16:[[44842442,{"by":"dmsnell","descendants":46,"id":44842442,"kids":[44882982,44843624,44882761,44842443,44889847,44843946,44884080,44884140,44844290,44883332],"score":86,"time":1754692962,"title":"How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements","type":"story","url":"https://sirre.al/2025/08/06/safe-json-in-script-tags-how-not-to-break-a-site/"}],[44632848,{"by":"megamix","descendants":7,"id":44632848,"kids":[44633224,44654468,44634504],"score":3,"text":"Hi

Let's call it SWExit, software engineering exit.

I've lost a lot of the motivation to work as Software Engineer (15+ yrs). All the talk, news (nonsense) about the future of Software Engineering, LLMs, AI and related technologies is far from what I hoped my work to be. If I'm just reduced to an advanced administrator through LLMs, then I'll might as well be a chef or something else that is fulfilling.

What strategies do you suggest for someone struggling to find motivation at this stage?

a) Sabbatical year\nb) Move up the ladder\nc) Change career path\nd) get over it, accept it and do the minimum

To each alternative there's more to comment, e.g. option b) requires interest in the product to be a good leader - I refuse to do meaningless work.","time":1753085546,"title":"Ask HN: What strategy if planning to exit Software Engineering?","type":"story"}],[44573539,{"by":"williamzeng0","descendants":10,"id":44573539,"kids":[44576277,44573911,44577211,44573698,44573549,44589324,44584628],"score":8,"text":"$17","time":1752599871,"title":"The IDE isn't going away","type":"story"}],[44427253,{"by":"cladking","dead":true,"id":44427253,"kids":[44428700],"score":1,"time":1751313822,"type":"story"}],[44319764,{"by":"todsacerdoti","descendants":1,"id":44319764,"kids":[44324358,44319820,44320032],"score":8,"time":1750348140,"title":"Programming Considered Harmful (2001)","type":"story","url":"https://flownet.com/ron/papers/pch.html"}],[44200866,{"by":"achtaitaipai","descendants":51,"id":44200866,"kids":[44202001,44201680,44201978,44202480,44202036,44201896,44203744,44206330,44200867,44201898,44206166,44206294,44202793,44212210,44206013],"score":249,"time":1749217561,"title":"Odyc.js – A tiny JavaScript library for narrative games","type":"story","url":"https://odyc.dev"}],[40415646,{"by":"thisisfatih","descendants":366,"id":40415646,"kids":[40415822,40415845,40415888,40415801,40415921,40415938,40415925,40416415,40415923,40415749,40417322,40415858,40415942,40416127,40416053,40415905,40416179,40416242,40418320,40416688,40415848,40418435,40416449,40416207,40415902,40416131,40415861,40415867,40416044,40467939,40416555,40416626,40415915,40416212,40419251,40416125,40416214,40415884,40479561,40416240,40416155,40416083,40415760,40415813,40419393,40418260,40415953,40416891,40416211,40415916,40416310,40417781,40416345,40416172,40416581,40416444,40416742,40416084,40418148,40416281,40415892,40415819,40517223,40416035,40419665,40417039,40417073,40415824,40416443,40429512,40416439,40417329,40415839,40416961,40416286,40417114,40428404,40419063,40417590,40423610,40438399,40416279,40415830],"score":242,"text":"$18","time":1716214259,"title":"Discussion: Job seekers can't find a job and Employers can't find an employees","type":"story"}],[38505211,{"by":"plibither8","descendants":131,"id":38505211,"kids":[38508508,38511334,38509399,38507988,38508906,38513457,38511006,38514914,38508778,38513916,38519449,38509501,38509670,38508240,38510265,38515431,38509686,38510118,38516100,38509286,38513205,38508579,38511010,38515521,38513426,38511896,38509457,38511758,38508406,38514698,38511776,38509188,38514496,38511775,38508813,38514603,38512278,38514991,38508408,38539368,38511480,38508361,38511428,38508445,38520931,38513471,38513827,38512914,38508338,38508559],"score":1592,"time":1701583709,"title":"LLM Visualization","type":"story","url":"https://bbycroft.net/llm"}],[36935843,{"by":"boramalper","descendants":202,"id":36935843,"kids":[36936435,36936236,36936438,36936208,36936687,36936437,36936499,36936358,36936411,36936592,36936367,36936252,36938978,36936548,36936357,36938434,36937172,36937115,36936555,36936654,36936267,36937185,36937652,36936452,36936480,36936165,36936335],"score":202,"time":1690750408,"title":"The Right to Lie and Google’s “Web Environment Integrity”","type":"story","url":"https://rants.org/2023/07/the-right-to-lie-and-google-wei/"}],[36886176,{"by":"thenoblesquid","descendants":4,"id":36886176,"kids":[36886634,36886233,36886177],"score":2,"time":1690411359,"title":"Will AI replace software engineers in the near future?","type":"story","url":"https://thenewstack.io/voxpop-new-tns-weekly-survey-wants-to-know-what-you-think/"}],[36568049,{"by":"tuan","descendants":2,"id":36568049,"kids":[36594289,36568271],"score":8,"time":1688351759,"title":"Brian Cox explains why time travels in one direction – BBC [video]","type":"story","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQSoaiubuA0"}],[35665142,{"by":"robinLord","descendants":117,"id":35665142,"kids":[35665593,35667420,35666159,35665957,35666346,35667098,35672154,35775849,35669262,35670277,35666648,35665620,35666934,35665505,35665793,35665455,35665986,35680972,35667893,35666208,35670120,35670069,35667522,35667012,35672821,35670577,35667094,35669379,35672827,35672520,35668951,35670981,35668467,35669100,35673913,35667677,35670085,35687655,35674053,35668315,35669628,35667027,35666247],"score":547,"time":1682160049,"title":"Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills","type":"story","url":"https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/"}],[34220157,{"by":"aniketmalvankar","descendants":1,"id":34220157,"kids":[34225349],"score":1,"text":"People have started using GPT-3 for creative tasks like generating ideas for games, scripts. How can you be sure the output is not word for word copy of something that exists?","time":1672678481,"title":"How can you make sure GPT-3 does not plagiarize?","type":"story"}],[33891223,{"by":"bironran","descendants":20,"id":33891223,"kids":[33891539,33891249,33899635,33891887,33891519,33913854,33898589,33892914],"score":6,"text":"As an interviewer conducting remote interviews, I fear ChatGPT is going to enable cheating to a degree I won't be able to detect. Right now it can solve many of the questions I usually ask, including combined system design / coding questions, getting it right mostly on the first go.

