15:[[47055450,{"by":"fdneng","descendants":20,"id":47055450,"kids":[47055743,47057094,47087934,47086912,47104678,47058296,47068725,47114820,47061659,47081594,47061170,47056307,47086477,47073282,47056986,47059574,47067285,47108182,47077472],"score":12,"text":"I’ve been working at YC-backed startups since graduating from university. I’m now at a company building a deeply distributed systems product, and I’m surrounded by incredibly talented engineers who seem exceptionally strong at what they do. They often have knowledge and intuition about things I barely understand.

Lately, I’ve been feeling inadequate — like I’m contributing more to the less exciting parts of the product rather than the “cool” or core engineering challenges.

On top of that, I’m an immigrant and my wife and I are expecting. Balancing that with a fully remote job has been difficult, and at times I feel like I’ve lost some of my competence or sharpness. I’m taking steps to address this — I’ll be speaking with a psychologist soon — but I genuinely wonder: how does someone overcome these feelings while working within a high-functioning engineering team?","time":1771374543,"title":"Ask HN: How do you overcome imposter syndrome?","type":"story"}],[47101545,{"by":"piratesAndSons","descendants":21,"id":47101545,"kids":[47101838,47147535,47102229,47114249,47110380,47101639,47116925,47114814,47118197,47102069,47127772,47114710],"score":8,"text":"$16","time":1771686699,"title":"Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?","type":"story"}],[47113849,{"by":"stopbulying","descendants":21,"id":47113849,"kids":[47113878,47113867,47114811,47113960,47115328],"score":6,"time":1771788533,"title":"Ask HN: Do US presidents have less fiduciary liability than CEOs?","type":"story"}],[47106013,{"by":"moomoo11","descendants":11,"id":47106013,"kids":[47117499,47106297,47106574,47110655,47127660,47114280,47106622,47108175],"score":14,"text":"$17","time":1771715714,"title":"Ask HN: If the \"AI bubble\" pops, will it really be that dramatic?","type":"story"}],[47108601,{"by":"sujayk_33","descendants":22,"id":47108601,"kids":[47108695,47109338,47109022,47109502,47108765,47114335,47114269,47113722,47119266,47116267],"score":9,"text":"I was just wondering about why there's a constant timeline and no recommendation.","time":1771739629,"title":"Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have a rec algorithm?","type":"story"}],[47112543,{"by":"marvin_nora","descendants":7,"id":47112543,"kids":[47136986,47121521,47116147,47114252,47112591,47129975,47131924,47116974,47112684,47207540,47129287],"score":13,"text":"$18","time":1771779094,"title":"Ask HN: What breaks when you run AI agents unsupervised?","type":"story"}],[47112905,{"by":"YuukiJyoudai","descendants":13,"id":47112905,"kids":[47114000,47119961,47130895,47114120,47119638,47113462,47117738,47116723,47130635,47114247,47115762],"score":10,"text":"$19","time":1771781899,"title":"Ask HN: What Comes After Markdown?","type":"story"}],[47067558,{"by":"azebazenestor","descendants":3,"id":47067558,"kids":[47080603,47105948,47068188,47075619,47076732],"score":4,"text":"Quick architecture question.

When using MCP servers directly in Cursor, the agent seems to see all tools at the same level.

But when using a plugin/extension that internally connects to MCP servers, does the main agent:

see only the plugin as a single tool and delegate to a sub-agent inside it,\nor

still see every underlying MCP tool individually?

