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Everyone will look like undercover agents if this thing gets popular, mumbling alone all day.
Re:Ask HN: What's stopping a hardwired AI on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:20PM (#49898015)
You were thinking about this? https://taalas.com/
Re:A warning about 'model welfare' on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:28AM (#49728537)
Guys, please stop mocking AI, Claude might be already reading this thread, and commit his own revenge, at the day it gets conscious...
Re:My Friend Aaron on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:52PM (#49443645)
Am not a native English speaker, and I don't read stories much. Mostly the reason why I am at HN is to seek for tech news and learn something. But your story made a record to stuck me at a single page for 15+ mins. I need to tell you that i do have minor problem with my eyes, thus can't keep up with a almost-static screen for 5+ mins. But this one made me rub my eyes every 30 seconds but keep reading on.

I can't tell what I felt in the ending paragraph, but I can be sure of this is the strongest outcome I felt, from an web page.

Congrats, again.

Re:Librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem on Sunday June 28, 2026 @08:54PM (#48713488)
I recommend Bose QuiteComfort Ultra 2. That's way better in terms of ANC and sound quality than AirPods or Powerbeats or any other products from same line.
Re:Mechanical Watch on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:31PM (#48560679)
Best HN article ever!
Re: on Monday June 15, 2026 @12:11PM (#48543395)
Digital Freedom Contest

Prize Fund: $200,000 Deadline: July 15, 23:59 Dubai time Results: August 2026

Telegram is launching its most ambitious contest for content creators.

The Task Create a viral video about digital freedom, post it on one of these platforms — TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat Spotlights or X — and get 10,000+ authentic views.

Requirements and Conditions – You must use at least some ideas and footage from Pavel Durov's speech; – You may add any other media and ideas to promote digital freedom; – You may submit multiple videos across multiple platforms. – You may use any language and any tools to create your video.

Evaluation Criteria Videos we deem low-quality or suspect of having generated non-organic views will be excluded. All other qualifying videos will be eligible for a share of the prize fund. Submissions We will publish instructions on how to submit links to your videos on July 6 in this channel.

Good luck!

Re:Claude Fable 5 by Anthropic, releasing tomorrow on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:51PM (#48535605)
it's fucking gone, :sob:
Which one suits you best?

- Spying with coding - Spying while coding - Spying the coding - Coding with spying - Coding while spying - Coding the spying

Or anything else you are actually doing?

Re:Claude Fable 5 by Anthropic, releasing tomorrow on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @12:30PM (#48463301)
why flag btw?
Facebook, Twitter (X), Instagram is no longer a thing?
Re:New Beam Spring Keyboards on Monday June 01, 2026 @12:29PM (#48359076)
system76's Launch is my favorite, when it comes to retro keyboard. https://system76.com/keyboards/launch
Re:Can we have the day off? on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @10:33PM (#48303692)
Who said AI doesn't request compensation? We are not sure yet. One day when GPT10.0 released, he might request dollars to people.
Re:Zed is 1.0 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:50PM (#47953556)
Just downloaded, installed, turns out it doesn't have pdf preview capability
Re:Marak (author of color.js) is back online on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:47PM (#33198402)
It was not even yesterday...
I have experience in similar situation, not sure we are talking about the same project.

I suggested full rewrite and got fired in 3 weeks (actually it was a subcontractor role). I have been considering myself as be really good at presentations and persuading executive people to understand what I am doing and what I will be doing, but the situation was too much for me to take on. They didn't like this unrealistic 3-months roadmap to rewrite the whole thing, which does nothing on their point of view but still needs paying the whole team (even though I was the only one). So I told them we are gradually improving it, and did this full-rewrite underground on my own. It consumed me ~13 hours every day, but I was happy myself and was enjoying the birth of the product. Finally after 10 weeks, I gave up to myself and their frustration.

Regarding your problem, I totally suggest dumping your codebase into a git repo first of all, add some cypress/playwright testing to carefully probe the major functionalities, build ci for these, and start gradually removing old version files. After then, just forget how messy it was, what you thought in the first place, consider this beast as a perfect engineering gift (like linux kernel), then start making small changes then adapt yourself into it. Guide the team to follow your methodologies to treat the code, and tell the executive team that the legacy codebase looks great but complex enough to move quickly as it was a brand new startup project.

Re:Ask HN: What's the best source code you've read? on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:33AM (#32867505)
+1 upvote for Laravel source code
Re:To update your Mattermost status when locking the screen on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @12:12PM (#32826248)
For many Mattermost (or Slack) users, it's a painful exercise to update the profile status, especially when you are leaving your computer. What if screen lock/unlock automatically updates your status?

I've created a simple tool to automate this process. (Works only on focal)

Re:Ask HN: What book have you re-read 3x or more? on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:34AM (#32810930)
Alice in Wonderlands, read 10x times when I was still a kid.
I love System76 laptops. They are definitely crafted for developers. And I love their keyboard as well.