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1270018080··on Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative
Leetcode seems so pointless in the AI era. It was already pretty pointless but there’s nothing to it now.
1270018080··on AI has torched the market for junior programmers
Same. I don't think it will happen for as long as my company exists.
1270018080··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
> Are those exams a contest?

Yes

1270018080··on U.S. science is in chaos
I don't think this era of ignorance and anti-intellectualism can be compared to a previous point of time in modern America.
1270018080··on U.S. science is in chaos
Are people really moving to China? A country that will never give outsiders citizenship?
1270018080··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Hasn't cursor's revenue declined? I think they already peaked.
1270018080··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Cursor became obsolete pretty quickly as Claude has improved. Good on them to find an out before they collapsed. $60 billion is a huge overpay.
1270018080··on Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over
Ironically an HR department is detrimental to unionization efforts
1270018080··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
There is nowhere else for that money to go
1270018080··on The dead economy theory
The jobs they worked turned into capital which is where their leverage comes from. So it's still applies.
1270018080··on The dead economy theory
For a frontend developer? What is there to scale? The app is already done.
1270018080··on US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City
> What solution

The nobel prize winner hopefully figures that out

1270018080··on How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next
Writing is still an art, and AI will never be able to do it well like all other forms of art.
1270018080··on How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps
Headlines right next to each other on my HN feed

"Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

"How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

1270018080··on BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers
China is going to take over the world economically off of this energy crisis. They print solar panels like America prints money.
1270018080··on OpenClaw is changing my life
It reads like articles that pretended blockchain was revolutionary. Also the article itself seems like AI slop.
1270018080··on CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)
Other than people hallucinating relationships with a stream of text, not really.
1270018080··on Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly
Were you born pre-industrial revolution?
1270018080··on A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity
As Tony Soprano once said, "Alright but you gotta get over it"
1270018080··on U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China
I've always been fine with Tiktok dying, surely that will be expedited under their leadership
1270018080··on Global Peace Index 2025
A funny one is the "Positive Peace Index"

"Positive Peace is defined as the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies. The Positive Peace Index measures the level of societal resilience of a nation or region according."

And the United States scores very high. Losing a bit of credibility there.

1270018080··on A single, 'naked' black hole confounds theories of the young cosmos
It's effectively impossible to have no angular momentum with these processes.
1270018080··on Why do browsers throttle JavaScript timers?
Whenever I refactor and endpoint that takes the p99 from 1 minute to 1 second, I think about how a 4k video being uploaded undoes all of that progress
1270018080··on iPhone Air
It sold like hotcakes for the people who wanted them at least
1270018080··on Books will soon be obsolete in school
A top shovel seller claiming shovels are going to replace books in school
1270018080··on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack
It would be impossible to enforce, and a place that HN that has leaders who evangelize AI as a cure-all would never do it, but "I asked AI and here's what it said" comments should be against the rules.
1270018080··on Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market
The "fuck you got mine" attitude so many homeowners have and deliberate supply restriction to increase property values makes it a smart investment on paper, at the cost of screwing everyone else coming after you.
1270018080··on Denver rent is back to 2022 prices after 20k new units hit the market
Remember, this is a good thing. Property values should not outpace inflation.
1270018080··on When is tech not hype? Tulips, toilets, trains and tabs
If Linkedin influencers and consultants aren't changing their bios from X-Expert to Y-Expert, then Y is probably real.
1270018080··on 'Gentle parenting' my smartphone addiction
Yes it is a paid placement and a fictional story
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