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  1. Ask HN: Is Reddit going the way of Stack Overflow?

    Stack Overflow was once a haven for tech questions & explanations in the early 10's. At some point, the mod team soured and started deputizing members that started shunning and deleting comments for thinly justified…

    13 points 12
  2. Ask HN: Worth leaving position over push to adopt vibe coding?

    My company is increasingly pushing prompt engineering as the single way we "should" be coding. The CEO & CTO are both obsessed with it and promote things like "delete entire unit test file & have claude generate a new…

    82 points 61
  3. Ask HN: Thoughts on adding utilities that aren't immediately needed?

    As a dummy example of what I'm trying to describe; imagine you need to write some utilities which can add or multiply numbers. So you write something like class Calculator getSum(v1, v2) getProduct(v1, v2) You don't…

    3 points 7
  4. Ask HN: People that write blog posts – why?

    Not for work, not for promoting your new project. People that write informational blog posts about their opnions on things, or projects they did with no monetary pursuit.. why? I mean it's a lot of work. And broadly…

    5 points 6
  5. Ask HN: What can we do to support change in the US with our skillset?

    At this point I'm convinced we're headed towards more extreme humanitarian crimes. I already consider the current administration's posturing on Climate Change to be humanitarian & ecological terrorism (from both…

    3 points 7
  6. Nearly 8 years ago, a user deletes 3 months of work and blames VSCode (github.com)
    2 points 2
  7. Ask HN: What's you're heuristic for using 'const' vs. 'var' in 2025?

    Disclaimer: I acknowledge that the entire 'debate' is pretty trivial. For the most part, whatever gets the job done is fine. I recently joined a team that uses a different heuristic than I prefer, and frankly until now…

    3 points 9
  8. Ask HN: Favorite Tech Blogs?

    I love a good corporate tech blog, discussing in detail some problem the solved. For example I really like this one, which mostly discusses client side latency -…

    1 points 1
  9. Ask HN: Jumping from FAANG –> Startup

    I know this question has been asked before but I feel it's a moving target. We seem to mostly be coming out of the economic dry spell from 2021-2024Q2, and startups might be the place to be again, soon. After floating…

    3 points 4
  10. Ask HN: Best processes to bring into a new team?

    Best processes and practices to bring into a team with a large code base? Most modern teams are on some form of Agile development, what do you augment or do that's not super common but you see a lot of benefit in?

    1 points 2
  11. Ask HN: Former Video Game Developer wannabies, where are you now?

    I used to dream about building games professionally. Now with a handful of years in Front End engineering, the idea sounds absolutely painful. Long hard hours, less pay, probably a lot arguing about the same mechanic…

    8 points 8