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New ask Hacker News story: We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit

We were building infra for OpenClaw, and today I just tried Hermes and holy shit 3 by Stanlyya | 1 comments on Hacker News. So, as some of you guys might have done, we started a hosting for Openclaw type of a business, and holy, this thing grew to 300k ARR and even got a YC interview. Last week was a bit hectic. We got a no from YC, and I was just thinking reflecting on the feedback we got. We were playing with this whole company brain thing as well. We are doing two pilots for that too. It's a Saturday. I just installed Hermes agent because Open Router Hermes agent was overtaking Openclaw, and holy shit, Hermes agent is so underrated, so so much underrated. Now I am rethinking my company.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe?

Ask HN: How to increase depth instead of breadth as 10 yoe as swe? 4 by Cheesebh | 2 comments on Hacker News. About my experience(10 yoe): - Tech stack: C, C++, python, OpenCL, GPU and DSP programming. Along with that some performance engineering and docker topics. Problem: - not feeling confident enough in my skillset. I feel that I have breadth of topics but deep expertise is missing. - I am with the same company(automotive supplier) for 8 years but switched teams after 4 years. Topics are random based on the customer project as there is no real sw product. I believe this hinders in becoming expert. - Finding new job is becoming harder day-by-day. Looking for advice/recommendations: - How can I turn the situation? - Has anyone here has faced similar situation and come out of it? What did you do?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How concerned are you about a debt crisis?

Ask HN: How concerned are you about a debt crisis? 6 by bhag2066 | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM?

Ask HN: What to learn and do, that makes me least affected by AI in STEM? 5 by s3arch | 1 comments on Hacker News. I could be wrong with what I say here. It's just the situation made me feel so. Looks like AI learnt almost everything there is in the internet and textbooks today. I lost hope of learning anything new out there to make a reasonable difference and impact. Choose any topic AI knows. Its interpretation is far better than what I can come up with by myself. I feel robbed of my intellectual freedom to express and be accepted by others as others depend on AI for everything. I recently started studying physics fundamentals to find solace. These fundamentals cannot be found through AI. No LLM can precisely measure and compare, but instead only predict. But this is mostly an intellectual exercise. I can't do a living from it. I am a software engineer with average skills. I get paid reasonably okay as it helps me survive. Nothing more than that. But AI can make my world ...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services

Tell HN: The Threat to US Citizen's ID / Voting Is Private Services 2 by m3047 | 4 comments on Hacker News. THE REAL RISK AROUND VOTER ID NOW COMES FROM PRIVATE ENTERPRISE This post has been condensed due to character limitations on HN posts. [...] What's happening is that private entities are curating the databases and operating automated adjudication services which the government contracts to utilize. "But it's little things, administrative things." Yeah maybe, but look where they are in the kill chain. During approximately the week surrounding 15-May-2026 I was denied the "privilege" of scheduling an appointment at the United States Post Office by one of these "administrative things" and there is no particular reason to think that the government runs this service themselves, relying entirely on compute and data which they control. So THIS is how the woodpecker destroys civilization; or at least our representative democracy. There is no ap...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers

Tell HN: I'm tired of AI-generated answers 46 by theorchid | 20 comments on Hacker News. I found GitHub repositories that were spreading malware. I asked AI what I should do about it, but it gave me nothing useful. So I opened a discussion on GitHub. Someone replied. It was literally the exact same text the AI had given me. I called it out and the comment was deleted. Then another person replied. Same exact AI response again. I worked as a developer in a company. I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with the question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot. He didn't even read the AI's answer. He just screenshots and forwards it. Recently someone sent me a DM on Reddit about my post. I replied. He wrote again, I replied again. After a few messages I realized I was talking to an AI agent. I'm tired of talking to AI. ...

New ask Hacker News story: Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring

Debatable but likely not insane: there MAY be an issue with SpaceX' hiring 2 by adinhitlore | 0 comments on Hacker News. OK, this is just social science but note this: Musk posted today for people to give 3 proofs of exceptional ability if they want to join the most expensive and "most innovative" company ever - Spacex. But how can you innovate when you follow the rules? what if you send 1, 2 or 4 reasons? and why would anyone work for someone with very questionable and controversial views? It doesn't seem possible for Spacex to revolutionize the world, change it: sure they do...for 20+ years but they fail to revolutionize for 20+ years. And the reasons are obvious.