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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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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Site Is Trash Now

Tell HN: Site Is Trash Now 7 by AndyKelley | 2 comments on Hacker News. Dear dang and other moderators who I don't know the names of: I've been a long time reader of this website. I've seen a lot of people claim over the years "don't read the comments" or say stuff like "orange site bad" or other dismissals of this website being not worth one's time. But it was clear to me that even if it challenged one's viewpoints there was still plenty of value to be had. In fact precisely because something challenges one's viewpoints makes it valuable. However, this website has now joined the garbage heap of the Internet due to slop submissions and slop comments. This submission is my goodbye note. After decades of participation, in order to protect myself from brain rot, I've excised the habit of using HN from my life. I don't even think correcting misinformation about things that I have specific expertise about is worth my time. When the ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare

Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare 9 by rincebrain | 1 comments on Hacker News. I thought I'd relate an incredibly broken tech stack story, and its human consequences, to HN today. I used to have One Medical access through work, years ago, it was perfectly fine quality care, and then I stopped using it. I recently needed to find a replacement primary care and decided to try them again. Unfortunately, after a few weeks of initial care transfer and appointments, my account is now in a Sisyphean nightmare state, where it thinks I have an expired membership expiring in the future (September 2026), and as a result, errors out on any attempt to update my membership status. Attempting to contact their support has been an exercise in repeatedly being hung up on when attempting to put me on hold to escalate, and/or having their staff decide that if they repeat the instructions enough times it'll work. You cannot make a second account, because they notice the duplicated personal data...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Will hardware ever be cheap again?

Ask HN: Will hardware ever be cheap again? 5 by bjourne | 1 comments on Hacker News. Up until about 2015 it felt like hardware was always getting cheaper. Then something happened and hardware stopped getting cheaper every year. Adjusted for inflation a mid-range laptop or desktop costs me much more today than it did back then. Yes, it has better specs but it needs it to make up for the extra bloat of all applications. Given DRAM, CPU, GPU, and SSD shortages it does not seem hardware will become cheaper in the short term. Do you think it will ever go back to how it was ten years ago or is this the new normal?
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New ask Hacker News story: Claude Code Opus-4-7 VS Codex GPT-5-5

Claude Code Opus-4-7 VS Codex GPT-5-5 2 by rashidae | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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