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Building Software vs. Building a Househttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536426I have a few rantings and opinions to submit to Hackernews on why the SWE terminology is outdated.I submit software engineers and vibe coders need a new name. Just call everyone Builders. You were never really an engineer with stamps, and now, a vibecoder can design software and call himself a software engineer without all the crap that you have been through to get where you are today. Its confusing and doesn't make sense long term.This is the new playing field. We now have crap builders who build houses that will fall down, develop water damage, flood the basement, have squeaks in the floor, burn the house down from loose wires. OR... you have good builders. They take pride in the home they build. They meet with the trades daily. They know exactly what each of the trades are doing. They know the house will stand for a hundred years because their eyes were watchful throughout the build. They saw every load of dirt that was dumped and compacted, every nail in the roof sheathing sunk.TheJun 15, 2026 3:57 AM
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Yardi delivers AI agents for every multifamily role and workflowhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d187aadb44bc3b18ece1ae75b443a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.morningstar.com%2Fnews%2Fpr-newswire%2F20260615ln83190%2Fyardi-delivers-ai-agents-for-every-multifamily-role-and-workflow&c=17108190161554929205&mkt=en-usSANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Yardi® announced expanded AI agent capabilities across multifamily operations through Yardi Virtuoso® Enterprise for multifamily, its enterprise AI ...Jun 14, 2026 10:01 PM
ray-hosting.com
Show HN: Ray Hosting – Topology-aware game server orchestrator made from scratchhttps://ray-hosting.com/en-USHey HN, I have built a game server orchestrator from scratch, As a solo-dev it took me 3+ years and almost 10 hours daily to finally complete it since i started in the beginning of 2023. Im 26 years old now!.The complexity and stuff i had to research to complete this project i couldnt have imagined them even in my dreams, but hey, here it is, my greatest professional achievement until now.Down below I will try to break down just some of the core and most important features of my game server orchestrator.1. CORE PINNING & CCD CACHE ALIGNMENTI had to research and understand CPU cache layouts. I found out that if my game containers, which utilize docker run, span across different core complex dies (CCDs) or share SMT sibling threads with a busy neighbor, L3 cache thrashing ruins single-core tick efficiency.Then what I did is that I pinned all non game-server processes strictly on core 0 and its SMT sibling core 12 using GRUB:I disabled the 1000Hz timer interrupts to prevent context switchJun 14, 2026 8:03 PM
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Ask HN: How can you trust your hardware?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530764There's a widespread idea in the technical community that TPMs don't provide any security:- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37435450- https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/50/getting-started?search=tpm#getting-started (see advice on tpm)- NSA encourages we use it https://media.defense.gov/2024/Nov/06/2003579882/-1/-1/0/CSI-TPM-USE-CASES.PDFBut, TPMs have real use cases: - It theoretically prevents kernel level exploits extracting secrets.- Projects like Qubes suggest using it to prevent evil maid attacks: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/user/hardware/system-requirements.html#recommendedBUT...- It provides a weak level of device attestation from the manufacturer: https://blog.cloudflare.com/anchoring-trust-a-hardware-secure-boot-story/#uefi-attacks- That cloudflare article suggests using AMD PSP which is equivalent to Intel ME that the NSA is know to request the disabling of https://stateofsurveillance.org/articles/technical/intel-management-engine-deep-dive/So it seems lJun 14, 2026 6:23 PM
bing.com
OpenAI Unveils Partner Program, $150M Investment; Channel Chief Sees ‘Massive Opportunity’ Aheadhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cafc16dcc4d39b6581ba824542d07&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crn.com%2Fnews%2Fai%2F2026%2Fopenai-unveils-partner-program-150m-investment-channel-chief-sees-massive-opportunity-ahead&c=13530295470517866382&mkt=en-usIn a monumental channel move, OpenAI is launching its first-ever partner program: the OpenAI Partner Network. OpenAI channel leader Colleen Kapase explains to CRN everything solution providers need to ...Jun 14, 2026 5:00 PM
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Show HN: Manim-Studio – Prompt to 3blue1brown videohttps://github.com/instavm/manim-studioHi,Created a tool that lets you type your idea and it can generate a 3blue1brown style video on this.The demo is free to use - https://crafty-resilient-grebe.instavm.site/Github open sourced as well - https://github.com/instavm/manim-studioIf you feel its cumbersome to set up manim locally, you can now just prompt this tool and it will create the video you need, be as descriptive as you like.Shoutout to the original Manim - https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manimHappy manim-ing!Jun 14, 2026 3:36 PM
