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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp?

Ask HN: Do you offload your coding to AI, or keep your skills sharp? 5 by Hex08 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I used to be a software engineer, but these days I find myself being more of an agents manager: constantly switching between 3-4 tasks that my agents are working on, and making sure that the features get shipped, the bugs fixed, with correct and clean code. There's no doubt that I'm producing more value for the company, but I wonder if that's the best I can do for myself if the goal is staying relevant in the coming years. I wonder: if the AI is writing all the code, what value am I bringing? In an attempt to keep my critical thinking and coding skills sharp, I sometimes foolishly try to debug errors or implement a feature myself. But it feels like wasting time when an agent can do it in a fraction of time. What is gonna be sought after in the coming years: someone that persevered with manual coding and debugging but is slow and uncomfortable around agents, or som...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately?

Ask HN: Why so many dead comments lately? 4 by mattm | 2 comments on Hacker News. I've noticed a lot more dead comments lately in cases where the person is writing reasonable comments. You'll need showdead turned on in your settings to see the examples. Take this thread as an example https://ift.tt/AP1dSKX The OP has a new account but all his replies are within the guidelines. Here's another account with a dead comment in that thread. Most of their comments, while brief, seem perfectly reasonable. The account is 2 years old but most comments are dead https://ift.tt/MT2rYgp In this thread (https://ift.tt/RLdnu9x) all of this user's (https://ift.tt/5TMH0P8) comments were marked as dead. The user has an established account and all comments seemed within guidelines. Has anyone else noticed this more recently? Is it perhaps a result of trying to identify AI-bot accounts?
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD

Tell HN: Firefox's default browser check dark pattern triggers Windows BSOD 4 by xeonmc | 1 comments on Hacker News. Been pulling my hair out debugging a relative’s persistent BSOD (once every ~6hrs) after nudging them to take the first degoogling step by switching browsers. I could not believe at first that a user space program, especially a Windows Store sandboxed one, could affect anything in the kernel, but analyzing every single coredump shows the exact same trigger: Firefox attempted to rename the UrlAssocistions/http registry key in the UWP sandbox’s virtualized registry hive, triggering an access violation in the Registry system service and crashing ntoskrnl. It turns out that there is a secretly enabled config “browser.shell.setDefaultBrowserUserChoice.regRename” that causes Firefox to attempt this renaming periodically despite the user already having unchecked the “check if default on startup” option. A quick search reveals that it was a vestigial A/B testing feature...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it?

Ask HN: When is fine-tuning a small LLM worth it? 3 by kooldeep7 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'd be interested in hearing about your experiences. What kind of task did you use it for, what model did you train, and what were the results? Feel free to share examples of what you've tried.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Ideas for getting more GitHub stars?

Ask HN: Ideas for getting more GitHub stars? 3 by NatalieTrono | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode

Tell HN: Substack obfuscating text to break reading mode 4 by xnx | 0 comments on Hacker News. I enabled Chrome reading mode for an article (https://ift.tt/IN9Fsej fwiw) on Substack and was confronted with an unspaced mess of text. Inspecting the original page revealed source like : Will crypto crash the
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New ask Hacker News story: How people are testing AI agents?

How people are testing AI agents? 3 by sanathbhat | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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