Are software interviews going to disappear? Do we adapt somehow, find the holes that ChatGPT can't fill, yet, and play a cat-and-mouse game with OpenAI? Will complex, multi-hour homework interviews be the only solution (where you could use ChatGPT and we'll take that into account, giving more complex and hard to solve questions)?

Is this even a legitimate fear? Maybe ChatGPT is just another tool in the toolbox now, just like Google and docs?","time":1670393787,"title":"Ask HN: ChatGPT can solve my interview questions, now what?","type":"story"}],[27412629,{"by":"astdb","descendants":37,"id":27412629,"kids":[27414714,27414835,27415292,27415219,27417506,27423375,27421771],"score":99,"time":1622981788,"title":"Peter Norvig: Singularity is in the eye of the beholder","type":"story","url":"https://wandb.ai/wandb_fc/gradient-dissent/reports/Peter-Norvig-Google-s-Director-of-Research-Singularity-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder--Vmlldzo2MTYwNjk?galleryTag=gradient-dissent"}],[26224657,{"by":"codearena","descendants":4,"id":26224657,"kids":[26224917,26233467],"score":5,"time":1614002889,"title":"Goodbye Electron, Hello Flutter","type":"story","url":"https://medium.com/swlh/goodbye-electron-welcome-flutter-22b3dc10d2f3"}],[25924566,{"by":"fagnerbrack","descendants":172,"id":25924566,"kids":[25925644,25925263,25925276,25925204,25926087,25925852,25925775,25925435,25924851,25925458,25925737,25925779,25926677,25925169,25926371,25964114,25925850,25925811,25925420,25925788,25925646,25927504,25925837,25928734,25926425,25926918,25925194,25934501,25952341,25925760,25925062,25929895,25925046,25925793,25927629,25925487,25925171,25925807,25925789,25925915,25924929,25925910,25925508,25925517,25925232,25925467,25925304,25926082],"score":221,"time":1611724372,"title":"Why does it take so long to build software? (2020)","type":"story","url":"https://www.simplethread.com/why-does-it-take-so-long-to-build-software/"}],[25861445,{"by":"NiceWayToDoIT","descendants":8,"id":25861445,"kids":[25864309,25872709,25869413,25864098,25861509],"score":5,"text":"When you close eyes how vividly can you imagine landscapes, objects, concepts?

Have you done anything to improve those skills (practicing) or you have born with it? What is the level of details you can imagine?","time":1611250086,"title":"When you close your eyes how vividly can you imagine things?","type":"story"}],[25669562,{"by":"e_py","descendants":5,"id":25669562,"kids":[25671690,25680454,25683874,25669949,25669927],"score":2,"text":"Hello everyone

I am looking for new ways, processes and tools to speed up the prototyping of new applications, mostly FE apps. My goal is to have something that I can show to the business people asap before sending it to the providers to build it.

I am open to any tools or processes you think they can be of interest. I have used invision in the past but I am also interested in code generation for the prototypes.

