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IT workers struggling in New Zealand's tight job market Published: 2025-06-03 | Origin: Hacker News In 2025, IT professionals are facing increased job insecurity due to economic challenges and the rising implementation of artificial intelligence in the workplace. Microsoft announced a reduction of about 6,000 jobs, approximately 3% of its global workforce, as part of a strategy to streamline operations and enhance AI efforts. Similarly, Health New Zealand revealed plans to cut hundreds of IT positions, equating to around a third of its IT workforce. Job seekers describe the current tech job market as highly competitive and difficult, |
What is NLWeb? Microsoft's new protocol for conversational web search Published: 2025-06-03 | Origin: /r/programming On June 1, 2025, Frank Fiegel announced that Microsoft has open-sourced NLWeb, a protocol designed to enable conversational interfaces on websites. NLWeb utilizes existing Schema.org structured data and supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for facilitating both human interactions and agent-to-agent communication. This protocol aims to standardize how conversational access to web content is achieved, overcoming the limitations of traditional, bespoke implementations of search interfaces. NLWeb allows for natural querying by both AI agents and humans |
Text undo that doesn't lose your edit history Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming Of course! Please provide the content you'd like me to summarize. |
Conformance checking at MongoDB: Testing that our code matches our TLA+ specs Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: Hacker News The content discusses the challenges of ensuring that implementations of distributed algorithms at MongoDB conform to their formal specifications written in TLA+. This process, known as conformance checking, is critical due to the complexity and potential consequences of errors in such algorithms. In 2020, the author and colleagues explored the conformance of two MongoDB products to their TLA+ specs, reflecting on their experiences and methodologies. They were inspired by a 2011 paper on eXtreme Modelling, which promotes agile |
Gauntlet is a Programming Language that Fixes Go's Frustrating Design Choices Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming Gauntlet is a programming language created to address the design flaws in Golang while maintaining its strengths. It transpiles exclusively to Go code, fully supports all its features, and integrates seamlessly into the Go ecosystem without requiring bindings. Full documentation and examples are available, and contributions are welcomed. Feedback is taken seriously, and there's a guide for potential contributors. |
My AI skeptic friends are all nuts Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: Hacker News The author expresses concern about the rapid push for AI-assisted programming, particularly regarding large language models (LLMs) by tech executives, which they view as a flawed strategy. While some experts believe AI, like LLMs, is merely a passing trend—similar to NFTs—the author argues that such opinions overlook the significant advancements LLMs have made in software development. They emphasize that talented developers are still performing tasks that LLMs can already execute more efficiently, often out of resistance to adopting the technology |
Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming The content discusses a demo showcasing a web page that renders a list of 10 items using streaming HTML techniques. It highlights several features of this approach: initially displaying an 'app shell' with a header and footer, followed by the replacement of a loading placeholder with the list of items, which appear in non-sequential order. The demo employs Shadow DOM without Custom Elements and demonstrates how streaming HTML allows for rapid user feedback and early asset loading. This technique, which had diminished in favor during the rise of |
Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: Hacker News Sure! Please provide the content you would like me to summarize. |
Implementing a Forth Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming The author discusses their experiences creating various versions of the Forth programming language, emphasizing that, while none are fully polished for industrial use, each project offered valuable insights into Forth, concatenative programming, and computer operations. They recognize that potential creators of Forth may feel uncertain about how to start and determine completion. The author shares their first project, NasmJF, a port of Richard WM Jones's JONESFORTH to the NASM assembler, highlighting the satisfaction of completing the port when the |
WebSockets guarantee order - so why are my messages scrambled? Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming The article discusses the message ordering and delivery guarantees of WebSockets, which are based on the underlying TCP protocol. WebSockets operate at the application layer (layer 7 of the OSI model) while utilizing TCP at the transport layer (layer 4), providing reliable message delivery and ordered sequences thanks to TCP's features like sequence numbering, acknowledgments (ACKs), and checksums. Despite the guarantees offered by TCP, message ordering can be disrupted due to delays in handling WebSocket messages, particularly when |
