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There's the uncurated version of Ask HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/asknew if you want to see more of them. (It's listed in the Lists link at the bottom of the page.) But it's …

I'd be behind Universal Basic Employment: Any able-bodied person is assigned a job that visibly benefits society, even if something simple like sweeping the sidewalk or visiting th…

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When the American left says they want to eat the rich, you better believe that SWEs making $200k+ per annum feature prominently on the menu.

Unreal Tournament 4 didn't get a chance to fail because it was never a real release. UT4 was a free tech demo for Unreal Engine 4 that never got completed because Fortnite started …

IIRC union seniority is tied to the current employer. Move to another employer and all your seniority and the perks that go with it are gone so union members avoid it. No mobility …

Every time someone says Europeans have it better, note that we are not seeing net migration of high-pay tech workers from the U.S. to Europe that we should if that were true. SWEs …

An offline console would have no access to patches for any game (including the mandatory day one patch that kills off enough remaining bugs to make a modern game playable), downloa…

> " It seems quaint now, but it’s astonishing how much the fear of war (especially nuclear annihilation) affected mid-century fiction. " Quite the reverse. That people say that the…

The bubble comes because of the haters. Any decision that is made will piss off someone even if it's for stupid reasons (classic example: https://xkcd.com/1172/ ) and powerful peop…

Google was more elitist than most in its early years. As I recall, candidates had to have graduated from an elite CS program with and provide a transcript when applying showing top…

The intake rate of a microscopic black hole is too small to measurably absorb much matter before it falls through to the bottom of the lake until it reaches the center of the plane…

It does; the old school hackers, the people who built the computer and software industry, loved logic puzzles / brainteasers and elegant, high performance solutions to coding chall…

I've seen candidates breeze through the basic version of a question they claim to never have seen when asked and then choke hard when the requirements are modified slightly. Honest…

An accurate approximation of a real work scenario would be sitting in a conference room for two hours while trying not to fidget or visibly look bored as co-workers make a mountain…

Archive link: https://archive.is/fWpcK I'm shocked at how little the Democrats seem to be doing to win back voters.

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Your sort is always nagging and prodding at the public to engage with politics, failing to understand that it may motivate the public to vote against your causes. Let sleeping dogs…

Star Trek was never described as hard science fiction.

Archive link: https://archive.is/EexjX

The old hacker community leaned anti-authoritarian and libertarian, if anything. The modern, everything-is-political "hackers" would be horrified by them.

Knowing how the software development lifecycle really works and how to write reliable, shippable code _without using AI as a crutch_ will put you ahead of your fellow students when…