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  1. Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)

    There's a lot of absurdity in this industry right now. I'm curious if anyone else who has the ability to do so is quitting this month. If so I'm curious: 1. What pushed you to do it? 2. What will you be doing? (Even if…

    1 points 154
  2. EWD 1041: By Way of Introduction (Science is hated) (cs.utexas.edu)
    1 points 1
  3. Y Combinator lets you cross the line [video] (youtube.com)
    3 points 0
  4. The guy who shorted Enron has a warning about the AI boom (businessinsider.com)
    1 points 0
  5. Goldman Sachs says AI still not showing up in companies' bottom lines (businessinsider.com)
    51 points 10
  6. Ask HN: What are Mark Zuckerberg's principles?
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  8. Ask HN: How does Spotify select songs for auto generated playlists?

    I was recently looking at the "Viral 50 - Ukraine" playlist automatically generated by Spotify. I'm wondering how the algorithm works to generate such a playlist. Because it seems like it's possibly gamed for various…

    3 points 1
  9. Drawing Text in WebGPU Using Just the Font File (tchayen.com)
    1 points 0
  10. The Craft of Writing Effectively [video] (youtube.com)
    4 points 0
  11. Why American Computing Science seems incurable (cs.utexas.edu)
    2 points 0
  12. Ultra-low-powered multi-computer chips with integrated peripherals (greenarraychips.com)
    4 points 0
  13. PGP Signed Comments (golem.ph.utexas.edu)
    32 points 9
  14. The Case of the Missing SIMD Code (optidash.ai)
    76 points 32
  15. Concurrency Oriented Programming in Termite Scheme [pdf] (scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu)
    2 points 0
  16. Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming – A.P. Ershov (1972) (dl.acm.org)
    1 points 1
  17. Gödel Machine (people.idsia.ch)
    1 points 1
  18. Ask HN: What has to change? I'm sick of it

    4 days ago(a Saturday!), I received a completely cold email from a Chewy.com recruiter telling me "we're seeking passionate and driven engineers to join..." As far as I know I've never expressed any interest or given…

    17 points 29
  19. Why won't Gitlab support monthly billing? (gitlab.com)
    39 points 19
  20. Ask HN: Recommended OAuth scopes for GitHub personal access tokens

    So it's that time of the month again and I'm generating a whole new set of personal access tokens for all of my dev machines. Every time I get to this page(https://imgur.com/a/V9gGI0y) I just feel a sense of dread. It…

    1 points 1
  21. Ask HN: What are possible images you can think of?

    I've been working on things and I started thinking. What are some of the craziest possible things that could exist in the state space of all possible 512x512 bitmaps with 256 colors? I already have some ideas, but I'm…

    1 points 3
  22. Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming (1972) (dl.acm.org)
    1 points 0
  23. The Archive of A. Ershov (ershov.iis.nsk.su)
    1 points 1
  24. Reverse Engineering Discord Voice/Video Calls (medium.com)
    4 points 0
  25. Ask HN: Does your job matter and is your company a net positive for the world?
    8 points 9