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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?

Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift? 2 by chistev | 8 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos

Ask HN: What Happened to the CS153 Videos 4 by mapleleaf1921 | 1 comments on Hacker News. https://ift.tt/hPCuo6S The videos for spring 2026 was online and is now all gone. Only the office hours are left. What happened?

New ask Hacker News story: Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later

Hyperscalers are buying all the chips to then rent them to us later 4 by adelks | 2 comments on Hacker News. This may sound alarming, but it appears as simple math to me 1. Chip price increase applies to everyone, including hyperscalers 2. I assume most of consumers refuse to pay for such ridiculous prices. 3. Hyperscalers pay the price because they expect return on investment 2. We, consumers, are actually the end-users of the chips they bought It appears then that Hyperscalers are outbidding us at buying chips, then will make us pay back the ridiculous price they outbid us with through renting them back to us. The way out seems simple: don't pay for AI and wait till one can afford chips for local (or federated) AI. But there's the whole b2b market that I don't know what to think about What are your thoughts?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026)

Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (May 2026) 4 by evo_9 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Stuck in a situation at your current job that makes you want to leave / be fired? Here is your opportunity to get it off your chest, and if needed, seek some hopefully helpful feedback.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture?

Ask HN: Rant, Am I bad or is this a company with a poor tech culture? 3 by apatheticonion | 5 comments on Hacker News. Hey all, can you sanity check me? Am I a bad developer (always a possibility), or do I focus too much on unimportant things? I've got 13+ YoE and been working in big tech for about 4 years, joined an established start up (10 years old, profitable) a month ago, and wondering if I am out of touch after the meat-grinder that is competing for delivering "impact", stack ranking and so on. I don't know if I should stay at this company as I feel like I can't really do good work here and it feels like, if I stay, I'll be less experienced at the end of 5 years than when I started. ----- Soo I joined an established start up a month ago, they have a legacy app they are incrementally migrating from Angular 1 to React. Their "good" app is a super custom React implementation that's extremely difficult to understand, including some kind of c...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Anybody Using Codex?

Ask HN: Is Anybody Using Codex? 2 by cl3misch | 2 comments on Hacker News. I read HN daily and posts about features or curious behavior of Claude Code are very common. I see no posts about OpenAI Codex. I was under the impression that it also is a very popular tool and virtually as powerful as Claude Code. Where am I wrong? Is Codex not popular? Is it significantly worse than Claude Code? Is it being "cancelled" because of OpenAI cooperating with the US Department of War?