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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going?

Ask HN: Founders/investors, what AI bet you made in 2022 and how it is going? 3 by kjok | 0 comments on Hacker News. In 2022, many founders and investors made strong bets on AI: new companies, pivots, or funding theses. Now that we have had time to see what actually played out, what did you bet on and how is it doing today? We learn a lot from failure, so especially interested in (and would appreciate) honest stories about what did NOT work and why.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI)

Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2026) (Non AI) 3 by cousin_it | 16 comments on Hacker News. Tell me about your latest non-AI project and I'll check it out

New ask Hacker News story: GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks?

GPT 5.4 in practice – Stinks? 2 by sjt-at-rev | 2 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Digital Ocean blocked my account

Digital Ocean blocked my account 3 by ugly_munchkin | 3 comments on Hacker News. Digital Ocean blocked my account. They said my "deployment and actions were in violation of our Terms of Service" which is remarkable because all I did was create a single droplet and run a basic setup script on it. The next day — blocked, shut down, deleted. No warning, no explanation, no appeal. Their Terms of Service allows them to delete your servers, your data, everything — at any time, for any reason, including none at all. The tiniest perceived risk to them outweighs any amount of loss to you. They won't tell you what you did wrong. They won't give you time to retrieve your data. They just delete everything and wish you well finding another provider. Here is their response when I asked for an explanation: Hello, Greetings from DigitalOcean! Thanks for reaching out, my name is Raveel from DigitalOcean Support. We reviewed the information you have shared with us so far and we have...

New ask Hacker News story: Skunk: a Rust based language that compiles to Go

Skunk: a Rust based language that compiles to Go 2 by stickynotememo | 1 comments on Hacker News. There isn't really. But I wouldn't be surprised if there was. Rust is Rust. Go is Go. These sorts of languages aren't necessary. Please use your Claude tokens for something else.

New ask Hacker News story: Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick

Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick 2 by trinsic2 | 3 comments on Hacker News. I signed up for the Claude Code Pro Subscription about a month ago. and I have been really careful about my limits because I burned through them pretty easily about two weeks ago, but this week Im already at 10% and have been barley using it.. Since there is no transparency around the metric for these limits they could easily change the metric and it wouldn't be easy to measure it. I'm thinking about canceling my sub because there is no clear way for me to understand this metric but wanted to see what others thought about this.