Since it seems like 80% of HN nowadays is focussed on the AI industry, I’m on the search for a good tech forum that focuses on the rest. Can you post your favourite non-AI-obsessed forum?
Absolutely everything in tech is touched by AI/ML in 2026 except micro controllers/embedded systems
On another note - YC 25 batch
https://www.extruct.ai/data-room/ycombinator-companies-s25/
YC 24 batch
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uy2aWoeRZopMIaXXxY2E...
On a personal note, I lead cloud + app dev implementations for a consulting company. I’ve had 5 projects since the beginning of last year and they have all involved Amazon hosted LLMs in some form or fashion.
Every single project I’ve been brought in with at pre sales has also involved Gen AI and/or traditional ML.
I also loved programming on these in 2007 using Windows Compact Framework.
https://weareconker.com/blog/is-windows-ce-still-supported-i...
But after being in this game for 30 years professionally and after half century of living on this earth, I still haven’t overcome my addictions to food and shelter and while I’m in pretty good shape, I don’t think I could start a successful career by opening an OnlyFans account so instead, I keep up to date on where the industry is…
By the way, have you seriously never written[1] so much as a single backup script to back up a personal system? You only use GUI backup software?
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634535#:~:text=As%20f...
Afaict mods are on our side, despite whatever "aggregated" data "suggest"
This site (which I peruse everyday) claims that 3 AI articles were modded down today, but in actual fact the single nonAI article that was supposed to have been modded down was modded up.
https://github.com/vitoplantamura/HackerNewsRemovals?tab=rea...
I trust however, that the political calls are representative
One has to delve into the data before arriving at broad judgements :)