17:[[48195550,{"by":"FailMore","descendants":10,"id":48195550,"kids":[48195798,48201288,48200798,48195802,48224381,48205494,48195750,48229919,48206293],"score":6,"text":"This is a bit vague, but as an engineer, it’s possible to walk past the other functions in an office and see people creating word docs, presentations, etc. and be a bit shocked that creating static artifacts is valuable enough to drive employment. I’m wondering if anyone has any ideas on where the value lies in this work. I know this is all very industry specific, so if you want to share you can talk from your own perspective. Vague and wild answers accepted too. I’m looking to have a wide ranging discussion about this.","time":1779208174,"title":"Ask HN: How do word docs, slides, excel, and PDFs generate value?","type":"story"}],[48122103,{"by":"BrunoBernardino","descendants":61,"id":48122103,"kids":[48122587,48128266,48125459,48200402,48125187,48124212,48242023,48123845,48130837,48132727,48122889,48145859,48158967,48148010,48127734,48125475,48143445,48127901,48125470,48125882,48187864,48124422,48128687,48131148,48125250,48131298,48131656,48132668,48125935,48127247,48129992,48124859,48169019,48148754,48161681,48127496,48128238,48184224,48125031,48142420,48126117,48125499,48127096,48154747,48190011,48189383,48125345,48129504,48129477,48184070,48170278,48164945,48129580,48122288,48189849,48125770,48126214,48124749,48124980,48192152,48122623],"score":49,"text":"Please don't turn this into an inflammatory post.

Regardless of "AI" being good or bad (it's not even just one thing as many of you know), I feel like the "What are you working on?" posts are drowning in things that use AI for something and/or are clearly "AI slop".

I'd like to look at things other humans have been doing (even if they used a bit of some kind of AI for assistance), that aren't a product or tool that uses AI for something.

I know it exists (and I use and build some), but it's incredibly hard to find nowadays. Can you help me?

Thank you.","time":1778681272,"title":"Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)?","type":"story"}],[48139188,{"by":"nothrowaways","descendants":10,"id":48139188,"kids":[48141289,48162489,48143793,48184217,48141049,48145597,48139691,48147692,48182950,48139925],"score":30,"text":"As we saw in last few HN posts Meta’s Ray-Ban creepy privacy violation stories are real and alarms are ringing. Which countries will crack down first?","time":1778782969,"title":"Which country will be the first to pass laws limiting Meta Ray-Ban glasses?","type":"story"}],[48176542,{"by":"senda","descendants":13,"id":48176542,"kids":[48188778,48184199,48187413,48231216,48176999,48176735,48176581,48176886,48176847],"score":5,"text":"Say they(OpenAi Etc)don’t find a way to reduce the cost of running these LLMs. Will we shift towards slower/worse LLMs running locally? Or maybe enterprise ones only used by large corporations for specific tasks?

