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Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them 

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them. 

TechCrunch • May 29, 2026 • Julie Bort
Technology May 29, 2026

SpaceX gets $4 billion contract to build missile-tracking ‘Golden Dome’ satellites

The Pentagon awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites linked with President Donald T...

Technology May 29, 2026

EV Stupidity Checklist

Article URL: http://hypercritical.co/2026/05/29/ev-stupidity-checklist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology May 29, 2026

Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there

The US has previously built specialized facilities just for this purpose.

Technology May 29, 2026

Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious

Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon...

Technology May 29, 2026

The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sw...

Technology May 29, 2026

Why I collect DLES

Article URL: https://dles.gg/blog/dles-gg-manifesto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328932 Points:...

Technology May 29, 2026

A Trillion Characters

Article URL: https://characters.fastserial.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328843 Points: 11 #...

Technology May 29, 2026

Canada in Technical Recession

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/recession-gdp-may-2026-statscan-9.7216352 Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology May 29, 2026

'We’re Just Getting the Crumbs Here': Striking Contractors Protest Layoffs at Meta’s European Headquarters

Soon-to-be-laid-off Meta contractors say they’re being treated differently than Mark Zuckerberg’s full-time employee...

Technology May 29, 2026

The Last Technical Interview

Article URL: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564 Comments URL: https://news.ycombi...

Technology May 29, 2026

The California State Assembly Has Passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

Article URL: https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22330/stop-killing-games-movement-gains-momentum-california-assembly-...

Technology May 29, 2026

Show HN: Tiny-vLLM – high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA

Article URL: https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328184 Points: 6...

Technology May 29, 2026

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/28/microsoft-0-day-feud-escalates-as-researcher-threatens-ano...

Technology May 29, 2026

CVE-Bench: testing LLM agents on real-world vulnerability patches

Article URL: https://giovannigatti.github.io/cve-bench/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328088 Poi...

Technology May 29, 2026

Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/939765/ai-training-data-startup-shift-free-cleaning Co...

Technology May 29, 2026

Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t cloc...

Technology May 29, 2026

On Rendering Diffs

Article URL: https://pierre.computer/writing/on-rendering-diffs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832...

Technology May 29, 2026

Acer’s launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games

The Acer Nitro Blaze Link might run on Linux, but it's no Steam Deck. Acer says it's a "streaming-first handheld and com...

Technology May 29, 2026

Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek

Article URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/decades-effort-restore-steelhead-and-salmon-passage-californi...

Technology May 29, 2026

Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is

About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Rothko for your current weather conditions

Article URL: https://rothko.joonas.wtf/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327367 Points: 11 # Commen...

Technology May 29, 2026

AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce3pe36qe7ro Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483272...

Technology May 29, 2026

House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood

"The crown is a weight that crushes. You'll do things that spell death for all involved." ...

Technology May 29, 2026

Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC

ABC says early renewal for all stations is unprecedented, has no legitimate purpose. ...

Technology May 29, 2026

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly invol...

Technology May 29, 2026

SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

Article URL: https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

Technology May 29, 2026

What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/2205e2d0-50dc-4e80-9bf7-78d0272276c0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com...

Technology May 29, 2026

Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/robinhood-now-lets-your-ai-agents-trade-stocks/ Comments URL: https://ne...