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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Any Curated Forum Directories?

Ask HN: Any Curated Forum Directories? 4 by catuscubitus | 2 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone know any curated forum directories? Forums like in the early 2000s. Places that aren't owned and governed by some corporate overlord. Places with genuine interaction rather than senseless ragebait and "content" designed to generate likes and shares. Places that aren't merely echo-chambers.

New ask Hacker News story: Old.reddit.com is now login only

Old.reddit.com is now login only 5 by denvrede | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs?

Ask HN: Has anyone shipped a self-modifying application with LLMs? 4 by ex-aws-dude | 2 comments on Hacker News. In the past the model for software would typically be to ship a fixed application and then if users need some custom functionality, they would need to install a plugin or create their own. For non technical users they would have to find an existing plugin or maybe it doesn't exist so they are stuck. But I can't help but think why wouldn't for example an application just have a prompt box that builds an extension dynamically on the fly (e.g. "make me a UI panel with some buttons that does X") Obviously it would be "use at your own risk" and YMMV Have any companies or applications actually done something like this? I think modifying the real source code would get out of hand but perhaps just generating extensions that have access to a sand boxed set of safer APIs.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them?

Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them? 3 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. It seems that if you look at the countries that have experienced the greatest temperature increases from global warming, they have actually benefited from the warmer weather. Is this true?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today?

Ask HN: Is GitHub Fried Today? 4 by johncole | 1 comments on Hacker News. Keep getting weird responses and their pink unicorn of death. Is Github unreliable today?

New ask Hacker News story: Claude Seems Down

Claude Seems Down 31 by zhan_eg | 15 comments on Hacker News. Throwing "Authentication service was unavailable.", no updates on their status page, but there are on downdetector

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness?

Ask HN: What LLM subscription/provider to use with pi harness? 2 by vira28 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I used to use Claude code but obviously they gone downhill for the last 2 to 3 months. I switched to Codex and have been happy with it. Curious what other provider who provides good models at decent pricing?