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A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity

news.ycombinator.com Dayvi Schuster 2025-09-20 07:02:22

Dayvi Schuster 12 min read Thursday, September 18, 2025 Dev Culture Is Dying The Curious Developer Is Gone From tinkerers to metric seekers: How the shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity. When Curiosity Lead the Way If you have been in software development for a while, you might remember a time when developers were launching unique and innovative products and projects just for the sake of curiosity, learning or even just because they had a particular interest in a s

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Meta is opening up its smart glasses to developers

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-09-22 07:04:27

is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Meta is going to let apps access the vision and audio capabilities of its smart glasses thanks to a new Wearable Device Access Toolkit for developers. “Our first version of the toolkit will open up access to a suite of on-device sensors— empowering you to start building features withi

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Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-23 03:00:00

Productivity software giant Atlassian is making its largest acquisition yet to add a developer productivity tool to its product suite. Atlassian announced Thursday it has agreed to acquire the developer productivity insight platform DX for $1 billion in cash and restricted stock. Enterprises use DX to analyze how productive their engineering teams are and identify bottlenecks slowing them down. DX was launched five years ago by Abi Noda and Greyson Junggren. Noda told TechCrunch in 2022 that h

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Annapurna Interactive will reveal three new games in a showcase on September 23

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-26 23:20:25

Annapurna Interactive is hosting a games showcase on September 23, 2025 at 8PM ET / 5PM PT to show off three of its upcoming games. The publisher says the "Annapurna Interactive Direct from Tokyo" will stream on YouTube and feature new games from Kyoto-based developer Marumittu Games, Iridium Studios and Yarn Owl. Annapurna Interactive held its previous games showcase this past February to show off games like Skin Deep and Wheel World . Marumittu Games' Annapurna project was initially detailed

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Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

news.ycombinator.com Kyrylo Silin 2025-09-28 06:02:31

The Great Pyramids took decades to build. It was a monumental feat of human ingenuity and collaboration. Today, we software developers erect our own pyramids each day - not from stone, but from code. Yet despite far more advanced tools, these systems don’t always make the experience better. So why, when KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) is a well-known mantra, do we keep gravitating toward complexity? Marketing > Simplicity Sell me this pen: ✎ What? You don’t know how? Okay, instead, sell me this

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Android will soon be able to theme every app icon, and Google Play won’t let developers opt out

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-28 19:26:42

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is making support for its Themed Icons feature mandatory by automatically generating themed icons for apps that don’t already provide one. This change addresses inconsistent home screens, as many developers currently opt out of providing a themed icon for branding or design reasons. To enforce this, Google updated its Play Store policy today, requiring developers to legally grant users the right to modify their app icon’s color. App icons rarel

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Balatro's big 2025 update won't be coming out this year after all

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-01 02:35:12

Fans will have to wait a little bit longer for the hotly-anticipated Balatro 1.1 update. Developer LocalThunk just announced it will not be coming out in 2025, despite previously promising a release this year. Instead, it'll come out "when it's done." It's worth remembering that Balatro was created by a single person, and the same goes for this update. The lone developer also made the original balance patch and the well-regarded mobile port. He says he's "well and truly burned out." LocalThunk

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Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-05 23:21:30

Microsoft announced that, starting today, individual Windows developers will no longer have to pay for publishing their applications on the Microsoft Store. The company said that developers can now submit Win32 (including .NET WPF and WinForms), UWP, PWA, .NET MAUI, or Electron apps to the Microsoft Store without paying any registration fees. Redmond will also handle each app's hosting and signing, eliminating the need for developers to pay for these services. "Package your app as an MSIX and

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Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-10-06 03:38:54

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Microsoft is allowing developers to submit apps to its Windows store without having to pay any onboarding fees. Individual developers in nearly 200 countries can now sign up to publish apps on the Microsoft Store with just a personal Microsoft account, and no more one-time fees. Microsoft

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Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 14:18:28

Help grow the community! Know a useful command or recipe that's missing? Help other developers by contributing.

