfel•23h ago•624 comments

AMD's Instinct MI455X: Aiming for the Sun

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/amds-instinct-mi455x-aiming-for-the
47•ingve•7h ago•23 comments

Hetzner is working on LLM Inference

https://sliplane.io/blog/hetzner-inference
94•jonas_scholz•4h ago•43 comments

The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)

https://sive.rs/itunes
153•downbad_•4h ago•38 comments

Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/22/startup-founders-urge-trump-not-to-shut-off-chinese-open...
1008•theanonymousone•22h ago•817 comments

I regret migrating to Codeberg

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/
415•boramalper•23h ago•321 comments
Open in hackernews

Why is programming so captivating, yet so agonizing?

https://elsewhere.news/en/zhenfund/why-is-programming-so-captivating-yet-so-agonizing
15•ilreb•1h ago

Comments

swader999•51m ago
Because you get to solve real problems people have. But you have to work with real people.
BadBadJellyBean•49m ago
I never found programming agonizing.
marginalia_nu•48m ago
Yeah same. I've been doing this for fun since I was like 9 years old. 30 years later it's still fun.
giancarlostoro•47m ago
You must not talk to other developers ;)

But seriously, sometimes its not the code, it's the human factor that's painful, other times, well it's JavaScript.

tombert•28m ago
I mostly find programming fun, I’ve been doing it most of my life, but I will admit that engineering can be pretty agonizing. I enjoy the stuff, I enjoy the algorithmic stuff, and I enjoy implementing the math and algorithms, but that’s only about half of any programming job I have had.

I derive zero enjoyment from Kubernetes configs, or Terraform, or fucking around with log settings, or screwing around with all the knobs for Kafka. That stuff is agonizing.

skydhash•7m ago
> I derive zero enjoyment from Kubernetes configs, or Terraform, or fucking around with log settings, or screwing around with all the knobs for Kafka. That stuff is agonizing.

The click for me was thinking in terms of outcomes and system dynamics. So I make sure to get a good understanding of the final state. Tweaking without a goal is just playing around, or joyless work if you do not enjoy the process.

game_the0ry•7m ago
The only things I find agonizing about programming:

1. unrealistic time frames and expectations from non-technical managers, and

2. leetcode

Everything else is awesome.

bodge5000•1m ago
Aside from the human side of it which is often nothing to do with programming itself, I'd say anything that is captivating is only so because its agonizing. If you have a problem to solve and instantly know the solution, there was no problem, just manual labour left not done (using that in the most technical sense). Solving problems is captivating, but it has to be hard or there'd be no problem at all.