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New ask Hacker News story: My Rebuttal to the Anthropic Extinction Event Hype Train

My Rebuttal to the Anthropic Extinction Event Hype Train 2 by hmichaelson24 | 0 comments on Hacker News. "Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." You may have seen a post like this yesterday from an Anthropic researcher named Jacob Coxon who quit the company in protest over fears that AI may be an extinction level event. These are a few of the quotes I saw surrounding it, and I want to share my own takes on them: 1. "The more senior the people, the more scared they are" This says more about Silicon Valley culture and incentives than anything else. The mythology around AI has taken on a life of its own in the Valley, and the financial and regulatory incentives support it growing. 2. "We really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade." Any evidence? Any sort of even implied math behind the 10%? I haven...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's your AI coding set up?

Ask HN: What's your AI coding set up? 4 by asxndu | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?

Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI? 2 by simonsarris | 4 comments on Hacker News. Where have costs been greatly reduced, or performance increased, etc?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why did my search engine post get removed?

Ask HN: Why did my search engine post get removed? 2 by mrmcsoftware | 0 comments on Hacker News. I clearly haven't been flooding hacker news with a lot of self-promotion, so why was it removed?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026?

Ask HN: Is ageism in tech still a problem in 2026? 2 by leonagano | 0 comments on Hacker News. 7 years ago, I launched a job board trying to fight ageism in tech (https://ift.tt/NS3EQVe) This seems to be a current problem but what's the solution?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?

Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development? 3 by locusofself | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am specifically interested in hearing from anyone who is working on actual production services, legacy services, etc. I have done quite a bit of LLM-assisted coding but starting to work towards (and educate others in my org) about more structured approaches to this, to be able to deliver more complicated features with stronger guardrails than prompt-based coding. Spec-Driven/Anchored development is an emerging practice but I'm not clear on how battle-tested it is. What is your experience with it?
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New ask Hacker News story: The universal programming language of LLMs

The universal programming language of LLMs 3 by senorqa | 2 comments on Hacker News. How do you imagine the universal programming language of future LLMs will look? I mean a language built by LLMs for LLMs, not for humans to read or modify. A language that can be used to build any kind of application: backend, mobile, desktop, web, embedded, etc.
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