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  1. Ask HN: What fiction books would you recommend for programmers?

    What are some fiction books that you think programmers especially would enjoy? Doesn't have to be but I'm interested as well if there are any that are written by programmers or engineers

    16 points 23
  2. Ask HN: How has your experience been with iOS 26?

    After the recent update my phone (iPhone 13 Pro) has noticeable stutter in the UI pretty often.

    4 points 6
  3. Battlefield 6 map editor is *checks notes* Godot (bsky.app)
    6 points 1
  4. Andrej Karpathy – The append-and-review note (karpathy.bearblog.dev)
    2 points 0
  5. Ask HN: Why are PDFs so hard to edit?

    What is it about the underlying format that makes it so difficult to edit a PDF

    5 points 7
  6. Ask HN: Anyone else use a single gigantic .txt file as a notetaking solution?

    For the last 3 years I've just been using notepad in windows and a single .txt file to keep notes for my programming job. Every day I just open the file and add a new divider for the day at the top of the file like…

    4 points 5
  7. Ask HN: Why are LLMs obsessed with bullet points?

    It seems like a tell that some content was generated from an LLM is that it always speaks in bullet points What causes this?

    2 points 1
  8. Ask HN: Why are the posts on the "Ask" page so old?

    Looking at the Ask page on HN there are posts from 12-13 days ago still there Has it always been like this or did the algorithm change?

    4 points 1
  9. Ask HN: Is there a fast/performant alternative to Excel?

    I like using excel for quick analysis/calculations but I find it falls apart if you have like 100,000+ rows Does any company make an alternative that can handle large amounts of data? I don't need super fancy features,…

    5 points 8
  10. Ask HN: How frequently should one read the news?
    4 points 4
  11. Ask HN: How much efficiency improvement would you estimate Copilot gives you?

    I work at a tech company with about 400 employees. The company rolled out access to GitHub Copilot for everyone about a year ago. After a year they did a survey of employees who used it and asked to estimate what…

    2 points 4
  12. Ask HN: Programmers who aren't front/back end/web developers, what is your job?

    I feel like reading HN sometimes you'd get the impression that all software development now days is just building web apps or working on web services. I'm curious for people who are programmers but don't work on the…

    23 points 26
  13. Ask HN: What did "computer geek" type people do before computers were invented?

    As in the type of people who become computer/programming geeks What did those type of people "nerd out on" as a hobby before computers were invented/accessible?

    18 points 22
  14. Ask HN: Why did no one save the Living Computers museum in Seattle?

    Last I heard it closed and everything was auctioned off. I'm not from Seattle but I'm surprised given the huge tech presence there that no one took over and tried to re-open it, even by crowd funding.

    73 points 82
  15. Ask HN: Have you ever "rage-coded" something?

    Sometimes it happens that a programmer gets so annoyed or upset with something in a project that they sit down and implement a solution or solve a problem in one single multi-hour "rage-fueled" session.

    9 points 3
  16. Ask HN: Why did consumer 3D printing take so long to be invented?

    "Today I saw an old paper printer, it has all the pieces for 3D printing except the plastic. Computer sends it data, it moves in 1D to print the image on paper using ink. A 3D printer is just 3 of these moving pieces…

    80 points 214
  17. Ask HN: Why do websites have scheduled downtime if AWS/GCP prove its not needed?

    Something I've always wondered about Big cloud platforms never take the service down for maintenance They do any upgrades or maintenance live on the running service If this is possible for them, why do so many websites…

    4 points 18
  18. Walla (en.wikipedia.org)
    8 points 2
  19. Ask HN: How is it that AWS doesn't have scheduled downtime like other web apps?
    1 points 4
  20. Ask HN: What are some tech hype cycles younger devs might not know about?

    The recent hype cycles with stuff like NFTs made me curious: What were some other tech hype cycles in the past that younger devs might not know about? For example tech that was promoted as a game changer for the future…

    6 points 12