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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?

Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding? 3 by langs | 2 comments on Hacker News. I am working on a new open-source project. (My project is in AI infrastructure. It already gets SOTA results on several well-known benchmarks.) The core value is not just the code, but a fairly specific algorithmic approach that came out of many failed attempts, experiments, and design iterations. The dilemma I am facing is this: If I open-source early, I get feedback, trust, users, and maybe contributors. But I also expose the core design and algorithm. With LLMs, turning a repo into a different implementation is much cheaper than it used to be. If I keep it closed, I protect the work for longer, but I also lose the main advantages of OSS: adoption, review, community, and credibility. Worse, someone else may still build something similar and become the default project in the space. I’m a new solo dev with almost no audience. If a large org or a well-known developer sees th...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately?

Ask HN: Dear astronomers, what are the most interesting things in space lately? 4 by simonebrunozzi | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores

GPT-5.5 – No ARC-AGI-3 scores 3 by AG25 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Did the model perform poorly and OpenAI decided to not publish arc agi 3 scores? This is honestly the best benchmark right now to measure true intelligence.
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New ask Hacker News story: My GLM-5.1 coding agent scored 94.3% on LiveCodeBench Lite (348/369)

My GLM-5.1 coding agent scored 94.3% on LiveCodeBench Lite (348/369) 3 by univence | 0 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been building Univence, a custom autonomous coding agent platform powered by GLM-5.1. We are building this to be a true Replit/Vercel competitor, but with zero vendor lock-in. You can build and develop entirely on our platform alongside our SOTA agent, but you own the code and can deploy it seamlessly to any 3rd-party host like DigitalOcean, Netlify, AWS, or your own VPS. To prove the core agent's capability, we just ran it against the LiveCodeBench Lite dataset (Python split). Here is the breakdown over a blind 369-problem run: Total: 348/369 passed (94.3%) Easy: 138/141 passed (97.9%) Medium: 152/156 passed (97.4%) Hard: 58/72 passed (80.6%) (Note: We achieved that 80% on Hard by engineering the agent's constraints to strictly prioritize optimal time complexities like O(n log n) over brute-force O(n^2), avoiding the Time Limit Exceeded errors that usually tr...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack?

Ask HN: How are you handling data retention across your stack? 2 by preston-kwei | 0 comments on Hacker News. For people building SaaS with data across multiple systems (S3, DBs, caches, etc), do you actually have a clean way to manage retention/deletion across all of them? (Especially when each customer has custom policies) Or is it more a mix of lifecycle rules, cron jobs, and manual cleanup? How are you doing this today? I feel like this is a blocker in enterprise deals when selling to regulated industries.
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New ask Hacker News story: Hey, it's Earth Day today

Hey, it's Earth Day today 4 by burnt-resistor | 1 comments on Hacker News. Let's think and act a bit more wisely to protect the only place we can provably live, eh?
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New ask Hacker News story: Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?

Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition? 5 by gokuljs | 1 comments on Hacker News. I’ve been a backend-heavy engineer for about 4 to 5 years, mostly in startups. For about 3 months I’ve been reading and building small things, but I’m not sure if I’m progressing or just spinning. I also don’t really have people around me in these areas, so I’ve mostly been trying to figure this out on my own, including using tools like GPT and Claude, but I still feel unclear. My work includes APIs, some real-time systems like WebRTC and streaming, and debugging production issues such as latency, buffering, and reliability. I’ve used AWS, Docker, Redis, and similar tools. I’m trying to move toward more systems-oriented work, such as infrastructure, distributed systems, or AI infrastructure like inference pipelines and data flow. The problem is I feel stuck and scattered. I keep jumping between directions such as infrastructure, SRE or platform work, and AI infr...
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