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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is cloud infra making us forget the local file system and memory?

Ask HN: Is cloud infra making us forget the local file system and memory? 5 by hliyan | 0 comments on Hacker News. I started programming in the 90's and continue to do so to this day (though in a limited capacity since I'm managing teams). I frequently see things that would have had very simple/dumb solutions 20 years ago[1], which now seem to require complicated tools, libraries or services. Two examples: I recently saw an engineer provision an S3 bucket to store a temporary file that is only needed for the current session, and only accessible to the application that created it. For me, this is what the local file system is for. I saw another engineer provision an in-memory key-value store to store some infrequently changing reference data that can be easily loaded at startup, in an application runtime where memory persists between requests. For me, this is what local heap memory is for. I would simply load the data into a singleton map. Both of these services have legitima...
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New ask Hacker News story: I would enjoy an HN chat. Is there one?

I would enjoy an HN chat. Is there one? 3 by lysace | 3 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: AI agents and the future of UI/UX design. Opinions?

Ask HN: AI agents and the future of UI/UX design. Opinions? 3 by jackmenotti | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a programmer, mostly working on UIs of any kind. Desktop, games, web, I did them all. One would call me a frontend developer although I think this title has been overloaded with negative sentiments lately(some deserved some not imo). Anyways I love making stuff render on any surface, I'm really passionate about anything UI/UX and I strongly believe doing good UI/UX in any context is very hard. Contrary to many developers I met over the years that love to hate UIs and underestimate the complexity of building a successful user experience, especially when you have to deal with multiple resolutions, performant graphics rendering, smooth animations, effects/shaders, accessibility, usability and many more. Lately I've seen the rise of many interesting discussions around AI Agents, how they could shape the future of human interactions, making UIs obsolete and disrupting...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Tips for hiring? It has been difficult

Ask HN: Tips for hiring? It has been difficult 3 by aprdm | 0 comments on Hacker News. Recently we had an opening in our organization, the amount of very well crafted CVs we received it's crazy, they are really good. Which imposes a challenge in itself, since we have to filter 100s of CVs for a role somehow. Then in the interviews, it's clear that the person doesn't know how to go deep on the topics. The conversation feels very unnatural, and very "buzzword driven". In fact I am convinced that some of them are straight out reading from some AI prompt that "prepared" them for the interview. I know hiring has always been difficult for both sides, but probably with AI's help the signal:noise ratio seems way out of the whack. What have people been doing ?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is There a MacBook Equivalent?

Ask HN: Is There a MacBook Equivalent? 3 by csomar | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am looking to renew my piece (Dell XPS) and I am thinking about an M4 Max maxed out. My budget is $4-5k. I'd rather buy a non-apple hardware but after only 3 years of use for this Dell: The charger broke and it was hard finding replacement because it is a specific model, the battery barely last for an hour now, the touch screen went crazy just after one year and is useless now, the "carbon fibre" casing ridiculously aged as if it is 10+yo, microphone still not supported although that's a minor issue. Also I don't have any proof but I think its overall performance degraded although not significantly. I've used Apple Macbooks before and they had issues but when they worked , they worked great. I'd rather buy a Linux laptop but I couldn't find anything that can match the M4 Max or come close.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: For a team experienced with LLMs – Any concrete reason to use LangGraph?

Ask HN: For a team experienced with LLMs – Any concrete reason to use LangGraph? 2 by pinter69 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Never used LangChain\LangGraph , saw the bad reviews about LangChain (albeit they are 1+ year old) - has anything changed? What can we do easier\faster with the framework rather than building our own pipeline? What unexpected things pop up, especially during maintenance, debugging and scale? Are there other frameworks you would recommend?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is AI 'context switching' exhausting?

Ask HN: Is AI 'context switching' exhausting? 4 by interstice | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've always had this distinct struggle when switching in and out of being 'in charge', the best example I can think of is the difference between a driver vs a passengers awareness of the road. Using AI for code has reminded me of this sensation, switching in and out of 'driving' feels more exhausting than being 100% one or the other. I have a theory that enforcing reduced engagement has all sorts of side effects in any format. Wondering if anyone else has run into this feeling, and if so have you tried anything successfully to address it?
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