Ask HN: Why is pagination gone on "Ask HN", and showing only 19 items?

There is quite opposing discourse on the internet as to whether AI is going to take everyone&#x27;s job, or if we are witnessing one of the greatest pre-IPO PR jobs in history. Or both.I&#x27;m wondering what people smarter than me believe or don&#x27;t believe.

Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?

It may just be me, but old.reddit.com is finally gone. And, at last, I am free

Old.reddit.com Gone

I delete the emails, refresh the screen and the emails are still not deleted.Has anyone else had this issue? It&#x27;s happening on two difference computers, one with Ad-Block and one without any extensions.For me, it has been an ongoing for several weeks now.

Expericencing an issue in Gmail where emails do not delete in Firefox

Now that we have coding agents writing all our code for us, are you still needing to reach out and read books such as clean code and other software architecture books?I think they are now more important than ever as there is more code being pushed out than one can read to see if it is robust as the agents claim.

Ask HN: Do you still read clean code and software architecture books?

I&#x27;ve been trying to enroll for Apple Developer for over a month and nothing works.The Apple Developer app won&#x27;t accept my Canadian passport for identity verification. The enrollment is for a Delaware LLC, so my Apple account region is set to US. I can&#x27;t switch the account region to Canada either, because I haven&#x27;t lived there in years and don&#x27;t have a Canadian bank card.If I enroll through the website, the enrollment gets approved, I accept the term and, when it&#x27;s time to pay, all my cards get declined. I tried ~7 bank cards (debit, credit, personal, business), all with matching billing addresses. All US cards. All the banks tell me they didn&#x27;t decline transactions from Apple. I tried no VPN, VPN and residential VPN. I tried from my MacBook, iPhone, Safari, Chrome, incognito, non-incognito.Phone support is unavailable every time I check. I tried talking to regular Apple Store customer support but after repeating myself over 5 times with different agents, the last person I got transferred to told me they couldn&#x27;t help with Developer stuff.If I email Developer support, they reply ~5 days later with unhelpful canned responses like &quot;have you tried Safari incognito?&quot;, &quot;you should try the Developer app instead&quot; or &quot;make sure your billing address matches your bank information&quot;. I&#x27;m at support email #9 and enrollment attempt #3.Has anyone had similar issues and been able to fix them?

Ask HN: Is it not possible to enroll for Apple Developer anymore?

Is anyone else experiencing slow connections with sites hosted behind cloudflare? my website and server hosted behind cloudflared are experiencing slow loading times for some reason.

Slow Cloudflare Connections

DietPi - the lightweight Debian based Linux distribution.Our major changes:DietPi-Wireguard: New tool to manage WireGuard servers and clients
DietPi-Software: Software packages are setup via names instead of IDs
HAProxy: Optimized installation (apt) without recompile needed
DietPi-Config: Smaller improvements
Quartz64: Support for ATAPI&#x2F;SCSI CD&#x2F;DVD&#x2F;Blu-ray drives
UTM VMs: Now with ARM and UEFI support
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Fixes for DietPi-Drive_Manager, DietPi-Cloudshell, UrBackup, Immich, Immich Machine Learning, Tor Relay, Kubo, NextcloudOf course, there are further changes and fixes. See also: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dietpi.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;releases&#x2F;v10_8How to update? Just run dietpi-update.In addition, it would be nice, if you would contribute to our project or support us with a small donation: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dietpi.com&#x2F;contribute.html.

DietPi v10.8 has been released

Ask HN: T'was the night of Claude Reset and quota left: Funniest app you built?

There have been, increasingly, a large number of posts [1] on HN in the past few weeks, where developers are slowly coming to terms with the breakneck speed with which Agentic Coding has advanced in the past few months.We all agree that an average software developer today is closely resembling the horse-carriage just when automobiles were becoming mainstream around 120 years ago.And coming to HN daily and finding at least one such lament from a software engineer is becoming quite tiresome.We are all, mostly, rational thinkers and worship logic and reasoning even more than our respective gods.With the context built-up enough, I would like to challenge the community to come up with ways to counter this death march that we find ourselves on. We are now, with every passing day, becoming more and more dependent on Agentic Coding. This is bringing the inevitable end to our profession closer at an exponential rate.It seems we are like a drug-addict that knows that soon, one day, the drug would be a likely end of him, yet carries on consuming it.How can we control this?How do we slow down the pace?How do we bring it to a halt?Is there a cold-turkey way out of this?[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50230965https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50188865PS: This a resubmission of my post [https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=50232407]. It got flagged for some reason. I sent a mail to HN, but didnt get any reply.

