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  1. Thoughts on best static typed language for web development?

    I was surprised to see Java (including spring framework) and C# becoming popular choices outside enterprise and am wondering what the yc hivemind current thinking on pros of cons of strong typing in the backend.

    2 points 1
  2. After academic conference, I got held up at US border (Twitter thread) (twitter.com)
    3 points 0
  3. Ask HN: What is the state of AI data annotation of pdf documents using LLM

    As an example I have a corpus of scientific papers for which I would like to label the segments that contain an application to organic chemistry. Assuming the labeling is not very sophisticated (literally "this passage…

    17 points 4
  4. Ask HN: Best resource to learn parallel/concurrent programming?
    2 points 2
  5. Has Huawei overcome U.S. sanctions by developing its own 5G chip? (reuters.com)
    3 points 0
  6. Ask HN: Why hasn't the cloud killed the mainframe?

    I was surprised to see how few mainframes Big Tech companies that handle a huge amount of transactions (Netflix, meta, google,...) use relative to legacy industries (banking, retail, insurance,...) This makes me suspect…

    26 points 87
  7. Ask HN: What's your current most productive stack for webapp development and why

    Please don't give the reason that it is the stack you know best, even though this is arguably the best reason to use a stack.

    2 points 0
  8. Ask HN: Students who graduated this summer, how are you finding IT job market?
    13 points 4
  9. Analysis on what happens when a submarine implodes (twitter.com)
    27 points 10
  10. Marc Andreessen on Pausing Alcohol (twitter.com)
    13 points 16
  11. Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?

    I remember years ago I spent sometime to learn it as I was curious how a purely functional front-end language feels like, and genuinely thought it had a good chance of being massively adapted in the near future,…

    261 points 339
  12. Israel appears to have been behind drone strike on Iranian factory -US official (reuters.com)
    9 points 2
  13. Ask HN: Are you finding it hard to get re-employed if you got laid-off recently?

    If you have been a victim of recent tech layoffs (say starting from Sept last year) how hard have you found it to find another tech job? I am trying to get some anecdotal evidence on the veracity of the following…

    1 points 2
  14. PhD gets 5x increase in postdoc interview invitations by just changing his name (twitter.com)
    149 points 121
  15. Video game Homefront's plot (2011) (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  16. Ask HN: Are you part of the Great Resignation, if so what's your story?

    Did the pandemic influence you to be part of the "great resignation", i.e did it motivate you to take an early retirement, work less (go part-time) or even have a major career change (become a farmer, go to med…

    24 points 55
  17. Ask HN: Am I going insane or is there genuinely no value in blockchain tech?

    I tried hard to understand the space and some of the ways in which the technology works, but after many hours of investment I am still unable to alleviate my scepticism that this entire space is vapourware, there is…

    424 points 575
  18. Ask HN: How did Dropbox's 'epic' move from AWS work out?

    Wondering if anyone here can shed more insight on how Dropbox's move away from AWS worked out 6 years on. I am referring to https://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/ and interested to…

    12 points 1
  19. Review of “Ask HN: Predictions for 2021?”

    The original predictions link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25594068

    38 points 34
  20. U.K. Health Department to End Data Contract with Palantir (bloomberg.com)
    22 points 2