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

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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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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New ask Hacker News story: Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage

Code-review-graph: persistent code graph that cuts Claude Code token usage 2 by tirthkanani | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN I'm Tirth. I built code-review-graph because I got tired of watching Claude Code re-read my entire codebase on every single task. When you ask Claude Code to review a commit or add a feature, it reads files to understand the codebase. On a small project that's fine. On FastAPI (2,915 files) or Next.js (27,732 files) it scans thousands of files that have nothing to do with your change. You're paying for tokens that add zero value, and more noise makes the review worse. code-review-graph builds a persistent structural map of your code using Tree-sitter. Every function, class, import, call, and inheritance relationship lives in a local SQLite database. When you edit a file or commit, it re-parses only the changed files and their dependants in under 2 seconds. Claude then queries the graph, finds what changed and what depends on it, and reads only th...
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