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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Site Is Trash Now

Tell HN: Site Is Trash Now 7 by AndyKelley | 2 comments on Hacker News. Dear dang and other moderators who I don't know the names of: I've been a long time reader of this website. I've seen a lot of people claim over the years "don't read the comments" or say stuff like "orange site bad" or other dismissals of this website being not worth one's time. But it was clear to me that even if it challenged one's viewpoints there was still plenty of value to be had. In fact precisely because something challenges one's viewpoints makes it valuable. However, this website has now joined the garbage heap of the Internet due to slop submissions and slop comments. This submission is my goodbye note. After decades of participation, in order to protect myself from brain rot, I've excised the habit of using HN from my life. I don't even think correcting misinformation about things that I have specific expertise about is worth my time. When the ...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare

Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare 9 by rincebrain | 1 comments on Hacker News. I thought I'd relate an incredibly broken tech stack story, and its human consequences, to HN today. I used to have One Medical access through work, years ago, it was perfectly fine quality care, and then I stopped using it. I recently needed to find a replacement primary care and decided to try them again. Unfortunately, after a few weeks of initial care transfer and appointments, my account is now in a Sisyphean nightmare state, where it thinks I have an expired membership expiring in the future (September 2026), and as a result, errors out on any attempt to update my membership status. Attempting to contact their support has been an exercise in repeatedly being hung up on when attempting to put me on hold to escalate, and/or having their staff decide that if they repeat the instructions enough times it'll work. You cannot make a second account, because they notice the duplicated personal data...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Will hardware ever be cheap again?

Ask HN: Will hardware ever be cheap again? 5 by bjourne | 1 comments on Hacker News. Up until about 2015 it felt like hardware was always getting cheaper. Then something happened and hardware stopped getting cheaper every year. Adjusted for inflation a mid-range laptop or desktop costs me much more today than it did back then. Yes, it has better specs but it needs it to make up for the extra bloat of all applications. Given DRAM, CPU, GPU, and SSD shortages it does not seem hardware will become cheaper in the short term. Do you think it will ever go back to how it was ten years ago or is this the new normal?

New ask Hacker News story: Claude Code Opus-4-7 VS Codex GPT-5-5

Claude Code Opus-4-7 VS Codex GPT-5-5 2 by rashidae | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Consider GNU/Linux?

Ask HN: Is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Consider GNU/Linux? 2 by xlmnxp | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm asking because Canonical replaced gnu coreutils and sudo with rust alternatives

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant

Ask HN: Anyone want to collaborate on a local-first AI-based research assistant 2 by venkatram-s | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN Community, I'm Venkatram, a sophomore who's on a mission to build a local alternative to proprietary third-party AI-based research assistants. The idea is to turn documents into researchable assets that contain as much as information as the original information does, but it's more reusable. Well, quite frankly, this is still under a WORK IN PROGRESS, so i'm still figuring on how it can be properly used, and I got to be honest here, i definitely need some help to build this, so if you wish, you are welcome! TlDR: NotebookLM, but Locally with your OWN AI Model Github: https://ift.tt/owa9iV3

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience?

Ask HN: MicroVM setup for VS Code Dev Container-like experience? 2 by Erndob | 2 comments on Hacker News. My current setup is just doing my entire development in a dev container that is running locally. I open VS Code, I open the local folder in a dev container. The local folder gets mounted into container for persistent changes. The container dockerfile is my setup of dev dependencies. Within the container I can do whatever global installs I want that persist between sessions, and the project edits persist on host machine. That works and I like the setup. I can run CLI codent agent in the terminal of VS Code, while still having good dev experience. Now, I would like to have basically this flow but be MicroVM based, where the main thing I solve is allowing me to run docker inside that microvm, as docker-in-docker does not work well. Additionally if I could use secrets without them being exposed in the microvm itself, that would be amazing. But I've spent a good amount of time ch...