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Education doesn't imply intelligence. 90% of humanity that has ever lived has probably never read a word.

Past threads : 2012 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3987566 2014 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367258 2021 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26837152

> mastering the agentic process It would have been worth it if the frontier models were open weight. Right now, if you invest time in mastering tools like Claude Code or Google’s A…

It was an easy project, but managed to hit frontpage here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897

Who said employees in India are unaffected by these layoffs?

AI is definitely a solid reason. Even a 10% increase in developer efficiency translates to roughly 9% fewer workers needed to do the same job. For AI to be cost effective, it must …

Probably the same happening for websites being built or apps being published.

Thanks for the heads up. Corrected it.

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By searching in all categories, I can see it's mentioned once : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42659243#42662874 For a cult, this is some remarkably low-effort proselytizing …

> I expect two of the listed to have very positive sentiment, and one generally negative in 2025. You are quite correct! Crafting Interpreters actually has the highest average sent…

Just missed by a day I guess. Cutoff is 15th December.

Thanks for the love.No need to scrape, just use this json containing all the data used in making the site : https://storage.googleapis.com/globalhnbucket/normalized_boo...

> Would love to learn more about how this is built. I remember a similar project from 4 years ago[0] that used a classic BERT model for NER on HN comments Yes, I saw that project p…

Thanks! I used OpenLibrary's API to get the book IDs, and then Gemini 3 to generate the Amazon links.

My bad — probably should’ve added a disclaimer :) For what it’s worth, I only added sponsored links to the top ~50 books out of ~10k total. Mostly just trying to cover the cost of …

Specialist doctors are one of the highest paid professions in almost all countries. There are hardly any jobs more important than those of say a heart surgeon or a neurosurgeon.

Quite possible regular flossing causes microplastic contamination in the gums which quite readily then enters the bloodstream.