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Questions technologists ask each other · last 14 days
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Ask HN: Opus 5.5 suddenly dumb as rocks?
Is it just me, or has Opus suddenly turned dumb as rocks with 0 attention span over the last half day or so? Noticeably worse output across multiple agents on very different projects.
Ask HN: Are Knuth's Stanford Pages Down?
cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/ (including the TAOCP pre-fascicles and the programs page) has been unreachable for me for at least a week. archive.org still has older copies, but the programs page there is from May 2025. Does anyone know …
Jules winding down on Dec 31, 2026
Received: We’re writing to let you know that as part of our work to unify our agentic coding efforts, Jules will wind down on December 31, 2026. You have until November 11, 2026 to continue finishing up sessions. After November 11, 2026, we…
Ask HN: Do you have side-projects that generate >$500 revenue/month?
What inspired you to build that project and how long did it take?
Ask HN: Is your leadership pushing you to skip dev review?
Noticing this throughout the industry, wondering how common it is.
Ask HN: Why are there not more terminal apps?
Also, why are there not more ssh apps (like terminal.shop)? Would you want to use more apps in terminal?
Tell HN: Claude Code adds your email to the prompt, the LLM sends it to websites
The prompt issue: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/81138 The LLM sends it to websites: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1xhqvzn/opus_55_just_shared…
Ask HN: I Need Advice
Hello HN. I was laid off six months ago from my longest tenured job. Since then, I have been rotting. And I mean really rotting. I have been staying up late, sleeping in, skipping chores, neglecting my relationships, eating too much food, n…
Watch Apple slowly become just another computer company
1. no one wants a folding iphone 2. no one wants touch on the mac stop blindly listening to journalists and have some taste. i have a UX maxim with a ton of evidence behind it that no one seems to talk about: if a product you're releas…
Ask HN: What happened to our collective ethos?
I’m an outsider to both Silicon Valley and enterprise IT; I’m just a freelance consultant and web host plying my trade in the suburbs of Charlotte. But I have generally presumed that we all share a common nostalgic ideal rooted in the memor…
Old.reddit.com Gone
It may just be me, but old.reddit.com is finally gone. And, at last, I am free
Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November
Text too big for this (limit 4000 chars), so I'll post in comments. How to join the strike: You simplify inform your employer that you are going on strike. Feel free to send them a link to this thread. Inform them how you feel about yo…
Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?
There is quite opposing discourse on the internet as to whether AI is going to take everyone's job, or if we are witnessing one of the greatest pre-IPO PR jobs in history. Or both. I'm wondering what people smarter than me believe…
Necro-Economics Eyal Weizman
"At the end of September, Google Maps updated its satellite images of Gaza from the set taken in the summer of 2023. Entire cities have disappeared, wiped from the surface of the Ea" https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper&…
DietPi v10.8 has been released
DietPi - the lightweight Debian based Linux distribution. Our major changes: DietPi-Wireguard: New tool to manage WireGuard servers and clients DietPi-Software: Software packages are setup via names instead of IDs HAProxy: Optimized install…
GitHub suspended my account, and I couldn't submit a support ticket
I filled email and select the reason (Account locked: My account has been locked or suspended) in https://support.github.com/contact/cannot_sign_in then submit. A few steps to create a ticket. After I filled everything t…
Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox
I delete the emails, refresh the screen and the emails are still not deleted. Has anyone else had this issue? It's happening on two difference computers, one with Ad-Block and one without any extensions. For me, it has been an ongoing …
Ask HN: Has anyone used Phoenix, Langfuse, or OpenObserve?
What worked well, and what issues or limitations did you run into?
Hey, Y Combinator - What will happen to humans?
this community is by far the one i respect the most. you are well educated, well informed builders. you know best. so i ask, what will happen to humans with this ai revolution? im in a pretty depressed mood lately, not because i think it wi…
Tell HN: Last night, I had a dream
Last night I had a dream: A company I worked for said there were a lot of typos, human mistakes and inconsistencies in their database. There were a billion rows in the DB, but only 250 million or so had "mistakes". They asked if w…
Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia
There have been, increasingly, a large number of posts [1] on HN in the past few weeks, where developers are slowly coming to terms with the breakneck speed with which Agentic Coding has advanced in the past few months. We all agree that an…
Why remote roles are becoming extinct in 2026?
I've been looking for new remote roles (marketing) for a while but there's no good role hiring remotely everywhere. I'm from India. I previously worked big UK and USA based startups but I left them because of relocation issue…
Looking for a tech job is a helpless data-entry nightmare
I spent hundred of hours (distributed over many days) filling my resume data to freshly developed forms made specifically to the hiring process of one or two companies, even though I feel like I have a top 10% resume and years of in hands-d…
Tech market feels like a data entry job
I spent two hours every day filling my resume data to freshly developed forms made specifically to the hiring process of one or two companies. I have a good resume, worked well for a few years before AI, and know it has got a lot harder to …
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