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AWS Finally Built Its Own AWS Emulator

https://github.com/aws/aws-emulator
357•super_linear•2h ago•107 comments

Tim Peters has died

https://discuss.python.org/t/in-memoriam-tim-peters-1952-2026/110028
497•ayhanfuat•13h ago•51 comments

Why are we still working this hard?

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/11/11/why-are-we-still-working-this-hard/
40•Wilsoniumite•24m ago•16 comments

A false smoke alarm almost drowned Jane Street's only NYC datacenter

https://michael.bacarella.com/2026/11/10/false-smoke-alarm-jane-street-datacenter/
283•mbac32768•3h ago•152 comments

AWS Emulator and the engineer's job when agents write the code

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/11/aws-emulator-and-the-engineers-job-when-agents-write...
74•drbm•2h ago•9 comments

Show HN: I recreated Papers Please but you're deciding which YC startups to fund

https://termsheetplease.com/
72•bolau•1h ago•32 comments

Retirement Savings Are Fueling the AI Bubble

https://lpeproject.org/blog/your-retirement-savings-are-fueling-the-ai-bubble/
68•speckx•1h ago•42 comments

Faster Retrieval for Better, More Efficient RAG

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/faster-retrieval
91•zerop•3h ago•19 comments

Gemini Decisions API

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-decisions-api/
56•iamdelirium•1h ago•8 comments

Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h

https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site/?maya
851•eyvindn•8h ago•312 comments

Hyper-Realistic Sand with WebGL2

https://av.github.io/safe-sand/
233•everlier•6h ago•55 comments

IBM Quantum Nighthawk Demonstrates New Levels of Speed and Quality

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-11-11-ibm-quantum-nighthawk-demonstrates-new-levels-of-speed-and-qu...
9•gok•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Yogurt – Free, private, open-source alternative to Granola

https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yogurt
104•brownrout•4h ago•54 comments

Atuin Threads: All your agent sessions on every machine

https://blog.atuin.sh/threads-agent-sessions/
149•linsomniac•6h ago•59 comments

Can a Linear Program Do Weight-Space Programming?

https://nathan.rs/posts/weight-space-lp/
201•emschwartz•7h ago•31 comments

The tiny transmitter tracking monarch butterflies' migration, Canada to Mexico

https://www.begiant.ca/stories/places/monarch-butterflies-tracking-conservation
15•upofadown•1d ago•3 comments

Launch HN: Pomerado (YC F26) – Turn any website into an MCP for agents

https://pomerado.ai/
31•alanjm23•3h ago•25 comments

Using voltage glitching to unleash the A100 in my mining card

https://blog.kate.land/posts/using-voltage-glitching-to-unlock-the-a100/
224•lae•9h ago•89 comments

Pharo in the Browser with WebAssembly

https://massimo-nocentini.github.io/pharo-vm/world.html
107•xkriva11•6h ago•31 comments

Beans at altitude: stovetop vs. pressure cooker

https://highaltitudelife.com/beans-at-altitude-stovetop-vs-pressure-cooker/
5•mooreds•2d ago•0 comments

We need more goat sacrifices

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/we-need-more-goat-sacrifices
153•iamnothere•8h ago•92 comments

AI, activity, and outcomes in software engineering

https://cabird.com/talks/shipping-faster/
79•azhenley•3h ago•88 comments

Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco

1•FrasiertheLion•8h ago

Show HN: Godbolt-in-a-floating-window for Neovim (C, C++, Rust)

https://github.com/0xdeadf1sh/AssemblyForNeovim
89•0xdeadf1sh•6h ago•15 comments

TimeNet: Open-source data infrastructure for Temporal Foundation Models

https://github.com/OpenTSLM/TimeNet
37•rjakob•1d ago•6 comments

The Computer Graphics Book of Knowledge

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/masson/history.htm
46•num42•4h ago•18 comments

Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/attention-mamba-distillation
57•zerop•7h ago•3 comments

The Power and Legacy of Virginia Tech's Mac-Based Supercomputers

https://512pixels.net/2026/11/va-tech-system-x-system-g/
28•CharlesW•2h ago•5 comments

Show HN: Micron – Oberon with the Power of C

https://github.com/rochus-keller/Micron
36•Rochus•3d ago•9 comments

A C++ Quicksort Faster Than std:sort

https://tiki.li/blog/about_blqsort
30•signa11•1d ago•5 comments
Open in hackernews

Why are we still working this hard?

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/11/11/why-are-we-still-working-this-hard/
30•Wilsoniumite•24m ago

Comments

mitxela•15m ago
Because the people in charge of deciding which work should be done have decided that we should spend every waking hour making them more powerful. Next!
trentnix•12m ago
You have agency. The man doesn’t get to decide what you do.
Pwntastic•7m ago
Short of a windfall or fanciful ideas of starting my own business (and then having to work even harder), I'm still a wage slave who needs to keep doing what the man asks of me so he will give me my monthly stipend
win311fwg•5m ago
That may be true for the individual, but the man can be kicked to the curb at any time with ease if the workers collectively decide to.

We're still working this hard because we, collectively, want to. Simple as that.

smallmancontrov•7m ago
The man just sets policy that maximizes prices and minimizes wages, so that the median person still works full time and lives hand-to-mouth even while the economy has achieved a level of productivity that would have been compatible with Keynes' 15 hour workweeks were the surplus not devoted exclusively to pumping assets.

Next!

Dr_Birdbrain•14m ago
The simple answer is that we will continue to work this hard as long as some members of society are willing to work this hard. The hardest working participants of the labor market will set the tone of the competition for high-paying jobs.

A typical tech job requires far more than 40 hour work weeks.

solyin•6m ago
Right. It was great when women got the right to work as an option, but now it's a requirement.
XenophileJKO•11m ago
Nobody wants to admit they are having a 15 hour work week with AI, but if in office attendence is any indication, I think many knowledge workers are starting to reduce work hours. It is much easier to do so remotely.

Some are filling hours with more work however it seems like many are not increasing work volume, just quietly reducing the amount of labor.

empath75•7m ago
Honestly I do my entire week of work on monday and then spend 4 days trying to get everything merged and deployed.
doublepg23•6m ago
I would generally say I have a healthy 40hr work week at my current role but multiple MAGNA friends have agents doing the bulk of their work.
carlosjobim•8m ago
If working people in industrialized society weren't artificially kept indebted and poor (relative to the wealth they should have), then it would be impossible for the rulers to control the population, and they would loose their power.

A ruler will always prefer to rule over 100 wretches, than be an equal with 100 peers. And people all over the world have been bred to submit by relentless head stomping by family, school and media.

But the current order will end without violence and be forgotten as foolishness, just like the spell of the feared Soviet terror regime ended as if people woke up from a dream. Just like the strangle grip of popes, priests and monks ended and is now the source of ridicule. Our children's children will look with nothing at disgust at how the current population worship "governments", "authorities" and so on - all of these illusions made up of some of the least admirable people alive.