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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What did onboarding training look like in OS kernel teams?

Ask HN: What did onboarding training look like in OS kernel teams? 6 by markus_zhang | 2 comments on Hacker News. Context: I'm wondering how did OS kernel teams provide training to their new hires. I'm mostly curious about: - NT kernel / XNU kernel / Android kernel teams, or anything that is not OSS like Linux, e.g. some prop RTOS team would also count - When teams still hired new graduates from targeted schools into kernel teams. Not sure whether your team is still doing this so I put up a past tense. Questions: - How much time do new hires work on the training? Do you give e.g. 3 months to catch up and start to work on small tickets, or it's a swim or die strategy? - If there is any structured training, what material do you use? Is it mostly reading internal docs, or shadowing seniors, or published books about the kernel, or something else? - How does the training address code quality? What kind of exercises/material does it lay on the new hires to work on code quality...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What has been your experience with Agentic Coding?

Ask HN: What has been your experience with Agentic Coding? 3 by grandimam | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have been experimenting more deeply with agentic coding, and it’s made me rethink how I approach building software. One key difference I have noticed is the upfront cost. With agentic coding, I felt a higher upfront cost: I have to think architecture, constraints, and success criteria before the model even starts generating code. I have to externalize the mental model I normally keep in my head so the AI can operate with it. In “precision coding,” that upfront cost is minimal but only because I carry most of the complexity mentally. All the design decisions, edge cases, and contextual assumptions live in my head as I write. Tests become more of a final validation step. What I have realized is that agentic coding shifts my cognitive load from on-demand execution to more pre-planned execution (I am behaving more like a researcher than a hacker). My role is less about 'precisely...
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New ask Hacker News story: Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending

Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending 7 by Javin007 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Two years ago, a $24 autopay charge on my Azure account failed. The invoice is now marked "Locked" in their billing portal. I cannot pay this invoice. There is no button to pay it. There is no button to dismiss it. There is no way to interact with it at all. Azure displays a banner: "You must pay all previous invoices before creating new subscriptions." Fair enough. I would love to pay it. Microsoft won't let me. So I tried to contact support. The Azure portal requires a "paid support plan" to create a support ticket. To purchase a paid support plan, you must create a subscription. To create a subscription, you must clear outstanding invoices. To clear outstanding invoices, you must contact support. Azure on Twitter, as well as the website claims to have a "free support ticket" option for billing issues, but every poss...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does cross-posting to Medium still help, or does it just dilute SEO now?

Ask HN: Does cross-posting to Medium still help, or does it just dilute SEO now? 2 by StealthyStart | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m building a small tool that syncs WordPress posts to Medium using canonical URLs to preserve SEO. Before I go further, I’d love perspectives from people who actively publish: • Is Medium still worth distributing to in 2025? • Have canonical links actually protected your SEO in practice? • Do you cross-post manually, with scripts, or not at all? I’m trying to avoid building something people used to want but no longer do.
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New ask Hacker News story: My 2016 iPhone SE got an update after 9 Years

My 2016 iPhone SE got an update after 9 Years 2 by vigneshesan | 2 comments on Hacker News. Just got iOS 15.8.5 in India
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New ask Hacker News story: Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen

Regarding Thien-Thi Nguyen 14 by SmolCloud | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hello, please forgive any grammatical errors on my part for I am not an English native speaker. I found this thread regarding the death of ttn https://ift.tt/XmYlQiF I am Thien-Thi's daughter, my dad was a very private person, so I found out about the thread only recently. Since I can't leave a comment, I'm making a new thread to thank everyone for the kind words regarding his passing.
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New ask Hacker News story: GhidrAssist and GhidrAssistMCP LLM plugins reached v1.0

GhidrAssist and GhidrAssistMCP LLM plugins reached v1.0 3 by jtang613 | 0 comments on Hacker News. After just over a year of steady progress, my Ghidra LLM plugins GhidrAssist and GhidrAssistMCP both recently passed version 1.0. Not only, do these enable LLM helpers for common reverse engineering tasks, but fully automated reverse engineering of complex binaries is now on the table. Demo video: https://youtu.be/WHPDvzepScY Give them a try: https://ift.tt/er2wsmF https://ift.tt/qpkn2Mm (yes, GhidrAssistMCP works with Claude Code, CoPilot, etc.)
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