15:[[46572329,{"by":"amadeuswoo","descendants":69,"id":46572329,"kids":[46577238,46665427,46572414,46665803,46665685,46576489,46665494,46575404,46665720,46666917,46666044,46577589,46666016,46665635,46575086,46668510,46666448,46666915,46665782,46572410,46667979,46665630,46666187,46669976,46573428,46572978,46666818,46666054,46665511,46703744,46666172,46666107,46670496,46667922,46572690,46669268,46665991,46666334,46670551,46670733,46669286,46669171,46670023,46666092,46667940,46666210,46671872,46665868,46668578,46666707,46667882,46672111],"score":55,"text":"Recently built something where simple domain-specific heuristics crushed a fancy ML approach I assumed would win. This has me thinking about how often we reach for complex tools when simpler ones would work better. Occam's razor moments.

Anyone have similar stories? Curious about cases where knowing your domain beat throwing compute at the problem.","time":1768100559,"title":"Ask HN: When has a \"dumb\" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?","type":"story"}],[46505336,{"by":"buu700","descendants":1,"id":46505336,"kids":[46506689],"score":4,"time":1767649011,"title":"Ongoing Viral SendGrid Phishing Attack","type":"story","url":"https://supremecommander.ai/posts/sendgrid-viral-phishing/"}],[44594200,{"by":"Rick76","descendants":5,"id":44594200,"kids":[44605717,44633813,44613098,44595190,44644230],"score":10,"text":"I'm a full-stack developer, .NET and React are my specialty. I've gotten really interested in lower level projects currently, especially the Linux development and embedded design.

I have multiple smaller Pico projects under my belt, but I understand that does not correlate 100% with the embedded field. Personally, from my perspective, it would feel like the equivalent to someone building a static HTML site and applying for a full-stack position, but I don't know how to fix that.

The Web Dev field and Embedded field feel extremely different, so I have the fear that with the current job market, even if I commit fully to ensuring my personal portfolio shows a lot of embedded programming, that I won't be trusted for professional projects.","time":1752764802,"title":"Ask HN: Changing Developer Career Specialty","type":"story"}],[43732830,{"by":"kassidycurrey","descendants":12,"id":43732830,"kids":[43734707,43760046,43738308,43769305,43733071,43733938,43732898,43737482,43747999,43734284,43732949,43732858],"score":6,"text":"I’m working on a product where the value proposition depends on users adopting a new behavior.

We know behavior doesn't shift just because something “could” be better. People stick to familiar tools unless there’s a clear incentive, a low-friction experience, or strong social proof. So we’re trying to be intentional about how we guide that change.

For those who’ve built products that asked users to do something new or uncomfortable:

What actually moved the needle for adoption?

Was it user education, incentives, or community-led momentum? Did you start with a small niche and expand?

Any frameworks or even personal mistakes you learned from? Would love to hear your stories, lessons, or anything you'd like to share. Thanks!","time":1745019127,"title":"Ask HN: How do you drive adoption when your product requires a behavior shift?","type":"story"}],[43536780,{"by":"revembed","descendants":3,"id":43536780,"kids":[43632908,43536919],"score":2,"text":"Um trust me its annoying but fun. It works pretty well, thats what redditors said (they dont lie at all)","time":1743438127,"title":"Show HN: I Made a Quiz to Roast Developers (Its Accurate ASF)","type":"story","url":"https://devsmint.com/quizzes/dev-personality"}],[42884819,{"by":"computinglife","descendants":5,"id":42884819,"kids":[42884857,42884855],"score":2,"text":"So, i have been in a hole for a while, slaving away on a ok paying enterprise solution, while my kid grew and now I want to begin catching up with a sabbatical. I wanted to ask HN about new approaches and stacks i might have missed & would like to look into them / dabble with it, with the intention of dusting up myself with a sabbatical & some exciting project in next 8-10 months & then finally work with some startups along those same lines.

I consider myself a backend engineer (used to be C++, now Java). I mainly enjoy knowing about the underlying system aspects, improving performance & the likes of it.

I havent worked on any hyperscale cloud projects at all either (I know !!)

What are the areas, which have proven themselves well in the past 15 years, which you think i must catch up on ? eg functional / async-io / serverless ? reactive ? wasm / nodejs / go & rust ? Kubernetes ? AI / ML ?

Thanks in advance","time":1738299521,"title":"What major changes have happened in back end software engineering","type":"story"}],[42854645,{"by":"philippta","descendants":1,"id":42854645,"kids":[42854688,42854680],"score":2,"time":1738083449,"title":"Ask HN: Did anyone figure out copyright laws of LLM output?","type":"story"}],[42716437,{"by":"amichail","descendants":10,"id":42716437,"kids":[42717231,42716768,42719513,42716526,42716552],"score":3,"text":"One might expect this, especially for those trying to identify candidates with high inherited intelligence, in an age of AI where such intelligence might be less important.","time":1736972790,"title":"Ask HN: Do technical interviewers feel guilty about their hard questions?","type":"story"}],[42461642,{"by":"oveja","descendants":5,"id":42461642,"kids":[42461960,42461911,42464727,42461670,42461694],"score":5,"text":"I am curious as to which philosophy you use when designing a REST API that returns JSON.

If, for example, no record is found do you return a 404 status code or a 200 with an error message?

I'm partial to using HTTP status codes and was wondering what the HN consensus was.","time":1734618263,"title":"Ask HN: How do you use HTTP status codes in REST APIs?","type":"story"}],[42268158,{"by":"gtirloni","descendants":2,"id":42268158,"kids":[42268508,42268223,42268348,42268198],"score":4,"time":1732823904,"title":"Ask HN: How do you conduct technical interviews in the LLM era?","type":"story"}],[35778812,{"by":"encodedrose","descendants":16,"id":35778812,"kids":[35784901,35778829,35844635,35783806,35797752,35779038,35779945,35780737,35786563,35779549,35779193,35787341,35784239,35780637],"score":6,"text":"Look at my bash history over the past week:

- Postgres

- Clickhouse

- SQLite","time":1682973485,"title":"Ask HN: What databases are you working with day to day?","type":"story"}]]

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created:	July 30, 2018
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