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news.ycombinator.com 20d ago

Ask HN: What is the latest research on AI detection?

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news.ycombinator.com 1mo ago

Ask HN: Those who quit Software Eng. to do something else, what did you do?

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notoriousbfg.com 2mo ago

No Smoking Gun

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Tell HN: I think my colleagues are just piping my replies into an LLM

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Ask HN: Why do you think the web of the noughties was better than it is now?

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petition.parliament.uk 9mo ago

Despite opposition, UK government intends to move forward with Digital ID scheme

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Why do HN programmers seem happy about losing their jobs to AI?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: From a layman: Are LLMs reaching their limits?

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www.washingtonpost.com 1y ago

What will happen to Kilmar Abrego García?

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www.theguardian.com 1y ago

Librarians in UK asked to remove books as US pressure group influence spreads

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: What are some examples of programs that are designed to behave randomly?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: How should I structure my mathematics self-teaching?

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notoriousbfg.com 2y ago

Why do people drop litter?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What are some interesting maths problems/exercises for programmers?

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notoriousbfg.com 2y ago

Guardian Angel, a Short Story

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archive.org 2y ago

Internet Archive down (SSL cert expired)

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What to do with small units of time during the working day?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Programming Courses for Experienced Coders?

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notoriousbfg.com 2y ago

I wrote a program to help me make better fantasy football decisions

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Best desktop and mobile podcast experience?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What are household items that can be repaired but people often replace?

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: What's Your Purpose in Life?

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notoriousbfg.com 3y ago

Resonance and Inspiration

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notoriousbfg.com 3y ago

Time and Regret

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notoriousbfg.com 3y ago

Embracing the Heterodox

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notoriousbfg.com 4y ago

Some Quality Biases

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Tell HN: Alexa regularly lies to me about which songs are available on Spotify

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notoriousbfg.com 4y ago

Constraint Breeds Creativity

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Is there a word that means “connected or aligned with nature”?

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It seems to be a trend of HN lately.

Downvote me into oblivion or whatever: It's not relevant to me in the slightest whether you built it in Rust or not, or even Python, Go, Java, Node, PHP etc. There is lots of great and terrible, fast and slow software written in each. OP might only have 3 months of programming experience for all I know.

Why is "made with Rust" any more relevant than "made with Go" to an end user of a software product? It just doesn't matter.

The DevOps team at my company wants to hire a replacement for a very talented engineer. They’ve been interviewing candidates. The board got wind of it and someone not in their team decided they needed an AI Engineer, which is absolutely not what they want. So to release the funds they have been forced to change the job description and go after a different type of role altogether. It’s complete nonsense.

It's much more comfortable to be the person that "could be X" than to be the person that tries to actually do it.

It’s much more impressive to say you have done something than to say you’re going to do it.

A friend of mine has all these failed hobbies he tells everyone he’s going to do, then gives up on. I wait a few months before telling people I’m doing something so I’m fairly confident it’s something I will carry on.

Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime.

Please can someone explain what’s meant by “bad worse-case runtime”?

That “I’m glad I lived my life as I lived it” line (or something to that effect) you hear criminals like these say is sickening. They acknowledge what they did was bad and express no remorse for the clear destruction they caused to other people’s lives. It’s cowardly and he should serve much longer in prison.

all HN devs as a homogenous mass

Many of the highly upvoted posts of the last ~month have been about "vibe engineering" and "context engineering". The comments on these posts suggest an air of enthusiasm one doesn't see on posts about programming.

consider a more nuanced question

As a long-time poster here I simply do not agree.

I disagree with you on both

Your rationale?

By using AI to automate things you once did manually, you are:

- Helping a model do something better you were once able to do (and get someone to pay you to do). Such a time may arise when your input is no longer required.

- Propagating the idea that such things no longer require the skill they once did.

- Propagating the idea that it doesn't take you as long to do something you once did, begging the question why employers would pay you as much as they once did.

- Failing to continue to learn as you once did (that numerous studies have since confirmed; people who use generative AI don't exhibit the same critical thinking as those who don't).

I'm aware there are some naming constraints due to the underlying mobile filesystems not liking certain characters. This might be why it's not syncing fully for you? I haven't had any other major issues yet.