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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Will AI force CS to focus on what to build instead of how to build it?

Ask HN: Will AI force CS to focus on what to build instead of how to build it? 2 by amichail | 0 comments on Hacker News. As AI becomes really good at the implementation part, it seems that what's left for humans to focus on is what to build. Do you think this will be the case and CS will change accordingly in its focus?

New ask Hacker News story: Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users?

Should I go open-source or give free trial and then charge the users? 2 by akarshhegde18 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Built a product that runs on your machine, understands your work and takes care of your Jira task updates for you. No data leaves your machine

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?

Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content? 4 by seattle_spring | 5 comments on Hacker News. My LinkedIn feed is absolutely unreal right now. 90% (I don't even think I'm exaggerating) of the posts in my feed are from connections who have changed their title to something like "AI Thought Leader | AI Native | Thought Coaching". They post *daily* about something LLM/agentic. The biggest problem is that it's never "hey check out this cool thing", it's "if you're not doing this, you're a dinosaur who will be left in the past." Other common content is regurgitating blog / Twitter folks from "AI influencers", associated with statements like, "Boris McAI said software engineering is dead. Here's 5 reasons why he's right." I felt this way a bit when cryptocurrency was at its height, but it never got this embarrassing or self-fellating. How do so many of my connections (...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy

Tell HN: I'm not excited for Fable and am disappointed in Karpathy 4 by behnamoh | 2 comments on Hacker News. * High level reasons: It increases the gap between the rich and the poor. You think indie devs and individuals have the resources to pay per token? The direction Anthropic is taking is one that leads to more inequality, only this time it's intelligence inequality between small and large corps. Anthropic also intentionally crippled the model when it comes to doing AI research. And then Karpathy (an AI researcher who defected to Anthropic) has the audacity to praise the model? These decisions were already made by Anthropic (a company that actively wants AI regulation and banning of open source models) BEFORE the USG request to take down the model, so they can't blame the politics for this. * Earthly reasons: We were originally going to get 100% usage from June 9th to June 23rd (15 days) Instead we got 100% usage for 3 days and 50% usage for 7. And it's nerfed o...

New ask Hacker News story: 0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready

0/6 major aerospace documentation portals are AI Agent-ready 2 by priyanshu-j | 0 comments on Hacker News. I spent some time building AeroScore, a scoring engine that evaluates how well major documentation portals support AI agents. In short, none of the 6 that I evaluated in this first batch are sufficiently prepared. The methodology and criteria are based on the AFDocs Spec (an open-source checklist for agent-ready documentation) and one specific extension for PDF-heaviness since aerospace as a field places so much importance on PDFs. Each site gets scored 0-100 across criteria like llms.txt presence, robots.txt, and many others that can be found both on the AFDocs repo and at the aeroscore webpage. Key Findings: -0/6 have an llms.txt -0/6 support url variants -the best score was ICAO with a 69/100 The fact that major aerospace documentation portals are not AI agent ready yet is important because it means the field is not being fully efficient. AI agents allow the analysis of data...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN

Ask HN: Has anyone had success finding freelance gigs from HN 2 by mr_o47 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account

Email from Reddit for age verification on a deleted account 6 by SurprisedTiger | 0 comments on Hacker News. I just had a peculiar experience with Reddit. I had an account. I downloaded my data, used a bot to replace all posts with random sentences (Reddit won't let you delete, but you can edit, so this is what you do), then deleted the account. This was a good two or three years ago. Today I received an email from Reddit telling me my account may be under-age and they will require age verification. I went to account recovery, entered the username, received an email to reset the password and lo and behold, I was back in my account. The account was marked as "permanently banned". I then deleted the account again, with all the procedural and textual paraphernalia of permanent account deletion. Reddit when they say "delete" they would seem to be misleading users, and changing only the account status.