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How hopeful are you for the future? For me, everything seems bleak. The AI owners and their parasitic nature show no sign of stopping — they're grinding working people to dust, relegating us to a state of penury. AI spy…

Marketing engineer for marketing people, design engineer for designers, sanitation engineer for janitors — so by that logic, cashier engineer would be next for the people who ring you up at checkout. What is up with…

In recent weeks, I have noticed a lot of tech companies announcing layoffs due to AI. As this continues, when will you be concerned? Microsoft laying off 10% of their workforce, 15%, 20%, 30%? Google laying off 10%,…

It us practically nothing but ai slop

A lot of programmers I read here and elsewhere say LLM isn't going to change much, some say LLM is just going to make them more productive, and some even say not using LLM makes you some sort of relic. What is not…

In programming and software, as LLMs become increasingly common, I'm seeing a lot more of the "I don't care how a software product is built, just give me the result" attitude, and then there are people who say they care…

I had an idea to eliminate the bot problem, or at the very least make it significantly harder to operate one. Here is my plan. A new web browser built on a new HTTP protocol that accepts a human identity glove using…

In recent years, government ID requirements to browse the internet have suddenly become more common. To understand who might be pushing this, consider the following question. Suppose you woke up in the year 2035 and…

In recent days, Anthropic and the Department of War have been having a back-and-forth war of words. What surprises me is the people who support Anthropic. Did you forget how scummy this company is? How they violated the…

One of the most popular pieces of advice in tech is, before you build a product and release it to the public, talk to people. What do they mean exactly? I think this advice is one of those things people repeat because…

As software development becomes a commodity thanks to LLM, I wonder why more software developers don't switch to building medical devices to make their careers more secure. Here's why I picked medical devices in…

It seems to me that Show HN is filled with low-effort see-what-I-prompted-Claude posts—no innovation, no real creation, just yet another copy of a copy. If you’re going to prompt an LLM, at least come up with something…

As LLM-assisted tools become more popular in programming, have you noticed cloud outages becoming more common? Or am I just noticing it because I’m looking for a pattern? If my theory is correct—if kids nowadays rely on…

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I am currently working on a small blog built with Flask and Python (community size under 10k). To manage spam, I am considering adopting a policy similar to Hacker News by not allowing users to delete their submissions…

As their revenue dwindles due to new technology—such as email reducing the number of letters sent—and increased competition from other shipping companies, I think the USPS needs to enter the payment processing business.…

I've noticed people have a low opinion of people who are in military-related work. I know the obvious reason is that the military tends to involve killing sometimes, but that's not what they do all the time. For…

A new budget airline promises the cheapest domestic travel, with one catch: no luggage. Luggage-free travel. Additionally, this airline will operate only from low-cost airports, not high-cost ones. In exchange, as a…

want to build a Google Maps alternative from scratch. I’ll start with one city, focusing on the downtown area, and then expand from there. I know there are open-source versions available, but I want to build this map…

When you hear this phrase, what do you imagine the person does as a profession ?

A service where you pay $5 per month, and in exchange, you get a temporary phone number to provide to websites and apps that require phone number verification. This helps cut down on spam, since many of these websites…

I never see people calling them spyware operations anymore, so did the rebrand actually work? I wonder why drug cartels don’t just change their names to get a similar advantage. If one of the Mexican drug cartels owned…

You’d think with all the hype and money flowing into these companies, they’d actually come up with something revolutionary. Instead, we see yet another note-taking tool. Another rent-seeking middleman. Another iteration…