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New ask Hacker News story: Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer

Cursor and Claude Opus 4.5 is a game changer 4 by seinecle | 0 comments on Hacker News. The combination of the two delivers on the promise: fast and clever editing of multiple files in a codebase, with minimal human intervention. No other model I tried in Cursor comes even close. Question: did anyone tried Claude Codex: as good as Cursor?

New ask Hacker News story: What's the "best" way to version your product?

What's the "best" way to version your product? 3 by sshadmand | 1 comments on Hacker News. There is the classic “Major.Minor.Patch”. Maybe git sha? I see this becoming popular this year: “year.version” from folks like Neo4J and Rivian.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE?

Ask HN: Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE? 4 by whycombinetor | 0 comments on Hacker News. I'm a little embarrassed, but not sure what I could have done differently other than reading the Saturday email from GCP with the nondescript subject "New Advisory Notification". Ten hours later, GCP instance suspended due to crypto mining. Now looking at the disk image, it installed something at ~/nxt/ , installed a monero miner at ~/c3pool/ , and added several systemctl services to run these on startup. BRB, killing this machine with fire... This makes me think I should be running everything in Docker, even simple small stuff that "shouldn't" have any potential security issues. Fortunately this machine wasn't anything important for me and there was no sensitive data to exfil beyond AI API keys. But I imagine there's other orgs that just got catastrophically, irrecoverably pwned. What's your story? (RCE context: https://ift.tt/Cj5qU9E )

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years?

Ask HN: Is it just me or techno-optimism died in the past few years? 7 by shubhamjain | 0 comments on Hacker News. I see people all around me who have this bleak, pessimistic view of where everything is going. That art/originality is fading, that technology is causing more harm than good, and that most jobs now exist to feed some mindless machine where sole goal is to get people addicted. Tech roles feel drained of purpose, and non-tech roles are being eaten away. This outlook is a stark contrast to the era I grew up in. From 2010 to 2020, tech optimism was at its peak. Despite the flaws, companies like Airbnb, Uber, Amazon, and countless SaaS startups felt like they were genuinely improving things—breaking old monopolies and building better systems. Now we have AI, arguably the most transformative technology of our lifetime, yet a lot of times the reaction seems to be exhaustion rather than excitement. Sure, people love using it, but unlike the early Internet, AI doesn't seem l...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe?

Ask HN: Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe? 2 by PaulShin | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a founder (and ex-architect) building a logistics OS. Recently, I received feedback that my site looks "cheap and ugly" because I used Serif fonts and an engraving style aesthetic instead of the standard Sans-Serif "Clean Tech" look. My intent was to evoke the "Age of Exploration" vibe, since the AI era feels like charting unknown territories. But users seem conditioned to trust only "Standard Blue SaaS UI." My question to HN: Does a B2B tool have to follow the "Standard Modern UI" to be taken seriously? Or is there room for distinctive, maybe even polarizing, aesthetics in enterprise software? I'm debating whether to cave in and redesign to "boring but safe" or double down on our soul. Would love to hear your thoughts on "Brand Distinctiveness vs. UI Familiarity."

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world?

Ask HN: Is Mythical Man-Month still relevant in todays AI Vibe Coding world? 2 by Codegres | 4 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites

Tell HN: iOS 18.7.2 in Lockdown Mode is unable to load many websites 3 by HotGarbage | 1 comments on Hacker News. Since updating to iOS 18.7.2 many major websites fail to load with "A problem repeatedly occurred." Disabling Lockdown Mode for the site fixes it but is annoying and defeats the purpose. I'm not the only one experiencing this https://ift.tt/KI4Mp8E and I've opened a ticket via Feedback but I thought I'd try to get more visibility here.