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We're putting too much faith in AI's ability to say no

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/09/1145728/we-are-putting-too-much-faith-in-ai-to-say-no/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018805 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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I Use AI to Learn Things [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzcI5F4tGiU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018824 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
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A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza schools

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/gaza-children-village-ai-speech-schools-7a41b3986524877b3e7ade7985853c53 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018904 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Microsoft 365 Family subscribers will finally be able to share AI benefits

Microsoft bundled its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions last year, but it only allowed the primary account holder to access the AI benefits. Now, Microsoft is about to let Microsoft 365 Family and Premium subscribers share Copilot and AI usage features, alongside access to Office apps and OneDrive storage, with […]
Do you still need SCSS? What Next.js and Angular 22.2 actually do with native CSS nesting
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Do you still need SCSS? What Next.js and Angular 22.2 actually do with native CSS nesting

Another comparison between Angular 22.2 and React/Next.js. The previous one covered @boundary , the new block for template errors: Template errors: React and Next.js vs Angular 22.2's @boundary . Browsers now support nested CSS without a preprocessor: .card { padding : 1rem ; .title { font-weight : 600 ; } & :hover { outline : 1px solid ; } } Cross-browser support for the relaxed nesting syntax arrived in Firefox 117...
NestJS Observe vs Sentry, Datadog and OpenTelemetry: which one for a NestJS app?
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NestJS Observe vs Sentry, Datadog and OpenTelemetry: which one for a NestJS app?

One disclosure up front: I created NestJS and my team builds Observe, so this comparison has a clear point of view. The statements about the other tools were checked against their documentation in September 2026; those details can change, so verify them for your own setup. Every monitoring tool can trace a NestJS app. Only one of them was built from inside the framework, and that changes what a trace can show you. That's the short version of this whole post. The four realistic options for ...
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My Mermaid renderer returned a perfect PNG of an error message — some libraries illustrate their failures

A rendering job came through my diagram API last month: a flowchart for a deployment runbook, one node labeled build (x86) . Unquoted parentheses inside square brackets are a classic Mermaid parse trap, and this diagram tripped it. What surprised me wasn't the failure — it was that my API answered 200 OK with 40 KB of PNG and the job marked done. I opened the image. It was a tidy little box that said "Syntax error in text". Mermaid doesn't throw on bad syntax during render; it draws the pars...
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Why a compliance tool needs its own egress allowlist

I didn't expect the hardest security decision in a compliance engine to be about outbound network calls. It was. Opencomplai's services occasionally need controlled external connectivity. Fetching a model card. Hitting a registry. Whatever a given integration requires. The obvious options are two. Let every service make arbitrary outbound requests, which is bad for anything touching legal evidence. Or block everything and special-case exceptions inline in each service, which is a maintenan...
What Does a Forward Deployed Engineer Actually Do?
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What Does a Forward Deployed Engineer Actually Do?

An impressive AI demo can be built in a day. Making that demo something that other people can actually use and improve upon is significantly more involved. This is the domain of the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE). An FDE is someone who works on software, machine learning, and systems integration, as well as collaborates with stakeholders in order to transform an ill-defined business problem into working software that fits into an existing ecosystem. As such, the role has a high upside for de...
AI Got Better While I Was Away. Software Didn't.
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AI Got Better While I Was Away. Software Didn't.

I haven't written here in a while. Not because I ran out of opinions. That would be concerning. I just got tired of the endless stream of: AI will replace developers AI will never replace developers this model changes everything this agent changes everything software engineering is dead software engineering has never been more important So I stopped writing for a bit. AI did not. And coming back now, one thing feels pretty obvious: AI got better. ...
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.NET: how to consume a scoped service from a singleton?

This is a short post about a very specific C#/.NET topic. They say one needs to pick their battles. Here I decided to pick a battle with a StackOverflow answer from 2018 and a couple of fellow tech bloggers, because I have opinions. This is not exactly a tutorial, so I assume the reader has some basic understanding of .NET, its DI mechanisms and service lifetimes. Q: In .NET, how to consume a scoped service from a singleton? A: Just google it. One of the first search results is a ...
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Building a Dependency-Free Table Size Calculator for a Shopify Collection Page

Most product filters answer "what do you sell?" Very few answer "will this fit?" I work on the Shopify store for Ramaya, a home decor brand. One of the collections is table runner and placemat sets : one runner plus six matching placemats. Customer questions on that page were almost never about colour or fabric. They were about size. "Will a 72 inch runner fit my table?" "Will the runner cover the placemats?" So I built a small calculator that sits on the collection page and answers those...
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"Remote" doesn't mean "anywhere": I built an API that checks if you can actually apply

If you've looked for remote work from outside the US, you know the routine: find a great "remote" role, write a cover letter, scroll to the bottom of the ad, and read "US residents only." So I measured it. In a sample of 200 recent jobs on Jobicy, 118 were open to US residents only . "Remote" usually means "remote within one country." I built Remote Jobs by Country , an Apify Actor that pulls jobs from Himalayas, Remote OK, We Work Remotely and Jobicy and answers one question for eac...
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Hooks: Steer Your Agent Before the LLM Call

Small feature, outsized leverage: Dapr Agents lets you register hooks around the agent loop where the before_llm_call being the one I use the most. from dapr_agents import DurableAgent def add_live_context ( ctx ): ctx . messages . append ( web_search ( ctx . task )) # fresh context, every call agent = DurableAgent ( name = " researcher " , hooks = { " before_llm_call " : add_live_context }, ) Everything ...
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Reform des deutschen Arbeitszeitgesetzes: Flexibilität vs. Arbeitnehmerschutz

Flexible Wochenarbeitszeiten, Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Arbeitnehmerschutz in Einklang bringen Die Debatte über eine Reform des deutschen Arbeitszeitgesetzes (ArbZG) hat Anfang 2026 an Dynamik gewonnen. Der sächsische Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer argumentierte, die geltenden Regelungen stammten aus „einer anderen Zeit“ und müssten besser an die digitale und globalisierte Arbeitswelt angepasst werden. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Frage, ob Deutschland an den täglichen Arbeitszeitgrenzen fe...
Nydus + JuiceFS: Reducing Container Startup Time for AI Inference from 116s to 1.4s
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Nydus + JuiceFS: Reducing Container Startup Time for AI Inference from 116s to 1.4s

In large-scale AI inference services, when a cluster scales out, newly added inference instances must go through a series of cold-start steps before they can serve requests: container image preparation, file system mounting, runtime and inference framework initialization, and model weight loading. As image sizes and model weights continue to grow, the time spent on data preparation becomes increasingly prominent. During large-scale scaling events, many instances start simultaneously, further i...
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Yes, and

Article URL: https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003796 Points: 375 # Comments: 111
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Orkut.com

Article URL: https://orkut.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006012 Points: 187 # Comments: 134
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Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB

Article URL: https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427 Points: 727 # Comments: 144