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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...

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?

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...

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.

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...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money?

Ask HN: Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money? 4 by randyrand | 5 comments on Hacker News. I love HN and I don’t want to see it die. But bot accounts are growing everyday. Something more radical needs to be done.