16:[[48101373,{"by":"holden_nelson","descendants":32,"id":48101373,"kids":[48101931,48140755,48103570,48103227,48111313,48103960,48103016,48101586,48118852,48103593,48110408],"score":12,"text":"Hey all, just wondering how you're preparing for interviews in 2026? I'm assuming system design plays a larger role and the bar is probably higher across all levels. Do I still need to grind leetcode?","time":1778537554,"title":"Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?","type":"story"}],[47884294,{"by":"lyfeninja","descendants":24,"id":47884294,"kids":[47884378,47884867,47884324,47894083,47884500,47884353,47900230,47903588,47893877,47897710,47904227,47889371,47884302,47894442,47897702,47884331],"score":29,"text":"I just passed on a job for a quality company in the Bay area because they wouldn't budge on remote work. I already work remote and have since the pandemic and it works for me and my employer. I do travel occasionally, but whenever I do I always think "wow, I'd get so much more done right now at home."

I've always been skeptical of the entire RTO storyline. I literally work on a computer all day with an Internet connection and can complete every aspect of my job remotely, no if, ands, or buts, about it. Also, at this point many are tracking our mouse movements and key strokes, and the work gets done, so they know we're working too

I'm used to the short sided mindset at this point, but the situation just got me thinking about it again.

Meanwhile, companies are throwing everything at AI (which works remotely), laying off employees to do so, and then having obsurd in office policies and skimping on benefits. Just makes you wonder why they distrust people so much.","time":1776992709,"title":"Ask HN: Why are companies so distrustful of remote employees?","type":"story"}],[47602040,{"by":"crcsmnky","descendants":43,"id":47602040,"kids":[47606484,47757291,47604363,47615038,47606273,47602493,47605600,47623383,47606159,47606742,47624543,47606173,47665730,47626163,47624664,47610971,47611329,47602613,47613107,47612397,47610329,47607986,47602867,47602359,47602319,47608199,47608767,47612859,47612862,47611121,47605716,47609509,47605165,47611408,47659977,47613991,47624267,47663735,47606360,47638956,47611410],"score":49,"text":"Curious to find those hidden gems that boost productivity or make dev work more efficient. Mired in my own processes and need a change/shift. I'm hoping there's still some non-AI stuff out there that's delightful to use (in a nerdy sense).","time":1775056572,"title":"Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?","type":"story"}],[47556554,{"by":"twoelf","descendants":33,"id":47556554,"kids":[47557569,47579394,47557929,47603960,47562549,47559446,47599889,47557261,47558665,47556800,47565789,47566167,47559383,47556983],"score":18,"text":"$17","time":1774718277,"title":"Ask HN: Is it just me?","type":"story"}],[47425470,{"by":"dominotw","descendants":14,"id":47425470,"kids":[47427052,47425619,47426612,47425512,47425495,47425849,47425694],"score":9,"text":"Every comment thread has turned into this

> Thoughts about X

>> X is great but checkout my shitty vibecoded project on github","time":1773840004,"title":"Ask HN: What can we do about explosion of self promotion in HN comments","type":"story"}],[47171961,{"by":"apparent","descendants":4,"id":47171961,"kids":[47175046,47172548,47189232,47172155],"score":15,"time":1772139754,"title":"The Remote-Work Dream Isn't Dead, but It's Slipping Away","type":"story","url":"https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/the-remote-work-dream-isnt-dead-but-its-slipping-away-a19ae9e8"}],[47025879,{"by":"firefoxd","descendants":22,"id":47025879,"kids":[47025995,47067412,47106965,47078193,47039043,47037620,47034054,47034436,47045232,47069547,47051415,47025918,47057598,47067963],"score":8,"text":"Many hn users often partially talk about their use case of AI. Orchestrating agents, managing code and PRs. But they rarely talk about the project itself.

If you have any of those projects, or just heavily AI assisted project, please share it here.","time":1771178829,"title":"Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project","type":"story"}],[46791613,{"by":"spenceXu","descendants":11,"id":46791613,"kids":[46795659,46791702,46794439,46792421,46809644,46793666,46796529,46804568,46793154],"score":13,"text":"The narrative is shifting: from “no-code” to prompts that generate full-stack apps. Reports suggest the future may belong to “Agent Platform Companies” with usage-based pricing, not traditional seat-licensed SaaS .

This leads to a two-part question:

Future of SaaS: If custom, “good enough” software becomes trivial to create for specific needs, does the traditional SaaS model collapse? Will value shift entirely to AI platforms and infrastructure, with most SaaS becoming commodities?

