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What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
https://1drv.ms/t/c/bc01c33494ab32b1/IQDSR0rolJrKSqaqvWuyQtnRAbM1Wgt9Er9zeOL0yjAQHKc?e=JRgOWE
https://ai-2027.com/
https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement
https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05869
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155
https://autoncorp.com/biodome/
https://babspixel.com
https://blog.plover.com//tech/gpt/presidential-emoji.html
https://blog.senko.net/may-quick-takes
https://brownstone.org/articles/since-lockdowns-a-12-gdp-loss-half-of-us-dollar-purchasing-power-stolen/
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a245319-70c0-832a-a7ae-df747fd7bea0
https://www.covenantairesolutions.com/post/what-is-a-furnace-inducer-motor-a-quick-guide
https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses/spec-driven-development-with-coding-agents
https://demades.ai/e/ask-hn-what-was-your-oh-shit-moment-with-genai-d9d05702
https://www.eleuther.ai/artifacts/gpt-neo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Dungeon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#Data_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expectation_confirmation_theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge-proof
https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/
https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/20251206_Gally_ICU_slides.pdf
https://ghuntley.com/stdlib/
https://gist.github.com/NoMoreNicksLeft/d3a4a59c7b4de0cdef1e26695606e51c
https://github.com/awentzonline/image-analogies
https://github.com/bobinson/aop1
https://github.com/EspoTek/.claude/blob/master/CLAUDE.md
https://github.com/greggman/sedon
https://github.com/obra/superpowers
https://github.com/tnymlr/soap-go
https://github.com/tylereaves/onscreen-piano
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/28404
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20527133
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44882.Code
https://www.google.com/search?q=kodi+crash+chromecast+4k
https://handy.computer/
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com
https://imgur.com/a/9Cj39MV
https://ingram.tech/
https://julienreszka.com/blog/ai-will-soon-generate-video-as-easily-as-images/
https://kodi.wiki/view/Archive:Reduce_disk_space_usage
https://linsomniac.github.io/rally-xy/
https://linsomniac.github.io/spychaser/
https://www.masswerk.at/elizabot/
https://medium.com/oracledevs/lessons-from-implementing-alphazero-7e36e9054191
https://mforney.org/blog/2026-05-28-patching-my-guitar-amps-firmware.html
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/textworld
https://natlawreview.com/article/new-york-court-rules-ai-documents-not-protected-privilege
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21717022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42653136
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44143928
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388447
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410072
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48418364
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48420769
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48428133
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/
https://openai.com/index/dall-e/
https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2023/05/genesis-az-by-gpt/
https://www.pangram.com/history/d33dcbcd-e82b-4ce0-bea5-e4ee190b9d15
https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/06/22/perfectly-reasonable
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11943480/
https://rainbreak.franzai.com/
https://rerdavies.github.io/pipedal/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/no-lawyer-no-money-more-americans-are-suing-with-ai-help-2026-05-15/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/
https://suno.com/s/pcuPXOd7SE2rON4a
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/81894848/mac-printing-deleted-printers-visible-new-ones-are-not?hl=en
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003734062/computational-modelling-single-prompts-maciej-matyka
https://theautomatedoperator.substack.com/p/ai-just-took-my-product-photographers
https://www.theverge.com/tech/943066/tsmc-ai-demand-struggles
https://timeflies.508.dev/
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/mystery-company-accidentally-blew-usd500-million-on-claude-in-a-single-month-failed-to-put-usage-limit-on-licenses-for-employees
https://tomverbeure.github.io/2026/04/12/AMIQ-License-Key-Generation.html
https://type2fun.net/infinitely-scalable-personal-apps
https://v0.app/templates/digitech-gnx3000-sysex-tool-GC5LzXA5dXt
https://www.wickeditor.com
https://x.com/GuiAmbros/status/1598897735955988481
https://x.com/tqbf/status/1598513757805858820
https://xkcd.com/2501/
https://youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI?is=yld6dPGAJ1HvjDsw
https://youtu.be/mcYl70vq_Ns?si=ljbc-kWtYBF8o5uk
https://youtu.be/S8MAV9jhf04?t=18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI
Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-duo-agent-platform-with-claude-accelerates-development/
https://antirez.com/news/164
https://biomni.phylo.bio
https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2014/papers/castro-practicalbft.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Commission_on_Artificial_Intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_(1940)
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-medical-ai-implementation
https://github.com/tylereaves/onscreen-piano
https://halecraft.org/software-engineering-is-the-new-manufacturing-engineering/
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22flamewar%20detector%22&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20consistent%20phenomenon&sort=byDate&type=comment
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ai
https://htmx.org/essays/code-is-cheap/#understanding-is-expensive-er
https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from-ai
