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Questions technologists ask each other · last 14 days
Ask HN turns the community into a help desk: “how did you get your first sysadmin job?”, “what are you reading this month?”, “has anyone actually run this at scale?”. The answers below come from practitioners, and the good questions rise by vote — we list the ones with traction from the past two weeks.
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Watch Apple slowly become just another computer company
1. no one wants a folding iphone 2. no one wants touch on the mac stop blindly listening to journalists and have some taste. i have a UX maxim with a ton of evidence behind it that no one seems to talk about: if a product you're releas…
Old.reddit.com Gone
It may just be me, but old.reddit.com is finally gone. And, at last, I am free
Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November
Text too big for this (limit 4000 chars), so I'll post in comments. How to join the strike: You simplify inform your employer that you are going on strike. Feel free to send them a link to this thread. Inform them how you feel about yo…
Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?
There is quite opposing discourse on the internet as to whether AI is going to take everyone's job, or if we are witnessing one of the greatest pre-IPO PR jobs in history. Or both. I'm wondering what people smarter than me believe…
Necro-Economics Eyal Weizman
"At the end of September, Google Maps updated its satellite images of Gaza from the set taken in the summer of 2023. Entire cities have disappeared, wiped from the surface of the Ea" https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper&…
DietPi v10.8 has been released
DietPi - the lightweight Debian based Linux distribution. Our major changes: DietPi-Wireguard: New tool to manage WireGuard servers and clients DietPi-Software: Software packages are setup via names instead of IDs HAProxy: Optimized install…
GitHub suspended my account, and I couldn't submit a support ticket
I filled email and select the reason (Account locked: My account has been locked or suspended) in https://support.github.com/contact/cannot_sign_in then submit. A few steps to create a ticket. After I filled everything t…
Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox
I delete the emails, refresh the screen and the emails are still not deleted. Has anyone else had this issue? It's happening on two difference computers, one with Ad-Block and one without any extensions. For me, it has been an ongoing …
Ask HN: Has anyone used Phoenix, Langfuse, or OpenObserve?
What worked well, and what issues or limitations did you run into?
Hey, Y Combinator - What will happen to humans?
this community is by far the one i respect the most. you are well educated, well informed builders. you know best. so i ask, what will happen to humans with this ai revolution? im in a pretty depressed mood lately, not because i think it wi…
Tell HN: Last night, I had a dream
Last night I had a dream: A company I worked for said there were a lot of typos, human mistakes and inconsistencies in their database. There were a billion rows in the DB, but only 250 million or so had "mistakes". They asked if w…
Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia
There have been, increasingly, a large number of posts [1] on HN in the past few weeks, where developers are slowly coming to terms with the breakneck speed with which Agentic Coding has advanced in the past few months. We all agree that an…
Why remote roles are becoming extinct in 2026?
I've been looking for new remote roles (marketing) for a while but there's no good role hiring remotely everywhere. I'm from India. I previously worked big UK and USA based startups but I left them because of relocation issue…
Looking for a tech job is a helpless data-entry nightmare
I spent hundred of hours (distributed over many days) filling my resume data to freshly developed forms made specifically to the hiring process of one or two companies, even though I feel like I have a top 10% resume and years of in hands-d…
Tech market feels like a data entry job
I spent two hours every day filling my resume data to freshly developed forms made specifically to the hiring process of one or two companies. I have a good resume, worked well for a few years before AI, and know it has got a lot harder to …
Do you want to keep your job? Stop feeding AI models
How about we stop giving your skills to these guys who are putting us out of work?
Ask HN: What are your career plans in the age of AI?
I expect more and more professions getting affected in the next 3 to 5 years, not all on the positive side. Software dev is already changing. What are your plans? Are you planning to quit software altogether? Or stop coding and adapt, accep…
Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?
Now that we have coding agents writing all our code for us, are you still needing to reach out and read books such as clean code and other software architecture books? I think they are now more important than ever as there is more code bein…
Ask HN: How do you grow OSS projects?
Hey there, founder of a startup here which main product is an oss project. We've been trying to grow the project for months, and it's lowkey growing in stars and adoption. But it's linear. We see other projects do big jumps a…
Has Opus 5.5 gotten dumber for anyone else in the last few days?
Since it was released Opus 5.5 has solved almost all the problems I've had with previous Anthropic models over the last year. On medium thinking level (default in Claude code) it's been remarkably more succinct and really good at …
Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?
I've been trying to enroll for Apple Developer for over a month and nothing works. The Apple Developer app won't accept my Canadian passport for identity verification. The enrollment is for a Delaware LLC, so my Apple account regi…
Ask HN: How fast is your CI these days?
With the age of agents CI costs are generally going up, how is your build setup handling things? Have you been able to optimize, and how did you? Most importantly, how fast is it?
Ask HN: What is the main bottleneck facing Agentic AI today?
Hey guys, today I read a statistic that showed that Agentic traffic surpassed human traffic on the internet and that statistic was very shocking to me. At the same time I saw another statistic that showed only 10% of agents built, actually …
Ask HN: Mined crypto on Azure when I was 13, after 12y still cannot open account
Hey all, I have a very stupid confession, back when DOGE was first introduced, I didn't think much of it and followed a bunch of tutorials on how to mine it on free (and much less limited) Azure account. I used up all of the credits an…
I'm creating my own OS, check it out, LimonOs no Unix no Linux
So, I've created my own OS called LimonOS. It is currently in the early stages of development. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is neither Linux nor Unix—in short, the kernel is unique and 98% written in C. Yes, I used an AI ass…
Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?
I think there is still place for this type of coding where you autocomplete predictable chunks and review it as you go. But I haven't seen much development in this space. Are there any notable models optimized for this task or full…
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