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Ethics? Respect for your consumer? Can you imagine if the food industry operated under your reasoning? If the consumer can't tell that the "ground beef" is rat meat|dog meat|human flesh, what purpose does it serve to disclose it? It serves no purpose for the manufacturer.
I'm sure a lot of people wouldn't care, but you "know" some consumers don't want it. At least give them the choice.
I think you've been fortunate in your experiences. Some states don't even have protections against baseless termination, employers can just terminate at will. In the states that do, employers often fight all unemployment cases on policy. I've seen 3 companies transition into new owners. In almost every case, the new owners proceeded to terminate almost all department managers and lots of front-line staff without notice or benefits. In the case of the managers, they'd often be shadowed for a while to see the ins and outs of what they did before termination.
It's very distressing that you can't even fathom people would self-disclose. You clearly understand that a lot of people would refrain from purchasing if they knew...
> The 2 week notice isn’t just out of the kindness of your heart. It’s an amount that’s been generally accepted by everyone as “good enough” to not burn bridges.
That's the whole issue though. It's all employer-centric. Employers don't worry about burning bridges 95% of the time and will typically terminate "effective immediately". From TFA:
> the firing-vs.-quitting dynamic has always been asymmetrical. Even really wonderful employers almost never cease employment with a kind offer to let you keep working there until you find a new source of income.
and
> A Reddit thread from a few weeks ago recounts someone attempting to leave a job, after four years, with dignity and a standard two weeks’ notice. Twenty minutes after they told their boss about their plan to leave, their boss cut off their access to email and Slack. They felt like “a corporate spy who had just stolen company trade secrets instead of an employee who gave them four years of dedication.” The redditor wrote, “They wouldn’t even let me say goodbye to my team or grab my coffee mug from my desk.”
The 2 weeks notice thing is from a different time. The time when working unpaid overtime and skipping your lunch breaks to meet deadlines got you noticed and promoted. Employers don't give a rip about you in 2026.
> Clean room. AI rebuild. Drop-in.
> We don't leak, decompile or copy anyone's code. Every project is rebuilt from public documentation and open standards, with AI doing the heavy lifting
Hmm, creative interpretation of things here. Using AI to copy existing products feels a lot like code/license laundering or something. I feel like there should be a name for this sort of thing. I didn't love it when I read about Adobe's (fuck Adobe) stuff getting hard ripped, and I don't love that vibe bros are going to further lower the bar for getting a decent product out without getting immediately copied and I HATE that these guys trying to position themselves as revolutionaries/robin hoods while using stolen IP (AI) to generate clones of existing products.
More and more I feel negative about my future in software.
I drank the Elegant Objects[1] koolaid, and recommend the two books (Elegant Objects vol 1 and 2) whole-heartedly to anyone interested in OOP. Pony lang lets you write 95% of the kind of OOP described in the books idiomatically, without any kind of crazy shenanigans.
I think most people today would say encapsulation and message passing are pretty core to the definition of OO and inheritance is largely seen as an anti-pattern.
One thing I really like about Elegant Objects is that it is very palatable to FP enjoyers. Objects must encapsulate state, but they must also be immutable. Good OOP is declarative like good FP. It looks a lot like lisp imo. You're encouraged to code against interfaces instead of using inheritance etc.
[1]: https://www.elegantobjects.org/
I think it needs
more negatives. "I don't think it's incorrect to say [it does not have] any more OOP than general purpose languages like Lua or JavaScript in that sense".
I had retyped it a few times trying not to come off as overly negative or a jerk.
I need to put a disclaimer to say that I
hate when people hijack a post about foo to talk about bar, but:
> The language is not object oriented but it provides some features to facilitate object oriented designs.
It has classes and implicit `self`. Not nothing, but I don't think it's incorrect to say has any more OOP than general purpose languages like Lua or JavaScript in that sense.
Something like Pony[1] is a more mature and feature rich entry and has a much better OOP story.
All that said:
a) I'm sorry for doing the thing I hate when other people do
b) Creating a language is a big undertaking, and it's super cool that they did it
c) I see it seems to already be written in Copper too, which is also very neat!
[1]: https://www.ponylang.io/
Isn't the container ecosystem basically the same problem with more packages? You pull an OS package, a language runtime package, etc etc. It's something I've been thinking about also
Absolutely unwarranted gatekeeping and bashing in this thread for the most benign reason. I think it looks neat. The API client space definitely needs some new FOSS entries after postman, insomnia, bruno all followed the same free -> freemium bait and switch way too common in dev tooling. Paywalling features that are already or previously implemented is a gross move, and feels especially egregious in the tooling space because developers integrate them as part of their flow and to get a random (albeit important) cog in that flow rugpulled or kneecapped adds undue annoyance and burden in whatever random project you happen to be working on at the time.
