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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do?

Ask HN: If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do? 3 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars

Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars 4 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: DigitalOcean Ending Student Credit Promotion

DigitalOcean Ending Student Credit Promotion 2 by thepotatodude | 0 comments on Hacker News. Students need compute, please consider helping the next generation.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026]

Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026] 5 by franze | 5 comments on Hacker News. They get lost in SHOWN HN too often. This thread is for them. Unfinished is ok. Just show them.

New ask Hacker News story: Meta Down

Meta Down 81 by reportinglurker | 74 comments on Hacker News. Meta is currently down, facebook, insta. The outage is not registered on https://metastatus.com/ , possibly implying a greater outage.

New ask Hacker News story: Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward?

Are jobs and the world going to be like this, moving forward? 5 by chand190 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hi, I'm an intern at one of the big tech's, and it feels like, not to be dramatic, I'm staring into an abyss. I effectively spend 8-9 hours a day using claude code to do my work. For roughly 10-15% of my daily salary worth of tokens, I am able to finish 80% of my job. This is a topic discussed quite commonly but it really feels like work is getting enshittified; it isn't cognitively engaging at all. Beyond that I feel extremely worried about ai diffusing into the world. I don't think I, or most people, can compete with a technology that can run autonomously for hours on end, that's improving at the rate it is, that has basically infinite knowledge, and has the smartest and wealthiest people investing their resources heavily into. I'm not sure what sorts of white collar jobs will have durability. With how physical AI is developing I wouldn't be surp...