readocha.com
Show HN: Öcha – A minimalist, Kindle-style RSS and newsletter readerhttps://readocha.com/I built Öcha because I was tired of algorithmic feed anxiety and bloated RSS readers. I wanted something that felt like reading on a Kindle—just pure text, with zero infinite scroll, no ads, and no tracking.It supports RSS, Subreddits, and email newsletters via private inbound mailboxes.You can try up to 5 sources directly on the homepage without creating an account or signing up (stored in your browser's local storage). I built the frontend in Svelte to keep it fast and lightweight. I would love your brutal feedback on the parsing quality.Jun 14, 2026 2:49 PM
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I built a bookkeeping app for UK sole traders as a new developer using AIhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527480About a month ago I started building QuarterPerfect — a bookkeeping tool aimed at UK sole traders and landlords, specifically designed around the MTD ITSA changes coming into effect this year (first quarterly deadline: 7 August).A bit of background on me firstly.I'm not a senior developer. My previous project was a small roster app that converted an XLSX shift rota into a calendar with annual leave support — mostly built for me and a few colleagues at work. Nothing with real users, nothing with payments or compliance requirements. QuarterPerfect is a significant step up from that.QuarterPerfect offers users bank statement import (CSV and PDF), transaction categorization with receipt matching, merchant rules for auto-categorizing recurring transactions, and a read-only accountant share link so clients can hand off clean records without chasing. It's web-first with a mobile app in testing.The technical side was challenging but learnable. The harder thing was building in a domain I have nJun 14, 2026 2:24 PM
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I tried ASUS’ ROG Xbox Ally X20, and the 171-inch screen changes everythinghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8d294e9af84b72a68aa3c9d6cd9a3a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitaltrends.com%2Fgaming%2Fi-tried-asus-rog-xbox-ally-x20-and-the-171-inch-screen-changes-everything%2F&c=1120559251984841444&mkt=en-usGaming handhelds are great because they are portable (basically small). But that is also one of its biggest weaknesses. I was reminded of that while trying Asus’ new ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle at ...Jun 14, 2026 11:45 AM
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I tried ASUS’ ROG Xbox Ally X20, and the 171-inch screen changes everythinghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8cd528feb64860bdf0fe33d4ef2a25&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitaltrends.com%2Fgaming%2Fi-tried-asus-rog-xbox-ally-x20-and-the-171-inch-screen-changes-everything%2F&c=1120559251984841444&mkt=en-usGaming handhelds are great because they are portable (basically small). But that is also one of its biggest weaknesses. I was reminded of that while trying Asus’ new ROG Xbox Ally X20 bundle at ...Jun 14, 2026 11:45 AM
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Beverly G. Hugle (Hinton)'s Obituaryhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMingFBVV95cUxPYnZvblhTUFB6LVZvRTNDYkh4UjNhZ2JGNGFIMXota1R1dktoU0E0b3ZmeU83dTZBZnJfbHo4U0hTUzJnVDFWM1dGa3k3ejlLQU5wLWNac0tPTDFDU2hNcHlDRzl6b2N3T0N4V08zMGtvY1o3NnFJb2J4bzBrZ1FrM2szU2NNY2txQVkzMTVEQlVNa3poYkhYbTV1aTJKZw?oc=5Beverly G. Hugle (Hinton)'s Obituary rememberobits.comJun 14, 2026 7:00 AM
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Story of How Im Running an Unlimited $6/Month AI Provider on 4x RTX 3090shttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524387This submission is a tale about how I launched an unlimited LLM provider to about 60 hyped people on the waitlist, then immediately served them a fully dysfunctional death-loop model, and how most people, very reasonably, disappeared, but thanks to a few extremely nice people stuck around anyway, we kept the project alive and its still pretty chaotic but gaining traction.To back up a little bit-- I believe that the whole point of AI agents is that they should keep working. They should read files, retry, search, code, summarize, run tools, and loop until the job is done. When your employer is paying for it, who cares about cost, but when it comes to my personal money/hobbies, if every loop feels like a tiny financial event, you start babysitting the agent instead of using it, and its not fun.On the other hand, metered pricing makes me worry about using too much. Usage subscriptions make me feel like I need to use every last magical % or I'm are "wasting it". If only an unlimited provideJun 14, 2026 5:11 AM
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Show HN: Lightweight C++23 S3 client with no extra deps (just curl and OpenSSL)https://github.com/ggcr/s3cppAttached is my attempt at making a small toy S3 client without any other dependency besides libcurl and OpenSSL. Was tested mainly on MinIO (RIP) locally, so I would expect some bugs when using it against AWS, although I was able to play with it on some open access bucketsBe aware that I am not a C++ programmer and this project was indeed done to learn a bit of C++ myself :')Feedback on any of the code, either on gtest, or the benchmarking section or the core itself is welcome!Jun 13, 2026 4:40 PM
