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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development?

Ask HN: Are you leveraging Spec-Driven / Spec-Anchored development? 3 by locusofself | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am specifically interested in hearing from anyone who is working on actual production services, legacy services, etc. I have done quite a bit of LLM-assisted coding but starting to work towards (and educate others in my org) about more structured approaches to this, to be able to deliver more complicated features with stronger guardrails than prompt-based coding. Spec-Driven/Anchored development is an emerging practice but I'm not clear on how battle-tested it is. What is your experience with it?

New ask Hacker News story: The universal programming language of LLMs

The universal programming language of LLMs 3 by senorqa | 2 comments on Hacker News. How do you imagine the universal programming language of future LLMs will look? I mean a language built by LLMs for LLMs, not for humans to read or modify. A language that can be used to build any kind of application: backend, mobile, desktop, web, embedded, etc.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?

Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI? 3 by sensitivekt9q3 | 4 comments on Hacker News. I'm feeling extremely depressed and anxious lately. After seeing Astra saturating ARC-AGI-3 and blowing through many other benchmarks, it's hard to believe we won't have a strong form of AGI by the end of this year, or the next one at the latest. I don't understand why we're not seeing a MASSIVE clamor for a pause in the further development of AI strength. Even if we don't know how to coordinate and enforce such a pause yet (at the multi-nation level), it seems we're not spending any effort in figuring how to. I see a lot of people dismissing warnings from the frontier companies themselves as nothing but "marketing and generating hype". I myself can't call "marketing and hype" the kind of capability I see before my very eyes and interact with every day, at work and in everyday life otherwise. Posts like the recent...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better?

Ask HN: 3.5 inch diskette read errors, would a period correct drive do better? 5 by rietta | 5 comments on Hacker News. My first attempt at restoring 1991 Learning Company Spellbound for DOS for my children is dubious. Despite being stored nowhere near magnetic sources, there are read errors on the 3.5 inch floppies and Linux could not mount them. ddrescue extracted data but I have not confirmed it works. The box also have 5.25 inch disks but I do not have a reader online at the moment, that is its own project. My technical question is this, the USB 3.5 inch drive I have is a "USB Portable Diskette Drive" that was Made in China but has no obvious sponsoring branding. If I take the time to bring back to life a more period correct system with an actual IDE floppy drive would it read the disks more accurately? My goal is to get more of this good DOS and early Windows educational software working for my children. This particular title is meaningful because I have the actual bo...

New ask Hacker News story: Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with?

Do you ever struggle to find another programmer to work on a project/pair with? 2 by rizsyed1 | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage

Bun rewrite and FLT formalization had nearly identical resource usage 4 by Zsfe510asG | 1 comments on Hacker News. The Bun rewrite took 11 days and used 5.9B tokens: https://ift.tt/iy1CJZO The FLT formalization took 11 days (!) and used 6B tokens. Why the similar numbers? Why are the numbers so low? 6B is just enough for 6 agents at 1000 tokens/s running for 11 days.