The New “Valuable Thing”: In a democratized creation world (like TikTok for video), what becomes the scarce asset? Is it distribution, vertical-specific data/models, or integration & trust? What would the “App Store” for these AI-generated micro-SaaS look like?

Looking for perspectives from builders, investors, and SaaS users.","time":1769579891,"title":"Ask HN: If Everyone Can \"Build\" a SaaS, What Becomes Valuable?","type":"story"}],[46678980,{"by":"primaprashant","descendants":5,"id":46678980,"kids":[46686558,46679822,46682082,46679315],"score":4,"text":"Curious what tools people are using that aren't GenAI/LLM-based. Things that have actually changed how you work, not just minor conveniences.","time":1768830799,"title":"Ask HN: What non-LLM tools have meaningfully improved your dev productivity?","type":"story"}],[46635345,{"by":"publicdebates","descendants":1245,"id":46635345,"kids":[46640332,46637802,46647213,46644978,46635610,46648442,46637299,46640257,46645293,46639221,46636983,46646517,46638930,46637351,46644415,46642236,46637304,46644291,46637569,46637259,46637442,46643115,46645645,46644143,46637095,46637944,46648431,46637691,46639400,46643940,46637459,46639737,46647396,46646730,46650673,46646198,46637496,46644555,46641376,46637166,46637998,46640303,46640057,46637472,46641758,46637919,46639161,46646754,46638441,46637222,46639497,46644100,46639585,46638939,46640111,46638333,46636953,46637563,46637280,46639367,46644526,46644708,46685293,46638157,46637195,46642191,46647969,46639501,46691098,46641822,46642105,46639134,46639092,46646515,46648230,46638557,46638233,46641958,46640315,46644938,46642030,46635483,46646344,46644206,46639369,46645095,46639763,46638130,46638035,46642639,46637962,46637783,46639643,46640098,46638071,46641503,46646728,46649319,46640477,46647799,46639632,46650578,46635857,46644229,46639668,46638338,46701812,46637817,46645684,46642663,46640830,46637964,46649986,46643582,46641099,46643583,46639174,46638316,46639209,46649215,46645071,46652892,46646065,46637102,46640656,46640833,46644028,46651782,46640947,46640269,46643006,46641773,46651068,46638789,46645013,46643020,46637008,46637115,46647801,46639614,46641184,46646033,46638667,46636901,46641343,46641260,46638406,46645008,46645948,46637312,46637836,46641714,46638615,46645438,46640258,46640468,46642787,46641381,46647735,46644161,46636956,46639792,46658694,46639272,46666664,46638626,46640340,46641546,46643669,46641300,46639689,46639911,46638295,46643180,46639944,46641632,46637702,46639345,46639938,46639030,46636972,46637225,46649188,46640368,46637552,46637502,46654540,46643693,46643665,46637536,46642557,46639328,46645059,46642201,46638851,46642517,46642996,46637667,46644965,46644916,46641374,46642561,46641838,46641474,46638220,46640573,46648122,46641954,46646193,46640968,46644307,46649248,46640651,46638236,46639310,46644205,46642511,46639902,46642895,46637193,46644277,46640023,46637034,46639513,46644079,46642807,46642681,46637491,46644462,46640508,46637768,46647394,46642872,46635484,46642155,46642544,46638479,46689530,46644488,46638216,46642505,46637818,46644750,46643958,46644172,46637765,46638711,46653777,46645290,46637666,46638266,46641052,46638566,46638521,46645398,46636153,46637390,46642348,46642594,46645419,46637928,46638925,46642977,46642692,46642007,46648187,46643552,46644174,46643895,46639556,46638056,46644933,46642069,46641265,46639219,46637533,46637607,46639929,46638597,46638873,46643784,46637971,46640197,46639121,46640083,46639617,46639046,46637642,46641230,46645350,46642130,46640185,46639771,46639220,46639165,46638349,46642591,46643572,46641320,46643309,46640749,46642222,46649160,46640464,46648547,46640993,46637416,46637967,46643297,46637215,46647549,46639704,46637544,46639649,46639431,46640279,46640722,46640884,46639678,46641952,46643213,46645080,46637163,46650056,46644654,46640191,46637110],"score":799,"text":"Countless voiceless people sit alone every day and have no one to talk to, people of all ages, who don't feel that they can join any local groups. So they sit on social media all day when they're not at work or school. How can we solve this?","time":1768495753,"title":"Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?","type":"story"}],[46491169,{"by":"libertyit","descendants":9,"id":46491169,"kids":[46492680,46492376,46495006,46495476,46492439,46491545,46491430,46492441],"score":10,"text":"Conversational AI presents (non-IT) people with the powerful illusion that it is conscious. (I personally have a friend who argues vehemently that ChatGPT is conscious - admittedly, he has a diagnosed mental illness, but still.) People become emotionally attached, over-trust it and rely on it for guidance. I understand teenagers are particularly prone to this. Real social interactions suffer.

