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New ask Hacker News story: X is selling existing users' handles

X is selling existing users' handles 38 by hac | 16 comments on Hacker News. I've been on Twitter since 2007 as @hac. In recent years I didn't sign in frequently, then last week I saw my handle show up on the new X Handles marketplace. It seems the account now belongs to X, and because I had a "rare handle" I can't even buy it back. From what I can tell, they will wait for some time and then auction the handle for around $100k. Losing your account is frustrating. Having it sold to someone else doesn't feel right. Of course, there is no warning when it happens. All you can do to prevent it is sign in every 30 days and read all changes to the TOS.

New ask Hacker News story: AI is to software as power tools are to woodworking

AI is to software as power tools are to woodworking 3 by danfunk | 0 comments on Hacker News. Power tools did not remove people. They make woodworking accessible to more people. They make more complex projects possible. They make furniture less expensive. We don't have less jobs because of power tools. And with power tools came a proliferation of hardware stores to support all the people suddenly empowered to try their hand. To take the analogy further, agents are like factories. Yes the drill can do the work on it's own, when it's on an assembly line, getting exactly the right part at the right time at the right angle. But it is insanely hard and expensive to set up a factory, and when it is done, it produces one thing. Shit will change. But that is exactly what I liked about this industry to begin with. And people are highly motivated by fear, so the manipulators and influencers peddle it for all they are worth. There is nothing to fear here. It's just a new kind o...

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: It's official, I'm done with Claude

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform?

Ask HN: Does automatic multilingual support make sense for a launch platform? 2 by LeanVibe | 2 comments on Hacker News. With vibe coding tools, adding multilingual support has become surprisingly easy. If you ask a model to add languages like Spanish, Portuguese, German, or French, it can usually set up the i18n structure pretty quickly, even for projects with a lot of text. One thing I’ve noticed is that once a site is indexed by Google, traffic doesn’t always come mainly from the US. Sometimes a significant portion comes from other countries through search. But most launch platforms or directories are English-only, so they don’t really help with discoverability in other languages. Because of that, I tried something different with a project called LeanVibe. The idea is simple: you submit your product once in whatever language you prefer. The platform then automatically translates the content into the supported languages, and visitors see the interface and product description in th...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.?

Ask HN: Any informed guesses on the actual size/architecture of GPT-5.4 etc.? 2 by dsrtslnd23 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone have decent intuitions or hard clues on how big models like GPT-5.4, Gemini 3.1, and Opus 4.6 actually are, and how they compare to the best open models like GLM-5? Are they all roughly in the same range now (for example around 1T params, maybe MoE), or are the closed models still much bigger? Also curious about “pro” versions like GPT-5.4 Pro - is that likely a different model, or mostly the same model with more inference-time compute / longer reasoning / better orchestration?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me?

Ask HN: Is GitHub getting less reliable, or is it just me? 3 by _pdp_ | 1 comments on Hacker News. Is anyone else experiencing persistent reliability issues with GitHub on daily basis? Over the past 2–3 months I've been dealing with a steady stream of problems: rate limiting, Copilot instability, major outages, and recurring issues with tunnels and Codespaces. It's become a real productivity concern.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 3 by chistev | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm currently reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy, and I'm enjoying it so far. 40 pages left.