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6 points by justforfunhere | 3 comments
An Ask HN thread asking how developers can slow or resist the rapid rise of agentic AI coding that the poster believes threatens the software engineering profession.
63 points by buf | 52 comments
Personal website of Buford, a pardoned ex-felon turned startup engineer and founder, listing his companies, novels, essays, and an in-progress autobiography.
62 points by wvez22 | 53 comments
A personal blog post by a recent finance graduate reflecting on six months of teaching himself n8n workflow automation and embracing feeling stupid while learning.
123 points by rohanm93 | 147 comments
An essay by Rohan Mahtani in Coached Weekly arguing that most advice reflects what worked for the advice-giver rather than the listener.
0 points by ukd1 | 0 comments
Careers page for 9 Mothers, a YC-backed counter-drone defense startup in Austin listing seven onsite engineering and operations roles.
68 points by ilamont | 172 comments
NBER working paper by David Deming and coauthors presenting large-scale economic evidence on workplace meetings from a survey of over 9,000 workers.
60 points by keyle | 36 comments
A blog post on Terrible Software titled "The Brain Sandwich," likely about engineering management and how to deliver feedback or communicate ideas.
36 points by mid1110 | 34 comments
Wall Street Journal article about a Princeton PhD graduate who applied to 2,300 jobs without success amid a frozen labor market; the page shows a device-verification screen.
28 points by speckx | 27 comments
A personal blog post on pinecoder.dev reflecting on how the author's previous job now feels distant.
57 points by rohanm93 | 43 comments
An essay by Rohan Mahtani in the Coached Weekly newsletter arguing that gaining legitimate insider knowledge is a powerful, permitted career advantage.
10 points by tejaskumar__ | 1 comments
Tejas Kumar's blog post criticizing tech company practices like bar raiser interviews, OKRs, the Spotify model and Agile.
23 points by weli | 23 comments
A personal blog post by a new Head of Engineering at a startup reflecting on hiring and how much more than skills it takes to get a job today.
25 points by guitarlimeo | 32 comments
Ask HN discussion asking whether senior engineers' architecture and design roles will survive as LLM coding agents improve through reinforcement learning.
198 points by mooreds | 144 comments
AnitaB.org press release announcing an important update about the Grace Hopper Celebration, reportedly its cancellation.
65 points by ilreb | 85 comments
Personal blog essay by Peter Bryant arguing that software engineers may be better understood as blue-collar skilled tradespeople than white-collar workers.
133 points by jonahx | 127 comments
Ryan Bigg, a 20-year Ruby and JavaScript developer, explains on his blog why he is leaving the tech industry after repeated job rejections.
162 points by jllyhill | 196 comments
A personal blog post by Cendyne describing losing an engineering job after leadership decided an LLM called Fable was cheaper than their compensation.
8 points by ishanz | 6 comments
A HackerRank page titled "Sorry, we made you grind l**tcode" apologizing for LeetCode-style interview prep and promoting its Chakra product.
175 points by bhrlady | 136 comments
Inc. article on a New Jersey lawsuit alleging a remote employee was fired after refusing webcam monitoring that photographed her every three minutes.
37 points by hxii | 31 comments
A personal blog essay arguing against the corporate pursuit of constant growth and happiness, advocating for doing less at work to avoid burnout.
8 points by veilmux | 0 comments
Job Roast is a web tool where you paste a job ad and get a plain-English translation, the real requirements, and a BS score from 0 to 100.
27 points by speckx | 24 comments
A blog post criticizing recruiter emails that recite a software engineer's career history as fake personalization before pitching unrelated jobs.
728 points by Michelangelo11 | 285 comments
An essay by htmx creator Carson Gross answering whether people should still become computer programmers given AI, with his response "Yes, and...".
38 points by brugidou | 37 comments
A Criteo Tech blog post on the skills junior engineers must build themselves rather than relying on AI tools.
211 points by sgdesign | 117 comments
Results page for the State of Devs 2026 survey, covering developer demographics, careers, and work life from 5,463 respondents.
40 points by ibobev | 48 comments
David Bushell's blog post reflecting on the struggling web industry and how to maintain a sustainable web development career while rejecting AI.
448 points by signa11 | 352 comments
A personal blog post by purplesyringa reflecting on grieving the loss of low-level coding details as the industry shifts toward vibecoding and architecture-focused work.
3 points by payanai | 1 comments
Nokku.ai's free interview prep page with company-specific software engineering interview process guides, practice questions with solutions, and a 4-week plan.
6 points by kylem866 | 1 comments
GrepJob is a job board aggregating 60,000+ software engineering jobs scraped hourly from company career pages, with filters for location, salary, level, and tech stack.
