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If I told my coworker that his or her "brain is a gizmo" and to "not reproduce" I would expect to be frog marched out the door a few minutes later.

Once you have workloads that can't tolerate a power cut + running fsck for a potentially long time, a battery backup becomes an excellent investment. I bought a UPS on eBay for che…

No, it's because authentic writing on HN has been drowned out in an ocean of slop, in such quantities that calling it out is becoming an exercise in futility

What can stacked PRs do that a series of well-organized commits in a single branch can't?

If only there were some way to logically break up large pull requests into smaller pieces... Some way of creating a checkpoint with a diff including your changes, and some kind of …

Policies like these are widespread in most companies with >1000 employees

Probably 90% of my coworkers in a US tech company are on a work visa. Now that there is pressure on the H1B program, my company is investing in a permanent engineering team in Indi…

How many of those people have experience with augmented reality? Probably not that many. $35k seems pretty low for this job. Hindsight is 20/20 of course.

No W. No X. No Y. Just Z. In fact, the whole article is filled with slopisms, just with the em dashes swapped for regular dashes and some improper spacing around ellipses to make y…

The LLMisms in the "thinkpad" section caused me to close the tab

Shift-left was a disaster? A large number of my day to day problems at work could be described as failing to shift-left even in the face of overwhelmingly obvious benefits

I clicked the article thinking it was about GitLab. Much of the criticism held true for GitLab anyway, particularly the insanely slow feedback loops these CI/CD systems create.

That's a very unusual and narrow exception involving "foregone conclusion doctrine", an important fact missed by Ars Technica but elaborated on by AP: https://apnews.com/general-ne…

It's often better to say nothing at all rather than to reply with an LLM generated response.

Somewhere along the line the AI bros stopped separating training and testing sets. It's great for impressing the villagers

Ted has some interesting ideas but I personally would not accept any life advice from him

Filippo Valsorda discusses his server for storing age keys

I don't like doing the leetcode grind, but all of the alternatives are strictly worse. * Take home projects filter out people with busy lives. Wastes 100 people's time to hire 1 pe…

The author is writing like Java was outlawed or something. There are tons of shitty enterprise Java jobs out there for those who want them. Personally, I worked one of those jobs a…

They can and they will. Filing a subpoena for information is a step in that process. If the WHOIS records are falsified they'll start looking at payment information.

> The outgoing Element mobile app (‘classic Element’) will remain available in the app stores until at least the end of 2025, to ensure a smooth transition https://element.io/blog/…