Hacker News with Generative AI: Trends

Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (simonwillison.net)
Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the Guardian and countless online discussions.

Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Technology, Trends

5 points by wslh 1 day ago | 0 comments

Cashless society drives drop in children swallowing coins, researchers say (independent.co.uk)
The shift away from using coins has fuelled a drop in children needing surgery to remove objects they have swallowed or stuck up their noses, research suggests.

Health, Society, Trends, Children, Research

10 points by bookofjoe 1 day ago | 20 comments

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)
Year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. You might not have noticed… But Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

Markdown, Document Formats, Technology, Trends

29 points by laurex 2 days ago | 6 comments

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish (ia.net)
You might not have noticed, but year after year, document formats like .docx, .ppt, and pdf lose a little bit of steam. Markdown is growing over and into the old formats, slowly, and nicely, like moss on a stranded star destroyer. Notes on a revolution in slow motion.

Markdown, Document Formats, Technology, Trends, Writing

11 points by cratermoon 3 days ago | 6 comments

Why is the world losing color? (culture-critic.com)
Walk around in the average parking lot, and you’ll find yourself in a sea of black, white, and silver vehicles. Watch Netflix at home or catch a film in the theaters, and you’ll get the same washed-out color grade on either screen. Glance at the logos of the world’s largest companies, and you’ll notice a shrinking palette.

Design, Culture, Trends, Visual Arts

319 points by trevin 4 days ago | 295 comments

Don't Bother with Vibe Coding (soeren.codes)
Vibe coding is everywhere nowadays, ever since Andrej Kaparthy from OpenAI coined the term on X. Silicon Valley is already jumping on the trend and hiring Vibe Coders. As with a lot of things AI, I think it's a trend that's actively harmful. I'd even go as far as saying that you should reject anyone applying for your startup if they claim to have vibe coding experience.

Software Development, Artificial Intelligence, Trends, Opinions

53 points by CER10TY 4 days ago | 130 comments

The case against conversational interfaces (julian.digital)
Conversational interfaces are a bit of a meme. Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way we always have, until the debate resurfaces a few years later.

User Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Trends

6 points by jger15 10 days ago | 0 comments

Building web apps in 2025 is a bit like assembling IKEA furniture (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.

Web Development, Software Development, Trends, User Experience

4 points by tosh 10 days ago | 1 comments

The AI Dev Tools Landscape 2025 (ainativedev.io)
Your Guide to the AI Development Ecosystem

Artificial Intelligence, Development Tools, Software, Trends

18 points by destraynor 11 days ago | 4 comments

What Killed Innovation? (shirleywu.studio)
I entered the data visualization field in 2012, when D3.js had just come out and interactive graphics were going through a digital Renaissance. By the time I was fully steeped in the field in 2016, it felt like a new, experimental project was coming out every week—each one pushing the boundaries of how we think about, visualize, and communicate data.

Data Visualization, Design, Trends, History

127 points by speckx 12 days ago | 112 comments

The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010 (runningshoescore.com)
The year was 2010. “Ke$ha's Tik Tok” was topping the Billboard charts. Steve Jobs has just introduced a goofy new oversized iPhone called an “iPad”. And in running forums across the internet far and wide, hoards of enthusiasts preached the gospel of a new way of running: without shoes.

Running, History, Trends, Culture, 2010s

188 points by jonnycat 12 days ago | 203 comments

5 years after Covid, the return-to-office push is stronger than ever (cnbc.com)

Work, Business, COVID-19, Remote Work, Trends

7 points by alinajan 12 days ago | 0 comments

Cottagecore Programmers (tjmorley.com)
Every programmer I know has at some point longingly expressed how “[they] want to work with [their] hands”. Some say they wish they were a carpenter, some want to be in the fields on a farm, some want to raise chickens, or milk cows. It is however inevitable that I either hear someone say it or agree with it at some point. Often, the sentiment is accompanied by a general dissatisfaction with the impact of the speaker’s work or profession.

Programming, Lifestyle, Trends

121 points by morleytj 13 days ago | 152 comments

Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing? (plausible.io)
Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––what trends are we seeing?

