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New ask Hacker News story: Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?

Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster? 4 by manimonji | 3 comments on Hacker News. I know it sounds like I'm some sort of self-taught "prompt engineer" but actually I spent some time learning to code, and a mistake I made was focusing too much on learning different frameworks and syntax etc etc. But it's impossible to consistently program and only learn syntax and no problem solving. So I learned a bit that too. But it hurt me very bad when I found out, not only AI is better than me in syntax, so it is in problem solving (however I sometimes catch their mistakes, but they're generally better than me). And they are rapidly becoming better. Recently I don't learn as much new stuff about programming and etc. For example, today I used beam search without knowing what it is and how it works, and I know it's something that I'd rarely use again and it and It's obvious that I used AI. Have you seen that meme about someon...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag?

Ask HN: Would it be useful to have a slop button in addition to flag? 2 by BugsJustFindMe | 1 comments on Hacker News. In these modern harrowing times, more and more posts are proving to be AI slop, and many people are averse to that. Do you think it would it be useful to have a way to indicate that you believe a post is slop separate from the existing flag button?
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New ask Hacker News story: Authorization via Gmail and Apple ID Banned in Russia

Authorization via Gmail and Apple ID Banned in Russia 2 by levleontiev | 0 comments on Hacker News. The Russian State Duma adopted a bill in its second and third readings that introduces administrative fines for violating user authorization rules on local internet resources. The use of foreign services is now strictly restricted. Ixbt.com reports . Under the new requirements, user registration must be carried out exclusively via a Russian phone number, the "Gosuslugi" portal, the Unified Biometric System, or other information systems owned by Russian citizens and companies. Using Gmail, Apple ID, and other foreign email services is considered a violation of the law. Fines for legal entities violating the law have been set at up to 700,000 rubles. Liability is also being introduced for violating rules on the use of recommendation algorithms on internet platforms. Companies may face fines of up to 1.4 million rubles for repeated violations. The document also strengthens pena...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?

Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro? 33 by y1n0 | 22 comments on Hacker News. Almost two years ago there was a thread on this (https://ift.tt/Oq7Xusj). I'm curious now that more time has passed what people think?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?

Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension? 2 by modzu | 0 comments on Hacker News. I submit an extension (an adblocker) to Google Chrome's web store. Google keeps rejecting it for dubious reasons. The first rejection was claim it was "spam". When I appealed, the review came back that it contained "additional functionality" because it uses "modifies network traffic". Well of course it does! When I asked the reviewer how I could achieve the stated functionality of blocking ads without the use of "declarativeNetRequest" I simply received the same canned response. I submit a totally new update that simplified the code and included comments, and references to other open source projecs that use the exact same mechanisms. Again it was rejected. On this appeal I asked if it could be escalated to a senior reviewer who could possibly reply with more context. Same canned response and rejection. I can't help but think Google has some int...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it?

Ask HN: I made an image watermarking tool. What are the issues open-sourcing it? 3 by minimaxir | 2 comments on Hacker News. A couple months ago, I found that a) visual image watermarking is trivially defeated by AI image editing so invisible image watermarks are likely the future and b) the only steganographic image watermarking tools are hard-to-use open-source tools or proprietary tools like SynthID. So as an experiment I tried using agents to create a novel image watermarking approach…and it unexpectedly worked: mostly imperceptible, tamper resistant, higher capacity, doesn't use a neural network, and real time encode/decode. I want to open-source it as there are very many legitimate uses for image watermarking. However, as of late there has been a lot of discourse about image watermarking on both sides, namely a) invisible image watermarks can be used to faciliate dystopian user tracking (https://ift.tt/6josnSb ) and b) tools to strip AI image watermarks are unethical/antis...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?

Ask HN: Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data? 4 by ed_balls | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’m trying to find reliable data on the job market for Software Development Managers/Engineering Managers. It’s easy to find broad tech hiring reports, but hard to break the data down by role, company type, location, or tech stack. Anecdotally, it looks worse than the market for SDEs. Many companies are flattening management structures. Managers are taking on more teams and more direct reports. Coinbase is the extreme example. Does anyone know of good datasets, job-board analyses, or reports that track this? I wonder if I should go back to IC or maybe I should become Software Agent Manager ;)
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