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  1. Ask HN: Is a human brain more like a CPU or an FPGA?

    Is the “hardware” of the brain fixed? Or can the “software” cause changes in the hardware?

    3 points 3
  2. Ask HN: What about the "annoyance cost" of using LLMs for coding?

    Does anyone else find that LLM code generators improve your overall productivity marginally but you prefer not to use them due to what I call the “annoyance cost” Basically the extra cognitive annoyance you have to…

    2 points 2
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  4. Ask HN: Where are the AI-driven profits or promotions?

    I see so many comments on the huge productivity gains of coding with AI but it mostly seems to just be perceived productivity But does anyone have stories of the actual results or impact? If the productivity gains are…

    44 points 28
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  6. Ask HN: How does the current job market compare to dotcom bubble?

    Was anyone here a developer circa 2000 How bad was the actual job market back then?

    9 points 3
  7. Ask HN: Why so many companies reducing middle management recently?

    I understand why you’d want to reduce middle management and eliminate layers of hierarchy But why would companies all do it at the same time like it’s a trend?

    9 points 13
  8. Instagram artificially boosting negative comments (reddit.com)
    6 points 1
  9. I built my ideal mini computer (youtube.com)
    1 points 0
  10. Cauzin Softstrip was the first commercial 2D barcode format, introduced in 1985 (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points 2
  11. Ask HN: Why are AI generated images so shiny/glossy?

    I’ve noticed a lot of the time you can tell an image is AI generated because it has a shiny/glossy lighting look to it. Has anyone figured out why this is the case?

    67 points 64
  12. Ask HN: Why does no one seem to care that AI gives wrong answers?

    If you had a piece of code or software that sometimes produces totally wrong output we would consider that a bug. Yet it seems like with AI all the investors/founders/PMs don’t really care and just ship a broken product…

    70 points 118
  13. Ask HN: Why did the windows registry fail?

    I’m pretty young so haven’t been around to see the historical context of the windows registry From what I understand it’s basically a big centralized configuration system, rather than individual programs having their…

    2 points 14
  14. I delivered a presentation generated by ChatGPT and got the full mark (old.reddit.com)
    5 points 1
  15. Millennials Spend More Time Playing Video Games Than Gen Z and Teens (variety.com)
    3 points 3
  16. Ask HN: Why are websites so insistent on you using their mobile app?

    For example both Reddit/Twitter have big annoying reminders to use the mobile app What is it about using a mobile app vs. mobile website that is so beneficial for a company?

    7 points 8
  17. Looking at this file from WebKit may change how you think about web browsers (twitter.com)
    3 points 1
  18. Patent Trolls Inbound: Our First Lawsuit (blog.comma.ai)
    1212 points 317
  19. Godot 4.0 will discontinue visual scripting (godotengine.org)
    303 points 112
  20. Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?

    Why is visual programming so popular for game programming compared to other domains? For example Unreal Blueprints What is it about them that makes it so popular?

    163 points 154
  21. Windows Advanced Rasterization Platform (WARP) (docs.microsoft.com)
    3 points 0
  22. Non-Fungible Olive Gardens (nonfungibleolivegardens.com)
    290 points 325
  23. Ask HN: Have you ever taken a pay cut in order to switch roles/industries?

    If so what made you switch and how did it work out. Was it worth it?

    13 points 12
  24. Zooming an SVG with Acrobat vs. Slug Rendering Library (twitter.com)
    3 points 1
  25. Ask HN: Why aren't governments subsidizing meat-substitute products?

    The other day I read two statistics that were really surprising. One is that 15% of greenhouse emissions are from livestock [1]. The other is that apparently Beyond Meat results in 90% less greenhouse emissions compared…

    4 points 6