Europe, Trends, Politics, Social Media, Website Traffic

492 points by themeaningist 13 days ago | 612 comments

“Vibe Coding” vs. Reality (cendyne.dev)
There's a trend on social media where many repeat Andrej Karpathy's words (archived): "give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." This belief — like many flawed takes humanity holds — comes from laziness, inexperience, and self-deluding imagination. It is called "Vibe Coding."

Software Development, Trends, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence

221 points by birdculture 15 days ago | 297 comments

Vibe Coding Is a Dangerous Fantasy (nmn.gl)
Last week, X exploded when a “vibe coder” announced his SaaS was under attack.

Software Development, Security, Fantasy, Trends

11 points by namanyayg 16 days ago | 0 comments

Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks) (simonwillison.net)
Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the Guardian and countless online discussions.

Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Coding, Trends

14 points by ingve 18 days ago | 0 comments

Human intelligence peaked in the early 2010s and has been in decline since (ft.com)
Have humans passed peak brain power?

Human intelligence, Science, Trends

25 points by feverzsj 18 days ago | 4 comments

Ask HN: What are you working on (March 2025)? (ycombinator.com)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

Software Development, Community, Trends, Ideas

9 points by gianpaj 18 days ago | 8 comments

The zeitgeist is changing. a romantic backlash to the tech era looms (theguardian.com)
Cultural upheavals can be a riddle in real time. Trends that might seem obvious in hindsight are poorly understood in the present or not fathomed at all. We live in turbulent times now, at the tail end of a pandemic that killed millions and, for a period, reordered existence as we knew it. It marked, perhaps more than any other crisis in modern times, a new era, the world of the 2010s wrenched away for good.

Culture, Society, Technology, Trends

7 points by lordleft 20 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: What is an "outdated" tool or plugin that you refuse to switch from/why? (ycombinator.com)
In the age of github stars being inflated and people jumping ship to ship between mainstream projects, I'm curious to hear other's opinions.

Software, Programming, Development Tools, Community, Trends

9 points by simojo 27 days ago | 13 comments

An internet where bots outnumber humans (kadoa.com)
Bots are now estimated to make up nearly half of all internet traffic worldwide.

Bots, Internet, Technology, Trends

7 points by hubraumhugo 38 days ago | 5 comments

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits All-Time High Defying Analyst Expectations (coindesk.com)
Bitcoin (BTC) hashrate has reached another all-time high, with seven-day moving average jumping to 833 exahashes per second (EH/s), according to Glassnode data.

Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Finance, Trends

5 points by PaulHoule 40 days ago | 0 comments

Software engineering job openings hit five-year low? (pragmaticengineer.com)
There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come next.

Software Engineering, Job Market, Trends, Employment

24 points by gwintrob 44 days ago | 2 comments

Cybersecurity Is Full (2024) (cyberisfull.com)
There has been a lot of hype for a while now about cybersecurity careers. Cybersecurity careers are hot, they say. Allow me to throw some cold water on that.

Cybersecurity, Employment, Trends

25 points by 1970-01-01 48 days ago | 18 comments

Ask HN: Riding the Roller Coaster of Development Tooling (ycombinator.com)
There are so much happening these days that I feel I have to make an effort in order to not fall behind. And when I stumble upon a new tool, framework or platform or whatever which seems to make a difference, I think; this sounds real neat, let's check it out.

Software Development, Tools, Trends, Technology

9 points by bronlund 51 days ago | 27 comments

Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees (nature.com)
Numbers of people enrolling in PhD programmes have dropped in a handful of countries in the past few years, which policy specialists are calling a worrying trend.

Education, Trends, PhD Programs

234 points by rntn 52 days ago | 467 comments

The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time (cpubenchmark.net)
Over 1,000,000 CPUs Benchmarked

Hardware, Performance, Trends, Computer Technology, Benchmarks

311 points by doener 53 days ago | 238 comments

Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024 (techtalksweekly.io)
Following tradition, I put together a complete list of the top 100 most watched Software Engineering talks presented in 2024 across almost every Software Engineering conference around the world.

Software Engineering, Conferences, Programming, Lists, Trends

285 points by cempaka 53 days ago | 90 comments

Enterprise Is Dead (cra.mr)
The scale of the internet has grown immensely, well, ever since it existed. Even a decade ago however, the entire Enterprise software industry seemed to be overly focused on only a handful of the biggest companies in the world.

Software, Business, Internet, Trends

17 points by FinnLobsien 54 days ago | 3 comments