In other words: do plugins act as a tool abstraction boundary, or just a packaging/install mechanism?","time":1771455353,"title":"Ask HN: In Cursor/agents, do plugins hide MCP tools from the main agent?","type":"story"}],[47103891,{"by":"burnerToBetOut","descendants":5,"id":47103891,"kids":[47104699,47107209,47105932],"score":3,"text":"$1a","time":1771702487,"title":"Ask HN: Do You Love My \"Assess Idea\" (AI) Robo-Reply Side Project Idea?","type":"story"}],[47105086,{"by":"dakiol","descendants":25,"id":47105086,"kids":[47106830,47110427,47105924,47145852,47110251,47150244,47145899,47145811,47146773,47106321,47153528],"score":35,"text":"Hi. I'm looking for a programmable watch with wifi. Ideally I should be able to write custom programs/apps for the watch to display whatever I want to on them (e.g., make the watch make an https call to a server, receive json and render accordingly; allow the watch to receive "notifications" from the server)

Also, ideally, no requirement of a smartphone to send-receive data (it's ok to need a smartphone for the initial setup of the watch, though). I know about Pebble, but it doesn't have wifi. I know about some Garmins with wifi but for the kind of apps I want to write, the communication between the watch and the server has to be mediated by a phone. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to pay $100/year just to be able to use my custom app in apple watches. I usually don't trust Google either (e.g., they discontinue everything in a blink of an eye).

So, what are my options?","time":1771709995,"title":"Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?","type":"story"}],[47076978,{"by":"arboles","descendants":9,"id":47076978,"kids":[47103048,47101386,47086902,47076995,47076988],"score":8,"text":"$1b","time":1771524794,"title":"Ask HN: Can a license make large corporations give back?","type":"story"}],[47094857,{"by":"matijash","descendants":3,"id":47094857,"kids":[47103043,47096160,47098835,47101256],"score":18,"time":1771626355,"title":"Ask HN: Are you a SWE that lost job purely due to AI? Share your story","type":"story"}],[47100289,{"by":"penguin_booze","descendants":20,"id":47100289,"kids":[47101732,47119567,47103823,47103190,47102640,47102773,47102733,47113669,47102654,47102309,47103452,47124979,47101853,47106560,47103753,47103299,47100360,47103752,47101874,47102091],"score":14,"text":"With AI infesting and eating into all kind of crafts--and I being one of those faceless "craftsmen"--I'm rather forced to consider alternative jobs. Setting the monetary rewards aside, I was thinking of jobs that could give me a sense of agency, purpose, and satisfaction (however limited). The few I think of are:

- Parcels delivery driver

- Train driver

- Electrician or plumber

- Mechanic (with auto-mobiles hardly repairable these days, maybe this doesn't qualify)

Surely, I can't be alone in thinking along those lines. What else have you thought of?","time":1771677773,"title":"Ask HN: What (other) jobs do you think of doing?","type":"story"}],[47101064,{"by":"lonelyasacloud","descendants":5,"id":47101064,"kids":[47102644,47101065,47101530],"score":5,"time":1771683424,"title":"Anthropic's safety-first ethos collided with The Pentagon","type":"story","url":"https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anthropics-safety-first-ai-collides-with-the-pentagon-as-claude-expands-into/"}],[47049884,{"by":"causal","descendants":35,"id":47049884,"kids":[47052134,47055096,47049954,47051297,47050449,47051113,47051121,47051504,47056668,47051118,47102627,47051138,47073187,47051534,47052127,47072030,47051244,47060800,47050353],"score":30,"text":"I see it more and more in email, Slack, text, etc: People too scared to share their own thoughts so they AI-wash it and send an exhausting page of "It's not X, it's Y!" slop instead.

I'm not the CEO, I can't order people to stop. The CEO does it too.

I try talking to people directly, but people get defensive and there's always the chance they didn't use AI. I need indirect means of socializing change.

Looking for anything I can use to socialize against AI-washing: Articles, memes, policies that other companies have successfully used- whatever.","time":1771348189,"title":"Ask HN: How do you motivate your humans to stop AI-washing their emails?","type":"story"}],[47068900,{"by":"boredemployee","descendants":42,"id":47068900,"kids":[47072161,47079650,47070479,47092976,47068940,47073720,47092966,47073551,47075857,47082167,47072163,47102614,47080048,47078186,47069933,47074987,47084970,47092366,47070398,47068909,47077438,47073587,47069215,47074382],"score":34,"text":"I'm really tired of the BS, AI, corporate environment and what not.

