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Ask HN: What critical legacy system at work is everyone afraid to touch?

Tue, 07/14/2026 - 1:31am

I recently inherited an old phone and call centre system at work It runs on Elastix/CentOS, a custom windows app, MySQL, GSM gateways with analogue devices and static ips, with almost no documentation at all.

The strange thing is, it works really well. The problem is that nobody fully understands every dependency anymore and changing the wrong thing could affect a large part of the company so for now am documenting everything, improving the backups virtualising it and isolating it before attempting replacment.

Has anyone else inherited a critical system that everyone was afraid to touch?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902652

Points: 2

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Show HN: Clocks.dev – Collection of Clock Designs

Tue, 07/14/2026 - 1:30am

A simple site where every clock is a svelte component and anyone can create and add their own design.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902640

Points: 1

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I turned my bearblog into a text based adventure

Tue, 07/14/2026 - 1:23am

Article URL: https://peaceful.bearblog.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902611

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How could a startup stand a chance when Reddit won't even let you post?

Tue, 07/14/2026 - 1:12am

TLDR; spent half year building a product and launching it and tried to just post a white paper here on HN and reddit to get some feedback: instant ban for self promotion. From what I've seen, it is not even clear that humans are involved in this process. So how should I proceed? Start paying for ads?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902546

Points: 2

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Ask HN: Why are so many accomplished founders joining Anthropic?

Tue, 07/14/2026 - 1:04am

A striking number of people who had already built successful companies or held unusually high-status roles are choosing to work at Anthropic.

> Recently, Tom Blomfield, co-founder of Monzo and GoCardless and former YC partner

> Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram

> Andrej Karpathy, founding OpenAI member

> Peter Bailis, CTO of Workday

I am mostly curious because they could presumably have raised money for another startup, invested, or retired. Instead, they chose to become employees with deliberately ordinary titles.

If this is not a biased view, what really explains it? Confidence in Anthropic’s leadership, It's research direction, equity ahead of a possible IPO, or somthing else?

I’d especially like to hear from people who have considered joining a frontier lab after founding a company.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902505

Points: 2

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Turso v0.7.0

Tue, 07/14/2026 - 12:57am

Article URL: https://turso.tech/blog/turso-0.7.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902464

Points: 2

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Launched BattleShip on Chaaaaa.com

Tue, 07/14/2026 - 12:52am

Hey hackers,

If you need a lil break to relax after using your whole Codex/claude usage, come on https://chaaaaa.com to play Battleship it's quick and free !

Will you beat my AI Commander ?

So have fun,

Good evening people ;)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902426

Points: 1

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