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Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language

Article URL: https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/good-developers-learn-to-program-not-a-language Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981995 Points: 16 # Comments: 11

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Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987

Article URL: https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/winforms-still-ships-in-visual-studio-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981800 Points: 18 # Comments: 6

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A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]

Article URL: https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981669 Points: 27 # Comments: 6

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Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a world where rival Cursor is reportedly in talks t

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Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

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Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

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Study: AI models that consider user's feeling are more likely to make errors

Overtuning can cause models to "prioritize user satisfaction over truthfulness.”

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The RAMpocalypse has bought Microsoft valuable time in the fight against SteamOS

Op-ed: Valve has made a dent in Windows' gaming share, but can it keep going?

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Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

Article URL: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979839 Points: 176 # Comments: 145

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Artemis II fault tolerance

Article URL: https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977645 Points: 54 # Comments: 28

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The gay jailbreak technique

Article URL: https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977134 Points: 333 # Comments: 123

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Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

Article URL: https://github.com/whohas/whohas Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975592 Points: 121 # Comments: 26

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Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

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Man dies covered in necrotic lesions after amoebas eat him alive

Doctors suspect three factors, each unremarkable on its own, contributed to his fate.

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Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks

Article URL: https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979839 Points: 118 # Comments: 99