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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM?

Ask HN: Anyone writing code from scratch or mostly doing architecting and LLM? 2 by mattfrommars | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm assuming most firms have access to LLM, is it true? If so, is anyone really writing code from scratch lately or relying on the tool to write code for them? At work, I have access to Github Copilot but it has a lot of guardrail. It is great to debug issues. Minor fixes and enhancement, it is useful. I mostly double check what it wrote and make sure it's code that I can read and understand. If it uses too many shortcut, I tell it to become more 'human readable'. Now, I've been wanting to learn Python coming from Java and picked up Automate Boring Thing with Python Book. I'm looking at one its exercise which is to walk a tree directory. I can either memorize how its done in Python or just rely on LLM to write it. Am I wasting time doing these exercises when they can easily be done with LLM within one or two shots? Because doing these ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does anything beat Hetzner storage boxes for the price?

Ask HN: Does anything beat Hetzner storage boxes for the price? 3 by opengrass | 0 comments on Hacker News. The lowest end BX11 has 1TB storage, traffic use is free of cost, for €3.80 a month with VAT or $4.40. Object storage is a tad more and egress is billed, but I think you can always set something up like Garage for your own S3 buckets on any cloud if you need that.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Selling one's self

Ask HN: Selling one's self 2 by it_is_beautiful | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm having a hard time. I lack the skills to sell myself. I have a hard time communicating, even this post. It feels like I'm looking through 100x zoom, I can't find a clarity of message. I used to sit to write résumés for hours and hours, to come up with nothing of value. Lack of schooling and lack of real-world experience contributed. I didn't get interviews, and when I did, they weren't impressed. Mia culpa. --- While others worked publicly and sent out hundreds of résumés, I worked privately and sent nothing for years. Years! Now I'm trying to be practical and freelance, which I've tried twice before. There are a lot of jobs that I have the skills for easily, but when I try to write my profile, or my past projects, I spin out endlessly. --- Concretely, although I don't have any major projects shipped, I do have a lot of previous software with relevant problems I solve...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What fiction books would you recommend for programmers?

Ask HN: What fiction books would you recommend for programmers? 4 by superconduct123 | 6 comments on Hacker News. What are some fiction books that you think programmers especially would enjoy? Doesn't have to be but I'm interested as well if there are any that are written by programmers or engineers
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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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