Hacker News: Savage Edition

1.		"Well Actually" Thread: 500 nerds argue about mechanical scanning definitions while ignoring their families (diamondgeezer.blogspot.com)
		526 points by qassiov 11 hours ago \| 178 comments
2.		Tutorial: How to give SkyNet root access to your laptop for "productivity" (simonwillison.net)
		187 points by simonw 7 hours ago \| 165 comments
3.		45 minutes of concrete drying footage that is still more interesting than your Jira backlog (practical.engineering)
		174 points by crescit_eundo 7 hours ago \| 51 comments
4.		The RIIR (Rewrite It In Rust) Strike Force demands you apologize for using C++ (avraam.dev)
		18 points by almonerthis 1 hour ago \| 15 comments
5.		Senior Engineers cope with the realization they are now just prompt-wranglers for junior bots (alexwennerberg.com)
		89 points by alexwennerberg 4 hours ago \| 55 comments
6.		Startup founder shocked to discover 'Auto-LGTM as a Service' isn't a defensible moat (greptile.com)
		173 points by dakshgupta 9 hours ago \| 135 comments
7.		Apple invents a $29 device to help you find the keys you lost in your $4M Palo Alto shed (apple.com)
		278 points by meetpateltech 12 hours ago \| 387 comments
8.		Private Equity firm buys beloved tool, extracts value, and spits in your face (Thread #4,291) (nproject.io)
		224 points by jandeboevrie 8 hours ago \| 109 comments
9.		"Visual Basic for Gen Z" is dead; long live "Prompt Engineering for Gen Alpha" (zackliscio.com)
		151 points by zackliscio 7 hours ago \| 65 comments
10.		Paywalled WSJ article that the top comment summarizes as "It's mostly fish oil, saved you a click" (wsj.com)
		84 points by fortran77 5 hours ago \| 156 comments
11.		Obscure 1980s graphics algorithm deep dive: The only thing here that still brings you joy (visualrambling.space)
		121 points by ChrisArchitect 7 hours ago \| 17 comments
12.		Open Source community sustains itself purely on spite towards Mapbox's billing department (maplibre.org)
		406 points by todsacerdoti 16 hours ago \| 79 comments
13.		Bi-weekly reminder that Windows is malware and you are a hostage (windowscentral.com)
		161 points by 01-_- 11 hours ago \| 132 comments
14.		Measuring AI intelligence by playing a game from 1984 because real-world utility is too hard to benchmark (tetrisbench.com)
		71 points by ykhli 7 hours ago \| 32 comments
15.		Depressing guide to corporate Machiavellianism for people who thought meritocracy was real (seangoedecke.com)
		31 points by alexwennerberg 3 hours ago \| 18 comments
16.		Anthropic CEO writes 5,000-word fanfiction about himself saving humanity from the software he built (darioamodei.com)
		136 points by jasondavies 9 hours ago \| 91 comments
17.		Intellectual signaling thread: Discussing ancient architecture to avoid working on CSS bugs (uchicago.edu)
		12 points by teleforce 2 hours ago \| 1 comment
18.		France announces government-mandated UI disaster that will be abandoned in 2028 (twitter.com/lellouchenico)
		540 points by bwb 10 hours ago \| 461 comments
19.		Apple flexes long-term support to shame Android users carrying two-year-old e-waste (macrumors.com)
		30 points by angott 1 hour ago \| 9 comments
20.		Masochist spends 3 years reverse-engineering a GPU just to run `htop` on a Mac (bsky.app)
		433 points by todsacerdoti 8 hours ago \| 166 comments
21.		"I generated 100k lines of unmaintainable Rust garbage and I've never felt more productive" (vjeux.com)
		161 points by ibobev 12 hours ago \| 107 comments
22.		Chinese lab beats OpenAI; HN users torn between xenophobia and hatred of Sam Altman (qwen.ai)
		416 points by vinhnx 11 hours ago \| 376 comments
23.		Thread locked: Photos of spray paint turn into 400-comment debate on zoning laws and homelessness (walzr.com)
		147 points by walz 16 hours ago \| 175 comments
24.		Y Combinator tells Canada to drop dead; "Just move to SF" says 22-year-old VC (betakit.com)
		87 points by TheLegace 3 hours ago \| 45 comments
25.		Dev burns out on AI hype, reverts to artisanal hand-crafted code (until the next deadline) (atmoio.substack.com)
		647 points by mobitar 12 hours ago \| 498 comments
26.		Cool 3D printed project you'll bookmark, buy parts for, and leave in a drawer for 5 years (openflexure.org)
		54 points by o4c 8 hours ago \| 10 comments
27.		Show HN: My drone is now powered by probabilistic text generation, what could go wrong? (github.com/kxzk)
		144 points by beigebrucewayne 15 hours ago \| 79 comments
28.		Google Search is now an Ouroboros of AI slop citing influencer videos citing AI slop (theguardian.com)
		359 points by bookofjoe 12 hours ago \| 196 comments
29.		"Just Use Postgres" cult celebrates the death of another 50 vector database startups (rendiment.io)
		74 points by nethalo 10 hours ago \| 21 comments
30.		Pretentious math paper about a board game variant that matters to exactly 4 people (arxiv.org)
		48 points by MaysonL 9 hours ago \| 24 comments
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