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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are devtool founders getting their paying users in 2026?

Ask HN: How are devtool founders getting their paying users in 2026? 3 by yasu_c | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been looking at a number of devtools and AI tools launched over the last 12–18 months, and a pattern keeps repeating: - Strong product, clear technical value - Early users from friends / Twitter / communities - Then things stall when it comes to converting paying users Things that seem less effective than expected: - Content that ranks but doesn’t convert - Community posting that generates discussion but no revenue - “Build in public” without a clear path to payment Things that might be working, but inconsistently: - Integrations / ecosystems - Very narrow ICP + outbound - Founder-led sales lasting far longer than planned For founders actively shipping devtools today: - What’s actually getting you your first 10–50 paying users? - What looked promising but turned out to be a dead end? - If you were starting again in 2026, where would you focus first? Curious what’s worki...
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New ask Hacker News story: Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability Severity

Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability Severity 2 by shadybraden | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Junior getting lost

Ask HN: Junior getting lost 6 by TheRegularOne | 8 comments on Hacker News. Hello those who still read forums. I have recently graduated from a college and started working as a junior dev (trying to consume as much knowledge from senior colleagues as I can now) and it seems that the real world is kind of a different story compared to the college practice. In the college we've been taught about design patterns and all these responsibilities like domain, application, infrastructure, UI. Domain should never depend on infrastructure or application layer and so on. But the projects I got have domain that depend on infrastructure and another one where application has a reference directly to infrastructure and been told that this is correct implementation... doh.. I think I was kind of a good at listening for the lectures, but I now am doubting about, whether it was worth learning stuff at all lol since it's so controversial out there. I am, of course, in no position to question se...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric?

Ask HN: Has Show HN become LLM-prompt-centric? 4 by piratesAndSons | 2 comments on Hacker News. It seems to me that Show HN is filled with low-effort see-what-I-prompted-Claude posts—no innovation, no real creation, just yet another copy of a copy. If you’re going to prompt an LLM, at least come up with something original, not the millionth text editor.
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New ask Hacker News story: Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension

Designing programming languages beyond AI comprehension 3 by mr_bob_sacamano | 0 comments on Hacker News. What characteristics should a programming language have in order to make automated analysis, replication, and learning by artificial intelligence systems difficult? Any idea?
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New ask Hacker News story: A Trillion Lost Games

A Trillion Lost Games 2 by sirianth | 0 comments on Hacker News. You sit across from an old crone, her face a map of time itself. The board between you is simple, the pieces familiar. You play the game with passion, developing brilliant strategies, but she is the master. With a gentle, knowing smile, she corners you. Your child takes your seat. The board is the same, but a new piece stands on the back rank—one that can see several moves ahead. Your child plays, building on your gambits, and the game is longer, more complex. Again, the crone wins, but as she takes the final piece, a single wrinkle on her face vanishes. Your grandchild sits, and now the board has a piece that can link others together, morphing their shapes and capabilities. The game is a dazzling web of strategy. The very shape of the board itself seems somehow fundamentally to have changed. The crone, looking younger still, takes hours for a single move. Generation after generation takes their seat, each inheriting a...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: If OpenAI stops its free Web service (ChatGPT)

Ask HN: If OpenAI stops its free Web service (ChatGPT) 2 by JPLeRouzic | 0 comments on Hacker News. Then I guess their competitors will stop their own free LLM services (why burn money?). What kind of local LLM can I use to at least check my code?
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