That illusion is powerfully strengthened by the use of first-person pronouns. But "I", "we", "us" etc in LLM output have no referential object. There is no "I" in a LLM.

I want a mandatory ban on the use of first-person pronouns by LLMs. There's no impairment in meaning if it says "Would you like a list?" instead of "Would you like me to give you a list?"

Personally, I provide a system prompt with this instruction. Works well.

Why not?","time":1767554103,"title":"Ask HN: Why not ban first-person pronouns from conversational AI?","type":"story"}],[46453114,{"by":"edent","descendants":407,"id":46453114,"kids":[46454038,46455262,46458638,46455489,46454208,46454529,46459628,46455094,46460684,46458505,46454123,46462166,46453928,46458802,46454415,46455387,46455019,46454265,46454664,46455058,46455129,46459105,46456187,46456732,46454574,46454930,46455704,46467289,46463740,46462390,46458216,46463652,46466286,46456786,46454504,46456302,46474798,46454811,46454136,46457679,46463712,46455560,46455186,46455139,46455683,46456383,46457791,46459936,46454554,46455868,46458195,46455939,46454729,46454810,46458987,46454113,46454049,46462721,46460068,46454866,46453939,46454249,46454135,46455546,46453975],"score":528,"time":1767265298,"title":"I rebooted my social life","type":"story","url":"https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-might-be-oversharing"}],[46458056,{"by":"bbsc","descendants":2,"id":46458056,"kids":[46458154,46462649],"score":3,"text":"I run a business. It's a small VPS and VPN host.

While it's just me at the moment, say if I grow and hire more people. For you startup owners, is there value in having an office with in-person/hybrid work? Or is all-remote the way to go (and in-person/hybrid simply a layoff technique)?

Reddit is very biased towards remote work, but is only a subset of the population.

Prior to starting my business I was mostly a remote worker, a lot during COVID. I did in fact hate the job. I was hybrid in 2022 but went back remote for various reasons, and moved back to NYC in 2024.","time":1767302085,"title":"Ask HN: In-person/hybrid vs. remote work: which is better for a startup?","type":"story"}],[46065185,{"by":"ymanagers","descendants":8,"id":46065185,"kids":[46068726,46067713,46070286,46070009,46069583,46069655,46071837,46068163],"score":10,"text":"We’re investigating a controversial hypothesis. We’ve seen almost every major function move outside the building: Marketing → Agencies Sales → SDR firms Legal → External counsel Product → Dev shops.

The pattern is clear. But does it stop at Management?

We honestly don’t know.

Is the "execution" side of management something that must stay in-house forever? Or is it the next function to be decoupled?

We’re running a survey to gather the data: “Can Management Be Outsourced?”

We want to hear from everyone—skeptics, believers, and the undecided.\nHelp us build the dataset. We’ll share the raw findings with everyone who participates.

Link: https://forms.office.com/r/7LxYpzHqKd

Time: 2 minutes.","time":1764213438,"title":"Can Management Be Outsourced?","type":"story"}],[46019081,{"by":"ludamn","descendants":8,"id":46019081,"kids":[46019787,46022355,46024369,46020299],"score":7,"text":"$18","time":1763852125,"title":"Ask HN: Can you share what you built using Cursor/Agentic IDEs?","type":"story"}],[45898856,{"by":"blutoot","descendants":111,"id":45898856,"kids":[45899544,45899904,45899919,45904503,45899746,45899962,45899978,45899945,45899614,45899611,45899596,45900167,45945160,45899889,45929717,45933495,45899979,45948833,45900042,45905101,45913951,45945571,45899340,45977456,45908722,45899806,45899539,45899832,45901083,45899691,45899329,45905162,45899933,45900052,45912048,45899894,45900063,45899688,45900242,45899649,45927890,45899309,45899646,45908468,45903454,45899660,45900508,45899449,45922949,45905296,45900078,45950433,45904098,45904334,45900040,45899426,45899747,45899638,45899528],"score":96,"text":"I was recently laid off at a big tech company after 10 years. And now I am facing the harsh reality of trying to crack leetcode medium/hard problems (something I never managed to do routinely while I was working at this company). Is anyone here in a similar situation or has been in one? If so, how do you keep yourself motivated to solve multiple problems a day, especially knowing you are actually never going to work on such problems as part of an actual job?

