N-gated Hacker NewsMay 12
🎉 Behold, the grand unveiling of the Obsidian Plugin Future—a revolutionary concept where developers can finally wallow in an endless abyss of plugin chaos and dashboard mania. 🚀 Because who needs simplicity when you can have a buffet of broken features and language options, right? 🙃
https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/ #ObsidianPlugin #Future #DashboardChaos #PluginDevelopment #SoftwareInnovation #HackerNews #ngated
The future of Obsidian plugins

Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.

Obsidian
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 3
Oh, how adorable! #Europe thinks it can outdo Silicon Valley by peddling "greener" and "safer" software 🥱. Because nothing screams cutting-edge technology like a directory touting "shorter supply chains" and "familiar tools" in 2023 🌍.
https://only-eu.eu/en/ #SiliconValley #SoftwareInnovation #GreenTech #SupplyChains #HackerNews #ngated
European Alternatives to US Products & Software | Only EU

European alternatives for software, products and services. More privacy, more independence.

Only EU
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 1
🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/engineering/2026/04/01/software-engineering-is-becoming-civil-engineering.html #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated
Software Engineering Is Becoming Civil Engineering

I gave a guest lecture on AI in Michael Hilton’s Foundations of Software Engineering course (CMU 17-313) today. One of my favorite things about lecturing is the conversations that happen afterward,...

Christopher Meiklejohn
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 2
Motorola eagerly partners with #GrapheneOS, proving that if you can't be relevant with actual hardware, you can always pretend with software 🦄🔧. Meanwhile, the internet collectively yawns as it waits for either company to explain why anyone should care. 🌐🤔
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/ #Motorola #partnership #SoftwareInnovation #TechNews #IndustryReaction #HackerNews #ngated
Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

Global Blog
Yonhap Infomax NewsFeb 24
Hyundai Motor Group’s latest high-profile hire, Park Min-woo—formerly of Tesla and Nvidia—signals a strategic shift toward software-driven innovation, following the transformative impacts of Peter Schreyer and Albert Biermann on design and driving performance.
#YonhapInfomax #HyundaiMotorGroup #ParkMinWoo #PeterSchreyer #AutonomousDriving #SoftwareInnovation #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=106527
[Corporate Tidbits]Will Hyundai Motor’s Park Min-woo Follow in Peter Schreyer’s Footsteps

Hyundai Motor Group’s latest high-profile hire, Park Min-woo—formerly of Tesla and Nvidia—signals a strategic shift toward software-driven innovation, following the transformative impacts of Peter Schreyer and Albert Biermann on design and driving performance.

Yonhap Infomax
Yonhap Infomax NewsDec 24
Hyundai Motor Group has named Jin Eun-sook as its first female president and appointed Ryu Seok-moon as CEO of Hyundai AutoEver, underscoring a strategic push toward software-driven mobility and IT innovation.
#YonhapInfomax #HyundaiMotorGroup #JinEunSook #HyundaiAutoEver #SoftwareInnovation #ExecutiveAppointment #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=97008
N-gated Hacker NewsOct 28, 2025
🥱 Wow, Clay Shirky is back with a riveting tale from 2004 about how software can be, wait for it, "situated"—truly groundbreaking stuff from the days when dial-up was still a thing. 🤯 Who would've thought that the real innovation is to build software for specific contexts? Certainly not the rest of the world that's been doing it since, well, forever. 🙄
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/ #ClayShirky #SoftwareInnovation #SituatedSoftware #TechHistory #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated
Situated Software - Clay Shirky

Watching my students build software form-fit to particular social situations.

Clay Shirky - Writings About The Internet: Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source
N-gated Hacker NewsOct 6, 2025
In a stunning revelation from the annals of tech folklore, Steve Jobs once had an "earth-shattering" idea 🍏 for software named after himself—because why not? 🙄 The tale of Mister Macintosh is the thrilling story of Steve barging into an office to deliver his "divine inspiration" while everyone else was busy pretending to be productive. 🤷‍♂️💼
https://folklore.org/Mister_Macintosh.html #SteveJobs #MisterMacintosh #TechFolklore #SoftwareInnovation #DivineInspiration #HackerNews #ngated
Folklore.org: Mister Macintosh

Vinu ThomasSep 24, 2025

Get an exclusive glimpse into the development of Claude Code - the AI coding tool, that's taking the tech world by storm. Discover its construction and potential impact on the future of AI-driven software creation. #TechInsights #AIDevelopment #SoftwareInnovation

Read more: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-claude-code-is-built?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

How Claude Code is built

A rare look into how the new, popular dev tool is built, and what it might mean for the future of software building with AI. Exclusive.

The Pragmatic Engineer
Hacker NewsSep 4, 2025

Atlassian is acquiring the Browser Company

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

#HackerNews #Atlassian #BrowserCompany #Acquisition #TechNews #BusinessDeal #SoftwareInnovation

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million

OpenAI and Perplexity both reportedly looked at acquiring the startup.

CNBC