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news.ycombinator.com• Jun 25, 2026• 1 min read
Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?I had been running a small (3 people) software company for about 4 years. Since closing down, I recently hung out at a friend's company to see what they were working on (15 ppl). To preface: I'm a heavy user of Claude (rarely write code by hand), but what I'm seeing in person has been rather shocking to me, and I wanted to calibrate with others.In particular: - the code is not the source of truth anymore; it's ask claude to write, and ask claude to explain - LoC, abstractions, and all those "software development principles" does not seem to matter to people - Code review is not done by humans - Actually understanding the problem deeply seems to be offloaded to claude - Some developers are running like 5+ simultaneous claude sessions, and no code is being looked at - Explosion of llm-generated testsFirst off, is this similar to what's going on at your company?If this company is representative, it feels like software development is going from a precise occupation that requires high degre
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news.ycombinator.com• Nov 16, 2025• 1 min read
Looking for Help on Diagnostics ModellingHi All, My Name is Will, I am a final year college student in Milan and the Co-Founder of this project Neutralis. I came across this website super randomly this evening and am fascinated!I will preface by stating that I am not a programmer nor an AI/ML engineer, just a an economics student with an amazing team of people around me.This is our first project and for the past year we have meandered through the tests and trial and error required to learn and understand what we need to build but as I’m sure you all know every task is linked to an exponentially increasing number of problems needed to be studied and solved as we trudge towards the market. Since I believe we’re all in the same boat and there are like minded and far more talented people on this page, I wanted to share what were doing and shout into the void to see if we can maybe find some answers to what were looking for!The project is this, an Intelligent fault detection diagnostics system tailored for industrial scale Heat Pu
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news.ycombinator.com• Sep 19, 2024• 1 min read
An Interesting Zero Knowledge Use Case?Preface: I’m a student (in my 30’s, went back to school for an MS in CS), so I view this mostly as a learning exercise.I’ve been curious about crypto for a while, and recently started learning about ZK Proofs, Plonk, SNARKs, zkvms, etc.I wonder if an immediate application could be something along the lines of Bot proof/proof of personhood, which seems to be a difficult problem and appears to be getting more difficult with AI (though correct me if I’m wrong). When I think about it, truly proving someone is a bot seems difficult without meeting them in real life and sitting side by side with them while they interact online. And yet, what if each of us could monitor our entire Internet activity i.e. locally store the packets we send and receive, and then provide a ZK-Proof of this history to anyone who asks during a login process. This would exist at the protocol level perhaps, or maybe built in to the browser. But the whole idea is that certain packets would be impossible for a bot to ge
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news.ycombinator.com• Nov 9, 2023• 1 min read
Thoughts on My Recent Book?I would love to hear your thoughts on my recent book. I had no desire to write yet another “Programming in X” text, and in fact decry the tendency of introductions to focus on a specific language and its features rather than the synthetic skill of programming. Somewhat cheekily, I wrote in the Preface: In elementary physics, one doesn't start learning mechanics by studying one or another brand of springs and pulleys; rather, one learns Newton's Laws and how to apply them in arbitrary situations. Similarly, in this book, I eschew the study of any particular brand of programming language, opting instead to focus on fundamental laws formulated as rules of program composition. I ended up with Principled Programming: Introduction to Coding in Any Imperative Language (https://www.cs.cornell.edu/info/people/tt/Principled_Programming.html). The concepts I bring to the fore in lieu of language details include: specifications and their implementations, top-down programming and stepwise refinemen
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news.ycombinator.com• Feb 28, 2023• 1 min read
What are some codebases from which beginners can learn to write good code?Peter Norvig in his book "Paradigms of Artifical Intelligence Programming" says in the preface:" All too often, the teaching of computer programming consists of explaining the syntax of the chosen language, showing the student a 10-line program, and then asking the student to write programs. In this book, we take the approach that the best way to learn to write is to read (and conversely, a good way to improve reading skills is to write). After the briefest of introductions to Lisp, we start right off with complex programs and ask the reader to understand and make small modifications to these programs.The premise of this book is that you can only write something useful and inter- esting when you both understand what makes good writing and have something interesting to say."Suppose a beginner who has taken an introductory programming or CS course using a language (for simplicity and generality say Python). Now they want to know how to solve variety of problems using that language and wr
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news.ycombinator.com• Apr 5, 2019• 1 min read
Ask HN: How do you control your diet while working at a tech company?I want to preface this question by saying that I know that those of us who work at tech companies where lots of free food is always readily available are very privileged (and perhaps spoiled...) in having that particular material need satisfied. Also, forgive me if this question has been asked before.That said, I’ve been working in tech for a while now and every workplace I’ve been a part of has had basically unlimited junky snack food and provided buffet-style breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. I constantly find myself failing to exercise restraint when eating in the office. This happens both through snacking and during meals. Furthermore, most of my meals are with my team, and I often find it extremely difficult to be disciplined about what I eat when the group decides what to eat together.In contrast, during times in my life when I’ve had to cook every meal for myself, I found it extremely easy to control how many calories I ingested - these times are the only times I’ve been s
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