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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team

Tell HN: An update from the new Tindie team 20 by altairprime | 5 comments on Hacker News. Received by email tonight about two hours ago: Dear Tindie Community, My name is Gongyu Su, and I am writing on behalf of the new Tindie ownership team. First, we sincerely apologize for the recent downtime and the disruption it caused. We understand that many buyers and community members were left without clear information during the transition, and that this created frustration and concern. Tindie is now owned by EETree LLC, a Washington State company. Our team took over Tindie because we believe it remains an important platform for makers, hardware creators, engineers, and independent sellers around the world. The recent transition was more complex than expected. Tindie runs on an older technical framework with many connected services, and the migration from the previous operating environment to the new one took longer and caused more disruption than anyone wanted. We know this was not the ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why does tech industry not have more co-ops?

Ask HN: Why does tech industry not have more co-ops? 2 by conqrr | 3 comments on Hacker News. Sounds like this should be the default path if AI is really enabling everyone and setting an even field. Why is it just winner (CEO and co) takes all and losers go home?
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New ask Hacker News story: Why don't AI coding tools like REST?

Why don't AI coding tools like REST? 3 by sshadmand | 0 comments on Hacker News. Is it just me, or do AI coding tools tend to generate RPC-style endpoints and POST methods (even when GET is clearly all that is needed) instead of following RESTful conventions? Given how advanced these models are, I'm wondering if this is intentional. Is AI saying it has determined that strict REST isn’t a practical standard all around? Or is it just a byproduct of token efficiency or....? I know I can steer the output with better prompting, but I'm curious whether there's a real underlying reason for this almost all-the-time output.
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