AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is ‘one of the dumbest ideas’
AWS CEO Matt Garman outlined 3 solid reasons why companies should not focus on cutting junior developer roles, noting that they “are actually the most experienced with the AI tools”. 3 Reasons AI Should Not Replace Junior Developers In a tech world obsessed with AI replacing human workers, Matt Garman, CEO of Amazon Web […]
Flick (YC F25) Is Hiring Founding Engineer to Build Figma for AI Filmmaking
About Us Flick is defining the future interface for AI native filmmaking. Think Figma and Cursor, but for creating AI films. Founded by Engineer who built Instagram Stories + Award winning filmmaker, we are a team of Tech + Artist. Well-funded by top VCs. Checkout our launch video Award-winning AI film created using Flick People […]
Tell HN: HN was down
– HN errored on all authenticated requests with 502 Bad Gateway. It did still respond to a limited amount of unauthenticated requests with presumably cached pages, which did not get updated. The last post on /newest claimed “0 minutes ago”, but was actually much older (1:32:57 PM GMT) and not the newest post. – This […]
The State of AI Coding Report 2025
Section 04 Model Snapshot Model benchmarks for GPT-5.1, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5-Codex, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro to understand how they behave as backends for coding agents across latency, throughput, rate limits, cold starts, cost, and tokenization efficiency.
Launch HN: Kenobi (YC W22) – Personalize your website for every visitor
Hey HN! We’re Rory, Chris, and Felix from Kenobi (https://kenobi.ai). Kenobi lets you add AI-based content personalization to any website. As a site owner, you install our personalization widget with a script tag, just like you would for e.g. a chatbot integration. As a visitor, you interact with the widget (right now by providing a […]
Gemini 3 Flash: frontier intelligence built for speed
Today, we’re expanding the Gemini 3 model family with the release of Gemini 3 Flash, which offers frontier intelligence built for speed at a fraction of the cost. With this release, we’re making Gemini 3’s next-generation intelligence accessible to everyone across Google products. Last month, we kicked off Gemini 3 with Gemini 3 Pro and […]
Learning the oldest programming language (2024)
01/31/2024 (last edited 05/07/2024) · While I probably should be learning a language like C, Go, or whatever new trendy language the ThePrimeagen mentions on Twitter (OCaml?), I’m going to attempt to learn Fortran. Fortran, which stands for FORmula TRANslator, was created at IBM by John Backus in 1957 for scientific applications and has apparently been […]
Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems
It’s now late into 2025, and just over a year since I wrote my last post on Passkeys. The prevailing dialogue that I see from thought leaders is “addressing common misconceptions” around Passkeys, the implication being that “you just don’t understand it correctly” if you have doubts. Clearly I don’t understand Passkeys in that case. […]
Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
In an interview with “The Verge”, the new Mozilla CEO, Enzor-DeMeo, IMHO hints that axing adblockers is something that, at the very least, was on the table in some form and at some point. From the article: He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 […]
AI’s real superpower: consuming, not creating
October 30, 2025 Everyone’s using AI wrong. Including me, until last month. We ask AI to write emails, generate reports, create content. But that’s like using a supercomputer as a typewriter. The real breakthrough happened when I flipped my entire approach. AI’s superpower isn’t creation. It’s consumption. The creation trap Here’s how most people use […]