Will the era of using these to generate code end? Is the assume that the inference problem will be solved?","time":1779089803,"title":"Ask HN: Could free/low cost LLMs be a momentary thing?","type":"story"}],[48150982,{"by":"MCIAIR","descendants":6,"id":48150982,"kids":[48151163,48154762,48157454,48151150,48151271,48153715,48157068,48151599],"score":5,"time":1778864283,"title":"If a machine can think, why can it not also feel?","type":"story"}],[48085993,{"by":"david927","descendants":1121,"id":48085993,"kids":[48087657,48088915,48092260,48089329,48088485,48087399,48092746,48086783,48087292,48091712,48090168,48091339,48090009,48089796,48089951,48090318,48086277,48092628,48088705,48088370,48087134,48090342,48092783,48089662,48094357,48090225,48087163,48089336,48087988,48089505,48089156,48088768,48092990,48096089,48087282,48088401,48087260,48088127,48095024,48088239,48086017,48092981,48088998,48091547,48088962,48090011,48088461,48091620,48087347,48087835,48092647,48098088,48092237,48088374,48106434,48088926,48090283,48087749,48090474,48093449,48097158,48089358,48089142,48094811,48095066,48089929,48094331,48099552,48100416,48094581,48086775,48088706,48090068,48096737,48091492,48087451,48089172,48088382,48099391,48086194,48086780,48089936,48093746,48087706,48093264,48087945,48098575,48093815,48088895,48091921,48090665,48100590,48094207,48090025,48088568,48090933,48089567,48087862,48099543,48086401,48090287,48092255,48091340,48090881,48087536,48088244,48087223,48098057,48099228,48086133,48089057,48091058,48088921,48090378,48098262,48090921,48097622,48115975,48089609,48090452,48089046,48092137,48099316,48094785,48088658,48096778,48110114,48087105,48086993,48089008,48167362,48088874,48088907,48086867,48089227,48089165,48088060,48236768,48089032,48091755,48088591,48087221,48089151,48099315,48183289,48087568,48087588,48091554,48089657,48087714,48087152,48090535,48086884,48089036,48145343,48092515,48093377,48096635,48096428,48089503,48088148,48092691,48096589,48129954,48091125,48091532,48088081,48086931,48100811,48088346,48098635,48087128,48093187,48087582,48092977,48090109,48088598,48088481,48112449,48090681,48090733,48089214,48088356,48087365,48095833,48087783,48086881,48086795,48090803,48094595,48088802,48238649,48088731,48090269,48091694,48093344,48086914,48089645,48094583,48092023,48097485,48092198,48102736,48097087,48091242,48091478,48092141,48089033,48117329,48086971,48099841,48092002,48088275,48092472,48144683,48087857,48087784,48113112,48087725,48086857,48092353,48092135,48093857,48097003,48087309,48093051,48088859,48101150,48151636,48088136,48089055,48087954,48106056,48093499,48092845,48096080,48092446,48088350,48089533,48091571,48088830,48086960,48088070,48096580,48118546,48125528,48095964,48086830,48087787,48090581,48086876,48088582,48089569,48111130,48094942,48094222,48089301,48093375,48088371,48089536,48102041,48087252,48095126,48089403,48087497,48090308,48087356,48087374,48099577,48108495,48096337,48090654,48091779,48095359,48092040,48087383,48096929,48087550,48096476,48239814,48091273,48087413,48092341,48087419,48087345,48094053,48087450,48091136,48089529,48088385,48087720,48087246,48088726,48097382,48086813,48087279,48087433,48086767,48090215,48088601,48096407,48088493,48089044,48093204,48089968,48090217,48096242,48092523,48088523,48091768,48100532,48087457,48099670,48087420,48097204,48099212,48091574,48090966,48138153,48086835,48089820,48088256,48100322,48096770,48088939,48098157,48089917,48088872,48090462,48095974,48091389,48095107,48087392,48094033,48090396,48091695,48088695,48089523,48087127,48095358,48087436,48088012,48088647,48087599,48099572,48087951,48089797,48087445,48089262,48090264,48089030,48088505,48092184,48095064,48087731,48092029,48086602,48089441,48091457,48087363,48086819,48094592,48089228,48092161,48088624,48175154,48089114,48088048,48087674,48089647,48088364,48089073,48089240,48087217,48088031,48089223,48091068,48087555,48096629,48098162,48156561,48088879,48127143,48092025,48093364,48087895,48091010,48087501,48099913,48096194,48089919,48088681,48090511,48116670,48090185,48092937,48095473,48087324,48146560,48091900,48095616,48088597,48087244,48086774,48195772,48088765,48089773,48088630,48095602,48091793,48090186,48091471,48088965,48094506,48114879,48089426,48087262,48087898,48092661,48089384,48089729,48098143,48087775,48087931,48091868,48090964,48090963,48089689,48093172,48089945,48093306,48088468,48087896,48089206,48092857,48088088,48086828,48098186,48091160,48092232,48090872,48088294,48091300,48092229,48122032,48090931,48092056,48091231,48104961,48088588,48095313,48088111,48090954,48088268,48116997,48090151,48092102,48242489,48088987,48095198,48091092,48090834,48088004,48149418,48087201,48116556,48095754,48089180,48097086,48090823,48105793,48086791,48091109,48148427,48087897,48099660,48087199,48087412,48094567,48088905,48089086,48087753,48103054,48086730,48158951,48091746,48096125,48087360,48098693,48088125,48089211,48088727,48088471,48094126,48087404,48112136,48104516,48093702,48086763,48089035,48087489,48090609,48088453,48090167,48087687,48090880,48091284,48086782,48086758,48087923,48090969,48092957,48243827,48095682,48095480,48087148,48088941,48089019,48091346,48095752,48090256,48087230,48087791,48086865,48136849,48098861,48103147,48086848,48143451,48086175,48092634,48087625,48087535,48092480,48121781,48097525,48087655,48088777,48088566,48091800,48097303,48100740,48094405,48087160,48088744,480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are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?","time":1778434481,"title":"Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)","type":"story"}],[48135807,{"by":"specwiseai","descendants":14,"id":48135807,"kids":[48139185,48136168,48136906,48145472,48138117,48145753,48139380,48139051,48137648,48136620,48146483,48145503,48137975],"score":10,"text":"I'm Afrid, 14 years old, building SpecWise AI solo from Bangladesh. Struggling to get my first paying customer. Would love to hear what actually made users stick around for you.","time":1778768338,"title":"Ask HN: What's the hardest part of building a SaaS that users keep paying for?","type":"story"}],[48123687,{"by":"andrewmurphy","descendants":7,"id":48123687,"kids":[48123757,48123756,48123773],"score":1,"text":"I was a software engineer for 20 years and always had many, many ideas for products - as we all do.