Any ideas? Thanks","time":1610016448,"title":"What's your rapid prototyping tool/process","type":"story"}],[25569734,{"by":"alcover","descendants":39,"id":25569734,"kids":[25569759,25570157,25569872,25578827,25593671,25619409,25584848,25590788],"score":8,"text":"Javascript has a nice syntax but needs to be faster and more reliable.

With strong typing JS++ would eliminate many runtime bugs. Without all the crazy implicit conversions, boxing, 'eval', etc... fantastic speeds could be achieved.

Lots of electricity and developper hair could be saved.

JS++ would break backward compatibility but this could be softened by retaining the old syntax as largely as possible. With implicit and explicit typing.

It should be easy/automated to convert js to js++.

Inb4 ActionScript 3 : yes, something like that.","time":1609250219,"title":"Ask HN: JS++ ? Why not make a new, strongly typed JavaScript ?","type":"story"}],[25507942,{"by":"samename","descendants":545,"id":25507942,"kids":[25508524,25511040,25508076,25512681,25509577,25508207,25509606,25509869,25511328,25509181,25508106,25512585,25508110,25511163,25516177,25509149,25508573,25511289,25508236,25512897,25509754,25510495,25508211,25509640,25509305,25508292,25508814,25508603,25508035,25510663,25508127,25511977,25513082,25508284,25510755,25508277,25514400,25510430,25510088,25514987,25518303,25508861,25510196,25512006,25513653,25511244,25509858,25513774,25511171,25516465,25512743,25515429,25510737,25509952,25513347,25515760,25510763,25513559,25508073,25512091,25508327,25510456,25508624,25514402,25515420,25534197,25508646,25515653,25512851,25513978,25508429,25508202,25508128,25511659,25514885,25513355,25513003,25510337,25509923,25510765,25515736,25509946,25511776,25512515,25508634,25509151,25521791,25514602,25516738,25508998,25511399,25509478,25515624,25522247,25512321,25509799,25508100,25509802,25512747,25509043,25508248,25510893,25509224,25508884,25510580,25509739,25509022,25508547,25508363],"score":1073,"time":1608654593,"title":"Hotwire: HTML over the Wire","type":"story","url":"https://hotwire.dev/"}],[25481207,{"by":"tardenoisean","descendants":7,"id":25481207,"kids":[25484294,25486902,25498862],"score":3,"text":"The problem should be real pain in the ass and you should suffer from it almost every day.","time":1608412042,"title":"Ask HN: What problem do you want someone would solve for you?","type":"story"}],[25442016,{"by":"teawhoyou","descendants":120,"id":25442016,"kids":[25453484,25453826,25452522,25451998,25452205,25454077,25451745,25451846,25453446,25455592,25460467,25451742,25454320,25453133,25451739,25452097],"score":89,"time":1608123999,"title":"On the cruelty of really teaching computing science (1988) [pdf]","type":"story","url":"https://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/educ/dijk/EWD1036.v4.pdf"}],[24994746,{"by":"resynth1943","descendants":403,"id":24994746,"kids":[24995121,24994876,24994847,24996616,24994799,24994918,24995182,24994832,24995143,24995359,24995711,24994825,24995126,24997436,24995397,24995374,24995647,24996654,24997615,24995249,24996773,24994813,24998873,24996270,24996957,25001258,24995125,24994962,24995521,24996630,24996887,24994816,24994824,24998267,24996738,24996830,24996686,24995109,24994838,24994819,24994937,24999555,24996880,24995256,25005885,24996337,24996422,24994811,24995211,24994925],"score":1013,"time":1604538643,"title":"GitHub Source Code Leak","type":"story","url":"https://resynth1943.net/articles/github-source-code-leak/"}],[24926567,{"by":"behnamoh","descendants":2,"id":24926567,"kids":[24927169,24934580],"score":1,"time":1603939625,"title":"Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?","type":"story","url":"https://www.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/6xcgzo/has_anyone_else_just_gotten_bored_of_the_internet/"}],[24765902,{"by":"gcatalfamo","descendants":1,"id":24765902,"kids":[24769940],"score":3,"time":1602599578,"title":"Ask HN: What are the best CLI tools not for programming?","type":"story"}],[24386678,{"by":"kareemm","descendants":13,"id":24386678,"kids":[24387693,24387129,24386931,24391917,24387733,24417945,24388681,24387709],"score":17,"time":1599338265,"title":"Why only fools write code first","type":"story","url":"https://www.reemer.com/articles/why-only-fools-write-code-first"}],[24288439,{"by":"syck","descendants":17,"id":24288439,"kids":[24289093,24289529,24288685,24289872,24289053,24288759,24289917,24307519,24289133],"score":39,"time":1598484174,"title":"‘Altered Carbon’ Canceled After Two Seasons at Netflix","type":"story","url":"https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/altered-carbon-canceled-netflix-1234749745/"}]]

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