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Google’s plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-11 12:00:38

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Last week, Google dropped a bombshell: The company plans to verify the identity of all developers who distribute apps for Android, even those outside the Play Store. Starting next year, if a developer chooses not to verify their identity, Android will prevent their apps from being installed on certified devices (ie. devices with Google Mobile Services). This news sent shockwaves through the enthusiast community, with many criticizing Google for transforming An

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Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-14 07:11:05

Firaxis, longtime developer of the strategy series Civilization, is laying off an undisclosed number of staff, Game Developer reports . The studio's publisher and owner 2K confirmed that the layoffs were happening as Firaxis "restructures and optimizes" for "adaptability, collaboration, and creativity." The layoffs follow turmoil at another 2K studio , Cloud Chamber, which is supposed to be developing the next Bioshock game. Since the restructuring has yet to be publicly disclosed, it's hard to

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Visa's AI-enhanced payment options will be coming to more apps soon, thanks to new MCP support

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-10-16 08:00:17

Getty Images / Anna Barclay / Contributor Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Visa Intelligent Commerce opens Visa's payment network to developers and engineers. These individuals can then build agentic AI shopping experiences using Visa's network. Now, Visa Intelligent Commerce offers Model Context Protocol (MCP) support. AI agents can optimize how people do everyday tasks in the digital world, including shopping. In May, Visa unveiled Visa Intell

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Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-17 11:00:04

At Svix, we are looking for smart, high-energy and fast learning individuals that enjoy having developers as their users, and share our values. You will have a huge impact on the trajectory of the company and the product. You will be trusted to take ownership, have autonomy, and be a leader. You will get to solve interesting problems and technical challenges. We move fast, and speed of execution is one of our core values. We are obsessed with providing a great developer experience, and you will

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macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 now available [U: Public betas]

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-18 03:21:31

Contrary to expectations, Apple is rolling out a new wave of developer betas ahead of next week’s “Awe Dropping” event. Here’s what to expect. As with past releases, macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 8 brought mostly under-the-hood improvements last week, which is also expected from today’s release. The build number for today’s macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 release is 25A5351b. We’re taking a closer look to spot any user-facing tweaks, and will report back with anything noteworthy. What’s new on macOS Ta

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macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 now available

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-19 19:21:31

Contrary to expectations, Apple is rolling out a new wave of developer betas ahead of next week’s “Awe Dropping” event. Here’s what to expect. As with past releases, macOS Tahoe 26 developer beta 8 brought mostly under-the-hood improvements last week, which is also expected from today’s release. The build number for today’s macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 release is 25A5351b. We’re taking a closer look to spot any user-facing tweaks, and will report back with anything noteworthy. What’s new on macOS Ta

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Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reason why

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-21 00:39:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google will restrict sideloading with developer verification. The move mirrors Apple's long-standing security approach. Android loses one of its last big differences from iOS. For years, one of the biggest talking points in the Android vs. iOS debate has been freedom of choice -- and nothing summed that up more than sideloading. "But iOS is a walled garden. Apple controls what you can

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Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

news.ycombinator.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-10-21 01:12:12

is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple has removed the iPhone torrenting client, iTorrent, from AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS marketplace in the EU, showing that it can still exert control over apps that aren’t listed on the official App Store. iTorrent developer Daniil Vinogradov told

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FreeDroidWarn

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-21 02:01:02

FreeDroidWarn Overview This library shows an alert dialog with a deprecation warning informing that Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store from 2026/2027 which the developer is not going to provide. Google has announced that, starting in 2026/2027, all apps on certified Android devices will require the developer to submit personal identity details directly to Google. Since the developers of this app do not agree to this requirement, this app will no

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Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-22 21:55:56

Fastly’s July 2025 survey of 791 developers found a notable difference in how much AI-generated code is making it into production. About a third of senior developers (10+ years of experience) say over half their shipped code is AI-generated — nearly two and a half times the rate reported by junior developers (0–2 years of experience), at 13%. “AI will bench test code and find errors much faster than a human, repairing them seamlessly. This has been the case many times,” one senior developer sai

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Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

news.ycombinator.com Iain Thomson 2025-10-23 02:55:56

For those who thought AI vibe coding was just for the youngsters, newly published research shows that developers with over 10 years of experience are more than twice as likely to do it. According to a July survey of 791 US developers from cloud services platform Fastly, around a third of senior developers with more than a decade of experience are using AI code-generation tools such as Copilot, Claude, and Gemini to produce over half of their finished software, compared to 13 percent for those d

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Data engineering and software engineering are converging

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-23 18:43:42

TL;DR: · If you’re an engineer building realtime analytics or AI-powered features, you need the right data infrastructure coupled with the right developer experience (DX). · A great DX for data infrastructure should empower both software devs and data engineers, while taking inspiration from the best of modern web development (git-native, local-first, everything as code, CI/CD friendly, etc). · MooseStack by 514 offers a fully open source implementation of a DX layer for ClickHouse. Da

