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Hacker News - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 9:48pm
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Ask HN: Will your company be doing "LeetCode" interviews a year from now?

Hacker News - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 9:38pm

I work in big tech. I'm a SWE manager, but I have a half a mind to return to being an IC at some point. I am using LLMs at work (mostly for reporting stuff etc), and for coding personal side projects, and generally trying to keep up with all this agentic stuff.

I was never good at leetcode, I snuck my way into SWE and SWE management by way of sysadmin/SRE.

I'm considering interviewing at some point in the future, possibly at companies like Google and Meta. Even for Engineering Manager roles, these companies have coding rounds, so I've been "grinding leetcode" slowly.

There is a notion floating around that DSA interview questions are quickly becoming obsolete, since you can just ask an LLM for an optimal solution now.

Putting aside whether it's good for the brain and for being a good programmer to have these skills sharpened, do you think leetcode style interviews are going the way of the dinosaur, or will they stay or even have a resurgence?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420519

Points: 2

# Comments: 5

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Show HN: Incremental SfM pipeline that reconstructs 3D point clouds from images

Hacker News - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 9:34pm

Built an incremental Structure from Motion pipeline that reconstructs a sparse 3D point cloud from a sequence of images. Used Kız Kulesi (Maiden's Tower) in Istanbul as the demo dataset. Interactive 3D viewer included.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420503

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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Show HN: ABC Classic 100 Rankings visualised

Hacker News - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 9:32pm

This weekend is the ABC Classic FM countdown, which prompted me to dust off an old un-published data visualisation of rankings from previous years.

I've considered adding a search function, but I also kind of like that it requires a bit of exploration in the current form.

Some of the code is a bit clunky and I wouldn't mind refactoring it. I'm also not sure about browser compatibility - I've only got access to a couple of devices to test it on.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420494

Points: 15

# Comments: 8

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