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The PMO Didn't Fail Agile. It Failed to Justify Itself.

The Project Management Office isn't disappearing because agile teams don't need governance — it's disappearing because too many PMOs never learned to do anything except enforce it. Picture this scene, which plays out with depressing regularity across enterprise IT floors: a product owner finishes a sprint and, before she can breathe, receives an email from the PMO asking her to convert her product backlog into a Gantt chart for the monthly project board. She has no Gantt chart. She has w...
The Hard Part Was Finding the File: Rethinking Distributed Computing #2
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The Hard Part Was Finding the File: Rethinking Distributed Computing #2

Decentralizing the files was easy. Decentralizing the answer to “where is the file?” was where things got interesting. "How peer-to-peer systems evolved from Napster’s centralized directory and Gnutella’s query flooding to structured overlays, DHTs, and Chord’s logarithmic routing." Peer-to-peer file sharing begins with an idea that feels ✨ simple ✨ Alice has a file. Bob wants the file. Why place a giant server in the middle? Let Bob download it directly from Alice. ...
Your API works in curl but not in the browser — that's CORS
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Your API works in curl but not in the browser — that's CORS

You built an API. You tested it with curl and every endpoint answered perfectly. Then you pointed a front end at it and got this: Access to fetch at 'http://localhost:8080/api/login' from origin 'http://localhost:5173' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check. Nothing is broken. Your API is fine. curl was never the test. I hit this building a Vue front end for a Go helpdesk API, so here is what is actually happening and ...
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Show HN: Hamilton – a no-internet Android health dashboard, named after my dog

I started experimenting with LLMs and decided I wanted to create a fitness app. My first thought was an app that disabled Google Pay every time my phone detected I was within 50m of a McDonald's. However, I quickly pivoted like a true founder to create an app that addressed a personal issue of mine. On Android, if you have a bunch of apps and fitness monitors from different manufacturers, very few of them all talk to each other. Your data is scattered across different apps or double counted. How...
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Show HN: Jev Plays Pokémon Red

Hey HN! Wanted to share a fun project I've been hacking on. Given Jev can make decisions really fast (but not fast enough to play Doom yet sadly), I wanted to try and push it to play a more complex game than Tetris. So I went with Pokémon. I've spent endless hours playing this game as a child so building this was a ton of fun. I open sourced everything in case you want to hack on it yourself here: https://github.com/christianmat/jev-pokemon The game is being streamed live including the tokens ...
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Typst makes big strides

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1092993/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846640 Points: 43 # Comments: 4
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Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview

Map your AI worldview by answering a few questions, and see how you compare with others. only takes a few minutes && free & open source && private by default && powered by Jev I think this is a really important question for everyone to be asking themselves, and my hope is that this lil project helps to move our conversations around AI futures in a more balanced, productive direction. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846953 Points: 33 # Comments: 21
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Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

The following explanation is taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622607 : Alan Kay performs an improvisational avant garde layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon, live online during Kristen Nygaard's 100-year birthday celebration. Alan was scheduled to talk about how encountering Simula sparked his early thoughts about objects. During setup, somebody had the live stream playing out loud near an open Zoom mic, so his own voice kept arriving back in his ears about 21 secon...
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Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001)

Article URL: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mblum/research/pdf/grad.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49848680 Points: 17 # Comments: 3
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Microsoft thinks its new Copilot ‘super app’ will be as influential as Office

After teasing its new Copilot "super app" last month, Microsoft is officially unveiling it today. The redesigned Copilot app bundles three AI capabilities into a single interface of chat, coding, and agents. As part of the launch, Microsoft is also rebranding Scout, the AI personal assistant it unveiled at Build earlier this year, as Autopilot. […]
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Insta360 conquered 360 cameras — now it’s eyeing glasses

It's right there in the name: "Insta360" makes 360-degree cameras, ones that film every angle simultaneously so you can shoot first and frame later. It didn't invent the idea, but Insta360 has become so synonymous with 360 cameras that it dominates the category with 73 percent of worldwide marketshare. It's preparing to ship so many […]
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Gaming’s biggest horror series are more vital than ever

For the third year in a row, I've been scared out of my wits by a new Silent Hill game. First it was the modern remake of Silent Hill 2, then the Japan-set spinoff Silent Hill F. Now I find myself slowly crawling through a quaint Scottish town in Silent Hill: Townfall, trying my best […]
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Cricut’s new compact crafter prints, cuts, and laminates stickers

Cricut announced its first crafting machines with printing capabilities that are primarily designed as all-in-one solutions for turning photos and other images into precut stickers. The Cricut StickerPix Print plus Cut and Cricut StickerPix Print are also two of the smallest machines in the company's current lineup and seem ideal for those whose crafting aspirations […]
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One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks

In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures implicating numerous AI models trickled out over the past few […]
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Sony and UMG are suing Suno again

Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models, which were themselves trained on unlicensed music ripped from YouTube and other sources. Sony and UMG are notable holdouts who did not sign […]