#hackernews (14 links)
- I've gone back and forth between "we're so cooked" and "we're so back"... news.ycombinator.com
There will emerge a market for code written by humans. This has to happen: I can't prove it, but I can feel it. Despite vast improvements in the generative models, AI-generated art and music are still slop. AI-generated prose has gotten sloppier with phenomena like the much-mocked "Claudese". It's so obviously devoid of a human mind behind it that Zoomers and Alphennials are starting to use "that's so AI" as an insult. Despite the leaps-and-bounds improvements of recent models, I have to believe that AI code is slop too; the major difference between code and these other expressive forms is that we are far more tolerant of slop code: for the most part we just care if the damn thing works.
- Astro Joining Cloudflare | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- How to Network as an Introvert | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
The best way to network well is to stop giving a shit about doing it well.
- For the open core model to work, the OSS product should be standalone and featur... | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
For the open core model to work, the OSS product should be standalone and featureful. If users feel like it's just used to advertise a commercial product, it doesn't work. And the commercial product should offer value-added services and features that are not strictly required for the base OSS product.
- Passkeys now support external providers | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Scrum disempowers developers | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Gulp.js: The streaming build system | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
Lots of interesting here.
- Hacker News | The Best Free and Open Source Data Mining Software news.ycombinator.com
- Hacker News | Look, far be it from me to always be chasing and advocating the new hotness, and... news.ycombinator.com
Far be it from me to always be chasing and advocating the new hotness, and declaring the ignorance of the dark ages (ie. 5 years ago), because it's very very rare in technology that something is so utterly and dramatically superior in every technical aspect as Git (or Mercurial, or Darcs) is over SVN. [...] Now I understand there are many many valid reasons why it might be necessary to use subversion, but an easier transition from CVS is not one of them. [...] Version control is a developer's bread and butter. Investing in using one of the good ones may be the single greatest skills ROI a developer can get. Unless you understand both git and svn intimately, you won't grok this, but let me state from hard-won experience that in SVN you can occasionally hit nightmare scenarios requiring days or even weeks to sort out a problem that could be solved in under an hour in git.