https://ieefa.org/resources/projected-data-center-growth-spurs-pjm-capacity-prices-factor-10
https://ilaunion.org/the-ilas-fight-against-automation-preserving-jobs-securing-national-security-and-defending-the-future-of-work/
https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/157043617/Homer-Simpsons-Back-Fat
https://www.julianhaeger.com/posts/Disparate-Results-with-AI-Just-a-Skill-Issue
https://marcotm.com/articles/stats-of-being-on-the-hacker-news-front-page/
https://metr.org/
https://www.navyaai.com/reports/ai-cost-report-token-prices-vs-ai-bill
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35275/w35275.pdf
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31302494
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46018271
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035600
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132488
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323101
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48381598
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48401243
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406174
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414607
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417845
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48427800
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5929494
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://nitter.net/mitchellh/status/2060088112257372610#m
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/skub/
https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3955
https://www.wri.org/insights/4-charts-explain-greenhouse-gas-emissions-countries-and-sectors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeAMiBKi_EM
So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70448987/in-re-meta-android-privacy-litigation/
https://dn711508.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.450524/gov.uscourts.cand.450524.84.0.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Teachers%27_Pension_Plan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_action#United_States
https://gitlab.com/not_john/palpipe
https://localmess.github.io
https://order-of-the-engineer.org/about-the-order/obligation/
http://service.local
How are thinking efforts implemented?
https://developers.openai.com/cookbook/articles/openai-harmony#example-system-message
https://github.com/openai/harmony
What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
https://antigravity.google/product/antigravity-2
https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2026/05/ai-thoughts-part-2-agent-workflow-tools/
https://chrismorgan.info/ai
https://claude.com/product/claude-code
https://codeberg.org/jro/Knowledge/src/branch/main/2026-06-05_ai-development-workflow-tools.md
https://codeberg.org/mutablecc/calculate-ai-cost/src/branch/main/subscription_vs_api_comparison.csv
https://codeleash.dev
https://deepbluedynamics.com
https://dlang.org/
https://www.gibney.org/prompt_coding
https://github.com/cameronsjo/spec-compare
https://github.com/github/spec-kit
https://github.com/GreenpantsDeveloper/Picosa
https://github.com/llmsresearch/llm-flashcards
https://github.com/madarco/agentbox
https://github.com/ogulcancelik/herdr
https://github.com/portpowered/you-agent-factory/commits/main/
https://github.com/raine/workmux
https://github.com/RivoLink/flow
https://github.com/RivoLink/leaf
https://github.com/sermakarevich/ccw
https://github.com/sermakarevich/chunker/blob/master/.sddw/chunker/requirements.md
https://github.com/slavingia/skills
https://image.non.io/6e1f98ad-4c79-4735-9932-b0d5cca9be98.webp
https://nabraj.com/blog/ai-write-slow-better-code
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231575
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48407998
https://www.npmjs.com/package/mecha-ai
https://pi.dev
https://plannotator.ai
https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/31117-agent-cli
https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/
https://themodernsoftware.dev/
https://zed.dev/
Job market for SDMs/Engineering Managers. Any reliable data?
https://ctocraft.com/blog/compensation-survey-report-2026/
How do you find deep technical content?
https://aosabook.org/en/
https://circuitcellar.com/
How to get my contact info off US political party's list
https://www.spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml
What are the best examples of good technical writing you know of?
https://diataxis.fr/
https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=security
Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?
https://acceptmarkdown.com/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/markdown-for-agents/#convert-html-to-markdown-automatically
https://cloud.laravel.com/docs/llms.txt
https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/llms-txt/issues/2
https://github.com/solumos/md-browse
https://llmstxt.org/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410589`/llm.txt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411569
https://platform.claude.com/llms.txt
https://searchtxt-web.fly.dev
https://searchtxt-web.fly.dev/search?q=aws
https://weather.com/llms.txt
My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
https://www.instagram.com/cork.save/
I'm tired of LLM skill slop, so I built mine with regression tests
https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
https://dev.to/icflorescu/the-bot-that-never-was-2mfp
https://github.com/gionn/malware-cleanup/blob/master/scanner.py
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v1.3.13/
https://github.com/Team-Rockstars-Security/antimiasma
https://safedep.io/miasma-worm-ai-coding-agent-config-injection/
Life saving / first aid posters
https://www.american-club.com/page/posters
https://safetytrainingseminars.com/free-cpr-poster/
How did you discover Hacker News?
https://github.com/tastejs/hacker-news-pwas
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost-the-api-war/
https://techcrunch.com/2009/08/16/y-combinator-starts-seeding-ideas-to-startups/
https://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail188.html