15 points by cliffclimber | 0 comments
Chain of Thought newsletter post featuring npm co-founder Laurie Voss on how AI-cheapened coding shifts value from software engineering to product engineering and context.
254 points by whoishiring | 252 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for October 2026, where companies post job openings with location and remote details.
110 points by whoishiring | 345 comments
Monthly Hacker News thread for October 2026 where job seekers post their location, remote preference, technologies, résumé and contact details.
419 points by zdw | 362 comments
Asterisk Magazine essay by Jesse Smith examining the popular advice to pursue trades like electrician work, and the realities behind it.
298 points by megalomanu | 582 comments
Personal essay comparing a great-great-grandfather farrier who became a mechanic with today's developers facing replacement by AI.
346 points by amortize | 72 comments
Blog post by Sujith Jay Nair on how staff engineers on platform teams find what to build next using signals from systems, users, organization, and industry.
45 points by fagnerbrack | 38 comments
A Substack post by Mark Grebler describing his practice of asking interviewers for real-time feedback as a closing move at the end of job interviews.
148 points by saibotk | 153 comments
Personal blog post about a developer spending a month without AI tools at work, reflecting on how AI use made them lazier and a worse developer.
62 points by eigenBasis | 73 comments
Blog post on passo.uno arguing that tech writers should study humanities and languages rather than coding or AI to stay valuable in the AI era.
165 points by Murmuring9087 | 175 comments
Personal blog post by Robert O'Callahan titled "Goodbye Google", apparently announcing his departure from Google.
234 points by rubatrejo | 298 comments
Unlisted's September 2026 ghost jobs report, finding 28.3% of 607,050 postings on employer career sites across 15 ATSs have been open more than 90 days.
382 points by mooreds | 205 comments
Blog post by Michael Heap recounting an SVP who refused the details of a failure, arguing that explanations make problems seem reasonable so they recur.
84 points by pvdebbe | 13 comments
Blog post by Aditya Athalye recounting a hiring anecdote that avoided the Secretary Problem, framed within optimal stopping theory and the post-ZIRP software job market.
386 points by gpi | 93 comments
Engineering Leadership newsletter post by Gregor Ojstersek arguing that good team culture boosts productivity more than AI, which helps only when culture is right.
531 points by downbad_ | 264 comments
CU Boulder Today news article reporting a study of 7,700 employees finding that remote workers report the highest well-being.
867 points by nichochar | 675 comments
Personal blog post by Nicholas Charriere on balancing startup ambition with being a father of two, referencing Paul Graham's essay on having kids.
877 points by florianherrengt | 785 comments
Blog post arguing that AI-generated code floods senior engineers with huge PRs and is hollowing out the middle tier of software engineering roles.
970 points by RickJWagner | 1138 comments
Noema Magazine essay arguing that tech and knowledge workers are realizing their work feels pointless and that AI may cause a whole class to lose faith in careers.
341 points by softwaredoug | 323 comments
News report on a Netflix executive suing after being fired over a personal confession made during a trust exercise at a company retreat.
377 points by mooreds | 168 comments
Did They Ghost You? is a site keeping an anonymous, moderated public record of companies that stop responding to job candidates during interviews.
461 points by FigurativeVoid | 68 comments
A personal blog essay offering heuristics for asking strangers for help, centered on putting yourself in the other person's mind and showing proof of work.
560 points by backlit4034 | 431 comments
Personal blog post by a software engineer explaining why he stopped arguing with people over technical correctness and what he learned about arguments.
927 points by sambellll | 395 comments
Blog post testing HackerRank's open-sourced AI hiring agent ATS, finding the same resume gets inconsistent scores across runs, arguing hiring is becoming luck-based.
575 points by justinwp | 339 comments
An X post by Justin Poehnelt saying Google fired him after he created the viral Google Workspace CLI, and describing internal reactions and legal concerns.
569 points by throwarayes | 495 comments
A Pragmatic Engineer newsletter deepdive by Gergely Orosz reporting on how Meta leadership's AI-driven changes are affecting its engineering organization.
435 points by martey | 258 comments
A personal blog post by a longtime Mozilla employee announcing their departure after 15+ years and sharing parting advice for colleagues.
395 points by speckx | 307 comments
A personal blog post by a freelance writer/translator in Ottawa about her workload and people assuming she can just upload her work to ChatGPT.
334 points by Sukram21 | 116 comments
Blog post by Sean Goedecke arguing engineers should work fewer hours at ~80% utilization because tech company performance is dominated by outlier, high-impact events.
854 points by gavinray | 384 comments
A personal blog post by developer Gavin Ray about rebuilding his life and career after addiction, imprisonment, and a felony conviction.