Looking for alternatives.

In case you're in the same boat:

What do you plan to work with?","time":1771465674,"title":"Ask HN: Anyone else tired of working in tech?","type":"story"}],[47077312,{"by":"kwar13","descendants":9,"id":47077312,"kids":[47081432,47082165,47102515,47077412,47079183,47077413,47108178,47098612],"score":13,"text":"I used to love attending hackathons and also participating as mentor/judge at times. With the explosion of vibe coded submissions, 1- the number of submissions has exploded, 2- it's much harder to judge quality of project as it's mostly become judging the quality of tool they used.

I'm not really throwing shade at using ai. There are parts where the vibe coding really shines, such as front-end dev which tends to do a great job at, but anything more complex I'm still not convinced.","time":1771526214,"title":"Ask HN: Are hackathons still worth doing?","type":"story"}],[47096593,{"by":"givemeethekeys","descendants":9,"id":47096593,"kids":[47097168,47107860,47096947,47097574,47102511,47098577,47103765],"score":12,"text":"It seems like there will be a lot of hardware that gets discarded every couple of years as new, more powerful systems are made available.

AWS put out a video and article on how it recycles a large amount of its hardware, since it is built for maintainability and repairability.

How true is that? Does it apply to other datacenter operators as well?

What will happen to all the parallel compute cards that will get upgraded soon? They can't be reused as GPU's for gamers, can they?","time":1771638300,"title":"Ask HN: What happens to all the hardware when data centers upgrade?","type":"story"}],[47085255,{"by":"zekejohn","descendants":35,"id":47085255,"kids":[47096828,47089393,47088109,47085297,47086314,47087518,47086644,47103474,47087887,47102620,47092016,47085344,47086885,47102507,47089214,47107365,47088729,47119346,47103775,47103383,47087180,47092251,47086995,47089828,47098586,47093013,47086533],"score":35,"text":"With everyone using Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and the other 100 AI coding agents that i missed, I’m wondering how much editor mastery still matters like w/ Vim

Being honest the real reason i wanna learn Vim is to boost my ego & assert my dominance, so i can tell people "i use vim btw", but also part of me thinks investing time could still pay off for speed, ergonomics, and working over SSH overall...

but a bigger part also suspects the marginal gains i would gain would disappear when more of the work is delegated to AI anyway, like why would i learn Vim if i'm just going to be prompting Opus all day?

For anyone who's been using Vim for while AND uses AI to code (i'm assuming everyone codes with AI to some degree) my question is: Does learning Vim still meaningfully improve your day to day productivity EVEN with AI, or is it mostly personal preference at this point?","time":1771576049,"title":"Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?","type":"story"}],[47094524,{"by":"chrisjj","descendants":14,"id":47094524,"kids":[47102410,47101736,47095206,47102102,47099563],"score":27,"text":"$1c","time":1771624412,"title":"My first experience with an \"AI\"-ed call centre?","type":"story"}],[47098852,{"by":"ms_sv","descendants":16,"id":47098852,"kids":[47099445,47103940,47099054,47101733,47100621,47109218],"score":4,"text":"$1d","time":1771664347,"title":"Peer validation platform for engineering skills (inspired by X community notes)","type":"story"}],[47053410,{"by":"fi-le","descendants":14,"id":47053410,"kids":[47102530,47101674,47055583,47102487,47103108,47055754],"score":95,"time":1771362688,"title":"Approaches to writing two-sentence journal entries","type":"story","url":"https://alexanderbjoy.com/two-sentence-journal-approaches/"}],[47101200,{"by":"Igor_Wiwi","descendants":89,"id":47101200,"kids":[47101586,47102308,47103177,47101631,47103338,47101474,47101662,47101671,47101347,47102258,47103039,47101486,47102779,47102418,47103951,47101348,47101944,47108365,47101595,47104669,47102532,47103686,47102299,47102012],"score":224,"time":1771684485,"title":"macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)","type":"story","url":"https://igorstechnoclub.com/sandbox-exec/"}]]

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