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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?
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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.
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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...
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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?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?

Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days? 7 by moomoo11 | 2 comments on Hacker News. I would love to really understand if I will ever change my outlook now. Until 2019/2020 I was super into tech, gadgets, and keeping up with trends. At some point in the last 5-6 years, I have pretty much adopted an opt-out view on tech. I just don't care anymore, and I don't think it is because I got older... I got into tech in my mid/late 20s so I wasn't a born nerd like most of you guys tinkering with stuff since childhood. The rate as products/services enshittify has intensified, and most products/services I use have so many issues that require workarounds, hacks, or just dealing with terrible UX. I used to spend 10s of thousands of dollars on tech back then, like the latest stuff both software and hardware. These days, I just use whatever free smartphone I get from Verizon for 2-3 years. When I look at old photos I can't really tell the difference b...
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New ask Hacker News story: SYNQ – Give ChatGPT and Claude permanent, local memory

SYNQ – Give ChatGPT and Claude permanent, local memory 2 by Tamatarr | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Hosted Fossil for small teams – interesting, or wrong call?

Ask HN: Hosted Fossil for small teams – interesting, or wrong call? 5 by ragelink | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been working on a hosted Fossil SCM service for a few months and I genuinely don't know if it's a good idea. The "We need a federation of forges" thread on the front page today made me think it's worth posting. What I'm building: a hosted home for Fossil repos. Same onramp feel as a code host, but each project is a single self-contained SQLite file you can clone, email, or walk away with. The open source omnibus (Django + Postgres + Redis + Caddy + Litestream-to-S3) is at fossilrepo.io. The hosted version will be in private beta soon. My rough thesis: 1. Fossil is already federated by design. Every clone is the entire project: issues, wiki, forum, history, code. That's the federation discussion happening on the front page right now, just with a 15+ year-old tool the SQLite project itself uses. If fossil clone works between any two host...
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