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Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version Hacker News
on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:23PM (#50347193)
Not exactly what you’re asking for, but a big fan of Hacker Newsletter, which emails you top HN articles. What you’re asking for is a little utopian, HN is the closest thing I’ve found
Re:An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted...
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:28AM (#50326037)
Eggplant used to actually look like an egg
Re:Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly...
on Friday October 30, 2026 @08:48AM (#50303166)
The link to purchase the book is broken, which is pretty unfortunate for the author
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:24PM (#50298750)
It’s hardest to track so a lot of these heists go into Monero
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:10AM (#50258673)
I’m of two minds on this. Yes I get a lot more done. Yes I create a lot more bugs. Yes I have to spend a lot more energy understanding some things the AI does vs having written it myself.
It’s a mixed bag. I would say the worst part is that the increased level of output AND the increased level of tech debt is becoming accepted as the norm.
Re:Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria
on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:38AM (#50242617)
Out of all of the English-translated Wikipedia articles, the fact that this doesn’t have an English page is wild. I’ll take that on today I think
Re:Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria
on Monday October 26, 2026 @08:37AM (#50242608)
I’d never heard of this place before this thread. Is it really over-visited? It seems like a great place to throw on the next European vacation
Re:Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @09:05AM (#50180268)
I’m very frustrated by this, for the record. But they have the atom bomb, and we want to borrow their tech for nuclear power. They don’t trust us. This familiar geopolitical quagmire isn’t resolved on the global scale, so I don’t expect these flawed companies to do it any better.
Re:Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:52AM (#50180068)
Ouch :’(
I better go show up to metaphorical fender benders more
Re:China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:37AM (#50066789)
Every tech worker seems to have a Ted Kaczynski streak lol
Re:The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:17PM (#50015578)
Thank you for this, just listened after seeing your post today. What an AWESOME episode. Just showed my wife too. The effort they put in was insane!
Re:State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:51AM (#49992060)
We have the lowest infant mortality, best medical care in human history, few people starve in Western countries. What exactly makes it worse than, say, the 1800s? I will go out on a limb and guess that you spend a lot of time scrolling negative social media. Am I right? That invention is truly the most godforsaken thing in society at this time.
Re:State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:47AM (#49992022)
Never in the history of humanity has it been easy to have children. And there was never a government subsidy for it. You were never guaranteed that your kids would thrive. Not sure why it’s suddenly different.
I think the bigger change is: I don’t want my quality of life to go down one bit when I have a kid!
Re:State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:50AM (#49988338)
Man people self-report a lot of fun stuff. It simply cannot be trusted. The counterpoint is that nations that tried financial incentives (even large ones like Hungary) had negligible gain from these efforts.
Re:GitHub Refuses To Remove Cracked Copies Of My Software Even After A...
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:48AM (#49988322)
What is the cost for doing this, out of curiosity? If OP only earns a trickle of revenue from their site, it probably isn’t even worth the money (?)
Re:State of Devs 2026 survey results: developers are exhausted
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:42AM (#49988272)
If you work in software in the US, you really have no financial excuse not to have kids. I own a house, have a kid and exist on almost a single income in the SF Bay Area. And I don’t work at a company you know about. I make about median wage for the area and had no parental help for college or my home.
If you don’t want to have kids for any other reason, that’s valid. It’s a ton of work and requires insane resilience. But money is certainly not it, not for SWE.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:19AM (#49930076)
Sounds like my dream
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:48AM (#49920922)
So it’s a domain issue? I don’t think you’re proving much. Mexico can start calling itself America too, but we know how that will go
Re:Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone witho...
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:46AM (#49920912)
There is no recovering from this stat drop to the person you’re responding to. Well done. 45k pre trump is surprisingly high
Re:America.gov – Whatever you need from government, start here
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @11:35AM (#49910360)
Why does it matter to you what America calls itself? Serious, good faith question. India tried to change its name to Bharat, everyone still calls it India.
Re:Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:14PM (#49881222)
I went on Spotify to check out these playlists. I very quickly found that they have “corn” playlists that abuse the fact that you can upload videos for podcasts. A few are a screen recording of a windows Home Screen with a tiny video player in the corner playing adult videos. I had a laugh, nature always erm finds a way
Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:06PM (#49880229)
Actually it’s a footgun gate
Re:How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:26PM (#49861600)
Lowering the barrier to proof of concepts for personal projects is a beautiful thing. I don’t love AI but I’m 100% playing the cards I’m dealt.
Re:Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to pl...
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:15PM (#49861524)
Agreed. Next diagram I make I’m taking a photo of a whiteboard and letting AI figure out relative positioning
Re:Two-Tier Encryption in the UK – Identical Apple Devices, Different ...
on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:12PM (#49833731)
Well in the article they explicitly said they can’t turn off ADP by design, so no luck. But I’m all for making the politicians suffer the consequences of their own decisions.
Re:AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:46AM (#49800356)
But then what will I do for work? :(
Re:Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:26PM (#49782716)
Key word is “recently”: seems like every law from states outside of CA were enacted in 2026. It seems too early to tell if they’re successful
Re:Disney+ changes subscriber agreement to allow ads on every plan
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:37PM (#49770672)
I have, uh, heard that running a seedbox and dealing with the various -arr annoyances is very easy now that you can have Claude code SSH into the seedbox.
Re:Brood War Bench
on Saturday September 19, 2026 @06:16PM (#49770549)
I’m a little bummed it did have map hack on. Would love to see this play “legit”. It really reminds me of my pastime, chess. When you play bots, if you don’t mess up early, it can often feel like you’re winning in the early game even though you’re just hanging yourself slowly with the rope it’s giving you.
Re:Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in hu...
on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:55AM (#49752574)
Yeah gulags and other forced work camps also come to mind. But I guess this is a larger scale in terms of man hours