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New ask Hacker News story: Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price

Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price 7 by talkingtab | 4 comments on Hacker News. I just went to Amazon and searched for "espresso tamper". Of the 15 top results only ONE had a price. Fourteen (14) say "See options" then "put in cart to see price" My first thought is that it was insane. My second thought was that they must be going broke to make this kind of change. Maybe there is some other reason, but I'm wondering if I need to find an alternative. Oh and in order to comment on this post you need to put it in your cart first! :-)
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New ask Hacker News story: HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix

HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix 2 by charlieflowers | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just an observation, a light bulb moment, I wanted to share. Most of the dev teams I've ever encountered who said they were "doing REST" were not actually following HATEOAS. Per a strict reading of Roy Fielding, he would consider that "not really REST." (Now don't get distracted, I don't want to wade into that whole purist debate). The reason many did not do HATEOAS is that it requires the API client to be smart and adaptive. It would discover "ok, what can i do next", apply logic to it, and choose the next step. But many shops were on tight time commitments and it was much simpler to just think of REST as "json over http with consistent url patterns." The cool thing is: With an LLM in the mix, HATEOAS is unchained. An LLM can do exactly what a "dumb" api client cannot: ask "what can i do next", and then use _inference_ to unde...
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New ask Hacker News story: Stathat Is Shutting Down

Stathat Is Shutting Down 5 by jervant | 0 comments on Hacker News. I received this email (nothing on their website though): Hi XX, We have some difficult news to share: StatHat will be shutting down in 30 days on April 4, 2026. Until then, you can export all of your data. Instructions are at https://ift.tt/jwNIUKq Key dates: • Data export available now through: April 3, 2026 • Service shuts down: April 4, 2026 If you have any questions, please contact us at contact@stathat.com. Thank you for using StatHat for all these years. - StatHat
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you find contracting/freelance roles without recruiters nowadays?

Ask HN: How do you find contracting/freelance roles without recruiters nowadays? 3 by Gooblebrai | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026?

Ask HN: What's your experience self-hosting in 2026? 15 by rustcore | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is it worth it vs SaaS? What are you self-hosting and what did you give up on?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently?

Ask HN: Best use / examples of agents / OpenClaw that you saw recently? 3 by simonebrunozzi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Please share - video, blog post, tweet, etc. Thanks.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues

Tell HN: GitHub Having Issues 25 by Sytten | 14 comments on Hacker News. Another day, another Github outage. Files are not loading, cannot create repos, etc.
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