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Software Engineering in the Agentic Era

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/agentic-engineering-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405117 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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Technology Aug 23, 2026

US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2g23ng8p4o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49405110...

Technology Aug 23, 2026

Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf]

Article URL: https://olli.unt.edu/handouts/fall24/tk-writing-sample.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

NanoGPT Speedrun Frontier

Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/research/nanogpt-speedrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches and board meetings.

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?

On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup board seats.

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge

Article URL: https://a16z.com/knowing-when-to-stop-the-art-of-making-a-loop-converge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Fast and Hard Code

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

English ↔ Claudish Translator

Article URL: https://programasweights.com/claudish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402907 Points: ...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

NetBSD and My Life (2005)

Article URL: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2005/09/10/0000.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Aug 22, 2026

hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate

Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/8/7.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent whose ability to replicate scientific pa...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens

Certain logos started standing out to me on LinkedIn as brighter/whiter than everything else around them.I dug in and f...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Things I want in a modern relational query language

Article URL: https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/ Comments URL: https:/...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is

Article URL: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/why-your-local-llm-feels-dumber-than-it-is/253917 Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers

Article URL: https://marcua.net/minitools/figmimic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402213 Points:...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel

Article URL: https://thinkinginpython.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402202 Points: 16 # Com...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Scrap

Article URL: https://twitter.com/moxie/status/2091218652133732491 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

I set a trap for a book-marketing scammer (2025)

Article URL: https://rwwgreene.substack.com/p/i-set-a-trap-for-a-book-marketing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator....

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Reading Maps – Journeys from fiction drawn on the real world

Article URL: https://readingmaps.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402107 Points: 3 # Comments:...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/europe/prince-belgium-secret-son-scli-intl Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Doodle generative compositions in your browser with Musical Spirograph

I remember having a Spirograph as a kid and being obsessed with it. Its geometric patterns are hypnotic and gorgeous. I ...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

Article URL: https://twitter.com/argofowl/status/2091150597374537729 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the company previously opposed.

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/-anthropic-ipo-filing-will-show-ai-backlash-as-risk-sources-say.html Comme...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System"

Article URL: https://playtechnique.io/long/the-unix-time-sharing-system.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for containing rogue models, raising questions abou...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

US battery startups have found a lifeline in defense

U.S. battery startups pulled in $500 million in grants from the Department of Energy, throwing a lifeline to an industry...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

W. Kamau Bell has the most practical ‘most indispensable tool’

W. Kamau Bell is one of those people who has always just seemed to be there. From Totally Biased, to Politically Re-Acti...

Technology Aug 22, 2026

ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

Article URL: https://quantumi.sh/public/labs.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49400408 Points: 3...