What works (and doesn't) selling formal methods Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming The content emphasizes the importance of personal connections with potential partners and clients, encouraging interested parties to reach out via email. It shares insights from a talk given in late 2024 by someone at Galois, who discusses their passion for formal methods (FM) and acknowledges the mistakes made in past projects. The speaker reflects on their unexpected experience in sales calls, which are necessary for identifying industry projects involving formal methods. They highlight that discussions often lead to one of two outcomes: successfully scoping a project |
Health as a dev Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming The author reflects on health challenges often faced by developers, especially those who lead sedentary lifestyles characterized by long hours of coding. They highlight the tendency to indulge in unhealthy eating habits during breaks from work, using food as a form of escapism. To combat this, the author suggests keeping healthy snacks on hand and incorporating short walks into breaks to promote better health. They also critique the norm among developers of working late hours, influenced by cultural narratives that prioritize time spent over efficiency. The piece introduces a thought |
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2025) Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: Hacker News The post outlines criteria for submitting job listings on a hiring platform, emphasizing that only individuals from the hiring company should post, with a commitment to respond to applicants. It discourages off-topic comments and suggests various resources for job seekers. Additionally, it introduces Zefr, a global technology company specializing in responsible marketing in social media environments. Zefr is currently looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with strong leadership skills and a focus on continuous improvement. The role involves maintaining the health of their infrastructure, |
Introduction to Ruby Data Class Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/ruby Ruby's Data class, introduced in Ruby 3.2, serves as a native mechanism for defining value objects, a concept popularized by Martin Fowler and Eric Evans. Value objects, like coordinates or monetary values, provide semantic clarity that primitive data types (such as integers or strings) lack. Unlike mutable Structs, the Data class promotes immutability, making it suitable for accurate representation of these concepts without requiring external gems. Key characteristics of value objects include immutability and behavior encapsulation, |
Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: Hacker News The content discusses a TypeScript library designed for Cloudflare Workers that implements the OAuth 2.1 protocol with PKCE support. It is currently in prerelease status as of March 2025, meaning the API may still change. The library requires a Workers KV namespace binding called OAUTH_KV for storing token information and provides an object for handling various storage queries. Additionally, it allows developers to configure a callback function during token exchanges to perform additional processing, especially useful when interacting with other OAuth APIs |
A 45-bit segment display design for Korean text Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming The author has created a 45-bit segment display specifically designed for Hangul, the Korean script, and shares a live demo of it. As they learn Korean, they find Hangul fascinating, noting its organized structure that represents syllables through blocks made up of individual jamo (symbols). For example, the character 바 (ba) and 나 (na) illustrate how syllables are formed. The author references Jaehoon Yeon's book, which praises Hangul as a scientifically designed writing system |
Edit is now open source - Windows Command Line Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/programming Edit is a new open-source command-line text editor for Windows that will be available for preview in the Windows Insider Program before being included with Windows 11. Users can launch Edit by typing "edit" in the command line or by specifying a file name. It aims to provide an efficient editing experience without the need to switch contexts. The editor is lightweight, under 250kB, and features a Text User Interface (TUI) with keybindings for menu options. Users can open and switch between |
Marksmith Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/ruby The content features a curated collection of resources, including episodes, videos on technology and software, and articles with tutorials. It encourages support and engagement while providing an invitation for discussions or questions. The message is signed by Marksmith and highlights "Quality Ruby Screencasts." |
Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: Hacker News The content highlights an open-source project management tool that serves as an alternative to Trello, named "Kan." It emphasizes the importance of user feedback and invites contributions while providing links to its roadmap, documentation, and Discord server. Users can contact support via email. The project is licensed under the AGPLv3 license. However, there are repeated mentions of loading errors on the page. |
New fast-mcp version: 1.5.0 Published: 2025-06-02 | Origin: /r/ruby The content emphasizes that user feedback is valued and considered seriously. It introduces a Ruby implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) called Fast MCP, which simplifies AI model integration with Ruby applications by eliminating typical integration challenges. Fast MCP offers a clean, expressive coding experience and allows developers to configure tools and resources based on request context. It includes a Rails-friendly setup with naming conventions and automatic configurations. Essential features include a useful MCP inspector for validating implementations, built-in security measures to prevent attacks, and documentation |