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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How would you know if you have learned something?

Ask HN: How would you know if you have learned something? 2 by rearview | 0 comments on Hacker News. I have been thinking about this while working on building my own AI-based tutoring platform Socratix. AI made learning really easy, and that was the problem that made me worried. You can get an explanation anytime, nod, feel that you have understood it all, and in two days time fail to reconstruct it. On top of that there are hallucinations, inconsistencies, and information overload. I got really tired of all this. Thus, I decided to build my MVP based on one constraint only: nothing is "done" until it is defended. It is going to be a dependency-based curriculum, AI-validated lessons, sandboxed coding challenges, and at some point a short oral defense to get to the next topic. It is early and I might change the name. But I am sure that I am doing some things wrong that I would not do otherwise. What bothers me the most is the oral defense. Is it a good indicator of your und...

New ask Hacker News story: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?

Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers? 3 by shriy-singh | 2 comments on Hacker News. Which are the most memorable abstracts you have read? I know I am a jackass who usually vibecodes my way through assignments but even I don't want to write a cookie-cutter intro for my paper. I wanna write something that stays with the reader. What paper has stuck with you, what made it memorable?

New ask Hacker News story: Making my vibe-coded app best as possible (I am perfectionist), umm for 0 users

Making my vibe-coded app best as possible (I am perfectionist), umm for 0 users 2 by arpanghoshal | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill?

Ask HN: Can you suggest an interesting skill? 3 by skwasimin | 6 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?

Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp? 5 by Hex08 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I used to be a software engineer, but these days I find myself being more of an agents manager: constantly switching between 3-4 tasks that my agents are working on, and making sure that the features get shipped, the bugs fixed, with correct and clean code. There's no doubt that I'm producing more value for the company, but I wonder if that's the best I can do for myself if the goal is staying relevant in the coming years. I wonder: if the AI is writing all the code, what value am I bringing? In an attempt to keep my critical thinking and coding skills sharp, I sometimes foolishly try to debug errors or implement a feature myself. But it feels like wasting time when an agent can do it in a fraction of time. What is gonna be sought after in the coming years: someone that persevered with manual coding and debugging but is slow and uncomfortable around agents, or som...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?

Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately? 4 by mattm | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've noticed a lot more dead comments lately in cases where the person is writing reasonable comments. You'll need showdead turned on in your settings to see the examples. Take this thread as an example https://ift.tt/AP1dSKX The OP has a new account but all his replies are within the guidelines. Here's another account with a dead comment in that thread. Most of their comments, while brief, seem perfectly reasonable. The account is 2 years old but most comments are dead https://ift.tt/MT2rYgp In this thread (https://ift.tt/RLdnu9x) all of this user's (https://ift.tt/5TMH0P8) comments were marked as dead. The user has an established account and all comments seemed within guidelines. Has anyone else noticed this more recently? Is it perhaps a result of trying to identify AI-bot accounts?