Ask HN: Stuck in the 10x1y Trap

3 fud101 2 7/12/2025, 1:45:33 PM

I'm not good enough to stick around and actually see my bad code come back to bite me. I want out but I don't know how. I leave behind a trail of broken hopes and dreams. I am good enough to get a gig, not good enough to keep it. Anyone been in this position and successfully overcome it?

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Jugurtha · 2h ago

I have replied to a few threads on this forum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40482961

These go from "Hired, now what?" to how to validate an idea, build product, operate a company, lead a team, etc...

I hope you find something useful in there.

turtleyacht · 6h ago

Ten years of the "same" experience each year, versus having a decade of varied experience, in breadth and/or depth.

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Nvidia won, we all lost (blog.sebin-nyshkim.net)

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My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated] (twitter.com)

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google (theverge.com)

Local-first software (2019) (inkandswitch.com)

Introducing tmux-rs (richardscollin.github.io)

Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database (generalanalysis.com)

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com)

Being too ambitious is a clever form of self-sabotage (maalvika.substack.com)

Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity (metr.org)

Are we the baddies? (geohot.github.io)

MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today (blog.decryption.net.au)

Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)" (simonwillison.net)

At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says (nytimes.com)

The Rise of Whatever (eev.ee)

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure (ethz.ch)

Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down (apnews.com)

US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel (arstechnica.com)

Tree Borrows (plf.inf.ethz.ch)

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)

Hidden interface controls that affect usability (interactions.acm.org)

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale (recall.ai)

Linda Yaccarino is leaving X (nytimes.com)

Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels (freyaindia.co.uk)

I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models (github.com)

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)

SVGs that feel like GIFs (koaning.io)

Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza (theguardian.com)

Jane Street barred from Indian markets as regulator freezes $566M (cnbc.com)

Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bit graphics (alpha.lisagui.com)

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Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels (github.com)

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A non-anthropomorphized view of LLMs (addxorrol.blogspot.com)

Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)

Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface (patternproject.substack.com)

The force-feeding of AI features on an unwilling public (honest-broker.com)

Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip (jeffgeerling.com)

Hannah Cairo: 17-year-old teen refutes a math conjecture proposed 40 years ago (english.elpais.com)

Grok 4 Launch [video] (twitter.com)

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OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D (kbkg.com)

Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price (jeffgeerling.com)

The jank programming language (jank-lang.org)

IKEA ditches Zigbee for Thread going all in on Matter smart homes (theverge.com)

The death of partying in the USA (derekthompson.org)

What a Hacker Stole from Me (mynoise.net)

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Apple vs the Law (formularsumo.co.uk)

Ask HN: Stuck in the 10x1y Trap

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