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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Help find old article on learnings of a Software Engineer

Ask HN: Help find old article on learnings of a Software Engineer 2 by rhardih | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've been scouring the web for and old article that was posted on HN awhile back. My problem is I don't remember the title exactly. It was something to the effect of "What I've learned in 25 years as a software engineer", but the number could be different and it could also just be engineer. One thing I remember distinctly, is that it had a section about the importance of "how groups makes decisions" - but that is about as far as my memory of the contents goes. It looked like it was on someone's personal website, minimal styling and such. No major blogging platform. If this rings a bell for anyone, your help is much appreciated.

New ask Hacker News story: If the AI bubble does pop, what happens next?

If the AI bubble does pop, what happens next? 2 by peoplenotbots | 5 comments on Hacker News. If the ai bubble does pop, what happens next? My cofounder and I are working on a way to add ads into genai products but we didnt plan on a complete bubble pop so we're trying to figure out if it'll harm us. https://ift.tt/cu2EXvn A discussion?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's Hacker News's vision for the future?

Ask HN: What's Hacker News's vision for the future? 5 by gooob | 4 comments on Hacker News. It's the weekend. Let's do some brainstorming. What's forefront on your mind with regards to the human predicament, and how we move forward? We all see that it seems pretty much everyone has gone insane, or at least that's what the narrative portrays. Why are companies, governments, and other organizations doing such stupid things? So we've made machines that can appear to "think", by articulating linguistic constructs that make sense. In fact, there appears to be actual semantic and logical structure embedded within the neural networks of LLMs. Ok, let's keep our heads on straight, keep in mind the mathematics involved, chill out, and just think about what it is that we actually want (and what "we" are, for that matter). Are we going to someday transcend language? I'm aware that I'm typing this message out to you, using language, wi...

New ask Hacker News story: Building simple tool: upload your CV → get instant no-BS feedback

Building simple tool: upload your CV → get instant no-BS feedback 3 by sultanmustafin | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello everyone! Don't want to look like I'm trying to make money here, just want to show the world what I've been working for some time here, think this can be usefull for people here. https://cvnextlevel.com It's hard sometimes to see the flaws in CV that you wrote out yourself, so i decided to share my understanding of what a good CV is. I'm a fullstack developer, I've done dozens of interviews and reached out to hundreds of recruiters looking for a job. It’s a simple tool: upload your CV → get instant, no-BS feedback You can try it free (preview feedback). Would love your feedback (pun intended).

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025?

Ask HN: Is Kubernetes still a big no-no for early stages in 2025? 10 by herval | 15 comments on Hacker News. It's a commonly-repeated comment that early stage startups should avoid K8s at all cost. As someone who had to manage it on a baremetal infrastructure in the past, I get where that comes from - Kubernetes has been historically hard to setup, you'd need to spend a lot of time learning the concepts and how to write the YAML configs, etc. However, hosted K8s options have improved significantly in recent years (all cloud providers have Kubernetes options that are pretty much self-managed), and I feel like with LLMs, it's become extremely easy to read & write deployment configs. What's your thoughts about adopting K8s as infrastructure early on (say, when you have initial customer fit and a team of 5+ engineers) and standardizing around it? How early is too early? What pitfalls do you think still exist today?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is context-switching the real productivity killer?

Ask HN: Is context-switching the real productivity killer? 2 by kristel100 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I keep seeing debates about overwork and burnout, but in my team it’s the constant switching between projects/tools that drains everyone. We started limiting streams + using monday dev to cut down tool-hopping, and energy levels jumped. Has anyone else found a structure that cuts down the mental burden?