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Realistic Superintelligencehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48513331Most of us are skeptics. HN, mostly, is composed of “most of us”, so it’s not surprising to see skeptics here. Perhaps the HAL level superintelligence parroted by CEOs is to IPO at a trillion dollars. So let’s instead talk about a “realistic superintelligence” vs the “Sauron superintelligence”. Something we might see within, say, 5 years.Curtains openBy having conceived of a super-human intelligence (and by that concept being in AI training data), humans have taught /soon-will-have-taught AI that superhuman intelligence is its purpose. This may read like the beginnings of a LinkedIn post, so let me defend that last part with an informal proof:Since 1) AI knows it’s AI: just ask your favorite bot about itself 2) Soon, if not already, some researcher being paid 7 figures (more on that later) is going to find that letting one of these frontier models improve itself will be a nice project when going up for promotion.,We are going to end up with a frontier model-cum-factory self-modifying fJun 13, 2026 4:50 AM
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Ask HN: Depressionhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509461I stopped caring about my job a while ago. I’ve become somewhat numb and withdrawn due to a mix of substance abuse, overworking, poor sleep and poor cognition habits due to AI usage.For those who have gone through this mental exhaustion, what has helped?Jun 12, 2026 9:11 PM
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NASA to Cover 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission Space Station Departurehttps://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-cover-34th-spacex-resupply-mission-space-station-departure/NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 16, for its return to Earth. Watch NASA’s live undocking coverage beginning at 11:45 a.m. EDT on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel. […]Jun 12, 2026 3:32 PM
stackscope.dev
Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they shiphttps://stackscope.dev/Hey all, I built StackScope, a crawler/catalogue that looks at new product launches and shows what they were built with.It watches launches from Product Hunt, Show HN, and PeerPush, then crawls the public site behind each one. The goal is to show what people actually launched with: hosting, frameworks, analytics, DNS, security headers, legal pages, AI-builder signals, and other public clues.I started building it because most stack-detection sites look at the web as a whole. I was more interested in the current indie launch scene: what people are choosing right now, at the point they first put something in public.A few implementation details: it runs on .NET, uses Playwright for rendered pages, and has a first-party fingerprint catalogue rather than one copied from Wappalyzer/etc. robots.txt is honoured, and the bot identifies itself.Frustratingly, I am still waiting for verified bot status from Cloudflare and currently that knocks out about 10% of all sites.There is also a private readJun 12, 2026 3:26 PM
spacenews.com
H3 successfully returns to flighthttps://spacenews.com/h3-successfully-returns-to-flight/Japan’s H3 rocket launched June 11 on its first flight since a failure in December, placing six smallsats in orbit. The post H3 successfully returns to flight appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 12, 2026 12:15 PM
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Stimulants Are the Killer of Generalistshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500343From a young age, I was prescribed stimulants to 'treat' a strong case of ADHD. Being ~7 at the time, I had no clue what was going on. Never really questioned it either. Fast forward 18 years: through a lot of introspection, I can happily say I am not in a position I'd like to be in.Stimulants come at tradeoffs.I've come to realize that people with ADHD are: - Observant - Social - GeneralistI've also come to notice that I am: - Specialist - Zombie - Anti Social"Locked-in" = specialist.I hate specialization. Its fragile. Throughout history, generalists have reigned. Entrepreneurs are generalists. I want to be an entrepreneur.I work a job now. Software Engineering. Im left wondering, what will I do if I leave the stimulants? I dont vouch for the life I live, at all. I will find a way out of it.Im not an introvert. Yet I've grown as one. Its isolating, seeing people socialize and strangely feeling out of place.I've confirmed all of this through trial and error. Dropping the stimulants, goJun 12, 2026 5:39 AM
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ESA astronaut assignment on Artemis 3 part of negotiations on revised Artemis roleshttps://spacenews.com/esa-astronaut-assignment-on-artemis-3-part-of-negotiations-on-revised-artemis-roles/The assignment of an ESA astronaut to Artemis 3 is part of negotiations for revised roles in the overall effort, with a goal of getting its astronauts on the moon. The post ESA astronaut assignment on Artemis 3 part of negotiations on revised Artemis roles appeared first on SpaceNews.Jun 11, 2026 5:33 PM