Edit: I need to practice leetcode because the interview process for almost every software engineering role (especially in the Bay Area) seems to require going through at least one round of coding challenge based on leetcode medium/hard problem. I did not call it out earlier because I thought this is a very obvious point. Perhaps, I should have clarified that I am mostly targeting software engg roles.","time":1762946793,"title":"Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?","type":"story"}],[45913245,{"by":"me551ah","descendants":13,"id":45913245,"kids":[45920475,45919672,45921529,45913743,45926354,45915335,45924866,45914942,45926305,45914848,45916274,45925426],"score":8,"text":"I have been coding for more than 20 years now and nothing has changed my coding habit more than LLMs. I am a touch typer and use a blue mechnical keyboard since I love typing so much and have been used to writing a lot of code.

But ever since LLMs have released, I do find myself writing long prompts and then waiting for LLM to do the implementation. They are not perfect by any means and make a lot of mistakes, but I have found that verbose prompting does usually get the job done.

Now these sessions usually last a few hours due to how slow LLMs are and I usually work on larger pieces of work. I am used to working long hours and typing for a long time, but this is new. I find myself waiting for 70% of the time for an operation to happen.

I find myself watching tv shows or youtube videos or even doing some creative writing on the side while LLMs do their work.

So I was just wondering what other creative things the HN crowd has come up with to do while LLMs are doing the grunt work for you.","time":1763030229,"title":"Ask HN: What do you do while LLM is writing code","type":"story"}],[45530497,{"by":"roschdal","descendants":16,"id":45530497,"kids":[45530722,45530620,45536331,45534358,45530632,45531206,45531111,45531756,45530705,45534825],"score":6,"time":1760030236,"title":"Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?","type":"story"}],[45420751,{"by":"hypeaccount","descendants":14,"id":45420751,"kids":[45421253,45421222,45421131,45421195,45421180,45421406,45421468,45421079,45421085],"score":19,"text":"It seems Google has made it extremely difficult for small businesses to rank. The only way is to pay for Google Ads to rank for your brand name search terms for which Google is milking the hell out.

Despite whatever I do the website wouldn't rank.

I feel like Google has some sort of big brand whitelist and systemically discriminates against small brands.","time":1759193741,"title":"Why is Google charging me $5-10 per click for my own brand name searches","type":"story"}],[45409073,{"by":"frmersdog","descendants":2,"id":45409073,"kids":[45421413,45409114],"score":5,"text":"If so, are we finally allowed to panic about the state of what has been the most basic method of accessing knowledge online for the last two-and-a-half decades?","time":1759103131,"title":"Ask HN: Does Google Search's Verbatim mode no longer work for you?","type":"story"}],[45171250,{"by":"thanhhaimai","descendants":1,"id":45171250,"kids":[45176931],"score":9,"text":"https://downdetector.com/status/google-meet/","time":1757353056,"title":"Google Meet Outage","type":"story"}],[44979171,{"by":"cmcy","descendants":49,"id":44979171,"kids":[44979247,44979227,44979344,44982776,44982060,44980139,44979259,44981416,44979249,44982622,44981300,44979504,44980315,44983783,44980136,44981744,44979290,44981112,44981121,44980474,44981034,44981569,44979700,44981372,44981574,44982758,44981245,44984264,44981675,44980872,44980854],"score":36,"text":"People are becoming less, not more, happy. Since the internet era began, every meaningful metric reflects this same picture - self reported happiness levels, mental health medication prescription rates, suicide rates at all ages, number of self reported close relationships, birth rates. Anything you can think of as a proxy for whether people are enjoying life is either stagnant or down.

Of course it's not as simple as saying technology is the cause of all of this unhappiness, but what is clear is that, at minimum, technology is not doing enough to counteract it. And if the technology isn't the cause, then what is it? A generation and a half of some of the smartest people in the world working on expanding the boundaries of what is possible and people are less happy than they were when it started. This is a huge indictment of the tech industry. What happened?","time":1755817153,"title":"Ask HN: If technology is so good for the world, why are we becoming less happy?","type":"story"}]]

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