Why “Build” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Getting to build things without skinned knuckles or solder smoke in your face... now that is a rush! And if you are not happy with it, you get to tear it down and build it back…
by SA9G · Oct 26, 2026
Of course. This has been proven again and again on the economic level. People have to let go of old skills and learn new ones to survive. For AI though, there is a mental angle…
by noufalibrahim · Oct 26, 2026
> It’s no surprise both companies are trying to build moats to defend against this trend, such as a focus on enterprise commitments and personal agentic assistants like OpenAI D…
by tangotaylor · Oct 26, 2026
i don't know why you were downvoted. any turn to the moderation/center seems good news to me. those crazy swings between extremes left or right are just bad. i have never v…
by brunoff · Oct 26, 2026
Neoliberalism is at a state where moral shaming has very little effect. If you shame someone for trying to build a career or better themselves, you are the problem to a bigger e…
by augment_me · Oct 26, 2026
Thanks for your question. Re: waiting over a year: Posting, announcing stuff is very intimidating. Over that year, I kept thinking this was trivial and would be reinvented just…
by lumbroso · Oct 26, 2026
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Build may refer to:Build, a 1995 first-person shooter engine "Build" (song), a 1987 song by The Housemartins Microsoft Build, a developer conference Software build, a compiled version of software, or the process of producing it Better Utilizing Investments to Leverage Development (BUILD), a United States federal government program Grok Build, an AI coding agent developed by SpaceXAI Read more on Wikipedia