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Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:08pm
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Ask HN: What to do instead of giving up on tech

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:04pm

I was fired from the fintech I used to work for last November, being a senior site reliability engineer. I was already pretty unmotivated about working in tech since ChatGPT appeared, and the emotional burden of being fired just made things worse. Even though I love computers and computer science (and infrastructure, my area of expertise), I grew to hate the tech market so much. Nothing I did seemed to bring me any joy or brainfood and nothing I did seemed good enough.

Finding a job is very bad. The first months I had only rejections, some didn't even mask that were made by AIs (one day I applied on a Friday night and got a rejection on Saturday morning).

When January started, I started to land the first interviews, some on FAANG companies. Even though I applied for jobs more related to infrastructure, they still required Leetcode-like interviews, which is odd. I failed some of them, but aced one that was more infrastructure related. However, even though I aced it and went pretty well, I still wasn't chosen for their opening (they probably had very limited openings).

I know there are lots of threads here asking "is the market bad right now", but I wanted to read your thoughts on the market right now, the impact of AIs in hiring (I dislike using AIs for mostly anything, I'm not sure if I'm on a disadvantage for having a resume written by myself or not) and if any of you have lost hope on continuing in tech.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937975

Points: 1

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Show HN: Calculator for UK student loan repayment strategies

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 3:03pm

Made this after graduating from university, in the UK, to help myself determine whether I should make extra student loan payments or not in order to clear the debt early. Shared it with friends and family who found it insightful, sharing here for others as well.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937964

Points: 2

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Ask HN: How are you enabling your company to vibe-code?

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 2:55pm

I would like to enable non-developer coworkers to vibe code, starting with simple charts but hopefully expanding from there.

I'm trying to develop standardized charting for our company built in JS. This would save a ton of time vs coworkers fiddling with Excel settings every time they need a new chart and looks way better / is interactive.

For devs this is super easy: clone our standard charts repo, drop in your data and tell your preferred coding agent to make a new chart with your data.

However for the marketing team and the like, it's not realistic to get them set up with GitHub / Cursor etc., for many reasons including cost and security concerns.

Realistically just want to get them to visit an internal webpage and see the charts, then be able to drop in files & prompt it for updates. It would run in some locked-down VM so they can't screw up too bad.

I've been brainstorming and testing a few things but don't have a great solution yet.

Anyone with experience here?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937892

Points: 1

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Show HN: Sofia Core – Open-source AI infrastructure with biological computing

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 2:54pm

Hi HN,

We built Sofia Core - open-source AI infrastructure exploring biological computing in production systems.

Technical approach: • DNA-inspired algorithms for massive parallelism (10^15 operations) • Swarm intelligence for distributed coordination • Temporal reasoning for time-aware predictions

Stack: Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis Testing: 70%+ coverage, 100+ endpoints License: MIT

Research foundation: 8,000-word paper with benchmarks showing 300× speedups in parallel pattern matching tasks.

Quick start: git clone https://github.com/emeraldorbit/sofia-core-backend ./quick-start.sh

Runs locally in 5 minutes. Graceful fallbacks if you don't have API keys.

Questions for HN: 1. Is biological computing interesting beyond academic research? 2. Would you trust this in production today? 3. What's missing for your use case?

Launching on Product Hunt tomorrow - would love HN's technical feedback first.

Code: https://github.com/emeraldorbit/sofia-core-backend Paper: [repo]/research/papers/dna-computing/PAPER.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937882

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How do you maintain integrations once they're in production?

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 2:54pm

Hi HN — I’m exploring a product idea around integration reliability and would really appreciate feedback.

Many modern products depend on integrations across payments, analytics, messaging, auth, and cloud workflows. Setting these up is usually manageable, but maintaining them as systems evolve often becomes a hidden operational burden.

I’m experimenting with building *VibeInfra*, a platform focused on:

• One-click integration setup • Automated workflow and business-logic testing • Continuous monitoring for silent failures • Ongoing maintenance when APIs, schemas, or workflows change

The motivation came from repeatedly seeing issues like:

• Billing systems and product entitlements drifting out of sync • Analytics and attribution pipelines degrading over time • Webhooks or event pipelines failing without immediate visibility • Customer lifecycle messaging triggering incorrectly • Different services disagreeing on core business state (orders, subscriptions, users)

The goal is to treat integrations more like infrastructure that needs reliability guarantees rather than one-time connections.

I’m trying to validate a few assumptions:

• Are integrations a recurring maintenance burden for your team? • What types of integration failures cause the most business impact? • How do you currently test or monitor integration correctness? • Would you consider outsourcing integration reliability if it worked well?

I’d really value any thoughts, skepticism, or pointers to existing solutions I should study.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937877

Points: 1

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Show HN: Deterministic product idea generator (no AI APIs, works offline)

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 2:14pm

*Problem:* I was spending $50+/month on ChatGPT API to generate product ideas. Results were inconsistent, required internet, and changed every run.

*Solution:* Passive-Gen — a 100% offline, deterministic idea generator. Same seed = identical output. Every time.

*How it works:* - Seeded RNG (Linear Congruential Generator) - 30+ templates per category (Gumroad, Etsy, Prompts) - Auto-scoring on 4 dimensions - Markdown + JSON output

*Example output for "AI tools":*

*CodeReview Bot* — AI-powered code review automation that checks for security issues, performance bottlenecks, and style violations. Integrates with GitHub/GitLab. One-c...

Scores: Ease 8/10, Demand 9/10, Diff 7/10

*Tech stack:* TypeScript, Node.js, zero dependencies

*Open source:* https://github.com/CrazhHolmes/passive-gen

*Question:* Would you use this for your side project research? What features would you add?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937481

Points: 1

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Show HN: Tabletop Jigsaw Puzzle

Hacker News - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 2:13pm

Over the last couple of days, I've worked on making this tiny game. It's free, enjoy it. Let me know here what you think! Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937474

Points: 1

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