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How hopeful are you for the future? For me, everything seems bleak. The AI owners and their parasitic nature show no sign of stopping — they're grinding working people to dust, rel…

Marketing engineer for marketing people, design engineer for designers, sanitation engineer for janitors — so by that logic, cashier engineer would be next for the people who ring …

In recent weeks, I have noticed a lot of tech companies announcing layoffs due to AI. As this continues, when will you be concerned? Microsoft laying off 10% of their workforce, 15…

It us practically nothing but ai slop

A lot of programmers I read here and elsewhere say LLM isn't going to change much, some say LLM is just going to make them more productive, and some even say not using LLM makes yo…

In programming and software, as LLMs become increasingly common, I'm seeing a lot more of the "I don't care how a software product is built, just give me the result" attitude, and …

I had an idea to eliminate the bot problem, or at the very least make it significantly harder to operate one. Here is my plan. A new web browser built on a new HTTP protocol that a…

In recent years, government ID requirements to browse the internet have suddenly become more common. To understand who might be pushing this, consider the following question. Suppo…

In recent days, Anthropic and the Department of War have been having a back-and-forth war of words. What surprises me is the people who support Anthropic. Did you forget how scummy…

One of the most popular pieces of advice in tech is, before you build a product and release it to the public, talk to people. What do they mean exactly? I think this advice is one …

That is my point, though. You want something hard, something that requires actual money, effort, infrastructure, and lobbying. That in itself is the moat. As software developers, w…

Are you saying even if I stretch the budget to $500k, there isn't a niche where I can find viable device?

That is what you want. The harder and more difficult the moat, the higher the gate for these bottom-feeder product dumpers to clear. Once you clear that yourself, you would be in t…

I am talking about class 2 medical devices. It takes you maybe $200k at the high end to clear FDA and trials. High enough that all these bottom feeder LLM providers will drop out b…

As software development becomes a commodity thanks to LLM, I wonder why more software developers don't switch to building medical devices to make their careers more secure. Here's …

It seems to me that Show HN is filled with low-effort see-what-I-prompted-Claude posts—no innovation, no real creation, just yet another copy of a copy. If you’re going to prompt a…

As LLM-assisted tools become more popular in programming, have you noticed cloud outages becoming more common? Or am I just noticing it because I’m looking for a pattern? If my the…

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I am currently working on a small blog built with Flask and Python (community size under 10k). To manage spam, I am considering adopting a policy similar to Hacker News by not allo…

As their revenue dwindles due to new technology—such as email reducing the number of letters sent—and increased competition from other shipping companies, I think the USPS needs to…

My issue with my friend is: why is military work specially objectionable? I used the example of buying products that are produced by slaves. No doubt some died, yet he has no probl…

How many degrees of separation need to exist before your culpability drops to nearly zero? One degree? Two? Three? Someone cashing a paycheck from Facebook or Google can tout how t…

I've noticed people have a low opinion of people who are in military-related work. I know the obvious reason is that the military tends to involve killing sometimes, but that's not…