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ls-aon Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

Your ass can talk that's crazy

Tech was inhumane before AI. to come and suggest this now only when AI started hurting your butt means you are a fake liar

ls-aon Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant

I can't be happier seeing how many posts are about AI making PR terrorists unhappy. They can no longer bully their teammates so they rant about it here

ls-aon Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?

This is what news headlines did for decades to bait you into reading the details. I wouldn't be surprised if AI companies do that intentionally to consume more tokens trying to understand what had just happened

ls-aon Understanding is the new bottleneck

Yes corrupt engineer. Why do you think most countries have corrupt leaders? It's not a coincidence. You get what you deserve. Most people are corrupt.

ls-aon Lovable raises $400M Series C

I worked directly with them. I guess youtube isn't recommending the videos to you but you can find them all there. Atleast do the minimum before you refute. A single kid created complex opensource software that is being used by all these apps too, and it has been acquired by supabase. That dudes software is infested with AI bugs. I'm really doing you a favor by telling you all of this. I advise you to stop caring about software and adapt to become more product oriented.

Also AI will generate better code than you ever will in your entire career, bugs included.

The software world might split into programming language scientists who care about "code" and product-oriented who care about the tangible product. Anyone in between (who fight about what code looks like) should disappear.

ls-aon “Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers

The fact the everyone is fighting just to define what AI is doing to coding is a sign that most developers are just terrible at their skill.

ls-aon Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

Well there is this https://github.com/zimengxiong/tinytouch

ls-aon Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard

Looks nice. However, 2 years and you still squished the arrow keys into the rest of the keyboard. Unacceptable "design" mate. You need to talk with your customers.

ls-aon YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview

absolutely contrary. You are who you surround yourself with. These people have a private social network called bookface. Hidden from the rest of the world

ls-aon Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

blaming bugs on C++ has got to be the most leetcode thing I've heard in my life

ls-aon Claude: Elevated errors across all models

everyone here sounds like the last bunch of people who still used yahoo.com

ls-aon NerdLens: Mirror your computer with cardboard VR

AKA cheap eye destruction tool

ls-aon AI advice made people 3x less accurate but 2x confident, researchers found

Same applies before AI. Things that people didn't want have been pushed down their throat all the time. Stop falsifying the truth

ls-aon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

No extinct dinosaurs are allowed here. That is for jurassic park.

ls-aon Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU

I like how everyone has a different theory as to why

ls-aon Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets

Apple will lose this because they didn't do the due diligence to do basic protection against this.

ls-aon GPT‑Live

Are you still using LiveKit for the back-and-forth architecture

ls-aon Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting

Wow! I might be witnessing the end of HN

ls-aon The Brand Age

pg no longer in his golden age

ls-aon New YC homepage

I'm pretty sure the designer used political campaigns as inspiration

ls-aon New YC homepage

> YC often also mentors founders on pivots

Interesting. I once talked to an investor (not YC) and they asked me what I would do if the product failed. I said one thing I can do is pivot. And they literally responded with "we don't invest in founders who think about pivoting"

> YC also needs to pivot it's marketing to compete with a16z Speedrun and PeakXV Surge

Maybe. A write up about the new design would be cool I think

> YC has always been founder first.

Internally yes there is a "founder community". But publicly I would argue it was product-first.

ls-aon New YC homepage

I found the switch of focus from startups/businesses to founders/CEOs particularly strange. Looks like a political campaign to me.

ls-aon Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes

Don't celebrate early. It's all a Hollywood plot, just like 911. Only the innocent suffer

ls-aon How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)

If you want to go down the terminology nerd rabbit hole, which I think is the correct thing to do, it's not even called Arabic language, it's called The Un-ambiguous Arabic Tongue (my translation of اللسان العربي المبين). Language (which comes from the word لغة) is a bad word, it means "idle chatter". Tongue is the correct term for someone who knows what they're talking about. Modern Arabic (even what is referred to as Classical Arabic) is a deviation from The Un-ambiguous Arabic Tongue. A lot of ignorant people think that the Quran is poetry when in fact it is in The Un-ambiguous Arabic Tongue, which again many people don't know (or intentionally hide!). The Arabs who spoke that tongue eloquently back then denounced poetry and poets (that's why when they wanted to curse at the prophets they called the prophets "crazy poets". Read the Quran for reference) To them poets are crazy, and the Quran was chosen by Allah to come down in that specific tongue, hence the Quran also denounces poetry.

ls-aon How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)

It's still better than believing we were apes who didn't know how to speak then we invented languages all the way to Chinese. One of us has to be ignorant that's for sure.

ls-aon The Tor Project is switching to Rust

I think companies hired too many Rust engineers, and now those engineers are writing technical blogs and making product decisions. We're seeing a lot of those everyday on HN first page

ls-aon Things I want to say to my boss

Sounds like my ex

ls-aon Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought Black Death to Europe

So the tsunamis of 2004 and 2011 could've caused covid?

ls-aon Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental

> Stay tuned for details in our Maintainers Summit coverage.

I can argue otherwise. Developer advocacy is a form of marketing (specially for a product traditionally targeted towards tech savvy people)