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I Dream of Quieter Computing

I Dream of Quieter Computing.


Mathematicians will probably become obsolete before anyone else [pdf].


Ask HN: Where do you find things worth reading?. There’s more good writing and reporting available than ever, but I’m finding it harder to discover the stuff that’s actually worth reading.
What are your goto sources for finding interesting things to read about your interests? Could be websites, newsletters, RSS feeds, blogs, Substacks, authors, apps, or anything else.
A few I check regularly:
- Hacker News
- Rest of World: https://restofworld.org/
- Substack: mostly following individual authors/publications rather than browsing the feed
I’m especially interested in sources that have helped you discover writers or publications you wouldn’t have found otherwise.
What do you read, and how did you find it?


DeepSeek API: weekend usage now billed at off-peak rates all day. Just got a letter, also see https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing :<p>> Effective 00:00 (Beijing Time) on Sunday, August 23, 2026, we will adjust our peak/off-peak billing rules, with off-peak rates applying throughout the day on weekends (Saturdays and Sundays, Beijing Time).


FTC Targets Personalized Pricing, Stops Short of Ban.


OpenAI cuts developer pricing for frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model by more than 20%.


OpenAI: We're dropping API and credit pricing of GPT-5.6 Sol by over 20%.


Talk. It types. Anywhere on your phone. $9.www.airtxt.ai. Half the price of Wispr Flow ($9 vs $15) — proof: public pricing.
On-device OR cloud, your choice — Wispr is cloud-only. Proof: the toggle, privacy angle.
It also sits in your meetings — one app, dictation and a meeting bot. Wispr has neither.
Works in every app via the keyboard — not a walled-garden notepad.   www.airtxt.ai


Ask HN: Should we stop "correcting" AI writing so it improves English for us?. For example, AI writing often puts an "or" at the list of items because that is more logical in some contexts.
Changing it to "and" would make it sound more natural, but it would be less logical.
Keeping it as "or" may make it standard usage over time, even when people are not using AI to write.
What do you think? Should people stop "correcting" AI writing when it is actually more logical?


Coding Agents killed my identity. How do you feel?. I always was a nerdy, deeply technical programmer. Contributing-to-open-source-and-reading-papers-in-my-spare-time type of programmer.
Programming is like a game of chess for me: winning (i.e. delivering a product) is important, but only if I played this game myself. I don't enjoy winning if my opponent disconnected. I don't enjoy beating people who don't know how to move pieces. I don't enjoy winning with an engine, and coding agents are basically "winning with a chess engine".
I started to use AI for coding a long time ago, when copilot was first introduced. At first, I was happy: "wow, this can write boring boilerplate and unit tests". Time went by, agents got better, time spent writing code myself went down. Half a year ago I suddenly realized I hadn't written any code for over a month, and I am a full-time software dev without any managing work. Not only did I stop writing code, but agents also became pretty good at proposing plans and architectures, and I was mostly providing missing context and technical details of our infrastructure.
One day the realization hit hard. Coding agents removed everything I loved, and - mostly - amplified everything I hated. My role is to gather context from other humans and provide a detailed explanation (similar to a well-written jira ticket) to some super intelligent engineer, then review the result and provide more context/explanation if needed. So, basically, a manager.
A couple of years ago I could work on a single coding task for weeks. I knew all classes, all functions, I was slowly building up information at a comfortable tempo. Now I am forced to increase my mental throughput multiple times. What took a couple of weeks now takes a couple of hours, and I still need to comprehend that. I always feel tired, I don't have enough mental capacity to hold that many abstractions and technical details. So you either autoaccept or get burned out reviewing tens of thousands of lines.
One more downside is that code has 0 value. You can code your own OS from scratch, and people will think "ye, I can vibe code that in a weekend". I don't even know what is valuable nowadays.
Maybe I am a bad employee. Increasing employer profits was never my goal. I always loved to solve puzzles, and for the last 10 years this was well aligned with my employer's desire to increase profits. I never was good as a manager, or brilliant at generating ideas. My power - and passion - was solving complex technical problems with my hands, fast and with good quality. Now it is gone forever. I feel completely lost and unmotivated. I don't see any value in learning anything related to computer science, reading  papers, contributing to open source. I hate my new "AI delegator" role and I hate my work. I loved coding so much (I use neovim btw) that I was sure I would do this until I die, and now I don't know what to do with my life. This is the only thing I know, and, most importantly, the only thing I am/was passionate about. Anyone else feeling the same?


Lessons learned from usage-based pricing for our customers.


WhatsApp raised some API rates 300% and will end free messages soon.


Show HN: AI tools with real pricing, submitted in 30 seconds.


FTC says "personalized pricing" based on consumer data could violate the law.