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Google is killing a defining feature for Android phones soon - and there's one reason why

zdnet.com Adrian Kingsley-Hughes 2025-10-24 15:09:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET For years, one of the biggest talking points in the Android vs. iOS debate has been freedom of choice -- and nothing summed that up more than sideloading. "But iOS is a walled garden. Apple controls what you can and can't install on your hardware." If I had a dime for every time an Android user said this argument to settle which mobile platform is the best, I'd be lying in a pool of dimes as I type. Also: How to clear your Android phone cache (and greatly improve

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Meta is bringing AI-powered NPCs to the metaverse

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-25 11:16:05

Developers building for Meta’s metaverse platform will soon be able to create AI-powered NPCs for Horizon Worlds. The company previewed the move, which is coming “very soon” as part of a developer update that adds new generative AI tools for developers. Once available, developers will be able to use Meta’s Worlds Desktop Editor to create NPCs that can hold “lifelike” conversations with players via voice chat. The company has previously experimented with NPCs for its metaverse, but the upcoming

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New Xcode beta now available with GPT-5 and Claude support

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-26 11:59:48

Apple has released a new beta of Xcode 26 for developers today with a pair of notable changes. There’s now support for ChatGPT 5, as well as built-in integration with Anthropic’s Claude. When Apple announced Xcode 26 at WWDC, the company touted the ability for developers to tap into ChatGPT and other providers to write code, fix bugs, access documentation, and more. Here’s how Apple described it at the time: Developers can connect large language models directly into their coding experience to

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Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 05:32:51

As Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android (previous discussion): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45017028 A developer started a petition to stop Google from limiting app installation on Android devices unless developers provide personal identity documents. Even though Google has not revoked similar controversial policies in the past, we do our best as much as we can. This change particularly threatens the freedom to build, share, and use software w

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With developer verification, I’m struggling to think of Android as a proper smartphone platform

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-26 23:20:25

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority When I first started using a smartphone, the choice between Android and iOS felt like an easy one. Sure, Apple had an attractive UI, and an early lead on third-party software support, but going the iPhone route meant living in Apple’s walled garden. And while there are absolutely benefits to that kind of approach, it just fundamentally felt wrong to me: I viewed smartphones as the next phase of general-purpose computers, and wasn’t interested in a platform loc

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Google to verify all Android devs to protect users from malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 00:23:46

Google is introducing a new defense for Android called ‘Developer Verification’ to block malware installations from sideloaded apps sourced from outside the official Google Play app store. For apps on Google Play, there was already a requirement for publishers to provide a D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) number, introduced on August 31, 2023. Google says this has had a notable effect in reducing malware on the platform. However, the system didn’t apply to the vast developer ecosystem

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Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 23:14:19

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification ICEBlock “is an innovative, completely anonymous crowdsourced platform that allows users to report Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity with just two taps on their phone.” The developer of ICEBlock disclosed his identity. In addition to receiving threats of federal prosecution over the app, the developer has faced other backlash, including his wife being fired from a federal government job. This is one recent example d

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Google to verify all Android devs to block malware on Google Play

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-30 02:23:46

Google is introducing a new defense for Android called ‘Developer Verification’ to block malware installations from sideloaded apps sourced from outside the official Google Play app store. For apps on Google Play, there was already a requirement for publishers to provide a D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) number, introduced on August 31, 2023. Google says this has had a notable effect in reducing malware on the platform. However, the system didn’t apply to the vast developer ecosystem

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Latest Tech News

A shift in developer culture is impacting innovation and creativity

Meta is opening up its smart glasses to developers

Atlassian acquires DX, a developer productivity platform, for $1B

Annapurna Interactive will reveal three new games in a showcase on September 23

Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?

Android will soon be able to theme every app icon, and Google Play won’t let developers opt out

Balatro's big 2025 update won't be coming out this year after all

Microsoft waives fees for Windows devs publishing to Microsoft Store

Windows developers can now publish apps to Microsoft’s store without fees

Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search

Google’s plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users

Civilization developer Firaxis is laying off staff

Visa's AI-enhanced payment options will be coming to more apps soon, thanks to new MCP support

Svix (webhooks as a service) is hiring for a founding marketing lead

macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 now available [U: Public betas]

macOS Tahoe 26 beta 9 now available

Google is killing the Android phone feature that once made them popular - and there's a big reason why

Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

FreeDroidWarn

Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

Older developers are down with the vibe coding vibe

Data engineering and software engineering are converging

Google is killing a defining feature for Android phones soon - and there's one reason why

Meta is bringing AI-powered NPCs to the metaverse

New Xcode beta now available with GPT-5 and Claude support

Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps

With developer verification, I’m struggling to think of Android as a proper smartphone platform

Google to verify all Android devs to protect users from malware

Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

Google to verify all Android devs to block malware on Google Play

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