Nice work OP, I love these TUI tooling, and we need more options in this space in particular. Hopefully, next time you'll use git from the beginning (for your own organizational sake) but I'm honestly baffled people will disregard a whole FOSS project because of how you chose to make it public. Do better HN populace.
> Humans still write the code, we just do it using AI tools.
That's literally the opposite of what TFA quotes in Proton's "Engineering Manifesto"
> Your job has fundamentally changed. It is no longer to write code, and LLMs are not here to help you write better code faster. Your job is to help the LLM write better code faster
It goes on to say
> Every engineer is now a team leader, a manager, and your direct reports are the models and agents you use.
They don't want their engineers and programmers to write the code. They want LLM handlers.
When I read stuff like this, or how China is apparently drilling toward the core, I just can't help but wonder (as a layman) what kind of rippling effects harvesting this heat without truly knowing how many physical properties of the world or ecosystems depend on it. The same with windmills. Like it's nice that these energy sources exist and can be used, but when we slow the natural weather fronts with windmills, or we siphon heat away from the core faster than it might naturally permeate, what kind of side-effects is that causing? I'm just very leery of tampering with the forces of nature without extensively exploring and making predictions about possible outcomes
Good on CA. The "moral decline" in the US is distressing to say the least. I don't consider myself conservative on many issues, at all, but I never would have guessed that we'd be doing mainstream advertising for prediction markets, having slot machines in all the laundromats and even full-on slots arcades as a stand-alone business (not to mention all the vape shops, chewing tobacco advertisements at the gas pump etc).
In 2026 we all know this stuff is bad for you, and we'd previously shunned the use and outright banned the advertisement of it - why are we opening the gates so that the next generations can get hooked after we'd somewhat successfully beat it back??
> If you have a shitty operator, risk of over exposure increases.
Good thing border control isn't full of rejects and nonhackers from the military and real law enforcement \s
The problem isn't advertising, it's data harvesting and sale. Ads used to rent space on websites - totally reasonable. The whole industry around the purchase and sale of user data is what needs to be banned.
Hence why developers continue to make AI integrations, adtech etc, despite the natural adverseness to it.
That doesn't happen magically, and "spamming" protein can definitely damage your kidneys.
I'll go a little further and say "corporations are bad". Maybe we don't need to expand beyond liability. It's often quoted: "a computer can never be held accountable. therefore a computer must never make a management decision", but why is it OK for corporations?
I've played a few, hosted one for a while. It's just missing the x factor. And that wasn't the game itself, it was a perfect storm of early MMORPG, huge player base, strong RP player base that managed to mesh well (enough) with PvP players, and moderators that seemed "game" for most anything the players did/wanted. You can't recreate that (at least at anywhere near the scale) - the players are different, the expectations are different, the cheaters are better at cheating etc etc.
Well that was a downer. Hopefully as jobs get fewer and harder to come by the industry will see the appeal of organization. The big argument was always the pay-cut, but it seems like that's inevitable at this point anyway
Can you elaborate on the extra courses? What are America's developers missing (I imagine ethics is glaringly missed)?
What's the current state of licensing AI generated code? If this was the product of AI, wouldn't it be public domain and not eligible to be a MIT licensed?
Isn't that exactly what it is?
Why is that? Did you have an issue with how it's set up? Or does it not do enough out of the box and leaves security for the administrator?
> In the Flock case the entire REASON the cameras are there is the the government (Police or local municipality) has contracted Flock to surveil the public
Do we know this for fact? Surely, the police are they're biggest consumers, but do they sell access to the APIs to anyone else?
They definitely tested the water. I can recall several Pokemon games on mobile, as well as something like a Mario infinite runner. I don't think it will happen anytime soon, but it's not "complete" fantasy to think it could happen.
I wonder if Nintendo will ever cave and start putting out official PC versions. I haven't bought a console in decades, but I have strong nostalgia towards some of those older games.
There are tons of these games that 100% are already pirated and available online - why not just officially release them and start getting some revenue out of it. Some of these titles are going to get harder and harder to access as the official consoles and carts rot and that is a REAL shame. I would by it almost anyway they wanted to sell it too. Stand alone executables, straight ripped ROMs, whatever.
I think the nostaligic crowd that would play these older games would more than likely pay for them, and being as they're already widely available (if not extremely sus downloads), there wouldn't be much incentive to redistribute them.
> Knowing some folks that work on "major-browser-vendor" security in the era of Mythos-found-and-exploited vulnerabilities everywhere
Is this a thing now? I hadn't seen any big browser vulnerabilities recently. Did I miss something? Or are the vendors not releasing horrifying bugs they found internally with AI fuzzing?
Off-topic, but this article brought my first time to see a "scan the QR to verify you're human" from reCaptcha. I hope this doesn't become a thing, because I never, ever do that.