Enter Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, whatever. Now I can write anything I like and because I was a software engineer and now a security architect, specialising in Cloud and AI, I can do it well.

The trouble is that everyone else can also put a product together. Theirs might be rubbish or it might be wonderful.

So my question is, how do we stand out? \nHow do we convince customers that we are the one?

Any answers and discussion is welcome!","time":1778688154,"title":"AI is making it easy but also hard","type":"story"}],[48113611,{"by":"adamtaylor_13","descendants":10,"id":48113611,"kids":[48174982,48122084,48123701,48113640,48118604,48140696,48118262,48113632,48119793,48114711,48131674,48124994,48115931,48116442],"score":10,"text":"Over the past couple of months I've noticed that number of spam emails landing in my inbox has increased by quite a bit. I keep a very tidy inbox, so it's pretty easy for me to notice them and mark them as spam. But I'm curious: is Google just getting worse at detecting spam, or is the spam somehow evolving?

For example, I just got this email:

Sender: william_brown_318@rofopifj.dravixa.space\nSubject: the wagon is in

The body contains tons of literal HTML tags that weren't parsed into actual HTML. Not sure if it was sent as a text mime-type or what, but it takes all of 2 whole seconds for me to mentally note that this is spam.

How is this getting through more often these days?","time":1778615904,"title":"Ask HN: Is Spam getting worse or is Gmail getting worse?","type":"story"}],[48087925,{"by":"0-bad-sectors","descendants":32,"id":48087925,"kids":[48090472,48089255,48090619,48092715,48089264,48088509,48122447,48113304,48092591,48088066,48104550,48120862,48089607,48111205,48099681,48117315,48103563,48123667,48089045,48098825,48102406,48093286,48105926,48088820,48089638,48103041,48092673,48128254,48138481,48113429,48091247,48092450,48106916,48091463,48092646],"score":27,"text":"Now whenever I reach for customer's support chat or phone I get an AI agent replying to me and I get into a useless loop for a couple of minutes before I start begging it to link me to a real person.

Will companies start losing customers because of that or people will eventually get used to this?","time":1778446647,"title":"Ask HN: Will low quality AI customer support be the new normal?","type":"story"}]]

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