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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you run A/B Tests?

Ask HN: Do you run A/B Tests? 2 by hackeryogi | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was introduced to ridiculously simplified A/B testing while working at BigTech. I wanted to understand the landscape of running A/B tests outside of BigTech. As an example, I recently worked with a Fintech startup that was not running true A/Bs via randomised user buckets, but they did have a setup to test out a feature with a particular cohort before a larger rollout. So, do you do A/B testing or feature flagging in any way? If yes, can you also mention * Daily Active Users / Monthly Active users? Trying to understand at what “scale” does A/B testing make sense for organisations * What’s the infrastructure and plumbing look like? Inhouse setup (add a flag to a user profile or if conditions in code?) or do you pay for a SaaS that helps? * What’s the overhead like? Do you feel it’s worth it? If you are not using A/B testing, why not? Is it the initial investment or the followup maintenance that is the heada...
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New ask Hacker News story: AgentObs – a hook that blocks Claude Code before you hit your limit

AgentObs – a hook that blocks Claude Code before you hit your limit 2 by klars-ai | 0 comments on Hacker News. AgentObs – a hook that blocks Claude Code before you hit your limit https://ift.tt/pm4N9lF
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled?

Ask HN: Is .org now Trump-controlled? 6 by selfhoster1312 | 2 comments on Hacker News. At first i read about the sanctions, but didn't realize autistici.org has been seized at the TLD level. Does this mean Donald Trump can now disable any foreign .org domain they don't like without any form of process or trial? I mean sure the US government technically always could by threatening the operators with guns, but i remember the balance of power was different for thepiratebay.org/wikileaks.org. Is there an ongoing savedotorg-like campaign i'm unaware of to have ICANN revoke the current delegation and setup a new non-profit to manage .org outside of US jurisdiction? I mean, given how the Trump administration literally banned words, i can definitely see wikipedia.org (among many others) being targeted next.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Best way to archive 25 years of emails

Ask HN: Best way to archive 25 years of emails 2 by astatine | 6 comments on Hacker News. I have emails from 1997-98 onwards all in one massive inbox, currently on gmail with emclient on Mac as the mail client (there have been probably a dozen services starting from self-hosted in the beginning). I would like to archive the historic mails for the first 25 years, but in a way that's actually searchable and usable in the future (and potentially importable to a new mail client/service) and not in any particular mailbox format that may go obsolete. There is no good reason to hoard them, other than "I feel like doing so". What are the best options, and tools?
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using?

Ask HN: What BOYK AI client are you using? 2 by yeeyang | 0 comments on Hacker News. I built an AI desktop client specifically designed for non-programmers, which has the capabilities of Codex/Claude Desktop, but it is localized, protects all your privacy, and supports any model call. Would you like to try using it? Any questions, feel free to ask me!
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is observability over the dependencies in codebases still a problem?

Ask HN: Is observability over the dependencies in codebases still a problem? 2 by enismustafaj | 0 comments on Hacker News. Almost every codebase is calling a REST, gRPC, or a GraphQL API or using SDKs from an external or event internal provider. It gets harder to keep track of everything when the codebase matures and increases in size and from my experience sometimes it gets hard to respond to changes in time or even become aware that a dependency is deprecated and their API has changed completely. Do developers need better tools that to improve dependency and integration management?
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New ask Hacker News story: Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?

Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application? 3 by gmarkwa | 0 comments on Hacker News. Brex's CEO said this and I understand where he comes from, but is there a place for end to end workflows in LLM based applications? At the end of the day I agree that cutting edge software should be fully usable by agents, but I can't decide if every product should be an agent. I personally hate the UX of most agentic applications. I have this fantasy of future products where I can simply enter input X and get output Y without having to give feedback on every little thing. Of course when you're designing something it needs to be a process, but what if I can tell my phone to "buy dinner" and it just does it without bothering me at every step? What if it was just good enough? I think a conversable agent is necessary as long as the application is unsure of the accuracy of the output, but I wonder if the UX of LLM applications could be more like a rich perso...
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