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New ask Hacker News story: My client is replacing me with Claude for all DevOps/infra and most feature dev

My client is replacing me with Claude for all DevOps/infra and most feature dev 10 by goatwrangler | 1 comments on Hacker News. The last straw was showing up on Monday to a new vibe coded kubernetes cluster and migration plan for all cloud run services. One week after his vibe coded feature and vibe hotfixes kept the sites up and down for over a week before I stepped in and simply reverted the Claude junk. I chose not to support the new direction so he's moving forward without me.

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen

Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen 8 by parable | 2 comments on Hacker News. If the AI support option is enabled for your Instagram account (it appears to be A/B tested for only a percentage of accounts), anyone can hijack it with little effort. Simply get on a proxy or VPN close to the account's region, then ask the agent to send a code to an arbitrary email address. Once you receive the code, pass it forward to the agent, and it'll provide you with a password reset link which you can then use to sign into the account. Posting here for any Meta employees who may be reading. This flaw has been around for at least a few days and has been used to hijack over 100 high-value Instagram accounts. The correct patch would be to disable the AI support feature entirely for the time being until this is sorted and revert accounts and usernames that have been hijacked over the last few days. This is a pretty important flaw and it's currently...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod

Ask HN: What are your worst war stories bringing agentic applications into prod 3 by yaoke259 | 0 comments on Hacker News. For a bit of context, I’m currently creating a team of AI agents at work to generate reports by fanning out into a large amount of subagents to process a large amount of transcript data. When the analysis fails mid-way because of some individual step like an API call returns an error or the machine is out of memory, it would create cascading errors that break the entire generation with almost no visibility. I’ve just spent the past month rewriting the individual jobs as durable execution jobs on DBOS but just wondering if there are better solutions out there and if others encountered similar issues? And then there is the issue to reflect back the progress to the users which I’ve just been coding ad-hoc honestly… When an agent fails at step 9 of 12, how do you handle that? Roughly how many engineer-weeks have you sunk into agent infrastructure (durability, monito...

New ask Hacker News story: C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading

C++ CLI for folder encryption with AES-256-GCM and USB-based key loading 5 by nextma | 0 comments on Hacker News. I built a Linux CLI tool that encrypts and decrypts folders using AES-256-GCM. It also hides file and folder names and stores the mapping in an encrypted file. Repo: https://ift.tt/ED5RrBY

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Have you ever created a custom RISC-V ISA extension?

Ask HN: Have you ever created a custom RISC-V ISA extension? 4 by extensilica | 0 comments on Hacker News. Curious about the real pain points, not the spec writing, but what came after: toolchain patches, simulator forks, getting someone else to reproduce your work. Building a registry for reproducible extension packages: https://ift.tt/y2mULoc

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?

Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output? 4 by meteor333 | 2 comments on Hacker News. We are facing flooding and surge in PRs across the teams. AI reviewer tools are good, but not exactly helping in efficiency. Almost all developers are experiencing velocity gains in programming but it's not resulting into eventual productivity or velocity in roadmap. How are you or your org dealing with all this?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Thoughts on the current state of tech meetups in the SF Bay Area?

Ask HN: Thoughts on the current state of tech meetups in the SF Bay Area? 3 by Austin_Conlon | 0 comments on Hacker News.