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How Software Engineers Actually Use AI
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/how-software-engineers-coders-actually-use-ai/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489457
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Agentic MCP Sshclient
Article URL: https://github.com/jonnadul/mcpsshclient
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489426
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Medical Benchmarks and the Myth of the Universal Patient
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/31/medical-benchmarks-and-the-myth-of-the-universal-patient
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489421
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Ask HN: What is your preferred open source graph database?
I've recently been investigating open source graph databases and find there's far less agreement on what the go-to open source db is for new projects.
Older players like Neo4j Community Edition have some limits that require upgrading to an Enterprise license. ArangoDB supported graphs but recently changed their licensing. OrientDB was acquired by SAP and is withering while it's fork-replacement ArcadeDB doesn't have great connector support and seems untested. Apache AGE development has slowed due to business changes, etc. NebulaGraph seems reasonable, but there's surprising little feedback/chatter about it online.
What's your preferred graph database (preferably open source) and why?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489420
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Did A16Z get it wrong about stablecoins?
Here is the article from a16z about how stablecoins will change daily payments:
https://a16zcrypto.com/posts/article/how-stablecoins-will-eat-payments/
Their arguments look promising at first glance, especially about how low-margin business like grocery stores can immediately double their margin by simply getting rid of the 2-3% credit card transaction fees if they switch to stable coins.
Now, with only my consumer brain, does what they say actually make sense? Do merchants actually want to get rid of the 2-3% transaction fees?
They view these fees as a mere burden imposed to merchants by the financial system, however, I think the fees are actually the financial system helping the merchants. These fees enable consumers to potentially spend more than what they have, and also earn rewards (sometimes tied directly to particular stores, so a essentially a loyalty program) by spending. Hence I think paying these high transaction fees is essential in driving up sales.
Here is the dilemma of stablecoins in daily transactions. Sure we can eliminate the high transaction fees, and we can even setup a service for consumers to borrow stablecoins, but if transaction fees are removed, who is going to pay the rewards (and loyalty program) modern CC carry? I feel as a consumer this is a very hard sell. Merchants can force adoption of stablecoin payments if they are desperate to save the transaction fees, but isn't this just going back to the age when financial systems weren't developed enough to help merchants acquire and maintain customers ? Also, there are already ways to pay with low transaction fees like a debit card or third-party app.
The argument of a $2 coffee is convincing, on the ground that transaction fees can make up as much as 15% of the total transaction. However, there is almost no $2 coffee in the real world, and for those really low-value transactions normally the use of a credit card is just not allowed.
There is a very similar argument from the founder of coinbase 13 years ago (he is really way ahead): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3754664
but again, are these just pipe dreams? Am I missing something?
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489418
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Apple's Dormant Cups
Article URL: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/03/26/apples-dormant-cups/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489409
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AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligence
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/ai-versus-the-brain-and-the-race-for-general-intelligence/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489407
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What's New in Neovim 0.11
Article URL: https://gpanders.com/blog/whats-new-in-neovim-0-11/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489391
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What do you do when you're naked?
burning man means lonely afraid and taken.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489365
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CLI Semantic Search
Article URL: https://github.com/space0blaster/dora-cli
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489331
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Perfriend.com
Article URL: https://www.perfriend.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489319
Points: 1
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What Limits a Cell's Size?
Article URL: https://www.asimov.press/p/cell-size
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489279
Points: 1
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DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets
Europen Union creates Fedora-based Linux distribution for the public sector
Article URL: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/eu-os-bold-step-toward-digital-sovereignty-europe
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489237
Points: 3
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MusiCoT, a chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting technique for music generation [pdf]
Article URL: https://musicot.github.io/MusiCoT_paper.pdf
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489229
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The False Promise of ORMs
Article URL: https://mikepray.dev/posts/false-promise-of-orms/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489209
Points: 1
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Cilium eBPF-Go on Windows
Article URL: https://ebpf-go.dev/contributing/windows/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489190
Points: 2
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FCC chairman Brendan Carr starts granting telecom lobby's wish list
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/fcc-chairman-brendan-carr-starts-granting-telecom-lobbys-wish-list/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489181
Points: 5
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Beyond Bohr and Einstein
Article URL: https://cerncourier.com/beyond-bohr-and-einstein/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489173
Points: 1
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Matrix Profiles
Article URL: https://aneksteind.github.io/posts/2025-03-26.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489088
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