Ask HN: Can we do something about this impending AI dystopia

The &quot;product graveyard&quot; of SaaSHub has been tracking the status (and lifespan) of hundreds of thousands of products. It&#x27;s been hovering around 4y for quite some time. However, there&#x27;s a sharp decline in 2026 leading to about 1.5y these days. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.saashub.com&#x2F;product-graveyard" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.saashub.com&#x2F;product-graveyard</a> That&#x27;s a huge drop. And, it matches my &quot;human&quot; observations. A lot of products are being vibe coded, released, and soon after that abandoned. It&#x27;s become too cheap to produce software. So, a lot of people have been experimenting for &#x27;free&#x27; with their ideas - only to find out that they weren&#x27;t viable... or that they couldn&#x27;t bring customers in. Distribution and marketing have become much more important than before - within the context that everyone can build &quot;features&quot; for free.Anyhow, I expect this trend of shortening product lifespan to continue even further down. Or maybe, at some point people will realised that there are no users for their products as every user can &quot;build&quot; their own and custom product. Leaving us with a dozen huge platforms that host and help you build those apps. Until then - it&#x27;s a crazy gold rush and a lot of makers are abandoning their empty buckets.

Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y

I&#x27;ve been a Max user of Claude all year and it&#x27;s crucial to my day to day work. Last night I had a new experience which makes me feel like a junior dev who blew thousands of dollars on a misconfigured AWS CDK file.To avoid agents doing online research from leaking private info I created a persona which can do online research as a subagent from a fresh context, I asked it to fact check claims as well. Little did I know subagents don&#x27;t report their token usage and my subagents ended up recursively checking claims. I burned through 80% of my Fable usage for the week in 10 minutes.I&#x27;ve never come close to using my full token allowance before and now I&#x27;m going to have to spend money on expensive usage tokens or upgrade to 20x (or change to a different provider) to complete this weeks work.Anthropic&#x27;s online support agent was terse, &quot;empathizing&quot; but ultimately said it could not do anything.Wouldn&#x27;t the right thing from a Customer Support perspective to give a one-time usage reset in a case like this? If they had a human instead of an agent doing it, would that have changed the outcome?I&#x27;ve implemented bounding now in my persona&#x27;s but it just seems like this is a preventable problem that they&#x27;re (1) not solving and (2) not willing to remedy when it did happen.Full disclosure, I love what Anthropic has built in Claude and use the product daily.

Ask HN: Why Is Anthropic's Customer Support Bad?

What to do if you discover AI models trained using your copywrighted book?

I expect more and more professions getting affected in the next 3 to 5 years, not all on the positive side. Software dev is already changing.What are your plans? Are you planning to quit software altogether? Or stop coding and adapt, accept AI but stay in software field? Or something else? If you’re not in software, what plans then?It would be helpful if you can include what career level are you at (or age range, if you prefer)

Ask HN: What are your career plans in the age of AI?

You too can get rich quick in real estate --- details in this book; only $49.95.If there really was a sure fire way to get rich quick, why sell books to the public? Why not keep it to yourself and apply it to make money?The same applies to AI. If it was really all that, they wouldn&#x27;t be selling tokens to the public. They would be forming corporate partnerships, building products and conquering markets --- starting with the financial markets.Those who can --- do. Those who can&#x27;t --- sell books and &quot;tokens&quot;.

Is AI just another get rich quick scheme?

Hey there, founder of a startup here which main product is an oss project.We&#x27;ve been trying to grow the project for months, and it&#x27;s lowkey growing in stars and adoption. But it&#x27;s linear.We see other projects do big jumps and hit thousands of stars in days. Going viral in HN, X, etc.We believe that real adoption might not come from one day to another, and the teams using us are happy and want to use us more.Now, I hate to spam in places like hn or other forums, but what strategies have you found working? Specially in the realm of AI.Obviously if you ask ai, it&#x27;s always: launch in HN, PH, etc, etc.We post a lot on x, linkedin and such, but would love to push the adoption curve up.Any help welcome!Cheers,Won&#x27;t spam my project here, if you want to check it it&#x27;s on gh -&gt; desplega-ai&#x2F;agent-swarm

Ask HN: How do you grow OSS projects?

I think there is still place for this type of coding where you autocomplete predictable chunks and review it as you go.But I haven&#x27;t seen much development in this space. Are there any notable models optimized for this task or full&#x2F;semi-autonomous coding has taken over?

Ask HN: Are tab completion models dead?

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