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We spent ten years burying the 10x engineer myth. AI is digging it back up
Article URL: https://maxence.maireaux.fr/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289376
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Instagram's New Logo
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/979583/this-is-instagrams-new-logo
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289374
Points: 1
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Compute-Optimal Is Not Cluster-Optimal
Article URL: https://szha.ai/blog/compute-optimal-is-not-cluster-optimal/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289372
Points: 1
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Modeling One LLM Agent Three Ways: Python, Clojure, Elixir
Article URL: https://sdtimes.com/programming-languages/elixir-clojure-or-python-for-llm-agents-our-experience-with-all-three/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289358
Points: 1
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Ask HN: What's slop? what's AI written text and why read/not read?
Question, I check HN often, and noticed the trend towards "it's obvious that was written by AI so I didn't read it", or couldn't handle it, or hate the way the prose it's written.
And a similar behavior towards AI generated code, also mirrored by multiple AI policies around AI submitted patches/PRs.
Now question, say you have an idea about x product, or y improvement as a patch to a OSS, or whatever where AI can help you, then you
a) outsource to this team of people, local to you, same language, you can go and say hi to the person working on it, then don't review the output and put on github b) team is in your country, more difficult to go say hi, but you don't review the output and put on github c) same but the team is in another country d) same but the work is done by a contractor of a contractor, again you don't review and put it on github e) ask it to the free chatgpt version, don't review, post to github f) ask it to haiku on your 20$ claude account, don't review, post it to github g) ask it to claude mythos... the version that hacks stuff as has to be contained in a magnetic field air gapped... don't review the output and post it to github...
where does it start being slop and where is not? now, if instead of that, I review the output, read it, understand it, dogfeed it to myself to make sure it works, test it for 3 weeks, go through 100 rounds of polishing, and then post it to github... is it the same or not?
if not then AI is not the issue... the issue is hastily done stuff that's not reviewed, that you didn't guide, that you didn't test, that you didn't check EVEN if it has "the load bearing decision" 5 times.
IF the AI style writting is the issue, then polishing, ai or not, is not the problem.
NOT A PRO-AI DISCOURSE, if the thing dissapeared tonight, thanks GOD we will be able to buy RAM and gpus again at sane prices and stop the insane wave of quickly,hasted,PRs making it or not to the software we use.
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289341
Points: 1
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Hooray for index funds–just don't call them passive
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/11/hooray-for-index-funds-just-dont-call-them-passive
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289340
Points: 1
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Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-on-twitch-streamers-content-by-default-unless-they-opt-out/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289304
Points: 4
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Compute Futures
Article URL: https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/energy/power/compute-futures.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289272
Points: 2
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I want extern "fil-C"
Article URL: https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/13/i-want-extern-fil-c/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289260
Points: 3
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Americans Love the Roar of a V-8 Engine–and They Don't Want to Give It Up
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/ram-truck-pickup-v-8-f1500-f0f8b234
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289256
Points: 4
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Bounded Asynchrony and Nested Parallelism for Scalable Graph Processing
Article URL: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/087d4c92-d9cc-4169-b30b-2d3bbdebebf8/content
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289251
Points: 1
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Show HN: Sched – On-call rotations for small teams that don't need PagerDuty
Article URL: https://getsched.dev/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289240
Points: 2
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„If this was real,everyone would have been dead long ago"(German ICE fire drill)
X open sources its ranking algo, letting users see if they've been shadowbanned
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/x-open-sources-its-ranking-algorithm-letting-users-see-if-theyve-been-shadowbanned/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289236
Points: 3
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Siamese Neural Network
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siamese_neural_network
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289221
Points: 2
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The Review That Praised the Bug: grading three LLM code reviews against the code
Article URL: https://mrjstickel.com/projects/review-scorecard
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289220
Points: 2
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Show HN: Zod schema is a binary codec, no IDL, no codegen
Article URL: https://github.com/ChiChuRita/shorn
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289206
Points: 2
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University of Michigan Drops First-Semester Grades to 'Curb Mental Health Crisis'
Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switching (2022)
Article URL: https://contextkeeper.io/blog/the-real-cost-of-an-interruption-and-context-switching/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287645
Points: 1
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Will Databricks Ever IPO?
Article URL: https://twitter.com/alighodsi/status/2087910823142240500
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49287627
Points: 2
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