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Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/pain-glory-summer/688229/

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Our company is changing its Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC). Curious to hear from others what theirs looks like overall + bottlenecks. Ours:

- 1 week planning/retro, 6 weeks implementation (basically six 1-week sprints).

- Standup now mainly demoing what Engineering/Design is working on, getting quick feedback from teammates.

- Meetings are recorded/transcribed. Agents generate Product Requirement + System Design docs from those meetings.

- Push to have non-engineers be able to commit code, but engineering still responsible for shipping it.

Unsolved issues/bottlenecks:

- Ephemeral test environments (per PR test environments) aren't 100% reliable yet.

- No longer doing capacity planning, but it feels like we need to go back to it.

- Code reviews. They're longer and there's more of them. Even more with non-engineers being able to @Cursor on Slack.

- Design used to have Figma as the source of truth; now that they're heavily leaning on Claude Design, we don't get the linkage of Figma components to code components. We might solve this by moving from Cursor to Claude Code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275494

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Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/12/1141714/the-download-innovators-under-35-censorship-industrial-complex/

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Article URL: https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasa-wants-to-toss-10000-tiny-probes-directly-into-saturns-rings

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While Codex or Claude is thinking or using tools, the game rains balls. As soon as the agent yields, new balls stop falling.

I built it because I was bored of waiting during coding sessions—and I didn’t want to spend that time doomscrolling.

The idea was inspired by a trip to Tokyo, where I saw people staring almost hypnotically at pachinko machines after work. I found it fascinating: something visually stimulating, interactive, and strangely relaxing, but with clear limitations.

At first, the project was just a simple pachinko machine. Balls would drop whenever the game detected changes to the agent’s token file.

Then I started adding more things to watch and interact with. Around the same time, I kept seeing news about layoffs related to AI. That gave me the idea for a satirical company-management game: AI agents work and generate balls, the balls hit workers, the workers lose bowls, and the company collects them.Utimately, the company only wants the bowls, the employees are just haversting machine. You can also promote an employee. Once promoted 4 times, they're converted into a permanent company gear, boosting the machine forever.

The concept slowly grew from there and eventually became this project.

Tools used: Codex, and Suno for the music. I created the original melody myself.

Give it a try—especially during your next long coding session!

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Article URL: https://twitter.com/peterjliu/status/2087583363792253158

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Article URL: https://www.machinesociety.ai/p/productivitypollution

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Article URL: https://blog.arkency.com/maintaining-an-organizational-knowledge-graph-with-an-llm-and-event-sourcing/

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Article URL: https://briefin.com/hackernews/

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Article URL: https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft

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Article URL: https://noisydeadlines.net/a-few-strong-opinions-about-ai

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Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/hardware-researcher-spins-up-cpu-deoptimization-project-to-find-the-slowest-machine-code-worst-offender-takes-198-billion-cycles-to-execute

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275388

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Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/grok-4-6-benchmarks-and-analysis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275385

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Article URL: https://portswigger.net/research/can-ai-do-novel-security-research

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Article URL: https://webbynode.com/articles/linode-24-dollar-vm-cpu-stable-storage-varied

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275347

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Article URL: https://en.andros.dev/blog/ef4968f5/html-over-websockets-real-time-spas-with-barely-any-javascript/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275335

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I'm a backend developer working with high-load services and databases. One ClickHouse node I operate holds 3.42 TiB compressed and 19.10 TiB uncompressed across its active parts. I built ProbeDeck to inspect a cluster and handle a few operations from an iPhone or iPad when I don't have a laptop.

The app turns ClickHouse system tables into screens for running queries, replica state, storage pressure, and mutations. It derives QPS from system.metric_log and shows no value when that log is disabled. You can inspect a target before sending KILL QUERY or KILL MUTATION. The KILL screens use a confirmation sheet. Destructive SQL in the editor adds a typed confirmation.

The phone sends ClickHouse HTTP or HTTPS traffic straight to the server, or through one SSH bastion. ProbeDeck does not relay database traffic. It stores passwords, SSH private keys, TLS client material, and AI API keys in the iOS Data Protection Keychain. It keeps non-secret connection metadata in app settings. SSH authentication accepts a password or an unencrypted OpenSSH Ed25519 private key.

The second first-run screen shows separate switches for anonymous Aptabase analytics and Sentry crash/error reports. Both start on. You can turn either one off on that screen or in Settings. The AI assistant sends requests to the Ollama or API provider you choose. It explains cluster state and drafts SQL; you decide whether to run it.

Explore demo data uses bundled data and skips ClickHouse and AI connections. Diagnostics still follow the two switches. The current version counts the demo as the single free saved connection, so you need to delete it before adding a real server.

ProbeDeck works in the foreground. It does not monitor the cluster while closed or send push notifications. Monitoring, schema browsing, and read SQL are free. A one-time $19.99 purchase unlocks KILL, writes, the AI assistant, and multiple saved connections.

Screenshots and connection details are at https://probedeck.app/

I'd like feedback on the boundary: which checks and actions belong on a phone during an incident?

ClickHouse is a registered trademark of ClickHouse, Inc. ProbeDeck is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ClickHouse, Inc.

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Article URL: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/where-watermarks-hide-in-text

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Article URL: https://guillaumetech.github.io/posts/jpg-scaling-chrome/

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Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-11.1-Released

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