1029 points by poisonfountain | 967 comments
A personal blog post by a software engineer with 10 years of experience reflecting on how LLMs are eroding their career and their uncertainty about what to do.
690 points by IliaLitviak | 168 comments
An Ask HN post by a job seeker complaining about receiving unsolicited sales emails after posting in the Who Wants to Be Hired thread.
587 points by oliverio | 470 comments
A personal blog post by a startup engineer recounting his worst job interview, a culture-fit interview that felt like an unsolicited psych evaluation.
742 points by nilirl | 314 comments
Essay by Tuhin Nair on why senior software developers struggle to communicate their expertise to others.
380 points by movis | 624 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog post arguing that because AI use reduces learning on the job, software engineering may no longer be a lifelong career.
1490 points by diebillionaires | 601 comments
An essay on the No One's Happy blog about how workers use AI and large language models to appear productive at work, framed around Parkinson's Law.
1039 points by milkglass | 713 comments
Substack essay comparing the West's loss of defense manufacturing capacity to declining junior software engineer hiring and the erosion of coding skills.
363 points by walterbell | 224 comments
A blog post by Ashley Rolfmore titled "Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people"; the captured screenshot instead shows her post on playing Traitors at home.
380 points by thisislife2 | 233 comments
MarketWatch article about employers using personal data to determine the lowest salary a candidate will accept; the page loaded a captcha verification screen.
476 points by kklisura | 257 comments
Austin Today news article reporting that Oracle filed over 3,000 H-1B visa petitions while conducting mass layoffs, citing federal data.
334 points by jryio | 357 comments
A personal essay arguing that software engineers shouldn't tie their identity to their job title as machines increasingly automate their work.
381 points by speckx | 385 comments
A Verge video feature in which reporter Hayden Field tries three AI interviewer platforms for real and mock jobs, shown here via a SchwarzTech snippet post.
954 points by enraged_camel | 633 comments
A post on X by economics writer Joseph Politano claiming tech-sector employment is now worse than during the 2008 or 2020 recessions.
811 points by aamederen | 451 comments
A Terrible Software blog post arguing that engineering organizations reward complex work over simple solutions when deciding promotions.
364 points by flail | 259 comments
A Manager.dev newsletter post by Anton Zaides arguing that engineers should reconsider accepting promotions to engineering manager roles.
343 points by saikatsg | 242 comments
Blog post by Ivan Turkovic arguing that AI tools make producing code easier while making the broader job of being a software engineer harder.
705 points by jamesrandall | 556 comments
Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.
402 points by spmvg | 164 comments
Blog post by Steven van Gemert arguing that starting from an empty, clean work surface ("nothing") is the key to structuring your work and avoiding chaos.
634 points by ColinWright | 737 comments
Nolan Lawson's blog post lamenting how AI coding tools are reducing programmers to code reviewers and mourning the loss of the programming craft.
522 points by prakhar897 | 176 comments
A personal blog post by Prakhar Gupta arguing that only actually doing the work counts, and that thinking or planning about it is not the same as doing it.
514 points by jampa | 133 comments
A blog post by Jampa Uchoa sharing non-obvious lessons learned over ten years working as an engineering manager.
584 points by myahio | 307 comments
GitHub repository from Anthropic publishing its original performance-engineering take-home interview assignment, including Python problem files and tests, for anyone to try.
519 points by swah | 265 comments
Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.
1555 points by cdrnsf | 643 comments
Addy Osmani's blog post sharing 21 lessons from 14 years as an engineer at Google, focused on people, alignment, and navigating work beyond code.
412 points by caminanteblanco | 106 comments
Ibrahim Diallo's 2019 blog post recounting how he charged $18,000 for building a single static HTML page as a contractor.
338 points by whoishiring | 210 comments
The monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread for January 2026, where company employees post job openings with location and remote details.
537 points by yuppiepuppie | 263 comments
Blog post by Andrew Graham-Yooll on the promotion advice "try to take my position": doing the next-level job and taking on responsibility before getting the title.
353 points by iancmceachern | 425 comments
Inc. article by Jessica Stillman on Google co-founder Sergey Brin returning from retirement to work on AI, framed as a lesson for others.
343 points by TheAlchemist | 195 comments
A 2014 blog post by Greg McKeown arguing that people should deliberately design their own careers or others will decide their priorities for them.
356 points by mooreds | 174 comments
A Terrible Software blog post discussing what actually makes a software engineer senior.
999 points by birdculture | 499 comments
Final Round AI blog post on AWS CEO Matt Garman's three reasons AI shouldn't replace junior developers and how AI should be used at work.
457 points by lemper | 209 comments
A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.