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We're being sold our own skill set back to us in a gated service that was created only because we allowed them to steal our intellectual property. Paying for an IDE, course or fanc…

App Store releases are increasing due to a new gold rush on subscription apps. Review times have gotten longer as the review team at Apple is being spammed. Most of these apps are …

The referenced post has a very high change of being planted. The upvote count is an anomaly for a brand new account, few sentences, no link, Tell HN post. I upvoted it by mistake, …

Noticed many npm packages showing massive drops in weekly downloads, more than 50%. npm-stat is showing 0 downloads for the past few days. react: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?p…

There's a lot of tech banter on Twitter and LinkedIn, much of which is noise you can filter out. SaaS is not dead. People and businesses benefit from having relatively cheap access…

Have people naturally started sounding like an LLM when they write and talk? To me this article reads not fully human.

I'm expecting a similar situation to the Video game crash of 1983 which happened due to total market saturation with low quality products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_…

The agents are good enough to get results when an experienced person is properly guiding these tools. However, during the holidays there was a big marketing campaign, mainly on Twi…

I see it the same way. Why would we rebuild a custom solution when $10 per user has it all? SaaS was always about the service part and works better when other companies use the sam…

"Building X is easy now"... it was never hard if you had the patience to read docs. We should be saying "Building X is faster now" instead. But I guess that doesn't induce god comp…

I've noticed a change in technical blog articles in the past 2 years. Why do most contain phrases like "everything changes", "not behind (yet)" etc.? If you have a valid point to m…

There are websites with the spells listed... which makes this a search problem. Why is an LLM used here?

Refreshing to read a balanced opinion, from a person who has significant experience and grounding in the real world.

How can you be so sure to think you're not replaceable? Because when you use the tools, you're giving data to companies to eventually get even you.

Apple somewhat lifted the emulator restrictions on the App Store which means you can install UTM from here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156...

Accepts the word "human" as well. update: Start with "human" or "homo sapiens" and the website keeps changing as you add new words.

So many em dashes... and on the default vibe gradient too.

> I am at the tail end of AI adoption, so I don’t expect to say anything particularly useful or novel. Are they really late? Has everyone started using agents and paying $200 subsc…

Serious prompt engineering right here

I keep up with the latest in agentic coding on a daily basis and use it. Lately however, work has started feeling duller than before. Whenever I'm digging through a deep problem by…

Tech spec: https://divine.video/proofmode-spec

Everyone in the field seems to be in deep FOMO driven by the other guys also being in a state of FOMO. This creates chaos, delusion and a stressful environment where things are irr…

Very nice! I've found that the default iOS screen time feature is easily skippable. Barcode scanning is an interesting real-world "lock".